Sunday, April 5, 2009

Meeting the Gods

Preparation: Follow the preparations already given in the pathworking for your safe place. Be comfortable, relax, make sure you have enough time and will not be disturbed. Either memorize the pathworking or record the text.
Take a few breaths and relax. Go to your safe place. By now you should have repeated the pathworking for your safe place often enough that you can reach it easily and fast. If you cannot, go back to that exercise until you can.

You reach your safe place. You feel comfortable and secure here. You have left any stresses, troubles, angers behind when you came here and you are relaxed.
By now you know your safe place well enough, but today you notice a door you have not seen before. Either you never recognized it, or it was not there before, but it is here now. It might be a real door, or a passage through the trees in your wood, an opening between two boulders on the beach, or something else – it fits into the environment of your safe place. On the door or somewhere next to it, you see two symbols: a golden disc of the sun, and a silver moon crescent. Both symbols are glowing slightly, illuming the door. As you think about it, you remember: those are the symbols of the Gods, the sun disc as one symbol for the God of the seasons, Him, who is born each yule with the sun, growth with her increasing strength, courts the Goddess and is united with her on Beltaine. His strength is at its peak in summer, and as the days grow shorter, he grows weaker, until he dies at the last harvest festival, at Samhain, only to be reborn again at Yule. Her symbol is the moon, a symbol of her different faces, the maiden who teaches the joy of life, the mother who brings fertility and the crone who brings wisdom to our lives.

You want to meet them, therefore you open the door and step trough the passage. (If you decide you do not want to meet Them now, back out now, leave the door closed and return to your body). You step into a huge passageway built of white marble. Columns are placed at regular intervals along the sides, and between some of them colourful gobelins, illustrating some stories are placed. You do not linger, but stride down the hall towards the doorway at its end. The wooden leaves of the gate are wide open, and a warm and inviting light pours forth from the chamber beyond. On the doors, the same symbols are present: a golden sun and a silver moon.
After a moment of hesitation you enter. It is a large room, built of white marble, decorated with columns, statues and flowers all over. Across the room, two thrones are placed, one golden, decorated with a golden sun, the other one silver, with a moon barge in front of it. The thrones are empty and unused. A young man with blond hair, wearing simple golden robes and a woman with dark hair and silver robes are standing at a window and talking.
As you enter, they turn towards you. A smile appears on Her face, and she greets you: "Welcome. We are glad you found your way here."
You approach them cautiously and notice the agelessness and wisdom of the woman, the strength and confidence of the man. Greet them, talk to them and listen to what they have to say to you.
(Take your time here. If you record the meditation, leave a long pause here).

... Finally, all is said for the moment. Thank the Gods for the meeting, and bid them farewell. Then take the same way back that lead you there: Through the doorway, along the hall and back to your safe place. Close the door behind you if there is one. Make sure you enter your safe place. Remain there for a few moments and ponder what you experienced. ...
Take the route that leads you back to your physical body and return to it. Experimentally, move your fingers, your feet. Open your eyes. Welcome back.

The exercise should leave you feeling blessed. Take that feeling with you into your life. You have met the Gods: you are truly blessed.

1 comment:

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