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1.: Libromancy VI

Posted by: "blackbird" blackbird_61@yahoo.com blackbird_61

Fri Oct 15, 2010 6:53 pm (PDT)

I watched as the well dressed and busy turned their eyes to avoid the underworld we accept as ordinary - the homeless and dying in residence upon our streets and the steps of our churches.

These were the unnatural, man-made consequences of a cultural shift that began thousands of years ago, away from sacred earth, to a distant sky god. The Religious beliefs of a culture define its values. Its cosmology has tremendous impact on social and economic institutions, culture, history, the status of women, sexuality, and countless other facets of daily life. We have become disconnected from the divine, from the feminine, the earth and from each other, living a millennial alienation from the sacred. God was separated from man, man was separated from woman, and all were separated from the earth. For too many centuries, each has existed in painful separation from the others, and the world we have created expresses this terrible alienation. It also express our longing for reunion.

In circle, and in my daily practices, I learned how the Old Religion of the Great Mother Goddess honors and expresses a connection to the earth, the moon, the sun, and stars, and the animals and plants that share the planet with us. Its rituals reinforce and give expression to the constant awareness of sacred relationship to all that is and to the divine as it is embodied in all that exists. Perhaps here in the scorched wasteland beneath the burning warrior sun, deep within our culture's shadow, I had finally come to a source of insight, to a wellspring where the sacred flowed in healing waters.

Book of Shadows, Pg 125
Phyllis Curott.

I am the Cup which holds Eternity.
All other Cups
Have their Source in Me.
The Goddess Innana.

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