4-Days Within the Womb of the Mother
During the course of the year there are many time cycles wherein we are more capable of programming our subconscious mind with our desires and intentions. The new moon and full moon are two common examples of these cycles. These are excellent times to sow seeds for transformation and upliftment. However, there are two major cycles when the energy to make major inner transformations is at its peak – The Summer Solstice and the Winter Solstice. During these days we get to return to the Womb of Mother Earth, for renewal and rebirth.
In order to understand the phenomena of these major cycles – The Summer and Winter Solstices, a brief explanation of the Solar Declination is necessary.
Imagine a pole running completely through the earth from the North Pole to the South Pole. As the earth is moving through space it is rotating around this pole. This pole represents the axis around which the earth rotates. Hence it is referred to as Earth’s axis-of-rotation. As the Earth is spinning around its axis-of-rotation this pole is tilting towards and away from the sun.
When Earth’s North Pole is tilting towards the sun it is said to be inclining towards the sun. At the same time the South pole is tilting away from the sun and is said to be declining away from the sun. The angle of the tilt in either direction – towards and away from the sun is approximately 23.5 degrees from being perpendicular to the Sun.
At the end of its 23.5 degrees incline/decline cycle the earth “puts on the brakes” in order to shift into the opposite direction. This directional shift takes 4 days to complete. And there are 4 cycles of 4-days when these directional shifts occur. These 4 days of the Earth changing directions are the Winter Solstice, the Spring Equinox, the Summer Solstice and the Autumn Equinox.
When the Earth’s poles are parallel with the sun or at 0-degrees inclination/declination for these 4 days we experience the Equinoxes. This occurs around March 21-24 and September 21-24. When the Earth’s North pole reaches its maximum inclination towards the sun the Northern Hemisphere moves into its Summer Solstice, while the Southern Hemisphere advances into its Winter Solstice. This occurs between June 21-24. When the Earth’s North pole reaches its maximum declination away from the sun the Northern Hemisphere moves into its Winter Solstice, while the Southern Hemisphere advances into its Summer Solstice. This occurs between December 21-24.
This inclination and declination of the earth causes a magnetic “tug-of-war” with sun. And the interplay of the electromagnetic forces that are discharged by this tug-of-war between the Earth and the Sun, along with the minute changes in the sunlight have a profound effect on your light sensitive pineal gland or third eye.
The incremental changes in the amount of sunlight and the electromagnetic “torque” on the third eye stimulates it into hyper-activity during these four days. And in this hyperactive state the third eye produces wondrous psychoactive chemicals that provide one a portal into elevated states of consciousness. Melatonin is one such chemical. A common claim within Shamanic lore is that DMT is also produced in the pineal gland. Modern “science” has yet to validate that claim. Nonetheless, the mystics of old understood that The Pineal Gland, when stressed produces many psychoactive substances of which many have yet to be “discovered” by science.
The pineal gland acts like the chlorophyll in plants. It absorbs sunlight. And in the same what that chlorophyll takes sunlight and makes all the foods that you eat the Pineal Gland uses that light to manufactures certain chemicals that have tremendous impact on your physical, spiritual and psychical life.
During these 4 days, when the Pineal Gland is in a hyperactive state we are primed to sow the seeds of transformation and change within our beings. The ritual of how to utilize the 4-days of the Solstice was shared with the world in Shakespeare’s ‘A Mid-Summer Nights Dream’. That play was crafted to disseminate to those who had the eyes to see how to take advantage of the alchemical magic that occurs during those 4 days.
Four days will quickly steep themselves in night;
Four nights will quickly dream away the time;
And then the moon, like to a silver bow
New-bent in heaven, shall behold the night
Of our solemnities.
Solemnities are the celebrations of greatest importance. So, why was the Mid-Summer of such great importance? What was Shakespeare revealing to the initiated?
It was known in the ancient mystery schools that an alteration in the psychic awareness of all living beings occurs during the 4-day cycles of the Solstices and Equinoxes. Ancient temples were built to align with the sun during these 4 days – from the Egyptian pyramids, Aztec temples, Mayan temples, Stonehenge and so forth to facilitate this psychic phenomenon. During this time the mystics understood that the Third-Eye/Pineal Gland – i.e. “the moon, like to a silver bow” – shall behold the night. A definition of “to behold” is “to see – to observe”. To “behold the night” is to observe or to become the observer of the night – that morphogenetic field that you impregnate with the vision of the future you want to create.
“Four days will quickly steep themselves in night”: The ancient ones knew that “four days steep themselves into night” was an instruction to go into darkness for those four days. And for four days of darkness one would endeavor to “dream away the time”. To “dream away the time” is to go into deep mediation and spend as much time as you can sleeping because oversleeping has the effect of opening up the third eye. When you oversleep, especially with the intention to meditating as you are sleeping, you will find where you will hit a point where you will remain awake in your sleep. You will enter a state of Lucid Dreaming. It is akin to being in a hyper-delta wave state for 4-contiguous 24-hour cycles of darkness.
