Earth Affirmation – Simple Discipline
Earth affirmation
“Earth-in-your-Angel, I offer praises and thanksgiving to the great Divinity who dwells eternally within the be-loved sanctuary of my own soul-Self and within your own radiant beauty. Help me to re-discover within my deepest Self the ageless and evergreen spirit that moves lighthearted into a bright new day; into your sweet response, to bravely cross the thresholds of life with a fertile, loving, nurturing, supportive, and power-fully knowing Self.”
Simple discipline
This month create your June altar in honor of Earth in her form as the great Roman goddess Juno who, in all her various divine aspects oversees love, fertility, marriage, birth, war and peace. And which aspects will be your guides and teachers this month and who will walk with you each day and dream with you each night? Remember to place the appropriate flowers and precious stone on your altar. In your morning or evening mediations recite your Earth Affirmation using it as a mantra that may accompany you into the world of vision and inspired thought where you journey into your soul’s own world where encounters with Spirit are waiting. Ask those divinities and spirits who are the guardians of this month to gift you with an invocation, or a prayer that you can recite each day.
Remember Juno in her particular natures as you move into a time of loving and of cultivating deep and lasting relationships. It is a time to make promises and to keep them; to conceive, gestate and give birth to potentials within your self; to realize a dream, to address a burning need. Look at your own life’s economies. Is everything in order? Is there a balance between your material and spiritual self? And, do you know your warrior self? Maybe there is a need to call on that aspect of the powerful and wondrous goddess that we are honoring this month?
Place fresh, rose-colored candles on your June altar. They will represent the precious language of these flowers that are so sacred to the great goddesses of love and also the light of love within your own heart, mind, body and soul. Each morning or evening meditate and envision the ways in which your heart loves, how your mind loves, your body’s way of loving and your soul-in-love. Begin to know yourself as a fully loving being keeping the Sacred-in-mind.
Throughout June refresh your altar with freshly cut bouquets of roses. Place them with intentionality and awareness of the meaning and significance of the color and type of roses. Add prints, paintings, and other items with rose images in them that have a personal meaning to you on your altar. In your meditations with these beautiful images ask for their wisdom teachings. Meditate on the qualities of the roses and begin to cultivate or deepen those qualities within you. On your altar also honor the presence of the precious pearl. If you do not have pearls use a mother of pearl or abalone shell to represent the beautiful stone. Remain conscious of it being a symbol for the presence of the pearl in all its metaphorical and symbolic meaning for you. Draw, map or write out your own mandalic journey toward your Pearl Self and place your pearl/shell or its symbol in the center. Add to your altar. Spend time at your altar every day. Give yourself the time to meditate, to pray or simply to become inwardly quiet and to ask the great Divine, to ask Earth-in-her-Angel to give you much needed insight; to help you renew sacred intentions and to give you the strength of commitment to carry them out all in the name of gaining balance, harmony and a peaceful, loving self.