“The moon carries her own darkness, and is always dying and being born at once. From this portal the wise ones speak. From this opening and the moon’s face, scry what is complete in yourself, and offer thanks. With these eyes you can see in total darkness. Trust what you can see in total darkness. There are elders who would guide you so that what you have kindled finds its way to the full light of consciousness. Let them help you open this portal. Seek the most ancient, quiet and kind.”
-SOOTH divination, from the Thread of the card called “Old Ones Dancing”
Last weekend, I lit my candles and sweet-smelling herbs from Crete here at the far edge of California, and Rima lit her fire and settled beside it in her cottage in Devon, and we opened the virtual doors for our first Sooth gathering. It was something of a revelation for both of us.
This was the first time we had shared the cards while I read aloud from their divinations to anyone outside our circle of two (besides Runa of course), and the act of doing so seemed to activate something essential in them. Sooth who “sits the crossroads, where yesterday and tomorrow twine,” Sooth “the earthly, Sooth the sky, Sooth of fortune, Sooth of time” —she sang the heart for us, to us, with us, and revealed more of her nature to us than we had yet seen.
Rima pulled three cards, in the pattern of reading that we have created, and I read their divinations.
Our Lady of the Emberbed.
Mourning Chords.
Old Ones Dancing.
At certain moments it was hard for me to get through the words aloud because it felt like a personal reading for me at this moment in my life. When I shared this to the group, others joined in saying that this felt like a personal reading for them too— that it was bringing tears, that they could hardly believe how on the nose the words were for their own griefs and hopes on that day, in that moment. Later, a couple of you reached out to us separately to share more about the difficult and heartbreaking experiences that had brought you to our Sooth conversation that day, and the new tendrils of light and hope that had arrived in your hearts.
These words brought me to tears. And they reminded me that Sooth came to both me and Rima six years ago when we were both perched at the precipices of loss and initiatory shatterings. It wasn’t until our call last weekend that I realized Sooth had come to us this way right before these losses in order to walk alongside us all the way through, even during the months and seasons when we had set all work on the project aside, when we had almost forgotten that we had begun her because we were both so overwhelmed, in our separate ways, by what we were walking through. Sooth was always there. Sooth surrounded us with the love of far-back grandmothers and grandfathers, the wisdom of deep-rooted granite stones and wolves who love long and waters that always renew. She waited patiently through the storms, and took us by the hand again and again, until we could bring all the threads together and offer her to you.
Now, as she is being birthed by all of your support, she is ready to walk beside all of us in these times that are collectively so heartbreaking, when we need more than ever to have our ears, our soles, our hearts, our hands, tuned and pressed and listening and dancing close to the Earth who gives us all. The Earth who cries out for our love, our humility, and our devotion, more than ever before. We are so honored and continually moved to have been the conduits and recipients of this offering, and can’t wait for you to hold these cards and words in your hands.
Below is the video of the whole conversation and reading for all of you to enjoy. We hope you receive an ember of kindling hope to add to your own beautiful hearths.
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Rima and I plan to host another live call like this on Samhain Eve, October 31st, with a collective reading for the gathered group— we will share details about this soon!
We are also going to be opening up a new tier in our crowdfunding campaign, offering six online, one-on-one readings with the two of us— so keep your eyes on the look-out for that new level…
Apologies for the wrong link in the original post-- it's fixed now and should go to the proper Sooth page!
Tears upon tears.
Sooth
Wow
My heart could feel more touched.
You women are such medicine.
All I can say is thank you x
The world really needs this. 🙏🏼🌿💗