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Valentines Day Empowerments LightWorker Series

Channelling and Manual by Andrea Fetsko & Nan Fahey Layout by Jens Seborg

Valentines Day Empowerments (LightWorker Series)

This attunement is an attunement for Valentines Day like the attunements around Christmas like Epiphany Empowerment and Yule Reiki. This manual covers 2 empowerments - different but still alike: St. Valentines Empowerment and Cupids Arrow Empowerment. They are channelled by the multiple healing teachers Andrea Fetsko and Nan Fahey (alphabetically after first name). The attunements can be given separately or all together on the same day. Valentine's Day, is many places a holiday honouring love and lovers, is celebrated on February 14th. In the spirit of the holiday, we invite you to a little celebration for the holiday of Love. It is part of the . LightWorker Miscellaneous Attunements (originals & re-attuned) Abundantia Demeter Empowerment (Jens Seborg) (LightWorker Series) Angelic Pink Rose Empowerment (Andrew Brocklebank) (LightWorker Series) Breathe of Bliss (Andrea "Aridanne" Fetsko) (LightWorker Series) Brighid Empowerment (Nan Fahey & Jens Seborg) (LightWorker Series) Ceeridwen's Empowerment (Kristen Dietz) (LightWorker Series) Epiphani Empowerment (Alasdair Bothwell Gordon) (LightWorker Series) Ganesha Triple Empowerment (Jens Seborg) (LightWorker Series) Golden Heart of Usui (Jens Seborg) (LightWorker Series) Flower of Scotland (Alasdair Bothwell Gordon) (LightWorker Series) Hands of Jesus Empowerment (Alasdair Bothwell Gordon) (LightWorker Series) Kali Ma New Moon Empowerment (Lisa "Ladywolf" Center) (LightWorker Series) Lakshmi Empowerment (Jens Seborg) (LightWorker Series) Protective Healing Symbol (Melanie Shivanie Pfetzinger) (LightWorker Series) Saint Nicolas Attunement (Jens Seborg) (LightWorker Series) Saint Nicolas Booster (Tineke Wijnker) (LightWorker Series) Santa Lucia Attunement (Jens Seborg) (LightWorker Series) Valentines Day Empowerments (Andrea Fetsko & Nan Fahey) (LightWorker Series) Usui Precepts Empowerment (Keiko Watanabe & Jens Seborg) (LightWorker Series) Yule Reiki (Carol Ann Tessier) (LightWorker Series) and not far from LightWorker Miscellaneous Systems (originals and SE) Ahara Reiki (Elizabeth Hibel) (LightWorker Series) Cloud Reiki (Ali Afnan) (LightWorker Series) Cross Worlds Reiki (Ali Afnan) (LightWorker Series) Gate Pass Reiki (Ali Afnan) (LightWorker Series) Lama Fera (Jos Marinho & Jens Seborg) (LightWorker Series) Meet Your Loved Ones Reiki (Ali Afnan) (LightWorker Series) Musical Notes of the Chakras (Nan Fahey) (LightWorker Series) Negative Entities Clearing Reiki (Ali Afnan) (LightWorker Series) Sexual Empowerment 1-2 (Roger T. Hill) (LightWorker Series) Telepathic Reiki (Ali Afnan) (LightWorker Series) Treasures Reiki (Ali Afnan) (LightWorker Series) And much more to come!

Saint Valentine
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Picture: Saint Valentine of Terni and his disciples, from a 14th century manuscript Saint Valentine or Saint Valentinus refers to one of at least three martyred saints of ancient Rome. The feast of Saint Valentine was formerly celebrated on February 14 by the Roman Catholic Church until the revised calendar 1969. His birth date and birthplace are unknown. The feast of St. Valentine was first decreed in 496 by Pope Gelasius I, who included Valentine among those "... whose names are justly reverenced among men, but whose acts are known only to God." The creation of the feast for such dimly conceived figures may have been an attempt to supersede the pagan holiday of Lupercalia that was still being celebrated in fifth century Rome, on February 15. As Gelasius implied, nothing is known about the lives of any of these martyrs. Many of the current legends surrounding them were invented in the late Middle Ages in France and England, when the feast day of February 14 became associated with romantic love. According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, the saint whose feast was celebrated on the day now known as St. Valentines Day was possibly one of the three martyred men who lived in the late 3rd century during the reign of Emperor Claudius II (died 270):

a priest in Rome a bishop of Interamna (modern Terni) a martyr in the Roman province of Africa.

