Quando in un bosco ne percepisci la bellezza e diventi tutt'uno con il bosco, allora, intuitivamente, sei in armonia e in pace con le Dee e con gli Dei. Essi sono parte della nostra vera natura, la nostra Natura Profonda, e quando siamo separati dalla nostra vera natura, viviamo nella paura. Percepire questa normalità vuol dire dare un senso reale al vivere che è insito in tutte le cose.

Intraprendere la Via Romana al Divino significa iniziare un percorso di risveglio: praticando l'attenzione e la consapevolezza continua ci incamminiamo lungo una strada sapendo che ciò che conta è il cammino per sè più che la destinazione.

When you, entering a forest, perceive the beauty of the forest and you feel to be in a complete harmony with it, then, intuitively, you are in peace with the Deities. They are an essential part of our real nature, our Deep Nature, and when we are separated by our real nature we live in the fear. Perceiving such normality means giving a real sense to our lives.

Undertaking the Roman Via to the Deities implies a path to awakening: with the practice of continuing consciousness and awareness we undertake our walking knowing that taking the path is more important than the destination itself
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venerdì 20 aprile 2018

April 21st: Dies Natalis Romae - Palilie

I have already written some reflections about this relevant day in the Traditional Roman Calendar. I use this post to put them together...

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Rome has been founded on 21st april 753 b.c. over the Palatine by Romolus with a rite based on the delimitation of the templum with a lituum, auspices' reading and interpretation, offering to Gods/Goddesses and to Earth, delimitation of the sacred space with a lituum, construction of the pomerium (sacred border) traced on the ground with a plough's furrow, delimitation of the Via Sacra around the pomerium.

Through this rite Rome became not only a physical space, but also a meta-physical space where great sacred and divine energies and forces are concentrated. Rome is thus not only a "place" but also a "meta-place". Thanks to this consecration, or a translation into the Divine dimension, Rome may be the center of other religions but it will remain the site of the Ancient Gods/Goddesses forever.

Costantinopolis is the only city in the world founded with the same rite.

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This day is dedicated also to the ancient Goddess Pale, Goddess of shepherds, sheep farming and flocks.

This is a purification day during which flat bread and milk are eaten and offered to this Goddess.

At night straw fires are lighted.
In the past cattle was passed three times through these fires as a purification rite. 

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The day of April 21st is dedicated to the foundation of Rome and to the Ancient Goddess of Pale. In many blogs there are detailed hystorical descriptions about these importatn festivals. 

It seems to me quite useless to add something else to this here also because in this blog I'm trying to dismiss, whenever possible, the hystorical rhetoric and to reconstructionism. I don't like also that in Rome these ceremonies have been quite essentially biased on costume parades. Too much folklore; this is a carnival party. That's all.

During a day like this a Cultor and a Cultrix should wonder what these festivities mean for them today, what meaning and sense these festivities may have today wondering also about the value we can assign today to these festivals: which kind of contribution can these festivals provide to our spirituality within the Traditional Roman Spirituality today? I don't think that insisting on the purification of flocks can be useful or understandable for us (except for someone involved in sheep or livestock breeding).

Anyway. I ask to myself how it can be possible to spiritually live this day and how this day can contribute to my spirituality for the days to come.

I think that the Traditional Roman Spirituality today, among others, is a kind of deep spirituality linked to the cult (practice) of the Ancestors. Role and meaning of Ancestors (also as metaphysical concept) strongly inspire this kind of Credo.


The foundation of Rome (its myth and the festivity dedicated to an ancient Goddess) therefore recalls an idea of Ancestors, an idea of Beginning, Origin, the birth of a Spiritual Tradition. This day evokes a type of primordial humankind where Life is sacred, men and women are strictly close to Gods and Goddesses (in a very broad sense).

We thus remind a Time when every action, gesture, thought were sacred. This is a Time when the urban space where men and women live is co-shared with Gods and Goddesses. Every man and woman are priest and priestess because living is a sacred action, the city-village is a Temple, every form and expression of the Reality reveals and discloses the Divine Presence. And men and women can easily perceive the sacred Breath (flamen) of this Divine Presence.

In this primal status there is a pure, immediate, direct, plain elementarity: what is immensely great is like what is immensely small. Microcosm and macrocosm are the same.

I think that in this day (rather than dressing masks) it should be better to direct our thoughts toward this concept of frugality, simplicity, primal status which the idea of Ancestors and their cult materialize. We have to regain this deep sense and meaning connected to these festivals, the real idea of Ancestors (a concept we have completely lost) which must inspire our everyday life. 

We should daily reflect about these principles.



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