The Moon Card by *pathworking
The Moon: This Tarot card portrays a Goddess of the Moon illumined by the pale light of the moon. She stands in the tidal waters of the ocean, and upon her shoulder is perched a night owl. Her talons draw blood and remind the world of the moons magnetic, tidal, and gravitational influence upon salt, water, and blood. Everything in this card hints at the pendulum like movement of our lunar sister. This work is still in progress, and behind the central figure will be two opposing silhouetted towers…two isolated prisons in the sea. One tower however will have the bars broken. This is a symbolic re-interpretation of the dog and wolf in the traditional card, and represents the conscious and unconscious parts of our being.
reblogged from fuckyeahitchywitch
Alcyone:-
Alcyone, also said “Halcyone,” is the Goddess of the Sea, the Moon, Calm, and Tranquility. There was also a Pleiade named Alcyone (check out the Nymphs page for that). She was the daughter of Aeolus and wife of Ceyx. She and Ceyx were a very happy couple, but then Ceyx died in a shipwreck and Alcyone threw herself into the sea (what can you do? She was a silly young girl then). The gods took pity and turned the two into birds (Alcyone became a halcyon, or a kingfisher, and Ceyx became a ceyx, or a gannet). Alcyone made her nest on the beach, and waves were big and scary, but the gods made the sea calm so she could lay her eggs. Therefore, “halcyon days,” when storms never occur. Ahhhhhhh. It is she who brings life to death and death to life.
reblogged from wyld-magik
