Glenn Harrold Meditations

I was looking for a meditation to do,  I personally prefer to listen to guided meditations so I had a look on my iPhone to see what I could find in the apps.

I was pleasantly surprised to find hundreds of downloadable meditations for the iPhone, a lot of them for free.  I downloaded a few, some were OK some were pretty useless and then I found a Meditation for Inner Wisdom by Glenn Harrold and was hooked!

The meditation took me through a beautiful garden, into a forest and out into a sacred place and also included a set of affirmations with beautiful descriptions and narrative for the meditation itself.

I was actually almost put off by a couple of reviews for the app that said they didn't like his voice, turns out he has a London accent so for me being in the UK it made a change from most of my meditations which are read by USA voices!  I actually liked his voice, it is steady, calming and reassuring.

I have since downloaded several of his meditations onto my iPhone (for free) but he does have a huge catalogue of CDs and books on the market.

Glenn is a trained hypnotherapist and now has his own company Diviniti Publishing that produces self help books and CDs by himself and many other authors.

You can find more about him on his website glennharrold.com  he also has a facebook page  facebook.com/glennharrold and twitter @GlennHarrold

Tansy
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Pele - She Who Shapes the Sacred Land

Goddess Pele is a Hawaiian Volcano and Fire Goddess.  She is known as She Who Shapes the Sacred Land.

Pele is passion, purpose, dynamic action and eternal and profound love.

She originally came from Tahiti, where her sister Namaka, a sea goddess would send waves over Pele’s home to put out the flames.  

Pele travelled in search of a new home, carrying the egg of  her unborn sister Hi’iaka under her arm.  Throughout the journey Namaka made the water treacherous as Pele travelled in a canoe on the sea.

Pele tried to land on several different islands but jealous snow goddesses who lived in the high mountains sent blizzards to quell her flames.  Namaka also continued to harass Pele whenever she tried to land.

Eventually Pele found her home on Hawaii in a volcano called Kilauea.

Her story reminds her that once we know who we are we can honour our inner self, our true self.  It also reminds us that when we follow our true pathway, working through any problems along the way, and not to give up we will achieve our goal.  Dedication and perseverance will get us there.

Pele is also a shape shifter, she can be seen as a beautiful young lady, a crone or as a dog.   Her symbols are the Ohi’a lehua which is a beautiful tree that grows on lava flows, Lehua flowers and the Honey Creeper plant.

Volcanoes are destructive and violent, and Pele is often linked with them and her actions can be similar, but as with all destruction this can be good, it is cleansing and clears away that which is no longer necessary within our lives, even clearing away that which is destructive to us.  It is the never ending circle of birth, death and rebirth.  Destruction has to happen before rebirth can take place.   It is as She Who Shapes the Sacred Land that Pele achieves this.   She reminds us that we have the power and ability to create our own universe, our own lives are in our hands.  By using our own words, thoughts and actions we can create that which we desire.

Pele reminds us to believe in ourselves, to be who we are, who we want to be, to acknowledge our connection to the Divine and therefore to understand and accept the Goddess within.

Pele is a Fire Goddess, fire as an element is power, energy, motivation and strength.  She brings all those with her, she helps to manifest our desires to create positive intent and to clear out old and unwanted energy.  She helps us to create new ideas, new situations and new opportunities.  She brings with her feminine energy, the power of woman, dignity, courage and inner strength.

Pele will help to relight your own inner flame, to open us up to passion, purpose and meaning in our lives.  She will open us up to recognize our talents, she will stimulate our creative ideas.

She will bring with her love, passion, creativity, motivation, energy, cleansing, renewal, fearlessness and also protection.

Tansy

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Top image is Pele Honua Mea by Herb Kawainui Kane

Second image is Pele, goddess of volcanoes by Vedic Hawaii

The Magical Egg

Eggs symbolise the essence of life, rebirth and fertility.  Within that they also symbolise long life and also immortality.  An egg itself encompasses the mystery and magic of creation.

In legend faeries would consume eggs of mythical birds such as the phoenix. 

Throughout history people have eaten eggs for lots of different reasons.  Some to absorb the magical properties by eating them, others to ensure fertility. 

In the Slavonic and Germanic lands people also smeared eggs onto their hoes to ensure fertility for the soil.

In Iran brides and grooms exchange eggs for fertility.

In 17^th century France, a bride would break and egg when she entered her new home for the first time.

The idea that eggs were a symbol of fertility and life force compelled certain cultures not only to shun them as food but also to avoid destroying them at all costs.

Certain aborigional groups in Australia believed eggs descended from the emu, so strict taboos were placed on eating eggs of these ancestral birds.

Eggs were often used though, for divination.  This stemmed from the belief that eggs symbolised life and particularly life in the future.  One method involved painting the eggs, boiling them and reading the patterns in their cracks.  Another method involved tossing the eggs and divining the future, a system of divination known as oomancy.    Egg white can also be used, by dripping it into a bowl of water and reading the shapes that it makes. 

In Egypt eggs were hung in the temples to bring fertility, for birth and renewal. 

The Hindu description of the beginning of the world saw it as a cosmic egg.

The yolk in the centre of the egg has also been used to represent the Sun.

Cascarilla is made from egg shells that have been crushed and ground to a powder.  It is used in hoodoo and folk magic as well as other magical practices.   The powder can be dusted on the body to protect from spirit possession and also acts as a shield from psychic or magical attack.  It can be sprinkled around the perimeter of your home to create a peaceful environment and to protect from intruders.    It can also be used for drawing runes, sigils or other symbols in rituals and workings.

The egg is a complete set of elements in one handy pack:  The shell represents Earth, the inner membrane represents Air, the yolk is Fire and the white is Water.  

Tansy

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Cosmic egg image from fearedbumblebee.wordpress.com