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Deck: The Druid Oracles
Spread: Card of the Day
Date: Tue Sep 10 06:29:39 EDT 2019
Today's Card
Crane (Upright)
Corr
Pronunciation: Corr
keywords
Secret knowledge • Patience • Longevity
The card shows a crane fishing in a pool. Its legs are crossed to show the Ogham letter Muinn, and it gazes into the water, patiently waiting for sight of a fish. Behind the pool is a cave entrance to the Underworld, and in the evening sky the full moon is rising. In the foreground grow bitter vetch (Cairmeal from Corr) and bloody crane's bill.
Upright Meaning Corrbrings the qualities of patience and perseverance. The crane will stand for hours peering into the water until the time is right for it to dart at its prey. Combined with the ability to be patient, the crane conveys the capacity to be focused and to be able to concentrate without distraction. It brings an ability to guide others into the Underworld, to help them with their transition at the time of dying, or with their journeying in the inner realms. As well as conveying an ability to work in the "Underworld," the crane symbolizes arcane science, or Secret Knowledge, which in the Druid tradition is represented by the Ogham script—the tree-language of Druidry. In its widest sense, learning this language involves learning to read the "Book of Nature."
Reversed Meaning The crane stands alone for hours on end, simply observing and patiently waiting. But it is also able to join its colleagues to fly in formation or to dance together. You may need to learn the right balance between being alone and working with others. Spending too much time alone can create feelings of isolation and separation. Conversely, having no time to oneself can be an avoidance of self-knowledge and the uncomfortable feelings of loneliness. Spend a while looking at your life to see whether you give yourself enough time having both these experiences. The "shadow" side of the crane is manifested as harshness, meanness and a nagging, complaining disposition. If you find these qualities showing sometimes in your behavior, see if you can experience the deeper aspects of the crane, in which it becomes an animal of the Goddess-as-crone or wise-woman. Ask yourself to what extent you are denying the wise-woman who has a knowledge of death and the Underworld in yourself, and to what extent your negative behavior may be a reflection of this denial.
The Tradition of the CRANE
Comely Conaire slept on the side of Tara of the plains; when the cunning well-made man awoke, the crane-bag was found about his neck
From the Fionn cycle
On the island of Inis-Kea, off the coast of County Mayo, lives a lonely crane who has been there since the beginning of the world—and who will continue to live there until our world ends. This ancient bird is known in the Irish tales as "one of the wonders" and has come to symbolize longevity.
The crane, or heron, is one of the four most frequently-mentioned birds of the ancient Irish and British tradition—the others being the raven, swan and eagle. Since it was a sacred bird, to eat crane's flesh was taboo, although later this reverence was set aside and it became a delicacy. The crane was said to be one of the first birds to greet the sunrise, and was accorded the ability to predict rains and storms.
The Tree Alphabet
The association of the crane with knowledge comes not only from its link with the sunrise and therefore the East, the place of knowledge, but also from its association with Ogham, the tree alphabet of the Druids. Ogham was given to humanity by Ogma Sun Face, who purposely intended it for the use only of the learned. Later, when further Ogham glyphs were added, Greek mythographers credited Palamedes with their invention, saying he received his inspiration from observing a flock of cranes "which make letters as they fly." Since it was known only to the Druids, the term "Crane Knowledge" came to be used to denote knowledge of the Ogham in particular, and of arcane science in general. As Druidry gave way to Christianity, the term "Crane Cleric" came to be used to signify
Spread: Card of the Day
Date: Tue Sep 10 06:29:39 EDT 2019
Today's Card
Crane (Upright)
Corr
Pronunciation: Corr
keywords
Secret knowledge • Patience • Longevity
The card shows a crane fishing in a pool. Its legs are crossed to show the Ogham letter Muinn, and it gazes into the water, patiently waiting for sight of a fish. Behind the pool is a cave entrance to the Underworld, and in the evening sky the full moon is rising. In the foreground grow bitter vetch (Cairmeal from Corr) and bloody crane's bill.
