November 27, 2025 • 33 mins
In this episode, we talk about the power of gold—the color of sunlight, harvest, sacred wisdom, and the kind of abundance that’s earned slowly over time. Gold invites you to honor what you’ve built, what you’ve learned, and how you’re shining right now.
What we explore in this episode:
What gold means in color magic and how gold functions as a “solar + harvest” current
How gold connects to seasonal and sabbat correspondences in witchcraft
The way gold shows up symbolically in tarot and oracle imagery
Understanding Gold in Color Magic
Gold is not just “money vibes”—it’s legacy energy. It’s the color of a full grain silo, a well-stocked pantry, the glow of candles on a ritual altar, the golden hour before sunset, the mead of poetry, and the wisdom that comes from living through multiple cycles.
Either way, magically speaking, gold is almost always associated with:
The Sun and solar radiance
Abundance and reward
Harvest and “earned” wealth
Honor, recognition, and prestige
Enlightenment and illumination
Divine inspiration, poetry, and sacred knowledge
Gold is the color of Sunday | Sun: vitality, visibility, confidence, solar magic. Perfect for honoring your life-force, success, and joy.
Gold doesn’t always show up in the simple “one color per planet/day” lists. Think of gold as the color you reach for when you want your magic to be bright, blessed, and built to last. It has strong intuitive ties:
Harvest & gratitude rituals
Long-term prosperity and sustainability (not just quick cash)
Creative recognition, visibility, and sharing your work
Illumination in study, writing, music, and poetry
Solar offerings and working with deities of light, truth, and inspiration
Tarot, Symbolism, and the Power of Gold
Because not every deck can print literal metallic ink, gold symbolism often sneaks in as yellow, wheat, hair, light, mead, or glowing objects. In the decks you mentioned, gold shows up through harvest, hair, vessels, and sacred tools.
Jera | Goddess Sif - Harvest, Reward, Yearly Cycle - Gold here represents earned abundance, patient growth, and the wealth that comes from the land.
Wunjo | Goddess Lofn - Joy, Happiness, Peace - Gold in this card says: "Joy is sacred." Honor the pleasure of simply being.
Kenaz | Goddess Gunnlǫð - Torch, Enlightenment, Passion - Here, gold = inspired fire. It's the glow of candles, the warmth of shared stories, the alchemy of word and song.
Seasons of the Witch Samhain Oracle
Divination - A figure sits with cards, candles, and what looks like a golden box or gilded deck. Shedding light on what is hidden.
The Witch - Surrounded by abundance and crowned in luminous hair. Gold marks the alchemy of self. Claiming your identity as a witch and standing in the richness of your practice.
Ritual - A figure encircled by lights or candles in a glowing ring. Gold is the container of devotion. It represents the energy you build over time through repeated acts of magic.
💭 Today's Tarot Pull:
From The Citadel: A Fantasy Oracle by Fen Inkwright, I pulled The Botanist (Reversed).
The Botanist is usually the one who studies, nurtures, and understands growth—a caretaker of plants, cycles, and ecosystems. In reverse, this card suggests that you might be hovering, managing, or “fixing” others in a way that creates stress for them and for you.
Reflective prompts on this card:
Where am I trying to micromanage someone else’s growth instead of trusting their path?
What would it look like to offer support without control?
Where can I turn that golden, nurturing energy back toward my body, my home, or my projects?
Ways to Connect & Support:
- Join my Newsletter list to get my FREE 2025 5-Card Tarot Spread PDF + magic straight to your inbox
- Be a Gu
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Tarot, in addition to the imagesof the cards I pull on each
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episode. All right, well, welcome to
season 18 where I'm talking all about color magic.
Today I'm talking about the color gold.
So we're in our final 2 episodesof the season we've gone
through. We did an intro, yellow, black,
white, red, purple, green, no purple, blue-green, orange,
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pink, brown. And now we're onto gold and we
will end with silver tomorrow. All right, so let's get into
gold. So gold as the color also called
golden, is a color tone resembling the gold chemical
element. The web color gold is sometimes
referred to as golden to distinguish it from the color of
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metallic gold. Again, this is sort of when we
display it on a computer, there is metallic gold, which is
right, probably, I don't know, shinier than gold as a color.
It says the first recorded use of golden as a colour name in
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English was in 1300 to refer to the element of gold, and the
word gold as a colour name was first used in 1400 to refer to
blonde hair. What else?
What else is interesting here? Again, gold, right, comes from
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sort of the element of gold, thething we find in the earth.
It says the American Heritage Dictionary defines the color
metallic gold as a light olive brown to dark yellow or a
moderate strong to vivid yellow,which again is very interesting,
right? We sort of span the gamut from
sort of yellow but brighter or golder.
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And I had this challenge when I was looking for tarot cards.
I had gold because I have a lot that have yellow, but I sort of
tried to pick cards that emulated, in my opinion, more
golden things. So I'll talk about them more.
But either elements that seemed particularly gold or that like
were made of gold. One of them I did like corn and
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like the blonde hair, which bothof those things get talked about
as golden sometimes, like goldencorn or golden hair.
And then another one has almost like a sarcophagus kind of look
on it, which like is very gold looking and a snake, which I
feel like serpents are often depicted in like gold jewelry,
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necklaces or rings sometimes to show the uroboros, which is the
snake eating its own tail, the kind of like cycle continuous
image. Yeah.
So that was like an interesting,an interesting challenge for me.
Oh yeah. Let's move on to colour magic in
particular. So pulling from
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rachelpatterson.co.uk that I've been referencing this whole
season, their article on colour magic differentiates gold in
particular as being about where did it go?
I just saw it. OK, maybe I made it up.
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Maybe they're not talking about gold specifically on this song,
but I did find it elsewhere on ericarcadian.com talking about
colour magic theory and correspondences.
They actually have like lessons on there talking about two, two
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parts talking about colour magictheory and correspondences.
So if you want more information after this podcast about it as
like their lesson, they talk about the history of color
evolving to see color. They talk about the shocker
colors, which right, we've talked about.
