Moon Mysteries

 

And now, a word 

~a lengthy word~ 

from a very special guest; 

a special guest manifesto 

courtesy of... Candise 

on the lunar eclipse ~ and more

 Moon Mysteries.

The moon is in her full phase, which we acknowledge as the Mother phase of the moon in Lunar Mysticism, she is under the astrological sign of Taurus, offering you a Taurus Mother Moon. Tonight's Mother Moon is eclipsed by Gaia as the initiatory portal to the shifting of the nodes begins, preparing you for the soulful tasks of the upcoming year which will be under the Taurus/Scorpio nodal axis. Eclipsed moons are blood moons which pull in the power of the blood, the feminine and all things that vibrate to the red ray. The Blood Eclipsed Taurus Mother Moon holds even more potency than most Mother Moons do and the eclipsed nature adds depth and weight to an otherwise exalted moon.

Blood moons were feared in ancient times, the colour of red thought of as representing bloodshed in war, this of course was how the patriarchy viewed spilled blood, as something connected to war and murder. There is of course the blood that a woman sheds, the blood that is returned to Gaia for full transmutation that carries her pain, her dreams, her hopes, her anger, that carries all of her coding from the month before and this is the power of a blood moon, the power to connect us with our decision to transmute and return to Gaia rather than to harm and project that which has not been processed. This is the work that you do tonight as you journey into the shadow momentarily when Luna is eclipsed and as you utilize the lunar beams of the Taurus Mother to transmute the lower frequencies of Scorpio back into her higher frequencies.

Mother Moons shine forth the highest expression of the sign that they are in, this month it is the highest expression of the midwifing Taurus Moon that will support you in your deep work. You are called to transmute your personal Scorpio shadow aspects through the support of the Taurus Mother Moon, this transmutation will activate the higher aspects of Scorpio's energy within you, at which point you will integrate both the higher aspects of Scorpio and Taurus energy throughout your Being, thus entering the middle path that exists when both opposing signs merge and integrate into One expression of wholeness.

Scorpio, who is ruling the sun right now, is the Queen of the Underworld, she is more comfortable journeying into and through the shadow than any other sign in the zodiac. When you encounter her energy in her season it can be easy to become enchanted by the spell of the shadow realm and to make your bed in the shadows, becoming consumed with the dark and mysterious secrets of the Underworld. It is all too easy to mistake the shadow realm for home during this time of the year. Scorpio is charged with the astrological task of being the Sacred Destroyer of the zodiac, here to destruct and abolish all that does not serve, it is easy to confuse 'shadow' with dark during the process of surrendering to the destruction of Scorp. The dark, of course, is the realm of mystery, it is the space that is home to the All that Is and is the place of magnetism and magic from which Scorpion energy vibrates, it is where this energy will take you when you align with its higher expression. When you make your bed in the shadows however, you mistakenly identify your shadow aspects as an authentic expression of who you are and stop short of transmuting these aspects into love and beauty. Love and beauty are of the realm of the living after all, the realm of the earthy young Maiden Taurus whom Scorpio energy feels so opposite to. In lack of recognition, you might miss the powerful blessings and lessons that integrating Scorpio's opposite sign will add to your mission at this time. When the Scorpio aspect of yourself allows itself to utilize the bright Taurus Mother Moon lunar beams to gaze into the shadow, you become aware of your tendencies to detach from the body, of your disdain and your judgements, for Scorpio in her lower expression mistakenly idolizes that which hurts as being powerful and scoffs at that which is light, pretty and sweet (Taurus) as weak.

Taurus is simple where Scorpio is mysterious, Taurus is light where Scorpio is dark, Taurus is birth where Scorpio is death, Taurus is beauty where Scorpio is decay, Taurus grows where Scorpio destructs. Both Taurus and Scorpio are the transmutative signs of the zodiac, Taurus transmutes as the fertile Maiden Midwife through generating, creating and birthing new expressions of life-force made manifest into reality, and Scorpio transmutes as the destroyer Mistress of Magic through abolishing and killing off old wounds and conditioning hidden within the shadow, reclaiming the seeds of power that lie dormant within and resurrecting them into their full Power.

The Sun is your guiding light, the energy that infuses and motivates you to go out and accomplish what the season demands of you, the Moon is your inner guidance system, it is the energy that nourishes and inspires you to go within and cultivate the deepest lessons of the now moment. The Mother Moon is here to remind you to balance your external movement with a rich and colourful inner world.

The Taurus Mother Moon nurtures your innate ability to tap into abundance, pleasure and your capacity to create beauty and structure as a space to blossom and grow within. This energy as Mother to you, opens you up and raises and nurtures your vibration, connecting you to your power to birth through the destruction of this season. She is the Fecund Moon Mother. You are in your Mother phase today and as an expression of the Mother you are being called to utilize your sensuous nature, your creator capabilities and your beautifying talents to serve your children, your creations, your dreams and your life as you descend through the shadows of the mysterious Scorpio season.

