The Sun and the Tree of Life
Jun. 5th, 2008 09:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pegkerrA couple more cards, just one image each (I still feel like that's sorta cheating, but these are very important cards to my deck, and they are perfect just as is). These are pictures taken by David Dyer-Bennet and used with permission.
The Sun - Council
I am the One who comes across the water at the cry of the community to awaken the Tree of Life. I am the source of all warmth and love. I make new life return every spring. My coming is heralded by joy.
The Tree of Life - Council
I am the One who comes alive again each spring to bring life to her children. I am the primeval Mother who protects, shelters and feeds all those who gather under her branches. My head is crowned with birds, and my robe is brown and green. As long as I live, hope springs eternal.
I have written extensively in this journal over the years about the May Day parade and Tree of Life ceremony which is put on here in Minneapolis every year the first Sunday in May by the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theater. See all my entries tagged may day. Every year, the Sun comes over the water of Powderhorn Park to magically awaken the Tree of Life, and the whole community (several tens of thousands people) cheer and clap to greet the Tree and her promise of the renewal of the spring. Because I suffer from seasonal affective disorder, this yearly ritual has become extremely powerful for me. To me, the Sun and the Tree are magical symbols of hope. The Sun card, along with the Expecto Patronum card, is also a card against the Dementors (I take daily walks outside in the sunlight in the autumn and winter to keep my depression at bay). (See my account from this year), and a video of the ceremony here, which was taken the same year that these pictures of the Tree and Sun were taken.
The Sun - Council
I am the One who comes across the water at the cry of the community to awaken the Tree of Life. I am the source of all warmth and love. I make new life return every spring. My coming is heralded by joy.
The Tree of Life - CouncilI am the One who comes alive again each spring to bring life to her children. I am the primeval Mother who protects, shelters and feeds all those who gather under her branches. My head is crowned with birds, and my robe is brown and green. As long as I live, hope springs eternal.
I have written extensively in this journal over the years about the May Day parade and Tree of Life ceremony which is put on here in Minneapolis every year the first Sunday in May by the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theater. See all my entries tagged may day. Every year, the Sun comes over the water of Powderhorn Park to magically awaken the Tree of Life, and the whole community (several tens of thousands people) cheer and clap to greet the Tree and her promise of the renewal of the spring. Because I suffer from seasonal affective disorder, this yearly ritual has become extremely powerful for me. To me, the Sun and the Tree are magical symbols of hope. The Sun card, along with the Expecto Patronum card, is also a card against the Dementors (I take daily walks outside in the sunlight in the autumn and winter to keep my depression at bay). (See my account from this year), and a video of the ceremony here, which was taken the same year that these pictures of the Tree and Sun were taken.