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by Crystal Pomeroy

NOTE: As I was finishing the following reflections and blessings, I recognized the soul-print of my mother Maya in them. For instance: she was very close to indigenous civilizations, and the channels for the fascinating information from these source have been opening since her passage and certainly were for this article, as you will see. Also, the Native American Equinox symbol of the Eagle has been symbolically connected with her passage both for Daykeeper contents and readers who have written about her.

In relation to the magical egg ceremony, my mother loved giving presents, large and small. One of her yearly expressions of that joy was to make beautiful, bountiful Easter baskets to share with family. As I researched the roots of Equinox/Easter, I realized that this was actually a powerful way of communicating blessings, in tune to the archetypical magic of the season.

Maya lives on to teach, bless and inspire those that love her, including the Daykeeper family of which you, dear reader, form an important part.

And we receive the blessing to share with joy and return to her at this season of rebirth.

Celestial events now converge to form an energy portal so potent it can alter your personal history and that of the planet, as the Sun’s passage into Aries is closely preceded by the Solar Eclipse, with New Moon in Pisces. Eclipses were one of my mother Maya’s areas of expertise, and she taught me that these dramatic phenomena trigger decisive releases in whatever direction we have been moving.

As for the Equinox, its fascinating origins include pagan celebrations of Easter; from a metaphysical standpoint we are in one of the major portals of magic for multiplying blessings. As I mentioned in my predictions for 2007, this entire year represents an opportunity for consolidating our highest creative and spiritual calling. The highly charged Equinox portal can bring that promise to life. A bit further on we will share dynamic suggestions for inner work that integrate astrological, pagan and shamanic wisdom to optimize this potential in ways that are both effective and joyful.

The sacred roots of Vernal Equinox

The meaning of this holiday remains deeply embedded in the collective psyche, despite the great care that has been taken to assimilate and obscure its pagan beginnings. Long before Christian Easter, ancient peoples around the world related spring’s arrival with the divine power of resurrection. The Church moved the date to the Sunday on or after the Full Moon following the Equinox, but the irrepressible energy of this portal is still available for charging our awareness.

The name Easter derives from Eostre, Saxon Mother of Life (also root of words like estrogen and estrus). Her numerous counterparts include Ostara, Innana, and Ishtar. Equinox/Easter celebrates the process of resurrection which follows the voluntary death of the lower self (Pisces) and the resurgence of new life (Aries) to join with the fertile Mother. Nature’s bounty is fertilized, and the I AM of our spiritual identity is enlivened. For the Native American Lakota tradition, Spring’s totem is the Golden Eagle (reflecting the Scorpio aspect of this time of resurrection). It soars into the heavens to consort with spirits.

Some researchers consider this the earliest known holiday, perhaps as old as civilization itself. In many parts of the ancient world it was the most important one, and still is for some. Iran begins its New Year now, as do Mexica, Toltec and Mayan revivalists. In his wonderful book, The Joy of Sects, Peter Occhiogrosso reports on one of the earliest known Easter celebrations, in Asia Minor. This “very ancient pagan ritual” included:

...[Th]e death and resurrection of Attis, a Phrygian god of vegetation and young life. During the pagan festival, an effigy of Attis was impaled on a pine tree, his death was mourned, and his body removed from the tree and laid in a tomb. At dawn on the fourth day, the tomb was opened and found empty, eliciting great shouts of joy from the worshipers at the god’s resurrection from the grave into eternal life.

Many researchers seem to infantilize these early holidays, as though celebrants limited their connection to the physical aspect of nature. Could, in fact, the opposite be true? Could these remnants instead reflect a more advanced understanding of our inner power and its connection with earthly and celestial cycles? Most important of all, how can they help us direct our inner force today?

The Latin American roots are particularly provocative in this respect. Their relative chronological proximity provides insight into seasonal practices and beliefs elsewhere forgotten, evidence of a syncretism running so deep that it would seem to support the increasingly popular theory that there was a worldwide, antediluvian civilization of impressive knowledge.

Sacred sites throughout Mesoamerica were built to receive the light of the New Year-Equinox, as the electrical force of the sun—personified in Quetzalcoatl and Culculcán—was symbolically resurrected. Its first action was to connect with the magnetic complement, the Divine Mother. To this day, festivities include dances: older couples enact the parting year, and a young pair of dancers make a symbolic energy connection to bless the new one. Was this ritual limited to earthly fertility? My friend, indigenous investigator Xolotl, reports that the four days preceding the Mexica New Year were a time of mental and physical fasting. Celebrants would retreat into dark caves and temazcalli (sweat lodges) for purification. Surprisingly reminiscent of Holy Week, these examples of ancient Lenten practices are deeply mystical. New dating techniques, applied to an increasing number of archeological sites in Mesoamerica, Peru, Egypt and many other places, reveal lower, much earlier layers of construction, suggesting a great, antediluvian culture of global characteristics.

Sacred geometry is a field devoted to recovering and applying ancient knowledge of architecture, diet and feng shui, and attitude, in an effort to amplify the aura or energy body. Sacred geometry author Dan Winter once told me that the singly most effective method to “increase charge force” is by applying our will. A bit further on we’ll see how this principle connects with esoteric lent and Easter practices, adapted to the astrology of this year’s singular Equinox. 

A season for busy-beeing

Within the 52 year-cycle of the Mexica calendar, we now enter Eight Reed. The next four seasons will bring improved perception and heightened intelligence to those that are willing to put in the effort required in this year of hard work. Observe the synchronicity with our Daykeeper prediction for 2007: “To use this blessed annual cycle and integrate the radiance will take some work, but… the stars are lighting our pathway.” Now, at the Eclipse-Equinox portal, not only does the light guide us, it bursts through our minds to multiply the fruits of efforts and intent.

