Today's Cards

Oracle Card: Porcupine Meaning: Innocence - Free yourself of guilt and shame (from the Power Animal Oracle Cards)

Tarot Card: Six of Wands Meaning: Success and Achievement especially in creative environments (from the Lovers Tarot)

My Blodeuwedd Project

I've started crocheting an owl because of the fact Blodeuwedd becomes that animal. The owl will be a reminder how closely love and betrayal live within us. I'm using a pattern by RoxyCraft and some blue-green yarn leftover from a blanket I made for my daughter's best friend.

Today's Cards

Oracle Card: Lizard Meaning: Pay attention to our Dreams and Visions (from the Power Animal Oracle Cards)

Tarot Card: Rhiannon (XV Challenge) Meaning: Recognize the dark forces and overcome obstacles (from the Animal Divine Tarot)

Intersting that Rhiannon is one of the Goddesses I'll be studying in the Celtic and Norse Goddess Course

The Goddess Blodeuwedd

Blodeuwedd meant more to me than Epona. She was created in love out of flowers. How beautiful is that?

According to findagoddess.com, Blodeuwedd is the maiden, and helps with charity, hope, beauty, and relationships. The part of her story, though, that intregues me is the end. She married Llew Llaw Gyffes and then betrayed him. Had him killed, even! Why? Was it because she didn't have a soul? Because she wasn't human? Or was she protesting the place of women in society as Karen Davis suggests (http://www.pantheon.org/articles/b/blodeuwedd.html)?

In any case, because of her betrayal, Blodeuwedd was transformed into an owl. How fitting! Because of her betrayal (a position all people have the capacity to find themselves in!), she becomes a wise but solitary animal. She becomes a bird of prey.

I think there is a lesson in Blodeuwedd's story. Love and betrayal may be flip sides of the same coin. It isn't as far a leap as we humans wish it were.

I call upon your wisdom, Oh Blodeuwedd. Love and betrayal are so interconnected in ways we may never see. I ask that you show me where I may be flirting with betrayal against the ones I love. Let me learn from your mistakes, Goddess. Let me live in love. This is my wish, so mote it be.

Today's Cards

Oracle Card: "Come out of the closet" Meaning: Make your real feelings and beliefs known — speak the truth in love (from the Ascended Masters Oracle Deck)

Tarot Card: the Moon of Boulders (Knight of Pentcales) Meaning: Laziness to be overcome, necessary commitment (from the Witchy Tarot)

Today's Cards

Oracle Card: "Persistence" Meaning: Stick with your dreams and overcome procrastincation (from the Ascended Masters Oracle Deck)

Tarot Card: the Four of Boulders (Pentcales) Meaning: An important but difficult acquisition (from the Witchy Tarotl)

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