Hudson Valley Astrologer

One morning, as sunlight was beginning to beam through the trees, like a sleepy old goddess shaking sleep from her eyes, a New Day had arrived. But this was not just any new day! The world had changed, we were “sheltering in place.”

In fact, the earth had not seen a day like this since perhaps Macha, the sovereign goddess of Irish mythology invoked the ces noinden (“the debility of nine days”), a curse she placed on the men of Ulster. As it happened, Queen Medb of Connaught sent an army to invade Ulster, to steal their prized Brown Bull, Don Cúailnge, but the men were unavailable to defend their territory due to “the debility” and so, the responsibility rested solely in the hands of Cu Chullaine, the archetypal warrior hero who single-handedly defended Ulster.

There is something about this myth, the glorification and aggrandizement of the individual, who against all odds, through cunning and daring, faith and skill, vanquishes an enemy whose strength and number is overwhelming. Nevertheless, a supreme sense of self-confidence and self-belief ascends within him in a way that brooks no obstacle. The Warrior Hero archetype’s embodiment of the sense of ego strength and power that appeals to readers who identify with the notion of taking on and doing the impossible; tell me all the reasons You Can Do Something, and not all the reasons you can’t. Then, get er done!

She climbed higher in the sky, her eye droopy with fatigue from too many days of blight. But still, like the day before, and the day before that, like today and again tomorrow, “the sun also rises.” One positive ray that illuminated my world that day, is that I began to write.

HVA

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