Times of greatest despair and greatest loss can offer substantial shifts in perspective and moments of clarity...and in time... healing. While grieving a loss of any kind cannot be rushed, moving forward is part of the healing process, even though at times, you may not feel ready. Note the blood in the water in the Eight of Cups card. There is still quite a bit of healing to do, and yet, He moves forward.
Thank you for reading/watching. This is a collective reading. Take only what resonates.
I live with my Christian family, but don't often eat with them. My mother invited me to join them for dinner, and I gratefully accepted.
My family always prayed to the Christian god before meals, per the Christian custom, just like they faithfully attended church every Sunday and gave praise and offerings (of money) there. Myself, having recently come into a new shade of my pagan path, I was looking forward to the mealtime prayer as an opportunity to actively thank whatever I was eating and appreciate all the energy and life that went into it. In this case, it was potatoes, corn, and beef, which were very easy to offer thanks to. I feel that acknowledging what I am eating and thanking it's spirit and having an attitude of gratitude is the least I can do for these literal living things that involuntarily died and passed on their energy to sustain my own life force. They could have had any other fate, but instead, these particular potatoes and corn kernels and slices of beef came to me, so why on earth not be grateful to them?
I was highly disappointed and a little taken aback when my very Christian mother, with her many Bible-verse wall hangings and cross decorations and strict rules of church attendance (at least when I was a child), did not offer a prayer of thanks to her god. I'm sure the delicious dinner blessed her body all the same, but it struck me as odd that this woman who always managed to appear holy in public was unbothered to toss aside a simple ritual she made me believe was of the outmost importance as a child. Meanwhile, I cared little how my practices appeared to the public, in fact endeavoring I don't draw too much attention to myself with my offerings, burnt herbs, antlers, drum and singing, but some things just can't be replaced (and I'm certainly not posting my practices on social media nor inviting others to watch). Integrity, how you behave when no one is watching to scrutinize your actions, is a key part of any spirituality or religion. If you can't carry out your faith and beliefs in solitude, in your home, even with a scowl, why perform them in public?
I recently illustrated a memo game "Endangered Animal Babies" for Treecer. This memo game contains 72 unique illustrations and 36 endangered animal species. Each pair consists of the parent and the baby animal and all the illustrations were done in watercolor.
I'm really grateful for this opportunity and very happy with the outcome of the game! The game is sold by WWF Finland and Treecer at the moment.
It was only and finally in 1904 that the Tioweró:ton territory was officially designated by Administrative Management of the Department of Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada, as a Mohawk Native Reserve in the Laurentides région of Québec, Canada. They gained a promise that outside people would leave the area and never to return in exchange for not being prosecuted for trespassing by First Nation tribes.
It now officially belongs to the Mohawk First Nation; as it always should have been.
Francisco Bayeu y Subías (Spanish, 1734-1795)
Olympus. The Battle of the Giants, 1764
Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid
This painting is a sketch for a ceiling fresco in the Royal Palace in Madrid.
Traditional Norwegian bridal-wear usually consists of the areas’ folkclothing, jewelry; and a bridal crown/headdress. There exist multiple bridal crowns in Norway, made out of: gold, silver, metal, feathers, beads, textiles, etc.
1 & 2 photos; brides wearing beaded bridal crowns from Hardanger (perlekrone frå Hardanger)
3 & 4 photos; bride wearing a flat, beaded bridal crown from Voss
5 & 6 photos; bride wearing (gold or silver) bridal crown from Sogn
7 & 8 photos; brides wearing bridal headdress from Setesdal
Sources; all pictures are taken from digitaltmuseum.no. Photographer; Solveig Lund.
Gebo is the rune of partnership, giving, equal exchange, generosity, honor, love, and self-sacrifice. Gebo is a partnership rune, so a partnership may be on the horizon (this could mean romantic relationship, business partnership, or a collaboration of some kind) or there could be shifts in a current partnership. Changes in a contract could reflect a fairer, more equal exchange. Gebo can also indicate a gift in all its forms, including a talent or spiritual gift. Some of you may be giving or receiving a gift in the next seven days. This could include a physical or monetary gift. This could also mean a talent or spiritual gift coming to light.
Sorry for dragging the united irishmen into everything forever Also this is kind of captain obvious but that one new hozier song is so insidious given the fact that those irish martyrs he's waxing lyrical about would not even exist without the part of ireland still under the control of britain