Post by robincragin on Jan 6, 2016 19:05:22 GMT -5
When one considers early agrarian life in Old Europe, it becomes an easy matter to understand how the cyclical patterns of the plant world took on an important mystical focus for our ancestors. The changing seasons and their effect on the growth of food crops became a powerful metaphor for the ancients. The passage of the seasons, which affected the birth, growth, and propagation of crops, also represented the basic pattern for a human life.
Seeds usually scatter after a plant dies, but seeds are points of potential. They are unformed life. Rituals that involve the planting of seeds at Imbolc represent setting potential into motion. The seed rituals of Imbolc symbolize the principle that death is really an illusion; life always continues, sometimes in a hidden or an unseen form.
In today’s mystical working, you will identify your own inner (possibly hidden) seeds of potential.
Meditation
General directions for guided imagery meditations are in a previous lesson. Refer back to that lesson if needed —
Reader:
Find a comfortable sitting or lying position and close your eyes. After several deep, slow breaths, imagine that you stand before a great stretch of freshly polished farm land. The soil is rich and dark. Reach down and feel the cool, sticky, dampness of the soil. Inhale the dark, earthy scent. Now cast your gaze into the center of the field. There you will notice a golden glow that you had not noticed before. Walk through the field to the golden glow.
(Reader: pause for a moment.)
When you reach the glow, you notice that it is a golden sack, lying on the soil. It is a seed sack. These are the seeds of your greatest potential. Pick up the sack and you will find a word written on it that represents your potential. Imagine now that you plant these seeds all over the field. As you plant each seed, the earth takes on a golden glow.
(Reader: pause for a moment.)
When you are finished, slowly return to the place where your body rests comfortably. Open your eyes and take time to contemplate your visions. Write down the word that represents your potential. You will use this in the next exercise.
Seeds usually scatter after a plant dies, but seeds are points of potential. They are unformed life. Rituals that involve the planting of seeds at Imbolc represent setting potential into motion. The seed rituals of Imbolc symbolize the principle that death is really an illusion; life always continues, sometimes in a hidden or an unseen form.
In today’s mystical working, you will identify your own inner (possibly hidden) seeds of potential.
Meditation
General directions for guided imagery meditations are in a previous lesson. Refer back to that lesson if needed —
Reader:
Find a comfortable sitting or lying position and close your eyes. After several deep, slow breaths, imagine that you stand before a great stretch of freshly polished farm land. The soil is rich and dark. Reach down and feel the cool, sticky, dampness of the soil. Inhale the dark, earthy scent. Now cast your gaze into the center of the field. There you will notice a golden glow that you had not noticed before. Walk through the field to the golden glow.
(Reader: pause for a moment.)
When you reach the glow, you notice that it is a golden sack, lying on the soil. It is a seed sack. These are the seeds of your greatest potential. Pick up the sack and you will find a word written on it that represents your potential. Imagine now that you plant these seeds all over the field. As you plant each seed, the earth takes on a golden glow.
(Reader: pause for a moment.)
When you are finished, slowly return to the place where your body rests comfortably. Open your eyes and take time to contemplate your visions. Write down the word that represents your potential. You will use this in the next exercise.