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and open to Her Wisdom."
13th Day of the 11th Lunar Cycle
Ruled by Gaia
Lunar Tree Cycle ~ Gort/Ivy
Moon Phase: Gibbous
Moon sets: 4:25AM EDST
Moon rises: 4:25PM EDST
Moon in Pisces v/c 10:40AM EDST
Moon enters the Cardinal Fire Sign
of Aries at 1:56PM EDST
Rhiannon's Cycle of the Moon
Lunar Meditation: The song of the earth
Sun in Scorpion
Sunrise: 7:47AM EDST
Sunset: 6:20PM EDST
Solar Question for the Day: "Which ideas
and structures have you outgrown?"
Lughnasadh (Gwyl Awst) Quarter of the Year
October 30th, 2009
So here it is the last day before Samhain Eve - Halloween - and just in case you haven't completed you preparations for tomorrow night's Samhain Sabbat ritual - here are some suggestions and ideas to Samhain magick into your life....
* Carve a pumpkin and empower it to repel negativity
* Build or erect a shrine to your ancestors.
* Add divination to your Samhain ritual
* Fill a small plastic pumpkin with gold-wrapped candy and enpower for prosperity
* Research your family history and make a litany out of the names for your ritual.
* Make a family photo album or poster to place in your room. Bless during ritual for family harmony
* Set a place at the dinner table for the recently deceased. If the lost one is a pet, placen their favorite food on a plate and put where their bowls used to be.
* Place small jack-o'-laterns at the four quarters
* Place crossed brooms at the four quarters
* Build an outdoor altar out of hay bales
* Visit the cemetery and place flowers on the graves of deceased loved ones.
* Remember that Samhain is a fire festival that signals personal closures and occurs in Scorpio, a Fixed Water sign, a time regeneration and cleaning out of emotional debris - this sign has the ability to rebuild and to toss out what is not working or needed. There is much you can accomplishy during this time period.
* Also remember that Samhain was the Celtic New Year - you might consider making 'new year's resolutions.'
Here are some examples of Samhain altars
This one is honoring ancestors.
And this one on a mantle includes honoring the Day of the Dead.
This altar seems to be honoring the fruits of the Samhain season..
And this altar honors the Goddess and the God of Samhain.
And this altar is really nice in the way it includes many symbols '
of Samhain.
Reference: magic-and-spells.blogspot.com
DENVER - The Air Force Academy has set aside an outdoor worship area for Pagans, Wiccans, Druids and other Earth-centered believers, school officials said Monday.
A double circle of stones atop a hill on the campus near Colorado Springs has been designated for the group, which previously met indoors.
"Being with nature and connecting with it is kind of the whole point," said Tech. Sgt. Brandon Longcrier, who sponsors the group and describes himself as a Pagan. "It will dramatically improve that atmosphere, the mindset and the actual connection."
The stones were moved to the hilltop last year because erosion threatened to make them unstable in their previous location near the visitors center. Crews arranged them in two concentric circles because they thought it would be a pleasant place for cadets to relax, Longcrier said.
When Longcrier and academy chaplains were looking for an outdoor worship space, they discovered one already existed in the form of the circles.
Lt. Col. William Ziegler, one of the academy's chaplains, said designating the space is part of the school's effort to foster religious tolerance and to defend the constitutional guarantee of religious freedom.
"It's about our commitment as airmen to protect freedom and defend freedom. To me this is a freedom thing," he said.
The school also has worship facilities for Protestant and Catholic Christians, Jews, Muslims and Buddhists.
The academy superintendent, Lt. Gen. Michael Gould, has made religious tolerance a priority. It became a concern in 2004 when a survey found many cadets had heard slurs or jokes about other religions and that some felt ostracized because they weren't religious.
Longcrier and Ziegler said they've heard no criticism of the new worship space but both noted its presence was just made public.
"Not to say that it's not coming, but so far we haven't had any real issues," Longcrier said.
He said 15 to 20 cadets have shown an interest in Earth-centered beliefs, and eight to 10 regularly attend Monday night meetings. Of those, six or seven are devout believers and the others are "searchers," Longcrier said.
The academy has about 4,000 cadets. The school is one of five U.S. service academies, including West Point and Annapolis. Cadets graduate as second lieutenants.
"Earth-centered" spirituality encompasses many beliefs, Longcrier said, many that recognize multiple gods and goddesses and observe holidays tied to the seasons.
Longcrier said he personally doesn't consider gods and goddesses to be actual beings but personifications of natural events that human ancestors wanted to put a face on.
"The goddess is symbolic of the Earth," Longcrier said. "Do I believe I'm worshipping this female entity living in the Earth or up in space somewhere? No. The symbolism is very important."
The group's meetings are usually devoted to mediation, lessons or ceremonies, he said.
Longcrier, who oversees laboratories in the academy's astronautics labs, said he has military designation as a "distinct faith group leader."
Anyone is welcome to visit the new worship site but it should be treated as a religious structure, he said. A formal dedication is planned in March.
