| Four winds blow. Four winds burn. Four winds | | | | and the energy of lack. Begin to break sticks, one by |
| moisten. Four winds anchor. | | | | one; allow the energy of the agreement to dissipate, |
| As the Wheel of the Year turns, it begins in the East | | | | releasing anything that keeps you from moving |
| where we are opened and inspired by Spring's fresh | | | | forward and embracing your inheritance here on this |
| breezes blowing through our hair and across our skin. | | | | planet. Break sticks until you feel complete. Breathe |
| We are cleansed and purified by the sensations of | | | | in, filling yourself with the sacred element of Air, filling |
| renewal and rebirth. The winds of the Equinox smell | | | | your heart, your lungs and chest; feel the air |
| of new life, readying for entry as the Sun shines | | | | penetrating every cell of your body. Place the broken |
| higher in the sky and the days begin to elongate as | | | | sticks in a pile at the center of the crossroads. |
| slowly and surely as the babes make their way into | | | | Turn to the South where the Fires of Summer burn |
| this world. | | | | under the heat of the Sun's highest point. Feel its |
| Moving past Beltane, the Wheel continues into the | | | | warmth as your turn your face upward. Visualize a |
| Southern Fires of Summer. Purifying us with the heat | | | | bundle of sticks at your feet representing old |
| of transformation, this fire meets the energy inside | | | | agreements related to your transformation and |
| our bodies allowing us to digest and accept | | | | openness to the energy of spirit. Break the sticks, |
| everything we consume and absorb. Feel the warmth | | | | releasing all programs, all lineages, both genetic and |
| of Summer as it exposes what we need to see, | | | | past life, and anything that stops you from moving |
| embrace and release. | | | | forward as spirit embodied. Breathe in, filling yourself |
| Passing the Lughnasa Harvest, the Wheel cranks to | | | | with the sacred element of Fire, feel its warmth |
| the West where the softness of Fall is enhanced by | | | | moving from your first chakra up your spine and into |
| the devotional waters as they lap on the rugged | | | | your upper chakras; allow it to circulate continuously |
| shores. Matching the gentle rocking movements of | | | | through your body. Break sticks until you feel |
| the waves, the waters inside us increase their | | | | complete, placing them in the pile at the center of |
| motility, clearing away the emotional dross, | | | | the crossroads. |
| effortlessly readying our vessels for spirit. | | | | Turn to the West, feeling the energy of Fall and the |
| Now the Wheel makes its way past the veils of | | | | place where the Pacific Ocean mist feeds your soul. |
| Samhain, collecting the ancestral vibrations and lineage | | | | Visualize a bundle of sticks representing old |
| long past. True North, where we remain anchored | | | | agreements related to your creativity, your inner |
| deep in the caverns of Winter, sleeping and dreaming | | | | voice and knowledge, your visions. Break the sticks, |
| while calling up shadowy memories from within the | | | | releasing all past and negative emotions, anything that |
| dark realms of our subconscious mind. Here in the | | | | keeps you from moving forward in present time. |
| safety of Mother Earth's womb, as the daylight | | | | Breathe in, filling yourself with the sacred element of |
| decreases, we can leave behind the excess, the past | | | | Water. It fills your creative spaces, it cleanses your |
| and the foreign. In this place where all is welcome, | | | | cells, circulating through your body and all your |
| everything is brilliantly alchemized by the furnace in | | | | energy channels. Break sticks until you feel complete, |
| her compassionate belly. | | | | placing them in the pile at the center of the |
| These are the elementals as they relate to the | | | | crossroads. |
| directional seasons on the Celtic Wheel of the Year. | | | | Turn now to the North, the last quarter on the |
| Stand in the center receiving the incredible abundance | | | | Wheel. Anchor yourself, merging with the soil, so |
| of the four directions as it merges with our human | | | | dank you can smell it. Feel the Earth under your bare |
| vibration, meeting and matching, as within, so | | | | feet growing roots to ground your body for a quiet, |
| without, as above, so below. | | | | reflective Winter rest. Visualize a bundle of sticks |
| Meditation: | | | | that represent old agreements related to your mind, |
| Stand in the Middle of the Sacred Cross, at the | | | | darkness and conflict. Break the sticks, releasing |
| crossroads of all directions and their elemental | | | | effort and anything else that keeps you from moving |
| vibrations. Connect to Gaia, calling the divine feminine | | | | forward with total freedom. Breathe in, filling yourself |
| energies up from the ground into to the soles of | | | | from the feet upward, into the first chakra with the |
| your feet. Connect to the Heavens, calling the divine | | | | sacred element of Earth. Continue to break sticks |
| masculine energies down from above into your | | | | until you feel complete, placing them in the pile at the |
| crown. | | | | center of the crossroads. |
| Breathe in. Breathe out. Feel the energy running | | | | Sweep all four piles of broken sticks into one. Ignite |
| through you, knowing your body is a conduit and | | | | them with Fire, watching as they burn away. Allow |
| sacred vessel for the abundance of all things. Facing | | | | your deep Airy exhalation to expire and fuel the |
| North, the Earth energy moves from your feet | | | | death of all this energy, letting go of the old patterns |
| through your legs, up into the first chakra. Facing | | | | and programs. As the sticks turn to ashes, throw |
| West, Water fills the pool in your pelvic bowl at the | | | | Earthen dirt on the pile to extinguish the embers. |
| second chakra, it fountains upward toward your | | | | Plant one seed in the soil, a seed representing who |
| head. Facing South, Fire expands in your belly as your | | | | you are in present time. Water this seed and watch |
| breath calls it down from your head into your solar | | | | it begin to grow. Feel your body regenerating, your |
| plexus at the third chakra. Facing East, Air fills your | | | | emotions become neutral, your mind is quiet and your |
| lungs and heart; you breathe, inspiring the energy as | | | | spirit, as always, is free. |
| it moves up and down your spine with each inhalation | | | | Breathe in from above and below, calling in the |
| and each exhalation. | | | | energies of Gaia and Heaven, bringing them into your |
| Stand here, facing the East, feeling the Wind on your | | | | heart. Breathe out from your heart, into your body, |
| face. Spring is the place of new beginnings. Visualize a | | | | into your aura, into the world around you. Fill your |
| bundle of sticks at your feet representing old | | | | breath with compassion, breathing in, and breathing |
| agreements related to your birth, the physical plane | | | | out. |