The Cailleach's Message

(Also posted on Hearth Fox Oracle and Book of Mirrors)

Last night I was working on writing a Midwinter (Feb 1st) ritual.  I have one that I wrote for my family last year, but I hardly ever use the same script.  Last year, my family focused on Cailleach and how soon spring would return.  This year I'm feeling a pull to Elen of the Ways, or as my guides named her the "Antlered Guidess".

As I was writing it, I kept seeing this Antlered Goddess, whom I am a priestess of.  She wanted to focus on guiding.  Okay, I needed more details, so I got out my Imbolc Oracle deck (by Lorraine Anderson and Juliet Diaz).  A card jumped from the deck.  I drew one more.

Bloodstone and Aquarius.  Ignoring the truth and the need to surrender is what I gathered from these cards.  

I asked aloud, "So yall want me to focus on truth for this rite?"

Then Someone spoke through me using the keyboard (so gracefully, too, as if They were playing a piano.  Normally when entities do automatic writing/typing with me They're so rough.  They've broken many pens in the past!).

"Stressing over speculations and fears.  Not giving truth and patience a chance.  Let go of the need to know everything.  Surrender to chaos.  Trust yourself–you have the tools to navigate these waters.  Be here and now.  Present.  Surrender to the Present.  Release the need for control.  Flow.  Float.  Sit at the fire and trust the process.  Breathe.   

"Hiding won't make the boogeymen go away either.  Nor will living a life of speculations.  A life of Fears.  A life of Drama. So think you know this upcoming battle?  You know nothing. You have no clue.  Stuck inside your own heads! You are blinded by fear and your own hate.  And ego.  Victimizations! You WANT the worst to happen! Be honest with yourselves! You want the chaos and the pain. Look at your actions and lack thereof.

Open your eyes to the truth of the situations, not the what ifs.  DO not allow speculation to rule your life.  OPEN YOUR EYES and silence your mouth and fingers for once.  Shut up and listen.   

Observe.   

Keep living life.   

Follow the Sun and focus on joy. 

These aren't just pretty words of hope.  They are reality.   

Humans always seek us for advice, but too often you allow your fear and ego to ignore us.  Look to your ancient past.  Look at how those people lived.  At any moment they could be killed or enslaved, yet they still found joy.  Too soft, too soft you modern people are.  Too soft.  Too fearful.  Too afraid to live.  Too spoiled. 

Do not seek us for advice and then piss it all away.  Fickle mortal actions.  We grow tired of it.  Do not seek our answers if you're not going to listen!   

We've been warning you all for decades, and yet many have closed themselves off for ease of illusions.  Ease of make believe.  Ease of laziness. Ease of drama. Now it's been biting you in the ass, hasn't it?   

Ant.  Grasshopper.   

I am finished for now.  This is your focus.  Share this message, Oracle Seidkona.  Share it with your groves.  With your online community.  If you're able to do a rite for your grove–be you leader or omen speaker–I will be in touch."

I will do as you ask. 

 "Good.  Thank you.  I will leave you now.  Go to bed after this."

I will deliver your message.  To whom am I speaking to? 

  "I am Cailleach, the Winter Witch."

There you have it.  A stern message from the Cailleach.  A message that I've read many times in different books from different spirit workers, trance workers, oracles, channelers, volvas, and many other conduits of the Other.  Namely Lifting the Veil by Janet Farrar.  The same warnings, the same frustrations of us not doing enough.  Of humans seeking answers but not doing anything about them.  Yes, some of us do listen, but not enough.  You don't like what you're hearing so why do the work?  I see it time and time again as a psychic.  And it is frustrating.  You're being given the guidance and the tools.  In many cases you already have the tools, maybe you just need help or courage to open that tool box?  Or that reassurance to use those tools?

Any yet...

I've done it too.  Given guidance but lack the drive to follow through...until They grow tired of the excuses and you find yourself at a crisis crossroads...or a few.  Which is often what many of us need to see the severity of our situations and to act.  I'm slow and stubborn, but overtime I've learned to break many of those patterns.  Many trials I've gone through, and sometimes it's just like that.  Like when She told me to go to bed last night, I didn't question or make excuses, I did as I was told.  I may have laid there for a while, but I was in bed, not in front of a screen!

It goes back to The Devil card in tarot.  You have the keys to your own cage.  Enough fear and excuses, use those keys.  Takes a lot of courage, but its possible.  You have to make it possible, though.  You have to make that choice and have the discipline and courage to stick with it.  Also to not be afraid of failure, because healing isn't linear.  Some say it's a spiral, but in my experience, it's more like a tangle.  With tangles you trip, stumble, fall, and have to stop to reflect and pick at the tangle, try to figure it out, before moving on.  Are you working with frayed, rough twine?  Smooth fishing line?  Both, neither? 

Once you untangle, sometimes you have to make sure what's behind you doesn't just re-tangle with your future.  Other times, it's behind you, no worries.  Gotta figure out how your working space looks--orderly or chaotic?  Maybe learn it over time.

Is it difficult work?  Of course it is.  Big, scary difficult work.  But necessary work, too, especially if you truly want your life and outlook to change.

Just as I told a student of mine, Discipline is a sword.  Heavy, sharp, scary.  Like the swords of tarot--mental.  You can either lay there and accept your choice...or you can pick up that sword and learn how to use it to give yourself a better chance at surviving.

That's the focus.  

- Dedicant & Hearth Keeper, Foxlyn

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