Draw for September 28, 2015

The Giants’ Tarot, Raven Kaldera

Today’s Draw: Hela/Death; Isa; Geirrod & Loki/Eight of Swords.

Beneath the ice of Isa is a pool of crackling energy. The surface seems calm, but underneath is movement, potential, and possibly a lot of chaos. You can shield yourself from others’ wild energies with the reflective power of Isa; how you manage your own energies running underneath Isa is probably your greater concern today.

To free Himself from Geirrod’s cage, Loki had to agree to do something abhorrent to Him–to lure Thor, without His weapons, to Geirrod’s house to fulfill Geirrod’s desire to kill Thor. The plan did not succeed, thanks to Grid’s lending Thor some of Her armor and weapons, as Loki and Thor just happened to stop at Grid’s home on the way to seeing Geirrod, and Loki was able to wordsmith the arrangement in such at way that He kept His promise to bring Thor to Geirrod’s house without His weapons–even though Loki knew that Geirrod intended for Loki to bring Thor completely unarmed and defenseless. We may find ourselves in a situation in which we have to make agreements we do not want to keep, or may be unable to keep–but we still have to deal with the fact that we made the agreement.

Hela, despite Her half-living, half-dead body, is not about doing anything by half. She requires complete action, and there is no “baby steps/slow start” approach. As Kaldera’s write up states: “There are no half-deaths in Hela’s world; this is not about simply picking up and moving and claiming that you are a different person. This is about burning down your house and walking away from the inferno saying, I have no name.”

The tricks that have helped you before are not going to help now. Whatever you agreed to, you will need to make good on. If you can’t make good, or even if you can, be prepared for an ending. Things must change, and whether you are ready or not, the change is here.