In those lucid dream states you can now step into the inner planes. Once there you dance, you chant, you play your drum. You speak your ‘I AM’ declarations! You visualize, and step into that vision. You live it. You BE it!
And here is the key – Express your Appreciation and Gratitude for the Abundance present in your life.
Keep a journal nearby and/or a sound recorder to record the downloads and insights and messages and visions you will be receiving from Spirit.
And, most importantly, when you declare your Will in this state you can effect massive changes in your life. Or, as Shakespeare put it – Puck – that etheric airy spirit will bring you whatever you desire.
Your High Self / Spirit – i.e. “Puck”, has all the knowledge that you need to get by in life. You’ve got to learn to put time aside to fully involve yourself in your spiritual transformation. So, during the Solstice you should sleep-sleep-sleep and “dream away the time”. You put your body to sleep so your consciousness can become more fully awake. And when you are not sleeping you are doing your breathing exercises. You are doing your Qigong and Yoga. You are doing your Ho’oponopono. You are doing your Tai Chi. You are Visualizing and Meditating on your desired End Results. You are creating your future.
And what shall you meditate upon? The first meditation shall be upon your identification with your Higher Self. During these 4-days you do not want to identify with your frail human condition – your fears, your doubts, your limitations, etc. Or else, you could wind up like the Mid-summer Night’s dream character Nick Bottom – whose self-image/attitude resulted in Puck crowning him with the head of a donkey.
MUSTARDSEED
“What’s your Will?“
BOTTOM
“Nothing, good mounsieur… for methinks I am marvellously hairy about the face; and I
am such a tender ass, if my hair do but tickle me, I must scratch.“
In other words, if you don’t want to wake up from your Mid-Summer Nights Dream (or Mid-Winter Nights Dream) with the head of an ass, identify with your Highest potentials rather than your illusory limitations.
As the saying goes – “Be careful what you ask for”. Nick Bottom was NOT careful!
There is a time to sow, and a time to reap. This is the time for sowing.
You only want to identify with your Unlimited All Powerful Spiritual Self during these 4-days. Your other meditations during that time can be on whatever you need to change about your life.
Do you want to leave your “caterpillar” days behind you? Then go into these sacred 4 days meditating –i.e. Dreaming the dreams of being a butterfly. This is what happens within the caterpillar’s chrysalis. It weaves itself into the darkness of its natural alchemical chamber and it Dreams! It dreams no longer of crawling on the ground on pudgy little legs. It DREAMS of flying loftily in the winds on silken wings. It dreams no longer of eating green grass and leaves. It DREAMS of drinking sunlight drenched sweet nectar out of a rainbow of flowers. And so it becomes… anew! It surrenders to the dream within its own heart and as a result, it is dream-transformed from its former dream of living as just an earthbound caterpillar to living the life of a butterfly, floating on magic carpets of winds, traversing endless skies, for the rest of its life.
For us Divine Humans, these 4 days of the Solstice are akin to the caterpillar’s chrysalis! These 4 days are our natural windows of time, designed into the seasons of our life by Earth Mother Gaia Herself, for us to dream of our butterfly days ahead. These 4 days are scripted for us to totally, Selflessly, Shamelessly identify with OUR own heart’s desire!
There is a time to sow, and a time to reap. This is the time for sowing – i.e. DREAMING BIG!
Juice fasting during those four days would facilitate your Lucid Dreaming experience because fasting helps to loosen the bonds between your physical body and your spiritual body. Keep your body hydrated. If you can’t fast during the 4-day cycle doing a good cleanse before the solstice will be beneficial. Again, keep your body hydrated.
It is not advisable to take plant medicines at this time. You won’t need them. You were born with everything you need inside you, to become the Master of your life. Trust yourSelf. All you need is Your Will, Your Intention and Your Dream. Plus, the right timing. When you do the right thing at the right time… magic happens!
The timing of this Covid-19 initiated planetary “time-out” affords all of us a great opportunity to spend much time during this very rare ecliptic solstice in deep meditation and ceremony. So take advantage of this opportunity. It is best if you have the time and freedom to spend all 4 days in meditation. If not, the two most potent times during this 4-day cycle are June 21 midnight and June 24 midnight. Schedule your meditations, rituals, ceremonies around these time windows. These junctures are the beginning and endpoints of the Solstice. At these points the electromagnetic energy conjunctions are switching over. Within these switchover points the Pineal Gland/Third Eye activity is most potent. During these switchover points the energy is not stabilized in any one particular modality. Hence these windows are wide open Stargates for magical transformation work. Respect these moments in time.
May you spend your Solstice “dreaming away the time” for your Highest Good and the Highest Good of All.
So Shall it Be!