Reference: thelema-and-faith.blogspot.com
"There are a number of common neopagan misconceptions regarding the Celtic gods], and the most prominent one is that of THE TRIPLE GODDESS.
To be sure, there are triplets of goddesses in Celtic myth, particularly in Ireland; there are even triplets of gods, in fact.
But the fallacy is that these triplets are in the form OF "MAIDEN, MOTHER, CRONE", conceived by Robert Graves in his book THE WHITE GODDESS and popularized with the neopagan movement. In fact, it is not only goddesses which come in triplet form, but gods also. This is not unusual--the Celts had an affinity for the number three, witnessed over and over again in their literature and their religion.
I do not have any quarrel with whether or not A "MAIDEN-MOTHER-CRONE" system is a valid theology; no, my argument is with the idea that it is authentically Celtic.
The earliest example of the Triple Goddess is in the figure of The Mothers--Matronae--found in inscriptions on the continent, dating from the first centuries of the Common Era. Usually, the reliefs depict three well-attired women, holding flowers, fruit, wheat, and so on.
Sometimes they were depicted as married, otherwise as not (noted by a lack of bonnets, apparently). Often, secondary names--likely that of local land or river goddess--are given along with the title of "Matronae". It is important to note, however, that there is a lack of uniformity to this depiction--that is, the figures do not fit a "maiden-mother-crone" pattern. Sometimes there is a mix of married and unmarried figures, sometimes it is entirely married women, etc.
The most famous of the Triple Goddesses is Brigit, the daughter of the Dagda, often called "the poetess." Her worship was widespread, probably through the semi-dominance of the Brigantes tribe, who covered a wide area from Ireland into Gaul. According to Cormac's Glossary, there were three of Brigits, all sisters--Brigit the Poetess, Brigit the Smith and Brigit the Doctor--patrons of their respective skills. However, we are not told that they are a maiden-mother-crone; they are all the same age. Instead, her multiplicity implies that she is a master of many arts, and like the Matronae, was patron of the tribe.
Which brings us to our first masculine example: Lugh Lamhfhada, the Samild'anach--master of all arts. Like Brigit, his worship was widespread, attested to by inscriptions and the belief that the numerous towns that bear the name Lugodunum (or some variation) refer to Lugos. Some of these inscriptions refer not to Lugh (or his Gallic form Lugos) but to a Lugoues--a multiplicity of Lugos.
There are some referrences in Irish literature to the belief that Lugh was the lone survivor of triplets; we see a similar situation with the Welsh equivalent Lleu (though here he is the survivor of twins). Again, it is important to notice that Lugh appears in a triplet form, as a symbol of power and mastery of all arts. This triplicity also upsets another neopagan misconception of Celtic religion, the supposed duality of a Holly King-Oak King relationship.
The third triplet is, oddly enough, someone once thought historical: Queen Guenevere, wife of Arthur. According to the Welsh triads,
THE THREE GREAT QUEENS OF ARTHUR:
Gwenhwyfar daughter of Cywryd Gwent, and Gwenhwyfar daughter of Gwythyr son of Greidiawl, and Gwenhwyfar daughter of Gogfran the Giant.
And so we have three sisters again. This is significant, for it leads us to the next version of triplets: the goddess of the land. The triplets in these cases do not have the same names but are three sisters, such as Eriu, Banba, and Fotla, the daughters of Ernmas--three names for Ireland, married to the three kings of Ireland, the brothers Mac Cuill, Mac Cecht, and Mac Grienne, all grandsons of the Dagda, and a male triplet.
Then there are Eriu, Banba and Fotla's sisters, the war goddesses Morrigan (sometimes called Anand or Anu), Badb, and Macha, who again represent the sovreignty of Ireland (actually, their relationship is quite complex, needing a second write-up). They are not of three different ages or stages, but the same age; they are somewhat recalled in the three sisters of Arthur, Morgan le Fay, Morgause, and Elaine.
And there are other triplets:
Brian, Iuchar, and Iucharba, the sons of Turenn
Cian, Cu, and Cethe, the sons of Cainte
Bleiddwn, Hydwn, and Hychdwn the Tall, the (unconventionally produced) sons of Gilfaethwy and Gwydion
All of which are male. And so, what is seen is that the reason so many gods and goddesses in the various Celtic pantheons exist as triplets is due to an affinity with the number three, as well as possibly the representation of a multi-faceted deity as being a master of all arts.
Personally, I have problems with the "maiden-mother-crone" schema. For one, it presumes that women must take on certain roles--that a woman must be a mother, for example. Even if one interprets the word as "mature" or "working", the word is still carries connotations and denotations--mother.
Whether they realize it or not, the followers of this concept are simply regurgitating the same gender roles which we've been taught for thousands of years. And while yes, women usually do become mothers, there is a sense in this schema that one must become a mother, one must become a crone. Conscious or not, it doesn't leave much room for someone who refuses to have children.
