Aerin
Sorry guys, I've been v. busy so I'll post this now and my Lesson 2 experiences when I have time.
(Done it, just not had time to post).
(pic of back of cards) The Goddess of the Earth speaks: 'Behold! I bring you the wisdom of the deep earth and of the distant stars. From the ages past to the ages to come, I guard the empowering Hallows in the Courts of Joy. Who will seek them now and restire joy to the Earth?'
Gaia has entered our language as a way of speaking about the Earth's spirit. Earth is seen as a living being.
The Goddess of the Land has many faces: our own country has its Goddess who watches over it. We need to discover our relationship with Her and which levels of that relationship are operative. No one spirituality or religion has the only correct picture. Worldwide people are moved by the plight of the Earth and whenever the energy of the Goddess moves people become questers after better solutions. Some are moved to spiritual and some to political action, some both so one informs the other.
Explore your own land's heraldry, coinage, emblems etc to get a sense of the way your land's titulary spirit is expressed e.g. animals, plants, abstract devices, male deities.
Questions:
1 How do you feel about being a citizen of your country? e.g. proud ashamed dissatisfied
2. If your land was a person, what would it look like? Meditate, write a description, draw a piccy
3. What national characteristics are peculiar to your country? Pick cards to respresent these qualities.
4. What change/ healing does your country need - look honestly at failings. Choose cards to represent healings of the situation.
5. What is your country's romantic or poetic name? e.g. England = Albion, US = Land of the Free. By using such titles in meditating, you access a deeper more cohesive sense of the land
Tasks:
1. As you go about daily in your locality, feel the different energies of the streets, green places, buildings etc. Which areas make you confident, unsure, depressed, et?
2. Choose an area in your locality which according to you is in need of healing. Do what you can practically e.g. clearing rubbish. In adition, every day actively beseech spiritual help and send it to the area choosing a card if appropriate to focus your meditation.
3. Choose a local area which according to you feels unsafe. Dedicate it to a specific deity, archetype, healing energy or power and invoke its help e.g. by prayer, meditation, ritual. Give it a nice name (the area) particularly if you usually think of it by a nasty one.
4. Create a closing affirmation to end each meditation e.g. 'From that world to this world I return from (card name) to my own time and place.
(ok, I'll break here and add the next bit when I have time, a meditation)
Aerin
(Done it, just not had time to post).
(pic of back of cards) The Goddess of the Earth speaks: 'Behold! I bring you the wisdom of the deep earth and of the distant stars. From the ages past to the ages to come, I guard the empowering Hallows in the Courts of Joy. Who will seek them now and restire joy to the Earth?'
Gaia has entered our language as a way of speaking about the Earth's spirit. Earth is seen as a living being.
The Goddess of the Land has many faces: our own country has its Goddess who watches over it. We need to discover our relationship with Her and which levels of that relationship are operative. No one spirituality or religion has the only correct picture. Worldwide people are moved by the plight of the Earth and whenever the energy of the Goddess moves people become questers after better solutions. Some are moved to spiritual and some to political action, some both so one informs the other.
Explore your own land's heraldry, coinage, emblems etc to get a sense of the way your land's titulary spirit is expressed e.g. animals, plants, abstract devices, male deities.
Questions:
1 How do you feel about being a citizen of your country? e.g. proud ashamed dissatisfied
2. If your land was a person, what would it look like? Meditate, write a description, draw a piccy
3. What national characteristics are peculiar to your country? Pick cards to respresent these qualities.
4. What change/ healing does your country need - look honestly at failings. Choose cards to represent healings of the situation.
5. What is your country's romantic or poetic name? e.g. England = Albion, US = Land of the Free. By using such titles in meditating, you access a deeper more cohesive sense of the land
Tasks:
1. As you go about daily in your locality, feel the different energies of the streets, green places, buildings etc. Which areas make you confident, unsure, depressed, et?
2. Choose an area in your locality which according to you is in need of healing. Do what you can practically e.g. clearing rubbish. In adition, every day actively beseech spiritual help and send it to the area choosing a card if appropriate to focus your meditation.
3. Choose a local area which according to you feels unsafe. Dedicate it to a specific deity, archetype, healing energy or power and invoke its help e.g. by prayer, meditation, ritual. Give it a nice name (the area) particularly if you usually think of it by a nasty one.
4. Create a closing affirmation to end each meditation e.g. 'From that world to this world I return from (card name) to my own time and place.
(ok, I'll break here and add the next bit when I have time, a meditation)
Aerin