26th Day of the Seventh Lunar Cycle

"I'm one with the Goddess
and open to Her Wisdom."


26th Day of the Seventh Lunar Cycle
Ruled by Hecate
Lunar Tree Cycle ~ Duir/Oak
Moon Phase: Waning Last Quarter
Moon rises: 1:14AM EDT Moon sets: 4:14PM EDT
Moon in the Fixed Earth
Sign of Taurus
Ceridwen's Cycle of the Moon
Mercury goes direct 10:16PM EDT
Solar Question for the Day: What
old story are telling against yourself?
What new story waits to be told?"
Lunar Meditation: The richness of
your inner treasury.
"Action is the antidote to despair."
-- Joan Baez
July 9th, 2007


"Hey! She has a light step, don't she?
Hey! She has some fine clothes!
Hey! She dances down richness!
Look at those bracelets shake!
Her bracelets like water!
Water, like the bracelets of Oshun.
Dance when she shakes those bracelets,
dance and call Oshun. She can do
what the doctor can't. She can heal
with just cold water. Call Oshun.
All her answers are wise ones.
Call Oshun. She always say:
Live, my children, live without fear."
-- African chant to the goddess of love

There is only one way we can completely heal the injuries life brings us, and that is to live and lover without fear. To live is to endure pain, whether physical, mental, emotional or spiritual. But we can choose how we can react to that pain. If we clench ourselves in fear of more pain, we live cramped and unsatisfying lives - and we will not prevent ourselves from being hurt. If we open ourselves to life, we will still feel pain, but we will feel joy and pleasure as well.
We have, each of us, deep fears within us that prevent us from totally grasping life and its many joys. Discovering and healing those painful areas is the work of a lifetime. But without doing that work, we will never truly live.
[Source: "The Goddess Companion" by Patricia Monaghan]


Following Our Path

'Whence do you come and whither do you journey?
I journey on my own errand."
-- Pwyll, Prince of Dyfed, from "The Mabinogion"

When Pwyll (POO'ilh) first encounters and is questioned by his future wife, Rhiannon (Hee-ANN'on), he gives her a polite but noncommittal answer as to his identity and purpose.
It is not wise, after all, to disclose too much about yourself upon any first meeting, unless you have a clear idea of the other person's intentions. As it turns out, Pwyll and Rhiannon are traveling the same road, for she has come from the underworld with the express purpose of marrying him. Discovering and following our own path is something that is our personal business; it is not something that one person can do for another. We each have to make our own contract with Spirit, rather than existing as an unwitting signatory to someone else's previously drawn-up contract. We have to read all the fine print before we sign, learning everything we can about the obligations and commitments before showing our hand. Spontaneous response and heartfelt enthusiasm are not good bases for decision making.
When we search for our spiritual path, we need to reassess, consolidate, and recommit our spiritual focus - and check contractual details. It is all right to change course as we seek the best way to Spirit, it is equally all right to stay where we are - as long as we realize that compromising our truth is dangerous.

"If you are oriented on your path by a set of rules not of your making, or coasting along with a
contract you have not fully consented to, ask yourself what strongly held beliefs that course is
ignoring or causing you to change or diminish."
[Source: "The Celtic Spirit: Daily Meditations for the Turning Year" by Caitlin Matthews]