Post No. 445 - Welcome to Mabon

On Thursday of this week, autumn came to our garden - the leaves started changing colour, although there had been changes to the flexibility of the trunks of the small potted trees, and some change of leaf colour, before then - but it wasn't quite clear whether or not the change of colour was the return of the dry spell, or the arrival of autumn. So ... as far I am concerned, Mabon was on Thursday of this week :)

In terms of the seasons of the indigenous people, we are in, and have been in since around the start of April, Waring, the wombat season.

As I write this, we are resting after a hectic period - it was particularly hectic and exhausting for my partner - helping to organise and run a fund-raising event at the spiritualist place we volunteer at. I've never cooked for more than 25 people at a time, but I'm not a fancy cook (basic only ... think I'd make more of a short order cook, whereas my partner is a chef :) Actually, we did have a professional cook - who attends this place from time to time - there to help us on the night, and he did a marvellous job of getting us organised and delivery flowing together), so I was more of a gopher for my partner and the other woman involved. 3 days of prep and 70 meals later ... phew!!! Still, it was a pleasure to work together, and it all, to pinch a word from my partner from something she wrote about this, had a wonderful symbiosis.

From a purely personal point of view, I was asked to do a few channelled energy healings along the way, which is one of the reasons I wanted to start going there in the first place, so that aim is still being met.

It was interesting to talk to one of the guests and one of the trainee Ministers about symbols, and it was also interesting to come across someone there who has an interest in paganism, and who would like to do something more about that. Hmm. I had asked the gods/goddesses / "those in Spirit who help me" to get me more connected with people "of like mind" at work ... guess I hadn't fully twigged that, as far as they're concerned, my work is at the spiritualist place, not my day job :)

Ah well, I'll just have to ask again, being a little more precise :)

And now to finish updating my notes for a crystal workshop I am to run next week ...

[1] BPF = Balanced Positive (spiritual) Forces. See here and here for more on this.

[2] Please see my post "The Death of Wikipedia" for the reasons I now recommend caution when using Wikipedia. I'm also exploring use of h2g2, although that doesn't appear to be as extensive (h2g2 is intended - rather engagingly - to be the Earth edition of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy").

Love, light, hugs and blessings

Gnwmythr
(pronounced "new-MYTH-ear")

My "blogiography" is here.  

I started this blog to cover karmic regression-rescue (see here and here), and it grew ...  See here for my group mind project, here and here for my "pagans for peace" project, and here for my bindrune kit-bag.

• May the world of commerce and business be recognised to be a servant, not a master, of the lives of people.
• A home is for living in, not feeling, becoming or being rich or a “better” class than others.
• Like fire to the physical, emotions to the soul make a good servant, and a bad master. 
• Armageddon is alive and well and happening right now: it is a battle between the indolence of "I only ..." and/or "I just ..." and what Bruce Schneier [2] calls "security theatre" on one side, and perspicacity and the understanding that the means shape the end on the other. 
• The means shape the end. 
• Spiritual love is far more than just an emotion - it is a concept, thoughts, actions and a way of living.

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger [people]. JOHN F. KENNEDY 

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good [people] to do nothing. (based on writing by) EDMUND BURKE

Your children are not your children. ... They come through you but ... they belong not to you ... for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow KAHLIL GIBRAN

We didn't inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we only borrowed it from our children ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPÉRY

Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it is not haphazard and superficial. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

Those whom we cannot stand are usually those who we cannot understand P.K.SHAW

People I'm currently following or reading, or have considerable respect for, include: 

• Red Catherine, a Romani woman living on Artemis, in South Australia; 
• T. Thorn Coyle; 
• The Wild Hunt; 
• Under the Ancient Oaks; and 
• the Order of Scathach.

Tags: purpose, seasons, about me,

First published: Sunnudagr, 12th May, 2013

Last edited: Sunday, 12th May, 2013