Archive for Wheel of the Year
Happy May Day!
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WHEEL OF THE YEAR POINT: May Day also known as Beltane
Celebrated May 1 Exact May 5
Beltane is the cross-quarter Wheel of the Year point following Spring Equinox. Also known as May Day, it marks the starting point of the turn toward summer. The flowers are in full bloom, and the days are definitely longer.
Beltane is the starting point for the growing summer season. The Solar Fire and the Earth Goddess unite now and bring forth new plants to feed the multitudes. This union of Earth and Fire is essential for the growth of crops, so it is honored with feasting and ceremony. The dance of the May Pole, for instance, represents and celebrates the powerful union of the masculine and feminine principles.
Each of us carries internally the two basic principles of masculine and feminine within our consciousness, and at this time of year you can find value in noticing how they are working together. Those two principles must join within you for any creation to come to fruition. Honor how they both work, and notice what they want to fertilize with their combined energy.
Bask in the beauty of this point of the seasonal cycle. Enjoy being outside, and give thanks to the marriage of Earth and Solar Fire, which bring us these gifts. Connect to the flowers and fairy folk in this window.
Personal Creation Ideas to Work With May Day/Beltane
- Honor the Goddess Flora and the flower realm. Create a May Basket of flowers to give to some one in need of care. Wear flowers in your hair or decorate your home with them. Plant flowers in your garden.
- Honor the union of the masculine and feminine principles. Take time to internally connect with each of them through journaling, then ask what they want you to know. Is there something they are choosing to bring forth?
- Ceremonially dress in bright colors and patterns and honor the abundant beauty of the season.
- Energize your money or wealth by giving it attention. Create a financial plan. Start tracking all your income.
- Feel the fullness of gratitude for all you have and the abundance of Mother Earth.
Professional or Business Ideas for Working With May Day/Beltane
- Bring flowers into your office. Beautify your work space.
- Update your image and wardrobe.
- Create a new business financial plan for the rest of the year.
- Energize how much you want flowing into your business.
- Pay attention to ideas for financial growth during this window and act on the best ones.
- Be grateful for all the blessings and financial flow you have received.
If you have the Elemental Forces of Creation Oracle you may want to draw cards for additional guidance from each element. If you don’t yet have one you can simply connect to each element and journal with it.
Elemental Journaling: Take the time to listen to each element and their message to you for fertility for the active growing season.
Give thanks to Earth and ask “What do my creations need at this time to flourish?”
Give thanks to Water and ask “What do my creations need at this time to flourish?”
Give thanks to Air and ask “What do my creations need at this time to flourish?”
Give thanks to Fire and ask “What do my creations need at this time to flourish?”
Give thanks to Spirit and ask “What do my creations need at this time to flourish?”
Now ask all of the elements and Spirit together for a unified creation message for your creations to flourish.
Step Into Spring: The Wheel of the Year Turns
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With the Cross Quarter Day Imbolc
Celebrated on February 1 or 2
Imbolc is the cross-quarter Wheel of the Year point following Winter Solstice. Also known as Brighid’s day or Candlemas, it marks the starting point of spring. Here you begin to subtly notice that the days are lengthening and, depending on the area you live in, you may actually start to see signs of spring. Here in Georgia where I live, the daffodils consistently open sometime around Imbolc, although this year they may be later because of a colder winter. When they do start the daffodils begin the steady wave of beautiful bloom that lasts through the glorious spring.
For others in colder climates, Imbolc may simply bring the promise of spring as the light of the sun slowly begins to increase. Tune in this year to the subtle shifts you notice in the air and light around and after Imbolc. What does it signal internally for you? What things do you get a renewed urge to do?
Winter Solstice ~ Sun Moves Into Capricorn
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Winter Solstice exact point Dec 21 9:30pm & Dec 22 12:30am
Winter Solstice window is from Dec 20-23 depending on your time zone.
Elements: Capricorn, Earth
The solstices and equinoxes mark the extreme light, dark, and balanced points of the cycle of the sun. In the Northern Hemisphere we have the shortest day and longest night on winter solstice, and then the days slowly begin to lengthen again. This is important to you for several reasons:
1) After winter solstice the subtle growing light starts a fresh growing cycle for a new year. The more you align your creations with this growing cycle the more it boosts your ability to bring your personal and professional creations into form. You are aligning your creations with the increasing sunlight. Think about what that does for plants. It is the sun that springs the plants and seeds to life and it will do the same for your creations.
2) The days leading up to winter solstice are the darkest of the year and the darker days urge you to sleep and dream more. This is an important time to tune into the guiding messages you hear for your life. Pay attention to your dreams, and spend some time in reflection and journaling about what you want to grow in the year ahead.
