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)O( Crone Goddesses & Dark Moon Magick birds of the night which are the owls, ravens, crows, and cats, dogs and horses.To understand the Crone is to understand the deepest Mysteries. The Dark Mother is the ultimate Teacher of the very deepest of spiritual Mysteries. Her Mysteries include the contacting of spirits. It is through Her that we learn prophesy, seeing clearly backward and forward through time. If we do not acknowledge the Crone, how can we "remember ourselves." Through the Dark Mother, and the records of our past lives, we learn the necessity of focusing our energy onto important things such as spiritual growth, living our lives the best we can and seeking the Goddess within. She does not seek us, we have to seek her. When we have finally reached the Divine center and sit at the Mother's feet to receive knowledge, the Crone appears and beckons. The Dark Mother guides us with Her torch or lantern of ultimate truth and wizdom, not running ahead as does the Maiden, but just before us with a firm, confident step. She teaches us that there are unlimited treasures within the treasures. We must seek the Crone for our magickal teachings, psychic powers and prophetic knowledge. These are things the Witch could never obtain in her day to day life. It is the night and to the Crone that she must turn to. The Crone holds the Key of Life; She is the light within the darkness, the Power behind the Mother's throne. With Her aid, our eyes are opened to the deepest of spiritual mysteries, and we gain the Knowledge, Wizdom and Magicks that is needed.Over the course of Herstory, the original role of the Dark Goddess as a renewer was forgotten, and she became to be feared as the destroyer through patriarchal myths, as She is still thought of in today's paganism. Throughout many world mythologies, She is portrayed as the Temptress, the Terrible Mother, the death bearing Crone, the destroyer and the terrible, or the fearsome bent figure of a woman bearing a scythe, instead of the loving, wise Crone. This is because men have feared the Crone, because they do not understand Her. We must remember that to say something is destroyed, implies it is done away with completely; the cycle has stopped. This means that re-creation would have to start at an absolute beginning. In the Goddess' cycle, nothing is actually destroyed. Although things die constantly, everything that dies is merely reorganized, redistributed, reformed, their karmic seeds included, then their Spirit is reborn in another form.What happened to cause this change and to now see the Crone harsh and something to fear? This change probably took place at around 3000 BCE, where there occurred a transition in the predominant religious and political structure that governed humanity. Matriarchal societies, which had worshiped Goddesses of the Earth and Moon gave way to patriarchal societies, which followed the solar Gods and heroes such as Gilgamesh, Amen Ra, Zeus, Apollo and other Olympian Gods and then later on to Yahweh. From there, while originally the Goddess reigned supreme and alone, the patriarchal cultures later relegated Her to a position of secondary importance, as the Mother of the God/King such as Isis as the mother of Horus. The Goddesses were also forced to accept Gods as their husbands, without whom they were powerless-such as the marriage of Hera to Zeus and Isis to Osiris. It has even bled over into the Crone aspect wherein some Pagans in the name of duality matches Her up with a God in rituals not realizing that the Crone stands alone, independent and free within Her own right! The dependent status of the Goddess was later intensified when she was falsely made the daughter or wife of the omnipotent Father God/King and inherited his characteristics. This pattern was symbolized in the lie of the birthing of Athena from Zeus' head, and she maintained her elevated position as her father's favorite by denying that she ever had a mother at all and by destroying her Matriarchal antecedents, such as Medusa and Pallas. It has spilled over even into today's followings in modern paganism which is called Wicca {Wicca means male Witch. Males seek to Rule ALL religions, even the Goddess religions! ~ Wicce means female Witch. Wicca correctly pronounced is "Witcha." Wicce is pronounced "Witchie~Witchy" ~ NO "K" Sound! ~ Its "CHA" like dancing the Cha~Cha! CHA for male word Wicca and CHE for female word Wicce. Look up these correct pronunciations and also enter the phrase "Wicca male witch" in Search.