Some major configurations from the Winter Solstice persist, though the New Moon-Solar Eclipse closely squares the Solstice placement of Pluto conjunct the Galactic Center, and Saturn has moved into a trine with Jupiter. The Pluto square will help us—or if necessary, force us—to transmute whatever has been keeping us from developing the Solstice chart’s promise of spiritually based power. Tapping it will require sustained effort, and the Equinox Saturn trine means our disposition to expend that effort will flow more easily. Spring calls us to lighten our loads and put our foot on the gas. The theme of work surfaces repeatedly. Inner work may seem to most difficult to initiate and persist in, but done in a timely manner, it can transform outer work and insure miraculous results. The energy tools below have been customized to take into account this year’s special portal.

Equinox altar-ations

Note: The Eclipse portal is a wonderful time to bless your space. If you’re not up to an entire spring cleaning, at least take a break to organize that one box, pile or closet that weighs most heavy in your mental list of “pendings.” (This is a time for breakthroughs, and you may just come across a decisive piece of paper in the process.) An easy way to improve what sacred geometry calls the charge-force of your space is by putting a plant or natural stone in each corner. Bless the four cardinal points, turning toward each one before lighting incense and walking throughout your home, as you call on the angels to fill it and bless it as a happy, orderly space to vitalize your highest work. 

As to your altar or sacred corner: energize it with the earth element by making a tiny medicine wheel out of any combination of flower petals, seeds and small stones. Air can be present with jasmine or violet are incense, fire in yellow candles, and water collected from the rain or sprinkled on flowers. You can also put a small group of eggs or seeds in the center of the wheel, prepared as described below.

Egg magic for the Eclipse/Equinox

Eggs have long been associated with these dates, related to Eostre, ovules, the pure potential of spring. They are actually magical vehicles of emotions, very susceptible to the charge of intent and blessing. Egg magic will intensify our prayers and will power at the eclipse New Moon, as well as for new beginnings at Easter/Equinox.

Metaphysical Lent egg blessing (overcoming unwanted habits)

You will need two eggs (per person) for the following exercise (those who avoid animal products, can use seeds). For those using eggs, organic, fertilized eggs are especially effective.

Note: The eclipse degree of Pisces is about spiritual expression in ways that make each of us unique. It will help overcome blocks to growth, but to optimize its potential each person needs to be authentic about what we want to express and overcome, referring only to our own inner voice rather than some stereotype or outer model. Bearing this in mind:

• Consider your own, unique idea of how you want to grow spiritually this year.
  
  
• Choose two habits you feel could be in the way of your spiritual development, one attitudinal and one physical kind of indulgence you will abstain from beginning now, during any one of these two magical periods: until the Equinox or until the next Full Moon. This is an opportunity to strengthen your will to good at this portal, so go for tendencies that seem to be stronger than your attempts to break them so far, even if the habit itself doesn’t seem major.
  
  
• Bless one egg (or seed) and charge it with your intent, by holding it in your hands and saying something like:

I recognize this egg (seed) as a container of my intent and I bless it and all of nature—earthly and divine—for facilitating my dominion over lower impulses, such as….(specify the attitudinal habit you would overcome).

It’s important to say the blessings out loud, as the sound vibration is registered by the egg.

• Write “Freedom from… (the habit to be overcome)” with a felt tip pen, or on a little piece of paper you tape on each egg.
  
  
• Bless the other egg in the same manner for the other habit.
  
  
• Place these blessed eggs in the center of your medicine wheel or another sacred spot in your home.
  
  
• On or after the next Full Moon you can bury the eggs (or plant the seeds).

Equinox egg blessing (consolidating positive intent)

The most perfect day for starting the following egg blessing and fest is Monday, March 19, though it may be started at any time from now through the Saturday before Easter.  

• On white, hard boiled eggs write blessings you would really like to consolidate this year (e.g.: “meditate daily,” “book published,” “self-esteem healed,” “financial abundance,” “I’m organized”). Also do some for gifts, inscribed with blessings you wish for others, along with their names.  
  
  
• Color the eggs. (Lovely colors can be obtained naturally by soaking them overnight in spinach water, or juices such as beet, cranberry, or blueberry.)
  
  
• Once your eggs are colored and dry, bless each one by holding it in your hands and spending a couple of minutes repeating words like these, slowly and from the heart:

I recognize this egg as a container of my intent and I bless it and all of nature—earthly and divine—for mobilizing the necessary forces and coordinating all necessary circumstances for the miraculous consolidation of my intent for (name intent written on egg).  

• Eat the eggs, with salt and bread, either as part of your ceremony or in a meal you enjoy afterwards. (If you have made several eggs for yourself, you may prefer to do this in more than one sitting.)
  
  
• Conclude each egg-eating session, by taking a few minutes to repeat something like:

I AM one with the power to manifest… (complete affirmation by specifying intent inscribed on egg: “daily meditation,” “published book,” etc.).

• Give the gifts-eggs to those you made them for by themselves tied with a ribbon and flower.

Follow up

Each day, from now until the next New Moon, follow up with five minutes or so of eaten-egg affirmations, adapted according to your own intents, such as:

I AM ONE WITH MY MORE LOVING SELF. I AM ONE WITH MY PUBLISHED BOOK.  I AM ONE WITH SPIRITUAL SELF-ESTEEM.

You can prepare eggs for the departed, too. If you do, please make one for our dear Maya. These eggs can be kept in your prayer corner or on your altar, and then be hidden outdoors or even in a park after the next Full Moon, on April 2.

It is our intent that the thoughts and suggestions above enrich your celebration and prayers this spring, in the perennial tradition, with joy and will for your own good and those of others.