The flying cloud, the frosty light:
The year is dying in the night;
Ring out, wild bells, and let him die.
Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, .....
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
Ring out the grief that saps the mind,
For those that here we see no more;
Ring out the feud of rich and poor,
Bells accompany a person from the cradle to the grave. Their sound sings for joy when we are born and resounds gravely when we die. Bells are a transitional instrument. They remind us that we are going to move into a new state of mindfulness, a moment of transition from one dimension to the other.
We hear the bells in church ringing, cleansing the earth, the rivers, the trees and the air. Their silvery tones cleanse us. Preparing, purifying the moment. Helping a person to leave behind all that is not needed in the process of transition.
Bells announce the beginning and end of meditation. The commencement and fruition of worship.
This instrument has a significance in this transitional time, symbolised by the sacred geometric shape of Vesica Pisces. The movement of the ages from Pisces to Aquarius. Much change is happening in the stars and in our lives. Bells are a wonderful healing tool to cleanse and accompany that change!
