Is there a ritual for connecting to mother earth in Thelema?
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Is there a ritual in Thelema to connect to the energies of mother earth? The rituals of Liber Resh keep us connected to the father (sun) throughout the day. Are there any instructions for doing the counterpart for earth? I was wondering of the LBRP was supposed to be that, but I never got that impression.
Thanks!
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There's nothing standard that I can think of that is particularly aimed that way. Passing reference is made in some rituals, other rituals have a potential for adaptation. (For example, an invoking Earth Pentagram Ritual normally connects you to elemental Earth within you, but could be adapted; or a Hexagram Ritual of Malkuth.)
You don't see much of this in core Thelemic literature. During the Isis Aeon, the primary objects of worship were earth and Moon. During the Osiris Aeon, the primary objects of worship were the Sun, or things analogous to the Sun. In the Horus Aeon, the primary objects of worship are stars, individually and/or collectively, with juch of that focused on the closest star - our Sun - newly understood not to be The Big Daddy / Husband / King due, but as one star among myriad stars. The maternal element has primarily moved from Mother Earth to Mother Space.
But that "primary focus" doesn't mean you can't create custom ritual for other purposes as well.
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I love thinking of our sun as a star among the stars!
And that is a very modern concept of the sun.
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Alice, you may be correct to some extent, though throughout history, certain men and women have cast their eyes upon the eternal sky, and let it swallow them until that feeling of "Oh my god we are sooo small" engulfs one. Children are usually more prone to this.
@King Solomon's Marbles said
"The maternal element has primarily moved from Mother Earth to Mother Space."
I wonder if this is a qabbalistic pun of the word "firmament."
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firmament (n.)
mid-13c., from Latin firmamentum "firmament," literally "a support or strengthening," from firmus "firm" (see firm (adj.)), used in Vulgate to translate Greek stereoma "firm or solid structure," which translated Hebrew raqia, a word used of both the vault of the sky and the floor of the earth in the Old Testament, probably literally "expanse," from raqa "to spread out," but in Syriac meaning "to make firm or solid," hence the erroneous translation. -
So how does the word "pun" fit into "punishment"?
And if I were to make a daily habit of making play on words, might that make me "punish"?
The "firmament" literally transmutes itself from a place of punishment, to a place of "pun-ish-ment."
I suppose the universal pun might be that in their beginnings, most beings wake up under a star they perceive as giant, though it is comparable to the size of other stars that can be seen when it is a winged beetle on the other side of the lower expanse.
Now I need a drink with my lunch. Excuse me.
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Afro-Asiatic: (PVN) - "smell, wind"
Eurasiatic: "to collect/put"Related to "Pan" in Austric "Heap/Collect/Pile Up"