The Giants’ Tarot, Raven Kaldera

Draw for March 16, 2017
Active Influence: Unn/Eight of Cups
Rune: Cweorth/Fire
Hidden Influence: Loki/The Magician

Unn is the Undine of Time, including personal history and ancestry, and can see both backwards and forwards along the web. She appears here with the suggestion that you take time today to withdraw and allow yourself to deal with your emotions and your soul. You may still feel battered from yesterday’s emotional storms, making today a good day for quiet time alone.

If there’s still something you need to let go, Cweorth is here for you—throw it on the funeral pyre and release the energy that’s been tied up in whatever has been holding you back. Once you’re able to let go, Cweorth is the torch lighting the way forward.

And then, there’s Loki as the Magician in the Hidden Influence position. Forces beyond your control are at work behind the scenes. Take care of yourself during this intermission, and put yourself back together, stronger than before, so you are ready when the next act of the play begins.

Wild Swans
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay

I looked in my heart while the wild swans went over.

And what did I see I had not seen before?

Only a question less or a question more;

Nothing to match the flight of wild birds flying.

Tiresome heart, forever living and dying,

House without air, I leave you and lock your door.

Wild swans, come over the town, come over

The town again, trailing your legs and crying!

1921 Milo Winter faerie tale lithograph for Hans Andersen’s “Wild Swans”

The Giants’ Tarot, Raven Kaldera

Draw for March 15, 2017
Active Influence: Hronn/Five of Cups
Rune: Chalc/Chalice (reversed)
Hidden Influence: Kolga/Six of Cups

And, here we are, back to the cards being from the same suit. Bonus today: they are in numerical sequence. The odds of this are staggering, and yet, here we are.

Kolga symbolizes the thawing of frozen or stuck emotions, and the energy that wells up during the process. We may be pleasantly reminded of happy times, or be blindsided by the resurgence of the memory of a painful event.

Hronn’s presence is not reassuring—She represents fear, panic, paranoia, and emotional instability. The intensity of what comes up today may be more than you can handle alone—turn to a friend, a therapist, your Gods, whoever can help you deal with what you’re feeling. Notice that even Kolga insulates herself with a fur pelt. Wrap yourself in your favorite blanket, wear your lucky sweater, do what it takes to help you cope.

Chalc is reversed, meaning the chalice is empty. The emotions will pass if you let them pass through you. Feel them, process them, and let them go. Ebb tide follows high tide. Bless and release.

Your emotional experience of today may be challenging, perhaps even soul-wrenching; the best way to deal with it is to meet it directly, and with support.

This, too, shall pass, and the sun will rise again tomorrow.

Peace
~William Butler Yeats

Ah, that Time could touch a form
That could show what Homer’s age
Bred to be a hero’s wage.
‘Were not all her life but storm
Would not painters paint a form
Of such noble lines,’ I said,
‘Such a delicate high head,
All that sternness amid charm,
All that sweetness amid strength?’
Ah, but peace that comes at length,
Came when Time had touched her form.

The Giants’ Tarot, Raven Kaldera

Draw for March 14, 2017
Active Influence: Gefjon/Ace of Coins
Rune: Mannaz/Self (reversed)
Hidden Influence: Glut, Einmyria & Eisa/Three of Wands

The cards are from different suits today, reflecting a balance of energies, rather than a concentration of them.

Gefjon is all about The Work. The only way for the work to be done is to do it, so get to it. The reversed Mannaz indicates you may be feeling slightly detached from yourself, which can be useful for focusing on what you need to do.

Glut, Einmyria & Eisa remind you to celebrate your achievement! Reward yourself for your efforts and results—take a hot bath, enjoy a glass of wine with dinner, read on the couch—whatever makes you happy and helps you relax.