Life is so strange.
There are up's and there are downs.
There are times when we want to be with people and not be alone.
And there are times when we just want everyone to go away so we can hear ourselves just THINK.
Everyone has issues, everyone has problems. But what can we do to get through ours? It depends on the problem.
Morrigan:
For some relationship problems, Morrigan has actually been by my side to give me strength and a little bit of snarkiness with backbone. It helped.
She can also help you open up your sexual side more, to be more daring and open to exploring your sexuality.
Morrigan is a goddess of strength and daring. She challenges you and others around you to be better.
Brigid:
Creative and warm, she will heal you if you let her. Brigid will drown you in a soft light that lets your inner child heal and transform to a more whole person.
Danu:
The mother goddess, another healing goddess that will unconditionally accept and love you, no matter what. Good to call on when your kids get to be that age (you know the age haha).
Lugh:
Creativity, warrior, laughter, sunshine. This god is great at a party, great to call upon when you need a sense of warrior that is less aggressive and angry that Morrigan can be, though they can come hand in hand. Also a great god to call on when you want inspiration for creation, break through that writers block with Lugh at your shoulder!
Just a few tips from my favorite gods that are whispering to me.
Who are the gods you turn too? Why do you turn to them? What personality traits do you appreciate from them and why? What do you need right now?
Breath and be well!
So mote it be.
Tali Ravenspath
Blessed Lughnasadh to you! The harvest time has begun and what a harvest it will be. Lugh is the god of the harvest, but he holds a wonderful place in my heart as the god of crafts. And his consort Rosmerta, the goddess of healing and prosperity calls out to me.
Do you hear her? Her voice echos with Lugh's in support of our endeavours and our ideas. No wonder I wanted to do more than make bread, but to make homemade butter as well!
Lugh calls to me constantly in my crafting, as I always have either a crochet hook or knitting needles in my hand. I am grateful to him for his continued patronage, and I acknowledge his prescence in my life over the past 25 years with gratefulness as the crafts have given me peace.
He has also inspired me of late to make necklaces with hagstones. Hagstones are amazing stones that naturally have a hole in them due to water flow/dripping. I also added dragons blood jasper, lapis lazuli and hematite. The hagstones were charged with full moon energy and the intent of healing and protection set the morning after.
I cannot stop wearing mine, seriously! I can feel the higher vibration in them!
Suggestions I have for this holiday?
Craft something!
Even if you are just drawing something (doodle), do it and enjoy it.
Write a bit of poetry!
Bake some whole wheat bread, make some butter (let me know how yours comes out ☺).
Between now and the Fall Equinox is a good time to work on bringing in some plans and some feelers, let them come to fruition. All that hard work that you have been doing has completely paid off, it really has. But right now, the harvest also means hard work, and sweaty work with cursing and wiping sweat off your brow.
To wrap up this post is my tarot reading for this holiday. My three card pull is about the three things I need to focus on.
The nine of Pentacles is about enjoying the harvest and the prosperity that I have earned. Spend it with family and really be present in the world so you can enjoy your family.
The four of Chalices is a card of waiting, perhaps the stability that I have been wanting to have is here but cannot come without help from another, either friends or family. I need to rely on someone from outside myself to help me keep my stability and to not turn my back on that person or people.
The Ace of Wands has to do with spiritual enlightenment and being at one with my intuition. This is something that is a strong part of my life now, I am not perfect, but I am better able to listen to my intuition and my spiritual life is finally at one with my inner life. There is a flourishing that is happening there, and I am grateful for it.
Enjoy this Sabbat and keep your chin up through this Mercury Retrograde. Remember that it is all about communication, so if you keep the lines of communication open, you will be fine.
Blessed Be!
Talia Ravenspath
