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The Irish tale "The Boyhood of Fionn" tells of a salmon that lived in a pond surrounded by a sacred hazel bush. One day, its hazelnuts of knowledge fell in the pond & were eaten by the salmon, who thus became the bearer of all the knowledge & wisdom in the world.#FairytaleTuesday

The mountain carries a meaning of transcendence, being a sacred space of wisdom & learning. In tales, the mountain is often climbed by the hero who will then meet at the summit either an old woman, a sage, or an animal - the agents of his magical initiation. #FairytaleTuesday

In "The White Cat" tale, a prince is sent by his father on a series of impossible tasks & arrives at a castle populated by cats & ruled by a white cat queen. She helps him & they fall in love. In the end, he cuts her head off & she turns into a human princess. #FairyTaleTuesday

Second Fool: "Who builds stronger than a mason, a shipwright, or a carpenter?"

First Fool: "...a gravemaker: the houses that he makes last till doomsday."

--Hamlet, Shakespeare.
🎨Caspar David Friedrich (1810)
#FaustianFriday

Today's New Moon bathes & heals by shedding its skin in Scorpio:

'Mother, the moon is dancing
in the courtyard of the dead.'
-Federico Garcia Lorca-

🎨Christian Schloe

#FairyTaleTuesday #BookwormGhost

In "The Woman with Hair of Gold," a woman is killed by a man after rejecting him. For long time, no one notices her death. But then her golden hair starts to grow until her grave is filled w/ golden reeds. When people play flutes made of them, they sing the truth. #FaustianFriday

In the tale "Skeleton Woman," she drums on the fisherman's heart, singing "Flesh, flesh, flesh!" As she sang, the flesh returned to her body until she became a woman again. Many cultures believe that songs can attract what is most wanted and repel what is not. #FaustianFriday

In his book 'The Way of Silence' Benedictine monk David Steindl-Rast writes: "The intellect sifts out what is true; the will reaches out for what is good. But there is a third dimension to reality: beauty. Our whole being resonates with what is beautiful."

#WyrdWednesday

After losing her lover, a girl goes to live a hermit life on the Moon Palace, until one day the beauty she sees on Earth makes her want to return. The old Moon Lady warns her not to close her eyes when she descends, but she does and turns into spiders and webs. #Fairytaletuesday

As a mother's womb, the oven can bake new life but it can also reduce it to ashes w/ its fire just like Hansel & Gretel's witch. Since it holds both the power of life & death, we must tend to our inner oven & fire in a way that creates & does not annihilate. #FairyTaleTuesday