And then I liked here that they talked about actually seasonal
colors like the Pagan through the wheel of the year and how
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color changes seasonally, right?So in like, you know, even in
the mundane world, we have seasonal colors like red and
green for Christmas, black and orange for Halloween, pastels
for Easter. But when we think about a more
magical approach, right? Specific color associations with
each of the 8 subbots, they havea chart actually that talks
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about each one and so interesting.
So I'll reference it on this episode and the next one when we
talk about gold and silver. But here they say that gold is
associated with Lugnasa, right, in the sort of harvest holiday,
which again makes sense to me because that is often the like
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corn harvest time of year, sometimes more around autumn
equinox, which also has gold. So right, Again, if we think
about sort of the colors that occur in nature for Lukanasa and
autumn equinox, that says light brown, orange, gold, gold, dark
red and dark brown, right? So again, often we think of also
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like the colors of fall or autumn.
If you live in a place with deciduous trees and cooler
temperatures that drop their leaves, these are the colors we
get that time of year. We get Browns, oranges, golds as
the leaves start to turn and lose their sort of chlorophyll
pigmentation and fall and drop to the ground.
And then we also get golds, Redsand Browns as they start to like
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decay. I know in my neighborhood I just
went on a walk and we have oak trees and the oak has sort of
like AI would say like an orangey tan leaf color.
Once it kind of falls, I think it's kind of yellowy, it turn,
it's green, turns yellow and then falls and gets that very
like crunchy tan, brown orangishcolor.
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But right now, because I live ina rainy place, the leaves start
to decompose very quickly. And so right now they're almost
like dark brown, red, black as they take on a lot of water and
breakdown and actually start to like compost and create leaf
mold, which is like a type of ofcomposting.
So the trees that lose their leaves at this time of year in
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again, cooler climates, they drop their leaves as a way to
actually store energy in their roots over winter.
So right, This is why you want to leave the leaves.
If you're a gardener or someone that has a yard, I know leaves
are not so fun to have on grass,but if you're able to and you
have to seduce trees, try to collect your leaves.
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Or you know, collect your neighbors leaves if they have
them out in plastic bags and then you can actually create
your own like compost material from that.
Just leaves themselves. You don't need anything else.
They will break down that way ifthey're allowed to compost
naturally. Or again, if you go, if you're
in a forest and you look on the forest floor, you'll see it's
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covered in leaves this time of year again, at least for me in
the Northern hemisphere in this late November 2025.
And those leaves breakdown and they actually feed the root
system of the trees over winter so that trees actually have
nutrients, right? It's basically like a slow
fertilizer type of the element organic matter that decays and
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adds nutrients to the ground. And then come spring, right,
they get to use all that nutrients and they actually like
send it up right through sugars and different things.
This is how you get Maple syrup if you live in a place where
they top Maple trees, the tree starts to send sugar up into the
leaf areas or where it's going to create leaves and flowers and
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such things. And that's kind of what happens
in the spring and how we get green leaves again.
So that was a random aside. But again, anyway, there's not
like an official list for the Sabbats, the different colors,
or at least like there's some, but like not not for every
color. Like there's definitely white
for in bulk because of the association with milk or what
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else? All right.
I mean, like I do feel like for sowing like orange.
But again, some of that is because of the sort of Halloween
element black, like black candles often.
But yeah, I guess I'll go through some of the other ones
just since I didn't find this until I did this episode.
So I'll start with the kind of again, which is New Year, which
is on sowing. So it says dark red, orange or
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black, right? For Sawin, we have winter
Solstice, which is dark red, dark green or silver.
So next episode I'll talk about silver.
So right, That goes along with their imbulk, white, pink and
silver. Spring equinox, pastel pink,
yellow and lavender again. You think those like spring
Easter pastels? For Beltane, it's red, green and
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yellow for summer solstice, yellow, red and green.
Interesting. So kind of goes, right, Yellow
is the main one for solstice forsummer solstice.
And then we kind of have some other one secondary for
Luganasta. Like I said, light brown, orange
and gold, right? So for this episode and autumn
equinox is also gold, dark red and brown.
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So a lot of the times this gets used with like altar clothes or
a gun, like table runners or different elements.
If you, you know, change your altar every season, you can
change and add the different colors.
If you're doing candle magic, right, you can use again, black
candles if it's around sowing oryou know, maybe lighter candles
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for solstice or you don't want to do red and green like
Christmas colors or again, spring equinox, right, you bring
in those pinks and yellows and lavenders.
So again, it depends on what youare trying to do with the candle
magic. And even with candle magic,
there's also different color associations with that.
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I'm trying to think this has a good explanation of magical
theory and correspondences on here.
So if you're interested and you enjoyed other parts of the
season, you can check out this website because they actually
have like a whole really long article or blog all about how
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color magic shows up. All right, so let's get into
some of the tarot cards that I pulled.
I guess normally I talk about the day of the week
correspondences, so we utilize my paper I have here.
So again, there's not one necessarily for gold.
I'd probably say it aligns most with Sunday yellow for the sun
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or solar deities. But again, you know, you can
decide there with golden. I'm trying to think if there are
any particular deities that are associated with gold.
I feel like we have like the Trident of like Poseidon.
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Yeah, I feel like some are associated associated with like
corn, which again kind of gets described as like gold
occasionally. But anyway, let's get into the
cards I pulled. So I pulled from the Norse
Goddess Rune Oracle and the Seasons of the Witch Sawan
Oracle. So of course, technically
there's a both oral cards, Oracle cards, not tarot.
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I didn't have any tarot decks that specifically showed gold.
That's what I started looking for.
So actually I have another Oracle deck that we will use to
pull for the tarot card pull at the end, because I think that
one has gold almost on every image, so I thought that'd be
appropriate for that one. But yeah, so let's get into it.
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So in the Norse Goddess Rune Oracle here, I pulled three
different images of different goddesses, and these are all
again Norse goddesses. So first I pulled Yara, which is
number 19 or Goddess Sif associated with harvest reward
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and the yearly cycle. And again she's kind of depicted
with really long hair, like goesonto the ground, that sort of
golden yellow color. She has actually a crown of like
wheat or kind of like corn looking.