For tonight, identify which shadow aspects of Scorpio exist within you at this time. When the moon is partially eclipsed, the blanket that Gaia casts upon the light offers you a wider portal to dive into, a more thorough journey inward and a greater portion of shadow than usual to transmute. Are you identified with heaviness? Depression? Jealousy? Wrath? Are you willing to transmute these and return them to love? If you are, I invite you to do so under this bright and full Mother's Moon, breathe them from your womb space (second chakra for men) up into your heart and release them back to Gaia, returning them to Mama Gaia to be recycled into their purest essence of love. Allow the pleasure of breath and merging and elevation to fuel you as the energy snakes up from your spine and into your heart, give yourself fully to the intensity and immensity of the frequency as you destroy and then birth, becoming both Destroyer and Midwife, Magic and Reality, Magical Reality, Destroyer/Creator.

Your transmutation completed, now your activation begins. The highest expressions of the Scorpio/Taurus polarity activated within calls in (speak aloud under the light of the Taurus Blood Mother Moon) I call in : Power, Destruction, Magic, Sovereignty, Knowing, Passion, Magnetism, Creation, Pleasure, Joy, Security and Abundance. Allow the wisdom of the lunar beams that shine down upon you to ignite these qualities that lie dormant or half dormant inside of you, as they awaken invite them to rise up, kundalini life force and Kali destruction integrating into every cell of your Being. Sit with this. Take your time. Once you have fully digested these gifts step forth as an integrated Creator/Destroyer. You now live as the merger of these two expressions of Source and BEcome the Eternal One.

You are now the One without beginning or end, you are Eternalized Power, Beauty and Grace.

Grace Be with You,

Candise, Priestess of Grace

image artist: @cosmiccollage

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1937-1981

As seen on A Haunting - a New Dominion Television production.
Glenn Burnie, Maryland resident Patricia Bean died of a brain hemorrhage a mere ten months after finally moving out of a certifiably haunted house where she, her two sons, her daughter, her husband, her second spouse and her beloved pet all went literally through hell.

For, aside from hearing strange noises in the house, and having witnessed various other alarming manifestations and poltergeist activity, there were very soon indeed far more troubling events there; the husband's behaviour changed almost overnight - he was a gentle, caring man who became overbearing, violent and abusive from one day to the next. He then vanished and never resurfaced again. In that, there is a first parallel with a case I have first-hand knowledge of; the husband was attached to the abode and would impede a move at all costs, for various reasons. And then, he was the first to leave there, too - because he died, from a massive stroke. In the case of Patty Bean's husband, he was also the first to leave the house that he stubbornly insisted his entire family remain in - even though his wife and kids all felt uneasy there from day one - but he left by mysteriously disappearing, not the same as the case I have first-hand knowledge of, at all. One may imagine he simply escaped, relatively unharmed, the cursed abode in question. He had left for a walk one night, after dinner, and simply never returned. His disappearance remains unsolved after all these years and his whereabouts are totally unknown since that night. It is as if the devil took him off the face of the earth...

Patricia Bean remained in the house due to her financial situation afterwards - even though she was terrified of it. She heard footsteps in the house, at day and at night - and so did her two sons. Her daughter had fled the home, getting married at sixteen in order to never have to live there again. In Patty's daughter's own words, "the boyfriend didn't matter - I just wanted to get out of that house." And she did, marrying far too young, the first one that came along... Patty would remain terrified for years, living in that house with her two youngest sons from that point on. One night, the ghost of a horribly scarred man came to her bed and tried to strangle her. She felt the ghostly hands around her neck, as she could no longer breathe. And then it eased its grip on her and let her live. For some unfathomable reason, it had effectively "allowed her to stay" both among the living and in the house, if only for a while longer... One day, though, she felt unwell and her eldest boy called his big sister on the phone, for help. The daughter reluctantly returned to that home to be of any assistance she could be and wound up having to call an ambulance - Patricia Bean had suffered a mild stroke.

