Post by Lady Anastasia on Mar 22, 2007 19:21:50 GMT -5
This information comes from the Druid Animal Oracle...
Cow
Bo opens us to an awareness of the Goddess. Her generosity, healing and nourishing power is present all around you-in your friends and children, in your food and drink, in your dreams, and particularly in the natural world that you are blessed to live in. She brings protection from all harmful influences, and by attuning to her presence you can gain the inestimable benefit of deep and peaceful sleep. By opening yourself up to Bo and to her sacred quality as a manifestation of the Goddess on earth, you will be connecting to the perpetual stream of nourishing energy that flows from the Goddess to each one of us. To experience this, there is nothing you need to do.
Reversed-
This card may be calling you to examine the ways in which you give to the world. If you believe your resources are limited, then you will be anxious about giving fully from your heart, but if you know that you are one with all of creation and all of nature then you will be able to give fully and freely. But you can only give if you are also able to receive. How easy is it for you to receive the love and concern of others
The Tradition of the Cow
Bees of small strength carry
The flower-harvest with their feet;
The cattle bring to the mountain
A rich-pouring abundance
-Irish ninth Century
Cattle are of such enduring importance to our well-being that they must have been given to us by the gods. Legends around Britain of sacred herds of while cattle and Ireland was first gifted with cattle when three sacred cows rose out of the sea and came ashore at Baile Cronin. One was red, one white, and one black, showing us that the cow is the Goddess herself- the three animals representing her triple aspect as virgin (white), Mother (red), and Crone (black). Although the gods did have cows- Manannan having sea cattle and the father-god Dagda a heifer called "Ocean"-they were more strongly associated with goddess figures, such as Boann-She of the White Cows-who gave her name to the river and valley of the Boyne in Ireland.
Brighid, goddess of the Brigantes tribe in North England, and one of the most important goddesses in Druid Tradition, became the most commonly worshipped female deity in Ireland, transforming herself in Christian times into St. Bridget. Reared on the milk of an Other-world cow, she took the cow as her totem, and was considered patroness of cattle.
Cow
Bo opens us to an awareness of the Goddess. Her generosity, healing and nourishing power is present all around you-in your friends and children, in your food and drink, in your dreams, and particularly in the natural world that you are blessed to live in. She brings protection from all harmful influences, and by attuning to her presence you can gain the inestimable benefit of deep and peaceful sleep. By opening yourself up to Bo and to her sacred quality as a manifestation of the Goddess on earth, you will be connecting to the perpetual stream of nourishing energy that flows from the Goddess to each one of us. To experience this, there is nothing you need to do.
Reversed-
This card may be calling you to examine the ways in which you give to the world. If you believe your resources are limited, then you will be anxious about giving fully from your heart, but if you know that you are one with all of creation and all of nature then you will be able to give fully and freely. But you can only give if you are also able to receive. How easy is it for you to receive the love and concern of others
The Tradition of the Cow
Bees of small strength carry
The flower-harvest with their feet;
The cattle bring to the mountain
A rich-pouring abundance
-Irish ninth Century
Cattle are of such enduring importance to our well-being that they must have been given to us by the gods. Legends around Britain of sacred herds of while cattle and Ireland was first gifted with cattle when three sacred cows rose out of the sea and came ashore at Baile Cronin. One was red, one white, and one black, showing us that the cow is the Goddess herself- the three animals representing her triple aspect as virgin (white), Mother (red), and Crone (black). Although the gods did have cows- Manannan having sea cattle and the father-god Dagda a heifer called "Ocean"-they were more strongly associated with goddess figures, such as Boann-She of the White Cows-who gave her name to the river and valley of the Boyne in Ireland.
Brighid, goddess of the Brigantes tribe in North England, and one of the most important goddesses in Druid Tradition, became the most commonly worshipped female deity in Ireland, transforming herself in Christian times into St. Bridget. Reared on the milk of an Other-world cow, she took the cow as her totem, and was considered patroness of cattle.