I guess it's wheat 'cause it just has like a fishtail braid,
not necessarily corn, but I'll see if it says that specific.
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I just think because corn is like a an American native plant,
it's probably not corn if it's in Norway.
But let's look here. This is number 19.
Yes, let's see here. So I am Sith, goddess of golden
hair. I'm the harvest ripened crops.
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Do I bear bountiful reward from seeds planted in soil?
May Yera bring you great rewardsfor your toil.
Again, Sith is the golden hairedgoddess symbolizing the golden
sheaves of wheat. Okay, so it is wheat, Sif, the
bountiful mother, bringing abundance to her family and Sif
forever continuing the cycle of growth with her golden hair,
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which again, she basically has hair that's like touching the
ground. Her hair represents the wealth
that comes from the land, goldenears of corn and fields of
wheat, the true gold that grows from the land as a result of
toil and nurturing. Her hair represents the
harvesting of crops and then when her hair is shorter and
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then as it gets longer, it's. Her magical golden hair
symbolizes the regrowth and lifecycle of the harvest.
Just as cutting ones hair keeps it healthy and promotes growth,
we harvest the crops and preparethe land for more life.
An abundant harvest is the reward for patients, well toiled
soil and the dedication to harvesting when the crops are
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ripe. It is an ongoing cycle repeated
annually to provide for the community and ensure survival
during the winter. So I guess there's a myth with
Loki where Loki cuts Sif's golden hair as a prank and when
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enraged at the slight on his wife poor, grabs Logie and
threatens to harm him. Loki, fearing for his life,
approached the Black Elves or dwarves who are famed for their
magical work. The dwarves created hair of pure
gold that when placed in yourself's head, attached and
grew as if real hair. Thus the cycle of golden growth
began once again, bringing forthmore golden abundance created by
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the toiling hands of the dwarves.
So right, her hair is supposed to be like literally gold
because perhaps it was more goldand blonde when it got cut off
by Loki. And then Loki goes basically to
the dwarves and like reattaches gold to her hair in this way.
And this is supposed to be sort of like the story about again,
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sort of this time of year, right?
Which I think is kind of why gold comes up with Sawin and or
not that one with the autumn equinox and Lucanasa is because
it is the harvest time of year. So Yerra is the rune associated
with this card, which means harvest or reward.
It represents the annual harvestperiod and cycle of one year.
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It is the only rune that is comprised of two separate
staves. So which are like, I guess, like
lines, a notion that mimics the distinct seasons of winter and
summer in Scandinavia. Yara may represent the end of a
cycle and the beginning of something new, perhaps a time to
plant new crops and embark againon the cycle of work and reward.
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It reminds us that rewards take time.
This is not a period for a quickfix.
So if you listened to last episode where I was talking
about Brown, we're getting lots of messages still about hard
work, patience, dedication, thatnothing is quick or at least
nothing worthwhile. Sort of in this way.
This is not a period for a quickfix, which I do feel like going
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into winter in the Northern Hemisphere, it's like, yeah,
that's the message. It's like harvest your stuff,
have your resources, right? Be resource, have your support
systems, have your boundaries and then sort of like use those
as a way to get through the winter time to get through your
non crop time, usually where youactually just get to kind of
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like eat or live off of the things that you did during the
brighter, sunnier days of the year.
And it says Yara, this rune is like literally represents one
year at a time. So it's also this like yearly
cycle. All right, let's look at some of
the other cards. So I also pulled Wanjo wanjo
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#14, which depicts she's associated with joy, happiness
and peace. So yeah, I guess with color
magic wise, gold is associated with like abundance.
I would say like reward, right? You kind of literally have like
gold as money or gold as like a,an A currency, sort of like also
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happiness, peace, joy, enlightenment even.
So we'll get into that with the next card I'm going to talk
about. And also often like light again,
like the abundance of the harvest, both wheat and corn,
right, are very large staple crops for a lot of the world.
You know, rice is another one. But those are very important
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things that right help us. I'm going to get through winter.
So would you know here it says Iam Lofnin, Goddess of unions.
I grant permission for your love, communion, fulfilling your
wishes. Be married this day.
May Wunjo bring joy and happiness your way.
So Loughin is the goddess whose names means comforter or loving.
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She's the bestower of blessings on marriages that have otherwise
been banned. Interesting.
And Loughin is the goddess who brings pure Lovejoy and
happiness to people's lives. So Loughin is depicted here
presiding over a wedding face. OK, so she has the comforts of
home and hearth. She's the grantor of marriage
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permission that's given to her by the goddess Frigg or the God
Odin. Her sole priority is ensuring
true love and happiness between the couple.
She disregards prior arrangements, marriage proposals
or banned unions and places emphasis on that, which brings
the couple utmost joy. So this depicts a wedding feast.
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So there's sort of a table in front of her with all these.
We have some food items. We have like some antlers and
some like horns that have runes on them.
We have some candles that have runes on them.
The rune that's depicted on thiscard, Wunjo, what else?
We have kind of like a golden. I was trying to see if they said
what it was like. I was gonna say cross, but it's
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not really a cross. It's like a golden item could be
like part of like an altar or like a necklace.
And again, we see this rune depicted all throughout.
And we actually have candles that are lit with light, like
golden light as well. So that's another way that gold
gets depicted in cards. Let's see.
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So Wunjo again is the rune, which is the rune of happiness,
meaning joy. It represents all the pleasant
experiences and emotions that life has to offer.
Joy can be found in life changing events such as marriage
or the birth of a child through the day-to-day experiences such
as watching the sunset, another golden hour, or savoring a
warming cup of coffee in the morning.
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The ruin reminds you to revel inthe pleasantries, to be grateful
for your life you have and the many joyful experiences that you
can relish if you only pay closer attention.
So there's also this attitude ofgratefulness.
A Wenzhou is a ruin of peace, sohappiness can be found in simply
being rather than doing. Oh, I like that.
