DECEMBER NEW MOON MAGAZINE

NEW MOON MAGAZINE
DECEMBER 2008
© The Arthurian School



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Let the Divine Love of who you really are, flow through you
and shape your World anew….

Hi everyone!

With the incredible alignment that has just happened between the new moon and Venus – the planet of Love- and Jupiter, the planet of freedom, abundance and expansion, we are already in amazing and wonderous times.

Never before has there been such an opportunity for Love.

What is Love? It is the glue that holds our universe together. It is the mysterious force that scientists are yet to quantify, but what is already inside of all of us. It holds us and our reality together- it is the energetic fabric of our very being, the thread that weaves and holds our infinite expressions and creations in this physical world together.

WE ARE LOVE. That is the very essence of who we are. Everything else is a physical illusion, an opportunity to play with what is not real.

Even darkness is illusion- light a small candle and see how it evaporates like mist in front of the Sun!

LOVING IS THE WHOLENESS WE ALL SEEK TO IN ORDER TO BE HAPPY. When we incarnated into a human body, a vast part of us remained non-physical, and we will only feel truly happy and fulfilled when we are in vibrational alignment with that greater and eternal part of us- AND THAT ETERNAL PART IS LOVE AND LOVING.

When we are in tune or alignment with that part, we cannot but love ourselves, see ourselves as beautiful and perfect and see everyone else also in that light of perfection.

We will never feel good and never be who we truly are, unless we are in that state of remembering that we are only Love. Because that is truly who we are!

And when we judge ourselves and others, when we find fault with ourselves and others, we create resistance that takes us out of that state of alignment, because we no longer vibrate in the energy of our true selves.
We are no longer in our heart.

Why is it that we all feel so much better in nature? It is simply because all the plants and animals in nature are in their vibrational truth- ie they are simply that what they are- A tree is a tree and does not pretend to be something else- it has no thoughts like us humans to take it out of that truth and makes it forget what it is. And so Mother Earth and her creatures are in perfect alignment with themselves- they do not pretend to be anything else than what they are, and so they can help us to remember how to also be in our natural state of being – and that is Love.

A NEW CYCLE OF THE SIXTH DAY

After the recent intensity of events during the last new moon cycle that began the end of all forms of dominance in our world, we are now moving into a completely new cycle - a one year influx of light that the Mayans called “the Sixth Day.”

The Sixth Day of the Mayan Calendar (the calendar is called the Tzolkin) began on the 13th November and heralds a time that the Maya called the flowering for the plant- which means a time of awakening, unfolding and opening up to new possibilities.

Most Mayan scholars call this period a time of “enlightenment,” or renaissance and in history the Sixth Day brought the invention of tools, and the European Renaissance of Michaelangelo and Leonardo Da Vinci.

And so it is a time of incredible opportunity to manifest our visions and dreams- the visions and dreams we have had to “file” away because it all just seemed so impossible to achieve.

The message of the New Moon of this month falling within the beginning of the Sixth Day is one of hope, optimism and above all Love. It is a time of new beginnings, receptivity, trust, Earth Mother, nourishment, protection and infinite possibilities. It is a time where we can remember who we truly are, and start to co-create from that vibration and energy of Love.

We now realise that as part of the next growth stage in this fantastic journey we are having as co-creators and caretakers of our beautiful planet called Gaia or Earth, we cannot use our minds alone to keep up with the evolutionary changes - we are now called to also use our instinctive and intuitive abilities to guide us along the ascending path.

And with this intuition we are able to consciously choose the high road:

- to be positive, loving and compassionate.

AND WITH THAT, TO START RESHAPING OUR OWN WORLDS.



EVOLVING TO OUR TRUE DESTINY OF BEING CO-CREATORS AND CARETAKERS OF THE EARTH

With the falling away of dominance, each individual on Earth is beginning to realise their own worth and starting to feel their own purpose and their own responsibility. Each person is beginning to realise their full potential as loving human beings.

This potential includes the ability to consciously co-create new realities with the Earth. By looking back to our ancestors and by incorporating ancestral knowledge we are able to use this unique opportunity to evolve, and to create the dreams and visions that we collectively hold for a new world.

I am shown how the ancient civilisations of monuments of Egypt, Peru, Mexico and others will become more and more important as we as a humanity are starting to decode the old messages of the Ancients. Never before are we asked like now to look into our heart to receive this wisdom that will ensure our future evolution as a human race on this planet. But it is absolutely important that we now all become connected to our hearts and stay in the energy of who we truly are.

THE EGG

The symbol of an egg. The egg is revered in PERU as very sacred in their shamanic tradition. Often shamans do egg readings and if one looks at the site of Machu Picchu from a specific angle, the Earth looks rounded- like the bottom part of a broken egg - and the ruins on the site look like creatures emerging from that broken egg.

