The Sacred Wedding of Heaven and Earth – Midsummer

Blessings to one and all on this Midsummers Eve!  The longest day and the shortest night of the year.  In days of old the ancient Druids celebrated Summer Solstice as the sacred wedding of Heaven and Earth.  Goddess manifests as Mother Earth and the God, as the Sun King.  Dancing, Music and Poetry were experienced as means of life giving elements, celebrating the continuation of communing with the Divine Spiritual Powers of the Cosmos.  Man holds the opportunity to be lifted up to the Heavens in summer, what are are you experiencing in your dream life?  

The Sun at it’s zenith enters Gemini (actual placement in the sky), dwelling place of the Seraphim, the Divine Beings of LOVE.  The constellation of Gemini is made up of two twins: Castor and Pollux. Castor was the mortal son of King Tyndarus, while Pollux was the immortal son of Zeus. Both Castor and Pollux, being identical twins, were inseparable in their looks and actions.  I think of Tycho Brahe, he was born when the Sun was across from Gemini in Sagittarius, did you know he was a twin?  His brother was still born, and Tycho, very connected to his brother wrote an astonishing inscription in Latin verse upon his brothers tombstone.  I felt this was an interesting consideration that also today Jupiter goes retrograde in Aquarius, the dwelling place of the Angeloi (Life).  Gemini’s spiritual purpose is “to know”, what information will be shared or revealed with the Sun bearing LIGHT in the realm of LOVE?  A retrograde Jupiter bears an opportunity of lessons to be learned in the proper use of our capacity of thinking.  What is normally directed outwards is now turned inward.  What does life wish us to know?  How may we better use our thinking freely?

Mars is in Cancer, the dwelling of the Cherubim, the Divine Beings of the Harmonies and Venus is close by, soon to enter Cancer, the dwelling of the Cherubim, the Divine Beings of the Harmonies.  Interesting Rudolf Steiner shares this about man at this cycle of time; “at St. John’s time, at the height of summer he learned to know how the harmonies of the spheres let his ego sound into his dream-consciousness.”  St. John’s tide is celebrated on June 24th.  

Taking action to nurture ourselves and enjoy the good resources we continue to inwardly cultivate may bring harmony to our communion with the Divine Holy Cosmos and our dear Mother Earth (Divine counterparts).  Through mankind, a sacred marriage of Heaven and Earth may be had in a warmth of soul where the Spirit and the Body meet is the Soul.  In celebration of these mystery powers we share the opportunity to bring the sacred Elements of LIFE into balance, in Freedom.

The Moon, Venus and Neptune in supportive, loving trine, may awaken our psychic antennae to know how the harmonies of the spheres let our thinking sound into our dream consciousness… Tap into your Imagination, Inspiration and Intuition.

On this night I am writing upon wish paper to give back to the Higher Divine Beings the gifts of thought that has so graciously been shared through me; dancing, singing and possibly reciting poetry 🙂  Also I will be giving thanks to the Plant Spirits and Fairy Folk for sharing their gifts, continuing to teach us how to live in harmony with the essence of their healing magic.  How will you celebrate?  

Warm Blessings,

Kassandra  

On the eve of midsummer, a few magical lines from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream:

FAIRY:

Over hill, over dale,
Thorough bush, thorough brier,
Over park, over pale,
Thorough flood, thorough fire:
I do wander everywhere
Swifter than the moones sphere,

And I serve the Fairy Queen

To dew her orbs upon the green.

The cowslips tall her pensioners be.

In their gold coats spots you see;

Those be rubies, fairy favours;

In those freckles live their savours.

I must go seek some dewdrops here,

And hang a pearl in every cowslip’s ear.

OBERON, KING OF THE FAIRIES:


I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,

Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,

Quite overcanopied with luscious woodbine,

With sweet musk-roses, and with eglantine.

There sleeps Titania sometime of the night

Lulled in these flowers with dances and delight;

And there the snake throws her enamelled skin,

Weed wide enough to wrap a fairy in. . .


SOMNIUM SOLSTITIALE:


Am bàrd mòr a-measg tùrsachan Leòdhais

(Shakespeare among island megaliths at the summer solstice)

Button the weaver/crofter and spritely Puck

bathed in Hebridean moonlight

hardly slept a comic wink

after A Midsummer Night’s Ceilidh

dreaming eastward from the long island

to the dawn of the longest day

about to cast shadows

amid the standing stones of Callanish

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