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height="1" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> The Elemental Exercises</div> <div> <IMG SRC="54380510.jpg" border=0 width="128" height="81" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><IMG SRC="53d761e0.gif" border=0 width="374" height="30" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B> <A NAME="_9"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B><B>Exercise 9: Air Meditation</B></div> <div>  </div> <div> Face East. Ground and center. Breathe deep and be conscious of the air as it flows in and out of your lungs. Feel it as the breath of the Goddess. and take in the life force, the inspiration of the universe. Let your own breath merge with the winds, the clouds, the great currents that sweep over land and ocean with the turning of the earth. Say, "Hail, Arida, Bright Lady of the Air!"</div> <div>  </div> <div> <B> <A NAME="_10"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B><B>Exercise 10: Fire Meditation</B></div> <div>  </div> <div> Face South. Ground and center. Be conscious of the electric spark within each nerve as pulses jump from synapse to synapse. Be aware of the combustion within each cell, as food burns to release energy. Let your own fire become one with candle flame, bonfire, hearth fire, lighting, starlight, and sunlight, one with the Bright Spirit of the Goddess. Say, "Hail, Tana, Goddess of Fire!"</div> <div>  </div> <div> <B> <A NAME="_11"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B><B>Exercise 11: Water Meditation</B></div> <div>  </div> <div> Face West. Ground and Center. Feel the blood flowing through the rivers of your veins, the liquid tides within each cell of your body. You are fluid, one drop congealed out of the primal ocean that is the womb of the Great Mother. Find the calm pools of tranqulity within you, the rivers of feeling, the tides of power. Sink deep into the well of your inner mind, below consciousness. Say, "Hail, Tiamat, Serpent of the Watery abyss!"</div> <div>  </div> <div> <B> <A NAME="_12"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B><B>Exercise 12: Earth Meditation</B></div> <div>  </div> <div> Face North. Ground and center. Feel your bones, your skeleton, the solidity of your body. Be aware of your flesh, of all that can be touched or felt. Feel the enormous pull of gravity, your own weight, your attraction to the earth that is the body of the Goddess. You are a natural feature, a moving mountain. Merge with all that comes from the earth: Grass, Trees, Grains, Fruits, Flowers, Beasts, Metals, and precious stones. Return to dust, to compost, to mud. Say, "Hail, Belili, Mother of Mountains!"</div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="_13"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B><B>Exercise 13: The Five Stages of Life</B></div> <bR> <div> Ground and Center. Hold your Pentacle in both hands. Breathe deep, and feel the power of the earth, of the body. The pentacle is your body, four limbs and head. It is the five senses, both inner and outer. Be in touch with your own power to see, to hear, to smell, to touch, to taste. The pentacle is the four elements tied to your spirit or essence which makes up the fifth. And it is the five stages of life, each an aspect of the Goddess.</div> <bR> <div> 1. Birth: The beginning, the time of coming into being</div> <div> 2. Initiation: adolescence, the time of individuation</div> <div> 3. Love: the time of union with another, of full adulthood, sexuality, responsibility</div> <div> 4. Repose: the time of advancing age, of reflection, integration, wisdom</div> <div> 5. Death: the time of ending, of letting go, of moving on toward re-birth</div> <bR> <div> Look at your pentacle, or draw one on a sheet of paper. Label the five stations, going clockwise around the points, and experience each stage in turn, as it occurs in a life span and within the span of each new activity or relationship. Trace the interlocking lines and reflect om their meanings. Love is linked to Birth and Death. Death is linked to love and initiation.</div> <bR> <div> In the <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFFF00" FACE="Arial" >*</FONT> <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFFF00" FACE="Arial" >Goidelic tree alphabet</FONT>, each of the five stages was symbolized with a tree, whose name began with one of the five vowels.</div> <bR> <div> A: Birth - ailm, silver fir</div> <div> O: Initiation - onn, gorse or furze</div> <div> U: Love - ura, heather</div> <div> E: Repose - eadha, the aspen</div> <div> I: Death - idho, the yew</div> <bR> <div> Chant the sounds of the vowels and feel the power of each stage in turn. Touch your pentacle to your body, and let the life force of your own flesh flow into it.</div> <bR> <div> * Goidelic refers to the Gaelic Celts (Irish, Scots, Manx) as opposed to the Brythonic Celts (Welsh, Cornish, and Bretons)</div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>