It seems obvious to say that, but a hen’s egg will bring forth a hen’s chicken, and an eagle’s egg will bring forth an eagle. Yet this very simple principle illustrates a profound wisdom that the ancient INCAS knew: the symbol of the egg holds a key to an incredible secret for creation: whatever you feel yourself to be, that is what you will create.

If you don’t know and feel yourself to be Love which is what you really are, you cannot create that in our world. It is energetically impossible to create what you don’t feel yourself to be.

And because the Earth already knows and lives according to her true nature, it is up to us to also feel and get in vibrational alignment with who we really are in order to evolve and co-create a new world with her.

It is only through becoming connected to our hearts that we will be able to survive the next phase of evolution of the Earth. She wants us all to journey forward with her, but if we cannot be in our hearts, it will just not be a possibility.

Living from the heart is therefore no longer a preference, it is an absolute necessity. IT IS A QUESTION OF SURVIVAL FOR ALL OF US AS WE RACE TOWARDS 2012 AND BEYOND.

THE NEW MOON IN SAGITTARIUS

The new moon started on the 28th November in the sign of Sagittarius (the Archer) and so it is an ideal time to take aim towards a high and lofty goal while knowing that all of nature supports us in hitting our targets.

MY WISH FOR YOU

Let the inspiration of the new moon during this festive season help you to become more attuned to your own heart and the heart beat of the Earth!

It is an incredibly important time to be conscious and loving.

With blessings of Love
Elizabeth
THE ARTHURIAN SCHOOL
PRINGLE BAY
www.arthurianschool.com
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“Revitalise and Enlighten your Life with the Moon”

I AM LOVE MOON MEDITATION
DECEMBER 2008


Meditation

Allow yourself to relax and start to focus on your breath- in and out………….. in and out……………., in and out…………….. Allow yourself to let go any cares or worries or tension, and just allow the breath to take you deeper and deeper into the body. Feel yourself sinking deeper and deeper into a blissful state of nothingness. Just completely let go.

Feel that as you are sinking deeper and deeper, you are becoming more and more relaxed in your body. Focus on your third eye between the eyebrows and then start to relax your whole body even more, telling it that it is safe for you to completely let go.

Now imagine that in front of you, you are seeing a portal. The portal is wide and inviting and you feel drawn to go to it. As you stand at the portal, you are able to look through the arch and you can see a picture unfolding in front of you. Carry on looking at what you are being shown, but take care not to go through the portal. You are the observer and the reality you are seeing behind the portal is happening in the third dimensional world of matter. Enjoy watching what you are seeing and also realise how you are in that reality drawn away from what is real and how easily there you forget who you really are.

Now carefully step through the portal but this time you remain conscious. Feel your body and arms and hands and look at them as they are in a physical reality. Observe any feelings that come up and release them.

Now start to laugh at the way you have been getting drawn into things that really don’t matter at all! Observe the absurdity of it all! Realise that it is just a play that needed acting out, but it is not real. Maybe see some faces that look scary, but as you laugh at them, they seem to just disappear evenly and without any effort. Feel yourself for the master that you really are. Become aware of what really matters in your life and for you.

NOW LOOK UP INTO THE SUN.

It is incredibly bright but it does not bother you. It is as if you are part of it and it is inviting you to take part in something incredible. Feel yourself being taken up on a cloud that is floating higher and higher up into the sky. You are being taken higher and higher but strangely enough you don’t feel any fear at all- in fact you feel elated!

Now it starts to become darker and you can see a small crescent moon shining brightly in the sky. There is a moon ray faery that looks at you with an amused look as you sail by. You tell her that you are on a journey to the Central Sun.

You can already feel the heart beat of that Sun’s consciousness as it pulsates through you more and more, but at the same time you also become aware that you are standing on the Earth once more. It is as if you have become part of the bigger whole that is all connected.

See the Earth in all her beauty and feel the love that she has for you. Listen as she asks you to find you true heart again. Feel her asking you to remember her and yourself as you both really are.

AS you feel the rays of sunshine on your back, you start to return. Slowly you become aware of your body. There is a white light that is pulsating in your third eye and all you hear is a refrain in your head that is repeated over and over again: I AM LOVE, I AM LOVE, I AM LOVE.

Resting for a while, you come back easily to the place where you were standing in front of the portal. You close your eyes and then you are back in the time and place of now, bringing with you a new awareness of the Love that you have always been in this physical illusion of reality.


THE MOON CYCLE OF DECEMBER

called the Birch Moon, the Star Frost Moon and the Long Night Moon



Thanksgiving Day

Very appropriately the new moon cycle started on Thanksgiving Day in the United States, the 27th of November. How much do we have to be grateful for with the beginning of the new and really exciting cycle of the Sixth Day!