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Also appropriate, I would say for for where I live this time
of year being rather than doing.And then finally in this deck, I
pulled Kenna's number 11 with the goddess Goonlod.
I really need to work on my Norse.
What is that my my. I guess it's maybe like
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Icelandic if it's for the runes.OK, this was #11 So here we
have, yeah, what to me looks kind of like a, like a
sarcophagus situation, or like she's sitting on a throne that
has runes on it. And she has an eagle.
She has some pottery she had, orlike vases.
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She has a golden serpent at her feet.
And then also sort of like a skull.
And she has these like, I guess scythes above her and a horn
she's holding like a horn, like a like a horn of plenty kind of
horn. So she says she is associated
with beacon, enlightenment and passion.
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I am Goonlod, the keeper of Meadgiant test in a cave.
I have what you need, the gift of the scalds poetry you desire.
May kennels bring passion to fuel your fire.
So she is the daughter of Sundgur the Jolton, who obtained
the Mead of poetry. OK, Goonlod, the protector of
the Mead in a cave deep within the mountain of Hinton.
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Borg and Goonlod trick by Odin into sharing the forbidden
libation. So again, Mead is alcohol made
from honey, another golden substance.
So she is the giantess that protects the sacred Mead of
poetry. The Mead holds a magical power
that gives one the ability to become a scholar, a Bard or a
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scald. So kind of write the
storyteller, the one who passes on legends or lore or stories to
others and for the in the community.
OK so I guess as part of the myth someone Odin shape shifts
into a snake, enters a whole board in the mountain and woos
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Gonlod laying with her for threenights.
In exchange Odin requests A sip from each VAT of Mead and in
doing so drains each one before shape shifting into an eagle and
flying away. So we have all these aspects of
the myth or of the story here. As Odin nears Asgard, he spews
the Mead into prepared thoughts.As Sundkar Kerlosan's in.
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Odin sends some Mead backwards and these drops fall to on earth
and give humans the power of poetry and creativity.
Odin shares the Mead with the gods and those who have the
ability to compose. So again, kind of like the
storytellers, right of of the culture, scalds and bards
reveled in the newfound gifts gained through the Meads of
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poetry. Goonlod is the keeper of the
Mead, the sacred goddess of the gift of enlightenment, and Ken
Oz is the rune of enlightenment so affiliated with this.
Here it means torch. So again we have the golden kind
of aspect representing fire. It's the beacon shining a light
on knowledge. It's reminiscent of headlights,
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lighting a path in the darkness and then covering what is yet to
be discovered. It burns brightly, bringing
warmth and comfort around the fire as wisdom is handed down
through storytelling and shared experiences, often over a horn
of Mead. So it says, now is the time to
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focus your attention on what feeds those flames so you can
nourish your body, mind and soul.
Kenna's is the spark of passion or creativity.
It's what fuels the fire in yourbelly.
Pick up the paintbrush, compose the song, write the poem, woo
your beloved, have a candle lit dinner and body self love.
Kenna's provides the light by which you seek, learn and
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thrive, gifting you the spark tocreate.
I love that there. So we have the sort of right,
the the spark of knowledge, right, of creativity, of poetry,
of storytelling there All right.And then finally I pulled 3
cards from the Sow seasons of the Witch Sow and Oracle here.
And we and I pulled again based on golden elements.
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So we have divination. We have where we have the candle
lights and actually it almost looks like a brick, like a gold
brick sitting in front of the person as they lay out their
tarot cards and they have their candles out, or perhaps it's
their tarot box or their tarot, their deck of cards that look
like they have gilded golden edges.
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Then we have the witch where shehas a very golden hair and we
see some golden flowers and she has all of these plants and
abundance around her. And then we have a ritual where
again we see a person in a circle with all these sorts of
candles or lamps circled around them.
Ritual. So for divination it says take a
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breath, take it twice. And sightful reflections are
guided by light with the which she says grab, hold, allow the
dwelling fire within belly awaken all that is a mere
glimpse, A delicate pull at the very roots living in the alchemy
of self. And for ritual, it says, can you
feel them? The wild creatures linked by the
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very blood you spill into your craft, a ritual of dedication to
self and those whose gazes hold fire, but whose whispers carry
you softly through the unknown. I love this because we have
right. We have the divination, which is
sort of like perhaps like the passion or right using your
spark or your energy to try to to connect with the divine or
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divine the future reflections right used light.
Here we have the witch who rightis a gun, kind of like pulling.
We get a glimpse into the alchemy of self, as the card
says, awaken all that is right, sort of embodying your witch
self and everything that you know and can learn and all of
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your practices. And then again, we like we sort
of close here with ritual, rightwhere you were circled around by
your candles. You have your dedication or your
ritual to self. And then it talks about, right,
the fire, whose gazes hold the fire and kind of like the things
that are created, you know, by the very blood you spill into
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your craft, right? That also exists outside of your
perhaps like magical rituals or rituals to self, right?
This exists in your in your worklife and the things that you
create in your world, right? This could even just be like you
decorate for holidays or you bring joy, you make gifts, you
do all these things. All of these things can be seen
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as aspects of ritual as well, again, especially when we do
them every year. Was going to look up ritual in
here to see if there's anything else they have to add.
It's about dedication and harnessing, right?
Ritual is the foundation of a witch's practice.
It's a doorway to world's unseenand a rite of passion.
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Ritual is dedication to your craft and is about you showing
up for things that are essentialto you, be it going to the gym,
organizing your kids, or hitting, but by going to work,
organizing your kids or hitting the gym.
Spiritual rituals are no different.
If anything, they are even more critical than the day-to-day
stuff of life. It's important to take time to
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honor your magic and the magic of those you call upon.
By doing so, you are making a choice.
If you have pulled ritual, it's because you're being drawn to
honor your magic in a more profound way.
You are being asked to explore your power as a witch, truly,
and to find the proper time and energy to develop your craft.
Making time to honor each step of ritual magic through
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intention is like sending out a beacon saying I'm here and ready
to own my power as a witch. The power that be will notice
your efforts and begin to give you more power as a reward.
