Calendar of the Sun 23 Blutmonath Chiron's Day Colour: Grey Element: Air Altar: On a grey cloth set a pile of books, a flute, a pot of salve, and a chalice of Greek wine. Offerings: Votive candles. Offer to teach or mentor someone. Daily Meal: Vegetarian Invocation to Chiron Tutor of the children of Gods, Mentor of heroes, Teacher of legends, Wild centaur nurtured By light of Sun and Moon Into something more than Mere wildness and savagery. Someone had to teach them, These half-powerful youths, And who better than the one Who is half sage and half beast? Wounded by your own student, Doomed to an immortality Of pain and suffering, You cheated your fate By gifting life on one Reviled by the powerful And loved by the weak. Chiron, Teacher, Wise One, You who always knew The right thing to do, Share with us this certainty And mentor us in our confusion. Chant: In your hands the flame of learning In your flesh the fire of burning In your eyes the force of sorrow Give us insight for tomorrow. (Pour out the libation for Chiron, sit around the altar with votive candles, and meditate on doing the just and right thing in every circumstance, no matter how painful.)
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