Pagaian Cosmology Forum

I made a note about an addition to the Mabon script. After Communion and Storytelling, I added a new process of Red Threads - the tying of thin red ribbons to each other's wrists - signifying the participation in the Vision of the Seed, of the Wheat - which is knowledge of the continuity of Life.

And also, I have added to the ritual, another reading in the Underworld: it is the "READER 1" bit. I added it last year for Lyn, but have retained it ... it is about Demeter's perspective - the waiting She is doing.

I have made significant changes to the Winter Solstice ritual script as it is in the paper version. They are changes to the procedure of Lighting of the Fire and also to the wording of Re-Lighting the World. In the case of the latter, I have decided that Re-generating the World is much more appropriate language in our times.

See Commentary Notes on Chapter 7, WINTER SOLSTICE Notes

I also made some changes to the text of the Winter Solstice Centering/Breath meditation right there in Chapter 7 with a comment that I had done so. I made some other changes to language throughout the Winter Solstice script without comment.

The changes are mainly to do with an awareness of the re-valuing of both dark and light, and more emphasis on "birthing new beings" rather than on "birthing light". And what seems more interesting in our times is "re-generating" the world - as the Sun has always done, rather than just "re-lighting" the world. Perhaps in our times we need less obsession with light. Check here for more development of similiar thoughts: Winter Solstice /Yule Reflections

Yes ... there is something in that thought as I see it ... holding the Moon's balance of light and dark within each seasonal moment - which to my mind is the balance signified in the triple spiral, always present. Moon does represent that and IS that as you say:

Rose wrote:

Luna is the balance that makes life on earth possible- without her even the power of the sun cannot bring forth life on earth, at least complex life

I have been thinking about the Cosmogenesis Dance we  do at Winter Solstice, and how it is a celebration of the triple spiral  -  which is really displayed for us all the time in Luna. Perhaps  the dance could also be called after Moon. ??

And I would love to do it more often - throughout the year. We need new music for it however ... at least I think so, and I am working on that with a potential composer.

That is a good question Rose, and I shouldn't be so vague.I think the Triple Spiral is most likely multivalent in its significance .. it may represent many things at the same time: Earth-Sun-Moon, Triple Goddess, waxing-peaking-waning of all being, Moon's phases, Cosmogenesis ... and none of them really separate. (Perhaps it is a really fuzzy kind of thinking ... have you seen this dude? Vladimir Dimitrov)

Anyway - yes, the idea of a trinity as a unity is most likely Lunar in origin ... Baring and Cashford in The Myth of the Goddess say it IS lunar in origin (p.596-597), "... going back to the three visible phases of the moon - the waxing, the full and the waning - experienced as the three-fold nature of the one Great Goddess of the eternal cycle."

And on page 18 they write:" ... we could imagine that the moon, as the whole of nature, was experienced as the Mother Goddess." and they go on about the three phases and relating it to maiden, mother, crone and also a trinity of Goddesses found in a cave at  Angles-sur-l'Anglin ... there's a whole section on the Moon as Goddess. They say "The moon was undoubtedly the central image of the sacred to early people ...Duality, imaged as the waxing and waning moon, was contained and transcended in her totality." (p.21) (Their book is a very good resource)

So for me, the Triple Spiral brings together this "power of three" - a Cosmic Dynamic in which we are immersed - including and also as a result of Moon. Does that answr the question well enough? I am sure there may be more to say ... from both of us.

Just noting here that I made a few minor changes to the Eostar ritual script in chapter 7 in the on-line version:

particularly the Chant and Dance
"Persephone Returns! Persephone Returns! Rejoice, rejoice! Persephone Returns!" w/ arms raised like Eurynome, and free movement as individuals.
Link hands and grapevine steps – moving to outside space: “We are the Persephones"  X 4. Repeat as desired.

and other minor things.

Noting that I have made small changes throughout the Summer Solstice script in Chapter 7 in the on-line version of the book.

I am now generally just making the changes in the on-line scripts and noting it right there in bold text. Sometimes the changes are mentioned in the Seasonal reflections in the  Events, Camps, Festivals section.