Spirit Warriors Dance On

Celebrate Samhain, Día de Los Muertos, & All Saints

Be ye a ‘spirit warrior,’ preparing for your ancient Wiccan celebration of Samhain, or be ye a tangled, frazzled warrior of frustrations?  It is time to don your shield and buckler as we enter November.  Mars, the fiery planet of war, commitment, physicality, and anger, in ‘me first’ aggression is at a standstill in Gemini, a sign of communication, understanding, and ideas.  I’m sure he’s quite unhappy to move backward and inward before speaking as Mars energy seeks forward motion, with a conquering a can-do attitude of assertiveness.  Ask yourself how you feel when these energies collide with turned-in, slowed down, re-thinking demands of a retrograde. Before shouting and shooting ourselves in the foot, or anyone else’s for that matter, we need preparation and greater awareness,

As of this moment through the coming 10 weeks:
*Be more aware of both speech and actions.  Pull back for the pause that allows you to respond VS react.  Put a lid on impulsivity and unplanned enterprise.
*Know that the world is dealing with greater frustrations about being held back, therefore -irritation is a big savory on our plates.
*Use this time to reassess your communication in relationships, especially with partners.  Is it working? What can you heal, and make smoother and deeper with other? With the strong Venus energies present, there’s help at hand.  Open your ears before opening your mouth.
*Take greater care of the physical body with more rest, connection with nature, silence, and or sweet sounds.  Soothe yourself in every way possible.
*Be extra patient with self and others, especially if you are attempting to begin anything new.  It’s not a great time to push forward.  Much more strategic to review and re-align.  As for others, give their anger a wide berth.  Not smart to engage contrary forces.
*If you have multiple push-backs to ideas or practices, rethink the object of your desires.  It may be your energy is not correctly aligned with the plan and needs quiet time for maturation.
 
It’s a synchronistic time to listen to and align with spirit as Samhain, All Saints, Día de Los Muertos, and their modern version, Halloween, inhabit the energy field. Time now to turn inward before marching out for candy.  Light your candle, wrap your arms around yourself, and call in your guides.  The veil is thin, and transmission to other worlds, less dense than ours, opens doors for revealing conversation.  Try it.  You’ll like it! 
 
A brief note on these ancient energies:  Samhain, is a type of Wicca, of those loving and respecting nature, who live in harmony with the earth. A primary belief is “Harm None.” This includes animals, humans, and nature. First celebrated by Celtic Pagans, it marked the Celtic New Year, and included dance, feasting, nature walks, with altars to honor their ancestors. It is observed from sunset on October 31st to sunset on November 1st. A Wiccan altar, holding apples, pumpkins, or other fall crops, symbolized the end of the harvest, as well as remembering spirits of their dead, therefore skulls or skeletons were placed on their altar. In modern days, photos of deceased family and loved ones are included.  Some Wiccans (my husband) bake loaves of bread for the altar, to feed visiting spirits.  Some Wiccan families cast a circle and sang and danced to long-gone-loved ones. They shared stories of their ancestors, inviting them to be present.
 
Día de Los Muertos is not intended to be a spooky holiday like Halloween. The Day of the Dead is a bright and colorful celebration of life. Both Día and Halloween share themes of death, but the point of Día is to celebrate the memory of those loved.  Despite painted faces, costumes, skulls and skeletons, this celebration features parades, parties, songs and dance, with offerings to lost loved ones. Altars are decorated with pictures, flowers, candles, the deceased loved one’s favorite food, and pan de muerto (bread of the dead).   It’s interesting that pan/bread, ‘the staff of life’ is present in celebrations of death.
 
Since we are between the Eclipse doors of ‘alternate realities’ change, higher mind, and chaos, AND the recent move of Jupiter back into spiritual/creative Pisces, plus Mars Retrograde in Gemini, it’s time to rise as Spirit-Self in order to engage the complex energies of shifting planetary directives. Keep it simple.  Build your altar, bake your bread, blow kisses to loved ones, living and dead, celebrate your life and think about how you wish to die, be remembered, and perhaps honored.  If you’re not ready, then as Mary Oliver wrote, “Make of yourself a light.”  I think of this each night as darkness falls, especially as cold enters and nature sheds her summer’s life.  What is the light I choose to embody and grow?  What is the light I can offer the world?  What is the light I send up as I die? 

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YOUR PRACTICE:
The energy of upcoming classes IS fueled by light to balance the slide down into dark, watery, transformative Scorpio energies, and to support the body as it spins from many planetary directional changes.  We are all emotionally charged as we rattle and roll between fall eclipses.  It’s important to feel and feed a sense of joy and hope as you release old shadow and wounding- A Scorpio directive!  As you welcome November, be aware of Scorpio’s guidance of unseen intensity, and strong regenerative force.  Gather at the spirit-river to support Self, and one another as we move deeper into a profoundly complex, unknown time of primal change.
 
BIRTHDAYS THIS WEEK:   Yes, it’s going to be a complex year ahead.  Yes, YOU are up to the task if you but listen, and open heart and mind to your spirit voice.  If you are not in the habit of doing this, try it a few times and be open to what happens.  Because Venus is very strong, know that shifts and changes need to be heart centric, and guided with greater compassion, AND passion!  Listen to your inner voice that quietly says, “I love this!” or “I love YOU.”  Be aware of your warrior energy that wants what it wants, and now, especially in dealing with partners.  Become the ‘spiritual warrior.’ not Kumbarkanaa!


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