Earliest church dedications

It is believed that the priest and the bishop Valentinus are each buried along the Via Flaminia outside Rome, at different lengths from the city. In the Middle Ages, two Roman churches were dedicated to Saint Valentinus: One was the tenth-century church Sancti Valentini de Balneo Miccine or de Piscina, which was rededicated by Pope Urban III in 1186. The other, on the Via Flaminia, was the ancient basilica S. Valentini extra Portam founded by Pope Julius (337-352), though not under this dedication. In the catacombs connected with the basilica of Valentinus, outside the Porta del Popolo, nineteenth-century excavations unearthed two hundred Christian inscriptions. Lanciani reported, from the chronicle of the monastery of S. Michael ad Mosam, an account of a pilgrim of the eleventh century who obtained relics of saints "'from the keeper of a certain cemetery, in which lamps are always burning.'" He refers to the basilica of S. Valentine and the small hypogaeum attached to it (discovered in 1887)"

In the Golden Legend

The Legenda Aurea of Jacobus de Voragine, compiled about 1260 and one of the most-read books of the High Middle Ages, gives sufficient details of the saints and for each day of the liturgical year to inspire a homily on each occasion. The very brief vita of St. Valentine, has him refusing to deny Christ before the "Emperor Claudius" in the year 280. Before his head was struck off, this Valentine restored sight and hearing to the daughter of his jailer. Jacobus makes a play with the etymology of "Valentine", "as containing valor". The Legenda Aurea does not contain anything about hearts and last notes signed "from your Valentine", as is sometimes suggested in modern works of sentimental piety. Many of the current legends surrounding them appear in the late Middle Ages in France and England, when the feast day of February 14 became associated with romantic love.

Feasts and relics

In 1836, relics that were exhumed from the catacombs of Saint Hippolytus on the Via Tiburtina near Rome, were identified with St Valentine, placed in a golden casket and transported to the Whitefriar Street Carmelite Church in Dublin, Ireland, to which they were donated by Pope Gregory XVI. Many tourists visit the saintly remains on St. Valentine's Day, when the casket is carried in solemn procession to the high altar for a special Mass dedicated to young people and all those in love. Alleged bodily relics of St Valentine also lie at the reliquary of Roquemaure in France, in the Stephansdom in Vienna and also in Blessed St. John Duns Scotus church in the Gorbals area of Glasgow, Scotland. The saint's feast day was removed from the Church calendar in 1969 as part of a broader effort to remove saints viewed by some as being of purely legendary origin. The feast day is still celebrated locally in some parishes such as Balzan in Malta where relics of the saint are claimed to be found, as well as by those Catholics who follow the older, pre-Vatican II calendar. Prior to this action, the church in Rome that had been dedicated to him observed his feast day by, among other things, displaying his reputed skull surrounded by roses, much like the iconography often used by the Grateful Dead. The Catholic Church no longer officially honors St. Valentine, but the holiday has both Roman and Catholic roots.

The Origins of St. Valentine's Day

Although the mid-February holiday celebrating love and lovers remains wildly popular, the confusion over its origins led the Catholic Church, in 1969, to drop St. Valentine's Day from the Roman calendar of official, worldwide Catholic feasts. (Those highly sought-after days are reserved for saints with more clear historical record. After all, the saints are real individuals for us to imitate.) Some parishes, however, observe the feast of St. Valentine. The roots of St. Valentine's Day lie in the ancient Roman festival of Lupercalia, which was celebrated on Feb. 15. For 800 years the Romans had dedicated this day to the god Lupercus.

On Lupercalia, a young man would draw the name of a young woman in a lottery and would then keep the woman as a sexual companion for the year. Pope Gelasius I was, understandably, less than thrilled with this custom. So he changed the lottery to have both young men and women draw the names of saints whom they would then emulate for the year (a change that no doubt disappointed a few young men). Instead of Lupercus, the patron of the feast became Valentine. For Roman men, the day continued to be an occasion to seek the affections of women, and it became a tradition to give out handwritten messages of admiration that included Valentine's name. There was also a conventional belief in Europe during the Middle Ages that birds chose their partners in the middle of February. Thus the day was dedicated to love, and people observed it by writing love letters and sending small gifts to their beloved. Legend has it that Charles, duke of Orleans, sent the first real Valentine card to his wife in 1415, when he was imprisoned in the Tower of London. (He, however, was not beheaded, and died a half-century later of old age.)

