We welcome our guest tonight, Patricia Robin Woodruff , whose book, “Woodruff’s Guide to Slavic Deities,” I am just now delving…
“Patricia Robin Woodruff is a priestess and scholar of ancient pre-Christian religions. Her maternal heritage is from the Carpathian Mountains….Woodruff’s interdisciplinary and multicultural spiritual studies provide a unique insight into the ancestral religion of her Carpatho-Rusyn heritage and the area described as Old Europe.”
With our astro guiding,
where’ere there be hyper yang Mars death frenzy – we go to Venus – kinship guiding Mars,
“Strong enough to be gentle” – protector…
And to the myriad deity-metaphors for differentiated Intelligence of Nature with whom to cahoot…and converse with informed reverent curiosity…
The Seven Gods, Maxim Sukharev
Pluto be “A Gypsy reading tea-leaves…” holding the rim of our bucket shaped astro*mytho pattern,
the other rim of the bucket, within which all the beings being contained, is Ceres, dwarf planet, goddess of the Earth…
So we shall honor the deities of Spring…
As Ceres trines the Aquarian Community Team,
Community in largest sense…
to include all our kin
And Mars squares Uranus in Taurus – participatory Animism, be so the way to go…
“Animism – not a belief – just good manners!”
“Fur and feather and scale and skin, different without, but the same within
Many a body, but One of Soul
From all creatures are the Gods made Whole…”
And we shall meander and converse and invite and bless, and see what kind of Good Trouble might like to bubble forth
“…traditional embroidery of a Mokosh pattern, recurring independently in women’s arts from Poland and the Urkaine through Russia to Siberia.
She is always spraddle-legged forming a pyramid with her legs, having given birth to the World Tree. Her outstretched arms are nearly always upraised. She is typically surrounded by birds, reindeer, plants, and heavenly symbols.
Most of these elements can be found in ancient Phoenician and even prehistoric images of Tanit (spraddle-legged triangle, arms outreaching and upraised, sun symbol over her head, accompanied by birds), too close to be coincidental and truly hinting at unbroken traditions from prehistory to the present.”
