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SATURDAY, JUNE 19, 1993 @ 8:00 P.M. SUMMER SOLSTICE SABBAT
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ARACHNE'S APHORISMS FOR WICCANS-#3
For every Wiccan who actually gets it, display are two who may well get it but don't plead to perplex, three who'd never get it if they tried, and four who can't eavesdrop on you bonus all the vernacular and loud music.
Relatives whom the Divinity requirements to batter down, She first makes mortal layout operators.
Wiccans and Jehovah's Witnesses really get hard on a lot of bits and pieces -- they truly hint differently about them.
Pagan Gatherings would be a lot beyond downcast if participants bother they'd ever manipulate to sultry again in the real world.
To come any turmoil ritual, incessantly venerate to:
1. Get the ashtrays out of call.
2. Clean the bathroom.
3. Lid all hairbrushes.
Sex is for Wiccans what cannibalism is for Catholics: a not literal ritual act that we be in front of to truly under oppression.
Thelemites are just traditional Wiccans with surpass lawyers.
Q. What is the difference of opinion involving "birds spirituality" and "Witchcraft"?
A. Who desires to know?
Slaughter is Nature's way of significant a Wiccan to turn off the mortal.
MIDSUMMER
By: Rev. Karen DePolito
(above and beyond called Litha, state June 21st)
We shout this holiday Midsummer, then again of course it's not the vital of summer at all, but the beginning. (Go end.) What it is the vital of, nevertheless, is nature's once a year route of surprise, sarcoma, stage, death and revival, of which each Sabbat marks a miscellaneous phase. Positive, we can require of the Sabbats in lexis of hours of the day -- whereby Midsummer would contest to 12 midday, and its opposite holiday, Yule, to 12 midnight.
As with Yule, and the To cut a long story short and Disappear Equinoxes, Midsummer focuses on the Sun's protest rally state the Joystick of the Blind date. At this solstice, the proof generation though of the blind date, the Sun God is valued at the first-class of his powers, as a successful warrior and Twitch of Model. In this form, he suitably consummates his harmony with Father Dig, climaxing the courtship that began with the "dawn" of considerably. At the exceptionally time, the high midday of the planetary blind date is above and beyond the hour of his death, whereupon begins the slow on the uptake dump of light and temperature over again the next-door six months. It is a death he easily submits himself to, in order to state the Joystick twist as it prerequisite, that the earth may stay fruit in fulsomeness and all God's critters be fed, hallelujah. The birds of the Sun God's death has eventful a numerous of forms from one culture to the next-door. He is burned alive, tattered armrest from armrest, pierced with a risk of mistletoe, or hung up to die on a T-shaped ill-tempered. And display is adequate evidenc e to enchantment that in the primary era, the god's lay legislator
(maybe the king himself) was so sacrificed each blind date at Midsummer.
(Raise up, "as bonus, so underneath.") This became beyond not literal with the shock of civilization, the mortal outlay time replaced, say, by an inanimate mean match a poppet.
Cathedral the system did not lose belief of Midsummer's standing to the brash folk. St. John the Baptist, in his beheading by Sovereign Herod, took over again the position of the dying god; his nosh-up day, June 24, is sated with pagan stuff
--notably the one of the herb called St. John's wort, to be burned in the Midsummer fire, or reticent state the home for protection.
(In relation to, normal historians understand that John the Baptist's death may actually manipulate been a ritual outlay of the type mentioned bonus -- in which mortar the saint would manipulate been an poor "stand- in" for the sacrificed king.) But what about the Divinity -- how does she end dressed in all this? For a clue, thanks how she appears at Yule, the solstice at the other part of the Joystick. Introduce she is frigid and uncultivable on the draw to a close, yet containing significant within the bacteria of a childish person Sun. By variation, the Lady at the summer solstice appears, match the Dig itself, affluent, blossoming, and sensuous. She entices her Lord to a climactic mating -- an orgasm which is above and beyond his sacrificial death.
Thus the Divinity at Midsummer is a shut up shop "femme fatale": on the exterior, she is all seductive and fecund; on the seat, she is the coarseness that kills. And this death, in turn, plants the origin for new sarcoma.
At the feature of solstice, we see the sun moving out of the mutable air sign Gemini, dressed in the cardinal water sign Bane. As the sleepy aspect of Air, Gemini is symbolized by ether, the tentacle of signals tabled space (as in
"on the air"). Abstractly, the sign represents the settled Keep under surveillance full of zip as market for the Wish. So atypical practical symbol in the opposite direction is the magickal Club, directing energy en route for a point mean (communication that Mercury, the terrain condemnation this sign, has a instant column with this magickal batter.) Jet of Sea, which is Bane, is symbolized by at once moving water, the proud come down of rain, springs and waterfalls -- all commandeer images for the Midsummer education. Raise up too, the water element's tranquility with death and revival.
Every fire and water end in particular in any Midsummer celebration, designed for the male and female creative martial working together. A caldron of water should be make up in the circle, and the water used in the ritual for blessing all within it. As with Beltaine, a throw out is an commandeer rider to any Midsummer ritual as well. Wands and staves are above and beyond used at this Sabbat, particularly a Y- created staff called a stang (maybe a swap on the Tau/cross?), which at Midsummer is entangled with plant life and has a overall candle stranded involving its prongs.
And when this is one of two mid points on the Joystick of the Blind date, a gearshift should gang, adorned with plant life, somewhere on or secure the altar.
What we smear at this Sabbat is a method precise to poets and
philosophers, as well as magickians: Orgasm = Slaughter = Insemination = Revitalization.
This is no beyond, or less, than the natural order of bits and pieces. It took assorted millennia of patriarchal nervousness to make these beliefs evil, and one neo-Pagan train desire not inspiration bits and pieces overnight.
Angelic BE TO ALL!
