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Beltane Fire Festival: The Spiritual Significance of Ritual In Our Lives
Beltane, whose past and present significance is deeply steeped in ritual rites of sexuality and fertility, celebrates the height of spring, and the coming of summer, the earth has warmed, and May 1st is astrologically the end of darkness in the sun cycle, when we gain more and more light each day.
The Spiritual Significance of Spring Equinox
Embrace the Vernal Equinox on March 19, 2024, as daylight overtakes darkness. Explore the internal tides, celebrate life's freshness, and ignite your inner light. Welcome transformation and wisdom within. 🌸🌞 #SpringEquinox #Renewal
The Spiritual Significance of Eclipse Cycles
In a lunar eclipse, the earth momentarily blocks the illumination from the sun that creates a full moon, resetting the current emotional cycle. Solar eclipses reset the energy field or archetypal configurations, where as, lunar eclipses are culminations of emotional cycles that have run their course. Both encourage us to evolve.
Scientists Learn to Communicate with Dreamers
The study of dreams: Scientists uncover new communication channels with dreamers
Bees Under Threat, Indigenous Knowledge may save the day
I thought about bees as a body, and the hive as integral to the health and wellbeing of the bee body. From there, I asked what a body needs to remain alive and healthy.
The Spiritual Significance of Imbolc
There’s a power that lives in the space ‘between,’ that subtle instant when something ends, and what follows next hasn’t yet begun. This is a beautiful and necessary space for growth. In the spaces in between, all possibilities exist, and none have been chosen.
Santa Claus, The Magic Mushroom, & the Shamanic Origins of Christmas
Have you ever wondered why Santa Claus wears a red and white suit? Why we wrap our presents in red and white wrapping paper, or why we hang red and white baubles on our tree? The image of Santa Claus, and our Christmas traditions have been around for hundreds if not thousands of years, and can be traced right back to pre-Christian times, with roots deep in shamanism, and Nordic mythology.
The Spiritual Significance of the Winter Solstice
Experience the profound spiritual meaning of Winter Solstice on Explore Deeply. The energy of winter is that of going within. It's the fruitful darkness and silence out of which our soul's yearnings and new inspirations can eventually emerge. Awaken your purpose with insightful reflections and transformative wisdom.
Why winter solstice matters around the world: 4 essential reads
For decades, scholars have studied the astronomical observations that ancient indigenous people made and sought to understand their meaning.
We are here to learn something about ourselves as spiritual beings having a human experience. No longer is the old way of doing things a guarantee for success or happiness. It is essential to have a solid sense of yourself through your own inner knowing in order to experience true fulfillment.
The Explore Deeply Movement was established in 2010, for those of us who feel a call to something greater than our current experiences, though we may not know why. Chloë Rain is the Founder of Explore Deeply. Through her work she hopes to inspire more people to listen to their soul’s calling, and cause them to look a little closer at themselves, at the natural environment that surrounds them, and at other people and our beliefs of separation, race, culture, and religion. To find out more about working with Chloë go → here.