Gen this is for you :)

The year has 12 months divided in half that's 6 months.

Pagans have 8 holidays , points of the years where they celebrate the movement of the sun.

If you look at the above picture where you see the pumpkin that's Halloween (you knew that) we call it Samhaine and its the Pagan New year. Then you have Yule 4 days before Christmas that was celebrated long before Jesus. As on the 21st Dec the sun stands still for three days and then moves 1 degree closer than it was on the 20th dec and we celebrate the return of the sun on Christmas day. This is the Winter Solstice and its the darkest part of the year, light at 9am and dark at 4pm so we celebrate by putting lights around a ever green tree that is symbolic of the tree of life.

soooo 6 months later you have the summer solstice which we just had and this weekend at Stonehenge there is to be a huuugggee celebration, the sun is the closest to he the earth and its the lightest time of the year, light at 5am and dark at 10pm .

The rest of the holidays I can tell you about when you are here.

Luna is the moon.

The moon like the sun has a cycle, 28 days, so that's called a lunar cycle.

Our periods are controlled by the moon as well as the tides of the sea and as we are 70% water the moon also controls our moods ( I am sure you have heard of a Lunatic ) Babies are also normally made and born when its full moon. and when they say you are pregnant for 9months its actually 40 weeks as its according to the moon cycle.

when you start understanding these things, myths and religions all start making more sense.

Nasa warns of solar fare that could cause havoc on our electricity systems !

I have know for about two years now it was going to be , living without electricity that would "change the world as we know it"

But just what does it mean is permeates so much of our culture.

I think it worth waking up my blog again to look at this :)

The next step is refraining. Mindfulness is the ground , refraining is the path. It the quality of not grabbing for entertainment or food the minute we feel bored or emotional. Its the habit of not wanting to fill a gap just because there is a space.

Refraining is the method of letting to know the nature of this restlessness and fear. Its the habit of settling into groundlessness. It all comes down to pause for a moment, learning to not just impulsively to the same thing again and again.

It then becomes a way of life to stay awake, slow down and notice.

If we are willing to give up the hope that insecurity can be exterminated, then we have the courage to relax with the groundlessness of each situation.

when you are totally feed up "ye chang che" then this is the beginning of the beginning.

To seek for lasting security is futile.

When things fall apart

When you make friends with yourself then life becomes a whole lot easier. It was always about letting go of everything.

Letting there be room for not knowing is the most powerful of all.

Thinking we can find some lasting pleasure and avoid pain is what Buddhism calls samsara, a hopeless cycle that causes us to suffer greatly.

Sticking with uncertainty, getting the knack of relaxing in time of chaos, learning not to panic, this is the spiritual path.

Acknowledge everything that arises without judgement, letting the thoughts simply dissolve and the go back to the openness of the new moment.

Meditation is the tool that's enables us to relax and open to what ever the preset has given.

maitri - developing loving kindness with ourselves and an unconditional friendship with ourselves.

We are giving up control all together and letting concepts and ideas apart.

This starts with realizing nothing is the beginning or the end.

The painful thing is when we buy into disapproval, we are practicing disapproval.When we buy into harshness we are practicing harshness. The more we do it the stronger the qualities become. How sad it is when we become expert at harming ourselves and others. The trick then is to practice gentleness and letting go. We can learn to meet whatever arises with curiosity and not make such a big deal out of things.

People spend their whole lives running away from the monster that is there own mind.

Too busy to live .

I feel alot of new energy coming in already and we are still a bit more than a week away from new moon, whoooo hooo hang on to your panties as its going to be a bumpy ride. Out with old in with the new, I have a picture in my head when I close my eyes of a beautiful tropical flower full of nectar and it smells divine, Did the Goddess hear my prayer ? of course she did :)

Mother Goddess

I pray for clarity and focus

show me th catalyst to change

I am tired of being stuck

Teach me your way so that I might teach

grant me peace and health

Mother Goddess hear my prayer

The kids and Keith and I built a snow man and of course it had to be different from the others it had to be a sculpture and .....I knew that there was a very good chance that it would not stay very long that some teenagers would come past and bash it down and this morning as the kids stepped out the door I saw two 8 year olds walk over to it they where not interested in its glasses, they had one intention and that was break it ! The energy that was around them was awful and I can see the teenagers they will become and then men, the thing that really got to me was both their mothers where standing close by and they did nothing to stop them like it was a natural course of events !

I am feel really tired of being so close to so much dis functional/antisocial people, Id much rather be way out in the country than deal with the crap I have to see on a daily basis.

So my spring clean will be on the basis of moving ! The gypsies will not be here come next autumn.