The Goddess Companion

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The Goddess Companion

Wake up, people! Open your eyes! Wake up!

Move quickly, like people of light!

Draw clouds forth from the sky's quarters.

Draw clouds full of snow to us here!

Snow falling now means water in summer.

Come, ice, cover my fields!

In four days the festival starts, when we assemble

to call down snow in abundance.

~Pueblo Dawn Call To Winter Feast

Throughout the world, the darkest time is also the

time of the greatest celebration. One reason is

simple:

busy people, bustling about to gather enough food to

survive through the winter, have less time to tell

stories

and to feast and to sing. But there is another reason

that is not so obvious: the belief that the activities

of human

beings during the winter somehow empower the earth to

keep turning on its axis, progressing slowly toward

the

new seasons yet to come.

Stories have traditionally been vital in this quest

for continued order in the universe. Each winter,

people would gather

to hear the old myths recited by the hearth-fire. This

was the children's school, the time to learn the rules

by which

humankind was expected to live. It was a continuing

education program for adults, too, who each year heard

the

familiar stories anew, with deeper meaning. But the

stories did more than just educate people. In a

mysterious

and magickal way, they also linked humans to the

cosmos. Just as the sun set at the anticipated time,

so we were

to tell the right story on the right night. We thus

were bound to the cycle of the seasons in a deep and

meaningful way.

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By Monaghan

Spiritual freedom is my birthright.

I am a free thinker. I am able to rise above mental

prejudices and stereotypes of others.

I am a free thinker. Nobody and nothing can manipulate

me or deceive me.

I am a free thinker. I freely choose truth and love.

Today, I embrace a greater degree of spiritual

freedom.

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