May 8, 2017 | Filed Under Uncategorized | 2 Comments
You may have noticed that the Daily Draw posts have not appeared this week. I’ve been thinking about my blog, and I want to focus on other types of posts. It’s actually a lot of work to create such a short post, and I’d rather put my time into other kinds of posts. I recommend The Muse’s Darling on Instagram, from the clever and insightful Karen Krebser, if you are looking for a Daily Draw.
The daily Poem for Hela will continue, as that’s an important part of my personal practice that I enjoy sharing, and my readers seem to appreciate it.
I will still share an occasional Daily Draw when something truly interesting or powerful comes up, as it’s still part of my personal work. And sometimes you just stare at the draw and think, “Well, then!” and those need to be shared.
You’ll see new types of posts starting today, May 8, and I hope you enjoy them. Leave a comment on the posts, and let me know what you think!
May 1, 2017 | Filed Under Poem for Hela | Comments Off on Daily Poem: Walpurgisnacht ~ Faun
In case you need a bit of energy boost to get you through May Day, because your Walpurgisnacht may have gone rather late, today’s poem is actually a song! Turn up the volume and dance!
In case you’re curious about the lyrics, here’s a translation from the German:
Into the evening sky rise
Tonight the sorcery
Wild people and Lilith’s kind
Steady winds winds
Let us go to the fires streak
Round to grab the stars
Good and evil words
Carrying us tonight
In the willows our dreams will sound
And the winds will Sing our songs
Let’s jump over the fire with the sparks
In the Walpurgis night!
Hear the violins, hear the violins
The fire is kindled!
Follow the dance, follow the dance
In the Walpurgis night!
Fierce in the game of the violins
Turns our nightly dance
And we step wild and free
This ancient spell at
Once only I’m big circles
We dance in that way
Until the first morning light
Our dream fabric breaks
In the willows our dreams will sound
And the winds Will sing our songs
Let’s jump with the spark over the fire
In the Walpurgis night!
Hear the violins, hear the violins
The fire is kindled!
Follow the dance, follow the dance
In the Walpurgis night!
Our window is a drifting smoke
of rainlight, a cage of lichened thorn.
Pale grass, moor walls outside. Inside
there’s Schubert song and coffee.
Marooned in Plato’s geometric logic,
you sit by the fire,
looking like a nineteenth-century
charcoal sketch. Our daughter is due
in three months. You are sealed
and still. The goldveined eye
of shifting embers,
sound of the piano carrying
a hurt traveller’s voice,
one curly dog nuzzling burrs
from her feet on the hearth:
only these move. The bull
who alarmed us yesterday
is a streaming statue
in the farther field.
We are each other’s quiet
and concentration. No one
can reach us here.
| Filed Under Uncategorized | Comments Off on Draw for April 30, 2017
The Giants’ Tarot, Raven Kaldera
Draw for April 30, 2017
Active Influence: Hrungnir/Seven of Wands
Rune: Ior/Boundaries
Hidden Influence: Jormundgand/The World
People are cranky and frustrated, and even if it’s not your fault, they are going to try to make it your fault—or at least, your problem. If it’s not your responsibility, don’t take it on. You have things to finish today, and Jormundgand is here to remind you that today is really the day.
Jormundgand is also present in the Ior rune, so be aware of your boundaries—establish them firmly, and defend them vigorously. If the issue involves something the other person wants that’s not something you want to share, expect additional tantrums and negativity. Dealing with this stuff may not be where you planned to spend so much time and energy today, but that boundary work is absolutely necessary to do in order for you to complete the other things that really need to be done.
