Married To Amazement

By way of 'surfing' some blogs recently I came across this beautiful poem. It touched me incredibly deeply and I am posting it here for your own meditation. However, please visit the blog Conversing With Paradise where it was originally posted and let Jeff (as well as I) know how much you enjoyed it!

When death comes
like the hungry bear in autumn;
when death comes and takes all the bright coins from his purse
to buy me, and snaps the purse shut;
when death comes
like the measles-pox;

when death comes
like an iceberg between the shoulder blades,

I want to step through the door full of curiosity, wondering:
what is it going to be like, that cottage of darkness?

And therefore I look upon everything
as a brotherhood and a sisterhood,
and I look upon time as no more than an idea,
and I consider eternity as another possibility,

and I think of each life as a flower, as common
as a field daisy, and as singular,

and each name a comfortable music in the mouth
tending as all music does, toward silence,

and each body a lion of courage, and something
precious to the earth.

When it's over, I want to say: all my life
I was a bride married to amazement.
I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.

When it is over, I don't want to wonder
if I have made of my life something particular, and real.
I don't want to find myself sighing and frightened,
or full of argument.

I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.

Mary Oliver

Posting this may appear to be something of a cop out, but this could not be further from the truth. There is something so very powerful in the poem, the whole feeling of embracing life and running with it. For us, as Magickal Beings, we would want to take this further, to be sure, but as a springboard for journeying and meditation, I think this is wonderful.

I hope you like it too!

The God

This morning I set my intention to meet the God. I cast my circle elementally and invoked the Lord and Lady and then journeyed to meet the God. I felt drawn to do this using a slow single drum beat that got gently faster and louder. As the drum beat faster so I became increasingly aware of the energy of the God.

He is the very spark of life itself and the celebration of life. His energy is wild and free, of carefree abandonment and of living in the Now. He is untamed and untamable, uninhibited, unrestricted. He cannot be fenced in, contained or adapted. The God laughs at our attempts to bring order and containment as he is unpredictable, strong and determined. He cannot be controlled or contained. He is the Divine spark of Life that sets life in motion.

The God brings connection with my primal self - my sexual self.

He is the Lord of Nature, lover of the Goddess, protector of witches and friend of animals. As Lord of Nature he is the fertile land, the bringer and giver of life, of change, of growth, of development - but all outside the control of man.