Dream
I know it's not the full moon yet, but I had a dream last night that felt important that I wanted to post.
First: I was reading a wonderful book I just got called Wicca for Life by Raymond Buckland. It is about creating covens within the family. I'm not sure I will be able to do this, since my family contains many differing religious ideas (which makes for a very enriching environment). As well, I have issues with including children in magickal circles. However, the book is full of wonderful ideas and rituals. It is very Gardernerian in tradition and the practices are a bit different from mine, but the beliefs are very similar, and the book emphasizes an acceptance of different traditions.
In the book, the writer admonishes those that create their Book of Shadows electronically. This is rightfully so. Books used within the magickal circle should always be lovingly handwritten. I typically memorize my incantations, but if I do use notes I always write them out. I may transcribe some of them here after, but never for use in the circle. I plan to use this as more of a journal of my magickal practices and experiences.
On to the dream:
I went to bed last night thinking a bit about the lessons we learn from the Triple-Aspect Goddess. The Goddess (and indeed all women) exist in three forms: Maiden, Mother and Crone. (Men can also think of their lives in an analagous way, but they lack the life changes of menstruation, giving birth and menopause that help frame these states.) And although at times in our lives we may be centred in on of the three aspects mainly, it is important to remember to keep all aspects of the Goddess as part of our lives.
What does this mean? The Maiden works for the betterment of herself, the Mother for the betterment of her family, and the Crone for the betterment of her community or world. Although one of these can become dominant for quite some time, to be a whole person one must keep all of these lanterns burning. This is the meaning of the "thrice" part of my name.
I was considering this last evening. I am a mother of a 7 month old son, and my work has been put on hold for this and other reasons so I am very much in a Mother phase of my life. I am vastly enjoying it. Along with this, I am part of a polyamorous family with three children total and 5 adults, so my family is a very large part of my time.
I am working to keep up the Maiden part of my personality with things like this blog and working to get myself back to work. I worry that my Crone aspect is suffering a little, although there are things I am doing from this perspective as well.
I dreamt last night that I was walking at night near the house where I grew up beside a vacant lot where my mother, brother and I used to fly our kites. The lot is no longer vacant -- it contains a new housing development -- but in my dream it looked like it did when I was a child. It was a cloudy night, but the wispy clouds kept parting to show the stars more brilliantly than I have seen in a while. I was walking with a young woman. I don't know her in life, but in my dream I knew she was intelligent but quite young and innocent. She was asking me questions about her sexuality, and about pregnancy and I was answering them as best I could.
It was a very Crone-laden dream. I don't know if my subconscious was trying to tell me I was doing fine as a Crone, or whether I needed to do more.
First: I was reading a wonderful book I just got called Wicca for Life by Raymond Buckland. It is about creating covens within the family. I'm not sure I will be able to do this, since my family contains many differing religious ideas (which makes for a very enriching environment). As well, I have issues with including children in magickal circles. However, the book is full of wonderful ideas and rituals. It is very Gardernerian in tradition and the practices are a bit different from mine, but the beliefs are very similar, and the book emphasizes an acceptance of different traditions.
In the book, the writer admonishes those that create their Book of Shadows electronically. This is rightfully so. Books used within the magickal circle should always be lovingly handwritten. I typically memorize my incantations, but if I do use notes I always write them out. I may transcribe some of them here after, but never for use in the circle. I plan to use this as more of a journal of my magickal practices and experiences.
On to the dream:
I went to bed last night thinking a bit about the lessons we learn from the Triple-Aspect Goddess. The Goddess (and indeed all women) exist in three forms: Maiden, Mother and Crone. (Men can also think of their lives in an analagous way, but they lack the life changes of menstruation, giving birth and menopause that help frame these states.) And although at times in our lives we may be centred in on of the three aspects mainly, it is important to remember to keep all aspects of the Goddess as part of our lives.
What does this mean? The Maiden works for the betterment of herself, the Mother for the betterment of her family, and the Crone for the betterment of her community or world. Although one of these can become dominant for quite some time, to be a whole person one must keep all of these lanterns burning. This is the meaning of the "thrice" part of my name.
I was considering this last evening. I am a mother of a 7 month old son, and my work has been put on hold for this and other reasons so I am very much in a Mother phase of my life. I am vastly enjoying it. Along with this, I am part of a polyamorous family with three children total and 5 adults, so my family is a very large part of my time.
I am working to keep up the Maiden part of my personality with things like this blog and working to get myself back to work. I worry that my Crone aspect is suffering a little, although there are things I am doing from this perspective as well.
I dreamt last night that I was walking at night near the house where I grew up beside a vacant lot where my mother, brother and I used to fly our kites. The lot is no longer vacant -- it contains a new housing development -- but in my dream it looked like it did when I was a child. It was a cloudy night, but the wispy clouds kept parting to show the stars more brilliantly than I have seen in a while. I was walking with a young woman. I don't know her in life, but in my dream I knew she was intelligent but quite young and innocent. She was asking me questions about her sexuality, and about pregnancy and I was answering them as best I could.
It was a very Crone-laden dream. I don't know if my subconscious was trying to tell me I was doing fine as a Crone, or whether I needed to do more.
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