September 20th Sunrise It's been very warm and sunny around the northern range of the Santa Cruz Mountains. I woke up at 5:00 AM, and--although I didn't plan it--the time just felt right. I then went out and watched a dramatic sunrise from full darkness from a perhaps an 800-foot vantage point, with the downtown skylines of San Francisco and Oakland in the distance... and far off mountains at a further distance. Initially I could see the many familiar stars above the mountains, away from the urban lights. The far off mountains in the opposite direction were hardly visible amid the darkness. The not-quite-full Almother moon had long moved out of view.
After about an hour, I could faintly make out a very dark reddish color along the far off horizon. Soon, the sky directly above that dark reddish ring became almost like a dark blue and yellow. After about twenty minutes, there was a clear layered ground-to-sky pattern of dark earth, red, orange, yellow, white, light blue, medium blue, dark blue, and dark sky. At a certain point when the reddish layer expanded, it almost looked like the red planet. The massive 3,848-foot Mt. Diablo never looked more formidable as it stood amid the dark red background. I could almost swear that I saw a faint greenish hue mixed in there, but I can't say for certain. I could then see the stars fading, and I felt a momentary silly sadness.
Soon it became quite bright out, even before the actual sunrise. A nearby hawk made its way across the lower hills. Next I could make out one red and orange spot develop above a mountain range. I wished that I had brought my binoculars. The big man, the Alfather, was about to make his entrance. Then as I focused my eyes on that spot, it happened. In an instant, the massive fireball broke over the mountain! In what seemed like less than five minutes, our entire star had moved entirely above the horizon. I then looked at it indirectly, which gave a different perspective in relation to our world. All of the stars were gone. The full transformation was now complete! To our pagan ancestors, the suns appearance meant the end to the dangers hiding in the darkness. Of course, the darkness of their world would have been more dramatic... a truly black night that one can only experience in very remote areas. The predators retired back to their dens. Man could then become the predator. The Alfather's rays protect us in the day, just like any real father would; while the Almother's moonlight tries to comfort us during the dreaded night, just like any real mother would. I recall the most dramatic sunrise I ever witnessed some years ago. It was the closest thing to heaven that I ever experienced, mostly due to the weather, location, and view. I can still feel the warmth of that morning in my mind. For some reason I never tried to fully recapture the awe of that morning. All it takes is the motivation to wait for the right weather, and get up very early and make way to any special high point. I believe that making note--as a reminder--of watching a sunrise once in awhile (or hiking up to a special high spot on occasion) is something that we should do.
Whatever the official sunrise hour is, the actual time of some faint light is one hour and fifteen minutes. Therefore if sunrise occurs at 6:30, then you must be at the viewing location prior to 5:15 in order to get the full effect. If you think of it, we wait for supermoons and eclipses; but we have the greatest earth transformation of all every day! .
You don't need any special training or attain a certain degree to make a strong ancestral connection, as I will explain here. Recently I wrote about my failure to make a connection during the new moon a couple of weeks back. I not only failed, but felt a strong depression and sadness, although I'm not very prone to these feelings for no reason. Some people can work with new moons, but with no sun-moon interactive energy to connect to, I was totally lost. Last night it was very foggy and overcast in the northern Santa Cruz mountain chain, so again I failed to make any connection. I thought that by the supermoon merely being in the sky that it would work, but clearly the heavy fog cut the connection off.
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To the best of my knowledge, to make a a metaspiritual/ancestral connection, the following should work: 1) Folk-spirit: A genuine interest in or already being on a folk-spirit journey. It doesn't require a definite decision or commitment to any particular "path." 2) Planning: Plan on being alone and unhurried at least during the point of connection. If there are others, perhaps each person could take a turn. I don't really want to promote alcohol, but a little wine or mead may be helpful for relaxation and focus.
3) Place: It should be during a full moon, at or close to the base of a mountain, during a clear night, without too much wind, and without loud distracting noises. It really doesn't have to be a full moon, but the fuller the better. It doesn't have to be an entirely clear night, but the moon and peak should be visible most of the time. The mountain should be over one thousand feet, and the taller the better. Midnight is good, but an early evening is fine too. If you're alone, and the best spots are too dark or remote, you may choose a more well lighted spot a little further away. 4) Connection: There isn't a need for any special ritual. You can bring a stone or crystal to help you connect. You may want to walk slowly, gaze upon the bright moon, gaze upon the black peak of the mountain, feel the warmth or coldness of the environment, and try to forget about the problems and pressures of your life. Hopefully, with the sun-moon radiance upon you, you will soon feel a sense of timelessness. All places and times will feel together as one. Think about your favorite direct ancestor. Not necessarily the greatest one, but the one you may feel an energetic link with. Try to picture and imagine them during their life. Don't think that you are in one place and time. You are spirit, you are part of many places and times. The sun-moon energy (Alfather and Almother) will draw the curtain of timelessness, the mountain will be your spiritual antennae to the other dimension, and you are the catalyst. You don't need to ask for permission... you already belong! You are not alone in the abyss of the Ur, and you don't need to be afraid of it.