Lupercalia & Gamelion Festivals of Rome

from AncientHistoryabout.com) Twin themes of purification and fertility come together in the Roman holiday called Lupercalia. Priests (luperci) of two colleges (Quintilii and Fabii) met at the cave where the she-wolf supposedly nursed the founding twins Romulus and Remus. Vestal Virgins offered their holy salt cakes. Priests sacrificed a dog and a goat, and smeared the animal blood on two boys who, clad only in a bit of goatskin, later led a band of revelers (luperci) whose antics included whipping bystanders with a goatskin strip (februa). Women so whipped -- even barren ones -- were thought to become fertile. The priests may also have paired up youth of both sexes who were to stay paired up for the remainder of the year. There were also another romantic spring holiday celebrated in Rome besides Lupercalia already discussed above. It was called Gamelion and went from mid-January to mid-February. Gamelion, was the "Month of Marriage." A sacred marriage (hieros gamos) was celebrated at the end of the month to mark the marriage of Zeus and Hera. Preparation for the people included purification. During the month of Februarius, in Rome, which was also a month for purification or purgation. In preparation for the New Year which began in March, houses were swept, and sprinkled with salt and spelt.

Cupid
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This article is about the Roman god. The picture shows: Cupidon (French for Cupid), by William-Afolphe Bouguereau, 1875. In Roman mythology, Cupid (Latin Cupido) is the god of erotic love. He is equated with the Greek God Eros and another one of his Latin names Amor (cognate with Kama).

Cupid's lineage
There are differing stories about Cupid's parentage. Cicero provides three different lineages: son of Mercury (Hermes) and Diana (Artemis), son of Mercury and Venus (Aphrodite), and son of Mars (Ares in Greek mythology) and Venus. Plato mentions two of these, and Hesiods Theogony, the most ancient Greek theoography, says that Cupid was created coevally with Chaos and the earth. Throughout ancient mythological writing, there appear to be either two Cupids or two sides to the figure of Cupid. One is the son of Jupiter (Zeus) and Venus. He is a lively youth who delights in pranks and spreading love. The other is a son of Nyx and Erebus, known for riotous debauchery.

Cult
Sleeping Cupid by Battistello Caracciolo, c.1616, Whitfield Fine Art Cupid's cult was closely associated with that of Venus, with Cupid being worshipped as devotedly as she. Additionally, Cupid's power was supposed to be even greater than his mother's, since he had dominion over the dead in Hades, the creatures of the sea and the gods in Olympus. Some of the cults of Cupid suggested that Cupid as son of Night and Hell mated with Chaos to produce both men and gods, making the gods the offspring of love.

Portrayal in art and literature

Picture: Caravaggios's Amor Vincit Omnia In painting and sculpture, Cupid is often portrayed as a nude winged boy armed with a bow and a quiver of arrows. The Hindu Kama also has a very similar description. The traditional Christian depiction of a cherub is based on him. On gems and other surviving pieces, he is usually shown amusing himself with childhood play, sometimes driving a hoop, throwing darts, catching a butterfly, or flirting with a nymph. He is often depicted with his mother (in graphic arts, this is nearly always Venus), playing a horn. He is also shown wearing a helmet and carrying a buckler, perhaps in reference to Virgils Omnia vincit amor or as political satire on wars for love or love as war.

Cupid figures prominently in ariel poetry, lyrics and, of course, elegiac love and metamorphic poetry. In epic poetry, he is less often invoked, but he does appear in Virgil's Aeneid changed into the shape of Ascanius inspiring Dido's love. In later literature, Cupid is frequently invoked as fickle, playful, and perverse. He is often depicted as carrying two sets of arrows: one set goldheaded, which inspire love; and the other lead-headed, which inspire hatred. The best-known story involving Cupid is the tale of Cupid and Psyche. Cupid is the most famous of Valentine symbols and everybody knows that boy armed with bow and arrows, and piercing hearts. He is known as a mischievous, winged child armed with bow and arrows. The arrows signify desires and emotions of love, and Cupid aims those arrows at Gods and Humans, causing them to fall deeply in love. Cupid has always played a role in the celebrations of love and lovers. In ancient Greece he was known as Eros, the young son of Aphrodite, the goddess of love and beauty. To the Roman's he was Cupid, and his mother was Venus. There is a very interesting story about Cupid and His mortal Bride Psyche in Roman mythology. Venus was jealous of the beauty of Psyche, and ordered Cupid to punish the mortal. But instead, Cupid fell deeply in love with her. He took her as his wife, but as a mortal she was forbidden to look at him. Psyche was happy until her sisters persuaded her to look at Cupid. as soon as Psyche looked at Cupid, Cupid punished her by leaving her. Their lovely castle and gardens vanished too. Psyche found herself alone in an open field with no signs of other beings or Cupid. As she wandered trying to find her love, she came upon the temple of Venus. Wishing to destroy her, the goddess of love gave Psyche a series of tasks, each harder and more dangerous then the last. For her last task Psyche was given a little box and told to take it to the underworld. She was told to get some of the beauty of Proserpine, the wife of Pluto, and put it in the box. During her trip she was given tips on avoiding the dangers of the realm of the dead. She was also warned not to open the box. But Temptation overcame Psyche and she opened the box. But instead of finding beauty, she found deadly slumber. Cupid found her lifeless on the ground. He gathered the deadly sleep from her body and put it back in the box. Cupid forgave her, as did Venus. The gods, moved by Psyche's love for Cupid made her a goddess. Today, Cupid and his arrows have become the most popular of love signs, and love is most frequently depicted by two hearts pierced by an arrow, Cupid's arrow.

