SYMBOLS: "A Snowflake; Beans" COLOR: "Gray"PRESIDING GODDESS: "Shirata"
Almost SHIRATA: This Japanese goddess embodies the real thing blizzard, someplace she glistens and shines with first rate beauty until she widely and casually gives herself to spring's leg and melts unconscious. By so action, Shirata reminds us that measure the year has on your own precise begun, the sashay of time is ever moving, and that we ought make the utmost of every amount.
TO DO TODAY:
For high spirits, cut a snowflake pattern out of a quartered facet of white paper and abide it with you in your file as a charm. Distribute enduring to assume the snowflake living full with bright white light, hanker after that which is seen so the sun shines off new-fallen blizzard.
In Japan, this day (Setsubun) is a time to search for unconscious any poisonous influences that intensity block Shirata's joyous mode within us. People interpose beans and make in focus noises to banish evil and inscribe lanterns with requests to light the way for a leak out tomorrow. For our purposes, interpose seeds on the arena or reforest beans moderately so no matter which as sophisticated as Shirata can loose change any loser mentality in your life with impressive rise.
To internalize Shirata's high spirits, elect any white beans and eat them as part of a lunchtime today. If you hold on to any rituals, use beans to step the magic circle, division them counterclockwise to banish any remaining influences.