Well, that's a lovely sentiment.So let's go ahead and pull a
card to see how can we work withthe color gold today?
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How can we add to what we've learned?
And I'm pulling from the Citadel, a fantasy Oracle deck
by Fenn Inkwright. And like I said, these cards are
mostly black and white and red ink.
And then they actually have almost like gold foil on every
card as they're kind of to emphasize certain aspects of the
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imagery, which is very cool. So I figured that would be
appropriate for this, for this episode here.
It's sort of like a a coppery gold.
Let's see here. OK, so how can we work with the
color gold Today I pulled the botanist, but in reverse, so
I'll see if I'm trying to remember if this has reversals.
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OK, it does. The botanist.
I don't know if I've ever pulledthis one before.
Maybe. All right, a botanist is someone
that works with and studies plans.
So the botanist in reverse, it says you may have become too
parental in your social relationships, becoming
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controlling and overprotective. This is creating stress for
others and for you. Let your roles mature by
releasing the parent child dynamic and embracing a more
trusting independent adult to adult relationship.
OK, well, I don't know about you, but I know exactly what
they're talking about, at least in my life.
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So very interesting. So that is how Gold wants to
work with you today, right? And actually maybe setting
boundaries or right, releasing our dynamics or stress about
others relationships into a moretrusting independent adult to
adult relationship. All right.
And that again was the Citadel deck, a fantasy Oracle by Fenn
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episode. All right, well, welcome to
season 18 where I'm talking all about color magic.
Today I'm talking about the color gold.
So we're in our final 2 episodesof the season we've gone
through. We did an intro, yellow, black,
white, red, purple, green, no purple, blue-green, orange,
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pink, brown. And now we're onto gold and we
will end with silver tomorrow. All right, so let's get into
gold. So gold as the color also called
golden, is a color tone resembling the gold chemical
element. The web color gold is sometimes
referred to as golden to distinguish it from the color of
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metallic gold. Again, this is sort of when we
display it on a computer, there is metallic gold, which is
right, probably, I don't know, shinier than gold as a color.
It says the first recorded use of golden as a colour name in
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English was in 1300 to refer to the element of gold, and the
word gold as a colour name was first used in 1400 to refer to
blonde hair. What else?
What else is interesting here? Again, gold, right, comes from
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sort of the element of gold, thething we find in the earth.
It says the American Heritage Dictionary defines the color
metallic gold as a light olive brown to dark yellow or a
moderate strong to vivid yellow,which again is very interesting,
right? We sort of span the gamut from
sort of yellow but brighter or golder.
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And I had this challenge when I was looking for tarot cards.
I had gold because I have a lot that have yellow, but I sort of
tried to pick cards that emulated, in my opinion, more
golden things. So I'll talk about them more.
But either elements that seemed particularly gold or that like
were made of gold. One of them I did like corn and
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like the blonde hair, which bothof those things get talked about
as golden sometimes, like goldencorn or golden hair.
And then another one has almost like a sarcophagus kind of look
on it, which like is very gold looking and a snake, which I
feel like serpents are often depicted in like gold jewelry,
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necklaces or rings sometimes to show the uroboros, which is the
snake eating its own tail, the kind of like cycle continuous
image. Yeah.
So that was like an interesting,an interesting challenge for me.
Oh yeah. Let's move on to colour magic in
particular. So pulling from
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rachelpatterson.co.uk that I've been referencing this whole
season, their article on colour magic differentiates gold in
particular as being about where did it go?
I just saw it. OK, maybe I made it up.
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Maybe they're not talking about gold specifically on this song,
but I did find it elsewhere on ericarcadian.com talking about
colour magic theory and correspondences.
They actually have like lessons on there talking about two, two
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parts talking about colour magictheory and correspondences.
So if you want more information after this podcast about it as
like their lesson, they talk about the history of color
evolving to see color. They talk about the shocker
colors, which right, we've talked about.
And then I liked here that they talked about actually seasonal
colors like the Pagan through the wheel of the year and how
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color changes seasonally, right?So in like, you know, even in
the mundane world, we have seasonal colors like red and
green for Christmas, black and orange for Halloween, pastels
for Easter. But when we think about a more
magical approach, right? Specific color associations with
each of the 8 subbots, they havea chart actually that talks
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about each one and so interesting.
So I'll reference it on this episode and the next one when we
talk about gold and silver. But here they say that gold is
associated with Lugnasa, right, in the sort of harvest holiday,
which again makes sense to me because that is often the like
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corn harvest time of year, sometimes more around autumn
equinox, which also has gold. So right, Again, if we think
about sort of the colors that occur in nature for Lukanasa and
autumn equinox, that says light brown, orange, gold, gold, dark
red and dark brown, right? So again, often we think of also
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like the colors of fall or autumn.
If you live in a place with deciduous trees and cooler
temperatures that drop their leaves, these are the colors we
get that time of year. We get Browns, oranges, golds as
the leaves start to turn and lose their sort of chlorophyll
pigmentation and fall and drop to the ground.
And then we also get golds, Redsand Browns as they start to like
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decay. I know in my neighborhood I just
went on a walk and we have oak trees and the oak has sort of
like AI would say like an orangey tan leaf color.
Once it kind of falls, I think it's kind of yellowy, it turn,
it's green, turns yellow and then falls and gets that very
like crunchy tan, brown orangishcolor.
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But right now, because I live ina rainy place, the leaves start
to decompose very quickly. And so right now they're almost
like dark brown, red, black as they take on a lot of water and
breakdown and actually start to like compost and create leaf
mold, which is like a type of ofcomposting.
So the trees that lose their leaves at this time of year in
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again, cooler climates, they drop their leaves as a way to
actually store energy in their roots over winter.
So right, This is why you want to leave the leaves.
If you're a gardener or someone that has a yard, I know leaves
are not so fun to have on grass,but if you're able to and you
have to seduce trees, try to collect your leaves.
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Or you know, collect your neighbors leaves if they have
them out in plastic bags and then you can actually create
your own like compost material from that.
