A post about Grounding and Beltane

(©Delphine Bowden - reproduced with kind permission)

Grounding

The term grounding means connected to the Earth, and it is one that spans numerous different cultures, traditions, and spiritual practices. While it is associated with feelings of balance, connection, centeredness, sinking, being anchored and in the flow, I would like to explore the greater implications of what is happening every time you go outside and relax into nature.

This is something that is very dear to most people who follow our chosen path and possibly never more so than at the time of Beltane.

There is an ancient knowledge that is expressed in widely different cultures, traditions, and spiritual practices, and it all draws from our connection to the Earth.   However more than ever now it is important to become aware that the dominant Western paradigm in the world at the moment is largely set up to alienate people and hinder this connection to the Earth.  The economic system is set up to keep people inside, generating information.

Pollution and invasive procedures within the Earth distort and interfere with her electromagnetic field.

There are many different methods that we can utilize to bring ourselves back into harmony with the Earth’s energetic field and below I have listed just a few:-

1.       Go Outside

Be out and about in nature; go to a field, a mountain, a swamp, a river, a stream, a beach, the ocean. Get out of the office, off of the couch. Be in the presence of nature, be in the presence of life.

2.     Walk Barefoot

Enjoy some quality barefoot time. As a species we have thrived for thousands of years barefoot, so why not return to this practice in our daily life?

3.     Give a Tree a Hug

Go outdoors and touch (another living organism) – a tree..  Taking part in this process will significantly help to balance your energy field.

4.     Utilize Visualization

We can alter and regulate or energy field through our changing emotions, and how we choose to feel. Visualization is an ancient practice can be done at any time and it does not matter where you are. Below are a few techniques that are quite effective.

5.     Grounding Chord

Visualize, feel, or be aware of the centre of the Earth and of the free energy that it emits. With both your mind and your heart, reach down into the core, and pull up a pulsing, twisting chord of energy from the depths of the Earth.

Hook this chord onto your root chakra, or sacral chakra as well for women, and you will feel the immediate connection between you and the Earth as the energy flows through you. You may become aware of a sinking feeling, a tightening and flexing of the perineum and muscles in your groin and your bottom. Alternatively, you can also use these muscles while concentrating on sending the chord down into the Earth.

Repeat this process as often as you feel is necessary. Experiment with different chords of different colours and thicknesses, and experience the incredibly wide variety of sensations that it will create.

6.     Mountain Meditation

Visualize, or be aware of your body becoming turning to stone and becoming like a mountain, with roots running deep down into the Earth. Feel your legs and lower body anchoring deep into the bedrock. Notice the feelings of peace and tranquillity that come with it.

Become the base of the mountain as it grows upwards and reaches into the sky.

Feel your crown as the top of the mountain, where the Earth and sky meet and mingle.

  

About Beltane

This festival is the Celtic May Day.

It officially begins at moonrise on May Day Eve, and marks the beginning of the third quarter or second half of the ancient Celtic year.

It is celebrated as an early pastoral festival accompanying the first turning of the herds out to wild pasture. The rituals were held to promote fertility. The cattle were driven between the Belfires to protect them from ills. Contact with the fire was interpreted as symbolic contact with the sun.

In early Celtic times, the druids kindled the Beltane fires with specific incantations. Later the Christian church took over the Beltane observances and a service was held in the church, followed by a procession to the fields or hills, where the priest kindled the fire.

A Rowan branch is often hung over the house fire on May Day to preserve the fire itself from bewitchment (the house fire being symbolic of the luck of the house).

Beltane is a holiday of Union--both between the Goddess and the God and between man and woman. Handfastings are traditional at this time. It is a time of fertility and harvest, the time for reaping the wealth from the seeds that we have sown.

Celebrations include braiding of one's hair (to honour the union of man and woman and Goddess and God), circling the Maypole for fertility and jumping the Beltane fire for luck. Beltane is one of the Major Sabbats of the Wiccan religion.

We celebrate sexuality (something we see as holy and intrinsic to us as holy beings), we celebrate life and the unity which fosters it.

The myths of Beltane state that the young God has blossomed into manhood, and the Goddess takes him on as her lover. Together, they learn the secrets of the sexual and the sensual, and through their union, all life begins.

Beltane is the season of maturing life and deep found love. This is the time of vows, handfastings and commitment. The Lord and his Lady, having reached maturity, come together in Perfect Love and Perfect Trust to celebrate the joy of their union. This is a time to celebrate the coming together of the masculine and feminine creative energies. Beltane marks the emergence of the young God into manhood. Stirred by the energies at work in nature, he desired the Goddess. They fall in love, lie among the grasses and blossoms and unite.

So now as this post reaches its end all that remains is for me to wish a very special and Blessed Beltane

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So now it is time for me to leave but not before I wish you the best things that life can give

Love & Light to you all.

Blessed Be!

Merlin.