April 8, 2025 • 39 mins
Rebirth and Renewal: The Tale of Blodeuedd
In this episode of Practically Magick Storytelling, host Courtney Pearl delves into Celtic folklore with a focus on the Welsh mythology tale of Blodeuedd. Courtney begins by drawing a tarot card from the Witch's Wisdom deck, setting the tone for the discussion on rebirth and renewal as symbolized by the Spring Equinox. The episode explores the creation and journey of Blodeuedd, a woman made from flowers, her destined fate, and her quest for self-determination. Through Blodeuedd's story, listeners are invited to reflect on their own paths and the balance between light and dark in their lives. Courtney also highlights the role of community and the importance of offering gratitude to nature. The episode concludes with a shout-out to Ride the Wave Media, the Sunshine Community, and upcoming local events, inviting listeners to connect and participate in the magical journey of personal growth and healing.
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00:00 Welcome to Practically Magic Storytelling
00:31 Tarot Card Reading: Setting the Episode's Theme
01:20 Symbolism of the Tarot Card
02:46 Spring Equinox and Offerings
06:58 Introduction to Welsh Mythology
08:28 The Story of Blodeuwedd
13:11 Blodeuwedd's Creation and Marriage
15:26 Blodeuwedd's Love and Betrayal
23:58 The Aftermath and Symbolism
31:00 Reflections on Personal Growth and Purpose
35:32 Closing Remarks and Community Shoutouts
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Hello, and welcome to PracticallyMagic Storytelling, a subset of
the Practically Magic podcast.
I am your host.
Courtney Pearl.
Today I am going to be a Celtic folkloresand give you a little story time, putting
on my Celtic priestess hat and givingyou a little inspiration with some Celtic
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folklore from my own favorite whales.
I'm gonna start today's episodeby pulling a tarot card, so we
are going to get to it today.
I should be pulling fromthe Caltech, uh, tarot.
I'm sure that would, uh, be alittle bit more aligned with our
subject matter today, but I'mgonna go with the witch is wisdom.
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Tarot deck today because thatis just what I felt drawn to.
And when you follow your intuition, you'vegotta figure out what works for you.
So we're gonna pull a card andset up what this episode is about.
Hopefully the cards telling usexactly what we need to hear in this
moment in time as you're listeningto this episode, whenever that might
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be this, we're gonna trust that thisis the card that was meant for us.
Okay.
The card that I have pulled is in thisdeck, number 10, the offering, and I love.
The connections I'm seeing alreadyin the symbolism, so I'm just
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gonna hold it up for the camera.
If you're watching on YouTube, youcan see it's a man who's giving an
offering of some sort of liquid.
It looks like it might be milk,um, or water to a sapling tree.
The tree, if you look very closely, haslittle ribbons tied to the branches.
Then there is sort of an ethereal,ghostly figure of a woman
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standing just off to the side.
He's surrounded by a forest oftrees and she's watching him.
Um, I mean, I guess it couldbe a male figure, but it's
just sort of in a feminine way.
So I'm gonna, I'm going to sayfeminine presenting figure, but sort
of a ghostly, uh, in the background.
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There are all these really cool veins ofthat liquid sprouting out from where the
roots touch the ground of the sapling.
And it's like these little shootsof, I don't know, um, it looks like
magic or power that's just shootingout from the roots and goes into
the forest and in all directions.
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There's also a little bird and a fernin the foreground that you can see.
Uh, lots of symbolism here.
Lots going on.
So, um, the first thing that came tomind when I saw this card for us is the
time of year that I'm recording this,which, um, you know, you'll be listening
to it at whatever time of year foryou, but I want you to consider this.
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It is the coming of spring.
I am currently recording this on thefirst day of spring, technically,
uh, March 20th, which is the.
Spring Equinox here in the northernhemisphere where we live, um, which
is a fantastic time for us, pagan typefolks or people who are just really
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engaged in spirituality to startimagining what offerings we are giving.
So, uh, a lot of the ancestorswould be giving offerings to
the land and the trees and the.
Bulbs and seeds that are being planted.
Um, it's a very sexual energybecause it's all about kind of,
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um, rebirth and sexuality andconception and things like that.
So it gives the impression that, youknow, we, we want the gods of the,
the higher powers of the, of theland and the earth to provide for us.
We need the harvest season to.
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Be abundant, so we might choose to giveofferings, and it's just a really great
reminder to have that kind of, uh, energyof gratitude towards things like, I am so
grateful for the trees for offering theoxygen we breathe and the food that we eat
and all that they do to nourish the soil.
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They provide us with so much, we wouldnot be here, we would not survive.
We would not live without the plantsand the trees and the birds and
the bees and all of the things.
So giving them our appreciationis really powerful.
I can see like on the branches,there's not just little ribbons, but
also feathers tied to the branches,which is a great offering because
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things like hair feathers, ash,um, our coffee grounds, those are.
Things that can actuallynourish trees, nourish the soil.
So, um, you know, leaving dead thingsaround can actually be an offering, not
just symbolically, but a sign of, youknow, caretaking of the plant itself.
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And I love also that this whitepower that you see coming from the.
Coming from the roots andconnecting to all of the trees.
I often use that in symbolism, uh,for visualization and meditation.
When I'm doing a guided meditation, Iwill, um, offer an image of grounding.
Roots like a tree into the ground.
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But I do like to imagine that thoseroots also spread their connection
some way to all of the other rootsof the other trees in the forest.
Giving this idea of, um, we are allconnected, we are supported, we are
part of a community, part of a tribe.
We, we can lean on otherswhile they can lean on us.
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It's, it's a powerful imagerythat I think everyone needs
reminding of from time to time.
And now what does this haveto do with our story today?
Well, we're gonna talk about spring comingand it's okay if you're not listening
to this, uh, in spring or, um, or like.
It is the spring equinox, sothat will have passed already.
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I do wanna talk about it becauseat any point in our lives we are
going through cycles and seasons.
We can go through mini cyclesthroughout the day, throughout
the month, even in an hour and ahalf when I do a healing session.
It's a, an entire healing cycle,so we were always cycling.
And what the spring cycle is going to looklike in our healing work, in our lives.
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It is the rebirth part of our healing.
It's the part where wecome into ourselves.
We've taken the hardships and thedarkness that we have confronted with,
and we are bringing it into light.
And the idea of light and dark plays verywell in the story I'm about to tell you.
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And I'm gonna tell you the story of BLEwith one of my absolute favorite stories
in the Magi, which is the Welsh mythology.
