A New Direction.
For a while I’ve been interested in Shadow Work. I even set up a side blog a year and a half ago to start collecting information so that when I felt the time was right I could incorporate Shadow Work into my study schedule.
Well, the side blog has one reblog on it, and my study schedule never got made (yay, chronic illness screwing with every schedule I every try to maintain) but over the past few weeks I have been feeling very strongly that I want to work with the Shadow side of myself. I think because I feel that I’m entering a new phase in my life - truly coming into my crone energies. I’ve noticed that I’m developing a grey streak in the cowlick above my forehead and I am so excited by that. Even when I was young, I always felt an affinity with The Crone Goddesses.
While my main deities are still Cerridwen and Cernunnos, this searching for information about working with Shadow keeps leading me to one place in Celtic lore - the Morrigan. I’ve always been interested in the Morrigan but not delved into her stories because it’s never felt like the right time, but now she’s everywhere. Not least in the fact that one of my Deities, the nameless Spirit connecting my to Tasmania is Raven, which also connects to the Morrigan.
When I got up this morning, I fed the cats, lit the fire, went into the kitchen to make myself a cup of (Irish Breakfast) tea, and as I flicked the kettle on, the raven that hangs around our hill gave a caw, so I said good morning, to the raven and the Morrigan as well as Cerridwen and Cernunnos.
I’m supposed to be choosing a book to study as part of my One Week Witchery Challenge tomorrow, and I have a couple of previews saved to my Kobo of relevant books I’ve ordered through the library so I can check them out before I part with the money (I need a new car, so I have to be astute with my book spending for the next couple of months), so I’ll be poring over those today and tomorrow to decide what to commit to. I plan (as best I can) to set myself up a timetable to work through some kind of organised study and personal development. The form it takes will depend on the book I most connect with, so it’s all a little vague right at this moment, but a few years ago I worked through Aphrodite's Magic: Celebrate and Heal Your Sexuality by Jane Meredith and I want to do the same kind of thing here.
Anyway. My once I get things going, and when I find some more information, I’ll be doing my best to organise it over on the side blog, thebonecrone, in case anybody is interested in seeing what I get up to.
Anyone who works with the Morrigan, I would loooove to be tagged in information posts or hear about your personal experiences, if you’re comfortable sharing them. I’ve always been a saturation researcher, so the more information that gets thrown at me, the better!
