{"id":6282,"date":"2012-01-01T01:10:26","date_gmt":"2012-01-01T06:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paganpages.org\/content\/?p=6461"},"modified":"2011-12-29T18:47:26","modified_gmt":"2011-12-29T23:47:26","slug":"musings-from-the-mossy-trail-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/2012\/01\/01\/musings-from-the-mossy-trail-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Musings From the Mossy Trail"},"content":{"rendered":"

New Beginnings<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201cWe will open the book.\u00a0 Its pages are blank.\u00a0 We are going to put words on them ourselves.\u00a0 The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0 ~Edith Lovejoy Pierce<\/p>\n

As the cultural New Year approaches, many of us look into our past and hope for our future with sincere longing and beliefs of what could be. Resolutions and goals are set now as they have been since the days of our ancient ancestors. For thousands of years, January has been considered a time of passage; an opportunity for new beginnings.<\/p>\n

January is named for the Roman God, Janus, the god of doorways, transitions and change. Being created with two heads facing opposite directions, he is gifted with the ability to see the past with one face and the future with the other. This makes him the median of time, a catalyst of polarity.<\/p>\n

While Janus is known to be custodian of the universe, his female counterpart, some say his wife, Jana, is the Roman Moon goddess. She is guardian of doors and the turn of the year, as well as Goddess of woodland creatures. As when dealing with all lunar aspects, she is largely associated with movement, as in emotional and spiritual growth, initiation, aging and death. Her animal is the peacock, whose tail has hundreds of eyes, thus making her a goddess of prophecy.<\/p>\n

In keeping with our rituals of becoming, it is January 17th<\/sup> \u2013 19th<\/sup> that we honor the ancient mothers with Feast of the Fates, the rulers of past, present and future. We honor the Greek goddess as Moirai, the Norse Norns, the Aztec Coatlicue, the Inca Pachamama and the Arabic-Sufi Manat. They are all that has been, all that is and all that must be. They enforce natural law and are as much a part of us as our own DNA. It is said that the fates are daughters of necessity and serve what must be dealt, whether that be with grace or fury.<\/p>\n

May the Fates smile upon you with many blessings, may Janus open the doors in welcome and may Jana see you grow into the spirit you most seek.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New Beginnings \u201cWe will open the book.\u00a0 Its pages are blank.\u00a0 We are going to put words on them ourselves.\u00a0 The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day.\u201d\u00a0 ~Edith Lovejoy Pierce As the cultural New Year approaches, many of us look into our past and hope for our future with sincere longing and beliefs of what could be. Resolutions and goals are set now as they have been since the days of our ancient ancestors. For thousands of years, January has been considered a time of passage; an opportunity for new beginnings. January is named for the Roman God, Janus, the god of doorways, transitions and change. Being created with two heads facing opposite directions, he is gifted with the ability to see the past with one face and the future with the other. This makes him the median of time, a catalyst of polarity. While Janus is known to be custodian of the universe, his female counterpart, some say his wife, Jana, is the Roman Moon goddess. She is guardian of doors and the turn of the year, as well as Goddess of woodland creatures. As when dealing with all lunar aspects, she is largely associated with movement, as in emotional and spiritual growth, initiation, aging and death. Her animal is the peacock, whose tail has hundreds of eyes, thus making her a goddess of prophecy. In keeping with our rituals of becoming, it is January 17th \u2013 19th that we honor the ancient mothers with Feast of the Fates, the rulers of past, present and future. We honor the Greek goddess as Moirai, the Norse Norns, the Aztec Coatlicue, the Inca Pachamama and the Arabic-Sufi Manat. They are all that has been, all that is and all that must be. They enforce natural law and are as much a part of us as our own DNA. It is said that the fates are daughters of necessity and serve what must be dealt, whether that be with grace or fury. May the Fates smile upon you with many blessings, may Janus open the doors in welcome and may Jana see you grow into the spirit you most seek.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":156,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/156"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}