Um, I love studying.
I've taken, uh, a few classes from somevery, very wonderful people who s uh.
Our authors and experts in Celtic studies.
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So one that I took, um, one course that Itook actually went through deep dives into
the five goddesses or ladies, dependingon how you look at it, of the Magi.
So the stories in the branches, thereare four branches in the Magi and this
story comes from the fourth branch.
It is, she is.
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Uh, she is an amazing figure to bringforward during this time of year.
And the last full moon that we had thismonth is the first of four moons in the
time of Ladi with, according to the mythicmoons of Avalon by Jenna Undre, who I
studied with, um, who I studied from.
I should just give herthe credit she deserves.
She's my mentor.
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Uh, I don't know if she wouldeven know that she's my mentor,
but I've taken classes from her.
I went on pilgrimage with her, soI. I look up to her quite a bit.
So a lot of this information is somethingthat I gathered from her and my studies,
but is such a powerful story, and Ithink by the time I'm done with this
story, you will love her as much as I do.
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Now, her story starts at the tailend of the story of Arianne wrote.
Arian Root was a. A prominentlady of her times, she had her
own castle, her own island.
Her uncle was king.
It was through her line that shthat the, um, kingship or the,
the throne would be inherited.
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So.
She happenstance, find herself inthe position of be being a mother.
And the story of how that worksout is just kind of a little bit
hilarious and a little bit crazy.
I won't go into that because it isnot her story today, but she finds
herself the mother of a son, um, andnot particularly pleased about it
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either, uh, and some kind of paint.
Who is the villain of that story?
Because she is cursing her son.
Uh.
The perspective I choose to takeon it, which was what I was taught,
is that she doesn't curse him.
She tests him.
She gives him these obstacles in his wayof becoming king so that he will be tested
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and proven worthy before he is allowed tobe king, um, as kings should be tested.
So.
She's kind of the hero of this story.
She, she tests him, gives him some testswhere she tells him he will not have a
name saved for what she will give him.
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So saying, you will not geta name unless I give you one.
And then her uncle whoraised the boy is magical.
He's a magical sorcerer type, and hetricks her into giving him a name.
And his name is Lau Gfu.
If I'm saying that right, my Welsh isnot great, but I'm trying, I'm learning.
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So this means their hair or light hairwith a steady hand is what his name is.
And then he, she says, youwill not get, you will not bear
arms safer that I give you.
Um, again, she gets tricked into givinghim a sword and he has a weapon and
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therefore he is able to bear arms.
The third one is really kind ofimportant and special because she
says, you will not marry a woman ofthis earth now being married and, um,
having a queen was in Welsh tradition.
And Celtic tradition of that time was veryimportant because, um, a king would not
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be allowed kingship unless he was ableto marry a woman who represented the.
Land itself.
So the marriage wasn't just of nobleblood to noble blood, which is probably
more the traditions of England,Britain, and that was in later times.
This goes back way back and a lot ofpeople believe that the stories are before
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Christianity, and we're only writtendown after Christianity's influence.
But we are going to, uh, suspenddisbelief for a moment and say if these
stories are as old as we think they are.
Chances are that a king or chief of hisclan would never be allowed to ascend
to the throne and have that kind ofpower if he wasn't able to make certain
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oaths and promises to the land itself.
And so in a lot of these stories,there is what we call a sovereignty
goddess, an an archetype of woman.
That represents the very land itself,and that this person does not allow the
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man to ascend his power to, to step intokingship without her blessing, without
her agreeing, he's worthy without.
Um, and then, and a lot oftimes that's a marriage.
So think of King Arthur's story,and again, Keith King, Arthur,
and Arthur's story is, um, it, it.
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Is rooted in Wales.
So the same kind of idea.
He was not made king unlesshe could have pulled the sword
from the stone and then receivedExcalibur from the lady of the lake.
So the lady of the lake, beingthe sovereignty goddess in this
particular story would be like, sheallows him to receive this blessing,
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this sword, and say he's king.
Okay, so long story short, Arian rude.
Or long story, long, I guessArian Ru tests him and says, you
cannot have a woman of this earth.
You cannot marry a woman of thisearth, and therefore kind of keeps
him from becoming king unless hecan figure out how to do that.
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Well.
His magical uncle, his magical greatuncle who raised him so wonderful
is he, his name's Math and hecreates a woman out of Oak Broom.
Broom is not the thingthat you sweep with.
That's called a beum.
It's actually broom is actually a,a plant that was used to make beams.
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So when we call something a broom, we'reactually, um, calling it the plant.
That was, that makes the beum.
That makes sense.
So broom, a meadow suite, these threethings, the blossoms of these plants.
We're used to create a woman, so she's nota woman of this earth because she's made
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from flowers, and her name means flowers.
It's spelled without a W in it.
It's Ed.
I'm not exactly sure if I'm sayingit correctly, but they're different.
So blow di width means flowers.
Blow di width means flowers.
And what's interesting and what Ilearned in, um, in some of my studies
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is these three things she's made fromdon't actually bloom at the same time,
which gives us the impression that ifshe was made, she, it was probably quite
a process, maybe like taking a wholeyear to make her from these flowers.
So she is broom magic into life bythese flowers, by great uncle math.
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And now s has his wife, his bride.
Um, now the problem with that is thatshe is not created for someone else.
She is, but in her mind and inour mind, why should that make her
obligated to be this man's wife?
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So while flowers turn towards the light orthe sun for nourishment, lau, who's name
meaning light flowers, turn to the light.
So the symbolism here isthat the flowers are made.
The light.
So they were supposed to turntowards light for nourishment.
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She was made from flowers.
She's meant to be his wife.
Um, but in creating her own destiny, shehas a bit of a adventure because while ES
is off somewhere fighting in a battle, shecomes upon a soldier passing through and
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she like a hospitable lady that she is.
A lady of the castle, she invites themto stay and she gets to know him better.
His name is Nu uh, Nu.
In the etymology of that name, we cankind of tie it back to Hero or Warrior.
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Um, it's also, uh, his lastname is, or surname Gran, PPP.
I'm not exactly sure how theWelch is pronounced, so forgive
me Welsh my Welsh friends.
I'm learning, I'm learning thisWelsh, but I'm not good at it.
So, uh.
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Anyway, his last name Pepper, it meansstrong, mighty, vibrant, shining,
um, now meaning light and oath.
So she's made this oath to the light, uh,but she meets Nu and she falls in love.
They fall in love with eachother, and that makes it quite
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sticky because, um, in Welsh law.
