Rise up on the dawn's winds... soar upon love's winds...
see all things great and small.
Give open your hearts, for you are gifted, a giver, a healer.
Obey the sun's pulsing, the calm sailing moon...
dance openly with your brothers and sisters,
hold life in your hand as a jewel. Celebrate this new day,
created as the first day, drink deeply the wine and the spring.
Open new pathways of love and understanding,
and sail through the tears to the edges of your wounds.

"These are the clouds about the fallen sun,
The majesty that shuts his burning eye;
The weak lay hand on what the strong has done,
Till that be tumbled that was lifted high
And discord follow upon unison,
And all things at one common level lie.
And therefore, friend, if your great race were run
And these things came, so much more thereby
Have you made greatness your companion,
Although it be for children that you sigh:
These are the clouds about the fallen sun,
The majesty that shuts his burning eye."

--W.B. Yeats--

The Goddess
The Goddess is the universal mother.
She is the source of fertility, endless wisdom and loving caresses.
As the Wicca know Her,
She is often of three aspects: the Maiden, the Mother and the Crone,
symbolized in the waxing full and waning of the Moon.
She is at once the unploughed field, the full harvest
and the dormant, frost-covered Earth.
She gives birth to abundance.
But as life is Her gift, She lends it with the promise of death.
This is not darkness and oblivion, but rest from the toils of physical existence.
It is human existence between incarnations.
Since the Goddess is nature, all nature, She is both the Temptress and
the Crone; the tornado and the fresh spring rain; the cradle and the grave.
But though She is possessed of both natures, the Wicca revere Her as the
giver of fertility, love and abundance, though they acknowledge Her darker side
as well. We see Her in the Moon, the soundless, ever-moving sea, and in the
green growth of the first spring. She is the embodiment of fertility and love.
The Goddess has been known as the Queen of Heaven, Mother of the Gods
that Made the Gods, the Divine Source, the Universal Matrix,
the Great Mother, and by countless other titles.
Many symbols are used in Wicca to honor Her, such as the cauldron, cup,
labrys, five-petalled flowers, the mirror, necklace, seashell,
pearl, silver, emerald ... to name a few.
As She has dominion over the Earth, sea and Moon, Her creatures are
varied and numerous. A few include the rabbit, the bear, the owl, the cat, dog,
bat, goose, cow, dolphin, lion, horse, wren, scorpion, spider and bee.
All are sacred to the Goddess.
The Goddess has been depicted as a huntress running with Her hounds; a
celestial deity striding across the sky with stardust falling from Her heels;
the eternal Mother heavy with child; the weaver of our lives and deaths; a Crone
walking by waning moonlight seeking out the weak and forlorn, and as many other beings. But no matter how we envision Her,
She is omnipresent, changeless, eternal.

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul.
Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.

-Vaull Starr-

To go beyond what is expected is to be a part of the solution.

Light breaks where no sun shines; where no sea runs,
the waters of the heart push in the tides.

-Dylan Thomas-

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