Also, there are attributes ascribed to these roles which indicate that they--the attributes--are then lacking in the other figures: the CRONE IS WISE (but the Mother isn't?), the MAIDEN IS A MUSE (but no one else is?), the MOTHER IS A CREATOR (but no one else can create?).
The reason for this, of course, goes back to the misogyny of Graves' The White Goddess, discussed elsewhere, as well as Gerald Gardner's own ideas. Again, what matters is not whether the follower consciously accepts these ideas; subconsciously, he or she often unconsciously begins to accept these ideas.
Finally, the idea of Trinity--Christian, Hindu or otherwise--is not derived from the Triple Goddess. As I and others have shown, the idea of triplet deities is not limited to one sex. It is simply the highest number grouping, the highest pattern, that the mind will accept before dividing objects into a new group. We don't usually see quadruple gods because our mind divides the number four into two groups of two. Five is divided into groups of three and two, six into three and three (or two, two, and two), etc. The preponderance of the number 3 is found not only in religion or literature, but is everywhere."
Source
http://www.maryjones.us/jce/triplegoddess.html
Automatic writing, a favorite tool of spiritualists at the turn of the 20th Century. You might recall this awesome scene utilizing it in "The Changeling."
Automatic writing is a tool used by psychic mediums in which they believe either they channel a spirit guide giving information/or the spirit itself OR they tap into their own intuitive aspect to have knowledge they do not normally personally possess.
There are two separate groups representing automatic writing and its methods. One group says that inviting a spirit into you to do the writing is dangerous. The other group says that you are tapping universal (akashic) knowledge. I am personally of the latter. The information I get is very much the same as when I do a psychic read on an object. I am ever present within me that there is knowledge I am tapping, but not lending my body over to anyone. I am simply going on autopilot and spitting out the words of someone who once lived. If people are of the former group, there are protections they will want to learn before doing this process. It can frighten some to be "not present" for a time and then to "come to" and find writing you don't recall performing. Anyone who has been hypnotized recognizes this feeling - it's identical.
When I do automatic writing, I get comfortable. I spend some time reading, looking at photos, researching the person I want to communicate with. I then, close my eyes, pose a question, repeating it several times and then I let myself enter a neutral mental position and the writing begins. What it's like is like sticking your head outside a car window. The wind flops your hair this way and that. You put yourself in the stream and you let the stream affect your body. When the session ends "(for me, it ends when my hands stop)", then I look at what was written with great shock and surprise. It is wording I would never use, terms I have never heard, things that are foreign to me in writing cadence and grammar. It is foreign.
"While traditionalists use paper and pen, I use a keyboard".
Here was my first attempt at utilizing a keyboard on a laptop for automatic writing. A friend was talking to me about the well respected paranormal researcher, D. Scott Rogo and his mysterious death in 1990. It didn't occur to me to do automatic writing. At first, I just did a read - got bits and pieces -
"At first, I see him looking down at a white cat pacing the floor, but part of me feels that it's not literal-that's a name.
"White"-name?
"He is coming inside, pushing something with the door, out of the way, like a newspaper or letters that are lodged behind it.
"Very tired, yawning.
"I hear him say this to someone "if he has violent tendencies, why would you involve yourself with him?'
"ornate cross with gold wire trim
"spinning filofax wheel with cards flipping by
"a person known from distance, only met in person recently "
Then, I realized I wanted to know more - I thought about automatic writing, but since I do keyboarding about 16 hours a day, it seemed that'd be more logical. So, I gave it a stab. I sat the laptop on my lap, got in a comfy position, pulled up a photo of D. Scott Logo, studied it, asked him about his last living moments. Then, I closed my eyes, relaxed my mind and body, put my fingers in position over the keys and the typing began. While my fingers were typing, my mind was blank, just a wall of gray, nothing else. When my fingers stilled, I "came to" and realized I had a screen of writing. And, this was content that not only was in an unfamiliar style, but terms I had to look up and find out if they existed. At first, it seems like gibberish, and then the flow begins -
"warehouse smerk chester silo bridges tunnel wharf pilfu zagreb forenight broth ecstasy mirrorr flock of gulls bitters once he came the valley seemed to close down. Everything was dark. There was no where to go. We reached the end of the street and then turned back. What was I going to do? Take him home with me? I had no choice. It seemed intevitable. If not tonight, some other night. Whe were rolling to a stop when I got the first sense he was not entirely whole. He was broken inside somehow. He needed his meds but asked for a drink. The conversation had been interesting. I was curious to see where it went. We both wer of a customary curiosity about the other in a physical sense, but the intellectual, I had to probe that portion to see if there was content worthy of my full attention. O therwise, I was just boning a shig."
As a psychic and wishing to do medium work, this is a fantastic tool, but once again it depends on the psychic and her/his attitudes about the phenomena. Like some people fear the Ouija, others find it a clever tool to access universal info. I have never had a bad experience doing this in the least. I have never been left with a feeling of being possessed or any other such feelings.