The time that the Magi was written.
And this is about 1100 ad so, um, ithas some influences of Christianity
at that time, but we believe the storyis to be oral tradition, much older.
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Um, it's interesting because Welsh law hada lot to do with, um, what is a marriage,
what actually makes a marriage lawful?
And in this case, a lot of peoplethink, gosh, she's such a whew.
She.
Steps out on her husband andfalls in love with another guy.
Well, if you take it into context,actually Welsh law is a little tricky
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because you aren't married, married untilyou're married for a year, and then the
wife or the husband can actually decideat that point that this marriage isn't
working and you can go your separateways, like an annulment basically, and to
much to their credit, the women of Welsh.
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At that time, the whales women atthe time, they had a little bit, a
little bit more autonomy, a littlebit more say in who they got to marry.
Now, the problem with this is that.
So in Welsh law, they hadto agree to be married.
They it, the woman herself had tosay, yes, I will marry this person.
So it wasn't quite like in Englandat the time where it was like women
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were just plain, flat out propertyof their fathers and their husbands.
So fathers were giving theirdaughters away, selling their
daughters away to people.
And it was kind of like,that's just a done deal.
In Wales at the time, it was alittle bit more like, I would like
you to marry this man 'cause itwould be a good deal for all of us.
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But the daughter, the, thewoman involved had to agree.
She has to agree that it,that she's okay with it.
The problem in this story is ouai withdid not agree to this marriage with Lau.
Right?
She was just made out of flowersand said, here's your husband.
Good luck.
This is, this is the way it is.
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So for her to choose Nu isactually more aligned with what
she should have been able to do.
She should have been able to choosewho she wanted for a husband.
And unfortunately forflu Lao, she chose Nu.
So he stays with her for three days.
She asks him to staywith her at the castle.
What, whether, um, she's become, she'sbeen a good hostess, but she has fallen
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in love and she says, please stay withme one more night, one more night.
And during this time theyrealize they're in love.
They are going to.
Need to make a life for themselves, butthey have to get LAU out of the way.
And this is where it getsa little, mm, come on guys.
So instead of just being like, Hey,let's just be together, let's just run
away together we are, we are in love.
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They have devised a planto kill Lau Lau himself is.
Sort of an otherworldly character.
He is magical.
He cannot just be killed so easily.
So he's gonna need to, there's gonnaneed to be a plan set in place.
And so they come up with a plan andto do this, um, bodied waits till
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her husband comes back and says, um,so what, she comes up with this plan
where she's gonna kind of pretend.
Concern for him.
She's gonna say, oh, my husband, Ihave been, well, you've been away.
I've been just absolutely wrecked withworry about whether or not you will die.
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And I just, I just need youto ease my troubled heart.
I, I just, I just dieinside thinking of you.
Being in danger and dying.
And Lau says, oh darling, you don'tneed to wreck yourself with worry.
I am really difficult to kill.
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Actually, I'm almost impossible to kill,so you don't need to worry yourself.
And she's like, okay.
Okay.
Well just to ease my.
My troubled heart, could you justplease tell me if someone were to want
to kill you, how would they do that?
I know it sounds so obvious, youcould see right through it, but Lau,
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I guess, trusts his wife so much thathe says, well, in order to kill me.
You would have to have allthese stipulations in place.
And it's actually reallycomplicated, I think I've ever
written down here somewhere.
But it's um, it's this whole complicatedaffair of situations that have to
be in place for lau to be killed.
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It's like he has to have one foot.
In the water of a certaincreek of a certain place.
One one foot is gonna be on a, a goator something, and it has to be on, in
a trough that's covered with a roof.
Um, all of these thingshave to be in place and.
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Basically the idea of that is thatit cannot be inside or outside.
It's not on dry land or on water.
It's.
All the in-betweens.
So in the, in the Celtic folklore,in between spaces are incredibly
powerful, incredibly magical.
So like the threshold of a doorway, forexample, a lot of mythology will have,
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you know, someone in the threshold, ornot quite dark, but not quite light,
like the twilight or dawn time of day.
It's not daylight, it's not night,you know, in the other world.
Um, so this is what this represents.
It's kind of an in-between space.
He has to be hit with a spear thatis a certain kind of spear and it
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has to go through the hole of a rock.
It's a whole thing.
So he tells her all of this,and Bo is like, oh, well that
just makes me feel a lot better.
But actually it would make me feeleven better if I could see it, if I
could see what you're talking about.
I'm just having a reallyhard time picturing it.
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If you could just try and put yourselfin that position so that I can see how
it would be that someone might kill you.
And then basically sets this all upso that he would be in position in the
creek, one foot in the creek, one footon a goat, all the things in place so
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that grand could be hiding in the bushesand with the spear ready to kill him.
And so that is what happens.
Grande kills lau instead ofkilling him dead, though Lau
becomes an eagle and flies away.
And then Renu and Bwe, theyare free to run away together.
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Now, it would all be just greatfor them if it wasn't for math.
The sorcerer, he's gonna go outlooking for Bwe, so he, well, first
he's gonna go out looking for Lau.
He's gonna go find him.
He's turned into an eagle.
He's not dead.
So he's gonna go looking for him, and hegoes chasing this trail that he finds.
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And then he's under an oak tree.
Which remember from the beginning, ethwas made from the blossoms of an oak tree.
He goes and stands under this oaktree, and he feels like maggots
and yucky stuff falling on him.
And he looks up and he sees thatthe eagle has landed on the branch
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of the oak tree, and he's sheddingmaggots out of his feathers.
Like, he's not good.
This, this makes me feellike death because like he's.
He's not well.
Um, he's pretty, he's lookingpretty rough from what I understand.
And so, um, math finds him.
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Now what's interesting about this, andthis is also going into the symbology
of this story and considering differentangles if you will, that maybe Lau still
loved Bodi with so much that he soughtan oak tree to be close to her, to uh,
you know, he maybe he was so devastatedat the betrayal of his love of the
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woman was supposed to be his wife, thathe went to the oak tree for solace.
And I think that's very sweet.
I think we can.
We can entertain that idea for a moment,but math finds him and turns him back
into a man, um, into the king that heis, but he has to go chasing after.
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Now.
Lau is chasing after Grandoand um, ends up killing him.
And Math finds ble who is running away.
And he changes her into an owl, andthere's a lot of really cool symbology
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and really things to consider aboutthis as well, because, um, he turns
into an owl because in that tradition,in that culture, owls were seen as
the most hated birds of the birdkingdom because they were cast.
