It’s the first Faery Friday of 2020! As some of you may know I have been very sick and haven’t been able to do any reading until recently. I’m so looking forward to finding out what the Faeries have in store for us today.
For today’s card pull, I am using the Faeries’ Oracle by Brian Froud with text by Jessica Macbeth. This is a single card pull since it is an oracle deck. If you like this deck you can get it for yourself. Just click on the picture below.
What do the Fae want me to share?
Today’s card is number 54 - Epona’s Wild Daughter
Inner shadows. Nightmare. Depression. Madness. Growth.
In the bleakest part of the night, Dorcha comes, wearing her crown of faery stars. She kneels on the ancient owl, bearer of the hidden wisdom of the night, and, facing into the past with a clear, unflinching gaze, she holds us. We are held immobile, inwardly focused, by her comforting yet implacable light-filled hands. She asks riddles that often seem impossible to answer at first - and yet she will not let us go until we find the solutions within ourselves. She is one of the great teachers of Faery, but her method of teaching make Socrates’ questions look like child’s play. We must expect this of Dorcha because her lessons are about the shadow side of ourselves - the things we fear, our insecurities, self-doubts, and denials. She is a practitioner of “tough love” therapy.
Dorcha is the Wild Daughter of Epona, Lady of the Horse and the Moon, and she takes us through the dark, hidden side of ourselves and into healing and fulfillment. From the temporary madness of rage, premenstrual tension, or great stress to the deeper and longer psychoses, she drives us on the journey through our internal hells. When we complete the journey, we are transfigured and transformed, transcending out old selves. We can never be frightened by that darkness again, whether our own or that of others. But until that journey is fully complete, we exist in a state of vulnerability - which is where most of us are most of the time
Notice, please, that it is she and not her more gentle sister, Laiste, who wears the crown of stars - a mark of service, compassion, and great wisdom. Dorcha’s element is moonlight, the fifth element, which tempers and tests the spirit. Through her teaching our inner conflicts and struggles become, as they are resolved, our greatest strengths.
Epona’s Wild Daughter, Dorcha, is the sphinx whose riddles must be destroyed by our own internal conflicts. Dorcha reminds us that we cannot go forward until we have faced something buried within us that is holding us back. Her presence in a reading tells us that finding and working through this is a task of some urgency. We can expect help in this from other people, from the faeries, and from our dreams, but we must be open to these difficult questions and answers and be ready to face things about ourselves that are not as we would wish them to be. She urges us to heal the unresolved issues about who we really are and what we truly want to be. This is part of the required course in Self-Transformation 101 that we are all enrolled in here on Planet Earth.
The answers to her riddle often come in a sudden burst of enlightenment, like the “solution” to a Zen koan. We may watch a leaf fall or catch a glimpse of the tiny sliver of the new moon in the sky and suddenly be hit by the answer. Before that happens, we usually work long and hard upon the question, searching and digging for an answer. The realization, when we really have it, will be transformative; we will no longer be the people that we once were.
This is a great card as it is about Self Transformation, and what do we tend to do at the beginning of a New Year but set out to change or improve ourselves. Though Dorcha may make things feel uncomfortable its for our own good. We need to look into the dark places of ourselves too. That which scares us or just getting to know our Shadow selves. Some can be scared of this at times but what you need to know is just as you have a Shadow self you also have a Light self too. Both together make up you. They are both you, so don’t be scared of yourself.
For me I feel like I need to truly embrace this card for she has something important for me to learn. I have been working on my own journey and I feel like something big is coming. Something that I can’t even imagine.
What do you think of Dorcha? Has she given you a riddle that you haven’t solved yet? Or better yet one that you have? I’d love to know.
I hope that this reading has been helpful to you all. Please let me know if it has impacted you in any way. I’d love to hear from you. And check out my website here. I am doing personal Astrology, Divination, Card and Astro Dice Readings. If you would like to have one please go to my website. Thanks so much for joining me on this Faery Friday.
May your stars shine brightly upon you.
