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Some have asked why I highlight the Celtic culture in my magical, cosmological and astrological work so much. Well, partly this is so because I am from the Celts, and in part also because their knowing and COSMOLOGY seems simple enough to "understand" -- minus methods systems and scriptures which are mere spiritual crutches we all need to lose like bad habits soon.
Today is vernal equinox of 2006, aka "Celtic New Year". So, today, we who are descendants from the Celts might as well celebrate the day. Sun in Aries 1 with Moon in Sagittarius 1. What better day than today? But every day is a good one to re-MEMBER who we are...
This is from a wonderful Celtic web site
that celebrates the Celtic New Year now:
"The great misunderstanding of modern Western culture is that it's difficult to come into contact with the Sacred. It isn't. What's difficult is to come into harmony with it. The Celtic tradition teaches us how to do both. It teaches us how to bring the peace and power of Spirit into our daily lives, our work, our relationships, our interactions with others, and the way we feel about ourselves and our place in the cosmic dance. Despite its antiquity, its worth isn't limited to the Celtic tribes who roamed Europe two thousand years ago, or to their descendants today, because spiritual traditions aren't limited by culture.
What's more, the Celtic tradition formed the basis for the Western world-view. In the West, we live on the secular surface of the Celtic cosmology. This facet affirms our value as individuals realizing our potential. It celebrates life in the world and success in the field of action. The problem is that the spiritual part of the tradition was lost to most of us, leaving a gutted cosmology.
However, we can heal this rift in our lives. Healing means: "to make whole." When we practice the whole Western way, we can be passionately engaged in the world, and just as passionately connected to Spirit. Through meditation, energy work, chant, prayer and the visionary technique of the echtra or spirit journey, we can learn to experience spiritual reality as personally and vividly today as Celtic shaman-priests did millennia ago."
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The Celtic tradition exists as one gateway to the mystery and the meaning of our lives, a gate through which you are now invited to step.
"Irish mythology says that the Tuatha Dé came to Ireland thousands of years ago from islands across the ocean where advanced spiritual practices flourished. The myths give various accounts of their arrival and origins, but one Irish source says that the wise agree that the Tuatha Dé came from heaven, because of the excellence of their knowledge. This tells us that whatever their origins, the source of their spiritual knowledge and power was ultimately the Otherworld.
Another of their names suggests something about the quality of their shamanic interactions with the Otherworld. In later manuscripts, the Tuatha Dé were also called the Tuatha Dé Danu, often translated as the "Tribes" or "People of the Goddess Danu." However, the word dán in Old Irish means art, creation, or co-creation. Artists and craftspeople, as well as shamanic practitioners, were often called the Áes Dana, the People of Art, and were sometimes thought of as descendants of the Tuatha Dé.
The word dán is used in a variety of ways. It can be an artistic or scientific gift, a gift from man to God, a gift from God to man, or an inspired poem or artwork. Dán in the largest sense is the power by which we co-create our lives with God -- the greatest art we can produce being a life in harmony with the Sacred.
So the name Tuatha Dé Danu can also mean "The Co-creative Tribes of God."
Understanding this co-creative power involves looking into creation mythologies. In this context co-creation refers to a synergy between Divine and human to manifest the Creator's will on Earth via our individual gifts. This creation process is generated between polarities and is reflected in the Primal creation myths of many peoples. In these myths you find a primordial division described, where the Creator divides Itself, creating the polarities of Source and Force, feminine and masculine, as two parts of a Primal Trinity; Mother, Father and Creator. The first schism sets off the creation reaction, where God shatters into matter, creating all being from Him/Her/Itself. All other deities are therefore aspects of the Creator. They are later emanations of God.
In Celtic tradition, the primary male deity is the Dagda, the Good God, and the primary female deity is the Mórrígan, which can mean the Great Queen or the Sea Queen. Another name for the Mórrígan is Anu or Danu, Mother of the Gods.
The 9th century Celtic Christian theologian John Scotus Eriugena, coined the term theophany to describe God made manifest. Theophanies include all spiritual as well as physical beings, the natural world and ourselves. In Celtic tradition, God isn't separate from Creation or from us, though He/She/It is also transcendent and unlimited by the physical."
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The Druids
"The Druids acted as the shaman-priests of the Celts. They acted as shamans in that they were oracles, undertook the spirit journey, used traditional shamanic trance induction methods like drumming and ecstatic dance and used their powers to benefit others. They acted as priests because they were the custodians of spiritual tradition, theology and philosophy, working within the framework of Celtic cosmology. In the early Irish tales, such as the Siege of Druim Damhgaire, the Druid Mog Roith uses shamanic gear like his bird winged head-dress and drum, dances around the fire, and spiritually journeys into the Heavens.
The name Druid itself has shamanic associations. It can mean "one who has knowledge of the oak," but since the oak is also the "strong tree" it means one with powerful knowledge. The -uid comes from the same root word as the English witness, and so means knowledge that is personally seen. The oak can also be the World Tree the shaman uses to access the realms of the Otherworld."
Above - by Geo Athena Trevarthen, PhD
You can read her thesis on that site.
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Welcome to the invisible world awakening as Saturn - the bringer of form - will start to move across Neptune - the dissolver of form - in Summer of this year, 2006. By that time we all want to become more knowledgeable about our true origins.
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