"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 breakdown, 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 Dagda, the God of Virile Knowledge. Like the Hindu Goddess Kali, the Morrighan acts as challenger and remembrance of the totality of time: she bids us look not only at the end times but also what leads up to them. By allowing the Morrighan into our lives, we value each living 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 acorn and the felling of the oak.
"What is ending 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]
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