NIGHT LIGHT NEWS
ESOTERIC ASTROLOGY AS NEWSEsoteric Astrology as news for week April 27 – May 3, 2022
New Moon, Lunar Eclipse, Beltane (Brilliant Fire)
Pluto retrogrades Friday, April 29th. Retrogrades are times of contemplation, reflection, assessment of the past. With Pluto retrograde we consider issues such as power, creation, sex, death, renewal, rebirth and things hidden and unseen and mysterious. We all become Persephone (till October 8, 2022).
Saturday is a new moon solar eclipse (something essential falls away, its work complete) at 10 degrees Taurus. At new moon times the New Group of World Servers (NGWS) supports and uplifts the endeavors of the women and men of Goodwill everywhere. New moon times, having an Aries/Uranus flavor, are times when “all things new” are possible. We always begin with our imaginations, imagining what “all things new” are needed.
Sunday is the festival of Beltane. An ancient Celtic festival, Beltane is celebrated on May 1 (May Day). Beltane, a cross-quarter day, informs us we are now between spring equinox & summer solstice. The Celtic festivals followed the path of the Sun. Celebrating times of dark & times of Light, times of cold & times of warmth. The festivals were from ancient times when there were no electric lights, when light came only from the Sun, moon & stars. And sometimes from the fairies, the fairy light like lightning bugs, a phosphorescence flickering in the night. Beltane celebrated the end of winter, darkness & cold. Celebrating the beginning of the warm half of the year, fair weather, more light each day. In the Catholic Church, Mary, Queen of the May, was crowned.
In earlier times, in 19th century Ireland and Scotland, bonfires were set on hills and mountains, valleys and forests. They represented the coming summer’s golden fiery Sun. Humanity stepped outside into nature. They could leave their homes (winter protection) and re-enter the world of nature, of trees & flowers & the warmth of the Sun.
Four fire festivals mark the Celtic year – cross-quarter days signifying in- between times – they are Beltane, Samhain (Nov. 1), Imbolc (Feb. 1), and Lughnassadh (Aug. 1), the four great “fire festivals” which marked the turning points of the Celtic year.
Flowers
All types of yellow spring flowers (primrose, rowan, hawthorn, gorse, hazel, marigold) were gathered at Beltane, made into bouquets, placed at doorways and windows and offered as spring gifts. Sometimes loose flowers were strewn about dairy floors or made into garlands, placed around cows and milking and butter-making equipment. The yellow flowers evoked the golden fire of the Sun. Beltane tells us summer’s halfway here!
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