The Ongoing Battle for Tara

Latest News! Save The Tara Valley Video

2008-02-05T13:18:00.000-08:00

This just in...
Front Line Warrior Carmel sent this on to me today.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KT0qSqxGWAI

The Video speaks eloquently enough that further words are not necessary.
Please watch and if you can, sign the Petition.
Blessings

The Power of the Sacred 3

2008-01-09T14:11:00.000-08:00

(Meath World Heritage Park logo courtesy of Sacred Ireland)

My dear friend and Tara Warrior Carmel, has in her latest email, sent on a link to the MEATH Master Plan (http://www.sacredireland.org/) and in doing so has tactfully reminded me that I have not updated this blog for a long while.
I plead Busy-ness.
That being said I hereby add this site to the list of Tara Warriors at the right hand top of the blog and ask that you please take some time out to look and ponder and consider.
(Note that I said that in '3's)

Which bring me to the Topic at hand.
I came across this wonderful bit of Mathemagikal application of the Sacred number 3 and since the Celts viewed their world 'triadically' I thought it of more than passing interest.
In a wonderful article entitled:
Ritual and Elements a Ternary Approach by Potia from the website (http://www.caerclud.vscotland.org.uk/articles/tri.html )
I found this nugget: "The number three was one of the sacred numbers to the Celts. Lore and legends often refer to things in multiples of three: the three Bridgets, beyond the ninth wave, the realms of Earth, Sky and Sea, the three strains of Celtic harp music; joy, grief and sleep, Scottish needfires kindled by nine men, with the fire made up with nine sticks gathered by nine men from nine trees, companies in myth often are of twenty-seven men with one leader. Stories often have three phases or three tasks and then there's the concept of the threefold death. Ternary ideas appear again and again in Celtic lore and mythology and they have an important place within modern Druidry as well. If we use ternary ideas we can work towards balancing the way we approach the world. To use only ternary concepts would be to go too far in that direction but as so little in our western lives lends itself to ternary ideas it can be helpful to use these concepts in our spiritual life in order to help us to balance our approach to life a little better."

So here is something to consider the next thing you think you cannot make a difference, try using a 'Ternary Approach'.
If three people heed the message and if they tell three other people, there would be nine.
If each of them then spread the word to three others, there would be twenty-seven.
If each of these twenty-seven, passed this to three of their friends, there would be eighty-one.
If these eighty-one people talked to three others, in just four steps there would be 243.
In nineteen steps -- three to the nineteenth power -- this idea would reach over a billion thinking people (1,162, 261,467)!

Want to see it in mathemagikal terms?
Ok here we go:
3 x 3 = 9
9 x 3 = 27
27 x 3 = 81
81 x 3 = 243
And if we carry on this 'germ of an idea' (after all this is how viruses spread - think of this as a 'good bug') in 19 steps we would have TA DA!
1,162, 261,467 - that magikal Billion.

What is the current population of Ireland at the moment?

Blessings x 3 to all who read, think and act.

Taking Back the Night

2007-11-07T17:50:00.000-08:00

Fire

and Feasting on Tara's Sacred Hill!

My Samhain Fire for Tara !

2007-11-01T10:21:00.000-07:00

(photos by LadyNorth)

Up those stairs to my first terrrace where the Fire Bowl was ablaze.

This was lit with love for all of you who lit the Beacon Fires on Tara's Sacred Hill and around the world!

From my small fire on my hill in western Canada to you - Brighid's Brightest Blessings!

Beacon Fire Blessing

2007-10-29T22:09:00.000-07:00

A BLESSING FOR THE BEACON FIRES

Blessed Brighid, Sacred Tara

Be united this Night

By virtue of your Holy Fire

Let Evil take flight!

Blessed Brighid. Sacred Tara

By the light of the Blessed Two

May all be blessed

In what you do.

****

In discussion with my dear Journey Sister and Tara Warrior, Carmel, the idea came forth that how appropriate it would be to light the Beacon Fires with Brighid's Flame!

In doing so, they would Take Back The Night and allow two Holy Beings to unite - the Spirit of the Sacred Land (Tara) and the Spirit of the Holy Flame (Brighid).

Many Blessings rest upon those valiant Tara Warriors on this Samhain Eve and to those global Beacon Warriors as well!

Well met! May this Chain of Light create warmth in our hearts and give us courage to continue the Fight!

Lady North

Come-What-May at Quail Hill

Oiche Samhain

2007-10-22T18:55:00.000-07:00

This incredible poster has come my way courtesy of the Tara Warrior Carmel who asks that all who view it, print it off and post it.

Everyone no matter where they be is invited to join in on the Night and light a Beacon Fire.

(To get a better view of the exquisite artwork and poster information -please click on the poster -thank you)

Blessings

Light Up the Hills for Tara - Beacon Fires

2007-10-11T12:05:00.000-07:00

As part of the ongoing global concern for the Land, may I ask that if you wish to light a Beacon Fire on October 31st, that it not be directly on the Land itself but in a container of some sort?

Here is an ancient idea - a Roman Defense Beacon that was used in England during those times.

