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 Our July Newsletter is now live, we invite you to join us for our Full Moon ceremony on the 21st of July and for our Lughnasa ceremony on the 5th of August. We also highlight our new membership ID cards and our upcoming Mystery School Autumn Saturday Classes. Read the full newsletter here or join our email list to have it delivered straight to your inbox.
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This Full Moon is on the 21st of July rising at 22.45 as seen if standing at Brú na Boinne. This rising point on the horizon is where the Winter Solstice Sun rises to send its sunbeam into the Temple to activate the energy grid. With the Full Moon rising at the same horizon location it will reflect Sun light up the passage way and into the central chamber of the great Temple at the bend of the Boyne. This is a Full Moon alignment activation - a rare event! Details in the two graphics on this blog post are your map to being connected to these events. The solar activation is done at Sunrise and the Lunar activation is done at Full Moon rise from the exact same location on the horizon.  The Solar activation at Mid-Winter lasts for 17 minutes and the Full Moon activation for the 21/07/24 lasts for up to 14 minutes. My guess is that this activation alignment was well known to our ancestors and that the Moon light may hit the centre of the main chamber for up to five minutes. Will it be a white light, a reflection of light from the Sun as it dips below the western horizon? What a fantastic event! There are other activation alignments of this great Temple and more information is shared in our mystery school in the upcoming Autumn Saturday Classes.   Lughnasa means "the games of Lugh" (pronounced as Lou) and refers to the assembly for games at the time of the first of three harvests. The month of August is called Lughnasadh as Gaeilge and it marks the first harvest of Summer. This was a specifically Irish holiday and many of the other Celtic cultures also celebrate an August festival known by a range of names. As Beltine marks the start of summer - Lughnasa marks the end of summer. History associates Lughnasa with the Lugh, a leading Celtic deity and hero. As it is the end of summer and the time of the first main harvest - everyone reckoned it to be a great time to assemble for the games with a major feast, and for some it was the start of a trial marriage.
We time Lughansa by the setting of the star called Regulus in Leo which is seen by us as the setting of the star Shallinis in the sign of Lugh. Four years ago - Con renamed the star group Leo after Lugh and the bright star Regulus. He renamed Regulus as Shalinnis (aka Fáil Inis), hound of Lugh. Shalinnis is invincible in battle, vomited quantities of gold and silver as needed and mead or wine came out of streams he washed in - a hound worthy of the great war hero we know as Lugh. The big thing about Lughnasa this year is its double occultation. In the graphic you can see Venus and the Dark Moon with Shallinis in the far distance behind them. When the Sun has set 3 or 4 degrees below the horizon the planet Venus will suddenly brighten as it reflects Sunlight and because Shallinis is behind it, any light from Shallinis will be hidden by the brightness of Venus. The Dark Moon is not reflecting any sunlight but it contributes to the occultation of Shallinis. So if you are standing in the right place at the right time looking in the right direction and waiting to see the bright star Regulus/Shallinis and the Sun has just set below the horizon its the planet Venus that you can see. It may look like the bright star of Lughnasa has got really really big but the light from the star will be hidden inside the light from Venus. We wonder if this is part of the legend that said the bright star Lugh was a second Sun...this is the correct timing for Lughnasa with the Sun set and the bright star Shallinis/Regulus briefly makes an appearance before it too sets below the horizon and its happening on the 5th of August at 21:33 Irish time. |
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