Upright Meaning Corrbrings the qualities of patience and perseverance. The crane will stand for hours peering into the water until the time is right for it to dart at its prey. Combined with the ability to be patient, the crane conveys the capacity to be focused and to be able to concentrate without distraction. It brings an ability to guide others into the Underworld, to help them with their transition at the time of dying, or with their journeying in the inner realms. As well as conveying an ability to work in the "Underworld," the crane symbolizes arcane science, or Secret Knowledge, which in the Druid tradition is represented by the Ogham script—the tree-language of Druidry. In its widest sense, learning this language involves learning to read the "Book of Nature."
Reversed Meaning The crane stands alone for hours on end, simply observing and patiently waiting. But it is also able to join its colleagues to fly in formation or to dance together. You may need to learn the right balance between being alone and working with others. Spending too much time alone can create feelings of isolation and separation. Conversely, having no time to oneself can be an avoidance of self-knowledge and the uncomfortable feelings of loneliness. Spend a while looking at your life to see whether you give yourself enough time having both these experiences. The "shadow" side of the crane is manifested as harshness, meanness and a nagging, complaining disposition. If you find these qualities showing sometimes in your behavior, see if you can experience the deeper aspects of the crane, in which it becomes an animal of the Goddess-as-crone or wise-woman. Ask yourself to what extent you are denying the wise-woman who has a knowledge of death and the Underworld in yourself, and to what extent your negative behavior may be a reflection of this denial.
The Tradition of the CRANE
Comely Conaire slept on the side of Tara of the plains; when the cunning well-made man awoke, the crane-bag was found about his neck
From the Fionn cycle
On the island of Inis-Kea, off the coast of County Mayo, lives a lonely crane who has been there since the beginning of the world—and who will continue to live there until our world ends. This ancient bird is known in the Irish tales as "one of the wonders" and has come to symbolize longevity.
The crane, or heron, is one of the four most frequently-mentioned birds of the ancient Irish and British tradition—the others being the raven, swan and eagle. Since it was a sacred bird, to eat crane's flesh was taboo, although later this reverence was set aside and it became a delicacy. The crane was said to be one of the first birds to greet the sunrise, and was accorded the ability to predict rains and storms.
The Tree Alphabet
The association of the crane with knowledge comes not only from its link with the sunrise and therefore the East, the place of knowledge, but also from its association with Ogham, the tree alphabet of the Druids. Ogham was given to humanity by Ogma Sun Face, who purposely intended it for the use only of the learned. Later, when further Ogham glyphs were added, Greek mythographers credited Palamedes with their invention, saying he received his inspiration from observing a flock of cranes "which make letters as they fly." Since it was known only to the Druids, the term "Crane Knowledge" came to be used to denote knowledge of the Ogham in particular, and of arcane science in general. As Druidry gave way to Christianity, the term "Crane Cleric" came to be used to signify
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a high level of wisdom in certain priests, such as St. Columba of Iona.
An early Irish text tells us how the sea-god Manannan possessed a bag made from the skin of a crane. In this crane-bag he carried his own shirt, a strip from a whale's back, the King of Scotland's shears, the King of Lochlain's helmet, the bones of Assail's swine and Goibne's smith-hook. Some say that the crane-bag became the Druid's medicine-bag, in which he carried his Koelbren lots—carved Ogham-sticks used for divination. The crane-bag is a powerful symbol of the womb or fetal sac, and this symbolism is deepened when we learn that the Crane was considered a bird of the Goddess. Cranes often appear in threes. In the Irish Book of Leinster, a god of the Tuatha De Danann, the divine Midhir, has three cranes guarding his castle. They had the magical ability to rob any attacker of the will to fight. Three cranes protect the entrances to Annwn, the Underworld; three cranes stand on a bull's back in Gaulish carvings. All these cranes probably symbolize the triple-aspected Goddess: the Three Muses, the Three Fates, the Sisters ofWyrd.
Grandmother Crane
The association of the crane with the bull is reinforced when we read in the Irish tale "The Hag of the Temple" that the hag's four sons have been turned into cranes who can only become human if the blood of an enchanted bull is sprinkled over them. In other stories the crane is a symbol of the dark aspect of the Goddess, and, like the raven, it becomes a bird to be feared as a harbinger of death or bad luck. With its harsh and raucous cry, it came to typify the nagging, scolding hag and to be associated with mean and unpleasant women. Here the association is with the Cailleach, the crone or hag, but a more positive representation of this aspect of the Goddess is depicted in the Irish tale which tells of Fionn falling over a cliff when a child. His grandmother saves him by turning into a crane and breaking his fall.
