As you do this, imagine translucent amber colored energy in the shape of an egg forming in your hands. Hold out your hands in front of you, palms together. Give thanks to Mother Danu for cleansing your spirit. Let the water flow until all the debris is gone and only clear pure water flows down. All negativity is washed away like dry leaves and debris in the flowing current. The waters take with them all tension, stress and anxiety. The Waters of Heaven, the Waters of Danu are washing over you, pouring down into your head and coursing through you, and leaving through the souls of your feet. Imagine you are standing under a waterfall that is the source of a great and sacred river. The Waters of Danu (a clearing and releasing exercise) Try the celestial energy meditation some time with warm golden stellar energy instead of silver.
You may find it interest to reflect on and connect sky energy and well energy. I added the well imagery to the original wording. Celestial energy is invigorating and refreshing. But if this imagery just seems too silly because it makes you think of someone cracking an egg over their head, then you might want to imagine the egg as a ball of amber instead. I like the imagery of an amber egg- it makes me think of the legends of the druids’ egg. The Amber Energy exercise was originally called “the pearl”, but I found it hard to reason why the inside of a pearl would have honey or amber energy. I’ve read that the Druids of old bathed in rivers for spiritual purposes, just as Hindus today bathe in the Ganges. It’s purpose is to help you release tensions and to make you feel spiritually refreshed. For example, I simply changed the wording of a “clearing and releasing” exercise to acknowledge Danu as the source of the waters, and in so doing, I feel I have greatly increased it’s meaning and spiritual value. So what I’ve done is I’ve taken three of my old favorites that I learned from an online course and changed the theme a little bit to give them, what I consider, a deeper meaning. However, I consider these more in the category of supplemental spiritual exercises rather than meditative practices. Many of them certainly were of value to me then, and I think I would benefit from them now. I was thinking about some of the guided meditations that I used way back in the day when I was Wiccan, wondering if they were relevant to a Celtic/Druid cosmology. Guided meditations give me more structure to focus than stillness meditation, though I need to do those too. I’m really into guided meditations that I can memorize instead of record and play back. I’ve been working on the ADF Dedicant Program and part of it is using various forms of meditation on a regular basis and documenting the effects. You can listen to them all on one playlist here. Let My Eye Go To The Sun – Parnassus (First Degree).Song for Summer Solstice – Libby Roderick (Thinking Like a Mountain).Hard Sun – Eddie Vedder (Into the Wild).Follow the Sun – Xavier Rudd (Spirit Bird).Summer Solstice Song – Kendalin (Opening).Don’t Carry It All – The Decemberists (The King is Dead).The Hills They Are Hollow – Damh the Bard (The Hills They Are Hollow).Midnight Sun – Strawbs (Hero and Heroine).Anthem to the Sun – Deborah & Rick Hamouris (Welcome to Annwfn).Rosebud in June – Steeleye Span (Below the Salt).Fire Leap – Magnet (The Wicker Man – Original Soundtrack Recording).Litha – Lisa Thiel (Circle of the Seasons).Dancing at Whitsun – Maddy Prior & Tim Hart (Heydays).
Summer Solstice – Libana (Night Passage: Invocations for the Journey).Rise With the Fire – Reclaiming (Chants: Ritual Music).Sun Arise – Rolf Harris (Can You Tell What It Is Yet?).
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