To only hunt at night.
All the other birds are in the daytime.
They don't want to associate with the owl.
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The owl is kind of an outcast, so thatis maybe her punishment for what she's
done is she's gonna be made into an owl.
But I want you to, again, to rememberthat the symbolism of this when it comes
to the flower maiden, who she was in thebeginning of the story made from flowers.
Flowers seek light and flowerrepresenting the light.
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Gran new, representing the dark heroof our story represents the dark.
And so when she's punished, sheis turned into an owl, which is.
A dark figure because they,uh, because they hunt and they
are nocturnal hunt at night.
So this whole story gives a lotof, uh, of symbolism in the dark
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and the light half of the year.
As we come into the spring equinox, theEquinox being the halfway point between
the dark and the light, it is an excellenttime for us to consider what rebirth we
are going through, what we are movingtowards as we balance out the dark, which
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was the winter, which is the dark moon.
Every month we get a chanceto sit in darkness and rest.
Reclaiming sort of phase.
We get to take on confrontconfrontation, confronting our shadow
side, our shadow selves, and thenwe get to move that into light.
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As the spring comes on, we are invitedto take our darkest, darkest parts of
ourselves, bringing them into light.
Meaning that we don't conquerthem, we don't push them,
we don't, uh, destroy them.
We are learning to love the partsof ourselves that we can sometimes
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feel is sabotaging us or it can bedifficult, and that means addressing
things that are uncomfortable.
Things about ourselves or things thatwe really, really don't wanna be or
things that trigger us and saying whatpart of that just needs a little extra
love and protection so that it can feelcomfortable enough to step into its power.
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I wasn't planning on talking about this,but this is a really interesting, just
kind of, um, side myth to, to thinkabout is the story of Mary Magdalene.
When I started, um, studying GnosticGospels and, uh, reading Mary Madelin
revealed that Megan Waters, uh, Waterson.
She wrote that book and, um, kindof highlighted some really important
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things about that because we oftenassociate, uh, Mary Magdalene, you know,
her reputation not so great becauseof, of the way she was painted by the
Roman Catholic Church in the beginning.
But it was saying, you know, storiesabout her in the, in the Bible about how
she, her demons, right, her, her, um.
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There were demons that neededto be exercised from her.
And that's kind of one of thefamous stories of Mary Magdalene.
But another consideration from Mary'sgospel is that it's not demons that we're,
uh, that we're exercising, that we'recasting out, that we're like conquering.
Instead, what if it's the powersthat those demons are our power.
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That when they don't align with whowe are, our higher self, they may run
rampant and cause us a lot of problems.
But if they are seen as our power andused as a power, they can actually be
our most amazing assets about ourselves.
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Um.
Yeah, there's a lot of healingwork invited when doing that kind
of thing, and the work that I do.
And the balance is being able to seethat the both, the light and the dark and
all shades in between are very sacred.
The InBetween is where the sacrednessis and the Celtic folklore anyway.
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So the in-betweens is wherewe can find our balance.
Now, the thing I love mostabout this story of BLE Dwe.
And what I want to be, the takeaway todayis that even though she was created for
a specific purpose and that purpose wasserving someone's need, they needed a
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wife for LAU so that he would have a queen
carves her own path.
She's not interested in just.
What is it that you've created me for,but what do I believe I am created for?
What is my path?
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And I think this story inviteseach and every one of us to
look at how much energy, howmuch of myself, even from birth.
From the very beginning of my life, howmuch have I been devoting to make sure
I am what other people want me to be,that I'm living up to their expectations,
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to their needs, to what they see me as.
And if I were to remove that,or even just set it aside.
Leave room for me to figure outwho I am and what I am, am for.
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What is my purpose?
What is my passion?
When I look back at my life on my deathbed at 89 years old or whatever age I am.
Will I be more proud of the things I'vedone that were aligned with me, myself,
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what I wanted to do with my life,
or will I feel like I was alwaysdoing and living for others and their
approval and their expectations?
Now we do that for a reason.
This is not a judgment on like,um, you know, you shouldn't be
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doing that, because we do that toconnect and bond with our community.
There's nothing wrong with beinglike, Hey, I wanna be a part of this.
I wanna be a part of otherpeople, other people's lives.
I want people to see me as at service.
There's nothing wrong with thatnecessarily, but is it aligned
with you and your purpose?
Because.
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That is the invitation.
Ed's story is inviting us to look at.
She may have been created from Flowersto be the wife of fu, but she decided
it was up to her to write her own story.
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Unfortunately, in this story,doesn't have a super happy ending
for Poor Bo and, but um, but inall fairness, they did try to kill.
Her husband, and maybe that wasthe wrong way to go about it.
I don't know.
You can debate the rights andwrongs of things if you want, but I
think it's a beautiful story and Iabsolutely love inviting the energy.
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The archetype of ble diab into my lifeduring this springtime, considering all of
the things that I am working on and, uh,the healing that I'm doing, uh, on myself.
What does her story have to do with that?
What does it inspire?
So I'm gonna invite you to thinkabout that as well, and hopefully at
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least here in Utah where we live, ourspring weather will be coming soon.
As we know, spring doesn'tactually hit until around the
end of April here in Utah.
If you're surprised by that youhaven't lived here long enough, I
guess, 'cause that is the way it goes.
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But we are going to start invitingthe energy of spring today.
Tonight is my body, my dance party,where we're gonna dance, move
our bodies, and welcome spring.
I've seen the daffodils starting tobreak and bloom, which means spring is
just around the corner, and that makesme so happy to be coming out of the
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cocoon and rebirthing into the next.
Phase of life.
Alright, to close our lovely timetogether friends, I would like to
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Go make magic Witches and wizards.
Hello, and welcome to PracticallyMagic Storytelling, a subset of
the Practically Magic podcast.
I am your host.
Courtney Pearl.
Today I am going to be a Celtic folkloresand give you a little story time, putting
on my Celtic priestess hat and givingyou a little inspiration with some Celtic
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folklore from my own favorite whales.
I'm gonna start today's episodeby pulling a tarot card, so we
are going to get to it today.
I should be pulling fromthe Caltech, uh, tarot.
I'm sure that would, uh, be alittle bit more aligned with our
subject matter today, but I'mgonna go with the witch is wisdom.
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Tarot deck today because thatis just what I felt drawn to.
And when you follow your intuition, you'vegotta figure out what works for you.
So we're gonna pull a card andset up what this episode is about.
