October 2, 2016 | Filed Under Uncategorized | Comments Off on Draw for October 2, 2016
The Giants’ Tarot, Raven Kaldera’
Draw for October 2, 2016:
Active Influence: Glut, Einmyria & Eisa/Three of Wands
Rune: Chalc (reversed)/The Chalice
Hidden Influence: Bergelmir/Six of Swords
Like Ulysses, you are called to leave the safe shores and venture forth into the seas of the unknown. Chalc reversed emphasizes that there is nothing left, and you must move on. It also calls you to the dance with Glut and her daughters—see today’s poem for Hela, “Ulysses”, by Alfred, Lord Tennyson:
| I cannot rest from travel: I will drink |
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| Life to the lees: all times I have enjoy’d |
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| Greatly, have suffer’d greatly, both with those |
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| That lov’d me, and alone; on shore, and when |
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| Thro’ scudding drifts the rainy Hyades |
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| Vex’d the dim sea. |
October 1, 2016 | Filed Under Poem for Hela | Comments Off on Daily Poem: Harvests ~ Paul Verlaine
Harvests
(To Georges Rall)
~ Paul Verlaine
Translated from French by Martin Sorrell
The things that sing in the head
When memory’s absent.
Listen, it’s the singing of our blood. . .
Such distant music, so discreet.
Listen, it’s the crying of our blood
When our soul’s taken flight,
A voice unheard before,
Soon to go quiet.
Blood-brother of rosy vines
Brother of the black vein’s wine,
Apotheosis of blood and wine!
Sing, cry. Send memory packing,
See off the soul. Let’s hypnotize
Our poor bones into nothingness.
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The Giants’ Tarot, Raven Kaldera
Draw for October 1, 2016
Active Influence: Duva/Seven of Cups
Rune: Ehwaz/Horse, Movement
Hidden Influence: Mordgud/Judgment
Clarity about what you truly want and need is required before you can move forward. Larger forces are at work, and you must be honest with yourself and your Gods (if no one else) about what you are actually working to accomplish. This is not the time for cleverness; this is the time for clarity.
September 30, 2016 | Filed Under Poem for Hela | Comments Off on Daily Poem: Destruction ~ Charles Baudelaire
Destruction
~ Charles Baudelaire
The Devil stirs beside me, constantly;
Floats around me like an air impalpable;
I feel him in my lungs, incendiary,
Bringing desires eternal, culpable.
Sometimes, aware of my great love of Art,
He takes a woman’s shape, voluptuous,
And, with some lame excuse, the hypocrite,
Accustoms mee to philtres infamous.
And so, far from God’s sight, he leads me on,
Panting and broken with exhaustion,
Into the plains of Tedium profound,
And casts into my eyes confusion,
Worn, dirty clothes, open, infested wounds:
Deadly apparel of Destruction!
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The Giants’ Tarot, Raven Kaldera
Draw for September 30, 2016:
Active Influence: Daeg/Knight of Wands
Rune: Cweorth/Fire
Hidden Influence: The Volva/Four of Swords
The past is the past; you cannot change it, so leave it be. Burn away what is no longer needed, and use the fire’s energy to move forward along your new path.