Eros
by Ron Leadbetter Eros, the Greek god of love and sexual desire (the word eros, which is found in the Iliad by Homer, is a common noun meaning sexual desire). He was also worshiped as a fertility god, believed to be a contemporary of the primeval Chaos, which makes Eros one of the oldest gods. In the Dionysian Mysteries Eros is referred to as "protagonus", the first born. But there are many variations to whom the parents of Eros really where. According to Aristophanes (Birds) he was born from Erebus and Nyx (Night); in later mythology Eros is the offspring of Aphrodite and Ares. Yet in the Theogony, the epic poem written by Hesiod, it mentions a typified Eros as being an attendant of Aphrodite, but not her son. Another legend says that he was the son of Iris and Zephyrus. From the early legend of Eros it is said that he was responsible for the embraces of Uranus (Heaven or Sky) and Gaia (Earth), and from their union were born many offspring. It was also written that Eros hatched our race and made it appear first into the light (Birds, by Aristophanes). Although one of the oldest gods, he was a latecomer to Greek religion. He was worshiped in many regions of Greece, at Thespiae there was an ancient fertility cult, and in Athens he and Aphrodite had a joint cult. Also in Athens the fourth day of every month was sacred to Eros. Sometimes Eros was worshiped by the name Erotes (which is the plural of Eros); this personified all the attractions that evoked love and desire, this included heterosexual and homosexual allurements. Anteros (the Returner of Love also known as the god of Mutual Love) was the brother of Eros, which comes from the version of which Aphrodite and Ares are said to be the mother and father of Eros. Eros is usually depicted as a young winged boy, with his bow and arrows at the ready, to either shoot into the hearts of gods or mortals which would rouse them to desire. His arrows came in two types: golden with dove feathers which aroused love, or leaden arrows which had owl feathers that caused indifference. Sappho the poet summarized Eros as being bitter sweet, and cruel to his victims, yet he was also charming and very beautiful. Being unscrupulous, and a danger to those around him, Eros would make as much mischief as he possibly could by wounding the hearts of all, but according to one legend he himself fell in love. This legend tells us that Eros was always at his mothers side assisting her in all her conniving and godly affairs. The legend goes on to say that Aphrodite became jealous of the beauty of a mortal, a beautiful young woman named Psyche. In her fit of jealousy Aphrodite asked Eros to shoot his arrow into the heart of Psyche and make her fall in love with the ugliest man on earth. He agreed to carry out his mothers wishes, but on seeing her beauty Eros fell deeply in love with Psyche himself. He would visit her every night, but he made himself invisible by telling Psyche not to light her chamber. Psyche fell in love with Eros even though she could not see him, until one night curiosity overcame her. She concealed a lamp and while Eros slept she lit the lamp, revealing the identity of Eros. But a drop of hot oil spilt from the lamp awakening the god. Angered she had seen him Eros fled and the distraught Psyche roamed the earth trying in vain to find her lover. In the end Zeus took pity and reunited them, he also gave his consent for them to marry. There are variations of this legend but most have the same outcome.

The Romans borrowed Eros from the Greeks and named him Cupid (Latin cupido meaning desire). Eros has been depicted in art in many ways. The Romans regarded him as a symbol of life after death and decorated sarcophagi with his image. The Greeks regarded him as most beautiful and handsome, the most loved and the most loving. They placed statues of him in gymnasiums (as most athletes were thought to be beautiful). He was depicted on every form of utensil, from drinking vessels to oil flasks, usually showing him ready to fire an arrow into the heart of an unsuspecting victim.

Cupids Arrow Empowerment

Channelled by Andrea Included as part of this Valentine empowerment is an empowerment to the god Cupid or Eros. One day while driving to work he appeared on the passenger side of my car and asked me to work with him. I was quite amazed at how he fit his wings into the car and also his bow and he had not a stitch of clothing on at all. I do remember sandals, though. I asked how can I help and he handed me his bow and arrows and said he would teach us how to use them. He ethereally placed these bows and arrows into my aura to be used as needed. On subsequent classes he did help me to know how to use these for making peace between people fightingand bringing the sad and forlorn in love to a greater understanding of what is going on. Basically in my mind I bring the two persons who are fighting to a session with Cupid/Eros and he does the shooting of the arrows as there are different arrows that he uses besides the ones of antiquity.