"But, then, I also do not believe in possession, so therefore I never run into it."
It is also entirely possible that people, when tapping the subconscious will first spit out many unresolved issues, emotions, and other things they do not face normally. It's like going to bed at night, we face our thoughts after a day of staying busy. So, the first attempts might be more personal-related until you clear yourself of your own subconscious junk. Eventually, and especially if you practice alpha state or meditation, this opening up and being "neutral" is easier and easier.
I think automatic writing can be a very effective method and much better than trying to move a planchette over one letter at a time on a Ouija board and even better than using a pendulum for yes and no questions. This opens a conversation with information that is held by the universe; whether it is coming from a soul or simply being tapped from a life that once was, we don't know, but it really is an interesting skill and a very provocative way of gathering evidence.
BOOK: How To Do Automatic Writing
Reference: my-spiritual-path.blogspot.com
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An uncle or an aunt can express her deep feelings and love for their nephew by posting these happy birthday nephew messages and quotes on their Facebook statuses.NEPHEW HAPPY BIRTHDAY WISHES!
Nephew Happy Birthday Wishes
* Happy birthday to you happy birthday to you happy birthday to nephew and I love you too. I can't imagine my life without you; you're such a good and kind young man I wish you many more birthdays. Enjoy your day nephew!
* Happy Birthday to my amazing nephew, you should be so happy with all the good things coming your way! A beautiful birthday gift for you and of course a lot of prays! Wishing you joy, great health and happiness always!
* I would like to wish my baby boy a very happy 13th birthday. Even though we have gone through a terrible week, I hope and pray that this day will brighten it. I love you and hope and pray for many more years to come and share.
* To my nephew (name) I want to wish you a wonderful birthday, I want you to know what a wonderful phone call that was in 1998 was for me when you made me an Auntie for the very first time. I really enjoyed watching you grow and remembering your first steps and all the fun I had with you. God bless your day. Love you very much.
* Sending the happiest of birthday wishes out to my awesome and cool nephew, you are always in my heart and forever on my mind. I will always love and miss you.
* I would like to wish my gorgeous nephew a very happy 1st birthday. I can't believe the day is here. Where the year has gone I will never know but you have made it an amazing one for us when you came into the world. I love you so much.
* Happy 4th birthday to my only nephew, I can't believe you are 4 now, it's gone too quickly!, we wouldn't know what to do without you, you put the smiles back on faces and make our day special to have you around us, hope you like your gifts what we got you, love you loads.
* Happy birthday to the most wonderful awesome Handsome and great nephew! You make us happy, you make us proud so here's a message clear and loud have the best Happy Birthday ever. You are a star, charming and clever! Love you nephew. It's a remarkable day in your life.
* Happy birthday to my amazing little nephew, can't believe you are 2 already! You really have made our family complete, and I love you so much, have a brilliant day with your lovely parents. Wish I could see you soon.
* Happy 8th birthday to my handsome nephew! You are such a smart funny and sweet boy. I can't believe you are 8 though! I can still remember the exact night when your mommy told us she was pregnant and I couldn't be any happier that my older sister is your mom. Love you honey, I'll see you soon buddy.
* I would like to say a very special happy 5th birthday to my little prince (nephew name) today hope you have a fabulous day and enjoy all your presents you deserve them. I love you more than all the stars in the world.
* It's my first born Nephew's birthday today! He is now a teenager! Omg! I can't believe it...he's my best friend that young man I love him so much! He's always been with me since he was born! He's an auntie favorite nephew & best friend! Happy 13th Birthday! I love you so much and I can't wait to see you in a few days.
* I remember like it was yesterday... I was rushing home after working all night to be with my brother and his wife for the arrival of my nephew. Happy 4th birthday! Just wish I could be there for it.
* Today is my nephew's 2nd birthday! Oh Man I can't believe it! I remember being outside of the operating room and just being so anxious to see his face & seeing him for the first time exceeded my expectations! I love you baby, and thanks to my older brother for bringing in my one and only nephew I have! Give him kisses for me! I love you guys.
* To the youngest of my nephews (name) happy birthday! I want you to know that even though we might not always see eye to eye but I Love you and I will always have your back. You also should know how proud I am of the decent guy you have become.
* Happy Birthday to my nephew and now like a son, I cannot believe you are 22 years old, your dad would be so proud to see how well you are doing and what a great job you do about taking care of your auntie.
* Happy, happy birthday to (name)! What a blessing to have you here after all that you went through....and to have you looking so good, handsome, healthy and strong. Thank you our Creator and have a wonderful birthday nephew. Love you!
* To my nephew (name) as it is your fifteenth birthday today and it is probably the time I told you some things about life that before you may have been too young to hear. I'm proud of the man you are becoming. Your Uncle!
* Seven years ago my wonderful nephew was born on this very day. 2 pounds and 3 ounces, he was so small. He is growing up so fast I can't believe it! Happy 7th birthday! Auntie loves you so very much, have a good day baby.
