Spring burst forth- Part 2: Honoring the Gods and the Not Gods

Everywhere trees are flowering

though up here 

on this fine mountain 

everything just begins.

 

This Spring has been especially expansive.

A truly transformative time.

We have reshaped our physical land and our internal landscape.

Moving forward, repairing and tending to, evolving.

It is no longer as it was and there will be new again.

Then it was all possibilities. 

 Now the green is so intense, it is almost brighter than the sun.

Now it is almost Beltaine, overnight our Hawthorne bloomed. 

Then we could not have remembered the colors we now see. 

We forget the expansive beauty of leaves and petals.

Our ritual fires are always expressive. 

Sometimes more so than others.
This one seemed to have many dragons and waves and arms and mouths

hungry for our sacrifice. 

My notes 

are sparse and my pictures are many

and the magick is so much greater when you are in the moment.

I don't share pictures of others faces without permission, 

so am omitting the strong interconnections seen in all of our expressions.

 Those of us who gathered were our core group who have worshiped together for long enough
that our kids have grown up and some of us have retired or are planning the next phase
and all of our families have experienced deep changes
especially those that come with illness and recovery.

These cycles of life and reverence are the most joyous blessing.

Let this all begin again and again.

random notes and thoughts from when everyone left, not sure what it all means now:

kid leaving and returning and leaving again

sun shining/earth springing

 family and family and family

interconnected circles

say her name

say their name

chimes and smoke

surrounded by smoke until tears flow

what are we in control of and what is going along for the ride

life is tough in a human suit

the isle that appears and disappears 

  eggs eggs eggs

photos in chronological order from prep to close 

setting up

setting intent

tuning the well

 

  lighting the fire

 fire reaching

 

curved hollow stick shooting flames

give us a sign

  our omens

from our Beloved Dead: URUZ -the Primal Ox, it's the basic strength and growth within, building foundations

from the Spirits of Nature & Place:OTHALA or Odul- the Sacred Enclosure, that which is kept protected and safe and treasured

from the Gods & Goddesses: ISA- Ice, its definitely not flexible and it is not about the shape
that you may want to make it, sometimes you can see through it and sometimes not, but it is hard and cold.

for the Season: JERA- Year, a Whole Cycle, the cycle of the harvest, suggestive of either
what is happening now coming into fruition in a year or maybe what is coming up this spring is from before
or both

simultaneously.

 

 catching bubbles with tuning forks

BUBBLES

feast of the season

 

putting out the fire after everyone has left

 We tend to forget that this time of breaking out of the shell and busting out leaves is also within us.

Opening our hearts to these evolutions is hard work.

Just like flowers.
Maybe flowers are the balance.