Saint Valentine's Day 2008
The History of Saint Valentine's Day
Valentine's Day started in the time of the Roman Empire. In ancient Rome, February 14th was a holiday to honour Juno. Juno was the Queen of the Roman Gods and Goddesses. The Romans also knew her as the Goddess of women and marriage. The following day, February 15th, began the Feast of Lupercalia. The lives of young boys and girls were strictly separate. However, one of the customs of the young people was name drawing. On the eve of the festival of Lupercalia the names of Roman girls were written on slips of paper and placed into jars. Each young man would draw a girl's name from the jar and would then be partners for the duration of the festival with the girl whom he chose. Sometimes the pairing of the children lasted an entire year, and often, they would fall in love and would later marry. Under the rule of Emperor Claudius II Rome was involved in many bloody and unpopular campaigns. Claudius the Cruel was having a difficult time getting soldiers to join his military leagues. He believed that the reason was that roman men did not want to leave their loves or families. As a result, Claudius cancelled all marriages and engagements in Rome. The good Saint Valentine was a priest at Rome in the days of Claudius II. He and Saint Marius aided the Christian martyrs and secretly married couples, and for this kind deed Saint Valentine was apprehended and dragged before the Prefect of Rome, who condemned him to be beaten to death with clubs and to have his head cut off. He suffered martyrdom on the 14th day of February, about the year 270. At that time it was the custom in Rome, a very ancient custom, indeed, to celebrate in the month of February the Lupercalia, feasts in honour of a heathen god. On these occasions, amidst a variety of pagan ceremonies, the names of young women were placed in a box, from which they were drawn by the men as chance directed.The pastors of the early Christian Church in Rome endeavoured to do away with the pagan element in these feasts by substituting the names of saints for those of maidens. And as the Lupercalia began about the middle of February, the pastors appear to have chosen Saint Valentine's Day for the celebration of this new feaSt. So it seems that the custom of young men choosing maidens for valentines, or saints as patrons for the coming year, arose in this way.
Extract from the Febuary news letter from Lightweaver
The information has been breathtaking, exciting and most of all liberating, and has resulted in me shedding buckets of tears as my heart has been opening to the profound acceptance of and surrender to the truth of all of this. I can see what the bigger picture is at this point in time (for me anyway) and now understand what Kuthumi & Mary Magdeline have been referring to since 2007 when they spoke of The Return to Innocence/Inner Sense. In the new paradigm we are NOT MEANT TO BE ALONE. If everything that goes on inside of us eventually becomes our physical reality, then doesn't it make sense that if we are moving into unity consciousness and merging masculine with feminine, separation is a thing of the past? Therefore walking your path and living you life alone makes no sense either. Isolating ourselves from love ice-olates us, and we become "frozen" in time - Locked in the loop. Our Sacral Chakra - our water element, also freezes and the flow stops. Everything in our life then becomes frozen, creativity is blocked and the Divine Feminine's ability to work through us is seriously impeded. This leads to our base chakra "drying up" and nothing can root itself and flourish, because it has become "barren ground". Nothing can earth itself there either because it is "hostile territory" and survival consciousness becomes the main theme of motivation. The double helix DNA, masculine and feminine, the caduceus, Noah's Ark etc all display two's, not meaning duality, but rather unity! When we are unified within and complete-ly loving our self the result of that is the manifestation of the same in our external reality in the form of our Mirror, Divine Complement, Twin Flame - whatever you choose to call it. The next wonderful realization I had was that NEW LOVE as I like to call it, is what will Return our World to Innocence, which is the journey into self, into the heart where our inner sense(ability) resides, and when completely embraced we connect with the pure essence of love in which we were created and from where we come. Therefore we once again become like children and enter the kingdom of heaven, which is one of the messages of Yeshua. We are being led back home by re-uniting with our external expression of the inner (macrocosmic) Flame/Light, which is the perfect and divine expression of true love of self, as well as the physical manifestation of our Solar Christ aspect! Once this happens we LIVE that expression through everything. We express our true love of self by manifesting the DIVINE RELATIONSHIP within the microcosm; our external reality. Romantic love then becomes the vessel it was created to be; the vehicle for the purest expression of the purest love within a physical world to be experienced. Recently Kuthumi has said that our inner self/world is the macrocosm, and the external world with all it's limitations is the microcosm. We are now remembering how to manifest the infinite macrocosm within the external world, so that it does indeed become the macrocosm reflecting the macrocosm - light reflecting light. This is not a typo - macrocosm reflecting macrocosm. The microcosm will be consumed by the immense infinite power of that which exists within us.
Gift Ideas for your Valentines Day :~)
So I thought I would help some of you out if you are stuck knowing what to get for your partner or someone you like.
Walking in Love and Light
Wishing all My Loving Brothers and Sisters a beautiful Valentines Day.
Aries ~These lovely cuties do love to receive cards and gifts, so anything is sure to please the baby of the Zodiac. Choccies and flowers, balloons and teddies galore will no doubt please.
Taurus ~ If you are with a Miss or indeed Mr Taurus, I was strongly suggest booking a lovely restaurant but perhaps one with lots of talking points and things of interest..just don’t forget the candles and violins!
Gemini ~ Anything, They really don’t mind, just like to know we’ve been thought about…we won’t let anyone forget either, we are the greatest hint droppers!
Cancer ~ Romance, romance and a bottle of champagne should do the trick! A home cooked meal with all their favourite ingredients would go down well!
Leo ~ Whatever you get for a Leo, make sure it’s big and expensive and something they can show off to everyone!
Virgo ~Hmm, tricky, they will probably moan whatever you get them, but you have to try right?
Libra ~ Lovely Libra, make it Romantic, these people are very romantic and will expect you to have not forgotten at the very least!
Scorpio ~ Forget the restaurant just book a flash hotel room with some Champers on ice !!!
Sagittarius ~ If your going to do something for a Sag make sure it’s good or else don’t bother!
Capricorn ~ I would tend to go for something practical for this earthy person.
Aquarius ~ Make it quirky and unusual for this oddball, but you may have to remind them of why it is your giving them presents in the first place. They don’t hold such days as at all significant.
Pisces ~ The Pisces would of-course love to have this day everyday so when it finally come make sure you spoil your Pisces rotten!
♥~Laurence~♥
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