After an empowering meditation on the Earth Spirit this morning, I decided to create my impressions of the Earth Spirit with digital art, a new medium that I am getting involved in of late.
It was interesting that everyone tapped into similar aspects in the meditation.
Original digital artwork, “Earth Spirit”, by Janine Donnellan
(Click on the image for a larger view)
There has been a significant amount of chaos prevailing in and around my life over the past few months. This chaos has precipitated a reflective mood as I digest and ruminate over the events. The end result of this calamity has given me cause to deliberate over the nature of the Cosmic Laws, and how it applies to the human kind.
Occasionally you run into someone who is hiding behind the banner of spirituality, in reality their motives are self-gratifying and counter productive to anything truly spiritual; they live by the ‘anything goes’ or the ‘everyone for themselves’ principle. Some say that this principle is called the Law of the Jungle but this is a common misconception. In actuality it is the exact opposite; when Rudyard Kipling wrote the poem the Law of the Jungle, he was trying to emphasize that ‘the law’ is about the virtues of loyalty, keeping your promises, courage, and respect for other people and acting in accordance with the good of the all. The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling tells the story of Mowgli, a boy separated from his mother by a hungry tiger, who is adopted by a loving wolf pack that teaches him the true nature of the law of the jungle. The first verse of ‘The Law of the Jungle’ states:
Now this is the Law of the Jungle — as old and as true as the sky;
And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf that shall break it must die.
As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk the Law runneth forward and back –
For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
Unfortunately, the ‘good of the all’, ‘the strength of the pack’ gets lost when people deliberately enforce their own private agendas to the detriment of everyone else. I often question if the Law of Return or the Karmic Laws does have an impact on those that break ‘the law’ assuming that these laws actually exist. One can only hope that there is such a system of applied justice.
Over the centuries there has been much idealism about the ‘good of the all’ for example, ‘All for one, and one for all’ (un pour tous, tous pour un) a motto traditionally associated with the King’s Musketeers in the novel The Three Musketeers written by Alexandre Dumas. In the novel, it was the motto of a trio of French musketeers named Athos, Porthos and Aramis who stayed loyal to each other through thick and thin.
I guess in life you will meet all kinds of people. There are those you meet that have pure intentions, that touch your heart and soul and you give thanks that you are part of their life and they are a part of yours. Through love and support the sense of ‘all’ grows stronger and stronger. Then there are those that are self seeking and create chaos and division; these people randomly come into your life for a reason and can often help you appreciate what you have and can give you the impetus to change what needs to be changed.
I must admit that I’m done with the chaos for the time being and I am looking forward to the ‘going within’ which comes with the onset of the colder months. Samhain is only a few weeks away but already I feel the thinning veil and I long for the comfort of submersing myself into the darkness as I am far more at home and safe in the familiar landscapes of the Otherworlds.
All is one: Nothing stays the same.
In this meditation (which was a part of the “13 Megaliths” ritual conducted by SOL on April 10, 2009) I find myself surrounded by a fog bank and as I move through it Stonehenge appears. Merlin is standing there to greet me and he directs me into the stone circle. I notice that Lilith is crouching on top of one of the megaliths in her serpent aspect. She jumps down and walks alongside Merlin and me, into the centre of the circle.
Original digital artwork, “Lilith the Serpent”, by Janine Donnellan
Within the circle the priestesses of Avalon are assembled for a ritual around a large stone altar which has a spiral design engraved into it. Immediately Lilith jumps upon the altar and proceeds to dance provocatively. The priestesses begin to sing and the High Priestess Vivienne enters the circle carrying a large athame with a mother of pearl handle which has a large hole in its centre. Vivienne raises the athame into the air and positions it in such a way that the hole captures the profile of the full moon. The moon’s rays penetrate the hole and radiates the area of the altar. Vivienne then takes the athame and cuts her right hand and then places her hand over the altar so that the blood drips directly onto the altar. Each priestess in turn cuts her hand and gives blood to the altar.
As each person sacrifices some of their life force to the altar, the blood merges and starts to move around the spiral into the centre of the altar where a small sink hole delivers the blood to the earth. The blood then penetrates the ley lines directly under the Stonehenge which in turn feeds, nourishes and gives healing to mother Earth.
Lilith takes the athame and cuts her hand and then takes my hand and cuts my hand and she presses our hands together. She looks directly at me and says that its part of a shift and that our energies are being merged. Each priestess within the circle presses their hands together allowing the energy to flow from one to another. At that point the meditation ends and I find myself back in the hall.
Mother of Pearl
Mother of Pearl signifies faith, innocence, enhances personal integrity, and helps to provide focus to ones attention. The pearl has been known as a “stone of sincerity”, bringing truth to situations and loyalty to a “cause”. It has been used to inhibit boisterous behaviour, and to provide a reflection of the self such that one may see the manner in which one appears to others. This stone is good for protection.
Mother of Pearl info from http://www.e-jewel.co.il/en/Site_Page_number.aspx?PageID=232
More information regarding the 13 Megaliths Ritual (which included “The Henge” meditation) and past SOL Full Moon Circles can be found in our Book Of Shadows. Please contact us for further details if you would like to attend our Full Moon Circles.
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