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The Honey or Mead Moon is now upon us. A Wiccan moon indeed. Crops are now close to their first harvest. Honey is abundant, and people make mead. A time of plenty and thanks. The power of the sun begins to decline. Candle colour for this moon is golden yellow, symbolic of the declining sun.

St John the Baptist, Scripture tells us, lived in the Wilderness where he subsisted on a diet of locust and honey. St John is, therefore, the patron of beekeepers. It’s around the time that we celebrate St John’s Birthday, June 24th, that the hives are full of honey.

And the full moon that occurs after Midsummer’s Eve & St John’s Nativity is called the Mead Moon, because honey was fermented to make mead. It is also called the HONEY MOON. [In 2009, this full moon occurs the first full week of July.]

It’s a time for lovers. An old Celtic proverb says, “Midsummer Night is not long but it sets many cradles rocking.” Midsummer dew was said to have special healing powers. Women washed their faces in it to make themselves beautiful and young.

Here’s a sixteenth century definition of HONEYMOON:

The first month after marriage, when there is nothing but tenderness and pleasure … originally having no reference to the period of a month, but comparing the mutual affection of newly-married persons to the changing moon which is no sooner full than it begins to wane; now, usually, the holiday spent together by a newly-married couple, before settling down at home.

According to some sources, the HONEYMOON is a relic of marriage by capture, based on the practice of the husband going into hiding with his wife to avoid reprisals from her relatives, with the intention that the woman would be pregnant by the end of the month.

As a woman’s cycle runs much like that of the moon, the time to conceive a child was between the time of marriage (or capture) and the HONEY MOON.

It has also been said that the origins of this word date back to the times of Babylon. In order to increase the virility and fertility of the newly-weds, the father of the bride would provide his son-in-law with all the mead (the fermented honey-based drink) he could drink during the first month of the marriage (and, therefore, moon).

The custom of drinking mead after a wedding for a month was also a medieval custom.

Other possible explanations of the word HONEYMOON have to do with the date that weddings traditionally took place. Weddings commonly took place during this time of year for practical reason. That is, it was the time between the planting season and the harvesting season. As it was also this time of year that honey was harvested … again we have the HONEYMOON.

In many parts of Europe it was traditional to supply a newly married couple with enough honey drink — mead — to last a month, ensuring happiness and fertility. From this practice we get HONEYMOON.

A good moon, this one, enjoy it with me….

Love and Light

Lianne

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As I sat on the cliff tops this morning, watching the Atlantic surf crash onto the rocks far below, I had another glimpse into a parallel world. This phenomenon has happened to me on quite a few occasions. It occurs when I least expect it and always when I am alone. Today the window appeared between the sea and the sky. It was about 2 metres in front of me and slightly to one side. The window or opening is always at an angle and never straight on. The opening is very subtle and not at all obvious, somehow as if you were looking through a cracked mirror where the image is there but fragmented.
The colours are weak until you concentrate on the window, then they become more vivid depending on the landscape therein.
Today I saw dunes and a two bright yellow suns, palms trees waved in a gentle breeze and there were brightly coloured tents in the distance.

The image will remain for a while, as if giving me the opportunity to approach, then after some time it will gently fade. I have never dared to go towards these windows, although the landscapes never appear threatening, quite the opposite in fact.

Who knows, one day I may find the courage to investigate further. For now though I am happy to remain where I am, but I’m strangely comforted to know there are worlds and maybe even universes that exists alongside our own.

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I get so many emails from people who have broken relationships and ask for help in bringing back an old love or in finding a new one.

Only this weekend I was in Barcelona helping to unite two people who had been searching for each other all there lives but had lost their way in the maze that is modern living.

There is a school of thought that decrees that when we die and are reborn our souls divide in two. We then the spend a large part of our next existence searching for ‘our other half ‘or soulmate, this is, of course, what we know as ‘love’. I firmly believe in this, for what else can explain the extreme feelings of joy or sorrow when we find or lose our soulmate?

People ask me, “Can we have more than one soulmate in one lifetime?”

The answer is, yes we can. But there lies heartache and pain.

As our souls divide over countless lifetimes our search will go on, but in this lifetime, at least, we should be aware that the feelings we encounter when we ‘fall in love’ are entirely meant to be, and the hurt we experience when our soul mate is lost to another is inevitable. But our search should never end and try to remember that your soulmate is out there somewhere.

Never give up hope that your two halves will meet along life’s path.

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