Aradia's Festival of Torches

Wind blew out my candle

Meditation, visit to temple based on Katrina's experience
Aradia is daughter of Diana, the moon, and Lucifer, the sun

My message from Diana at the temple: I am so blessed, with skill and creativity and material things, and a wonderful body; but her final word is "action", echoing, as we are called to return from the temple, because my ideas will not help the world or myself if I do not take action

Talisman symbol is the moon as a chalice, and flames as the sun. Represents the combining of emotions, intuition and vision with energy, power and taking action. Because we need both, to change our lives and make a difference in the world . . . the same message I did in fact receive!

Full moon, shining bright
Midnight on the water
Oh Aradia,
Diana's silver daughter!

Sweet floating fragrance of starlike blooms on trees, sprays of white emerging from the centers of their petals like small cries of joy in other senses besides sound

Chorus of crickets, a tune from the infinite manifesting in this balmy night, in this time and space
The humming park

I hated to leave so soon
I waited for the Full Moon to rise before I left
 like a golden plate
and I imagined how it looked many hundreds of years ago over Lake Nemi, the same moon being gazed upon and revered by generations of our kind

Speculum Dianae