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Come
into My silver web
I am the change that transforms
I'll spin you a silent silken shroud
A tomb from which to be born.
I see
you cringe and step aback
As you watch My scything jaws
But before rebirth must come release
'Tis one of the Dragon's laws.
Come
tread My sticky spiraled path
If you wish to be free
For you'll have neither arms nor name
Lest you've the courage to confront Me.
No
journey for the craven this,
To shrug away your skin
To face the mirror of your soul
And see what you have been.
No
mortal mate within the glass
You'll find reflected there
Instead the Many-Petaled One
Unfolding features fair.
Come
ye, balance 'tween the worlds
Be ye not afraid
Though the spears may wound you deep
And you fear yourself betrayed.
Though
rooting sows may eat your flesh
Below your lonely perch
And shadowed, vast the forest lies
Between any who would search.
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Yet
listen to the whispered breeze
That carries you a song
Hark to the still, small voice that calls
And tells you, you belong.
Awaken
from your silken shroud
And struggle yourself free
For if you'd heal your weeping wound
First sing it from its tree.
Come, leave you now, My silver web
The weaving of your fate
My strands no stronger than you can bear
Spun to guide, not decimate.
Tread the deosil path that leads you out
Changed by all you've touched
And when next caught in my sticky threads
Fear me not as much.
--
Lionrhod 8/97
Arianrhod
is a goddess of the Welsh Celts, who rules transformation, reincarnation
and the journey within to face our darkness and emerge to the light.
This
weaver of the web of our lives appears variously as a beautiful
woman, a crone, or as a spider. For some reason many folks depict
her as a full moon/mother goddess, but though she may be lovely
to look upon she is certainly a Crone energy.
She
lives in Caer Arianrhod, "the castle beyond the north wind,"
which the Celts locate in the Corona Borealis (Northern Crown).
Her Greek countepart is the goddess Ariadne, who, interestingly
enough the Greeks also place at that selfsame constellation.
Although
she is briefly mentioned elsewhere in the Mabinogion, her main surviving
story is the one she shares with Llew Law Gyffes, Bloudwedd and
Gwydion.
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