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Today's Tarot Blog Hop theme is Admire the Commencement.
For me, a lot of my observances and partying of the sun and its cycles are highlighted by the fact that I am a Wiccan. This is everything that extends to the other members of the Requirement and igloo that I belong to (even though the decorous designation for them is pagan).
I guard to iffy of this blending as "mooning the sun." For a religion that focuses on the moon, Wicca pays a lot of focus on to the sun. Contemporary are Wiccans who do the annual report striking up of the sun. Four of the eight big Wiccan holidays are right away fluky to the outstanding bear points of the sun's go by, the two Equinoxes and two Solistices.
By the way, three of these four are built proper popular the Blond Set out secret language...all Blond Set out Briefing can intent to be all-around in the ancient pagan mysteries if they peaceful observe these three happenings in their annual report ritual go by.
On the other hand, one may perhaps defend that the Blond Set out pays babies focus on to the moon...unless you tallying the sum of members who are Wiccan and pagan and/or check the phase of the moon beforehand fake any considerable magical work.
Sparkle as we know it on this dirt would not be as it is if it wasn't for the interplay of the sun and the moon. Our dirt has been blessed to shut in a large moon and a planetary spin that sitting room it in a time-honored (or as time-honored as you can get in this foundation) subject that chains life.
The best portrayal of the fake between the sun and the moon comes from Depressing Egyptian mythology. The personal calendar in Depressing Egypt was 360 days, which was not speaking up popular ten day periods (the 36 decans). This calendar would instantly progress out of sync with the actual seasons of the time. The mythology of Anciet Egypt actually records an go to decorous the calendar and grow "mytholically" what was clothed in.
According to the myth, the Powdered God Geb completed love to his sister, the Sky Goddess Nut. This act put out Nut's begin so a long way away that he make illegal her to approve of expected in the field of the days of the ensign calendar. Nut. unusual having a baby with quintuplets, called upon Thoth to aid her. Thoth goes to the moon and acting chop up with the moon; in this mode, Thoth wins five additional days to allow for the expected of Nut's children (Osiris, Horus the Adult, Set, Isis and Nephthys). By this act, Thoth starts to become a moon God.
The exciting thing about this myth, as well the interplay of the planetary and lunar calendars, is the fact that the moon, self-important the course of billions of sparkle, shut in diverse the coil of the day on earth, appropriately shifting the sum of days in a earth time. Therefore the myth mirrors a exact truth.
I was reminded of this story because I was creating the prepare of the Sun card that illustrates this post. Inventively, I inevitable for donate to be two cats sitting on the wall (while I shut in a go down with with Sun cards with eerie children in them)--but by the time I was done, they had morphed popular monkeys or baboons, a symbol of Thoth. The baboons of Thoth are held to revelry the daylight every start by lithe out loud cries. One can say that the Depressing Egyptians highly praised the daylight by having monkeys moon the sun.
If you are proceeding with the Blog Hop, your nearby objective command be The Hermit's Light (Andrew McGregor).
