The Giants’ Tarot, Raven Kaldera

Draw for April 13, 2017
Active Influence: Jormundgand/The World
Rune: Ac/Oak (reversed)
Hidden Influence: Rym/Ten of Wands

Completion is required today, and it may require much more than you bargained for. The fact that the responsibility lies with you now (even if it was not yours to begin with, or properly belongs to someone else, but has landed on your shoulders) is inescapable, as is the need for completion.

While Angrboda’s rune, the strength of the oak, is showing reversed, take it to mean that, rather than you being uprooted, you have the strength to uproot people, processes, systems, and cultures as needed. Mother and Child (Angrboda is the mother of Jormundgand) work together to create the necessary change; perhaps you have someone who can help, but if not, be assured you have the resources you need to do this on your own.

Push, pull, tug, carry, tie, wrap, write a thousand words, balance accounts—whatever it takes, however long it takes, complete the work today, and sleep the sleep of the just tonight.

if you were born
~ rupi kaur

if you were born
with the weakness to fall
you were born
with the strength to rise

The Giants’ Tarot, Raven Kaldera

Draw for April 11, 2017
Active Influence: Groa/Nine of Wands
Rune: Fyruedal/Inspiration (reversed)
Hidden Influence: Ymir/The Fool

There’s much to do, yet you don’t feel inspired, or even particularly interested. Step back and see if you can approach it as someone new to the work as a way of reviving your energies. You have the experience, knowledge, and skills to do it well; it’s up to you to muster the enthusiasm.

Ultimate Metamorphosis
~ Miquel Martí i Pol
Translated from Catalan by Wayne Cox and Lourdes Manyé i Martí

Maybe it will be a bird that has stopped
its flight forever, maybe a sprig
of rosemary that strangely blooms
all year and every year, maybe a persistent
and tenacious note that everyone hears,
maybe a great river of tranquil water.
Maybe the silence, this heavy silence
of right now, maybe it will be the darkness
maybe the oblivion, subtle, invading,
that emanates from the earth and uproots
the stump and frees it, and does not rot
the branches and the leaves. Anything
that does not destroy that which lives
and I love so much, that does not disturb
friendly people, that does not blur
the clear, deep eyes of young girls.
Anything that does not turn the fire
to ashes, that does not diminish the drive
to live and love; any gesture
that does not leave any trace, any fear.

I will be ready, clean and tidy,
with my eyes open wide and my hands empty.

The Giants’ Tarot, Raven Kaldera

Draw for April 10, 2017
Active Influence: Hela/Death
Rune: Wolfsangel/Hook
Hidden Influence: The Nornir/Wheel of Fortune

The Wheel is turning, change is happening, but some part of you is still stuck on something. Identify what is keeping you stuck so you can remove that hook. Removing it is going to hurt, no matter what, but it’s far less painful if you deal with it now and give yourself a chance to heal before the Wheel rolls onward. Make the choice before it’s made for you.