Just leaves themselves. You don't need anything else.
They will break down that way ifthey're allowed to compost
naturally. Or again, if you go, if you're
in a forest and you look on the forest floor, you'll see it's
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covered in leaves this time of year again, at least for me in
the Northern hemisphere in this late November 2025.
And those leaves breakdown and they actually feed the root
system of the trees over winter so that trees actually have
nutrients, right? It's basically like a slow
fertilizer type of the element organic matter that decays and
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adds nutrients to the ground. And then come spring, right,
they get to use all that nutrients and they actually like
send it up right through sugars and different things.
This is how you get Maple syrup if you live in a place where
they top Maple trees, the tree starts to send sugar up into the
leaf areas or where it's going to create leaves and flowers and
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such things. And that's kind of what happens
in the spring and how we get green leaves again.
So that was a random aside. But again, anyway, there's not
like an official list for the Sabbats, the different colors,
or at least like there's some, but like not not for every
color. Like there's definitely white
for in bulk because of the association with milk or what
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else? All right.
I mean, like I do feel like for sowing like orange.
But again, some of that is because of the sort of Halloween
element black, like black candles often.
But yeah, I guess I'll go through some of the other ones
just since I didn't find this until I did this episode.
So I'll start with the kind of again, which is New Year, which
is on sowing. So it says dark red, orange or
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black, right? For Sawin, we have winter
Solstice, which is dark red, dark green or silver.
So next episode I'll talk about silver.
So right, That goes along with their imbulk, white, pink and
silver. Spring equinox, pastel pink,
yellow and lavender again. You think those like spring
Easter pastels? For Beltane, it's red, green and
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yellow for summer solstice, yellow, red and green.
Interesting. So kind of goes, right, Yellow
is the main one for solstice forsummer solstice.
And then we kind of have some other one secondary for
Luganasta. Like I said, light brown, orange
and gold, right? So for this episode and autumn
equinox is also gold, dark red and brown.
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So a lot of the times this gets used with like altar clothes or
a gun, like table runners or different elements.
If you, you know, change your altar every season, you can
change and add the different colors.
If you're doing candle magic, right, you can use again, black
candles if it's around sowing oryou know, maybe lighter candles
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for solstice or you don't want to do red and green like
Christmas colors or again, spring equinox, right, you bring
in those pinks and yellows and lavenders.
So again, it depends on what youare trying to do with the candle
magic. And even with candle magic,
there's also different color associations with that.
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I'm trying to think this has a good explanation of magical
theory and correspondences on here.
So if you're interested and you enjoyed other parts of the
season, you can check out this website because they actually
have like a whole really long article or blog all about how
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color magic shows up. All right, so let's get into
some of the tarot cards that I pulled.
I guess normally I talk about the day of the week
correspondences, so we utilize my paper I have here.
So again, there's not one necessarily for gold.
I'd probably say it aligns most with Sunday yellow for the sun
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or solar deities. But again, you know, you can
decide there with golden. I'm trying to think if there are
any particular deities that are associated with gold.
I feel like we have like the Trident of like Poseidon.
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Yeah, I feel like some are associated associated with like
corn, which again kind of gets described as like gold
occasionally. But anyway, let's get into the
cards I pulled. So I pulled from the Norse
Goddess Rune Oracle and the Seasons of the Witch Sawan
Oracle. So of course, technically
there's a both oral cards, Oracle cards, not tarot.
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I didn't have any tarot decks that specifically showed gold.
That's what I started looking for.
So actually I have another Oracle deck that we will use to
pull for the tarot card pull at the end, because I think that
one has gold almost on every image, so I thought that'd be
appropriate for that one. But yeah, so let's get into it.
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So in the Norse Goddess Rune Oracle here, I pulled three
different images of different goddesses, and these are all
again Norse goddesses. So first I pulled Yara, which is
number 19 or Goddess Sif associated with harvest reward
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and the yearly cycle. And again she's kind of depicted
with really long hair, like goesonto the ground, that sort of
golden yellow color. She has actually a crown of like
wheat or kind of like corn looking.
I guess it's wheat 'cause it just has like a fishtail braid,
not necessarily corn, but I'll see if it says that specific.
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I just think because corn is like a an American native plant,
it's probably not corn if it's in Norway.
But let's look here. This is number 19.
Yes, let's see here. So I am Sith, goddess of golden
hair. I'm the harvest ripened crops.
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Do I bear bountiful reward from seeds planted in soil?
May Yera bring you great rewardsfor your toil.
Again, Sith is the golden hairedgoddess symbolizing the golden
sheaves of wheat. Okay, so it is wheat, Sif, the
bountiful mother, bringing abundance to her family and Sif
forever continuing the cycle of growth with her golden hair,
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which again, she basically has hair that's like touching the
ground. Her hair represents the wealth
that comes from the land, goldenears of corn and fields of
wheat, the true gold that grows from the land as a result of
toil and nurturing. Her hair represents the
harvesting of crops and then when her hair is shorter and
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then as it gets longer, it's. Her magical golden hair
symbolizes the regrowth and lifecycle of the harvest.
Just as cutting ones hair keeps it healthy and promotes growth,
we harvest the crops and preparethe land for more life.
An abundant harvest is the reward for patients, well toiled
soil and the dedication to harvesting when the crops are
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ripe. It is an ongoing cycle repeated
annually to provide for the community and ensure survival
during the winter. So I guess there's a myth with
Loki where Loki cuts Sif's golden hair as a prank and when
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enraged at the slight on his wife poor, grabs Logie and
threatens to harm him. Loki, fearing for his life,
approached the Black Elves or dwarves who are famed for their
magical work. The dwarves created hair of pure
gold that when placed in yourself's head, attached and
grew as if real hair. Thus the cycle of golden growth
began once again, bringing forthmore golden abundance created by
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the toiling hands of the dwarves.
So right, her hair is supposed to be like literally gold
because perhaps it was more goldand blonde when it got cut off
by Loki. And then Loki goes basically to
the dwarves and like reattaches gold to her hair in this way.
