Draw for February 21, 2016

The Giants’ Tarot, Raven Kaldera

Today’s Draw: Mani/The Moon; Ac, reversed; Hronn/Five of Cups.

Are you feeling emotionally overwhelmed? Have you been putting off dealing with emotional issues because you have too much daily life stuff to do? Well, you can’t put it off any more.

Mani brings in the moon energy of emotions, intuitions, and dreams. If you’ve been having strong messages in your dreams, stop, write them down, and pay attention to what they are saying. You are bombarded all day with messages from your family, from your friends, from your coworkers, from strangers, from your culture. Put on your psychic noise-canceling headphones so you can hear yourself.

Ac reversed is Angrboda telling you that continuing to try to be strong and soldier through is not going to work. This rune is about flexible strength, and you have flexed yourself to the limits of your reserves. Strength comes from rootedness, and if you flex any more, you are going to start uprooting yourself. Withdraw from external demands, and tend to what you need. Everything and everyone else will still be there tomorrow with their requests and questions and problems. Today is for focusing on your own needs.

Hronn returns from Tuesday, although in the Hidden Influence position, rather than the active influence. The influence is just as strong, so do not think you dismiss or ignore it. The negative feelings threaten to suck you into a whirlpool of panicked despair and reduce you to paralysis. Move back from the edge onto a solid, stable place. Listen to your emotions, process the ones that are legitimately yours, and cast what isn’t yours into the whirlpool. You reclaim your emotional core, and Hronn has something to play with for a while, and will leave you alone. It’s a win/win, and it’s the only way you’re going to make it out intact.

Spend time writing, journaling, making art, dancing—whatever it takes to help you sort this emotional tide. If you feel you must do practical things today, give yourself permission to putter and take care of all of those quick things you never get around to because you can do them “anytime”. Glue the handle back on the teacup, organize one shelf of one bookcase, wipe the dust off the caps of your spice jars.

Today, give yourself time and permission to feel and to be. Tomorrow can be all about the doing; you will be much more focused tomorrow if you sort out your internal world today.