Post by Lady Anastasia on Jun 7, 2007 0:45:09 GMT -5
Raven-Bran: healing, Initiation, Protection
Bran offers initiation, protection and the gift of prophecy. What is meant by initiation in practice may be as formal as actually undergoing an initiation ceremony, or as informal as, for example, being initiated into the mysteries of a new post of profession.
It marks the death of one thing, which gives way to the birth of another.
The power of the Raven can also bring you the very deepest form of healing, which is achieved through a process known as “the resolution of the opposites”-giving you the possibility of resolving conflicts that have long lain buried in your unconscious or perhaps in your past.
Drawn reversed, this card suggests that you should become aware of the forces of destruction that exist in your life and in the world.
However much we might wish that the destruction did not occur, we know that without destruction there cannot be construction and recreation.
The Raven speaks of the knowledge of the dark and difficult aspects of life, which is hared for us to understand.
Sometimes we, or our lives, must go through a process of disintegration and darkness, in order to emerge in to the greater light of a new morning. To a great extent our fear of the dark is worse than whatever it is that we find there.
Drawing this card reversed may mean that we can now come to terms with our own destructiveness- a rage that has perhaps been buried for years- knowing that we have the protection of the Goddess.
Deeper still, it may mean that we can come to a resolution of the conflict of opposites- experiencing the reality that in darkness there is light, and in light darkness.
The Tradition of the Raven
I have fled in the shape of a raven of prophetic speech
-Taliesin
Bran offers initiation, protection and the gift of prophecy. What is meant by initiation in practice may be as formal as actually undergoing an initiation ceremony, or as informal as, for example, being initiated into the mysteries of a new post of profession.
It marks the death of one thing, which gives way to the birth of another.
The power of the Raven can also bring you the very deepest form of healing, which is achieved through a process known as “the resolution of the opposites”-giving you the possibility of resolving conflicts that have long lain buried in your unconscious or perhaps in your past.
Drawn reversed, this card suggests that you should become aware of the forces of destruction that exist in your life and in the world.
However much we might wish that the destruction did not occur, we know that without destruction there cannot be construction and recreation.
The Raven speaks of the knowledge of the dark and difficult aspects of life, which is hared for us to understand.
Sometimes we, or our lives, must go through a process of disintegration and darkness, in order to emerge in to the greater light of a new morning. To a great extent our fear of the dark is worse than whatever it is that we find there.
Drawing this card reversed may mean that we can now come to terms with our own destructiveness- a rage that has perhaps been buried for years- knowing that we have the protection of the Goddess.
Deeper still, it may mean that we can come to a resolution of the conflict of opposites- experiencing the reality that in darkness there is light, and in light darkness.
The Tradition of the Raven
I have fled in the shape of a raven of prophetic speech
-Taliesin
