Death to Blindness & Expansion into Choice

 Sagittarius New Moon, Nov 23, 2022

Death to Blindness & Expansion into Choice

"One is called Ali or Váli, son of Odin and Rindr: He is daring in fights, and a most fortunate marksman."
- Gylfaggining

"Rindr will bear Váli
in western halls;
that son of Óðinn
will kill when one night old –
he will not wash hand,
nor comb head,
before he bears to the pyre
Baldr's adversary."

- Baldrs Draumr


Vali is the God born from Odin's desire for revenge for Baldr, his beloved son of love and goodness, who died at the hands of jealousy. Vali had no choice at his birth and the experiences he awoke in. In a way, he was conscripted into a fight that he had no participation in making. He was born innocent of a woman who was filled with madness, yet he choose the right thing to do. His love for his father led him to slay the god Hodr, which means "blindness", showing that he was a being that choose to see everything for what it was, knowing that he had no part in the fight, and still choosing to help his family regardless. Vali is the god who teaches us tenacity and perseverance in the face of hardship. The planets are now highlighting Vali's lust for battle and his sense of duty to a higher principle. This duty to a higher principle is being being opened up by the God Heimdallr, and his expansive nature which allows us to see a greater perspective. This expansion will allow us to see what we are really fighting for and if we have been caught in delusions.

This new moon will show us much about what principles we are really in allegiance to. We will be able to see if we have perhaps been taken advantage of and will have the chance to realign our allegiance to both people and principles. Perhaps we need to let some of our old principles go because they actually are holding us back in our growth. Perhaps we were mistaken about our grudges or the ideas that we had about others and we might take time to reflect; to set a new perspective with the people and ideals of our past. This will be a time, also, where our commitment to our own spiritual growth will be calling us fiercely. If you notice that you are fighting everyone and everything around you, this coming new moon will be a time to take a moment to pause and reevaluate whether you should keep fighting. If everyone you come across is fighting you, you are the common denominator in the equation. This would be a good time to rest and decide if you have been fighting others because you are trying to control events around you instead of just accepting the world for as it is. This is a good time to remember that when we seek to control others, it comes from a deep subconscious distrust in self, for when we trust ourselves, we trust that we can adapt and navigate around any issue in our environment.

Vali was supposed to kill Baldr's enemy, Loki, but instead killed the god of "Blindness". If we see Loki as the anthropomorphized version of the shadow self created from trauma. This shadow self always seeks to kill the loving heart of our consciousness (as seen in the metaphor of Baldr, the God of "enlightenment") and does so with the God of Blindness (Hodr being a metaphor for the subconscious blind acts we do every day to others and ourselves), then Vali slays the "blindness" that prevents his mind from seeing the tricks that the shadow plays.

Vali's home is Valaskjalf, meaning Vala (choice or corpse) and Skjalf (trembling or shaking). Much like the throne where Odin and Frigg sit Hlidskjalf ("the trembling place where one sees the other side"), this home of Vali is perhaps a place of initiation as well, where we are able to come trembling to a place where we see how we have deceived ourselves from thinking we have no choice. We can then either choose to walk forward blindly, cloaked in our delusions, or we can choose to slay blindness and see how we have contributed to our fiercest battles.

This new moon will be a time to allow that blindness to die, so we may see the best way forward with many more choices now available at our disposal. 



Vali by Carl Emil Doepler (1824-1905)
Heimdall by Lorenz Frolich (1820-1908)


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