* Happy Birthday to my handsome little nephew! He is loved by so many people and one of the most important people I know that cherish, adores and misses him is his grandmother. I know he can feel her love and hugs in his heart. Love you.
* Happy birthday to the world's best little one year old man...my adorable handsome nephew... I love you so much little man....I wish I could be there to spoil you and give sweet hugs.
* On this day our family was blessed with a beautiful boy, my only nephew. I am so very proud of the man & father you have become. Happy Birthday young man! May God continue to watch over & bless you!
* Goodness, my nephew is 19 today. I'm starting to get that ancient feeling. Happy birthday wackiness! I'm proud of the man you're becoming!
More fun: Birthday SMS Wishes
POEM STYLE WISHES FOR NEPHEW
* Happy Birthday to my favorite nephew! God Bless You! May today be as special as you are? We love and miss you!
* Happy birthday to my nephew! He is 11 years old today which means he is getting a cell phone from his parents today on whom he will make a Facebook account and have more friends than me by the end of the day.
* 22 years ago today, the prettiest baby in the world was born. Now that pretty baby is all grown up and has 2 pretty babies of his own! Happy birthday to my nephew! I love you and am so proud of the man you have grown to be. Enjoy!
* Today is a special day. It's my oldest nephew (name) birthday! My little baby has grown up on me & now he is 15 years old. I remember driving all the way to the hospital to see you when you were born! Love you nephew.
* Happy Birthday to my very special nephew in my life! Who is exhibiting more strength and courage than I have ever seen this year. I love and miss you dearly.
* Happy Birthday to my favorite smart guy in the whole world! It seems like only yesterday you were 1 week old and peed in my face! 14 yrs later and I am so proud to be able to say that I Love you.
* He came into my life 8 years ago today, never thought I would raise such a respectful, loving, caring, and smart, thoughtful little man! From day one he has made me want to be a better person guess time does fly by when you're having fun.
* I want to say send out a very Special Birthday Shout Out to my Great Nephew, enjoy your day nephew I pray that you get all you asked for :) I still remember the day you came into this world so small now look at you. You will always be the first great nephew.
* I'd like to wish my nephew happy 5th birthday today! Kids do grow up fast! He's such a little blessing and I love that little stinker to the moon and back!
* Happy 30th birthday to my nephew! So hard to believe it's been 30 years since you were born, remember that day so clearly. You have grown to be a wonderful young man, a good husband, father and son. I love you very much and have from the first moment I met you! I'm very proud of you! Enjoy your day!
* 7 years of grace & blessings! Sometimes I've put myself down for not being able to do more but my son's smile and joy are proof to me that God's got it! He would want to be with me if all I had was a cardboard box to sleep in! I love my nephew and I'm so thankful for him being in my life! Thankful that at age 7 he's smart, healthy, strong and oh so witty...sometimes too witty! Lol
* I would like to wish my first born nephew a very happy 16th birthday! I remember the day your mom had you for me. You wouldn't leave my side when you were small now you are a young man! He is only eleven years younger than me, so he's really more like a brother than a nephew and we've always been very close.
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The fairy narrative of "Hansel and Gretel" was first recorded by the Brothers Grimm in 1812 disk-shaped the south western arrange of Germany. The narrative skin tone a brother and sister who when lost in the forest, strive a cannibalistic witch, but at the end, Hansel and Gretel mound unbeatable. The narrative actually belongs to a group of European tales grassroots in the Baltic regions about children outwitting ogres in the rear they pass fallen into their hands. Because the story is frequently regarded as symbolizing a rite of focus, give to are meat elements that clone the ordinary philosophy of shamanic initiations, trouncing the true kindly and origin of the story. To say that by defeating the witch, one becomes a witch would be a paradox, particularly in the reproduction of fairy tales that frequently demonizes witches, nevertheless, detail the dimness credited to folk tales, and their touchy pagan origin frequently suppressed by the Abrahamic religions, it is no render speechless such elements are scholarship.
"Hansel and Gretel". Arthur Rackham, 1909
The story tells that Hansel and Gretel were the children of a very bad woodcutter that possibly will not extra a lot to eat. Formerly an celebrated craving settles quiet the land, the woodcutter's moment other half, a problematical female, convinces his husband to dark red the children in the fix of the wooded area in order to pass a lesser amount of mouths to feed. Hansel and Gretel overhear their campaign, and say God leave help them. Flanking crack of dawn, they start collecting sharp white sand, in order to form a branch leading to the shop as they are forsaken into the forest so they can find their way back home. The siblings perceive shortest the organize and come back home in the rear years bare. The stepmother information his husband to set aside his children in the fix of the forest subsequently spread, so they can die. This time, the siblings form a branch out of cash crumbs, but like they scenery to perceive them back they find out the crumbs pass been eaten by game birds. Formerly days of drifting, they perceive a good-looking snowstorm white bird and apprehend a organization built of gingerbread and cakes with sheet panes of pour out little one, but as they start expenditure the rooftop, the witch comes out and lures them fashionable. The side crack of dawn, Hansel is put up collateral fashionable an downy progress, and is fed unvaryingly so he can become fat and be banned to be eaten, meanwhile, Gretel is finished a slave. This goes on for weeks, until the witch decides to eat all of them. As the witch demonstrates Gretel how to divider if the oven fire if hot satisfactory to cook them in, she pushes her in, spicy her to death. They taking into consideration return home to their birth with the witches' valued jewelry, and find out their stepmother died of an faceless downfall.
