by Master PlutoCraft | Dec 18, 2014 | Other
The holidays are upon us! This year is flying by with a worldwide collection of challenges. But you’re still here, doing your best, and that’s exactly what is celebrated this time of year – your strength, courage, abundance and illumination.
December 21st is the Winter Solstice and the Longest Night of the year. It is traditional to light candles and bonfires to symbolically welcome the return of the Sun and the resurrection of traditional Sun deities from all over the world. Personally, you are also honoring the shining light within yourself, your power to illuminate the darkness.
The ancient Roman festival of Saturnalia begins December 18th and ends on December 23rd. As you may have guessed, this holiday celebrates the God Saturn (Chronos in Greek), whose energies correspond with the energies of the Winter Solstice.
Houses are cleansed and decorated with evergreens and mistletoe for luck, prosperity, and protection. The scent of cinnamon and spice drifts from the kitchen. Friends and family gather to feast and make merry, generating warmth and light from the heart and throughout the home. A spirit of peace and harmony comes over everything – if you are open to it.
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Blessings and Peace to you and
your loved ones this holiday season.
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by Master PlutoCraft | Sep 17, 2014 | News
The Autumn Equinox is the balance between light and dark, day and night. On this day, the Sun will rise due East and set due West, crossing the Equator from the North to South.
The Equinox is also celebrated as Mabon, which has its roots in the “Great Son” Mabon ap Modron of Welsh mythology. He was the son of Modron and fought loyally with King Arthur.
This is the second harvest celebration of the year, when that which we have harvested is preserved for the winter to nourish us until Spring. Take stock and give thanks for what you have received this year. Wrap up any projects you may have so that you can begin anew as the season changes. Use this time to rest, relax, and rebalance your life.
The focus of the Autumn Equinox is traditionally on: Abundance, Hearth, Home, and Family.
In honor of this special day, we have discounted our most popular candle spells until September 23rd. Celebrate your abundance with the Plutocraft Equinox Sale!
Did you know that in Japan, the time around both the Spring and Autumn Equinox is known as higan? This loosely translates as the “other side of the river of death” or the “other shore of Sanzu River”. This Buddhist holiday begins three days before the Equinox and ends three days after. Traditionally, one visits ancestors (usually at their graves) and leaves offerings of food, flowers, prayers and incense.
Higan also represents the crossing from the shore of suffering and ignorance to the shore of Enlightenment. Whatever spiritual practice you follow, this is a good time to reflect on it and renew your practice. As you tune in to the changing of the seasons, tune in to your deepest self to know peace and clarity.
However you celebrate, we wish you a joyful and harmonious Equinox!
To Autumn
O Autumn, laden with fruit, and stained
With the blood of the grape, pass not, but sit
Beneath my shady roof; there thou mayst rest,
And tune thy jolly voice to my fresh pipe,
And all the daughters of the year shall dance!
Sing now the lusty song of fruits and flowers.
The narrow bud opens her beauties to
The sun, and love runs in her thrilling veins;
Blossoms hang round the brows of Morning, and
Flourish down the bright cheek of modest Eve,
Till clust’ring Summer breaks forth into singing,
And feather’d clouds strew flowers round her head.
The spirits of the air live on the smells
Of fruit; and Joy, with pinions light, roves round
The gardens, or sits singing in the trees.”
Thus sang the jolly Autumn as he sat;
Then rose, girded himself, and o’er the bleak
Hills fled from our sight; but left his golden load.
– William Blake, 1757 – 1827
