The calendar is an important part of druid lore and I am not a one to question that, or rather I am.
This blog is devoted to a “perspective” which is “hedge”. Now there maybe many connotations of Hedge but the one that I am picking on today is that of being a loner.
A hedge druid, wizard whatever is one that walks a solitary path. Indeed, one has interactions with others occasionally, nevertheless he or she is one who is comfortable doing there “own thing”. Colin Wilson described “us” as outsiders. In his first outing as an author, “The Outsider”
I bring this up because a couple of recent experiences had me thinking…The most recent of which was over the last couple of early evenings. It being close to the full-moon. I was out and about during the last hour or two of sunlight and the sun was fresh in the lower western sky and the moon was almost full in the eastern sky.
It was a wonderfully balanced time I thought and felt and to confirm this I dowsed to see if the energies were indeed sun/moon balanced. They were.
Then the next day was another gorgeous sunny day and I dowsed again to see whether the sun and moon energies were balanced. I got another yes. This led to some further investigation.
I asked whether if there was cloud cover would the energies still be balanced? No. That was a surprise because I would have thought the “presence” of the two astral bodies in the sky would be sufficient to cause a harmonic in energies.
Furthermore I determined that if neither the sun or the moon was “out” then the energies would not be balanced too. Or at least not in “this” form.
This got me wondering about solstices, equinoxes and other such calendrical alignments. I wondered whether such days would be energised if the Sun or Moon (depending on the site alignment) wasn’t visible.
So I asked, was the solstice a potent time of the year if the sun wasn’t shining? Yes. Bummer! There went my theory or so I thought. I tried this.
Would the summer solstice be less potent if the sun wasn’t shining? Yes. Aha! Now I also concluded that a site combined with a sunny day would be more potent that a solstice day on a cloudy day. My dowsing confirmed it.
It seems that the visibility is more of a factor than the “yearly” positioning of the sun. But then why then are the solstices, equinoxes and other “calendrical” dates important.
After much pacing in the sand I “got” an answer. It was because druids were not “hedge” oriented. They were groups, collectives or gatherings from many places coming together.
They couldn’t just “go” to a place when the sun was shining, a gathering of druids would take effort and time to prepare. So what they did is that they nominated days when it was “most likely” to be sunny (or favourable visibility conditions) and then kept these as regular meet dates.
This is of course dowsing speculation and intuitive reasoning. But it seems to make sense in regards to what we have been finding.
As always the choice is yours…to Hedge or not to Hedge…that seems to be the question.
Kal
I vote to “hedge” – ha ha. Did that need saying? Interesting findings. I’ll have to pick a sunny day when I’m not covered by concrete and slate and see if I can verify any of that. Oh, how I long to be as hedgey as you, with your “days off”!!
Gwas.