Hiatus 3341

Every year on Hiatus I share 'A Hymn for Passion-Tide' that I feel captures poignantly the spirit of the day. Hiatus is a day outside of time, not marked on our calendars -- though I add the year date to the title of the post to help keep track of my writing, Hiatus technically does not have a year date either. It is not part of Moura, nor part of the passing or coming year. It just Is. Hiatus commemorates the Day on which the Daughter was slain and lay in complete oblivion. There are a few ways to look at it: commemorative, as I've said, in that it is a memorial of what once occurred; continuous, in that the events of this time happen again every year (which is a more traditional view); or in another, that it is an Echo: that the Divine Drama happened once, long ago, at the start of Time, and Time took on its shape. Time is molded by the first happenings and continually repeats the round of the first Year.

(Of course, no one is required to take it literally either; these are just one Filiani's musings. I see the stories of dying and rising Gods and Goddesses around the world, and look at ours not as literally physically true, but as representative of a Truth that the world has held on to. This post with the long quote about how the Daughter became the fabric of the universe is another good view that I come back to now and again.)

On Hiatus, all images we have of the Goddess or the Daughter are veiled in mourning, preferably in black. Traditionally no new projects or ventures are begun on Hiatus -- those that are, believed doomed to fail. It is a day on which we focus most on the loss of the Daughter, a day we spend as much as we can in prayer or meditation; activity is kept to a minimum. Dressing in black and veiling are also common.

And the new year will be here soon.....