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Holistic Education
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By Ana-Stasi Fennell
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Winter Solstice
Celebrating the Return of the Light!!!
By Serena Carroll, M.A. Depth Psychology
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This, the eve of winter, is the most sacred time of year, although
for many of us it has been obliterated by the mall call of black
Friday sales and discounts, warrior-style traffic and other
holiday encumbrances.
It all seems so contrary to our natural selves and what it is that
our bodies and spirits really crave. It certainly isnt this
cacophony of Christmas muzak, abrasive iphone ring tones, or
toxic neon lighting.
It wasnt always like this. There was, in an earlier time, a
celebration of the entrance into deep winter (December 21
through February), at the exact precipice of the Winter Solstice,
pricisely where we are now.
Farmers and cave dwellers looked skyward for the return of the
sun since all of life and agriculture depended upon it. That souls
crossed between the earth and sky through the portals of the
solstices was widely believed. And, in fact, at one of the hospices
I was involved with, about 80 percent of the dates of death
occurred between mid-November, the week before Thanksgiving,
and the first week of January.
I, for one, have always loved the deep winter because it provides
a refuge from the harshness outside, an interior time to think,
write, and dream. The longest night of the year, December 21st,
marks the return of the light in many cultures and civilizations
past.
It used to be celebrated in deeply meaningful ways with
reverence for the natural cycles of Earth in her seasons. When
the slightest crack of the Solstices light illuminated the walls
and obelisks of Newgrange (Ireland) and Stonehenge (Britain),
cymbals and shouts of joy broke the stillness.
The gift of light was bestowed upon the Jews in their triumph
over the Greek Syrians in liberating the second temple of
Jerusalem. Originally called the Festival of Lights,
Hanukkah, with the nine candles of the Menorah, happily
commemorates the mysterious appearance of seven days supply
of oil when all they had was enough for a single day. A
miraculous time indeed. And this year, Hanukkah falls nearly on
the Solstice.
Gods are born in deep Winter. Apollo, the Sun God, was born in
winter as was Attis, the Greek god of vegetation. And of course,
the birth of the infant Jesus brought an entirely new light into
the world at Christmastime.
It is a profound time, a chance for us to go into our caves and
interior spaces, to await the return of our own personal light,
and perhaps try to name what it is that wants to be born within
us.
With so much busy, busy, busy, and merry, merry, merry outside,
it is almost as though we are transgressing ourselves, and going
against what it is that we really need: peace.
I ask myself, whats so bad about the dark? Why are we so
afraid of it? You can see the inner light better in the dark - its
the Divine Spark, as the Jews call it. Answers come in the
quiet.
Rituals are one way to try to maintain some of the harmonies of
our natural world. They mark transitions from one stage of
awareness into the next. Try creating a shrine or home altar
with anything you may have, such as greens, pine cones, animal
figurines, and of course, a candle.
Another friend and I used to begin our solstice rituals by
honoring the four directions. We would bow in turn to each
quadrant, naming its powers, a ceremony reminiscent of Native
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Egypt to the huge stone statues of Easter Island. The sun is one
of the oldest and most universal themes connecting the ancient
wisdom traditions of the world, and yet its deeper meaning has
continued to elude our modern society.
Its estimated ancient cultures built hundreds (if not thousands)
of huge megalithic structures, stone circles, temples, and secret
inner rooms that aligned with the sun at its major annual stages
the solstices and equinoxesacross Europe and Britain, in
Egypt, North and South America, Easter Island, Australia, Asia,
and many other parts of the world.
Most today see it as a form of sun or agricultural worship and
pagan celebration to do with the seasonsand yet some of these
sites have endured as the most enigmatic and mystical places in
the world, and remain some of the most advanced sites
astronomically, mathematically, architecturally, and spiritually
in history and even still today, echoing a Golden Age of
spirituality from the depths of our pre-history into a modern
world so distanced from natural and cosmic principles that it has
failed to recognize what is hidden in plain sight.
The sun, source of all light and life, is central to a cosmic
spirituality that is both ancient and timelessand as everpresent as always. Its principles have formed the basis of many
of the worlds religionsunbeknownst even to many of their
adherentsand are just as relevant to people searching for
spirituality today.
