13/09/2025
I am the Washer at the Ford, I am the weaver of fate, I feel the Norns create the thread that is birth, life and death of so many that I know. And in the days counting down to the Autumn Equinox in the season of the Reaper, the Morrigan and the Death Crone walk in my anima. How long have I lived outside the world, shielded by zoom, what's app and android?
I feel the reluctance to come back to the world as the masks begin to fall like the Autumn leaves on the edge of the falling times. I walk towards Samhain in my sixtty third year to the Summer lands when the world is mended. I am the Priest born again and again who raises their fist at the Sky Father's and shouts again and again ' No Pasaran. The world is grey cast in the shadows if one truth, one reality, one true God and faith and with it the world has become grey and disenchanted. The dance of ecstasy has left the Sky Father's and we who keep the faith of an older world that ever renews seem less and more cut off. We have survived the burning times and yet the persecutions are more subtle, yet bland, and more empty than easy. The hollow men are here and I do mean men, the last men walk amongst us and the psyche and the soul than resist such times are transgendered and transpersonal. I am Sam left behind at the shore of the great sea in the Grey Havens, I am Ovid staring out from exile across the Black Sea and I am Dante in exile.
As the year nears the Equinox and the Veil of the older world becomes more transparent and porous and we prepare to honour the ancestors with bread, we use salt to keep them in the realm between the worlds . The words of the ancestors, the ancient and recent dead and those on the liminal portal between life and death bare witness to things seen, done and denied. I honour the Morrigan today in all her power, Mother Hecate at the Cross roads and celebrate the lives of those taken by pandemic, war and time. Hail at this season to the Ancestors and friends taken by the Ruffian on the Stairs. I shake myself and take a sip of Coffee. I am Sisyphus again the wounded healer celebrating life and its possibilities...have a good day...