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In this cycle of the moon's turning around the Earth, Amergin sings, "I am a god who sets the head on fire." Fire is most definitely all around us: the fire of the sun has reached its peak, the night now of its shortest length. We celebrate with the fires of the midsummer celebrations,
lightiIn this cycle of the moon's turning around the Earth, Amergin sings, "I am a god who sets the head on fire." Fire is most definitely all around us: the fire of the sun has reached its peak, the night now of its shortest length. We celebrate with the fires of the midsummer celebrations, lighting even that shortest of nights. The Sun's light has now reached the limits of its growth. Soon the Dark will begin to advance, but it will be awhile before we begin to really feel that it is happening. For now this climax of the power of fire is where we place our focus. How to best use the gift while it is so freely available. Since this fire, the light of the sun is essential in maintaining life and growth, now is the time to internalize it and store it in some inner place within where we can tap into it when it has begun to weaken.
So we are, in this season, trying to "set ourselves on fire" within, and using the power of the Sun to achieve this. There is in the spiritual teaching of the East, a fire-depicted, rain-headed serpent that coils up along the energy-channels of body, gaining strength as it reaches each energy center of the body until it bursts forth at the crown of the head, manifesting as a great light. This kundalini energy is available and a worthy goal of the season.
As the moon waxes, we turn our attention to the sun's heat, paying attention to how we absorb and utilize it within. On the full moon we come the coiled serpent of our aroused, sometimes sexual energy, which will if acknowledged, put into play in a great spiritual act, indeed "set our heads on fire." As the moon wanes we further internalize this, making our captured power of the sun's zenith secure at the center of our selves, so that even in the coldest and darkest depths of the dark it will be able to guide and fuel us.
DUIR-Oak
I AM THE ONE WITH CROWN OF FIRE
She is awakening
(Magic is afoot)
She is arising;
She is dancing;
She is glowing;
She is radiant;
She is brilliant;
She is beauty;
(Turn back the wheel lest we burn)
She is splendor;
She is shining;
She is setting;
She is fading;
She is dying;
She is peaceful,
(Magic is afoot.)
On the earth, in the air,
Through the fire, by the water,
I am MAGIC, the seventh month's daughter.
© Chris Carol 1979. © 1948, 1966 by International Authors N.Y.
ng even that shortest of nights. The Sun's light has now reached the limits of its growth. Soon the Dark will begin to advance, but it will be awhile before we begin to really feel that it is happening. For now this climax of the power of fire is where we place our focus. How to best use the gift while it is so freely available. Since this fire, the light of the sun is essential in maintaining life and growth, now is the time to internalize it and store it in some inner place within where we can tap into it when it has begun to weaken.
So we are, in this season, trying to "set ourselves on fire" within, and using the power of the Sun to achieve this. There is in the spiritual teaching of the East, a fire-depicted, rain-headed serpent that coils up along the energy-channels of body, gaining strength as it reaches each energy center of the body until it bursts forth at the crown of the head, manifesting as a great light. This kundalini energy is available and a worthy goal of the season.
As the moon waxes, we turn our attention to the sun's heat, paying attention to how we absorb and utilize it within. On the full moon we come the coiled serpent of our aroused, sometimes sexual energy, which will if acknowledged, put into play in a great spiritual act, indeed "set our heads on fire." As the moon wanes we further internalize this, making our captured power of the sun's zenith secure at the center of our selves, so that even in the coldest and darkest depths of the dark it will be able to guide and fuel us.
I AM THE ONE WITH CROWN OF FIRE
She is awakening
(Magic is afoot)
She is arising;
She is dancing;
She is glowing;
She is radiant;
She is brilliant;
She is beauty;
(Turn back the wheel lest we burn)
She is splendor;
She is shining;
She is setting;
She is fading;
She is dying;
She is peaceful,
(Magic is afoot.)
On the earth, in the air,
Through the fire, by the water,
I am MAGIC, the seventh month's daughter.
© Chris Carol 1979. © 1948, 1966 by International Authors N.Y.
 Oak
is the seventh tree, the tree of Zeus, Jupiter and Hercules, The
Dagda, Thor and all other thunder Gods.
The fuel of Midsummer
fire is always oak.
The Fire of was Vesta
fed by oak.
Duir means door.
It is the Tree of
endurance and triumph. It's roots are said to extend underground as
far as branches reach upward (Zeus's law rules heaven and underworld.)
Magical
properties: Sun, fire, protection, health, money, healing,
potency, fertility, luck.
Druids would not meet for rituals unless an oak was present.
Druid word possibly came from Duir.
Sacrificed
to underworld as the life giver.
Midsummer fires burn oak.
In ancient days the tree could not be cut down unless mistletoe
was hanging in it.
Deities
- Jupiter, Zeus, Thor, The Dagda, the attractor of lightning
Duir
is the sign of strength and endurance.
It is the power needed to overcome all tests.
The power of the Oak will make a hero of the one who knows it. The D is a gateway to inner realms, a sign that
reveals the truth about the past layers of action.
This revelation gives strength and vision to the person who
would try to see beyond the horizons of time both into the past and
into the future. Look to
your strength to gain vision to overcome obstacles.
A gateway to new understanding is opening if you will be strong
and true. The challenge
of the Oak is the need to take up the charge of leadership.
Also there is a need for protection, a need to shelter yourself
so that strengthening can take place.
Draw strength and endurance from the Oak.
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The common oak is the oak of myth and legend.