When I was in the States during thanksgiving quite a number of years ago, it struck me how unifying it was as a public holiday. It almost seemed more important than Christmas because of the States’ multitude of nationalities and different backgrounds that do not necessarily practise Christianity. And yet thanksgiving united them all as a nation. On the day of Thanksgiving I felt a really beautiful energy enfolding the whole land as if everyone was holding hands and looking towards a beautiful future.

The Birch Tree

Another aspect of this new moon is that significantly it is called the Birch moon. The Birch tree is according to Celtic tradition symbolic of boundaries and new beginnings. What is interesting is that often birch wood rods were used in corporal punishment because of the Birch’s flexibility and strength and so it may be appropriate to also reflect where you need boundaries to stop some form of punishment in your life. It may even manifest as some punishing behaviour that some else is “doing” to you, but in essence that person is just showing you a part of yourself that still holds a judgment of or are critical of yourself and believes that you should be punished for it.

This cycle of the new moon can therefore be very helpful to become aware of these old emotional patterns to do with boundaries and to help you to consciously bring love to that part of yourself and the situation. Only love can truly heal our hearts that have suffered so much from limiting beliefs and judgmental attitudes!

I also feel the pain of the Birch having been historically used in this way by us as humans and so we can also send loving thoughts to the Birch tree energy and elementals to help heal the way that we have abused its use through using it as an instrument of pain to hurt others.

What the moon and planets are doing

As you will have noticed, the magnificent pair of Venus and Jupiter are close to each other in the western evening sky this month. On the 1st December the moon occulted Venus, meaning that Venus seemed to disappear behind the moon. During this month Jupiter will continue to move towards the sunset and gradually grow dimmer, whereas Venus, the planet of love and beauty pulls away from it and grows ever brighter. By the end of the month Saturn will have slowed down, cautioning us to lay sound foundations and its rings will be very hard to see as they turn edge on to the Earth. In September 2009 the rings will go completely edge on and seem to completely disappear and it will take them about another year to become prominent again.

Also look out for the Geminid meteors around 12th December.

No planets are retrograde during December and so much progress can be made!

Solstice

On the 12th December it is the pagan Solstice full moon in the sign of Gemini and it is Solstice itself on the 21st December when the waning moon is in the sign of Libra. Solstice is also called Yule that means wheel of the year and in the northern hemisphere it is the time of the longest night and the shortest day. Keep a flame alight through the longest night and wait for the dawn. If you are able, celebrate amongst standing stones!

On the 13th December it is the Swedish festival of rebirth of light called ST Lucia’s Day. Often there are processions in Sweden through the streets with the women wearing long dresses and carrying a star and a crown of candles and evergreen in their hair as maidens and the starboys wearing pointed hats. They visit hospitals and nursing homes, offering coffee and lussekatt buns and St Lucy fires are lit when incense is thrown on and everyone bathes in the smoke.

Christmas

On the 25th December it is the Christian festival of the winter solstice (that used to fall on 25th December) when homes are traditionally often decorated with holly, rosemary, laurel, bay and mistletoe. Mistletoe being a symbol of fertility and healing that speaks of hope and our embodiment of change. So may it be!

MOON PERSON OF THE MONTH

With us all celebrating Christmas during this moon month it is wonderful to introduce you to Fllur Owen, a Welsh actress who has done some retreats with me and recently played the lead role as Jesus in a rather amazing and controversial play about Jesus being a woman!

Fllur sent me some photographs of the play and I felt so privileged to see and connect with them. There was such incredible passion in them and I felt that the play opened up a lot of new energy around the theme of Christmas and what the true message was of the Master Jesus.

You can get to see some of the photos of the play if you get in touch with Fllur- her email is fflurmediowen@yahoo.co.uk and she is lucky enough to live in Wales!


UPCOMING SACRED EARTH RETREATS

THE ARTHURIAN SCHOOL
INSPIRING HEART, MIND AND SOUL

MACHU PICCHU AND JUNGLE TRIP
(INCLUDING AN OPPORTUNITY TO DO A SACRED CEREMONY WITH THE AYAHUASKA SACRED MEDICINE PLANT OF THE AMAZON)
4-18TH MARCH 2009
THEME: MY HEART IS AN OPEN GATE THROUGH WHICH LOVE FLOWS

PRINGLE BAY RETREATS JAN/FEB 2008
THEME: TEACHING LOVE AND CONNECTION WITH THE EARTH

WEEKEND RETREATS
9-11 JANUARY
16-18
23-25
6-8 FEBRUARY
13-15
20-22

4 DAYS INTENSIVE RETREATS
26-29 JAN (SUN ECLIPSE)
9-12 FEB (MOON ECLIPSE)

FOR MORE INFORMATION OR TO BOOK:
Please contact Elizabeth Bardin
Email: elizabethbardin@yahoo.co.uk or info@arthurianschool.com
www.arthurianschool.com
telephone: (0027) 28 273 8277 international 028 273 8277 local
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“Revitalise and Enlighten your Life with the Moon”
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