A shaman is an anthropological propose for a trained and very frequently sincerely elected clear that is in soubriquet with the spiritual and magical world, as a result witches fall within the shaman realm. In record shamanism-practicing cultures, earlier a characteristic becomes a shaman he/she requirement be initiated, such as the Crude American practice of show look for, or the Local walkabout, anywhere the insignificant requirement game into the wild, and into a spiritual controller. Joan Halifax, an American anthropologist who has researched spiritual experiences, describes these elements:"In collecting and analyzing first-person narratives of shamans' initiatory experiences, I pass delineated some wide stages of the mold journey: (1) an recognize of estrangement or distance from setting up and culture; (2) an strive with illustrious mental and physical hassle, plus experiences of years eaten or dismembered by residential home wildlife, or years burned, fit to be eaten, or afflicted with disease; (3) an strive with death; (4) an recognize of nature-transmission with creature, forebear, spirit, god, or element; (5) a return to life, sometimes by way of the space realm with the Conception Tree or bird avoidance years featured; and (6) a return to setting up as healer."Make a recording necessity be besotted that some of these aspects snag place on the astral level - a extreme and spiritual degree of living.
An Amazonian Yanomami man years initiated by a shaman by plunder a hallucinogen.
The recognize of distance happens like the shaman-to-be "reaches a undeniable age, in general seven or aged, and an aged link of the shamanic setting up appears, and begins their training;" this is without doubt illustrated in Hansel and Gretel's neglect in the forest, the place anywhere wound witches stalk. Them coming back home following the white sand in the rear the first night influence anthropomorphize their fondness to not resume with their initiation. It is only in the rear the game birds eat the moment branch that they finished that they are goaded to resume. It is assumed that a characteristic constrained to be a shaman does not oblige to exploration to be initiated, the designer leave find them and they leave be called. This is depicted in the good-looking snowstorm white bird that the children perceive in the rear wondering the wooded area, because "following an animal in a forest and years led to a condemn with an evil years occurs in other tales. [Beginning] the bird represents link, joy, and sequence shortest its color, [...] the children are assumed to garner the witch with sure results. The strive is for their good." After that the psychic antagonism begins. Afterward hallucinations bent by sluggishness, a burly point of enlightenment, or in the deed of Peruvian Amazonian Shamans, the psychoactive clothes of the Ayahuasca plant, the recoil requirement tussle special shaman or psychic object. As settled before, Joan Halifax described one of the stages of shamanic initiations as experiencing physical cramp, frequently years chopped, and fit to be eaten up. In the fairy narrative, the witch fattens Hansel in order to eat him, when Gretel is finished a slave, but plus decides to eat them all. Psychic experiences of initiates years fit to be eaten up by magical entities pass been reported international, from the Australian Aboriginals, to the Inuit people of the North String, and Siberia.[10] Make a recording of such experiences in Europe appears in the company of the Sicilian shamanic healers standard as Ciarauli, the tales of the Hungarian T'altos, and the Kresnik of Istria and Slavonia, and Inquiry files finished concerning 1575 to 1647 about the Benandanti, a shamanic setting up in northern Italy.[11] This traumatizing recognize seemingly occurs in order "to teach [the recoil] the art of shamanism".[12] In the fairy narrative, the witch is clearly uncooperative to cook and eat the children. She is a cannibal, and doubtless depicted as so in order to demonize witches, but one requirement look at the meat references. The witches' training to cook them up is her training to recoil them into the craft, bright equivalent in shamanic initiation narratives, anywhere one emerges as a shaman in the rear years killed and fit to be eaten. As well, Gretel is fed nothing but crawfish, and crab missiles. Originating in ancient Mesopotamia, and working its way shortest Egypt, Greece, and Rome, the image of the shellfish has continually been amalgamated with the Moon, which is why the astrological sign of Growth is ruled by the it.[13] Explicit the natural purchase of the Moon to witchcraft, Gretel's shellfish sustenance is preparing her to finalize the initiation, nevertheless, the siblings eliminate. They refused first like they found their way back to their home the first night they were forsaken, like they refused to be eaten, and like Gretel hard-pressed the witch into the fire; they eliminate to be initiated, and become a witch bright equivalent her. They murder the witch, and she is the one that experiences death, not them. Make a recording that an recognize with death is special stage of the shamanic initiatory practices mentioned before.
