The rolling over of an Age
doesn’t happen every day; that is unless you measure an Age by lengths of one
day and then I guess they do in that case. However, in the calendar I learned
growing up in the Church of Rhiannon (CoR), an Age is 3888 years long. Go read
my blog here
for further context. As you can see, I’m going to talk a bit about this. For
good reason I feel. Today is the first day of the first month in the new lunar
calendar; thus today is the first day of an Age.
I wasn’t going to write
this blog until this morning when I was thinking about it. I recall when I was
maybe 12-14 sitting around the campfire before Circle (what CoR called our
rituals) and listening to discussion about the coming Age of Seed and Fruit. At
the time I didn’t know how to calculate the moons and so didn’t think about the
lore attached to them in regards to the turning over of an Age.
Well, here we are. With
the arrival of Samhain, the year ended officially and we entered into a period
of time that is not on the calendar. It is a time that belongs to the thinning
of the veil, of mystery; it is a time that is not a time. This has ended too,
with the arrival of the first Full Moon after Samhain the new lunar year begins
with the month of Beth.
Beth is the tree of birch,
called the Lady in Silver, and is all about new beginnings and initiations. This
is under the horns of Taurus, which amongst many other things is associated
with our Lord of the Mound in the Craft. Also, it is the Beaver Moon. This is
the bit that made me think to write today. You see, the beaver is all about the
creation and making of things—they build.
On this 1st day
in the month of Beth (birch), the Beaver Moon, in the sign of Taurus, the Age
of Seed and Fruit, I implore you to build. Build and craft whatever it is you
want your life to be right now as we all step off into the new age. It doesn’t
come again for 3888 days.
Boidh Se,
-SM
“Lost in a thicket, bare
foot upon a thorn path.”