Hopefully the cards telling usexactly what we need to hear in this
moment in time as you're listeningto this episode, whenever that might
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be this, we're gonna trust that thisis the card that was meant for us.
Okay.
The card that I have pulled is in thisdeck, number 10, the offering, and I love.
The connections I'm seeing alreadyin the symbolism, so I'm just
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gonna hold it up for the camera.
If you're watching on YouTube, youcan see it's a man who's giving an
offering of some sort of liquid.
It looks like it might be milk,um, or water to a sapling tree.
The tree, if you look very closely, haslittle ribbons tied to the branches.
Then there is sort of an ethereal,ghostly figure of a woman
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standing just off to the side.
He's surrounded by a forest oftrees and she's watching him.
Um, I mean, I guess it couldbe a male figure, but it's
just sort of in a feminine way.
So I'm gonna, I'm going to sayfeminine presenting figure, but sort
of a ghostly, uh, in the background.
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There are all these really cool veins ofthat liquid sprouting out from where the
roots touch the ground of the sapling.
And it's like these little shootsof, I don't know, um, it looks like
magic or power that's just shootingout from the roots and goes into
the forest and in all directions.
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There's also a little bird and a fernin the foreground that you can see.
Uh, lots of symbolism here.
Lots going on.
So, um, the first thing that came tomind when I saw this card for us is the
time of year that I'm recording this,which, um, you know, you'll be listening
to it at whatever time of year foryou, but I want you to consider this.
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It is the coming of spring.
I am currently recording this on thefirst day of spring, technically,
uh, March 20th, which is the.
Spring Equinox here in the northernhemisphere where we live, um, which
is a fantastic time for us, pagan typefolks or people who are just really
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engaged in spirituality to startimagining what offerings we are giving.
So, uh, a lot of the ancestorswould be giving offerings to
the land and the trees and the.
Bulbs and seeds that are being planted.
Um, it's a very sexual energybecause it's all about kind of,
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um, rebirth and sexuality andconception and things like that.
So it gives the impression that, youknow, we, we want the gods of the,
the higher powers of the, of theland and the earth to provide for us.
We need the harvest season to.
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Be abundant, so we might choose to giveofferings, and it's just a really great
reminder to have that kind of, uh, energyof gratitude towards things like, I am so
grateful for the trees for offering theoxygen we breathe and the food that we eat
and all that they do to nourish the soil.
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They provide us with so much, we wouldnot be here, we would not survive.
We would not live without the plantsand the trees and the birds and
the bees and all of the things.
So giving them our appreciationis really powerful.
I can see like on the branches,there's not just little ribbons, but
also feathers tied to the branches,which is a great offering because
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things like hair feathers, ash,um, our coffee grounds, those are.
Things that can actuallynourish trees, nourish the soil.
So, um, you know, leaving dead thingsaround can actually be an offering, not
just symbolically, but a sign of, youknow, caretaking of the plant itself.
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And I love also that this whitepower that you see coming from the.
Coming from the roots andconnecting to all of the trees.
I often use that in symbolism, uh,for visualization and meditation.
When I'm doing a guided meditation, Iwill, um, offer an image of grounding.
Roots like a tree into the ground.
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But I do like to imagine that thoseroots also spread their connection
some way to all of the other rootsof the other trees in the forest.
Giving this idea of, um, we are allconnected, we are supported, we are
part of a community, part of a tribe.
We, we can lean on otherswhile they can lean on us.
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It's, it's a powerful imagerythat I think everyone needs
reminding of from time to time.
And now what does this haveto do with our story today?
Well, we're gonna talk about spring comingand it's okay if you're not listening
to this, uh, in spring or, um, or like.
It is the spring equinox, sothat will have passed already.
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I do wanna talk about it becauseat any point in our lives we are
going through cycles and seasons.
We can go through mini cyclesthroughout the day, throughout
the month, even in an hour and ahalf when I do a healing session.
It's a, an entire healing cycle,so we were always cycling.
And what the spring cycle is going to looklike in our healing work, in our lives.
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It is the rebirth part of our healing.
It's the part where wecome into ourselves.
We've taken the hardships and thedarkness that we have confronted with,
and we are bringing it into light.
And the idea of light and dark plays verywell in the story I'm about to tell you.
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And I'm gonna tell you the story of BLEwith one of my absolute favorite stories
in the Magi, which is the Welsh mythology.
Um, I love studying.
I've taken, uh, a few classes from somevery, very wonderful people who s uh.
Our authors and experts in Celtic studies.
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So one that I took, um, one course that Itook actually went through deep dives into
the five goddesses or ladies, dependingon how you look at it, of the Magi.
So the stories in the branches, thereare four branches in the Magi and this
story comes from the fourth branch.
It is, she is.
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Uh, she is an amazing figure to bringforward during this time of year.
And the last full moon that we had thismonth is the first of four moons in the
time of Ladi with, according to the mythicmoons of Avalon by Jenna Undre, who I
studied with, um, who I studied from.
I should just give herthe credit she deserves.
She's my mentor.
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Uh, I don't know if she wouldeven know that she's my mentor,
but I've taken classes from her.
I went on pilgrimage with her, soI. I look up to her quite a bit.
So a lot of this information is somethingthat I gathered from her and my studies,
but is such a powerful story, and Ithink by the time I'm done with this
story, you will love her as much as I do.
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Now, her story starts at the tailend of the story of Arianne wrote.
Arian Root was a. A prominentlady of her times, she had her
own castle, her own island.
Her uncle was king.
It was through her line that shthat the, um, kingship or the,
the throne would be inherited.
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So.
She happenstance, find herself inthe position of be being a mother.
And the story of how that worksout is just kind of a little bit
hilarious and a little bit crazy.
I won't go into that because it isnot her story today, but she finds
herself the mother of a son, um, andnot particularly pleased about it
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either, uh, and some kind of paint.
Who is the villain of that story?
Because she is cursing her son.
Uh.
The perspective I choose to takeon it, which was what I was taught,
is that she doesn't curse him.
She tests him.
She gives him these obstacles in his wayof becoming king so that he will be tested
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and proven worthy before he is allowed tobe king, um, as kings should be tested.
So.
She's kind of the hero of this story.
She, she tests him, gives him some testswhere she tells him he will not have a
name saved for what she will give him.
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So saying, you will not geta name unless I give you one.
And then her uncle whoraised the boy is magical.
He's a magical sorcerer type, and hetricks her into giving him a name.
And his name is Lau Gfu.
If I'm saying that right, my Welsh isnot great, but I'm trying, I'm learning.