The journey of the sun through the sky (or rather our planets
journey around it) can be marked at four distinct points: the
spring equinox, summer solstice, autumn equinox, and winter
solstice, each at equidistant points of the year forming the
symbol of the cross within the wheel of the year with the sun
at the center. These points mark the movements of the earth
around the sun and the suns varying influence over light and
darkness, day and night, and the passage of the seasons, but they
also hold a greater spiritual significance
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The Universe of
Miracles
By Ana-Stasi Fennell
wisdom we have garnered from the world within and around us.
It is a good time to feel the promptings of our inner being that
invite us to emerge newly, and to carry newness into expression.
From your own quiet place within set intentions for a happier,
lovelier you. Create a day that allows you to be in agreement
with the version and vision of the self you choose to be.
My own intentions, just for today, are to love a little more
deeply than yesterday, to collaborate more fully, and to forgive
more completely. This will allow me to feel more loving, loved,
and lovely as I endeavour to contribute my part of creating a
world that works for everyone AUM YIN (The fragment
from The Quantum Cosmic Affirmations, by Ana-Stasi Fennell)
In Winter Colours
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Unknown Artist
The Enchanted
Open Online University
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Kingdom
The Enchanted
Kingdom is a land of
an ancient space held
in a field beyond time,
a place that seems like
a layer of life wedged
between worlds.
"...Inspiration - it is a Condition
of Spirit, the constant flow of
creative energy. It is pure Qi or
Ki in its Active Form. Allow
Your Qi to flow through you
fluently..."
James Coleman
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Mysterious Kybalion
Secrets of Hermes Trismegistos
Ana-Stasi Fennell
Mysterious Kybalion.
the land and kill everyone. However, other dreams like this
portray similar ocean dreams but the dreamer just stands there
and watches in awe and feels no fear. Other dreams are about
fish tanks which are broken and fish are flopping on the floor
helplessly, and others where the tank breaks and water falls to
the floor, but the fish swim in the air just like they were still in
the water. We have come to think of these dreams, as being
prophetic, Yes! However, not that the physical world will be
destroyed but that we are undergoing a spiritual change, and
these dreams are messages that the Age of Pisces (a water sign)
is ending, and that the Age of Aquarius (the water bearer sign)
is coming in. This link is provided if you would like to read the
dreams we have collected.... ( the fragment from "The Mystery
of Aquarius")
Has the Age of Aquarius Arrived?
Precession of the Equinoxes
Until recently, the Greek Hipparchus, was given the credit for
discovering the procession of the equinoxes. This 25,920 cycle is
the foundation for the Age of Pisces which by modern
measurement puts each age as 2,160 years long. The procession
causes the fixed stars to rise and set against the earths solar
years so that at the first day of spring, which is the spring
equinox, the constellation of Aries no longer rises but the
constellation of Pisces does now. In contrast, the Egyptians
started their year at the summer solstice when the constellation
Orion rose with the sun to mark the beginning of the flooding of
the Nile.
With more insightful study of ancient myths and Egyptian
temples, texts and myths, it now appears that the Egyptians
priests knew and measured the procession back to the old
kingdom and there are hints that this knowledge went back to
the Age of Gemini which ended somewhere near 6,140 BC.
In 1895, John Lockyer, the British Astronomer Royal, wrote The
Dawn of Astronomy where he visited and measured most of the
Egyptian temples to prove their alignment to fixed stars and
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Any New Epoch brings its own gifts to Humanity. The Age of
Aquarius is not an exemption. Zodiac Sign of a woman, who
carries the vessel with Pure Water and pouring it to the Earth,
signifies the Renaissance of the Great Femininity. From Ancient
legends we know, that the Symbol of a vessel with water,
characterizes the new shift of the consciousness into Awakening!
The pouring water is a symbol of spiritual knowledge and
planetary purification. As any purification, it is a complex
process of transformation of the old principles of life into the
New ones.
First of all, we are talking about the inner transformation of a
Human Being!
The energies of The World Femininity actively participate in the
programme of spiritual transformation, activating the ancient
sacral knowledge, symbols, arts and mysteries.... ( fragment
from the Mystery of Aquarious' Book)...
Additionally to the Mystery of Aquarius itself, there are special
'package' of Alchemical Attunements for Your Personal
Quantum Update! Use them for Your Benefit and Healing
Practice!!!
Best wishes to all explorers,
Bless You Be!!!
Anastsia Fenell, MA in Ed.
And the Embassy of Peace.
The Symbol
of Aquarius
Epoch
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