Even if you've never met them, even if they never lived in the land that you occupy, no matter how many generations have passed, no matter how much time has passed, even if nobody even thinks about them anymore, they're a spiritual mother or father to you. Don't be afraid to whisper a few words now and then. During this drawing of the curtain of timelessness, they know that you're connecting to them. Even if they've come back to the earth, their higher self is conscious of you. Hopefully you will feel a very positive energetic bond with them.
Just this morning on an episode of 'Ancient Aliens', I heard David Wilcock say regarding our "third eye" (pineal gland) that "we already have a built-in stargate."
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With all of the above conditions, there is a good chance of making a connection. However, you cannot "will it to happen." It will happen when it's ready to happen. If I had gone the evening before, when the conditions were clear, I may have had a different result. If it doesn't happen, don't give up. I don't believe that we're even meant to make these powerful psychic-spiritual connections very often. If you do reach that "place," then you may want to stay there for awhile because you don't know when you might get it back next. It reminds me of the movie 'Frequency' (2000) with Dennis Quaid and Jim Caviezel, which is a great science fiction movie with a similar type of theme. It also reminds me of the frequent line from the book and movie 'The Mothman Prophesies' when the apparent spirit being would depart back into the abyss: "I will see you in time." This whole endeavor isn't about being a slave to a higher deity, but being in fellowship with our folk-spirits. While becoming, we discover, we already are. .
A few evenings ago, I had an online chat with a Celtic polytheist. When asked what my spiritual paradigm was, I tried to convey across that I was an adherent of European paganism aka "European witchcraft".. not Wiccan. She seemed to be against the Wiccan concept partly because it was so eclectic, which makes sense. However, when pressed for a rundown of deities, I mentioned Hecate and Cernunnos. Being someone who doesn't believe in mixing paradigms, she quickly responded by finding it odd that "Cernunnos is Celtic and Hecate is Greek." She herself seemed confused as to whether she was a Gaelic polytheist or a Gaulish polytheist. This brought up the issue of the proto-European--aka "Alpine race"--role in the ancient world. To begin with, people just can't seem to grasp the fact that the Europe of the last glacial movement was one which was basically devoid of both Mediterranean and Teutonic peoples... and it was almost half covered in massive ice sheets. Demographically, Europe, north Africa, and the Middle East/western Asia cannot be compared to today.
Hecate seems to clearly be a deity which predates classic Greek mythology... clear back to the proto-European world. I believe a local name--in what is now Greece and Turkey--for a "European goddess"... not a "Greek goddess." The Mother Goddess, or what I call "the Almother." Being that Hecate is perhaps the strongest historical manifestation for this goddess, then her name would seem to be a good one to use. The gods and goddesses of Greek antiquity were different from those of the more distant past. The Almother was a European goddess... which manifested in Greece as Hecate. Just for the record, this was thousands of years before there were any Turkic people in what is now Turkey. Cernunnos was probably a fusion of the proto-European "horned god" and Odin or Tyr of the incoming Teutonic peoples. Therefore "Cernunnos"--which is a Romanized name for the chief god of Gaul--is as much proto-European as he is Gaulish/Celtic. I just don't see the point in renaming the Mother Goddess and Horned God of the proto-Europeans. There probably was not "one name" for these deities, but regional names for them. Stewart Farrar, a pioneer of Wicca, used the name "Karnayna" for Cernunnos. Hecate is also spelled "Hekate." To attempt to make some distinction, perhaps these names could be used since they possibly might be closer to the proto-European names in those locales, as well as being the strongest manifestations of "the Alfather" (Cernunnos) and "the Almother" (Hecate).
When coming up with a name for a larger collective, most often one must use some local name. There's often no way around this. For example, the name "Asatru" is an Icelandic name... used for a larger Odinic collective. There were other local names as well. Therefore "Asatru"--within the expanded meaning of the collective--can be used in reference to the Odinic manifestation of Austria, Ukraine, or Spain. It's no longer just in reference to Iceland. Coming up with entirely new names for every expression of the same thing would add further confusion to an already somewhat confusing endeavor.
Vehmology
"Vehme" stands for the same five elements (earth, air, fire, water, and spirit) as does the pentacle star, and seems to have been the basis for European witchcraft. The proto-European spiritual tradition was based on science! It took into account the metaphysical... "spirit." What I call "Vehmology" is science. Magic and science were the same. The true purpose of the coming "Religion vs. Atheism" conflict in society is to prevent the scientific study of metaphysics. Closed-minded religion, closed-minded Atheism, and closed-minded science all have a vested interest in preventing the mere academic study of metaphysical science, which makes them Hegelian "opposames" rather than true opposites. .