Another great suggestion has come our way: using the dryer drum inside an old washing machine - Sweet talk the recycling folks to take it out for you.

Blessings

Light Up the Hills for Tara - October 31!

2007-09-26T13:39:00.000-07:00

On the night of October 31 - All Hallow's Eve or Samhuin -please LIGHT A FIRE if you can, on the nearest hill to you, in solidarity with those who will be lighting their fires on Tara's Hill. Let us create a global 'chain of light' that hopefully will inspire those in power to rethink and re-route the M3 motorway.

(photo (c) Paula Geraghty used with permission: featured in http://www.indymedia.ie).)

The Harp that once
Thro' Tara's Hall
The soul of music shed
Now hangs as mute
On Tara's wall
As if that soul
were fled.
So sleeps the pride
Of former days
So glorious thrill is o'er

And hearts that once
Beat high for praise
Now feel that pulse
No more.

No more to chiefs
And ladies bright,
The harp
Of Tara swells
The cord alone
That breaks at night
Its tale of ruin tells

This freedom now
So seldom wakes
The only throb she gives
Is when some heart
Indignant breaks,
To show that still
She LIVES!
- Thomas Moore 1779-1852 -

Preserve the Heritage before it's too late!
For the Love of Tara
Blessings
LN

A Druid's Lament

2007-09-25T14:15:00.000-07:00

(c) Paula Geraghty used with permission

Rise up, Ye heroes of the distant past,

And claim your share of earth from Hill to Hill;
Do battle once again in Gabhra's Glen,
And in the dark of night those trenches fill.

Let not the present age disturb your tomb:
Arise, O Cormac's son and fight the foe;
And, Lugh, come forth and send your thunderbolts,
And put to flight these philistines below.

Come forth, you Kings that graced that ancient site;
Let Lia Fáil return them to their reign;
Do battle, Connand Naill, and fight the cause
Don't rest until as was it is again.

Stand up, you Hound of Ulster, show your hand,
To scatter your gravediggers out of sight;
Let Fionn and all his Fianna rise again
And demonstrate once more their ancient might.

I sigh for Tara, Screen and Gabhra's Glen
Oh! Ireland, Mother Ireland, where's your shame?
You've let your sons your heritage destroy,
And all for avarice and wealth and fame.

We 're hypnotised by Celtic Tiger's eyes,
We 're blinded by our passing present state,
Ignore the riches of our ancient past,
But when our sight's restored it is too late.

Seamus O' Callaghan
21 -09 - 2007
Note from Poet:This lament is meant to be shared and read aloud.
Pass it On!

The Post that Started it all - A Cause Worth Considering

2007-05-24T14:38:00.000-07:00

All photos in this post courtesy of http://www.tarawatch.org/

A Cause Worth Considering

These websites

http://www.indymedia.ie/

http://www.savetara.com/

http://www.tarapixie.net/

http://www.tarawatch.org/

all belong to a global group of concerned folk who are aghast at the proposed archeological and environmental damage to Tara the Hill of Kings in Ireland - all for the sake of an M3 motorway?!!

Take a look at what they have already done and are proposing-ghastly is not the word for it! and the 'lucky' Irish will have to pay a DOUBLE TOLL to use it! (please click on diagram to enlarge it) Yes they need new roads, (having driven on them I agree!) but there are alternate routes that have been proposed and ignored.

Why Should I Care?

You are probably wondering why I care so deeply about a country that does not have my citizenship?

Two reasons,

One: my great-grandparents were Scots-Irish and their DNA shows up in my red hair and green eyes not to mention quick temper! The idea that a people will beggar their children and children's children's future saddens and angers me beyond belief! I can only hope that our miserable example of poor protection of World Heritage sites (Old Growth Forests) will serve as a Warning to a country which has lately acted like a rampaging teenager, pockets full of cash and little sense.

Two: Tara's Hill of Kings and surrounding area is a World Heritage Site.

(hello, that means you and me regardless of birthplace) Once gone, it's gone.

If it were the Egyptian Pyramids being blasted to make way for a super bypass, you BET there would be a huge hue and cry world wide! (Tara is OLDER than the Pyramids.)

Remember Joni Mitchell's

"They paved paradise and put up a parking lot"? Have we forgotten so soon?

On a personal note: This weekend my dear Irish friend and Journey Sister Carmel will be supporting the many many others camping out on Tara, putting their bodies on the line and lending their voices to the Protest of the Devastation that has already occurred and is further contemplated and planned.

Fri May 25 00:57:19 PDT 2007 Carmel writes: Wish you could join me today, my Journey Sis, as I go to help the protestors. I have a 6 man tent I can give them, pretty sure my camping days are over anyway and will bring supplies. Am ready for battle ! I will ring Mel if there is any excitement and he can relay the info. There is a meeting tomorrow at 2 in the Church at Skryne. They are expecting 100s to attend, I really hope we wont be disappointed! Catch up later :) Blessings, Carmel

So kindly take a look at the websites and see if this is indeed 'A Cause Worth Considering'. Blessings and Thank You for reading.