04/08/2026
Resurrection, Rebirth, Renewal
by Rev. Amari Magdalena
Christians world-wide are celebrating Easter today with an emphasis on the resurrection––the act of rising from the dead––the main emphasis. Other religious traditions are celebrating deliverance. These celebrations come on the heals of Spring Equinox and Nowruz with acknowledgements of birth, renewal, and the return of light.
Candy rabbits and colored eggs, woven in to the fabric of modern Western celebrations of Easter, take some preeminence over the deeper meaning of this special time of year. Yet perhaps they are not so very removed from the theme of new life in that the sweetness of Spring and the symbol of new life potential––the egg–– both of which were woven into the old way traditions honoring Goddess Ostara.
The greater theme of this day and the other celebrations is about starting anew in our mastery of the human form Divine. Each time that we recognize our potential for completely starting over, we are renewed and reborn and ultimately rise above (experience resurrection), the more mundane aspects of corporal life.
Eggs have their own unique interpretation for these celebrations. In shamanism we speak to the egg as representing our 3-layered bodies—spiritual, ethereal, and corporal. As spirits we are eternal beings composed of the essential whatness of life (the yolk). When we are moved to take a form, an etheric body is formed (the liquid white) acting as buffer between the essence and outer layer form (shell) corporal body. Each of the bodies serves a valuable purpose allowing us to experience form and formlessness.
When we experience through some transcendent occurrence a rebirth we are taken back to connection with essence. Connection with essence allows us to re-craft our lives, bending, shaping, and hopefully molding, form to better suit our life mission. The new form that emerges is resurrected out of the death or surrender of those aspects of material, corporal life that caused us to feel unhappy, uncomfortable, crucified.
Recognizing that choice is a major component in our personal Constitution and Bill of Rights, we can consciously select rebirth whenever we feel that our spirit is somehow contained in a box of limitation. This begins with shapeshifting our thoughts as we begin to mentally loose the corners of each box, we find ourselves in and view those corners bending into a curve and forming a circle. Within the continuity and fluid movement of the circle our innate freedom is restored, and we move into limitless possibilities of creation.
Many now accept the concept that we are the “I Am” or Divinity within that we’d sought for so long without. If we accept that as truth, it follows that we have all of the tools with which to create and recreate after our heart’s desires. More importantly, we do not have to wait for special days like Easter or Christmas or New Year’s to make important changes.
By adopting a process of monitoring, ourselves through self-reflection, meditation, ceremony, ritual, journaling, contemplation etc., we can at any time of year be reborn. In that rebirth, I invite you to “look with wonder” at each earth day and make it a heaven. Embrace all of the magical tools not limited to mystics and avatars but rather your inheritance as the “I Am.” Remember who you are and rise above the chaos and confusion of the dream basking in the truth of your inherent divinity.
Nice words you say but, how?? There is always a point of beginning––each day begins anew. Change requires a commitment and a willingness to move outside our uncomfortable comfort zone to try on the new. Like garments, some new things fit better than others yet fit does occur if you are willing to persevere. Willingness and allowance are words that if incorporated into your commitment for change, will act as catalysts for the new. Today the marketplace is flooded with books, classes, CD’s, videos, workshops, talks etc. by advocates of new thought and evolutionary consciousness. Partake! Eventually, but surely, you will find your way to resurrection of thought, rebirth of consciousness and renewal of your life.
As Dorothy was told by good witch, Glinda, when asking about how to get to Oz [Wisdom], “It’s always best to start at the beginning––and all you do is follow the Yellow Brick Road.”
© Amari Magdalena 2022
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