Exercise: The Double Spiral Meditation

Ground and center. Visualize a double spiral. When you see it clearly, let it grow until you stand within it, and follow it inward, moving counterclockwise. It becomes a maze of high, clipped hedges, then a labyrinth of stone walls; its winding turns are the passageway to a hidden secret. As you move through the spiral, the world dissolves, form dissolves, until you are in the hidden heart where birth and death are on. The center of the spiral shines; it is the North Star, and the arms of of the spiral are the Milky Way, a myriad of stars slowly revolving around the still center point. You are in Spiral Castle, at the back of North Wind. Explore it in your imagination. See who you meet, what you learn. You are in the womb of the Goddess, floating free. Now feel yourself pushed and squeezed, moving out through the spiral, which is now the vaginal passage or rebirth. Move clockwise through the double spiral of your DNA. Now it becomes a whirlwind – fly with it. Let it become the twining tendril of a plant – a crystal – a shell – an orbiting electron. Time is a spiral – the cycles endlessly repeating, yet always moving. Know the spiral as the underlying form of all energy. As you emerge, let it return to its small, abstract, symbolic form. Thank it and let it disappear.

– Alfrún

Exercise courtesy of The Spiral Dance by Starhawk

Exercise: Waning Moon Meditation

Ground and center. Visualize a waning crescent, curving to the left, surrounded by a black sky. She is the Old Woman, the Crone who has passed menopause, the power of ending, of death. All things must end to fulfill their beginnings. The grain that was planted must be cut down. The blank page must be destroyed, for the work to be written. Life feeds on death – death leads on to life, and in that knowledge lies wisdom. The Crone is the Wise Woman, infinitely old. Feel your own age, the wisdom of evolution stored in every cell of your body. Know your own power to end, to lose as well as gain, to destroy what is stagnant and decayed. See the crone cloaked in black under the waning moon; call her name “Anu!” and feel her power in your own death.

– Alfrún

Exercise courtesy of The Spiral Dance by Starhawk

Exercise: Full Moon Meditation

Ground and center, and visualize a round full moon. She is the mother, the power of fruition and of all aspects of creativity. She nourishes what the New Moon has begun. See her open arms, her full breasts, her womb burgeoning with life. Feel your own power to nurture, to give, to make manifest what is possible. She is the sexual woman; her pleasure in union is the moving force that sustains all life. Feel the power in your own pleasure, in orgasm. her color is the red of blood, which is life. Cal her name “Maril!” and feel your own ability to love.

– Alfrún

Exercise courtesy of The Spiral Dance by Starhawk