I’ve started to pick a rune a day to see what my runic message is from my ancestors. Yvonne has a wonderful series on the runes that they posted on YouTube, so as I pick a rune I check out what they have to say and allow the message to guide me through the day. Today I picked the rune Tyr, which means justice:
Lately I feel that I’ve gone through the dark night of the soul. I wrote a poem about it which I submitted to my poetry group yesterday:
The Dark Night of the Soul
I bought my freedom
On a therapist’s couch
Counting the bullet wounds left from the things you said
I took them to the river to wash away my grief
Watched the blood run down and turn to gold.
I laid the gold down at the feet of Hekate
And asked for the key.
She gave me a torch instead
to light my way, through the underworld
(and set it all on fire)
Like Ereshkigal, I shed my jewels one by one
Until I was empty and bare
You can’t take anything down
To the dark night of the soul:
First the darkness ripped me to shreds
I wandered away unhinged and dead,
I wept down in a vortex of despair
Shredding my clothes and cutting my hair
She came to save me and taught me to fight,
And with her kiss brought back my sight.
Inside her heart the wild child of me dwelled
Ready to fly liberated, released from hell.
What’s unusual for me is the last stanza I decided to make it rhyme, almost to make it sound like the speaker was uttering a magic spell. What do you think about it?
Astrology Notes for today:
The first thing I noticed is that we have a void moon from 8:21 AM to 8 PM ET. That’s almost 12 hours of drifting. The last thing the Aries Moon does is sextile with Mars in Gemini and it trines with Mercury retrograde in Leo so there is the abrupt awakening, and charge to get started on challenging things this morning, though it may be hard to communicate or really understand what it is that we need to express. Even though you’ll be tempted, this isn’t a time for confrontation. Hold your ground and wait it out. After that, focus on healing. The Moon connects with Chiron in Aries, we need time to heal our emotional and spiritual wounds and to focus on what we need to do to become stronger. Around 8pm the moon shifts over into the slow and steady sign of Taurus, but proceeds to square with Pluto in Aquarius so emotionally charged power struggles may flair up. A practical approach works best, try to remain open to learning new ways to handle old problems.
Art: The Mari as fall fast approaches, the Mari ghost horse marches over the land.