Mystery of Easter

Every year, I like to publish an Annual Easter reminder that the Ancient Cults of Resurrection are rooted in the Marriage of Earth with the Celestial Sphere.

In the larger historical picture, Eostre is part of a long line of dawn goddesses including the Sumerian Inanna, Greek Eos, Roman Aurora and Indian Ushas who were derived from the cosmological symbolism of the Sun and Venus rising together from the eastern sky. Heralding the Good News that life indeed withers & passes away, and the. rises again! The planet Venus was thus the East Star, or ‘Easter,’ of the sunrise. And the Sun, is her Son.

Easter is simply another Pagan, Earth Based Mystery celebration, that was co-opted by the Romans to increase participation in their new Religion.

Christmas is the Celebration of Winter, and the birth of the “Sun” (Son) while Easter, is the Pagan celebration of “Spring”. The Sun Overcoming the Dark.

Easter, and the Mystery Cults of Resurrection have a deep connection to the ancient lineages of the Goddess and their symbolism as the bridge between Heaven and Earth. The Original and only Portal.

The Goddess (Venus) and the Sun (Son)

Last year, Clark Strand Published the following, and I’d like to share it with you, because it so beautifully encapsulates what we are all secretly celebrating today.

"IS IT ALL REALLY ABOUT JESUS?

(Or, Where Do the Mysteries of the Rosary Come from Anyway?)

A few years ago, just before Easter, we had a lively discussion after one of our meetings about the Fifteen Mysteries and the fact that—especially for survivors of patriarchal religious institutions—they can feel so Jesus heavy. I agreed to write something up at that time so that we had a record of the discussion and the things we talked about. Here is the gist of it.

Christianity is a mystery religion. The story it tells is an ecological story, not a theological one—a redemptive story of circular time, rather than a punitive story of linear time, or “end time.” The church doesn’t interpret the Christian story that way because it has spent two thousand years denying its roots in pagan mystery religion. But it’s all there—a secret hidden in plain view about which the popes and priests must, of necessity, remain willfully unaware. Otherwise, they would have to become feminists.

The Christian mysteries are pagan mysteries. As preserved in the fifteen mysteries of the rosary, the Christian story is a retelling of a much older story of a Mother Goddess and Her Lover (sometimes her Son or Brother) who is slain and then resurrected, usually in the spring time, as the world is beginning to regreen and the crops begin to grow. The Christian story is an ecological story about a Mother Goddess whose body includes ALL bodies. This is the way Kirkpatrick Sale explains it at the end of his most recent book, The Collapse of 2020:

“The reason that the collapse of human civilization does not trouble me overmuch is that I am an ardent believer in Gaea, the mother earth, creator of the creators, first of the cosmos, in the words of Plato, “a living creature, one and visible, containing within herself all living creatures.”

Jesus is defined by his relationship with Mary. The Catholic Church calls Mary the “Mother of God” because she gave birth to Jesus, not because it believes her to be divine. In a mystery religion it is just the opposite. The child/brother/lover (who is often mortal) is defined by his relationship to the Mother Goddess. There are lots of leftover pagan “tells” in the rosary to indicate that this is the case.

One of the most obvious is the Greek term Parthenos that is used for “virgin” is the New Testament story. A “virgin” was a free agent: a woman who chose to retain her sexual independence, taking lovers, and even conceiving a child, without the need for a husband. In religious contexts, the term was applied to goddesses like Artemis or Athena.

The rosary is a Marian narrative. Jesus occupies an important position in the story of the fifteen mysteries, but the overall narrative, which begins with Mary and ends with Mary, indicates that the rosary is a gynocentric devotion—"one centered on or concerned with women; taking a female point of view.”

I’ve always loved the point Clark makes in his book “Way of the Rose”, that the rosary 📿 is actually made in the shape of Venus ♀. Along with its math. There are 5 sections of Rosary. And Venus makes a five petaled star in Sky called the Celestial Rose. In addition, the “Rosary” was originally made from Roses, and we all know that the Goddess has a strong connection these gorgeous, Fibonacci spiraled flowers. The Fibonacci sequence has its own message of the fractal spiral of life encoded in it. The very same message of the Eastern Star.

Quotations by Author Clark Strand

Art by Sacred Path Art find of Etsy.

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