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| New Orleans Voodoo Tarot, image by Sallie Ann Glassman |
The World Egg is
the cosmic principle underlying all matters in the world. It symbolizes new beginnings, new ideas, a
fresh start. The whole Mayan calendar thing this month is a worldwide awareness
of the Cosmic Egg in action. I’ve seen
changes galore just within my own ecosystem – corporate CIOs working from home
offices; new moms taking 6 months (and longer) to be home with the baby. The New Age frenzy has dwindled down, the
Catholic Church is all but dead in Europe and people are looking for stability in
spiritual groups, with long standing traditions and intimate settings for
people of diversity.
Enter the Afro-Caribbean faiths – Haitian Vodou, Cuban
Lukumi, Brazilian Candomble. These
faiths build communities based on family structure. They honor what has gone before – the ancestors,
the leaders who made their lives an example.
They support the membership through outreach and small, intimate
services designed to bring people together. But this is a new path that is being treaded,
and the leadership is still in its infancy – just like the World Egg. The manifest possibilities are limitless.
The image of the World Egg shows Danbala carrying it
daintily in his mouth. As the great
Creator Energy of the Vodou Pantheon, Danbala knows how fragile new life can
be. And so he carries this new
possibility in his protective mouth, offering it to us this month as a
potentiality.
The egg is a
universal symbol of beginnings. (what came first - the chicken or the egg?) In the Tattva system, it is called
"Akasha" - the universal symbol of spirit. When I first came to the magical path, I used
Tattvas to increase my ability to visualize.
I would study the symbol and then close my eyes, seeing an afterglow of
the shape. Then, I would move into and
through the symbol, to an inner landscape. I kept a record of my work and even now, when
reading through the entries, I find much to be inspired by. The Akasha symbol was often the most surreal
of the five (there symbols for the four elements, plus spirit) I worked with.
The potential for the visions to manifest was astounding. And I am delighted to find the Akasha showing
up for this month of spiritual transformation, mental stimulation and just
plain old synchronicity.
Contemplate the
new beginning you want to have, and pin a drawing of a black oval to your
dressing mirror. Study it each morning
for a few minutes. Envision the change
you wish to embrace this month and then allow Spirit to help guide you to
it. Take a white candle, and draw a
black egg shape on it. Burn it for a few minutes each day, with the goal of
finishing the burn by the end of the month.
As you light the candle, think about the change you wish to make for
yourself. Envision your life as you wish it to be – happier, easier, healthy
and in balance. Make an affirmation for
yourself each time, that this is how you will begin the new year – by becoming
the person you know you are. And then,
put into place those things that will make this manifest.
Is someone
getting you down? Then let them go out of your life. Is your health not working? Change your diet,
change your doctor, change your routine! Put down the phone, the iPad, the
whatever and get out into the fresh air. Walk the dog, walk the husband, walk
yourself! Change your hair style, your
wardrobe, your shoes – do what it takes to be the best you.
Change is always good,
regardless. And Change is
inevitable. By embracing it, celebrating
it and going with the flow, you will find a great secret revealed. Letting go of the life you have planned, allows you to accept the life that is waiting for you.
My mentor and favorite philosopher, Joe Campbell said that, and I
believe it is very true. You can even
switch out “life” for “Lwa”, “job”, any number of things. A good quote is like
that – a universal truism that works with all things. As the Great Alignment/Precession/End of the
World/ Great excuse for a helluva party comes around, be ready to embrace it
and go for it. As my Mambo Nellie has often remarked, let’s just do it.
Ayibobo indeed.
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