confusion broken affirmations healing

peoples telling me watch out its heavy here come twenty twelve its end is nigh

i heard this back in the year ten eighteen a comet omen in the sky

i been around long time, but only just got born came down in yesterdays acid rain

did not save the planet did not help a whale use a lot of pesticides on  my brain

sometimes compost walk not drive many times buy good stuff wrapped cellophane

maybe some days did not could not care not seems real what difference me trash wreck

the planet all the people toxic mind, not got energy even green who really give a feck

recycled packaging on catwalk watch me walk the plank and drown in disgusting hell

polluted aitch two oh I don't really like being out in nature wild places am an empty shell

out of all my tidy tiny moments in the great big history of the universe big bang bad

to stamp around with great big carbon footprints live in factory dump fucking mad

now you telling me it's a consciousness not tuned in to reiki vibe chakra healing power

meditate now to save the world and human evolution 777 souls saved in darkest hour

so fucking tired, so brutally addicted, fearful, watch the radio listen to the tv make movie

about tsunami towers come crashing down god did angels did it apocalypse is groovy

yeah i don't give a shit I only do today tomorrow buy it from convenience store consume

that's how i was raised now you think i gonna earn karma points ya effin merchant of  doom

i wanna see the end i want stand in middle of total awfully chaos get obliterated life suck

anyhow I am sick and ill with all the cliches and the poison in my body and the earth fuck

it's not my home and always get told how to live what to buy now not to buy what's right

walk dont walk run get on bandwagon get real gia theory barefoot bloody stephen hawking

no they telling me it aint just the eco issue its tune into vibrational healing chanting not talking

confusion bloody apathy indifference is what i am i dont feel anything i want it blown apart

stockpile weapons dried foods learn survival skills stand in front of oh christ great tidal wave

crashing in on you when it comes then it's over not stupid tired bored and cynical not brave

who is better than that who's better than you who gets redemptions who's got a safety token

already i been around for all time but feel like i just got here don't know nothing already broken

(eva day)

Three Goddesses - a triad of celebrations. Brigit.

(some of my more creative writing goes on my other "Cloud Kooky Land" Blog - but this, I wanted to offer here, as for me it is from a place of hope and healing in weaving into our lives the metaphors and guiding spirits for the values we hold most dear).

Beating the Bounds with Brigit.

walking the boundaries of the familiar place, adventures in my bones, going home, i sing

of the  wise poet and the healer,  the skilled blacksmith whose benevolent gifts I bring.

welded words I forged from the boldness and the uncertainties of my journeys, and the calm

of returning home, into the embrace of family, friends, safety, the  gentle healing balm

for the tired spirit,  dispensed by kind Brigit of the Flame, who brings protection, rest

and is with me in my glad returning, in the rhythm of my daily life, in my traveller's quest.

home and hearth and the fire of family, community and belonging: a sense of safety, ease.

with the intricate craft of the blacksmith, from this fire, the Bright One made me sacred keys

which would unlock the closed and frozen places of inspiration stilted, in my spirit and mind.  

and when in this I was afraid and vulnerable, she gave her protection to me and all humankind,

for those who will invoke and honour her: and meet her with intelligence, drink from her wells:

keep the eternal and sacred flames of inspiration burning in the heart, learn her healing spells.

she will guide you in adventure and in retreat or sanctuary, surround you, lead you by the hand

ask Brigatta's blessing in your villages, parishes and farms, on fences, hedges, walls: but understand

they are the peripheries of wise caution, security; do not make human barriers of enmity and strife.

go to hills and high places, raise your arms, your vision,  invite Brigit's loving kindness into your life.

(eva day)

(Notes:  "Beating the Bounds" was an ancient practice in Britain and elsewhere, in which local people would walk the parameters of a parish, farm, or village, and beat with a stick the most important marking points of the boundaries, along with prayers and rituals for safety and well-being.

Brigit, or Brigatta, is a Celtic Goddess.  Sometimes associated with the Warrior Goddess arechetype, and with war and victory.  Here invoked in her most importan aspect, as Protector, Emlightened One, Bringer of Wisdom and Intelligence: poet, healer and blacksmith.  Brigit was known as The Bright or Eternal Flame, associated with the hearth fire, home, and also sacred wells and hills and high places. In some myths, she had a face beautiful on one side, ugly on the other.  Very sacred and loved and honoured by the ancient Celts.)

THERE ARE TWO MORE GODDESSES IN THIS TRIOLOGY, I OFFER.  SARASWATI, HINDU GODDESS OF LEARNING, CULTURE AND THE ARTS, AND LILITH (IN MUCH FOLK LORE, KNOWN AS A DEMONESS, BUT I HAVE CHOSEN TO PRESENT HER IN HER GODDESS FORM, AS BENEFACTRESS OF FREEDOM, AND NATURAL SPIRIT, POWER AND SENSUALITY. I WILL POST EACH SEPARATELY.)

When Brigit is present with her two sisters, she is worshipped as a Triple Goddess. 

She is also possibly the origin of the stories of the later Saint Brigit, or certainly closely associated with her. 

I see the mystery of the our wounding and our healing in the beauty and the ugliness of her face

she brings her suffering, shares in ours, reveals compassion, protects our ground with loving grace

I see the mystery of the our wounding and our healing in the beauty and the ugliness of her face

she brings her suffering, shares in ours, reveals compassion, protects our ground with loving grace.

I wanted to find a good picture of Brigatta with the two aspects of her face shown powerfully...... those I found should two attractive faces - the "uglier one" far too  "prettified" for what I was looking for.  I wonder if someone who is a painter or drawer could come up with an image that resonates my sense of the contrast of pain and suffering, and compassion and healing..... ?
eva day