Post by Lady Anastasia on Apr 13, 2007 16:26:12 GMT -5
Boar-Torc: The Warrior spirit, Leadership, Direction
Torc can open you to the warrior sprit, helping you to find your direction in life.
A wild and powerful animal, he calls you into the forest to discover a secret about yourself and about the world. The Ritual Boar-paths that exist in Whales, Cornwall, Ireland, and Scotland exist in the Inner World too.
If you follow them you will come face to face with an animal embodying the wild and untamed power that lives within each of us.
Stare closely at him and you will discover he is a representative of the Goddess- his skin can heal you, he can inspire you to write music and poetry, his primal power can make you leader or chief. See if you can use your Wildness and your energy for genuine acts of heroism in a world that longs for insight and healing.
Drawn reversed, this card may mean that you have lost your sense of direction.
There is a close connection in tradition between madness and pigs and boars. At a playful level this “folly” is expressed by the Morris dancer who beats the audience with a pigs bladder- also used as a football.
But at a more serious level, those who were mad were often made to act as swineherds. Merlin, in his period of madness, talks to pigs, and within this image is conveyed the concept that madness and insight are closely allied.
Sometimes we have to go through a period of “breakdown” so that something wider sand deeper can enter our lives.
The Boar is the emissary of the Terrible Mother- who is also the Initiator. Sometimes a period of destruction must precede a period of creation, of rebirth.
Torc can open you to the warrior sprit, helping you to find your direction in life.
A wild and powerful animal, he calls you into the forest to discover a secret about yourself and about the world. The Ritual Boar-paths that exist in Whales, Cornwall, Ireland, and Scotland exist in the Inner World too.
If you follow them you will come face to face with an animal embodying the wild and untamed power that lives within each of us.
Stare closely at him and you will discover he is a representative of the Goddess- his skin can heal you, he can inspire you to write music and poetry, his primal power can make you leader or chief. See if you can use your Wildness and your energy for genuine acts of heroism in a world that longs for insight and healing.
Drawn reversed, this card may mean that you have lost your sense of direction.
There is a close connection in tradition between madness and pigs and boars. At a playful level this “folly” is expressed by the Morris dancer who beats the audience with a pigs bladder- also used as a football.
But at a more serious level, those who were mad were often made to act as swineherds. Merlin, in his period of madness, talks to pigs, and within this image is conveyed the concept that madness and insight are closely allied.
Sometimes we have to go through a period of “breakdown” so that something wider sand deeper can enter our lives.
The Boar is the emissary of the Terrible Mother- who is also the Initiator. Sometimes a period of destruction must precede a period of creation, of rebirth.