}WHY are WeMoon {women} labling themselves as a male witch "Wicca"? Call yourself a "Wicce" Female Witch! Spell it Wicce! ~~ The "Olde Religion", the teachings of the Great Mother have long since been invaded with the Wheel of the Year of the male Sun God; eclipsing the full Wheel of the Year of the Great Goddesses, and four out of eight of the Sabbat celebrations center around the Male God's life cycle. Wicca in it's modern traditions have mostly all men as it's creators and heads, except for eclectic Wicca. This alarming male domination of even our Goddess witchcraft religions must be put to a halt!WeMoon of the Goddess bow to no man! Though, I am always glad to see gentle non~patriarchal maleswho are completely Goddess~Centered, devoted to the Goddesses, and serve and worship Her. Such males I will indeed call my brothers in the Goddess. But, my coven ~ hive ~ grove is for WeMoon Sister Witches only.Wicce and Witchcraft are paths which hold the Goddess as Supreme and men are not fit representatives of Her Divine Feminine totality; only Goddess~Loving WeMoon {women} are and we must stop the men from taking over our Goddess religions. As I said, men are the patriarchal ego~driven, controlling, violent conquerers and destroyers. Men rule all religions with their insanity, arrogance, violence and lack of mystical wizdom, with disasterous consequences. Sadly, many women are patriarchal women; they cling to toxic male patriarchal ways and to patriarchal men and make mostly patriarchal choices. These women embrace all the toxic and destructive ways and religions of male patriarchy, even in Paganism; many female Witches and Pagans are doing this. These women are like males in a female body. These women are absolutely brainwashed by their greed and fears and by propaganda; they are spiritually and mystically unevolved. They do not love the Goddesses nor have they deeply truly experienced the Goddess. Such patriarchal "pagan" women do not comprehend the Goddess and that She should be dwelling within them as their Self! What a pity. We need real WeMoon Witches of the Goddess who love and protect Goddess Mother Earth and ALL beloved divine Animals and Creatures! Profoundly mystical, meditative, metaphysical, magickal, WeMoon Witches who embody the Goddess and Her various facets, Her Magicks and Her Wizdoms, are greatly needed! WeMoon also need Goddess covens, hives, groves where they have their own magickal sacred space together, to honour and merge with the Goddess and magicks; and men are not welcome therein. The all encompassing Goddess with myths of love and compassion in all her phases are now replaced with ones proclaiming the Dark Goddess as something to be feared, and male warrior Gods are eating their children, and procreate their doomed children through trickery and rape. It is these macho male patriarchal Pagan traditions that sought to turn Goddesses and Moon Godesses into hunters and war Goddesses. The men valued only the male Gods traits and violent ways, thus they forced "male" ways upon Goddesses. {Which is not the way of Goddesses!} Goddesses are protectress of all creatures and life and Nature. Protectors do not kill those they love and protect. To be called a Goddess of Animals and then kill those beloved animals is a creation of male insanity! After male patriarchal Pagans snuffed out the ancient powerfully magickal and nurturing Matriarchal Goddess Witches traditions and their practices, the men turned the healing, nurturing, enchanting, powerfully magickal Moon Goddesses into hunters and war mongers; sometimes dressing the Moon Goddesses as a violent human male soldier with armor and shield and carrying material weapons of war. When the Goddess protects any being or She must Stop something, She does not use material male war armor and weapons. In all Her facets and spiritual forms, the Goddess is always Spirit and she uses Her magick and Her will and her infinite Spirit to instantly accomplish anything. Followers of the Goddess must return to the true "Olde Religion" and worship the Great Goddess as daughters of yesteryear did! But, many brain~washed ones frown at this and consider it lacking the balance of the male and female and that one cannot survive without the other, never realizing that it is the Goddess herself that is the ALL ~ SOURCE and She keeps the balance. The true "Olde Religion" entailed honoring the Goddess in her many facets and not simply as a sex partner and mother. What most do not understand is that the Moon (feminine) and the Earth (feminine) evolve around each other as they dance across the nightly Sky each month and share in each other's energies.There is also confusion in that now everyone calls