Last of the Three Harvest Points in the Wheel of the Year: Samhain
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Window: October 30- November 1
Celebrated: October 31
The four cross-quarter days of the wheel of the year, such as Samhain, were considered very important by the ancient people who worked with the wheel. Many cultures have a sacred time during this cross-quarter point of Samhain (Sah-win, Sah-ween). It is also known as Halloween, All Souls Night, All Hallows Eve, with the Day of the Dead, or All Souls Day on Nov 1 or 2.
The medieval Irish word Samhain, means summer’s end. It is the last of three harvest festivals, as the growing season in North America comes to a close. This cross-quarter day begins the turn toward winter. The cross-quarter days fall between the solstices and equinoxes and signal the turn toward the next season. To understand the cross-quarter days more fully, go to www.naturalrhythms.org and download your free copy of Chapter 2 of Natural Rhythms™ by Lisa Michaels.
Autumnal Equinox & Sun in Libra
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In the Northern Hemisphere, Autumnal Equinox and the Libra sun, bring the second harvest celebration of the year as the growing cycle begins to fade away. Just as things started really heating up at the spring equinox for the active growing cycle to begin, autumn equinox brings a change toward the reflective phase of the cycle as the turn toward the darker days of the year deepens. Now the old cycle begins to fall away as the ground prepares to rest.
Autumnal Equinox, also called Mabon, occurs each year somewhere around September 21st or 22nd. This year the exact point falls on the 23rd. It sits directly across the Wheel of the Year from Spring Equinox and here again you find light and dark perfectly balanced. As the halfway point from Summer Solstice to Winter Solstice, Autumnal Equinox brings the awareness that change is in the air. At this time of year, you are called to let go of the growing phase of the cycle, allowing it to fall away just as the leaves begin to fall from the trees.
Sun in Virgo
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Window: August 23- September 22
Element: Earth
From the expansive fire sign of Leo, the sun now moves into the hard working and detailed focused earth energy of Virgo. If there is a time each year to take care of the details of getting organized, creating new systems, or getting a routine going, this is it.
Virgo loves order so the more you can handle completions and getting things around you in order the better. The sun will support your actions for those types of activities during this window.
Lughnasad/Lammas Let the Harvest Begin
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Celebrated on August 1 with the exact astrological point between Summer Solstice & Autumnal Equinox occurring this year August 7.
The seasonal cycle called the Wheel of the Year, contains the major points of the solstices and equinoxes and additionally four more points that fall in-between. The additional four days actually begin the turn toward the new season and they are called cross-quarter days.
This week we experience the cross-quarter day that begins the turn toward autumn (in the Northern Hemisphere). Sometimes with the cross-quarter days there was a traditional day they were celebrated on and then the exact point where it fell between the solstice and equinox. In this case the cross-quarter day named Lughnasad or Lammas, (which falls between Summer Solstice and Autumnal Equinox) traditionally celebrated on August 1, is exact this year on August 7.
Lughnasad, originally named after the sun god Lugh, is the cross-quarter Wheel of the Year point following Summer Solstice. Also known as Lammas, it marks the starting point of the turn toward autumn. To understand the cross-quarter days more fully, read Chapter 2 of Natural Rhythms™ by Lisa Michaels. Download your free copy in the starter kit.
Summer Solstice Celebrate the Sun
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Summer Solstice and
Sun Moves into Cancer
June 21
Direct: Summer Solstice & Sun in Cancer
June 21 1:17PM EST
Window: Summer Solstice June 20 – June 22
Sun in Cancer Window June 21 – July 22
Element: Sun in Cancer, Water
Solstice means “Sun Standstill,” and summer solstice, in the northern hemisphere, brings us the longest day of the year. Find time to bask in the bright abundant light summer brings and enjoy the harvest as things begin to ripen around you. This is a wonderful day to consciously witness the sunrise and appreciate the blessings the solar light and fuel bring into your life.
If you have been working with the timings since last winter solstice and tracking your creations look back to see how far you have come since then. Make honoring your progress and celebrating your successes part of your summer solstice celebration. Read More→
Power Packed Creation Window Spring Equinox & the Virgo Full Moon
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WOW…Back to back on March 19 & 20 we have Sun in Pisces on 19th with the full moon in Virgo and then on March 20 the Sun moves into Aries on Spring Equinox.
Full Moon in Virgo ~ Sun in Pisces
Direct: March 19, 2011 – 2:10 PM EST
Window: March 18 – 20
Element: Full Moon in Virgo, Earth
Closest Full Moon this year so it’s very powerful.
Spring Equinox ~ Sun Moves into Aries
Direct: Spring Equinox/Sun Moves into Aries – 2011 – 7:21 PM EST
Window: March 19 – 21
Element: Sun in Aries, Fire
Work with these energies combined to activate sacred balance with the Earth and her natural rhythms. Read More→
Bountiful Blessings with Your Divine Creative Muse
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