As a bird of the Cailleach, the crane is a bird of old age, and hence longevity, and is also a psychopomp—a guide in the Underworld after death. This symbolism is found both in the West and the East: cranes are shown on church carvings sucking the spirit from dying people to carry it safely away, and in China the soul of the dead was represented as riding on the crane's back to the "Western Heaven"—in the Celtic and Druid tradition the soul would be taken to the "Isles in the West."
Cranes dance in circles: and the ancients associated this ring dance both with the movement of the sun and with the cranes' role as Underworld guides, leading souls out of incarnation and back again to birth (in their variant the stork). Ritual crane dances were known in China, Siberia and Greece, and may well have been enacted by Druid shamans too—using, significantly, nine steps and a leap as a basic theme, and weaving in and out of a maze or labyrinthine pattern to symbolize the journey of the soul.
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An early Irish text tells us how the sea-god Manannan possessed a bag made from the skin of a crane. In this crane-bag he carried his own shirt, a strip from a whale's back, the King of Scotland's shears, the King of Lochlain's helmet, the bones of Assail's swine and Goibne's smith-hook. Some say that the crane-bag became the Druid's medicine-bag, in which he carried his Koelbren lots—carved Ogham-sticks used for divination. The crane-bag is a powerful symbol of the womb or fetal sac, and this symbolism is deepened when we learn that the Crane was considered a bird of the Goddess. Cranes often appear in threes. In the Irish Book of Leinster, a god of the Tuatha De Danann, the divine Midhir, has three cranes guarding his castle. They had the magical ability to rob any attacker of the will to fight. Three cranes protect the entrances to Annwn, the Underworld; three cranes stand on a bull's back in Gaulish carvings. All these cranes probably symbolize the triple-aspected Goddess: the Three Muses, the Three Fates, the Sisters ofWyrd.
Grandmother Crane
The association of the crane with the bull is reinforced when we read in the Irish tale "The Hag of the Temple" that the hag's four sons have been turned into cranes who can only become human if the blood of an enchanted bull is sprinkled over them. In other stories the crane is a symbol of the dark aspect of the Goddess, and, like the raven, it becomes a bird to be feared as a harbinger of death or bad luck. With its harsh and raucous cry, it came to typify the nagging, scolding hag and to be associated with mean and unpleasant women. Here the association is with the Cailleach, the crone or hag, but a more positive representation of this aspect of the Goddess is depicted in the Irish tale which tells of Fionn falling over a cliff when a child. His grandmother saves him by turning into a crane and breaking his fall.
As a bird of the Cailleach, the crane is a bird of old age, and hence longevity, and is also a psychopomp—a guide in the Underworld after death. This symbolism is found both in the West and the East: cranes are shown on church carvings sucking the spirit from dying people to carry it safely away, and in China the soul of the dead was represented as riding on the crane's back to the "Western Heaven"—in the Celtic and Druid tradition the soul would be taken to the "Isles in the West."
Cranes dance in circles: and the ancients associated this ring dance both with the movement of the sun and with the cranes' role as Underworld guides, leading souls out of incarnation and back again to birth (in their variant the stork). Ritual crane dances were known in China, Siberia and Greece, and may well have been enacted by Druid shamans too—using, significantly, nine steps and a leap as a basic theme, and weaving in and out of a maze or labyrinthine pattern to symbolize the journey of the soul.
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Black Elk, the Lakota medicine man turned Catholic teacher, is promoted for sainthood
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' As Society Unravels, the Future Is Up for Grabs
As civilization faces an existential crisis, our leaders demonstrate their inability to respond. Theory of change shows that now is the time for radically new ideas to transform society before it’s too late. '
https://patternsofmeaning.com/2019/09/12/as-society-unravels-the-future-is-up-for-grabs/
As civilization faces an existential crisis, our leaders demonstrate their inability to respond. Theory of change shows that now is the time for radically new ideas to transform society before it’s too late. '
https://patternsofmeaning.com/2019/09/12/as-society-unravels-the-future-is-up-for-grabs/
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' A steadily increasing body of research has demonstrated that peer victimization — the clinical term for bullying — impacts hundreds of millions of children and teens, with the effects sometimes lasting years and, possibly, decades.