And this is supposed to be sort of like the story about again,
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sort of this time of year, right?
Which I think is kind of why gold comes up with Sawin and or
not that one with the autumn equinox and Lucanasa is because
it is the harvest time of year. So Yerra is the rune associated
with this card, which means harvest or reward.
It represents the annual harvestperiod and cycle of one year.
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It is the only rune that is comprised of two separate
staves. So which are like, I guess, like
lines, a notion that mimics the distinct seasons of winter and
summer in Scandinavia. Yara may represent the end of a
cycle and the beginning of something new, perhaps a time to
plant new crops and embark againon the cycle of work and reward.
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It reminds us that rewards take time.
This is not a period for a quickfix.
So if you listened to last episode where I was talking
about Brown, we're getting lots of messages still about hard
work, patience, dedication, thatnothing is quick or at least
nothing worthwhile. Sort of in this way.
This is not a period for a quickfix, which I do feel like going
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into winter in the Northern Hemisphere, it's like, yeah,
that's the message. It's like harvest your stuff,
have your resources, right? Be resource, have your support
systems, have your boundaries and then sort of like use those
as a way to get through the winter time to get through your
non crop time, usually where youactually just get to kind of
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like eat or live off of the things that you did during the
brighter, sunnier days of the year.
And it says Yara, this rune is like literally represents one
year at a time. So it's also this like yearly
cycle. All right, let's look at some of
the other cards. So I also pulled Wanjo wanjo
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#14, which depicts she's associated with joy, happiness
and peace. So yeah, I guess with color
magic wise, gold is associated with like abundance.
I would say like reward, right? You kind of literally have like
gold as money or gold as like a,an A currency, sort of like also
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happiness, peace, joy, enlightenment even.
So we'll get into that with the next card I'm going to talk
about. And also often like light again,
like the abundance of the harvest, both wheat and corn,
right, are very large staple crops for a lot of the world.
You know, rice is another one. But those are very important
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things that right help us. I'm going to get through winter.
So would you know here it says Iam Lofnin, Goddess of unions.
I grant permission for your love, communion, fulfilling your
wishes. Be married this day.
May Wunjo bring joy and happiness your way.
So Loughin is the goddess whose names means comforter or loving.
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She's the bestower of blessings on marriages that have otherwise
been banned. Interesting.
And Loughin is the goddess who brings pure Lovejoy and
happiness to people's lives. So Loughin is depicted here
presiding over a wedding face. OK, so she has the comforts of
home and hearth. She's the grantor of marriage
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permission that's given to her by the goddess Frigg or the God
Odin. Her sole priority is ensuring
true love and happiness between the couple.
She disregards prior arrangements, marriage proposals
or banned unions and places emphasis on that, which brings
the couple utmost joy. So this depicts a wedding feast.
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So there's sort of a table in front of her with all these.
We have some food items. We have like some antlers and
some like horns that have runes on them.
We have some candles that have runes on them.
The rune that's depicted on thiscard, Wunjo, what else?
We have kind of like a golden. I was trying to see if they said
what it was like. I was gonna say cross, but it's
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not really a cross. It's like a golden item could be
like part of like an altar or like a necklace.
And again, we see this rune depicted all throughout.
And we actually have candles that are lit with light, like
golden light as well. So that's another way that gold
gets depicted in cards. Let's see.
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So Wunjo again is the rune, which is the rune of happiness,
meaning joy. It represents all the pleasant
experiences and emotions that life has to offer.
Joy can be found in life changing events such as marriage
or the birth of a child through the day-to-day experiences such
as watching the sunset, another golden hour, or savoring a
warming cup of coffee in the morning.
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The ruin reminds you to revel inthe pleasantries, to be grateful
for your life you have and the many joyful experiences that you
can relish if you only pay closer attention.
So there's also this attitude ofgratefulness.
A Wenzhou is a ruin of peace, sohappiness can be found in simply
being rather than doing. Oh, I like that.
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Also appropriate, I would say for for where I live this time
of year being rather than doing.And then finally in this deck, I
pulled Kenna's number 11 with the goddess Goonlod.
I really need to work on my Norse.
What is that my my. I guess it's maybe like
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Icelandic if it's for the runes.OK, this was #11 So here we
have, yeah, what to me looks kind of like a, like a
sarcophagus situation, or like she's sitting on a throne that
has runes on it. And she has an eagle.
She has some pottery she had, orlike vases.
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She has a golden serpent at her feet.
And then also sort of like a skull.
And she has these like, I guess scythes above her and a horn
she's holding like a horn, like a like a horn of plenty kind of
horn. So she says she is associated
with beacon, enlightenment and passion.
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I am Goonlod, the keeper of Meadgiant test in a cave.
I have what you need, the gift of the scalds poetry you desire.
May kennels bring passion to fuel your fire.
So she is the daughter of Sundgur the Jolton, who obtained
the Mead of poetry. OK, Goonlod, the protector of
the Mead in a cave deep within the mountain of Hinton.
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Borg and Goonlod trick by Odin into sharing the forbidden
libation. So again, Mead is alcohol made
from honey, another golden substance.
So she is the giantess that protects the sacred Mead of
poetry. The Mead holds a magical power
that gives one the ability to become a scholar, a Bard or a
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scald. So kind of write the
storyteller, the one who passes on legends or lore or stories to
others and for the in the community.
OK so I guess as part of the myth someone Odin shape shifts
into a snake, enters a whole board in the mountain and woos
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Gonlod laying with her for threenights.
In exchange Odin requests A sip from each VAT of Mead and in
doing so drains each one before shape shifting into an eagle and
flying away. So we have all these aspects of
the myth or of the story here. As Odin nears Asgard, he spews
the Mead into prepared thoughts.As Sundkar Kerlosan's in.
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Odin sends some Mead backwards and these drops fall to on earth
and give humans the power of poetry and creativity.
Odin shares the Mead with the gods and those who have the
ability to compose. So again, kind of like the
storytellers, right of of the culture, scalds and bards
reveled in the newfound gifts gained through the Meads of
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poetry. Goonlod is the keeper of the
Mead, the sacred goddess of the gift of enlightenment, and Ken
Oz is the rune of enlightenment so affiliated with this.
