The Giants’ Tarot, Raven Kaldera
Draw for February 25, 2017
Active Influence: Angrboda/The High Priestess
Rune: Gebo/Gift
Hidden Influence: Nott/The Star
Angrboda brings gifts of strength and wisdom. Nott offers hope and inspiration. You may still feel shaky after yesterday’s events, but these two Goddesses are here to remind you that you have what it takes to re-create yourself and your life, better than before. Be brave, be bold, take heart, and take action!
One of those days when you have to get out of the house early, and don’t have time to do a personal draw, so the Universe sends one your way.
The Six of Cups
This was in the parking lot at work!
I Remember
~ Anne Sexton
By the first of August
the invisible beetles began
to snore and the grass was
as tough as hemp and was
no color—no more than
the sand was a color and
we had worn our bare feet
bare since the twentieth
of June and there were times
we forgot to wind up your
alarm clock and some nights
we took our gin warm and neat
from old jelly glasses while
the sun blew out of sight
like a red picture hat and
one day I tied my hair back
with a ribbon and you said
that I looked almost like
a puritan lady and what
I remember best is that
the door to your room was
the door to mine.
The Giants’ Tarot, Raven Kaldera
Draw for February 24, 2017
Active Influence: Rind/Page of Swords
Rune: Hagalaz
Hidden Influence: Hreidmar & Ottar/Five of Coins
Rind appears as the Active Influence again today, this time in conjunction with a card of sorrow. Hagalaz brings disruption, delays, and problems that could not have been easily avoided. Instead of beating yourself up about what has happened or wishing things were different, you need to deal with things as they are right now.
Make a plan, accept the weregild, and move away from the scene of destruction. You need time to mourn, but first you need to get to a place of safety in which to do so.
I was gifted with two lovely red roses at PantheaCon last weekend!
The first, from Karen Krebser of The Muse’s Darling, was from the ritual of The Order of the Black Madonna. I put it on my Angrboda altar, and both She and the rose seem pleased about the arrangement:
A Rose for Angrboda
And I had the pleasure of making a new acquaintance, Sidney, who attended my Difficult Gods workshop, and gave me this rose in thanks. I’ve put it on my Sigyn altar, which seems satisfactory to all parties.
A Rose for Sigyn
Note to self: add fresh flowers to altars more regularly!
