Equinox Rituals of different cultures
Wednesday 26 September 2012 at 8:43 pm
Magic and Meaning of Equinox
Autumn Equinox
The autumn equinox is a time of death, the time to destroy the egos and our subconscious patterns such as anger, pride, greed, envy, lust... We can offer our weaknesses as sacrifices before the gods transforming them into their higher, divine manifestation.
Chinese honour this time with a ritual of standing facing west, lighting white candles, or placing white flowers on the altar.
The Druids used to cut wands from the willow trees to use for divination at this time of year.
For the ancient Celts the autumn equinox is symbolically marked as a time of sacrifice with a ritual of burning a figure from the stems of grain, representing the vegetation spirit.
Spring Equinox
The seasons change while the Earth continues its journey through the space and time. Spiritual art of our ancestors and their Rituals at the Equinox time, honour the balance between light and darkness.
Some teachings of esoteric wisdom say that during this time the veil between the physical world and other worlds opens. This is a good time for meditation, prayers, rituals and offerings. The equinox occurs twice each year, around 22 March and on the 21 December.
Spring Equinox
The spring equinox is a time of strong winds, time of the final triumph of the Sun over darkness, with the last full moon of winter. These are the days when the Sun is exactly above the Equator, which makes day and night of equal length. Aphrodite from Cyprus, Hathor from Egypt were gods celebrated at Spring equinox. The Ancient Malta temples' corridors become flooded with golden light, at sunrise, shining through to the innermost Temple stone. Their incredible astronomical orientation makes them a timeless calendar for over 5,000 years.
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Thursday 06 September 2012 at 09:03 am
Art of 4 Elements | Discover Alchemy through Poetry
The Art of 4 Elements is a poetry and art book
The golden thread weaving in and out of each poem are the 4 elements – earth, water, air and fire. Earth represents the poems, fire represents the life force, air represents meditation and mental work and water represents the flow of emotions and letting go...
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How to Practice Divergent Thinking
Wednesday 25 July 2012 at 7:12 pm
Divergent Thinking as an Essence of Creativity
Divergent thinking is essential for creativity and for What is creativity?. It is the ability to see lots of possible ways to interpret a question and lots of possible answers to it.
It is a thought process used to generate creative ideas by exploring many possibilities. Instead of taking obvious steps and walking along a straight line, one looks at different aspects of the situation, creating different results.
Divergent thinking is often used as a parallel of convergent thinking that follows a particular set of logical steps to arrive at one solution. All standardised tests stipulate this type of thinking.
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Signs and symbol spiritual meanings
Thursday 12 July 2012 at 7:42 pm
Language of the Soul, Language of Dreams
Symbols and signs are the languages of the soul. Symbols and signs are the language of dreams.
Occultists believe that signs and symbols are given a supernatural power at their creation.
Words, signs and symbols, images, colors, light, are all used for aeons to convey a spiritual meaning.
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Creative Thinking as Divine Inspiration or Human Trait
Monday 18 June 2012 at 1:48 pm
What is Creativity?
Creative Thinking as Divine Inspiration or Human Trait
It took some time for the humanity to accept ‘creativity’ as a possible human ‘trait’.
It was during the Renaissance that creativity was first seen, not as a matter of divine inspiration, but as a gift of a great learned man to imitate God’s ability to create. As Prometheus stole the fire of the Gods and brought it to the mankind, humanity needed to steal the secret of ‘creation’ from Gods and understand its essence.
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