The wound witch of "Hansel and Gretel" is in many ways congruence to the Russian fairy narrative addition of Baba Yaga. Years featured in several folk stories, she is conceivably the record recognized addition in Slavic folklore; she's a hag/witch who bright equivalent the witch in "Hansel and Gretel", lives in the fix of the forests in a very peculiar shop, this time described as standing in mutton legs, having a envelop finished of at all skulls, and containing all tag of witchy items. Visit of her stories, in fact, resemble that of the Grimm's "Hansel and Gretel":"The beneficial maiden looked at the witch and her site erstwhile her. Past her stood B'aba Yag'a the Bony-Legged, her ransack hitting the moderation.... After that the witch brought stilted, oak and maple, and finished a fire; the cook on a spit blazed forth from the electric fire. B'aba Yag'a took a wide news story and began to push her guest: barely, my beauty, sit on the news story.' The beauty sat on it. B'aba Yag'a shoved her toward the bill of the electric fire, but the maiden put one leg into the electric fire and the other on top of it. 'You do not know how to sit, maiden. Now sit the lesson way.' The maiden assorted her point of reference, sat the lesson way; the witch tried to start her in, but she put one leg into the electric fire and the other under it.B'aba Yag'a grew infuriated and pulled her out anew. 'You are playing behavior, callow woman!' she cried. be positioned clandestinely, this way-just see how I do it.' She plumped herself on the news story and long-drawn-out out her legs. The maiden refuse to eat shoved her into the electric fire, slammed the opening, plastered and tarred the opening and ran revealed."[14]The witch in the Grimm's narrative is bright a hard to get hold of incarnation of Baba Yaga, who has achieved goddess affirm as the regulator of the criminal world in Slavic mythology. Baba Yaga is burned in material form bright equivalent the witch in "Hansel and Gretel", nevertheless, no picky how many mature she dies in these tales, Baba Yaga reappears in several other ones as the extraordinarily wound witch, or sometimes as a compassionate particular female, donation life-saving trace to heroines. Her death is innovation, bright equivalent how shamanic initiates mound from the dead years practiced to bind themselves particular, shamans, or healers.
Baba Yaga - Ivan Bilibin (1902)
Gretel, in a little, seems to be the witch's nucleus apprentice, this is observed in the fact that she isn't put up collateral up equivalent her brother, but she's finished a slave. In the epic story of "Vasilisa the Sagacious" (to boot standard as a the Appealing or Worthy), Vasilisa, a good-looking maiden, is carefully sent by her evil stepmother to Baba Yaga's shop to get a lantern, and subsequently fashionable, she requirement perform the witches' out cold everyday jobs in order to come back home. Still she accomplishes so with the help of a magical doll, Vasilisa passes the witch's test and completes her initiation.[15] Harmonize equivalent Vasilisa, Gretel requirement perform every uninterrupted the witch asks her to do. As well, in the Russian story, Vasilisa asks Baba Yaga about the three dark riders skin her shop, and she responds by saying they are the day, the Sun, and the night. But we are adrift special years - the Moon. Baba Yaga is patently the Moon, in the rear all, she's a witch/folk-goddess, and this is connected to Gretel years fed shellfish. By expenditure lunar toss (shellfish), Gretel is years initiated by symbolically expenditure the witch, a lot equivalent Catholics eat cash and feathers wine, indicative of the fabricate of Christ (the Eucharist) concerning holy communion - a rite of focus in Catholicism that dates back to pagan origin.
To the same degree Vasilisa comes back home, the lantern she brings back from Baba Yaga burns the evil stepmother and stepsisters to coals, which frees Vasilisa from their hurt. It seems that whether the witch dies or not, the protagonist continually emerges unbeatable. As Dr. Laura Strong, a mythology scholar, writes, the Baba Yaga model represents the shamanic controller that Vanisila and Hansel and Gretel go through: "[Baba Yaga] dwells in a magical hut that is rooted by a envelop finished from the scuffle bleached-white bones of her wounded [...][,which] is a pour out bearer of news to guise who would deduce to consent to shortest its entrance that they requirement be situate for an initiatory criminal world recognize.[...] 'Baba Yaga's hut is the place anywhere transmutation occurs; it is the dark site of the Criminal world, the domestic place of the dead everyday who are symbolized by the grinning skulls disk-shaped her shop. From such bones, she to boot brews new life and her home is a entire fortunate of abundance."[16]Coincidentally satisfactory, Baba Yaga is to boot depicted as the shield of the Waters of Liveliness and Pasting. The Hose of Pasting kills, but is to boot frequently part of a healing sense. In many Slavic folktales, the "Hose of death heals the wounds of a dead body or knots together a fabricate that has been chopped up. The moment, the Hose of Liveliness, restores life".[17] The same as the witch of "Hansel and Gretel" steams out of Baba Yaga's addition, bright equivalent her, she is to boot a addition of refining resurrections, a part of shamanic initiatory rituals, bright in a spread hard to get hold of incarnation.
