The Giants’ Tarot, Raven Kaldera

Draw May 26, 2016: Active Influence—Gunnlod/Two of Cups; Rune—Wolfsangel; Hidden Influance—Logi/Ace of Wands.

Today may bring a situation in which you feel stuck. The feeling may or may not be valid. Take the time to work through the feeling with someone you trust before making decisions about how to deal with the situation. A bad deal is not better than no deal at all. If you must make a choice which requires you to compromise yourself, go into it with full awareness of the consequences, which includes the clean-up you will have to  do later to repair or make amends. Be honest with yourself about your own motives, and be aware that others may not be acting with complete integrity.

Logi brings in the energy you need to see clearly and to find creative solutions to the problem. As with yesterday’s draw, you are not in an either/or situation; there is a lot of “both/and” going on here, and Logi can help you find a new perspective on the situation, and new (and more interesting) ideas about how to deal with it.

Be aware, be clear, be creative.

Black Love
~Gwendolyn Brooks

Black love, provide the adequate electric
for what is lapsed and lenient in us now.

Rouse us from blur. Call us.

Call adequately the postponed corner brother.

And call our man in the pin-stripe suiting and restore him to his abler logic; to his people.

Call to the shattered sister and repair her
in her difficult hour, narrow her fever.

Call to the Elders—
our customary grace and further sun
loved in the Long-ago, loathed in the Lately;
a luxury of languish and of rust.

Appraise, assess our Workers in the Wild, lest they descend to malformation and to undertow.

Black love, define and escort our romantic young, by means and redemption,
discipline.

Nourish our children—proud, strong
little men upright-easy:
quick
flexed
little stern-warm historywomen….
I see them in Ghana, Kenya, in the city of Dar-es-Salaam, in Kalamazoo,
Mound Bayou, in Chicago.

Lovely loving children
with long soft eyes.

Black love, prepare us all for interruptions;
assaults, unwanted pauses; furnish for leavings and for losses.

Just come out Blackly glowing!

On the ledges—in the lattices—against the failing light of candles that stutter,
and in the chop and challenge of our apprehension—
be
the Alwayswonderful of this world.

The Giants’ Tarot, Raven Kaldera

Draw May 25, 2016: Active Influence—Loki, Angboda & Sigyn/The Lovers; Rune—Fehu; Hidden Influence—Kolga/Six of Cups.

You have significant choices to make today about the material reality of your life. Whether those choices concern how you make your living, where or with whom you live, or how you manage the responsibilities of your day-to-day life, you are in the position of figuring out how to make “both/and” a workable situation. You are not in a “one or the other” position; whatever the options are, you are currently dealing with a way to make both happen, while not compromising yourself unduly.

Kolga tells you to be aware of new emotions (often about old situations) coming to the surface and coloring  your decisions. This could be positive—remembering your long-ago desire to write a book, or make a living with your creative skills—or challenging, such as being reminded of childhood disappointments and hurts. Whatever the feelings are, let yourself experience them fully and come to terms with them and then make your decision from a place of calm.

Choose well, and take the first step forward.

If you are new to working with bindrunes, I suggest you read the introductory bindrune post here, then return to this post to read about this specific bindrune.

Sometimes, despite your best efforts, your highest intentions, your most earnest prayers, your strongest magic, things just do not go your way. This is when the Gods give us the opportunity to practice acceptance.

Why acceptance? Because, until you can accept it, you can’t change it.

You don’t have to *like* it. You do have to accept it. Until you can see things as they really are, you can’t work with what is there to make it into something else.

Bindrune for Acceptance: Ac, Dagaz, Gar

Ac (far left, in purple): Angrboda’s rune is the base of the bindrune. Ac carries the energies of the flexible, rooted strength of the oak tree. Be inspired by Angrboda’s magical strength to increase your own. Keep in mind that Angrboda requires honorable intentions, so if you are contemplating an unethical action, it is not going to work out in a way you will be happy about. Thoroughly grounded in the reality of what is, which includes the realization of your own strengths and advantages, you have a strong foundation to create the new reality.

Dagaz (center, in orange): The energy of the inflection point, the transformation experienced moving from dawn to day, morning to noon, or the change of seasons. Dagaz brings in those transformative energies to help you work through any resistance to taking right action, and to sort out any feelings of being stuck or trapped. Dagaz brings light, illumination, and warmth. Dagaz also acts as a filter (can you see the funnel shape in the middle of the rune?) and can screen out negative energies and influences, and help you filter the energies you send out as well.

Gar (far right, in dark blue): The rune of the unknown. When this rune appears in a reading, it’s a message that the answer is not yet available to the seeker. The matter may or may not be settled, but you just don’t need to know right now. Rather than trying to control everything for a specific outcome, simply be with what is in the current moment. The rune’s association with Odin brings in further energies of mystery and possibility.

The bindrune was done in colored pencil. I made a version with calligraphy markers and a version with Sharpie markers, but in both cases, the colors turned muddy. Sometimes, colored pencil is the best option!

You could also put a drop of sage oil for clearing energies, a drop of lavender oil for calming energies, or a drop of your favorite oil  on it to reinforce the energy with your personal scent. You could also use a conjure oil, such as Healing, to bring in additional positive energies.

Keep breathing, and keep going.

The Giants’ Tarot, Raven Kaldera

Draw May 24, 2016: Active Influence—Thjassi/Three of Swords; Rune—Kenaz, reversed; Hidden Influence—Mjol/Eight of Wands.

The cranky energies of the last few days continue into today, I’m sorry to say. Thjassi cautions against greed and rash actions—your own, or others’. A wrong for a wrong does not make a right.

Thjassi flew so fast that he could not stop himself before crossing the walls into Asgard and being consumed by the magical flame which protected it. Mjol is the spirit of powdery snow, the perfect conditions for speed when skiing. Things may be moving quickly today, but that doesn’t mean you can’t take your time to step back and get some perspective on the situation so you can respond thoughtfully, rather than simply react from your first impulse.

Kenaz is reversed, so you may not have all the information you need because things are moving so quickly, or because the light is too dim to see the details around the edges. Don’t decide beyond what you know; overdriving your headlights in the dark is not the situation you want to be in.

Stay focused, take your time, and watch your boundaries.