From that day onward, Patricia would never again be the same woman she had been before moving into that house. After coming out of the hospital, she didn't listen to her own mother and displayed her own brand of stubbornness now in relation to that home, electing to stay there despite everything that had been happening. Once again, similarities with the case that I am aware of on a first-hand basis arise: after the husband's death, in which case we have the wife becoming "attached" to the abode she had once wanted so ardently to leave forevermore, simply because her husband had lived there for so long. Self-imposed financial restraint also playing a factor, however it was the wish of the widow to simply die where her husband had practically died too. The exact same thing as what happened to Patricia Bean, in a way - only with even more tragic consequences, given that there are two demises instead of one. (And in the Patricia Bean case, we haven
Patricia eventually met a new love interest, a handyman who came to make repairs to the house, and she began a timid relationship with him that quickly blossomed. This man was a believer - and on a particular day that he was working outside the house, he saw the ghost of a woman standing in a window right in front of him. He was so close that he could clearly see that it was not Patricia at all but someone else - so he went back inside to inquire about who she might be. It didn't look to be Patricia's mother either, whom he had met before. Alas, the ghastly looking woman had disappeared when he came into the house to see who was really there... On another occasion, at night, after he had spent the night with Patricia, all seemed well and blissful until the two lovers shook off the cobwebs and truly woke up to find the family pet's fur all over them - but UNDERNEATH THE BEDCOVERS. There was dog fur all over the house too - especially in the bathroom and all over the sink in there. For the next two weeks, neighbors helped look for the family's beloved pet dog - and it was never to be found again either. The dead who resided in that house had claimed a second victim, it seemed. They had their sights set on a third: Patricia herself.

Even when her new man pleaded for her to leave that house, Patricia would have none of it. He managed to convince her to summon a priest's help, in order to bless the house - at least that. It actually made matters worse. The spirits in that house went into a frenzy like never before - this time, the poltergeist activity was such that, as all in the family were in danger of physical injury, Patricia finally agreed to leave that house, on the spot.

Ten months later, she was dead.

Her son, Billy Bean (not to be confused with the gay baseball player nor the actor) is scarred for life - but even he has not added two plus two in that tragic story.

For he hadn't realized that it was that very same evil spirit that resided in the house, who had tried to harm his mother several times and clearly had it against her from the very beginning, the evil spirit that had terrorized them all - it was that spirit that had killed his mother in the end too, despite the move. The evil spirit caused her first stroke and later her fatal brain hemorrhage.
This is exactly what happened to the other case I mentioned, the one I have ''first-hand knowledge'' of - only it happened to the man instead of the woman, in that case.
For the dead can affect the living - in far more insidious ways than merely causing a heart attack when they spook someone through materializing unexpectedly right in front of them. The dead can cause fatalities. One has to realize several more things, too: the dead outnumber the living in such a way that we hardly stand a fighting chance in a haunting case like this; a single evil spirit such as this one, clinging on to a material place, could attract many more spirits, creating a very unhealthy place for the living, especially those that are naturally sensitive to such things, which seemed to be the case for Patricia Bean. She was literally attacked by all sides - and totally blindsided too. The mysterious intricacies of the unseen's effects on the tangible are, alas, not well-documented; the inability of the medical establishment to accurately explain how things such as strokes, aneurysms and similar "accidents" happen imply that unseen factors are at work there indeed... ALL OF THAT and more is already indicative that there is a correlation there and that we do not comprehend what forces are causing all these things. In Patricia Bean's case, as with many others, the evidence points at the true source of these forces and their more than likely nefarious effects upon the living: and this is the revengeful dead, full of bitterness towards the living who occupy their erstwhile living space now, have ample motive there - that is for sure. So much so that they will hasten the living's departure from this world - forcing their victims to effectively join their ranks in the process... Misery loves company, don't you know?

In the Glenn Burnie, MARYLAND case, the evidence is undeniable: for the house was not the only one haunted on the block either. In fact, the whole block was haunted - many residents had gone through very similar frightening experiences, none as tragic as Patricia Bean's but all very traumatic nonetheless. A retired policeman who used to patrol that very neighbourhood before the Beans moved in, mister John Romine, was interested in further researching the subject and publishing a book about it - and he is the one who told Billy what had really gone on there for all these long years... All of these houses had been built on the site of an old military camp - one where many soldiers had died miserably. The ghost Patricia had seen trying to strangle her was identified eventually (because of his scarred face) as being most probably Edward Zipprian, an infantry trooper who had maimed himself while using the faulty equipment at the disposal of the troops back in his day...  Alas for her, Patty was evidently more ''attuned'' to such ethereal things than the rest of the neighbourhood, making her a prime target not only for a troubled soul such as Zipprian's but all the others who were not resting in peace as well.  And it is my personal theory that too many of such ''contacts', can and should cause things such as strokes and the like.

The ghostly woman though, seen by both Patricia's new love interest and her son Billy, remains a total and complete mystery, even as to why she was even there...
My theory is that she was an otherworldly observer; maybe even a past victim of this haunting as well who, just like Patricia Bean did, lost her own life in the process... It is after all more than probable that the victims' spirits "hang around" the material world too - why should it be exclusively the evil disgruntled ones, mad at their own fate and prone to take it out on every innocent that happens to come by down the pike...? 

No - it is not just them who stick around longer than they should - and we can thank God for that.

History Lesson 2: History can be altered... but still...

there is a limit!

And this commie has crossed it, I'd say!