The
Lady is Life, from birth through recycled remains. As
nature is her ensemble, all the aspects within nature are part of her
train; they trail in her wake glistening with beauty and death. The
Lady is Youth, Maturity and Decay.The lessons we are taught are divulged through the stages of life; all
life, not just the egocentric lives of man and woman-kind. She is not
maiden, mother and crone for these are figures neatly structured to
meet our expectations which is clearly not her station.
Our education at her knee contains nurture and wrath; how we perceive this is ours alone,for life, full of the energy-force, merely 'is'. She is the power of the seasons we call the 'Tides', not the dropping leaves of autumn, but the force that makes them fall.
Our education at her knee contains nurture and wrath; how we perceive this is ours alone,for life, full of the energy-force, merely 'is'. She is the power of the seasons we call the 'Tides', not the dropping leaves of autumn, but the force that makes them fall.
We are the stumbling interpreters, arms and hands outstretched, fingers
wiggling, tripping over obstacles until we learn how to navigate
the darkened room which is her realm. She is there, in the
dark, watching; never fully revealed. The Lady is the faint aroma that fades the instant we think we can
identify its source and the texture of something 'more' contained in the
soil that slips through our eager fingers.
As a mother in the wild She can suckle us and devour us.... sometimes in the
same moment.
She waits patiently as the Lady
of the Cauldron; helping us to descend into the cosmic ooze housed in Her
Castle of Roses to live, love, and be reborn another day, in another way.
The Lady is the power of 'Will' and The Lord is that
which 'Manifests'.
Although the world evolves and changes the Lady remains. She does not
follow. Her methods may reveal aspects and abilities that are
not predictable ....... ones we are not comfortable witnessing or
experiencing. She will make you change whether you come to it through
surrender or kicking and screaming. For what is change really? What is easy may not be what is best and what is best may not be easy. Change happens...
The Ruby-Mouthed Lady is the 'Unstoppable Continuation of Nature'. With this understanding we never underestimate the power in Her
hands.
"
Beloved Blood-Mother of my especial breed,
Welcome me at this moment with
your willing womb.....
for no one has lifted your
veil, seen your face...and lived"
Quote from Witchcraft a
Tradition Renewed - Doreen Valiente & Evan John Jones