Experiencing chronic peer victimization is associated with lower academic achievement, higher unemployment rates, depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, substance abuse, and self-harm and suicidal thoughts.
Most of the research into the neurobiological processes that might contribute to these negative health outcomes has occurred in the past decade, and much of it focused on bullying’s impact on the body’s stress response system.
But a new study shows that bullying can cause changes to the very structure of the adolescent brain — a finding indicative of "how sinister bullying is,” Rod McCullom reports for Undark. '
https://mailchi.mp/undark/feb-15-1258397?e=4fb25275ab
Experiencing chronic peer victimization is associated with lower academic achievement, higher unemployment rates, depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, substance abuse, and self-harm and suicidal thoughts.
Most of the research into the neurobiological processes that might contribute to these negative health outcomes has occurred in the past decade, and much of it focused on bullying’s impact on the body’s stress response system.
But a new study shows that bullying can cause changes to the very structure of the adolescent brain — a finding indicative of "how sinister bullying is,” Rod McCullom reports for Undark. '
https://mailchi.mp/undark/feb-15-1258397?e=4fb25275ab
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Deck: The Druid Oracles
Spread: Card of the Day
Date: Mon Sep 16 07:30:52 EDT 2019
Today's Card
The Guardians (Reversed)
Elder Ruis Sambucus nigra
Hawthorn Huath Crataegus oxyacantha
Birch Beith Betula pendula
upright
Immunity • Strength • Longevity
reversed
Slowness • Combination • Synergy
leaf
The Guardians are three trees which together act as preservers of our health, possibly even prolonging our lives, by strengthening the immune system and the key organs of the heart and circulatory system, the liver and kidneys. Each of them is a member of the Ogham family of eighteen trees and seven plants that make up this mysterious woodland alphabet that has come to be known as the ‘Druids’ tree language’.
The card shows a Birch tree growing between an Elder and a Hawthorn. The three trees act like guardians of the sacred pool, in which we can see Brooklime, also known as Water Pimpernel. This may be the mysterious Samolus revered by the Druids, according to Pliny.
Upright Meaning If you have chosen this card, it may indicate that a situation or relationship which seems to be in difficulty can be preserved and strengthened if action is taken. Sometimes, if there is no expectation of a ‘quick fix’, a problem can slowly be turned around over a period of time by a number of – possibly quite small – adjustments. The three Guardians act by gradually strengthening the key organs of the body. Similarly, if you take actions to strengthen specific aspects of a relationship, this will, in time, affect every part of it. Rather than focusing on areas of weakness between you, identify where you do connect well, and try to build on these. Long-term relationships need healthy ‘immune systems’ that can cope with the inevitable stresses that arise between two individuals.
Reversed Meaning Plants sometimes work best when they are given as a remedy on their own, and sometimes in combination with other plants. If you have chosen this card reversed, it may indicate that you are being called upon to work in a group. Your independence might feel threatened, but it is likely that the synergy generated as a team will be far more effective than if you were to continue to work alone.
Alternatively, the card may suggest that you need to have the confidence in your abilities and the trust in life to slow down and not take on every offer that is made to you. We often find ourselves rushing through life, anxious that if we stop nobody will want us. Generally this is not true, and by slowing down or pausing we give life a chance to show us new directions.
leaf
Tonics and Fortifiers
The three Guardians act in some ways like the archetypal family, with the Elder as mother, the Hawthorn as father, and Birch as the young child bringing freshness and renewal. Each tree offers extraordinary gifts.
