My spiritual practice had been pretty much abandoned - low level depression I think. Had coffee with a friend yesterday and it somehow recentered me. Amazingly, no one had abandoned me when I reached out. The blade that thirsts is probably irretrievably gone along with a certain golden cup, but gifts like that are only for a time. The inner ( Read more... )

Uilleand - elbow, honeysuckle, divine cubit, divine plan,direction 
Coll - hazelnuts, a cracking of nuts, food for the salmon of knowledge,  wisdom
Ruis - elder, passion, embarrassment, emotional fuel

A good forward leaning draw , wisdom, direction and motivation. The previous weekend's work seems to be settling in.

Uilleand, Uillean is the third of the fifth aicme - the forfeda. It is extremely thin in terms of lore. Erynn Laurie lists the kennings for this as "fragrant tree, fragrant wood", "great elbow, great cubit" and "juicy wood." Plants honeysuckle/woodbine (they are the same). I had worked on woodbine for ebad, so it seemed that the "great elbow, ( Read more... )