Happy Equinox to you all
-Hsotha Petre
Grandfather Peter
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THE BEARCLAN SCHOOL FOR SHAMANIC STUDIES
THE EIGHT YEARLY FESTIVALS
THE CELEBRATION OF THE EAST (21st MARCH)
SPRING EQUINOX
We are now a month and a half farther along our journey with the Earth moving around the Sun. At this time we adorn ourselves anew and learn the rhythm and rhyme of another festive time and dance in celebration with the appearance of Spring. The Festival of Spring (the Spring Equinox) is located in the East position of the Shamanic Medicine Wheel.
Day and night are equal. We celebrate the resurrected light that becomes increasingly visible in the longer days. It is symbolic of the enlightenment of our spirits, giving inspiration and fire to our visions
We start blooming with the first flowers and take responsibility for ourselves and everything that happens in our ripening process. The Great Mother's message for us at this time is showing how she receives the power of fire and creativity and transforms them into her own source of power.
During this celebration, the Sun gives us his fire to kindle our visions. This "Fire Medicine" teaches us that something must die first in order to be reborn. The death of matter gives birth to light. The Indians of the Plains set fire to the old grass to enable new grass to grow where the old grass died. Fire is the power of the shaman that transforms the old into the new.
We are children of the Sun as well as the Earth for they are our Great parents. Father Sun reminds us that we are ourselves creators- by vision and orgasm. During this time we ask for our personal vision, for direction regarding the next steps that we are about to take. It is the festival of revelation, a message from our Great father-The Sun, the Song of Songs of the immortal and eternal spirit, which proclaims the divine, and the creative universal spirit.
Together with the Earth and all our relations in the plant, animal and mineral kingdoms; we discover our own resurrection through our passion and surrender to the bursting open of all life. We can finally burn away the dregs of the past and transform them into new life. We ourselves can be likened to the bonfires of Easter that our forebears made. We are the lamb with the banner of victory, becoming enlightened by symbolically hanging from the cross. Initiates into the mysteries of death and re-birth.
-Hsotha Petre
Grandfather Peter
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THE BEARCLAN SCHOOL FOR SHAMANIC STUDIES
THE EIGHT YEARLY FESTIVALS
THE CELEBRATION OF THE EAST (21st MARCH)
SPRING EQUINOX
We are now a month and a half farther along our journey with the Earth moving around the Sun. At this time we adorn ourselves anew and learn the rhythm and rhyme of another festive time and dance in celebration with the appearance of Spring. The Festival of Spring (the Spring Equinox) is located in the East position of the Shamanic Medicine Wheel.
Day and night are equal. We celebrate the resurrected light that becomes increasingly visible in the longer days. It is symbolic of the enlightenment of our spirits, giving inspiration and fire to our visions
We start blooming with the first flowers and take responsibility for ourselves and everything that happens in our ripening process. The Great Mother's message for us at this time is showing how she receives the power of fire and creativity and transforms them into her own source of power.
During this celebration, the Sun gives us his fire to kindle our visions. This "Fire Medicine" teaches us that something must die first in order to be reborn. The death of matter gives birth to light. The Indians of the Plains set fire to the old grass to enable new grass to grow where the old grass died. Fire is the power of the shaman that transforms the old into the new.
We are children of the Sun as well as the Earth for they are our Great parents. Father Sun reminds us that we are ourselves creators- by vision and orgasm. During this time we ask for our personal vision, for direction regarding the next steps that we are about to take. It is the festival of revelation, a message from our Great father-The Sun, the Song of Songs of the immortal and eternal spirit, which proclaims the divine, and the creative universal spirit.
Together with the Earth and all our relations in the plant, animal and mineral kingdoms; we discover our own resurrection through our passion and surrender to the bursting open of all life. We can finally burn away the dregs of the past and transform them into new life. We ourselves can be likened to the bonfires of Easter that our forebears made. We are the lamb with the banner of victory, becoming enlightened by symbolically hanging from the cross. Initiates into the mysteries of death and re-birth.
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