August 22, 2018

Sun enters Virgo

 
Blessings of the Sun in Virgo!  The Shrine of Virgo is located outside of the Cave of the Mothers in the Foundation Center Temple.  Click on the link below for audio of Olivia Robertson giving a meditation:

Meditation on the Window of Virgo
(mp3  / 7 min / 1.62 mb) 

Audio transcript: "We shut our eyes and still our minds. We see before us in the distance a hill crowned with a beautiful Temple surrounded by myriads of stars. We mount the hill by a winding path. We are climbing up to the Temple of the Zodiac. It is twelve-sided and pearl colored with long windows that glow with many colored lights. We are approaching a Gateway in the south-east, guarded by two bronze statues of Sphinxes - women to the waist, lions below, their wings reaching the roof. On the left of the Gateway is a spring from which a stream flows into the Temple through a conduit.
 
"We particularly examine the windows on either side of the doorway. On the left, is a window marked "Leo". The stained-glass depicts a naked woman surrounded by a Hawk, a Lioness, a Cow and a Winged God. On the window on the right, is a picture of a woman veiled from head to foot, holding an Ankh in her right hand, a scroll in her left. Over the window is the sign of Virgo, formed by two folded wings and the knot of Isis. The sign of Virgo looks like an "M" and you can form a loop in the center, the Knot of Isis.  Over the doorway is a bas-relief of a Sphinx, her lion's body facing the Leo window, her woman's face turning towards the window of Virgo. Her wings sweep downwards on either side of the entrance, forming two feathered curtains.
 
"Suddenly a powerful wind rushes through the Temple pushing open the Window of Virgo! Through it we see eight blazing stars shining through nebulae. Within this astral sphere of Virgo are the Isles of the Blest where we learn how to weave the future from the past, by using the present.
 
"Now I want you to visualize yourself passing through the Window of Virgo, the eight blazing stars, and we see islands of great beauty.  All may enter this place, the Isles of the Blest, but those who have done wrong, learn here how to expiate and make all well. How lovely are the islands.  There is music here, great beauty, nature spirits, wonderful animals.  Peaceful lions, deer, small animals playing around their feet, lionesses. . . The animals and birds here are intelligent.  You can communicate with them telepathically, as we can with Angels, Nature Spirits, Deity.  Do this. . learn. . learn how to be blest so we may attain this place even in sleep on earth.  You learn here the weaving, because we are the Fates, we create our own Fate.  They're not sinister ladies sitting on thrones being disagreeable to us.  We have to learn even how to turn evil into good, which is wonderful because nothing's wasted you see - we can use the past now to create the present.  But you need help to do this and that is why we need to be in the Isles of the Blest.
 
"At first we feel overcome when we think of the harm we've done.. . maybe we've harmed animals or people.. .but now we see how we can 3-fold make up for it.  We can forgive others.  There's all of infinity to do good in.  There's much laughter here because nothing is more delightful than to recognize the Truth, and often it makes one laugh, at oneself, preferably.   All pretense vanishes here.  Now if you feel you have experienced this bliss of creation, of creating a better future for ourselves and our earth, you may now, I should think, feel like looking at the eight stars.. . you feel spiritual light pouring through you.  We learn here to center ourselves.  Now is the center of the circle around which time flows - past and present, like a stream flows around us - that is the secret.   We are not moving through time, we are ever the same in spirit - no, time is moving around us.  We are not moving through space, space is moving around us.  Feel this consciousness, this awareness.  You are in the center.  Time and space are flowing around you and you may therefore alter what happens.  This is the art of Creation."
 
"It is now time for us to return through the Window of Virgo.  Leave by this Window of Virgo, come back through the window.  We all return to the holy Temple, changed - even a little."



(Shrine of Virgo by M.E.K., photo and audio copyright reserved.)

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August 14, 2018

Fellowship of Isis Attunement Reminder

 
This month's attunement with the Foundation Center Temple will be on Thursday, August 16th, at 9-10am GMT
 
As written in the Lughnasadh issue of Isian News, Isian Voices"As most members of the Fellowship of Isis will know, Olivia [Robertson] decided upon an attunement time for the global Fellowship community of 6:30-8:30 GMT, every morning and evening.  Attunement times are a wonderful way of reconnecting to our hearth shrines, our Iseums, to one another and, most importantly, to the Goddess. They allow us a moment of pause in a busy and chaotic world, to realign our hearts, minds and soul to our true vocation, whatever its outer expression. It allows us to pause in the embrace of the wings of Isis, in the deep serenity and peace of the Divine in all of its manifestations. To complement the morning attunement, we will be adding a monthly attunement time from 9am to 10am Irish time, when a Priestess will open the temple and remain in reflection for the period of the attunement. This will hopefully facilitate a deeper connection between the global membership and the temple at the Foundation Centre, allowing the energy to flow to you from the temple and from the temple to you. Although this happens at all times anyway, we are hoping to provide the space for a conscious communion."
 

If this time is not convenient for you, please attune when you can. "Members and others may attune at any time to our Rainbow Network, knowing that somewhere the Goddess is being invoked and her Blessings sent forth."  (Olivia Robertson, "Maya") 
 
This monthly attunement is being provided in addition to the usual FOI attunement times of 6:30-8:30 GMT, morning and evenings.  A time zone converter may be found at this site:

 
(High Altar, Foundation Center Temple,  ©  Minette Quick)

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August 8, 2018

Festival Report: Lughnasadh

"We were reminded that within the
harvested wheat sheaf contains the seeds
of the new and of what is yet to come."
 
The full report on the Lughnasadh Festival at the FOI Foundation Center may be read by clicking on the following link:



(Photo of the Shrine of Dana, Foundation Center Temple, © Minette Quick.)

August 1, 2018

Oracle for August


"Seek for the buried treasure of the earth,
the jewels of Wisdom and Love."

The Oracle for August is from the Goddess Dana and is the Oracle included in the first FOI newsletter, the Summer of 1976.  You may read it in full by clicking here:

 
 
(Goddess Dana by Olivia Robertson, Foundation Center Temple. Photo © Minette Quick.)