the Dark Moon the New Moon. Saying New Moon instead of Dark Moon is a patriarchal doing. The Dark phase of the Moon {not to be confused with the dark side of the Moon} occurs each month during the three days preceding the actual Dark of the Moon or the 3 nights of the Dark Moon ~ the exact night of the Dark Moon and the night right before and after the Dark Moon, when Dark Moon rituals and magicks are performed. The Dark Moon is wrongly considered the New Moon, for the Dark Moon is not New. Three nights after the Dark Moon is the real New Moon when the Moon is actually a New waxing Crescent Moon that can be seen. Over the centuries, as people no longer worshiped the Moon as Goddess, nor used the Moon as the calendar, they began to fear the dark and everything associated with the dark, including the name itself. Unfortunately, because they feared the dark, is it no wonder that they feared the Dark Goddess, whom they do not understand. So, instead of the Moon being called the Dark Moon, it became the absurdly titled New Moon. But, today's Witches are claiming the rightful Dark Moon name, and the Goddesses independence, strength and freedom of standing joyfully without a male God.For all WeMoon {women}, the Lunar cycle is linked to women. The Dark Moon phase is linked to women when they are shedding their blood. When the lunar cycle is overlaid on the menstrual cycle, the Full Moon corresponds to ovulation and fertility, and the Dark Moon is analogous to the actual shedding of the blood. The ancient Goddess-worshiping cultures of yesteryear understood that when they bled, it is woman's most powerful time of the month; a time when her psychic and spiritual energies are most highly sensitized. At this time of a woman's cycle, she tends to want to withdraw and go within, to look upon her deepest Spirit self, but in this masculine world of today, women are prevented in doing that. The Crone Witch who no longer sheds blood is her most powerful all the time. If it is considered a powerful time for women during the Dark Moon menstrual cycles, then it should also be considered a powerful time of the month when the Moon is in Her dark phase. But, just as with the rise of the violent male god cultures of Zeus and Horus and in which women's menstrual cycle became taboo, so has working magick when the Moon is in Her dark phase become taboo. The cycles of the Moon and women feeling Goddess Moon energies are a women's gift.Often in the modern Craft, and most particularly in your mainstream traditions such as modern "Wicca", it is said that you should never do magick when the Moon is in its dark phase of three nights. They say it is a time of rest; a time to retreat behind closed doors, as the Dark Goddess roams the land with Her destructive powers. They say that Her powers are too strong and that we should not visit with the Crone, and if we do, that we should not tarry too long for fear that we could not handle the Crone's harsh energies. Such ignorance!Even in the Craft today, we have confusing and sometimes negative associations with the concept of the Dark Mother and of the energies that She carries. They say that Witches not long in the Craft should leave working with Her dark powers to the adept, to the ones who have been with the Craft for many years and whom can handle Her harsh energies. These same feeble ignorant controlling, often male Witches, are unfortunately putting fear of the powerful Dark Mother in the minds of others.In most pagan books you do not even see many rituals for the Crone or the Dark of the Moon or for the Full Moon. There is fear and neglect of our beloved Goddess Moon in all of Her phases. Very Often you will see an article wherein you are to embrace the Dark Crone's power by means of performing a ritual. However, the Dark Lord is most of the time called in as well. This is not necessary, and you really only need to embrace and call in the the Dark Crone during the final waning to Dark of the Moon. And, ALL of the time Goddess alone is needed. For the Dark Goddess represents magick, wizdom, inner strength, independence from duality for She IS the Hermit in the Tarot with Her torches leading us to wizdom. Goddess, and She alone, holds the power and gives the power to those seeking it. The Dark Moon is there in the night sky and She stands there alone in all Her power, even though we cannot see Her. At Dark Moon, Goddess Moon & Goddess Earth Conjoin. During Her dark phase, the feminine Earth comes between Her and Sun, giving Her her much needed rest from the demanding male energies of the Sun, as we, too, need our rest from the toxic masculine world