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So this means their hair or light hairwith a steady hand is what his name is.
And then he, she says, youwill not get, you will not bear
arms safer that I give you.
Um, again, she gets tricked into givinghim a sword and he has a weapon and
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therefore he is able to bear arms.
The third one is really kind ofimportant and special because she
says, you will not marry a woman ofthis earth now being married and, um,
having a queen was in Welsh tradition.
And Celtic tradition of that time was veryimportant because, um, a king would not
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be allowed kingship unless he was ableto marry a woman who represented the.
Land itself.
So the marriage wasn't just of nobleblood to noble blood, which is probably
more the traditions of England,Britain, and that was in later times.
This goes back way back and a lot ofpeople believe that the stories are before
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Christianity, and we're only writtendown after Christianity's influence.
But we are going to, uh, suspenddisbelief for a moment and say if these
stories are as old as we think they are.
Chances are that a king or chief of hisclan would never be allowed to ascend
to the throne and have that kind ofpower if he wasn't able to make certain
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oaths and promises to the land itself.
And so in a lot of these stories,there is what we call a sovereignty
goddess, an an archetype of woman.
That represents the very land itself,and that this person does not allow the
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man to ascend his power to, to step intokingship without her blessing, without
her agreeing, he's worthy without.
Um, and then, and a lot oftimes that's a marriage.
So think of King Arthur's story,and again, Keith King, Arthur,
and Arthur's story is, um, it, it.
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Is rooted in Wales.
So the same kind of idea.
He was not made king unlesshe could have pulled the sword
from the stone and then receivedExcalibur from the lady of the lake.
So the lady of the lake, beingthe sovereignty goddess in this
particular story would be like, sheallows him to receive this blessing,
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this sword, and say he's king.
Okay, so long story short, Arian rude.
Or long story, long, I guessArian Ru tests him and says, you
cannot have a woman of this earth.
You cannot marry a woman of thisearth, and therefore kind of keeps
him from becoming king unless hecan figure out how to do that.
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Well.
His magical uncle, his magical greatuncle who raised him so wonderful
is he, his name's Math and hecreates a woman out of Oak Broom.
Broom is not the thingthat you sweep with.
That's called a beum.
It's actually broom is actually a,a plant that was used to make beams.
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So when we call something a broom, we'reactually, um, calling it the plant.
That was, that makes the beum.
That makes sense.
So broom, a meadow suite, these threethings, the blossoms of these plants.
We're used to create a woman, so she's nota woman of this earth because she's made
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from flowers, and her name means flowers.
It's spelled without a W in it.
It's Ed.
I'm not exactly sure if I'm sayingit correctly, but they're different.
So blow di width means flowers.
Blow di width means flowers.
And what's interesting and what Ilearned in, um, in some of my studies
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is these three things she's made fromdon't actually bloom at the same time,
which gives us the impression that ifshe was made, she, it was probably quite
a process, maybe like taking a wholeyear to make her from these flowers.
So she is broom magic into life bythese flowers, by great uncle math.
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And now s has his wife, his bride.
Um, now the problem with that is thatshe is not created for someone else.
She is, but in her mind and inour mind, why should that make her
obligated to be this man's wife?
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So while flowers turn towards the light orthe sun for nourishment, lau, who's name
meaning light flowers, turn to the light.
So the symbolism here isthat the flowers are made.
The light.
So they were supposed to turntowards light for nourishment.
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She was made from flowers.
She's meant to be his wife.
Um, but in creating her own destiny, shehas a bit of a adventure because while ES
is off somewhere fighting in a battle, shecomes upon a soldier passing through and
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she like a hospitable lady that she is.
A lady of the castle, she invites themto stay and she gets to know him better.
His name is Nu uh, Nu.
In the etymology of that name, we cankind of tie it back to Hero or Warrior.
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Um, it's also, uh, his lastname is, or surname Gran, PPP.
I'm not exactly sure how theWelch is pronounced, so forgive
me Welsh my Welsh friends.
I'm learning, I'm learning thisWelsh, but I'm not good at it.
So, uh.
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Anyway, his last name Pepper, it meansstrong, mighty, vibrant, shining,
um, now meaning light and oath.
So she's made this oath to the light, uh,but she meets Nu and she falls in love.
They fall in love with eachother, and that makes it quite
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sticky because, um, in Welsh law.
The time that the Magi was written.
And this is about 1100 ad so, um, ithas some influences of Christianity
at that time, but we believe the storyis to be oral tradition, much older.
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Um, it's interesting because Welsh law hada lot to do with, um, what is a marriage,
what actually makes a marriage lawful?
And in this case, a lot of peoplethink, gosh, she's such a whew.
She.
Steps out on her husband andfalls in love with another guy.
Well, if you take it into context,actually Welsh law is a little tricky
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because you aren't married, married untilyou're married for a year, and then the
wife or the husband can actually decideat that point that this marriage isn't
working and you can go your separateways, like an annulment basically, and to
much to their credit, the women of Welsh.
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At that time, the whales women atthe time, they had a little bit, a
little bit more autonomy, a littlebit more say in who they got to marry.
Now, the problem with this is that.
So in Welsh law, they hadto agree to be married.
They it, the woman herself had tosay, yes, I will marry this person.
So it wasn't quite like in Englandat the time where it was like women
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were just plain, flat out propertyof their fathers and their husbands.
So fathers were giving theirdaughters away, selling their
daughters away to people.
And it was kind of like,that's just a done deal.
In Wales at the time, it was alittle bit more like, I would like
you to marry this man 'cause itwould be a good deal for all of us.
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But the daughter, the, thewoman involved had to agree.
She has to agree that it,that she's okay with it.
The problem in this story is ouai withdid not agree to this marriage with Lau.
Right?
She was just made out of flowersand said, here's your husband.
Good luck.
This is, this is the way it is.
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So for her to choose Nu isactually more aligned with what
she should have been able to do.
She should have been able to choosewho she wanted for a husband.
And unfortunately forflu Lao, she chose Nu.
So he stays with her for three days.
She asks him to staywith her at the castle.
What, whether, um, she's become, she'sbeen a good hostess, but she has fallen
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in love and she says, please stay withme one more night, one more night.
And during this time theyrealize they're in love.
They are going to.
Need to make a life for themselves, butthey have to get LAU out of the way.
And this is where it getsa little, mm, come on guys.
So instead of just being like, Hey,let's just be together, let's just run
away together we are, we are in love.
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They have devised a planto kill Lau Lau himself is.
