Health & Fitness
A LITTLE WITCH IN ALL OF US
A sample lesson from the Return of the Goddess Workshop facilitated by Doreen Lavista, HPs, RM/T, ICRT Member, Clergy, Church of Spiritual Humanism
Have you ever made a wish and blown out your birthday candles? Ever toss a coin into a fountain and made a wish? Or remember the children’s rhyme: “Star light, star bright, first star I see tonight”, and make a wish?
Ah, then, perhaps you DO believe in magic!
We feel it in the air especially at this time of year. We are attentive to the veil between worlds as it grows thinner. “What does that mean?” you may ask.
Well, as all good Halloween Party hosts, you would want a Fortune Teller present at your event to lend some “magic cred” for your guests’ entertainment. She will “predict” the upcoming year to the amazement of all in attendance. Her information comes from the “other side”. So…the other side of what?
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As we move closer to October 31st, (the midpoint between the Autumn Equinox and the Winter Solstice) we are surrounded by the accoutrements of the holiday; witches, ghosts, vampires and ghouls as well as princesses, super-heroes, candy-corn and jack-o- lanterns. We mark the time of the darkest part of the year, yet we mock the darkness with candles and holiday lights.
Still, why do we do this – what does it mean?
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We celebrate Death. Sounds gruesome, doesn’t it?
Is not Death a part of Life? Do not all beginnings have endings? Do we not honor those who have gone before us to…the “other side”?
We humans tend to poke fun at those things that frighten us in an attempt to assuage our fears. We’ll go to horror movies, thrill rides, read Stephen King novels – just to get the fear juices flowing; because fear makes us feel ALIVE. (stimulates those lower chakras) Many of us believe that Death is the transition between this world and the next and there is NO state of true non-existence; only transformation. That is, when the time comes, my being of light (or soul) will depart from the bio-suit and I will exist in only essence, if not in form.
But that’s what I believe – what do YOU believe?
Some believe in parties, little children dressed up in costume, candy and treats; some believe in parades and civic events to celebrate harvest time. Some actually believe that the celebration of Halloween is evil, and not part of God’s creations. Yet here we are… shopping in Home Goods, CVS, Pier 1…preparing for an event that will happen with or without us.
The celebration of Samhain, or Halloween dates back to the Celts, but many cultures around the globe have similar holy days of reverence and mirth. We’ve “Americanized” many of these and assimilated them into our secular world.
So, I invite you, citizens of Rye, to celebrate, commemorate, make merry!
Dress up, distribute treats, play a few tricks and paint windows. And may the “Spirits” bless you, keep you safe from harm, laud you successes and hold you in esteem. Be well, my friends and neighbors, and this I seek sincerely, through the Great Goddess, Mother of us all, and through the Death that must be so that LIFE may continue.
And the cycle goes on....
