Summer without flowers,
Cows without milk,
women without modesty,
men without courage."
__ Second Battle of Mag Tuiread early Irish text ]
The current signs of the times are there to be read by anyone with an ounce of perception. We notice signs of decay and disorder, thoughtlessness toward the environment, urban chaos and breakdowbn, famine, and senseless wars. To the Irish Goddess, the Morrighan - a being who often takes the form of a raven overflying the field of carnage - these are all areas of potential scavenging out of which new energy can be born. In her creative aspect, she is one of the holy ones who gave birth to mountains and rivers in her ecstatic union with the Dagda, mthe God of Virile Knowledge. Like the Hindu Goddess Kali, the Morrighan acts as challenger and remembrancer of the totality of time: she bids us look not only at the end-times but also at what leads up to them. By allowing Morrighan into our lives, we value each lving being for itself, enabling it to find its own place, to see the interrelationships between all life forms.
The Morrighan keeps her ancient place and role in our society, however much we try to deny her. She speaks the end; she utters the beginning; she announces the victory and defeat of our life's struggles. With her far-seeing eye, she comprehends the germination of the acron and the felling of the oak.
"What is at its endikng in your life? What is struggling to be born? What is growing, and how can you help it to grow?"
[From: "The Celtic Spirit" by Caitlin Matthews]
Another good one, Sobeit, with another good question to think about.
ReplyDeleteMorrigan has only recently become a goddess aspect that I am very drawn towards and that might this essay on her that much more meaningful. She is my environmental goddess.
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