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Deck: Dark Goddess Tarot
Spread: Card of the Day
Date: Sun Nov 08 22:04:45 EST 2020


Today's Card
Six of Air ~ Scathach (Reversed)

Celtic Goddess of the Sacred Isle

Accept guidance and find your purpose.

Scathach (pronounced scau-ahch), sometimes called Scota, is the Irish and Scottish goddess of the arts of battle, healing, and magic. The great warrior goddess’s name means She Who Strikes Fear. She is known as the Shadowy One and the Dark Goddess and she lives on a distant and mysterious isle. She welcomes to her land only those who make an effort to get there. On her helm are the wings of a goose, the symbol of a Celtic warrior, as the goose is both alert and aggressive, making it an excellent guardian.

Youths journey across the water hoping to be taught by the dread and beautiful goddess, to be initiated by her into the skills of arms, the strategies of battle, the art of love, and the craft of magic. They come to stay for a year and a day and hope to be made heroes, perhaps to return with the special gift of an enchanted sword or spear. Scathach's powers include prophecy, and she may read their palm and foretell their future. After the students complete their courses, the goddess sends them back to their people to do great deeds.

Scathach also roams battlefields, collecting the souls of her heroes to guide them in their journey to the otherworld, to Tir Nan Og, the Land of Youth, the joyful ever-after. The goddess is generous with other souls on the Soul’s Road, the Imrama upon which so many seekers of the Land of Youth may be lost, and will also help those not especially chosen. She will not lead the living though, who out of curiosity or despair attempt the journey before their time. She demands they first perform the deeds they are meant to accomplish in their lives, and will offer the skills they need to do so.

When Scathach appears:

Prepare for the challenges ahead. If you do not have a sense about what they are, keep strengthening your position in the ways that you know work until the path ahead becomes clear.

Take the time it takes to learn something or to get somewhere. A leapfrog over the process does not succeed. Patience allows you to integrate key concepts and notice details you may otherwise overlook.

Learn from trusted teachers. Check out their history and their values. Align with those who encourage you to become a bigger person with a larger life.

Balance your mental and your physical activities. The best practices feed off each other to bring you to a place of integrated strength.

Take time out of your normal routine to make a spiritual journey, whether you have an hour or a week. Go see a rock, a river, a grove, or a guru. Restore your faith in yourself.

Walk a labyrinth. Leave your concern in the center. Allow inspiration or solution to be revealed on your return path.



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' Scáthach was commonly known as Scota, progenitor of the Scots and probably a good bit of the Irish. She was born Ankhesenamun Tasherit, hereditary princess of Egypt. Her successful escape from the clutches of the Egyptian priesthood, and her success at evading the assassins sent to kill her, is the source of legends. She did not have a sister but rather a famous cousin Meritaten Tasherit, also hereditary princess, which was a royal title meaning matrilineally descended from the primordial queen of Egypt. Meritaten also escaped the Priesthood to become Miriam, the founding matron of the Jews. Her ‘brother’ was Thutmosis V aka Moses. '

https://mythology.stackexchange.com/questions/3372/who-was-scathach-and-aoife

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