SCARAB I - Moon's Day

Archimedes said "Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world." The four certainties on which I base my entire philosophy are the solid facts of the earth, the sky, & the sun. The fourth certainty is the grace & evanescence of that mysterious & ever-changing orb called the moon. Just as the sun's dominion is the day, the moon's dominion is the night.There are seven days of the week... each dedicated to one of the ancient deities. The week ends on the day of the Sun. The week starts with the day of the moon. We are blessed with the containable interval of one revolution of the planet we live on. I can do anything for one day... anything. The waxing & waning, the ebbing in & out of the moon over the twenty eight days of the month is my lullaby. Monday... the moon's day.

SCARAB II - Tiw's Day

Interesting... only one day of the week is devoted to Freye, the goddess of fertility; three days are devoted to Gods of War… Tiw, Woden, & Thor. Ferocity. I respect Ferocity. Channelled righteous anger. In the Tarot it is the suit of Swords. Check out the images… they are powerful. Tiw in Roman lore is Mars the god of war in later times. How do we define ourselves as humans? Are we truly war-like… or have we evolved into something different? Is dying in battle the only way into Valhalla? I see us becoming a different type of warrior. I will myself to be wide awake, wise, tough, lean & mean… prepared for what must come. I am standing firm. Prepared to die or do what is necessary to herald the new Kingdom that is surfacing. I claim that courage… a new type of warrior. A warrior of the Light.

SCARAB III - Woden's Day

The great sadness in our culture is the amnesia we have for our ancestors. Every other tradition honours & venerates those who have come before. My ancestry is Viking. The Chief god of the Viking Is Woden. The AllFather. He represents sacrifice for me. Lost an eye to achieve Wisdom. Had himself hung for nine days on Yggdrasil the world tree in penance for the world he created. With a raven on each shoulder one for thought & the other for desire. The Lord of poetry. The creator of Runes. Married to Freye the goddess of fertility. Mythic but potent. This is just another story we tell ourselves… yes but that is the story of all ancestors. I tell those stories. So glad we have a day of the week named after old Woden the king of the Viking gods.

Scarab IV - Thor's Day

My Viking ancestors were warriors. Tiw, Woden, Thor, & Freye… all warrior gods. I call myself a warrior of the light. The mindset of a warrior is one of willingness… the willingness to die. To achieve that willingness requires dedicated preparation…. perpetual preparation to be ready. The Sioux Warriors in the last days of the original people of these prairies danced the Ghost Dance. The thunderbird rises on the ghost dance shirts worn by those warriors. The thunderbird rises. When rain ends a ceremony it signifies a great blessing. A thunderstorm is best. The mighty god Thor wields his hammer. Thunder cracks the sky. Thursday is his day!!!!!!!!!

SCARAB V - Freye's Day

TGIF. Freye, the Goddess of fertility, love, creativity. She contains the charms of Artemis the Pure, Aphrodite the Beauty & Athena the Wise. But Freye stands apart. She is a northern girl. The one with the auburn hair & pale blue eyes who ravens & wolves befriend. She is the Divinity of Snow. The Lady in the Pine Forest after September rain. The redemption she offers is not of ripe fruits & perfumed flowers. It is the fruition of mirrored steel. She offers a fertility of the soul that locks in with the certainty of sacred geometry in a solved theorem. Friday. We honour many things in hidden ways. I honour Freye the woman of the fertility of the North where my ancestors come from.

SCARAB VI - SATURN'S DAY

Curious. We celebrate seven days with the names of four Viking gods.... Tiw, Woden, Thor  & Freye; the moon, the sun..... & Saturn! Saturn is the roman version of the ancient God Cronus who is older than time itself. Saturnine refers to the mood of melancholy... of sadness... the sadness I feel when I think of the turning of the great wheel of time & how insignificant I feel in the face of the great significance in which with joy I choose to manifest.  The planet Saturn travels around the sun every 29 years. Our life is governed by three orbits of this mysterious ringed orb at the far edge of the inner solar system. 29, 58, 87 the three ages of life. I am at the end of the second age... two orbits of the planet Saturn. Every winter at the time  of the solstice the Romans celebrated the return of the sun with a week of ecstatic dancing in honour of Saturn. They called it the Saturnalia. Saturday.... Saturn's day.

SCARAB VII - SUNDAY

The Egyptians venerated the image of the scarab. There is humour in the lowly dung beetle pushing the ball of dung filled with larvae across the dusty plains. Especially contrasted with the fact it represents the resurrection of the soul & honours the great disc of the sun. The days of the week have great names attached to them. The greatest name however is Sun-day. We have a day named in honour of the great stellar phenomenon that allows us life in the first place. A lowly purple beetle. The great orb of sun. Light & life pours around us. Doubt is trumped by the verifiable fact of the brilliance of the Source that is manifest every day of the week.