Tag: Eclipse Season

Red and Not Red

The moon sheds herself into the water

The moon sheds herself into the sea

The moon sheds herself under the mountain

And all will be red, be red, be red.

Our Lady of the Dark Country – Sylvia V. Linsteadt

Ochre Base Coat and Virgo Constellation

A Dream from last Spring had me doing some research because part of the dream was precognitive, and I wanted to know the deeper messages coming through.

I am at my office, where I work as a grants manager. My desk is pushed against the wall, and my things on the desk are placed haphazardly about, and I cannot find my laptop. I start to panic, because that is where all my work is found. I yell at the painter, “Where is my laptop?” Instead of answering my question, he points to the wall and asks me to have a look. He says this is the base paint, Red Ochre. I look and see the wall is painted an Earthy Red color. He holds up a paper, and says this is what it will look like when finished. On the paper is the starry night sky with the constellation for Virgo on it. I begin to realize that is what my home office looks like, I have goddess paintings on the wall, one of Cybele with Lions on either side, and one of the Sleeping Goddess of Malta.

My Feelings upon waking from the dream – frustrated with all the rearranging, and angry I couldn’t find my laptop, there is also a feeling of having an office as a place to call home. The same week I had this dream was when the chaos of DOGE cuts were made known which made everything uncertain in the grant world, and who would have a job at all. My dream seemed to show me there was something deeper going on here, something ancient, perhaps an initiation.

Reality Check – Definitely change is happening, with federal funding cuts, and the office being remodeled. I don’t actually have an office in the building where our company is located on the 10th floor of a high rise building. Office remodeling began a few weeks after the dream, which I had no prior knowledge of previously, although I visited the office recently and everything was pushed up against the walls and in disarray (just like my dream). I work from home and rarely come to the office.

I did a deep dive into Red Ochre, and it tracks back to over 500,000 years, when our ancestors used it in connection with rights of passage, ceremonial body painting, or sacred art on cave walls. It was interesting to find how the word ochre in several lands means, “red and not red” (2).

This deep Earth red ochre seems to be direct communications with the primordial Earth Goddess as the base coat for ancient memory. Neolithic burials may have used red ochre pigments symbolically, either to represent a return to the earth or possibly as a form of ritual rebirth, in which the colour may symbolize blood of the Great Goddess (3).

“In early cultures, the colour’s resemblance to blood linked it to fertility, life and growth, a symbolism that has persisted throughout the ages. Evidence also suggests early cultures were attaching magical, symbolic properties to the potent pigment – it was scattered over the graves of the dead as a form of respectful ritual, seeping into the ground and even staining their bones, signaling a return to the earth or rebirth in the afterlife.” (1)

The other part if the dream is a mystery on becoming, in the Constellation Virgo where the Goddess of the Harvest is seen. Demeter as Earth Mother and Persephone as Maiden whose journey into the underworld makes her a Queen, her return brings the turn of the Seasons. A turn of the wheel to enter the dark time of the year.

She carries a shaft of the golden wheat, a symbol of the Harvest and a rights of passage into the Greater Elysian mysteries with Demeter and Persephone. This year, Virgo season started with the new moon on August 22nd the first of two new moons in Virgo, and also beginning Eclipse Season with a Lunar Eclipse and Blood Moon in Pisces September 7th. A partial Solar Eclipse on September 21st is followed by the Fall Equinox September 22nd to end Virgo Season. These are days of secret initiation.

Elysian Mysteries

It is during September that the Greater Mysteries take place over the week of the Fall Equinox from Sept. 21-27. This year, a week that also includes a Solar Eclipse in Virgo. The Greater Mysteries are held in secret, by pain of death of those who break a sacred vow. Eclipses are a time when the shadows reveal what has been hidden. Perhaps this Solar Eclipse will find Women stepping out of the shadows and reclaiming their agency and their voice, like the Women survivors who came forth to demand justice and release the names of the high powered predators whose identities have been hidden.

The constellation Virgo is Kore the Maiden Persephone, who holds a shaft of grain. The grain itself is a sacred offering of the harvest mysteries. The Greater Mysteries prepares us to take a journey into the unknown with ancient wisdom held in secret, cultivated and kept safe for generations. It prepares us to have a good death, where we will not suffer an afterlife existence, but cross over to the Elysian gardens of peace and tranquility.

References

1) Red Ochre the Color of Survival https://blog.fabrics-store.com/2020/04/28/red-ochre-the-colour-of-survival/

2 ) What the Ancient Pigment Ochre Tells Us About the Human Mind. – https://www.discovermagazine.com/prehistoric-use-of-ochre-can-tell-us-about-the-evolution-of-humans-1775

3) Giulia Battiti Sorlini, “The Megalithic Temples of Malta”, Por Anthony Bonanno, Archaeology and fertility cult in the ancient Mediterranean: papers presented at the First International Conference on Archaeology of the Ancient Mediterranean, University of Malta, 2–5 September 1985, p.145.

