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Please enjoy the article, poem and suggested personal ritual from my post on WitchVox this week.

 

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Many celebrate the Summer Solstice with the story of the Oak King and Holly King. The Oak King having been crowned at the Winter Solstice is filled to bursting with the energy and power of solar energy and light; and it is He who draws the sacred seasons toward the bounty of Summer’s fullness. The Holly King has lain silently in his space of renewed slumber and HE waits to rise again at the time of the Summer Solstice. On the sacred day of the Solstice, the Holly King emerges to claim his own and triumphant in the battle for dominance with his brother now reigns as the keeper of death and rebirth. HE stands in command as the harvest is reaped and the silence of the cold and snows fall upon the lands. HE knows that he will only have half of the year to weave His magick before the battle ensues once again and the world will bow to his brother, the Mighty Oak. They are one and the same but each work their will wearing the appropriate face and archetypal energy in accord with the ebb and flow of the seasons, the expansion and contraction of the energetic state and the necessary demise of one so the other may reign supreme.  

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Midsummer calls to you saying
Awaken and revel in the day as
My light stretches long and bright
Before night crowds greedily in.

Draw back the curtains that
Shroud the hidden spaces
Of your mind and heart.

Midsummer’s sun will light
The way before retreat into the dark…..

The accompanying poem can be found here

Blessings of the Solstice!

 

 

 

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phoenix

Just be fully present in your human experience.
Just speak your truth from a place of compassion.
Just offer yourself freely to those in need.
Just honor yourself as you would another.
Just allow your actions to speak louder than the hollow words.
Just take a breath and pause into the stillness.
Just allow yourself to soak in the positive energy that surrounds.
Just offer up your time towards enriching your spiritual nature.
Just go outside and be in the presence of the majesty of Nature.
Just speak the words of power and infuse them with good for all.
Just marvel at the exceptional being you are.
Just allow the harmonious dialogue between all parts of your self.
Just be silent when instead you wish to exert your own will.
Just allow the beauty of the Divine to fill the empty space you cling to.
Just feel the breath and space of the flowing energy of Life.
Just open and allow it to fill and interact with you at all levels.
Just offer up gratitude when life leaves you with nothing to be grateful for.
Just live life to its fullest; experiencing much and keeping as your own the pearls.
Just stand in humility and awe of your effect on every living thing.
Just do the work of greatness and become the Greater Work of Spirit.
Just reach out and allow others to draw you to their greatness.
Just create and then allow that creation to remake you.
Just honor the passage of time and the cycles of  life.
Just flow with the tides of the solar, lunar and cosmic.
Just remain open to learning and engage all of your being in drinking it in.
Just sit in joyous devotion to your Gods and Goddesses.
Just asking of Them nothing and receive everything.

Just be in peace!
Just be in chaos!
Just be at one with the Limitless nature of the Divine!

Just BE!

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Flame of light

Breath of desire

Foundations of the All

 

Will of energy

Primal origins

Drawn from the

Depths of unknown mind

All balanced in rapturous

Union of permanence and simplicity

 

Refinement

Coalescing return

Each fed by the other

 

Outpouring of informed

Will and Consciousness

Held in the rapture

Of  Your Embrace

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What is it that you most desire? What type of motivation do you need to move towards that desire? Is this desire fueled by the subconscious thoughts of what joys it will give you? Or can you remain fully present and aware of both the negatives and the positives of achieving what you WILL to be so?

That part of our being that we name as the “will” can be a slippery slope to climb.  Desire is always part of the magickal equation for bringing into manifestation what we wish to be. And, it is the raw measure of desire that urges forward (or backward) the actions that are needed to move the energy of that desire. You will or WILL is what steps in and helps to guide the course of what the resultant product is.  If fueled by greed, lust or negativity the outcome and the actions taken are not often in accord with what is of the highest good.

If, however, the Higher Will is called into action greed becomes the ability to attract to oneself what is appropriately needed; lust becomes all compassionate love and understanding and the balance of negativity and positive flow is stabilized so that each work in harmony with the other in a polarized and productive way.

Air feeds the flame that consumes what lay hidden until the process of transformation is acted upon and the essence of something new may rise carried and uplifted on the breath of Air that once again feeds the flame…..  If we replace some of these words with their resonance to our spiritual nature, it would read something like this:

Mind fuels and enlivens the will to action which provides the necessary release of those shadow and/or subconscious parts of our being so they may be broken down, reformed and synthesized becoming the Phoenix of Higher Will that aspires towards Higher Mind which is now the informed catalyst (or fuel) that feeds the Higher Will to action…..

Our consciousness receives, filters and disburses the experience that passes through it.  We react at a conscious level to those things which lay within our subconscious. Albeit, this reaction is often instinctual and can remain unnoticed indefinitely, there is nonetheless,

a feeding of what our conscious action is by what is hidden beneath.  Shadow and self-discovery work address this hidden impact and set as goal to bring to the surface of conscious awareness those parts of our being that shun the full brightness of the light.

At the other end of the spectrum lay the super or higher state of consciousness. That which is in communion with the Divine spark, Deity and our Higher Nature.  The Higher or illumined Will resides in this space of awareness and is informed and aligned with outcome that is for the good of all. This Will is informed by Higher Mind and enlivened with compassion fueled by the desire for at-oneness with all things.  This informed state of being has been crafted from alignment with the subconscious and shadow state- drawn up to the place of  integration within the manifest and conscious self which allows an opening and communion with the Higher and super-conscious Divine Self.

When we allow our desires to be in accord with Divinely inspired thought we walk a path that is more intent-filled and are able to will-fully act in a catalytic way that ignites the flames of our Higher Will and higher consciousness.

Next Week:  Flexibility of the Subtle Bodies

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Hope you enjoy this excerpt from my new book: The Enchanted Gate

Majesty of the Trees

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They held court in glen and grove

Standing tall and stately the oldest held the rings

Of age and withered bark that had seen much of life’s wear.

Branches reaching one to the other

Their finger tips entwined as leaf overlapped leaf

And vines wrapped around trunks that held their mass.

A webbing of green on upward glance

And the furthest branch reaching high into the heavens

What glory the birds have witnessed who sat perched

On arms of strength and expanse.

Roots digging deep into Mother Earth’s core

Enlivened by the falling of the leaves and the rotting of excrement

Roots spreading out and forming carpet on forest floor.

The tiny grooves home to creatures thrilled by

The pulsing of life from earth to sky.

Wind brought the whispering of stories of times past

And rustled through leaf as it gently bent

Branches that bowed to its touch.

Silence of snow and Spring’s new green buds

All birthed in a nursery of green.

The trees are now long gone.

Cut down with only the smallest now left.

Their royal presence defeated by the sprawl of urban greed.

The stories of their glory and the truth of their majesty

Now held only in the penning of my hand.


The concept for this book arose from my fascination with Trees and the varied forms and faces I recognized in each.  I started taking pictures with my cell phone of these strong creations and the poetic meaning of each seemed to flow from the Tree itself in what it wanted expressed. This opening spilled over into the taking pictures of all manner of natural scenes and settings.

Plans are in the works for a second volume dedicated in focus to the many trees that I did not place in this book. So, take a walk outside. Look up, look around and open your self to the messages of nature that are all around us.

Please visit my  Books  page for more information and a listing of other available titles.

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