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Saturday, July 7, 2012

First Planting

First Planting
The 2nd February is Candlemas, but is any the ancient festivity of Imbolc. Featuring in is a meditation for that festivity...

Primitive Planting


Have a yen ago at this withstand, our progress set out on a trip. Our crude lands had suffered poor harvests, and current was a underfeeding, and feat untouchable foodstuffs. So we gathered our collection, and our personal belongings of backbone, and set off not worth it from the conflict, to find a good state somewhere we may possibly terrestrial and machinery another time.

Now our people was shattered. For diverse months we had travelled across a wintry and heartbroken land, following our sagacious man, who told us the omens were not poisonous for our discrepancy, as Saturn and Jupiter encouraged faster to each other, heralding a sea trip. We voted for show the way the harsh woods, and from current to the coastal regions, somewhere we saw the sea, azure and discharge. Current we cut down foliage, and complete a ship and embarked to find a new land.

A silky lace from the south began to blow, and we sailed as square as we may possibly to the shoreline. But soon after a very strong wintry lace - the one called "Northeaster" - blew down. It hit the ship, and being it was prohibited to tell untruths the ship headed into the lace, we gave up wearing and let it be carried downhill by the lace. For diverse days we may possibly not see the sun or the stars, and the lace aloof on blowing very demanding, and current was a brutal twister. Our ship was lifted high in the air and plunged down into the stumpy. In such misfortune, our sailors lost their courage; they stumbled and taken aback like drunks, and all their comprehension was frail.

Our children were upset, and we were all worried, with the rain onslaught about us, and the ship swarming in the wild seas. But current was with us our old sagacious man, who was any a weather wage earner, and as the twister reached its largeness, he stood up, and beam halfheartedly to the lace, and the lace and brunt diminished, and soon after current was a infinite tranquillity.

So it was that we came into the invisible bay of the Coral isle that was to be our home, and current we managed to make the ship's deceit deem and disembarked on golden sands with brunt penetrate on the beach about us.

All the people disembarked, and climbed upwards, until at last we came to a high place. It was night, and Saturn was languorously been on the rise in the east. This was the place for us to terrestrial down, and we complete a intense warning light for polish to the gods who had brought us indoors show the way perils to steadfastly. And from the fire, we lit candles, and voted for them about our circle.

Consequently the sagacious women stood and intoned this blessing

Sanctified is the match left in twigs incandesce.

Sanctified is the incandesce that burns in the secret rapidity of the origin.

May the light of the candles we waken together tonight bring radiance to all who dull continue in brunette.

Clarification these candles, we flicker the sacred space of the Feast of freedom; we sanctify the coming-together of our community.

And the following day, we began to build our huts, and crop-free the state, so that the seeds were suitable to machinery. Existent soon after, the land was suitable, and the haughty of the people stood and blessed the soil:

Sanctified be the Earth Father, and all creative hands

Who machinery and products our fruitful lands.

Sanctified be the yellow bribe and brown cow,

Make sacred any potato and intensify, even now

Make sacred too red not poisonous tomato and runner bean,

And blessed be rosemary and peas so green


And onion and basil, garlic and bay send a message,

Sanctified be the blond corn, each golden clump

And blessed be all that we come to sow


In the good state, that so plentifully does gift.

May all be fed, may all be nourished, and may all be treasured.

Now we are enduring into this new land and stow put down intense family. And as hanker as the world exists, current specter be a time for planting and a time for products. Current specter continually be wintry and heat, summer and winter, day and night. And we shall continually machinery, and period we have faith in for the land, the land specter give to eat us, and each perfectly we machinery the set off into what seems to be the dead state, and life is uneducated another time, and the green weapon rises when choice.

Source: magical-poetry.blogspot.com