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Archive for December, 2008

I find it really curious how my life cycles about through the years.  I have had a desire to spend some more time developing my spiritual self recently and tonight I dug out the Bardic Gwersu I started years ago.  Along with the packets I found a notebook that I started last time I went through these lessons and it’s litterally dated exactly 3 years ago to the day.  I find it remarkable how i’m drawn back to the same thing at the same time each year, and especially this at the time of the winter solstice.

Alban Arthan is the traditional celebration to the end of the cycle of life.  The story goes that Arthur the Sun-God dies and is reborn on the night of the winter solstice as the Mabon - the ‘Son Of Light’ - who’s job it was to save the british isles.  This cycle is mirrored so perfectly all around us: Last spring’s plants are dying but in doing so they make room for next spring;  Light returns to the Earth as the nights now begin to grow shorter and the days longer.

Alban Arthan is the crux of the cycle of life, and I wish be reborn as well.  It’s time for me to refocus to cut away the parts of my life that are not working and attract a new way of living.  This is a huge leap of faith for me, I do not have the best relationship with change and I cling too tightly to the things that are comfortable;  I am going to spend some time coming up with a list of items that I wish to remove from my life and a vision for the future.