Here it means torch. So again we have the golden kind
of aspect representing fire. It's the beacon shining a light
on knowledge. It's reminiscent of headlights,
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lighting a path in the darkness and then covering what is yet to
be discovered. It burns brightly, bringing
warmth and comfort around the fire as wisdom is handed down
through storytelling and shared experiences, often over a horn
of Mead. So it says, now is the time to
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focus your attention on what feeds those flames so you can
nourish your body, mind and soul.
Kenna's is the spark of passion or creativity.
It's what fuels the fire in yourbelly.
Pick up the paintbrush, compose the song, write the poem, woo
your beloved, have a candle lit dinner and body self love.
Kenna's provides the light by which you seek, learn and
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thrive, gifting you the spark tocreate.
I love that there. So we have the sort of right,
the the spark of knowledge, right, of creativity, of poetry,
of storytelling there All right.And then finally I pulled 3
cards from the Sow seasons of the Witch Sow and Oracle here.
And we and I pulled again based on golden elements.
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So we have divination. We have where we have the candle
lights and actually it almost looks like a brick, like a gold
brick sitting in front of the person as they lay out their
tarot cards and they have their candles out, or perhaps it's
their tarot box or their tarot, their deck of cards that look
like they have gilded golden edges.
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Then we have the witch where shehas a very golden hair and we
see some golden flowers and she has all of these plants and
abundance around her. And then we have a ritual where
again we see a person in a circle with all these sorts of
candles or lamps circled around them.
Ritual. So for divination it says take a
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breath, take it twice. And sightful reflections are
guided by light with the which she says grab, hold, allow the
dwelling fire within belly awaken all that is a mere
glimpse, A delicate pull at the very roots living in the alchemy
of self. And for ritual, it says, can you
feel them? The wild creatures linked by the
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very blood you spill into your craft, a ritual of dedication to
self and those whose gazes hold fire, but whose whispers carry
you softly through the unknown. I love this because we have
right. We have the divination, which is
sort of like perhaps like the passion or right using your
spark or your energy to try to to connect with the divine or
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divine the future reflections right used light.
Here we have the witch who rightis a gun, kind of like pulling.
We get a glimpse into the alchemy of self, as the card
says, awaken all that is right, sort of embodying your witch
self and everything that you know and can learn and all of
(28:30):
your practices. And then again, we like we sort
of close here with ritual, rightwhere you were circled around by
your candles. You have your dedication or your
ritual to self. And then it talks about, right,
the fire, whose gazes hold the fire and kind of like the things
that are created, you know, by the very blood you spill into
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your craft, right? That also exists outside of your
perhaps like magical rituals or rituals to self, right?
This exists in your in your worklife and the things that you
create in your world, right? This could even just be like you
decorate for holidays or you bring joy, you make gifts, you
do all these things. All of these things can be seen
(29:11):
as aspects of ritual as well, again, especially when we do
them every year. Was going to look up ritual in
here to see if there's anything else they have to add.
It's about dedication and harnessing, right?
Ritual is the foundation of a witch's practice.
It's a doorway to world's unseenand a rite of passion.
(29:33):
Ritual is dedication to your craft and is about you showing
up for things that are essentialto you, be it going to the gym,
organizing your kids, or hitting, but by going to work,
organizing your kids or hitting the gym.
Spiritual rituals are no different.
If anything, they are even more critical than the day-to-day
stuff of life. It's important to take time to
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honor your magic and the magic of those you call upon.
By doing so, you are making a choice.
If you have pulled ritual, it's because you're being drawn to
honor your magic in a more profound way.
You are being asked to explore your power as a witch, truly,
and to find the proper time and energy to develop your craft.
Making time to honor each step of ritual magic through
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intention is like sending out a beacon saying I'm here and ready
to own my power as a witch. The power that be will notice
your efforts and begin to give you more power as a reward.
Well, that's a lovely sentiment.So let's go ahead and pull a
card to see how can we work withthe color gold today?
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How can we add to what we've learned?
And I'm pulling from the Citadel, a fantasy Oracle deck
by Fenn Inkwright. And like I said, these cards are
mostly black and white and red ink.
And then they actually have almost like gold foil on every
card as they're kind of to emphasize certain aspects of the
(31:02):
imagery, which is very cool. So I figured that would be
appropriate for this, for this episode here.
It's sort of like a a coppery gold.
Let's see here. OK, so how can we work with the
color gold Today I pulled the botanist, but in reverse, so
I'll see if I'm trying to remember if this has reversals.
(31:25):
OK, it does. The botanist.
I don't know if I've ever pulledthis one before.
Maybe. All right, a botanist is someone
that works with and studies plans.
So the botanist in reverse, it says you may have become too
parental in your social relationships, becoming
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controlling and overprotective. This is creating stress for
others and for you. Let your roles mature by
releasing the parent child dynamic and embracing a more
trusting independent adult to adult relationship.
OK, well, I don't know about you, but I know exactly what
they're talking about, at least in my life.
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So very interesting. So that is how Gold wants to
work with you today, right? And actually maybe setting
boundaries or right, releasing our dynamics or stress about
others relationships into a moretrusting independent adult to
adult relationship. All right.
And that again was the Citadel deck, a fantasy Oracle by Fenn
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Incriped. So if you'd like to join me on
the journey of using the Tara for transformation, you can
click on the link in the show notes to indicate your interest
and I will send you more info. I'll be doing monthly workshops
in 2026, a deep diving into the Major Arcana cards, one per
month. So I'm very excited to do that.
Links for the tarot decks I talkabout in the episodes will
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always be in the show notes and on my website if you'd like to
look at them or purchase them. And thanks for joining me today
on Everyday Tarot. Just as a reminder, the podcast
comes out daily, Monday through Friday for all of 2025.
You can e-mail me me at camilleasaunders.com with your
thoughts, questions and more. All right, see you soon.
Bye bye.
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