Sort of an otherworldly character.
He is magical.
He cannot just be killed so easily.
So he's gonna need to, there's gonnaneed to be a plan set in place.
And so they come up with a plan andto do this, um, bodied waits till
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her husband comes back and says, um,so what, she comes up with this plan
where she's gonna kind of pretend.
Concern for him.
She's gonna say, oh, my husband, Ihave been, well, you've been away.
I've been just absolutely wrecked withworry about whether or not you will die.
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And I just, I just need youto ease my troubled heart.
I, I just, I just dieinside thinking of you.
Being in danger and dying.
And Lau says, oh darling, you don'tneed to wreck yourself with worry.
I am really difficult to kill.
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Actually, I'm almost impossible to kill,so you don't need to worry yourself.
And she's like, okay.
Okay.
Well just to ease my.
My troubled heart, could you justplease tell me if someone were to want
to kill you, how would they do that?
I know it sounds so obvious, youcould see right through it, but Lau,
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I guess, trusts his wife so much thathe says, well, in order to kill me.
You would have to have allthese stipulations in place.
And it's actually reallycomplicated, I think I've ever
written down here somewhere.
But it's um, it's this whole complicatedaffair of situations that have to
be in place for lau to be killed.
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It's like he has to have one foot.
In the water of a certaincreek of a certain place.
One one foot is gonna be on a, a goator something, and it has to be on, in
a trough that's covered with a roof.
Um, all of these thingshave to be in place and.
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Basically the idea of that is thatit cannot be inside or outside.
It's not on dry land or on water.
It's.
All the in-betweens.
So in the, in the Celtic folklore,in between spaces are incredibly
powerful, incredibly magical.
So like the threshold of a doorway, forexample, a lot of mythology will have,
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you know, someone in the threshold, ornot quite dark, but not quite light,
like the twilight or dawn time of day.
It's not daylight, it's not night,you know, in the other world.
Um, so this is what this represents.
It's kind of an in-between space.
He has to be hit with a spear thatis a certain kind of spear and it
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has to go through the hole of a rock.
It's a whole thing.
So he tells her all of this,and Bo is like, oh, well that
just makes me feel a lot better.
But actually it would make me feeleven better if I could see it, if I
could see what you're talking about.
I'm just having a reallyhard time picturing it.
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If you could just try and put yourselfin that position so that I can see how
it would be that someone might kill you.
And then basically sets this all upso that he would be in position in the
creek, one foot in the creek, one footon a goat, all the things in place so
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that grand could be hiding in the bushesand with the spear ready to kill him.
And so that is what happens.
Grande kills lau instead ofkilling him dead, though Lau
becomes an eagle and flies away.
And then Renu and Bwe, theyare free to run away together.
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Now, it would all be just greatfor them if it wasn't for math.
The sorcerer, he's gonna go outlooking for Bwe, so he, well, first
he's gonna go out looking for Lau.
He's gonna go find him.
He's turned into an eagle.
He's not dead.
So he's gonna go looking for him, and hegoes chasing this trail that he finds.
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And then he's under an oak tree.
Which remember from the beginning, ethwas made from the blossoms of an oak tree.
He goes and stands under this oaktree, and he feels like maggots
and yucky stuff falling on him.
And he looks up and he sees thatthe eagle has landed on the branch
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of the oak tree, and he's sheddingmaggots out of his feathers.
Like, he's not good.
This, this makes me feellike death because like he's.
He's not well.
Um, he's pretty, he's lookingpretty rough from what I understand.
And so, um, math finds him.
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Now what's interesting about this, andthis is also going into the symbology
of this story and considering differentangles if you will, that maybe Lau still
loved Bodi with so much that he soughtan oak tree to be close to her, to uh,
you know, he maybe he was so devastatedat the betrayal of his love of the
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woman was supposed to be his wife, thathe went to the oak tree for solace.
And I think that's very sweet.
I think we can.
We can entertain that idea for a moment,but math finds him and turns him back
into a man, um, into the king that heis, but he has to go chasing after.
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Now.
Lau is chasing after Grandoand um, ends up killing him.
And Math finds ble who is running away.
And he changes her into an owl, andthere's a lot of really cool symbology
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and really things to consider aboutthis as well, because, um, he turns
into an owl because in that tradition,in that culture, owls were seen as
the most hated birds of the birdkingdom because they were cast.
To only hunt at night.
All the other birds are in the daytime.
They don't want to associate with the owl.
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The owl is kind of an outcast, so thatis maybe her punishment for what she's
done is she's gonna be made into an owl.
But I want you to, again, to rememberthat the symbolism of this when it comes
to the flower maiden, who she was in thebeginning of the story made from flowers.
Flowers seek light and flowerrepresenting the light.
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Gran new, representing the dark heroof our story represents the dark.
And so when she's punished, sheis turned into an owl, which is.
A dark figure because they,uh, because they hunt and they
are nocturnal hunt at night.
So this whole story gives a lotof, uh, of symbolism in the dark
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and the light half of the year.
As we come into the spring equinox, theEquinox being the halfway point between
the dark and the light, it is an excellenttime for us to consider what rebirth we
are going through, what we are movingtowards as we balance out the dark, which
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was the winter, which is the dark moon.
Every month we get a chanceto sit in darkness and rest.
Reclaiming sort of phase.
We get to take on confrontconfrontation, confronting our shadow
side, our shadow selves, and thenwe get to move that into light.
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As the spring comes on, we are invitedto take our darkest, darkest parts of
ourselves, bringing them into light.
Meaning that we don't conquerthem, we don't push them,
we don't, uh, destroy them.
We are learning to love the partsof ourselves that we can sometimes
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feel is sabotaging us or it can bedifficult, and that means addressing
things that are uncomfortable.
Things about ourselves or things thatwe really, really don't wanna be or
things that trigger us and saying whatpart of that just needs a little extra
love and protection so that it can feelcomfortable enough to step into its power.
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I wasn't planning on talking about this,but this is a really interesting, just
kind of, um, side myth to, to thinkabout is the story of Mary Magdalene.
When I started, um, studying GnosticGospels and, uh, reading Mary Madelin
revealed that Megan Waters, uh, Waterson.
She wrote that book and, um, kindof highlighted some really important
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things about that because we oftenassociate, uh, Mary Magdalene, you know,
her reputation not so great becauseof, of the way she was painted by the
Roman Catholic Church in the beginning.
But it was saying, you know, storiesabout her in the, in the Bible about how
she, her demons, right, her, her, um.
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There were demons that neededto be exercised from her.
