Quando in un bosco ne percepisci la bellezza e diventi tutt'uno con il bosco, allora, intuitivamente, sei in armonia e in pace con le Dee e con gli Dei. Essi sono parte della nostra vera natura, la nostra Natura Profonda, e quando siamo separati dalla nostra vera natura, viviamo nella paura. Percepire questa normalità vuol dire dare un senso reale al vivere che è insito in tutte le cose.

Intraprendere la Via Romana al Divino significa iniziare un percorso di risveglio: praticando l'attenzione e la consapevolezza continua ci incamminiamo lungo una strada sapendo che ciò che conta è il cammino per sè più che la destinazione.

When you, entering a forest, perceive the beauty of the forest and you feel to be in a complete harmony with it, then, intuitively, you are in peace with the Deities. They are an essential part of our real nature, our Deep Nature, and when we are separated by our real nature we live in the fear. Perceiving such normality means giving a real sense to our lives.

Undertaking the Roman Via to the Deities implies a path to awakening: with the practice of continuing consciousness and awareness we undertake our walking knowing that taking the path is more important than the destination itself.

lunedì 16 febbraio 2009

February 15th: Lupercalia

During the period of Parentalia, in this day the festivity of Lupercalia is celebrated.

The sunlight of the day is dedicated to fertility; magic animals are evoked in honour of the sacred she-wolf Luperca. The night is dedicated to curative sleeping and dreaming.

The festivity is dedicated to Faunus Lupercus- Luperca, God of wolves and she-wolves. Faunus Lupercus-Luperca, "the Favourable", is a sylvanus and forest God sending messages to whom is sleeping in his/her sacred woods and forest.

In the past, there was in Rome a sacred society (Luperci): these Luperci sacrificed goats in front of the sacred cave (please pay great attention to the relevant symbolic value of the cave in Roman Paganism), near the Palatinus, called lupercal. The lupercal was the Faunus' sacred site: close there was the Ficus Ruminalis where Romolus and Remus were found and whose fruits the twins have eaten. Luperca was the name of the she-wolf has found Romulus and Remus.

The naked Luperci, after having sacrificed the goats, dressed with goatskins, run around the Palatinus hitting with stripes of goatskin those women waiting to be hit because this rite gave fertility to women.
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