kimberlysteele | Ogham Readings on Mondays

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From: (Anonymous)

Hello again Kimberly!

I’m not so much wanting a “what’s going on this week” reading as much as I’m wondering about a couple of synchronicities associated with summer and winter solstice.

Before I participated in a summer solstice ceremony at my homestead, an unfortunate incident occurred. A two year old, young buck deer broke his neck while running away from my dog. He was trying to jump through some honeysuckle which was draped over a stout wooden fence post.

Okay, that shook me up and made me sad, but I didn’t think much more of it than that some kind of sacrifice was part of the ceremony. Maybe.

Well this Winter Solstice my pony died two days before the day. What’s mysterious and significant is the night we buried him, a windstorm caused a Douglas Fir tree to blow over, it’s tip top branches landing exactly on my pony’s grave. Even more weird was that the tree, which was about sixty feet tall threaded it’s way between the other trees in the grove and only broke some wire fencing. The shed it could have broken, the canoe it could have smashed, the wooden fence posts it could have splintered all were completely missed.

So, if it’s not too complicated a reading, I’m wondering what significance deer paired with honeysuckle has, and what significance horse/pony with Douglas fir has, and do I need to do anything to avert any more disasters like this.

Thanks for thinking this through with me.

Annette

And I’m a little worried about animals dying at the four ceremonies....I hadn’t done fall equinox this year, for various reasons—mostly I forgot, I’m embarrassed to admit.

From:

kimberlysteele

Ponies and horses are sacred to Jupiter and so is the fir tree -- to me, the incident with your pony (RIP) seems quite clear in its message. Your pony's spirit was protecting you and directed the way the tree fell.

I would do some planetary charity to Zeus/Jupiter as well as praying to Zeus/Jupiter to help your pony on his journey into his next lives.

As for the deer, I asked my Ogham "Is the deer dying related to the Solstice?" They give me Yes, Muin (Grapevine) well-dignified. Muin is Harvest and it seems your instinct is correct, the deer was sacrificed. Next summer solstice, maybe try respectfully offering a libation to Mars at the honeysuckle bush. Deer are ruled by Venus and Honeysuckle is ruled by Mars, after all (this is information from Rex E. Bills Rulership Book). Additionally, sudden death is ruled by Mars. Have you tried talking to the spirits who live in that pocket of your land and asking why they want? I would guess they want to talk with you, judging from the extreme nature of what you describe. I think all this business around the Solstices is meant to get your attention.

I asked my Ogham: "What should she do in order to get along with the spirits on her property?"

Interestingly, they give me three cards.

They give me Ioho, (Yew) or Grace, which means accepting death in all its forms. You will have to let go of certain dreams and loves as a result of living on the property. This seems to indicate that there must be a sufficient amount of time for rest and respect for the sacredness of dreamtime -- you could please the spirits by letting an area of your land go permanently fallow. Are you rescuing animals? Ioho could be talking about using your land as a sanctuary to allow formerly maltreated animals to live out their final years in peace.

The Situation card they give me is Beith (Birch) or Birth. This energy is that of Beginnings and is clearly related to the previous "letting go" card Ioho. By letting go of some things and attitudes, you'll make way for the new.

The final Lesson card is Koad, or Confluence. This indicates that you will be successful in your efforts to listen to the land and learn what it wants. The land might not like formal Solstice ceremonies... you might want to ask it how it feels about that.

All three cards were well-dignified.

From: (Anonymous)

Thanks Kimberly. I will share this info with my husband and think this through a bit.

I’ll write more later when I’m done with work for the day.

Annette

From:

kimberlysteele

Sure thing! I look forward to hearing what your land has to say.

From: (Anonymous)

I’m still sitting with this information Kimberly.

We have a quarter acre part of our land which has some fir forest on it, thus it’s called “the Quarter Acre Wood”

I let the ponies and goats graze on it some times, but don’t do much else there. Perhaps I’ll just keep them off of it entirely so it can be wholly fallow. There’s some very old rusted out car pieces and wagon parts there, and some pieces of old wire fencing. This land has been homesteaded for over a hundred years and the farmers in the past would just pile up their junk away from the house. We’ve lived here for 26 years and have been gradually cleaning up the stuff as we find it. It’s occasionally interesting to find some of the stuff.

Anyway, that little parcel would be the best place to allow to go fallow.

We also have a hedgerow that helps protect some of the little people who share the land. I will occasionally see one of them out of the corner of my eye. My husband has told me he’s been seeing them more often this year. We think it’s a benefit of daily SoP on the land.

As far as rescuing animals, I take care of a Crazy Cat Lady level of cats, all rescued from either the local shelters, or who have shown up to live here. The oldest one is 21, Geranium, who showed up as a little black kitten in my planter in town outside my office when I was watering the geraniums. There are nine others living here too.

My ponies are rescues too. So is my dog. I try to be judicious about taking on more because it gets expensive and uses up a good part of my disposable income!

I like your suggestion about offering a libation at the honeysuckle vine when next Summer Solstice comes around.

I haven’t yet asked the land about if it wants formal ceremony, mostly because it’s cold outside and I’d like to be sitting on the land to ask.

I’m not entirely sure how to do a planetary charity. Is there a source I can check to get instructions?

Thank you so much for your time. You are providing me a great place to have conversations about these matters.

Annette

From:

kimberlysteele

I didn't realize you were already rescuing! Yes, it is a TON of work and people think it's a license to dump their animals on you -- you really have to make a stand against that. I have a friend who runs a sanctuary and people constantly try to dump their animals on her.

Christopher Warnock has a lot of good things to say about planetary charity:

https://www.renaissanceastrology.com/planetarycharity.html

Essentially, I think planetary charity is best when you pick something you're REALLY good at and then dedicate it to the right god at the right time. I'm good at making original music, so my planetary charity takes the form of composing, recording, and performing Orphic Hymns. Let's say you're good at a handicraft -- you might make that craft and humbly devote it to Hermes on your altar on a Wednesday during his hour in order to gain his help with a reading comprehension project. Or if you're good at making cookies, you might leave a few cookies in your hedgerow dedicated to Aphrodite on a Friday during her planetary hour for five consecutive weeks.

Thanks for your kind comments! I enjoy being an extension of the sort of stuff JMG talks about. Of course I can't compare with his knowledge or expertise. Hopefully people get something out of it anyways.