Draw for March 31, 2017

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The Giants’ Tarot, Raven Kaldera

Draw for March 31, 2017
Active Influence: Skadi/Justice
Rune: Os/God Voice and Dagaz/Breakthrough
Hidden Influence: Billing/King of Coins

Big Things are happening, and you are part of them. You can’t control everything, but you must do your part diligently and promptly. You have what you need to do what you must, even if you feel otherwise. The Gods are speaking to you, and perhaps through you. Os is associated with Loki, Odin, Saga, and Bragi, and Dagaz is associated with Loki. Consider the source when you interpret the message; all of Them are known for cleverness of wordplay.

Listen carefully, act calmly, speak wisely. Today may end very different than it began.

Daily Poem: A Woman Speaks ~ Audre Lorde

March 30, 2017 | Filed Under Poem for Hela | Comments Off

A Woman Speaks
~ Audre Lorde

Moon marked and touched by sun

my magic is unwritten

but when the sea turns back

it will leave my shape behind.

I seek no favor

untouched by blood

unrelenting as the curse of love

permanent as my errors

or my pride

I do not mix

love with pity

nor hate with scorn

and if you would know me

look into the entrails of Uranus

where the restless oceans pound.

I do not dwell

within my birth nor my divinities

who am ageless and half-grown

and still seeking

my sisters

witches in Dahomey

wear me inside their coiled cloths

as our mother did

mourning.

I have been woman

for a long time

beware my smile

I am treacherous with old magic

and the noon’s new fury

with all your wide futures

promised

I am

woman

and not white.

Draw for March 30, 2017

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The Giants’ Tarot, Raven Kaldera

Draw for March 30, 2017
Active Influence: Nidhogg/Strength
Rune: Ear/Grave (reversed)
Hidden Influence: Fenja & Menja/Two of Coins

The only thing holding you back is your insistence on clinging to what is no longer yours, whether asset or liability. You have a lot to do, and you have the strength and resources to do it. Be present today, focus on your goals for the future, and do the work. Focusing on the past will only compromise what’s to come. Let go and get on with it.

Daily Poem: A Psalm of Life ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

March 29, 2017 | Filed Under Poem for Hela | Comments Off

I chose today’s poem deliberately rather than randomly, as the last stanza ties in nicely with today’s draw.

A Psalm of Life
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

What The Heart Of The Young Man Said To The Psalmist.

Tell me not, in mournful numbers,

Life is but an empty dream!

For the soul is dead that slumbers,

And things are not what they seem.

Life is real! Life is earnest!

And the grave is not its goal;

Dust thou art, to dust returnest,

Was not spoken of the soul.

Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,

Is our destined end or way;

But to act, that each to-morrow

Find us farther than to-day.

Art is long, and Time is fleeting,

And our hearts, though stout and brave,

Still, like muffled drums, are beating

Funeral marches to the grave.

In the world’s broad field of battle,

In the bivouac of Life,

Be not like dumb, driven cattle!

Be a hero in the strife!

Trust no Future, howe’er pleasant!

Let the dead Past bury its dead!

Act,— act in the living Present!

Heart within, and God o’erhead!

Lives of great men all remind us

We can make our lives sublime,

And, departing, leave behind us

Footprints on the sands of time;

Footprints, that perhaps another,

Sailing o’er life’s solemn main,

A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,

Seeing, shall take heart again.

Let us, then, be up and doing,

With a heart for any fate;

Still achieving, still pursuing,

Learn to labor and to wait.

Draw for March 29, 2017

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The Giants’ Tarot, Raven Kaldera

Draw for March 29, 2017
Active Influence: Olvalde & Sons/8 of Coins
Rune: Inguz/Fertility
Hidden Influence: Garm/Nine of Swords

Creative energies are flowing today, and you are able to focus on your work without a lot of external distractions. The challenge may be to keep your internal stuff in line, however. This is not the day to spend in abstract contemplation—this is the day to Do Things.

Draw for March 31, 2017

Daily Poem: A Woman Speaks ~ Audre Lorde

Draw for March 30, 2017

Daily Poem: A Psalm of Life ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Draw for March 29, 2017

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