Ivy Rhiannon
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First Impression: This card is a hard one to see. I guess death is for most people. However there is a helplessness here, a betrayal in the card as if this poor girl is crying up to the heavens for help barely a breath in her lung and she receives nothing but silence.
Description: We see a young woman floating down into the depths of the ocean surrounded by seals and otters.
Gender: Feminine
Colors: Pale Blues, Indigo, Golden Yellow, Grey, White, & Black.
Senses: I feel pain choking and heavy in my chest. The water is cold, dark and frightening. I can sense animals around me swooshing through the black waters. I can taste the salty water in my throat.
Symbols: Sedna, Owl, Seals, Otters, Water, Struggle
Story [Intuitive]: I sink deep into the dark chilly waters. I feel the tears burning in my throat salty like the sea. I am reaching upwards towards the heavens, "Help me please!!!" I cry out in my mind unable to scream in the water without losing the precious air in my lungs. They burn, begging me to take in the fresh air. I flail about but fail to find the strength to struggle anymore. Defeat sits heavy on my body as I sink helpless to change my untimely fate. Why?! I cry letting out the last breath with a rush of bubbles that float up my face and away from me. This liquid tomb is cold, as cold as I have ever known. I feel a fuzziness in my mind that wanes the pain, blurs the thoughts, and lessens the burden of life. I am floating timeless within the dark womb of the sea. There is nothing...sweet nothing now. A bump stirs my slumber, then another and I feel a rush of movement by my side. I open my eyes and suddenly I can see! There in the waters is a playful creature cocking its head at me. It rolls on its side flapping its fins and pointing with its long nose in the direction of a nearby cave. I try to remember how I got here but there is only silence. So I go with the animal, hoping it will lead me to the answers and knowing only that I am no longer the girl I used to be.
My Experience with Death: Who has not known death? It is inescapable, unexplainable last act of our lives. I have lost loved ones and I have been the Goddess in her black robes severing the cords that bound me. What lives must die, what begins must end, but there is also transformation as one turns into another. The cycle starts again...
Astrological Reference: Zodiac - Scorpio
Cultural Reference: In Inuit mythology, Sedna is the goddess of the sea and marine animals such as seals. A creation myth, the story of Sedna shows how she came to rule over the Inuit underworld. In one of the many versions of this legend, Sedna is a beautiful maiden who rejects marriage proposals from the hunters of her village. When an unknown hunter appears, Sedna's father agrees to give her to him as wife in return for fish. Sedna's father gives Sedna a sleeping potion and gives her to the hunter who takes her to a large nest on a cliff, revealing to her his true form, a great raven. She wakes surrounded by birds. Her father attempts to rescue her but, her husband becomes angry and calls to the ocean and causing a great storm. In desperation, Sedna's father throws her into the raging sea to appease the water spirit. Sedna attempts to cling to the kayak but her father grabs a little axe and chops off her fingers. Her fingers become the first seals and she becomes a mighty sea goddess. When she is angered someone is sent to wash her hair, (which she is unable to do herself without hands) after which she releases the animals to the hunters. [source Wikipedia]
Elemental Reference: Water
Numerology Reference: (1 + 3 = 4) 4 - Security, Stability, Foundation, Focus
Keywords: Helplessness, Struggle, Unknown, Transformation, Death
Possible Meanings: Feeling helpless to fight a situation, Holding on to an old attachment (way of life, habit, person, lifestyle), Fear to face a situation with unknown or life changing consequences, Death of a person or attachment.
Reversed: Finding the wisdom to let things go, Transformation of self, Receiving hidden guidance, Being free to move on.
Quote: "Life is eternal, love is immortal, and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight." ~Rossiter Worthington Raymond
First Impression: This card is a hard one to see. I guess death is for most people. However there is a helplessness here, a betrayal in the card as if this poor girl is crying up to the heavens for help barely a breath in her lung and she receives nothing but silence.
Description: We see a young woman floating down into the depths of the ocean surrounded by seals and otters.
Gender: Feminine
Colors: Pale Blues, Indigo, Golden Yellow, Grey, White, & Black.
Senses: I feel pain choking and heavy in my chest. The water is cold, dark and frightening. I can sense animals around me swooshing through the black waters. I can taste the salty water in my throat.
Symbols: Sedna, Owl, Seals, Otters, Water, Struggle
Story [Intuitive]: I sink deep into the dark chilly waters. I feel the tears burning in my throat salty like the sea. I am reaching upwards towards the heavens, "Help me please!!!" I cry out in my mind unable to scream in the water without losing the precious air in my lungs. They burn, begging me to take in the fresh air. I flail about but fail to find the strength to struggle anymore. Defeat sits heavy on my body as I sink helpless to change my untimely fate. Why?! I cry letting out the last breath with a rush of bubbles that float up my face and away from me. This liquid tomb is cold, as cold as I have ever known. I feel a fuzziness in my mind that wanes the pain, blurs the thoughts, and lessens the burden of life. I am floating timeless within the dark womb of the sea. There is nothing...sweet nothing now. A bump stirs my slumber, then another and I feel a rush of movement by my side. I open my eyes and suddenly I can see! There in the waters is a playful creature cocking its head at me. It rolls on its side flapping its fins and pointing with its long nose in the direction of a nearby cave. I try to remember how I got here but there is only silence. So I go with the animal, hoping it will lead me to the answers and knowing only that I am no longer the girl I used to be.
My Experience with Death: Who has not known death? It is inescapable, unexplainable last act of our lives. I have lost loved ones and I have been the Goddess in her black robes severing the cords that bound me. What lives must die, what begins must end, but there is also transformation as one turns into another. The cycle starts again...
Astrological Reference: Zodiac - Scorpio
Cultural Reference: In Inuit mythology, Sedna is the goddess of the sea and marine animals such as seals. A creation myth, the story of Sedna shows how she came to rule over the Inuit underworld. In one of the many versions of this legend, Sedna is a beautiful maiden who rejects marriage proposals from the hunters of her village. When an unknown hunter appears, Sedna's father agrees to give her to him as wife in return for fish. Sedna's father gives Sedna a sleeping potion and gives her to the hunter who takes her to a large nest on a cliff, revealing to her his true form, a great raven. She wakes surrounded by birds. Her father attempts to rescue her but, her husband becomes angry and calls to the ocean and causing a great storm. In desperation, Sedna's father throws her into the raging sea to appease the water spirit. Sedna attempts to cling to the kayak but her father grabs a little axe and chops off her fingers. Her fingers become the first seals and she becomes a mighty sea goddess. When she is angered someone is sent to wash her hair, (which she is unable to do herself without hands) after which she releases the animals to the hunters. [source Wikipedia]
Elemental Reference: Water
Numerology Reference: (1 + 3 = 4) 4 - Security, Stability, Foundation, Focus
Keywords: Helplessness, Struggle, Unknown, Transformation, Death
Possible Meanings: Feeling helpless to fight a situation, Holding on to an old attachment (way of life, habit, person, lifestyle), Fear to face a situation with unknown or life changing consequences, Death of a person or attachment.
Reversed: Finding the wisdom to let things go, Transformation of self, Receiving hidden guidance, Being free to move on.
Quote: "Life is eternal, love is immortal, and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight." ~Rossiter Worthington Raymond