Ground and center. In your Book of Shadows, draw a pentacle with interlocking lines and label the points, in order, clockwise: Love, Wisdom, Knowledge, Law, and Power.
Love is the moving energy of life. It is both blindly erotic and deeply personal, a passionate, prideful, powerful caring for oneself and others. It is the law of the Goddess and the essence of magick.
Wisdom and Knowledge can best be understood together. Knowledge is learning, the power of the mind to understand and describe the universe. Wisdom is knowing how to apply knowledge - and how not to apply it. Knowledge gives answers; wisdom asks questions. Knowledge can be taught; wisdom grows out of experience, out of making mistakes.
Law is natural law, not human law. When we break natural laws, we suffer the consequences as a natural result of our actions, not as a punishment. If you break the law of gravity, you will fall. Magick functions within natural law, not outside of it. But natural law may be broader and more complex than we realize.
Power, again, is the power that comes from within, when love, knowledge, law, and wisdom, brings growth and healing.
Meditate on the points and the links between them. Lie in the pentacle position, feel the points as part of yourself, and become aware of your own imbalances. Absorb the beauty of the Pentagram of Pearl.
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Thursday, February 12, 2009
Meditation: The Iron Pentagram
Ground and center. In your Book of Shadows, draw a pentacle with interlocking lines and label the points, in order, clockwise: Sex, Self, Passion, Pride and Power.
Sex is the manifestation of the driving life force energy of the universe. It is polarity, the attraction of God and Goddess, the on-off pulse that sustains the universe, the orgasmic, ecstatic harmony that sings within each being.
Self is identity, individuality. Each of us is a unique manifestation of the Goddess, and that individuality is highly valued in the Craft. Self-love is the foundation of all love. “Celebrate yourself, and you will see that Self is everywhere…”
Passion is the force of emotion that gives colour and depth and vitality to life. Joy, sorry, ecstasy, anger, fear, pain, love - the Goddess manifests in all human emotions. We cannot feel any of them in their full intensity unless we are willing to face them all.
Pride encourages us to create, to do, to share, to grow, and to enjoy the rightful fruits of our achievements. True pride is not based on comparisons or competition; it is an absolute sense of one’s inner worth. Pride carries with it the responsibility of acting in accordance with one’s self-respect and respect for Self in others.
Power is energy, inner power, not power over others. When the five points are in balance, the life force flows freely, filling us with vitality. Power is integrity, creativity, courage: the mark of a person who is whole.
Meditate on each of the points in turn, and then explore the links and connections: Sex - Passion, Self- Pride, Passion - Power, and so on. Lie down with your arms and legs outstretched so that you form a star. Let your head and each of your limbs be a point on the pentacle. When you are “on the points”, they will all be in balance. If some points feel weak, work on developing those qualities. Absorb the strength of the Iron Pentagram.
Sex is the manifestation of the driving life force energy of the universe. It is polarity, the attraction of God and Goddess, the on-off pulse that sustains the universe, the orgasmic, ecstatic harmony that sings within each being.
Self is identity, individuality. Each of us is a unique manifestation of the Goddess, and that individuality is highly valued in the Craft. Self-love is the foundation of all love. “Celebrate yourself, and you will see that Self is everywhere…”
Passion is the force of emotion that gives colour and depth and vitality to life. Joy, sorry, ecstasy, anger, fear, pain, love - the Goddess manifests in all human emotions. We cannot feel any of them in their full intensity unless we are willing to face them all.
Pride encourages us to create, to do, to share, to grow, and to enjoy the rightful fruits of our achievements. True pride is not based on comparisons or competition; it is an absolute sense of one’s inner worth. Pride carries with it the responsibility of acting in accordance with one’s self-respect and respect for Self in others.
Power is energy, inner power, not power over others. When the five points are in balance, the life force flows freely, filling us with vitality. Power is integrity, creativity, courage: the mark of a person who is whole.
Meditate on each of the points in turn, and then explore the links and connections: Sex - Passion, Self- Pride, Passion - Power, and so on. Lie down with your arms and legs outstretched so that you form a star. Let your head and each of your limbs be a point on the pentacle. When you are “on the points”, they will all be in balance. If some points feel weak, work on developing those qualities. Absorb the strength of the Iron Pentagram.
Meditation: The Pentacle ~ The Five Stages of Life
Ground and center. Hold your pentacle in both hands. Breathe deep, and feel the power of the earth, of the body. The pentacle is your own body, four limbs and head. It is the five senses, both inner and outer. Be in touch with your own power to see, to hear, to smell, to taste, to touch. The pentacle is the four elements plus the fifth - essence. And it is the five stages of life, each an aspect of the Goddess:
1) Birth - the beginning, the time of coming into being
2) Initiation - adolescence, the time of individuation
3) Love Ripening - the time of union with another, of full adulthood, sexuality, responsibility, and love
4) Reflection - the time of advancing age, of repose, integration, wisdom
5) Death - the time of ending, of letting go, of moving on toward rebirth
Look at your pentacle, or draw one on a sheet of paper. Label the five stations going clockwise around the points, and experience each stage in turn, as it occurs in a life span and within the span of each new activity or relationship. Trace the interlocking lines and reflect on their meanings. Love is linked to Birth and Death. Death is linked to Love and Initiation.
In the Goidelic tree alphabet, each of the five stages was symbolized by a tree, whose name began with one of the five vowels:
1) A - Birth - ailm, silver fir
2) O - Initiation - onn, gorse or furze
3) U - Love - ura, heather
4) E - Repose - eadha, the aspen
5) I - Death - idho, the yew
Chant the sounds of the vowels and feel the power of each stage in turn. Touch your pentacle to your body, and let the life force of your own flesh flow into it.
1) Birth - the beginning, the time of coming into being
2) Initiation - adolescence, the time of individuation
3) Love Ripening - the time of union with another, of full adulthood, sexuality, responsibility, and love
4) Reflection - the time of advancing age, of repose, integration, wisdom
5) Death - the time of ending, of letting go, of moving on toward rebirth
Look at your pentacle, or draw one on a sheet of paper. Label the five stations going clockwise around the points, and experience each stage in turn, as it occurs in a life span and within the span of each new activity or relationship. Trace the interlocking lines and reflect on their meanings. Love is linked to Birth and Death. Death is linked to Love and Initiation.
In the Goidelic tree alphabet, each of the five stages was symbolized by a tree, whose name began with one of the five vowels:
1) A - Birth - ailm, silver fir
2) O - Initiation - onn, gorse or furze
3) U - Love - ura, heather
4) E - Repose - eadha, the aspen
5) I - Death - idho, the yew
Chant the sounds of the vowels and feel the power of each stage in turn. Touch your pentacle to your body, and let the life force of your own flesh flow into it.
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