The Magickal Pen

Each holds sway and hand of might
upon the year’s Great Wheel.
In each domain one shall be King
as wax and wane of Light
move within nature’s cyclic plan.

The Oak holds fast
to growing light
And Holly brings shadow near.
The time between held
in equinox Gate and season’s turn
tips finely calibrated scales.

Solstice Kings, though brothers, they
in battle determine solar fate.
The Light holds fast
The Oak marks time
flanked by strength
and sundial’s grace.

The Holly answers with response
a dance of calculated pace.
At sunset’s call, he strikes his final blow
as Oak in silent acquiescence bows
and bends to Summer Light’s repose.

 
His brother- triumphant Holly King
upon rooster’s call
shall next arise.
The waning of the year begins
with Oak King’s necessary demise.

For what lay sleeping within
the growing splendor of Holly’s
fertile embrace 
is the promise
of Light’s return
at the peak of Winter’s darkened and snowy face.

And, once again the two shall meet
Oak strengthened by slumber’s rest.
The end of darkness near;
the Holly King, his energy spent
shall relinquish crown as
Oak reigns renewed.

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You are the heat of the

blazing sun  and the cool embers

of the blue flame that lay

concealed within.

 

Potency of magnetic cohesion

and polarity of electrical

discharge are held within

your vessel of mysteries.

 

I surrender to your down- pour

I tremble as your force expands

I am blinded by the gnosis

within your core

I willingly give my all to

be filled with the heat of

your luminosity.

 

Your strength supports each

cell of my fragile being.

I remember the mysteries of sacrifice

and my spirit moves within the

molten core of the many streams

your fiery essence reveals.

 

All hail to the redemption of

man’s feeble will that makes clear the

way as I open to the flaming star of golden

light and lay claim to the kingship

that becomes my mantle of grace.

Master of illusion

and Mistress of time.

I am the mirror reflection

of that which is reflected.

Mind and its gymnastics

of intellect move at

a speed envied by most.

I am the air that

moves in form

of aero-acrobatics.

Seemingly steady and

straight in course

and then, playing at the

antics of daredevil who

dives and peaks in response

to the next intriguing distraction.

Unwavering persistence is not

my natural state.

But, the flexibility of

persistent exploration down paths

of all manner of endeavor

is my greatest strength.

For between the pillars of my glyph

lay the secrets of manifestation.

And the inward arc of line at top and bottom

are the in pour of air’s inspiration

reaching as above, so below

towards the reflection

of

duality

Christian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian,

stone, ground, mountain, river,

each has a secret way of being with the mystery,

unique and not to be judged.

…Rumi …

 

As we move through this world, look for the spark of the Divine in each person you meet. It does not matter by what religion or spiritual Path they are aligned. Each is part of the larger fabric of a truth that is both unable to be defined and encompasses all that it touches. The mystery is held not in the books of great wisdom or the libraries of the theologians. It is the unconditional love found in a child’s loving gaze and the final words spoken as one lays dying. It is the joy of simply being and the profound recognition of all things being the gifts of the Great Ones. It is held within the cradle of every atom of our earth and the starseed of the cosmos. Share the diversity of the individual experience of this mystery and truth. Be open to the possibilities. And acknowledge the inherent truths that each may offer.