Advent Week 2: The Star

 The second week of Advent, we light two candles.

If your candles are large enough to use more than once, you will light the same candle you lit last week as well as a new one. (Remember if you have a set with three one color, and a fourth a different color, you save the different color for week three.)

Verses for Week 2

This week we see again what it was before -- the newly-made divide between us and the divine, though She shall pour blessings upon us yet. We are told that Her light shall give us signs as to the times when we should bring gifts for our Mother. The second portion reveals how the sign of the Star led all who saw it to the cave, bringing their gifts.

        The Creation, Chapter 3:4-7, 9-10
And She said to Her daughter: What you have done may not be undone, for you have acted with My Spirit, and henceforth shall time be divided into day and night that you may rest. But I shall keep watch in the heavens by night, and there shall be silver light that there may never be complete darkness. By this shall I govern the movements of the waters, that the earth may never again be flooded. And when you look upon this light, you will remember the time when all things were silver. The golden light of day will bring all goodness, but it will be too bright for your eyes. The silver light of night, that you may look upon.
        I shall not live as close to you as before, but still I shall pour blessings upon you, and you may give Me gifts—not in every moment as before, for you have learned to tire, but My light shall give you signs in this matter. And the Mistress of All Things withdrew Herself into the sky, until She seemed but a slender crescent of light.

Mythos of the Divine Maid, Chapter 2:2-4
And She entered the cave. And a star rose above the sacred grove that lay about the cave, brighter and more resplendent than all the stars of the heavens. And the star was seen all over the earth; and the children of the earth were filled with wonder, and they came to the place where the star stood in the sky. And those that were princesses among them brought their crowns to the sacred grove as gifts, and shepherdesses brought the new-dropped lambs, and all the daughters of the earth brought forth the fruits thereof to lay before the cave.

With the second candle lit, a little more light enters the world and we look forward to the Birth that shall change everything!