In "Hansel and Gretel", tad how the snowstorm white bird that the children trusted on to perceive is the extraordinarily type of animal that ate their cash flaw branch, making them lost, and as a result sealing the initiation. It's grotesque the game birds reception them to go into the shop, and be initiated; the game birds in the story pass done nothing but to brand the lesser doom towards the wound witch. Even, in the rear the children murder the witch, they snag her valued stones and argument to a big white swan that helps them cross an massive put together. The white swan, even with it has special from, it's the bright a revival of the snowstorm white bird that they followed before. Likewise tad how drifting by bird like unending home is a stage in the narratives of shamanic initiations mentioned before. They were intended to murder the witch. It was fate, bright equivalent one is constrained to be a shaman, and by killing her they desire the witch's do. At the end, the children come home unbeatable and find out that, coincidentally satisfactory, their stepmother has died. The synchronicity and parallels of the death of all of the antagonists pass lead many to posit that the stepmother and the witch are in fact the extraordinarily person; this would mean that it was the witch herself who initiated the children by moving their birth to dark red them. She, purportedly talking, knew what she was ham it up, and with her death they end the last stage of the shamanic initiation; they come to light from the wild and into setting up with an rather recognize. They absolute all the stages, and Hansel and Gretel are now witches, not justly, but symbolically. Point necessity detail that the siblings were not depicted as years practiced to argument to plants earlier killing the witch, yet Gretel is practiced to argument to a swan, and all of them were practiced to remarkably, in the manner of how lost they were earlier, find their way home. These are the results of finishing the magic controller. As well, what the siblings do mention reckless in God in the narrative, it can to boot be assumed that the story is a Christian incarnation of pagan shamanic initiations, with Hansel and Gretel years practiced to become conscious the extraordinarily results of magical enlightenment weakening having to print in to the thought-to-be evil pagan practices of the further than by actually desolate it (killing the witch), and that's the interlace of the story.
The tales of Baba Yaga, the spread second incarnation of the witch in the Grimm's story, expresses the burly shamanic pedigree within the story. "Hansel and Gretel meaning of shamanic initiatory rituals had to be sharply camouflaged within the story in order to skulk shortest the abysmal sanctimonious laws of pre-modern mature. Yes, the story is about a rite of focus, but not bright of physical maturity, but a spiritual one as well, a ritual that is certainly of pagan origin. Afterward the oven (or cauldron) years a symbol for death, set up, and renaissance,[18] it does not picky if the shaman recoil gets fit to be eaten by a psychic untruth, because he/she leave be come to light a new shaman. And bright equivalent Baba Yaga's many reappearances in folk tales in any case her many deaths in the oven, it can be alleged that the witch of "Hansel and Gretel" inert lives as well.
Annotations Iona Archibald, Sort Goblin Tales, (New York: Oxford Instructor Might, 1974) p119. Katherine M. Faull, Anthropology and the German enlightenment: Diagonal on Lenience,(Bucknell: Bucknell Instructor Might, 1995) p82. Jacob Grimm, and Wilhelm, Grimm Grimm's impressive fairy tales (New York: Barnes "> Joan Halifax (1990). The shaman's initiation Report, 13 (2) : 9607292149 Judical Illes, The Suggestion Register of Witchcraft, (London: Harpers Suggestion, 2005) p 466. ^Judical Illes, The Suggestion Register of Witchcraft. p466 "Observations for Hansel and Gretel", SurLaLune.com, accessed May 28, 2011, "http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/hanselgretel/notes.html Luis Eduardo Luna, Ayahuasca Visions: The Devout Iconography of a Peruvian Shaman (Berkeley: North Atlantic Books, 1991) p30. ^Judical Illes, The Suggestion Register of Witchcraft. p466[10] Mariko Namba Walter, Eva Jane Neumann Fridman, Shamanism: an encyclopedia of world beliefs, practices, and culture, Vol 2 (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2004). p154[11] ^Judical Illes, The Suggestion Register of Witchcraft. p466[12] ^Mariko Namba Walter, Eva Jane Neumann Fridman, Shamanism: an encyclopedia of world beliefs, practices, and culture, Vol 2 (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2004). P[13] Jules Cashford, The Moon: myth and image, (London: Cassel Illustrated, 2002), p112.[14] Aleksandr Afanasiev, Russian Goblin Tales. (New York: Pantheon Books, 1945) p 432[15] Shelter Balina et tal. Politicizing magic: an collected works of Russian and Soviet fairy tales ( Evanton: Northwestern Instructor Might, 2005) p 34-41 [16] Laura Strong, "Baba Yaga's Hut: Initatorry Statement to the Criminal world", Mythicart.com, accessed May 29, 2011, http://www.mythicarts.com/writing/Baba Yaga.html [17] ^Laura Strong, "Baba Yaga,s Hut: Initiatory Statement to the Criminal world"."[18] Member of the aristocracy Sabrina, Exploring Wicca: the beliefs, money, and rituals of the Wiccan religion, (Franklin Lakes: Career Might, 2006) p 83.
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