The Great Four

Four describes the circle of our reality. 

Wherever we go we are surrounded.

North, east, south, and west

Lay down.

Head, left hand, butt, and right hand

Consciousness, emotion/feeling, sexuality, energy/doing

Swords, cups, coins and wands

Air, water, earth, and fire 

Winter, spring, summer, and fall

Sun, Moon, Venus and Mercury

Yule, Imbolc, Beltain, and Samhain 

Around and around like a wheel

This is Frodo's ring - so alluring, 

so fatal, if it traps you, and yet

The key to our deliverance.

For it is a wheel in a rut,

or it is a stairway to heaven. 

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In winter time, 

When the cold wind blows,

Across the old North Sea,

I see Nuada, riding forth

Sword raised in salute to me.

"Come lay thee down

And dream a dream 

Of what will come to be," says he.

In spring 

The Maiden of the Moon 

Comes, with a gleaming cup.

Urgently she presses me

"Mother! Mother!

Summer comes. 

Its time that thee wake-up!"

In the heat of summer 

The Green Man comes, 

A lover like no other.

And we lay us down 

in the long, long grass

Entwined. Rolling, over and over.

When the spice of Autumn

Filled the air

My heated ardor passed, 

And my tiresome lover,

A mystery no more,

I bethought myself to out-cast.

"I will not be parted." 

"No, no," he said.

"I am that which you created."

So I found my wand, my magic wand,

And waved it o'er his head.

His blood became a glass of wine

His bones a loaf of bread. 

With this I was sated.