April 20, 2020

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Within our spine runs a channel of energy that is of a higher, purer frequency than what our human thoughts and emotions vibrate at. This is our power and our sacredness, embodied. It makes us the point at which earth and air meet, where what is light and what is dense coexist. This is the great mystery. *We* are the great mystery.
And we have put up protections that have become offenses, we have fallen into living the simulation of ourselves rather than the truth of it. We have turned to stone inside to save ourselves from big emotions we didn’t know how to process and overwhelm to our nervous system we didn’t know how to stabilize. Eihwaz can tell of a moment where life and death meet, perhaps physically, perhaps egoically/spiritually. It can tell of a time of realignment and isolation and challenge. Together, these messages ask us to make a choice: would you rather stay stone like and go through the motions, never questioning the things that have piled up upon you? Or would you rather allow yourself to come undone, scary- yes, but in so doing, come back to life? The choice is yours, the journey may be long... is it worth it? I look at those two horses and I say ‘yes.’

The rune is Eihwaz - the yew tree and the axis of the cosmos, the balance of life and death, the paradox of being human and spirit, of being vulnerable and protected.
The Equine Wisdom Oracle is The False Self (Rigid Methods and Ideals; Obsession with Perfection; Incongruence) - the contrast between a life live by outside rules, in pursuit of perfection, worshiping false ideals; and a creative, responsive, expressive life... fully embodied.

Equine wisdom cards from Linda Kohanov’ s ‘Way of the Horse’ oracle deck, art by Kim McElroy.