moon phases
Who are the Lord & Lady?
Magick, Spiritual, WiccanThe Goddess is the deity of our heart and spirit. She is cyclical in opposition to linear time with her never-ending cycles, seasons, and phases. Her aspects and nature are reflected by the seasons, moon phases, a woman’s cycle, and the rhythms of Gaia and the galaxies themselves. The God is the deity of our mind and body…he is born to learn, grow and die to be reborn and progress along another path over and over again until final Union with his counterpart, soul mate and perfect complement is reached. At Beltaine, and each time in the Great Rite, we celebrate the physical and spiritual union of the Lord and Lady…masculine/yang and feminine/yin aspects of the Great Spirit and Creator. As the Great Mother welcomes and receives the Lord of the Hunt into her sacred body, they give themselves over to passion and the magnetic attraction between themselves and are conjoined. At the moment his sacred seed spills into her cauldron of rebirth, he suffers a “little death” as he is spent only to be reborn in the new creation born of their love-making. They are mighty each in their own right, but the Lady and Lord are never truly balanced or complete without the other. He dies only to be reborn as are our own bodies and minds until we each reach completion. They need each other just as each human needs a balance of body and soul to grow and progress to completion. The Goddess is our heart and soul…the God our body and mind. Their polarity is our own. Half of each of us is eternal and the other mortal…both learning and progressing towards being worthy of joining the Great Spirit in a blissful union. Creator, gods, angels, energies and souls…all are destined to harmonize and dance the Spiral Dance of Spirit which is Perfection. Nothing is ever lost only transformed…matter is neither created nor destroyed since the Great Manifestation. Humans travel this path of transformation until a personal “Great Manifestation” (ie. evolution) happens and we become something more than ourselves…a spark of the Divine grown to fruition.

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