Heathen Volva and Rune Teacher

I love when modern myths converge with ancient mythic concepts. All of us Gen x ladies know Tank Girl. She was the wild feminine we all aspired to be as teenagers. She echoed all of the Ancient ProtoIndoEuropean goddesses like Skadi in Scandinavian myths, Artemis in Greek myths, Arduinna in Celtic myths, Devana in Slavic myths, and Aranyanni in Hindu myths. Much like our other 80's icons like Punky Brewster and Pippi Longstocking, these female protagontists that symbolized the Divine Feminine who had to survive without any protection from the divine masculine, helped young women grow through the painful awareness of how fragile life can be in such a harsh world. The 80's was a time when the Baby Boomers came into their full power and often that power was to abandon their own children for the capitalistic addictions of materialism. 80's shows had so many refrences to parents abandoning their children, that is was common to have bulletins every night with news anchors asking ...

I was talking about the Anthroposophy concepts of planetary bodies with a friend this morning. We were going over the connection between Venus, Mars, and Mercury. Venus represents the divine feminine in the world, the part of us that is connected to understanding the psychic emanations of the spiritual world around us. Venus is a receptive principle and she has her shadow just as much as the other planets. Her shadow lives in fear and anxiety of the unknown instead of trust in the Divine. These fears can cloud her creativity and intuition and make her see the worst possible scenarios of the world. In her lightened aspect, she can see the best possible outcomes of the world and ways to channel hope and goodwill. Mars, on the other hand, is the masculine principle of us that wants to impose our will on the world. If Mars is occulted in shadow, our will becomes selfish and cruel and we want to hurt those who cause us discomfort. Our Martian desires to dominate, will cause us to say and do...