in which we live. The Sun does not contribute to the Moon's energies but only allows us to see what phase She is going through. It is not the Sun who helps effect the tides during Full or Dark Moon for only the Moon powers effects the tides of the ocean and the tides of WeMoon {woman} and All Life. She stands alone and She stands strong. The Crone teaches us survival. She has survived all things and from Her we may learn that we, too, will survive all things. But first, we must seek Her to learn of Her teachings. Many do not truly understand the Dark Mother because to understand Her, you must walk with Her. WeMoon {women} are daughters of the Goddess, and we carry Her gifts naturally. We know Her no matter what Her phases is, as She is Maiden and Mother and Crone to us all. We WeMoon feel Her like no other because we are Her.The Crone represents a time in looking into the void, into the unknown and to find the truth that is hidden in the darkness. It is a time for meditation, psychic power enhancement or for looking into past life memories to help better understand current difficulties. Dark Moon energy also lends itself to divination and matters where truth is an issue. We need to seek the Crone each month to release those things that we have hidden in the dark recesses of our mind and are afraid to face.The Dark Moon represents the mystery, performing different types of magick, divination arts such as the tarot and scrying, and the banishing of negative energies and seeking wizdom from the greatest teacher of them all, the Crone. It is also a time to meditate with the Dark Goddess and to listen to the messages of wizdom that She has to share with you. It is a time to move back into ourselves, disappearing, hiding and dwelling within our inner selves so that we may be reborn and are able to look at things in a different light... the Crone's Inner Light.There are a lot of Witches who seem to come more alive during the waning Moon up and into the Dark of the Moon. There would be many, many more Witches feeling the magickal powers of the Dark Moon, if they would push the taboo teachings of fearing the Dark Goddess and her energies that some teach in today's modern covens. We need to go back to yesteryear Daughters of the Goddess, back to before the Patriarchal Gods of men, with violent male myths & males perpetuating diabolical wars, rape and continuous slaughter of children and women and animals, destruction of Goddess Mother Earth and all beloved divine Animals and Creatures and ALL Life! And, all slaughterings of all innocent beings of all species, killings, poisions, toxins, wars, hate, control etc all created by men, which took over the world and squashed the wise teachings of the Dark Mother, and the Goddessin all Her aspects and forms.Embrace the Dark Goddess and Her magick. When embracing the Dark Goddess and performing Dark Moon magick, always do ritual and magick during the three nights before and ON, and until one night after the Dark Moon. Through years of research, we have come to understand the Moon more so than ever before. Once the Moon turns to its true Dark Phase, at that given moment, it will soon start to shift into its waxing phase, so there may be some mixed Moon energies. Therefore until the Moon does shift into its waxing phase, the Moon's energies can be a bit erratic. Harness and focus those erratic energies in your workings.Daughters of the Goddess, do not fear the Dark Goddess but embrace Her, twice a month, and better it be to embrace the Crone when the Moon is Dark, and there ye shall assemble yourself in some secret place and adore Her, and the Crone, and sing, dance and perform magickal rites all in Her honor! We must teach ourselves to once more see Her as She is and not as the annihilator, the destroyer, the pain giver and perpetual suffering as the foul male patriarchal myths portray Her.Many pagans think you need a God along side the Goddess for balance, but in the end, it is the Crone and ALL Witches Goddesses as Source~ALL, who keeps the balance in all things. The Crone is the deep love, the teacher, the Wise One, the comforter, and She is understanding. It is through the Crone that we can learn life's mysteries. It is the Crone who keeps the balance. All Goddess~Centered Witches never have any need of invoking a male God!Embrace The Goddesses Many Faces! Maiden~Mother~Crone! Lunar~Stellar~Solar~Earth Goddesses! All Seen And Unseen Is Goddess! All Natural Darkness ~ Such As Nighttime ~And Dark Moon ~ Is Made Of The Goddess Light ~ Pure Spirit!~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~)O( Bountiful Blessed Bees! )O(