And that's kind of one of thefamous stories of Mary Magdalene.
But another consideration from Mary'sgospel is that it's not demons that we're,
uh, that we're exercising, that we'recasting out, that we're like conquering.
Instead, what if it's the powersthat those demons are our power.
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That when they don't align with whowe are, our higher self, they may run
rampant and cause us a lot of problems.
But if they are seen as our power andused as a power, they can actually be
our most amazing assets about ourselves.
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Um.
Yeah, there's a lot of healingwork invited when doing that kind
of thing, and the work that I do.
And the balance is being able to seethat the both, the light and the dark and
all shades in between are very sacred.
The InBetween is where the sacrednessis and the Celtic folklore anyway.
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So the in-betweens is wherewe can find our balance.
Now, the thing I love mostabout this story of BLE Dwe.
And what I want to be, the takeaway todayis that even though she was created for
a specific purpose and that purpose wasserving someone's need, they needed a
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wife for LAU so that he would have a queen
carves her own path.
She's not interested in just.
What is it that you've created me for,but what do I believe I am created for?
What is my path?
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And I think this story inviteseach and every one of us to
look at how much energy, howmuch of myself, even from birth.
From the very beginning of my life, howmuch have I been devoting to make sure
I am what other people want me to be,that I'm living up to their expectations,
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to their needs, to what they see me as.
And if I were to remove that,or even just set it aside.
Leave room for me to figure outwho I am and what I am, am for.
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What is my purpose?
What is my passion?
When I look back at my life on my deathbed at 89 years old or whatever age I am.
Will I be more proud of the things I'vedone that were aligned with me, myself,
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what I wanted to do with my life,
or will I feel like I was alwaysdoing and living for others and their
approval and their expectations?
Now we do that for a reason.
This is not a judgment on like,um, you know, you shouldn't be
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doing that, because we do that toconnect and bond with our community.
There's nothing wrong with beinglike, Hey, I wanna be a part of this.
I wanna be a part of otherpeople, other people's lives.
I want people to see me as at service.
There's nothing wrong with thatnecessarily, but is it aligned
with you and your purpose?
Because.
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That is the invitation.
Ed's story is inviting us to look at.
She may have been created from Flowersto be the wife of fu, but she decided
it was up to her to write her own story.
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Unfortunately, in this story,doesn't have a super happy ending
for Poor Bo and, but um, but inall fairness, they did try to kill.
Her husband, and maybe that wasthe wrong way to go about it.
I don't know.
You can debate the rights andwrongs of things if you want, but I
think it's a beautiful story and Iabsolutely love inviting the energy.
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The archetype of ble diab into my lifeduring this springtime, considering all of
the things that I am working on and, uh,the healing that I'm doing, uh, on myself.
What does her story have to do with that?
What does it inspire?
So I'm gonna invite you to thinkabout that as well, and hopefully at
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least here in Utah where we live, ourspring weather will be coming soon.
As we know, spring doesn'tactually hit until around the
end of April here in Utah.
If you're surprised by that youhaven't lived here long enough, I
guess, 'cause that is the way it goes.
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But we are going to start invitingthe energy of spring today.
Tonight is my body, my dance party,where we're gonna dance, move
our bodies, and welcome spring.
I've seen the daffodils starting tobreak and bloom, which means spring is
just around the corner, and that makesme so happy to be coming out of the
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cocoon and rebirthing into the next.
Phase of life.
Alright, to close our lovely timetogether friends, I would like to
thank Ride the Wave Media just Blainewho produces and, uh, is the network
in which this podcast is possible.
So if you're interested in asponsorship of this or any of the
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Ride the Wave Media awesomeness,all of the things produced there.
Please get in touch with us.
They are an amazing group of peopleto work with, so I wanna give them
a shout out and a thank you forall the very hard work that they do
and amazing good work that they do.
Um, I would also like to thank SarahAlbert at the Sunshine Community.
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I am part of NA now officially Ambassadorthe Sunshine Community, women in
business supporting each other andholding events and teaching classes,
and all of the things that make us.
An amazing group of women.
I truly believe that it's somethingto preserve, something to highlight,
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and something to recognize.
I'm gonna give a special shout outtoday to the Daybreak Inclusion and
Pride, people who are working veryhard to prepare for the event in June.
I am very much supportiveand ally and part of the uh,
L-B-G-Q-T community and proudly.
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Show my rainbow flag no matter whatthe political climate is telling me.
I am excited and enthusiastic about.
Inclusion.
So, um, my body, my dance party tonightis giving 10% of the profits to pride.
It may not be much for this event, butwe've been working very hard to raise
money when we can and, um, and at leastawareness to what they're doing over
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there, and I'm excited to be a part of it.
So I'll be at that event in June.
I'll be there readingcards and doing portraits.
So if you wanna come to the event, ifyou're local, please come see me, check
out my booth at Ride The Way Media.
We're gonna be having a great time.
And as always, if anyone is willing andable to, uh, support the show, I would
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love to see, subscribe if you're onYouTube or a follow on any of the other
platforms that we have this podcast out.
We are building a lot ofgreat, uh, listens and follows
and community this way.
And, uh, and then we can provide more.
Content for you that hopefullyimproves your life and gives
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a little magic to your life.
So with that, you can follow me.
I am Courtney Pearl.
I own Prism Healing.
I do healing work, cardreading, all the things.
And you can find me@prism-healing.com.
Um, and you can find me onInstagram Prism Healing.
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Uh, Facebook, CourtneyPearl's Prism Healing.
I might be changing that, uh, soonto just prism healing if I can,
if Facebook will let me, but Prismhealing, you'll find me, you'll get me.
And I am here in Daybreak so Ican do sessions from anywhere.
I have clients in Canada, Hawaii.
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All over.
So if you are somewhere not localhere in Utah, that's totally fine.
I can do sessions from anywhere.
So find me on Prism healing and wecan do a consultation call and I
can answer any of your questions.
And I. One more thing, please privatemessage me on any of those platforms.
If you have any particular questions ortopics you would like to address on this
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podcast, something that might help you,or if there's a particular situation you
find yourself in and you'd like to getmy input, I would love to use that as a
catalyst for conversation on this podcast.
So message out, reach outto me and we will, um, we'll
help you out as best we can.
I hope you enjoyed today's story time.
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Look out for my, uh, story time episodesand my, um, guided meditation episodes,
and of course, all of the healing contentthat I provide on my regular episodes.
We'll see you next time.
Go make magic Witches and wizards.
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