Samhain

Laced with mystery, Samhain straddles as many beliefs as it does dates. Some think of as three days and others less while some even more. Some think it the beginning of their year as we enter the cold and dark beyond harvest and head for the return of the light. It is a time of fire.

The community celebrated around bonfires. Some villages ensured all other fires were out and the village lit each hearth from the flames of the common bonfire for Samhain. Some had two bon fires and each villager walked between the fires to purge and purify. The herds were purged of the weak and their meats gathered to sustain the people in the winter. The remaining animals were often marched between the bonfires to purify them and link them to the villagers as well. All bound together by the common flames and each better prepared for the season to come.

Samhain is also Halloween. The seeming innocence of bobbing for apples and the dark forces flying between worlds surface at this very special time. It is one of the most powerful Sabbats and is celebrated in many ways for those open to its energy.

Mabon 23

See the joy of acceptance as energy rallies all to all. Feel the trust of the herd and the tribe in each other as places are not just taken but embraced. Touch the sweetness of longing in those that feel what comes. Hear the music of insight as even those that watched now dance with the growing throng. Speak of all of this more freely now as the harvest of Mabon moves to closure.

Mabon 22

Link the past with the now so that you see the very circle that flows from then to now and onto what comes. See not a line for time in a line in a concept that limits. With the tribe and the herd, time circles and merges in a fluid dance of evolution, revolution, completion, and continuation. Those that look at time as a line or as a moment in isolation see but a brick of the building.

Mabon 21

The leaves scatter to the winds in bursts of dying brilliance. Stars shoot across a morning sky seen by eyes looking upward in new ways. The darkness remains longer in the mornings now as even time controls shift in tune with the energy from the SOURCE. The week is different than any yet settles to new routines. New places. Acceptance.

When the trees return to greenery and the light lingers longer, the tribe will be more tribe and the herd more herd. The shift is now.

Mabon 20

Places are clearer now. As Mabon moves to closure, eyes are opened via words and images to what should be as well as what will be. What led to the here and the now was merely the seed that is harvested now.

Assume your place for that will help others assume theirs. There will be those drawn to those drawn to you. Let them feel of you once removed for that is more than enough for their thirst and need. Those that you suckle are the purest energy SOURCE most could ever handle. The SOURCE is almost volcanic now and the eruption comes to you and yours to fuel the heat so many need and crave.

Mabon 19

Help those that move to place in ways they did not expect but that see now their true belonging. Ensure that as they grow in awe of you, this is seen not of you but of the SOURCE of your place and power. This is not about them just as it not about you. It is about all. All. Those that move to tribe and the many more that move to herd. A herd that forms with longing for self and melds with understanding of place.

Use thankfulness as the guide for who is in right place. Those destined to rule will do so with an amazement to be so selected for such an important responsibility. They will link to kindred for reassurance at times that this duty is executed well. Those destined to serve in herd will reach out to others in herd and those that rule for similar reassurance that their duties are sufficient to continue to earn such bliss.

Much moves now and the movement will be even more as Mabon moves to closure. The tribe and the herd expands. Expansion that will erupt and spread with the wild fire of the purest energy. The SOURCE pushes outward in all of tribe and all of herd.

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Solitude has its purpose. Reflection. Gathering to oneself. Time to ride your own thoughts on paths of their own. Solitude is never truly solitude for the tribe nor the herd. Once with true kindred, the connection is so permanent that the linkage is seared into the soul.

There will be times when you seek solitude and times when solitude is pushed upon you by knowing Forces or even by Forces that hope to separate. In any of these times, use the solitude for growth and even stronger connection to kindred of tribe and herd.

Solitude will be yours even in the most crowded places at times and in places of deepest isolation at others. When it is there, feel it, use it, and emerge all the better.