Sidhe Moon Of Black Fire Atop White Fire

כ"ט אב התשס"ח
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Sidhe Moon of Shabbat Belz Machar Chodesh

Black Fire Atop White Fire
one of my Walking On Fire avatars at LiveJournal

I came home yesterday from work to find that I had finally received the new book in the mail that I had ordered a few weeks ago - The Sidhe, Wisdom From The Celtic Otherworld. I had been waiting for the book on aes sídhe (pronounced 'ess shee') to arrive for an unusually extended period of time and had been considering contacting the bookseller soon to inquire as to the possibility that my book order or the shipment had been lost. That would not be necessary now, for The Sidhe arrived just in time for shabbat of the Sidhe Moon.

A Sidhe Moon, also called the Other Moon, is the uncommon phenomenon of two Black Moons occurring in one solar month. The second Black Moon in such a month is called the Sidhe or Fairy Moon. This rare lunar event occurs today, in the year of 2008/5768, on shabbat (weekly Jewish sabbath) of the Torah portion Re'eh (meaning 'see'), on the first day of the Witch's month of Belz (Days of Fire), and on the penultimate day of the Hebrew month of Av (Days of the Young Shoot/bud).

Torah Of The Sidhe - Black Fire Atop White Fire

The first letter of the Hebrew alphabet is aleph (א). The penultimate letter of the Hebrew alphabet is shin (ש). Together, the letters aleph-shin spell the Hebrew word esh (אש) meaning 'fire'. The period of time corresponding to the Witch's month of Belz is, as written above, called 'Days of Fire'.

White Fire corresponds to the two Hebrew letters of the word esh, meaning 'fire', symbolizing the mutable Light of Awareness. Black Fire corresponds to the dark Sidhe Moon of the month of Belz, the Days of Fire, and to the immutable note of a Dark Essence Ancient of Days brought forth through the Old Forest Craft of this shamanic Jewitch. Interestingly, the Sidhe teach of the unique note each creature and species contribute to the exquisite song of All Being within the pages of the book I received yesterday afternoon.

The Sidhe Moon is an element from the Teaching of Green Witchcraft. Interwoven with this teaching of Green Witchcraft is a teaching of Torah.

Torah is also a Teaching Tradition (like Green Witchcraft) which describes the Blueprint of Creation and is itself described in the Midrash (Jewish mythology) as “black fire atop white fire” (Sifrei, on Deuteronomy 33:3).

Integrating all these ideas simply and wholly, we can see that not only is there Wisdom among the Sidhe, we can see that there is Torah among the Sidhe as well. Equally important, just as tzaddikim may have Da'at Torah (integral knowledge of mystical-magical Law-Teaching), so too may witches have Da'at Torah.

And so begins my relationship this shabbat with the Sidhe, with black fire atop white fire.

Fith Fath

כ"ה סיון התשס"ח
Alban Heruin 26

~I will go in the name of God, in the likeness of deer, in likeness of horse, in likeness of serpent, in likeness of King. More victorious am I than all others.

~Scots Gaealic invocation for justice~

Point to Point - Point, Line, Area Consciousness - 3 stages of spiritual development

Point Consciousness 1 - the name of God (Keter)
Point Consciousness 2 - likeness of King (Malchut)

Line to Area Consciousness - likeness of deer, likeness of horse, likeness of serpent

More articles on fith fath (pronounced fee-faw):

Fith Fath Shapeshifting
Shapeshifting in Celtic Myth
Druid Magic
The Deer's Cry In Celtic Shamanism
Celtic Spells & Charms

Tradition, Daughters Of The Divine

כ"ה סיון התשס"ח
Alban Heruin 26

I dreamt.

I had a baby girl somewhere down the (family) line. Her birth name is Gwenn. Gwenn is a Welsh name meaning blessed. An inner name within her birth name is Susy (סוסי literally means 'my horse' and mystically means to actively project the Creative Evolutionary Power of the Infinite into the finite).

I nursed her in the dark.

Susy has a talent no other human child has - she can dematerialize and rematerialize to teletransport herself from place to place in spacetime like on Star Trek. Only, unlike Star Trek, Susy doesn't need a transporter machine. She can actualize it naturally, at will.

In the dream, Susy teletransported herself between points in the living room, rematerializing against the surface of my right leg. As she did this, I heard Susy in conversation with unheard unseen spiritual beings neither I nor anyone else in the room could see or hear. The language Susy spoke in simple song was Divine, primordial, pristine, exquisitely complex, complete and unknown in the known world. While in my body in the dream I could not understand the Divine words Susy spoke, I intimately recognized the Divine language with which she sang - for I had once clearly spoken it too. I remembered speaking it - I knew it though I didn't understand it in the dream - it was the language I had spoken before I was born, as I was incarnating, in the womb and during the early post-natal period of life. It is also the language of the epiphany, a language of the Witch Ancient of Days.

As Susy was teleporting herself from one place to the other within the living room, a house cat (we don't have a house cat in real life) walked from a third outside point through the line-like area between the two conjoined points of Susy's teleportation in spacetime. A single hair of the house cat was caught in the fuzzy dimensionless void where Susy "existed in interim", but Susy discerned the single hair to be "nonself" while she was still "nothing" and "spit out" the foreign cat-hair before it became incorporated into the material of her own rematerializing body. (The house cat represents some specific magical knowledge or "particular wisdom", that evidently is not "particular" to our manifest "line", thus it was rejected as "foreign" to our "particularity".)

My family was in the living room as Susy was teleporting from one point in the room into the space beside my right leg, and I said to them, "She is communicating in an ancient Divine language to me - remember when I told you about before I was born and that I did this once? Gwenn is doing it too."

I woke up.

Gwenn is my granddaughter, my daughter's daughter. We are children of the Divine Feminine Essence.

This is an example of Traditional Witchcraft and Torah Nistar.

Sabbat Consciousness

כ'ז בניסן תשס"ח
Annwyn 28

In follow-up to my previous entry, In The Current Of An Epiphany, I note that the Sabbat fire festival called Beltaine is traditionally observed tonight, and astrologically observed May 4 in my location. Veronica Cummer in her new book Sorgitzak, writes of Sabbat consciousness:

The Sabbats in ancient times were as much altered states of consciousness as they were celebrations tied to a particular place or season. The powers that were called upon and raised were as much within each Witch as they were in the sacred hilltops or the secluded valleys or forests where the rites took place, for we are all filled with webs of energy in much the same manner as the Earth. To work with one is to work with the other, as the inner reflects the outer and the outer reflects the inner.

In this way, when we activate those webs inside us, we also activate them in the Earth. We spin into physical being the patterns of energy brought down ... To be clear, Witches of old entered into altered states of being when they attended their rites and so became as one with the very patterns they created, whether old or new ones.