How are you today?
09-15-2013, 12:56 PM
A little melancholy, as I always am at this time of year.
We've had a fantastic summer and now Autumn, as mild as it is just at the moment, is on the way and I'm debating weather to put the heating on and finally give way to the fact that summer is over.
On the other hand, it will soon be Samhain (Hallow-e'en) the third harvest, the Pagan New Year when the goddess goes off in search of her consort thereby parting the veil between this world and spirit.
I always buy and light a church-style candle at Samhain to symbolise and act as a focus for the spirits of my parents and other family in spirit. I feel strangely close to them - close as in proximity when I do that. I don't visit their grave often, except on birthdays and anniversaries as I regard a grave as more the final depository of the body and certainly not the dwelling place of the spirit.
After that follows the season I really cannot abide. C-----mas. I like to wind the normals up by asking them to name one Christian thing about C-----mas then telling them what that aspect of Christianity REALLY is and used to be. They don't like the thought they are worshipping Sol Invictus or Osirus, Odin, Woeden. Odd how December 25th Christs Nativity just happens to coincide with the Roman festival of Dies Natalis Solis Invicti, or "Birthday of the Unconquered Sun". Sol Invicus was always depicted on coins and such like as having the sun radiating from behind his head - the Halo of Jesus and others???
I'm getting very off topic!
I will go out and and visit a Welsh Chapel near where I live later. We have been having "Heritage Open Days" in the UK for about three or four years now. Local buildings of interest which are not normally accessable or open to the public open their doors for a few weekends in the beginning of September and offer free access or guided tours.
Last year I did a local catholic church known as the Basilica of The North West or the Poor Man's Cathedral as it's so large. I made faux pas last year when I referred to the Tabernacle as "The Parot's Cage On The Alter". I went to see my local masonic hall, met some of my late dad's erm... lodge mates/whatever and discovered that he was a Master Mason. Well bugger me, the old sod kept that quiet!
Yesterday I did a tour of my local Town Hall and got some good photos of the Mayor's Parlour and Council Assembly Chambers - where they decide on such important matters as the colour of our wheelie bins!
I'll post some pics to my profile later on - right now - it's time to extract bitch-cat from the stationery cupboard (can't understand her current fascination with it or the contents!) and make some lunch.
Blessed be!
We've had a fantastic summer and now Autumn, as mild as it is just at the moment, is on the way and I'm debating weather to put the heating on and finally give way to the fact that summer is over.
On the other hand, it will soon be Samhain (Hallow-e'en) the third harvest, the Pagan New Year when the goddess goes off in search of her consort thereby parting the veil between this world and spirit.
I always buy and light a church-style candle at Samhain to symbolise and act as a focus for the spirits of my parents and other family in spirit. I feel strangely close to them - close as in proximity when I do that. I don't visit their grave often, except on birthdays and anniversaries as I regard a grave as more the final depository of the body and certainly not the dwelling place of the spirit.
After that follows the season I really cannot abide. C-----mas. I like to wind the normals up by asking them to name one Christian thing about C-----mas then telling them what that aspect of Christianity REALLY is and used to be. They don't like the thought they are worshipping Sol Invictus or Osirus, Odin, Woeden. Odd how December 25th Christs Nativity just happens to coincide with the Roman festival of Dies Natalis Solis Invicti, or "Birthday of the Unconquered Sun". Sol Invicus was always depicted on coins and such like as having the sun radiating from behind his head - the Halo of Jesus and others???
I'm getting very off topic!
I will go out and and visit a Welsh Chapel near where I live later. We have been having "Heritage Open Days" in the UK for about three or four years now. Local buildings of interest which are not normally accessable or open to the public open their doors for a few weekends in the beginning of September and offer free access or guided tours.
Last year I did a local catholic church known as the Basilica of The North West or the Poor Man's Cathedral as it's so large. I made faux pas last year when I referred to the Tabernacle as "The Parot's Cage On The Alter". I went to see my local masonic hall, met some of my late dad's erm... lodge mates/whatever and discovered that he was a Master Mason. Well bugger me, the old sod kept that quiet!
Yesterday I did a tour of my local Town Hall and got some good photos of the Mayor's Parlour and Council Assembly Chambers - where they decide on such important matters as the colour of our wheelie bins!
I'll post some pics to my profile later on - right now - it's time to extract bitch-cat from the stationery cupboard (can't understand her current fascination with it or the contents!) and make some lunch.
Blessed be!
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