Newgrange

[Guest guest]

om gurave namah

 

Dear Das,

It is great to hear you and I look forward to seeing you in Ireland One of

the problems of tracing the Druidic tradition in Ireland is that it was an

Oral tradition mainly and anything that was written would be in old Gaelic,

not easily translated today.

On our landscape we have many examples of astrological sites and one of the

most impressive is Newgrange. One of the oldest monument on the Irish

landscape is a site built based on astrological principles, it is a place

where 5000 years ago the people put so much importance on the moment of

Sunrise as the Sun started its journey northward that they spent years

creating a monument to it that has lasted to this day and will continue to

survive long after we are gone. In the Bhagavad Gita we see reference to

the importance of this event in the lines

 

"Fire, light, day, the moon's brightness,

the six-months of the north turning sun;

dying then, men who are free

go to absolute freedom."

 

Smoke, gloom, night, the moon's darkness'

The six months of the south-turning sun;

Dying then, men of yoga

Reach the moon's light and return.

 

These paths, of light and of darkness,

Have always existed; by one,

A man will escape from rebirth;

By the other, he is born again"

 

This suggests to me that 2 groups of people at around the same time,

thousands of miles apart, were practising the same form of worship that

believed that the strength of light available for an event was extremely

important. It also suggests that they both believed in the concept of

reincarnation or the belief that if we die when the Sun is moving in its

Northward direction, between the Winter Solstice and Summer Solstice, that

we will not have to be reborn. It also proves the importance that was

placed by our ancestors on the movement and power of the Sun.

 

Their is much to be learned about the wealth of our tradition, and by

learning Jyotish I feel the possibility is there to be better able to

understand where I come from and hopefully have some of its secrets

revealed. As we are ready more will be revealed.

 

Best Wishes,

Pearl Finn

 

om namo bhagavate vasudeva ya

om tat sat

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