Primordial Mothers

“The Norns – Ancient Mothers Weaving the World” Artist: Monica Sjoo

I had the following dream nearly two years ago.

Bring Up Bones and Ring that Bell – October 7, 2022

I dug into the Earth and pulled up a skeleton, all grey and ancient. This skeleton belongs to me, as an ancestor. The cervical spinal cord hangs below as I feel the weight of the skull in my hand. I hold the Skeleton up to get a better look, and notice to my right, partially buried in the Earth, is a ceremonial temple bell. I step down, deeper into the ground, to become sacred midwife in this primal act of unearthing the Temple Bell.

As I hold the Skelton in one hand, I pull the bell from the Earth in the other. Holding this massive heavy Temple Bell in one hand, the strength of the Ancestors rings the bell, as I use the skull as a mallet. A frenzy takes over me as I ring that bell, a deep sound carries forth from within the Earth, and across generations.

I am banging the skull against this sacred bell, over and over, and over again. It’s sound must be heard around the Earth. I see the grey skull crack and disintegrate in my hands. I feel my strength and my will return. I feel a freedom and liberation is heard as I sound the Temple Bell, a call to the ancestors, and a call to the sacred that has been buried, but is no longer silent, no longer unseen. I feel a spiritual power and strength in myself return that is primal and cannot be turned away from this task of bringing up the bones, and ringing the bell of the ancestors.

I feel this call of the sacred deep in my bones, and it’s sound must be heard. I feel this prayer deep in my bones with my heart and soul.

Ring them bells that still can ring,

Forget your perfect offering.

There is a crack, a crack, in everything,

That’s how the light gets in.

– Leonard Cohen

The Temple Bell calls the primordial Mothers at this time on Earth, exactly two years ago this dream came, and a year since the events that spurred a genocide in Gaza, whose fires of war have spread to Lebanon, and now Iran. These world events unfolding reflect the primordial grief and pain of this ancestral history buried underground. Yet today it plays out under the guise of privilege, where lives of the innocent are of no concern.

Dr. Helen Hye-Sook Hwang writes in her research into Korean Temple Bells as a return to the sound of the primordial mothers. A call to the whale mothers and dragon mothers. The most wise and primal powers of Earth and Sky. “The Whale-dragon bell awakens moderns to what has been forgotten, the interspecific bond, originating from a pre-patriarchal time, between matriarchal shaman head mothers and whales.“ (Ancient Korean Whale Dragon Bell, Hwang, Helen).

The Dragon energy is one that rises in the Spring and rests in the Autumn, it is also a time when the Eclipse of the Sun and Moon can be seen with the South Node of the Tail, a time of release which we just had in Libra carrying the energy of Justice. The recent Pisces North Node Super Lunar Eclipse creates a hunger for destiny and shows up in our dreams. Now at the tail of the Dragon in the South node in Libra for this Solar Eclipse, we are at the end of this two year cycle. Perhaps now in Autumn, the dragon can rest and a ceasefire can hold.

In the Holy land there are several versions of destiny, making a nest of dragons underground.

I am reminded of the story of Merlin who became seer and guide to King Arthur. In the story of his becoming Merlin, it begins when he is but a lad when called before King Vortigen, whose castle keeps falling down, and must be repeatedly rebuilt. His council of wise men tell him, he must sacrifice a fatherless child in order to overcome the crumbling foundation.

Merlin questions the wisdom of such a proclamation, and as seer is able to see underground where the problem resides. His vision reveals dragons underground causing the crumbling tower. He recommends digging up the foundation to remedy the problem.

“ When Merlin bests the wise men and instructs them to dig below the tower, they find a dragon’s nest. The child of Matriarchy reveals the “snakes” below the foundation of the new paradigm. “ (Strand, Sophie, The Flowering Wand).

These dreams of Bell, Whale, and Dragon reveal echos of global resonance and divination into the past, present and future. They require deeper digging to find the wisdom underneath, the sounds of the Primordial Mothers are no longer silent.

  • Cohen, Leonard; Anthem, 1992
  • Hwang, Helen H ; “Ancient Korean Whale Dragon Bell: An Encodement of Cetacean Soteriology” S/He: An International Journal of Goddess Studies. Vol. 2 Number 1 98-188. Spring 2022.
  • Strand, Sophie; pg. 120, The Flowering Wand, 2022.