Elder has grown in Britain for millions of years and, as early as 400 BCE, Hippocrates described it as his ‘medicine chest’. It is associated with the Crone, and in ancient times was both feared and revered. It was linked with death and malicious witchcraft, but also with protection from lightning and witches. These contradictory associations echo the chemical nature of the tree, whose bark and leaves are poisonous, but whose flowers and berries are powerfully healing and fortifying. The berries and blossoms of the Elder make excellent cordial and wine, and its flowerheads can be used in incense. Drinking Elderberry juice regularly stimulates the immune system, relieves stress, helps maintain a healthy circulation and heart and helps prevent hardening of the arteries.
Hawthorn is also known as May, as it flowers at Beltane, filling the hedgerows with blossom. The blood-red haws, or berries, that follow are so good for the heart and circulatory system that the tree has sometimes been called ‘The father of the heart’. In Druidry and folk tradition, the Hawthorn is associated with the world of faery and of sexuality, and it has become one of the most important trees in herbal medicine. The leaves, flowers and berries contain antioxidants that protect the
Spread: Card of the Day
Date: Mon Sep 16 07:30:52 EDT 2019
Today's Card
The Guardians (Reversed)
Elder Ruis Sambucus nigra
Hawthorn Huath Crataegus oxyacantha
Birch Beith Betula pendula
upright
Immunity • Strength • Longevity
reversed
Slowness • Combination • Synergy
leaf
The Guardians are three trees which together act as preservers of our health, possibly even prolonging our lives, by strengthening the immune system and the key organs of the heart and circulatory system, the liver and kidneys. Each of them is a member of the Ogham family of eighteen trees and seven plants that make up this mysterious woodland alphabet that has come to be known as the ‘Druids’ tree language’.
The card shows a Birch tree growing between an Elder and a Hawthorn. The three trees act like guardians of the sacred pool, in which we can see Brooklime, also known as Water Pimpernel. This may be the mysterious Samolus revered by the Druids, according to Pliny.
Upright Meaning If you have chosen this card, it may indicate that a situation or relationship which seems to be in difficulty can be preserved and strengthened if action is taken. Sometimes, if there is no expectation of a ‘quick fix’, a problem can slowly be turned around over a period of time by a number of – possibly quite small – adjustments. The three Guardians act by gradually strengthening the key organs of the body. Similarly, if you take actions to strengthen specific aspects of a relationship, this will, in time, affect every part of it. Rather than focusing on areas of weakness between you, identify where you do connect well, and try to build on these. Long-term relationships need healthy ‘immune systems’ that can cope with the inevitable stresses that arise between two individuals.
Reversed Meaning Plants sometimes work best when they are given as a remedy on their own, and sometimes in combination with other plants. If you have chosen this card reversed, it may indicate that you are being called upon to work in a group. Your independence might feel threatened, but it is likely that the synergy generated as a team will be far more effective than if you were to continue to work alone.
Alternatively, the card may suggest that you need to have the confidence in your abilities and the trust in life to slow down and not take on every offer that is made to you. We often find ourselves rushing through life, anxious that if we stop nobody will want us. Generally this is not true, and by slowing down or pausing we give life a chance to show us new directions.
leaf
Tonics and Fortifiers
The three Guardians act in some ways like the archetypal family, with the Elder as mother, the Hawthorn as father, and Birch as the young child bringing freshness and renewal. Each tree offers extraordinary gifts.
Elder has grown in Britain for millions of years and, as early as 400 BCE, Hippocrates described it as his ‘medicine chest’. It is associated with the Crone, and in ancient times was both feared and revered. It was linked with death and malicious witchcraft, but also with protection from lightning and witches. These contradictory associations echo the chemical nature of the tree, whose bark and leaves are poisonous, but whose flowers and berries are powerfully healing and fortifying. The berries and blossoms of the Elder make excellent cordial and wine, and its flowerheads can be used in incense. Drinking Elderberry juice regularly stimulates the immune system, relieves stress, helps maintain a healthy circulation and heart and helps prevent hardening of the arteries.
Hawthorn is also known as May, as it flowers at Beltane, filling the hedgerows with blossom. The blood-red haws, or berries, that follow are so good for the heart and circulatory system that the tree has sometimes been called ‘The father of the heart’. In Druidry and folk tradition, the Hawthorn is associated with the world of faery and of sexuality, and it has become one of the most important trees in herbal medicine. The leaves, flowers and berries contain antioxidants that protect the