Dark Goddess Craft by Stephanie Woodfield

Author:Stephanie Woodfield
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: dark goddess;working with the dark goddess;gods;goddesses;witchcraft;pagan;paganism;rituals
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide, LTD.
Published: 2017-09-21T14:25:19+00:00

Learning from Betrayal and Judgment

The thing about betrayal is it isn’t the actual event that breaks you. We all have experienced betrayal of some kind, whether it is by friends, loved ones, or family. The majority of the time we can recover from the actual circumstance of the betrayal, but betrayal keeps hurting long after the actual event because it keeps replaying in our heads, and it destroys our ability to trust or put our faith in others. We are left asking, “Why?” Why were we betrayed in the first place? And we begin to withdraw our trust of others who haven’t harmed us simply because we see with new eyes that they have the potential to betray us as well. We recede like Sedna to the dark bottom of the ocean, we recoil into ourselves and vow never to let anyone close again.

In many ways people put their faith in Sedna. In the harsh climate occupied by the Inuit, with millions of square miles of tundra and icy coasts, agriculture is nearly impossible and hunting and trapping are the primary source of food. A good hunt is important and can mean life or death. Making offerings for a good hunt to Sedna and relying on her that they might find game and not starve when, we can assume, she by every right can no longer put her faith in others after experiencing so much betrayal shows a kind of symmetry. She is betrayed more than once. She is first betrayed when her father gives her a sleeping draft and gives her to the stranger, angered by her defiance of his wish for her to marry. Then she is betrayed yet again after trusting him to rescue her and he chooses to toss her overboard to save himself from the sea spirit’s rage. Even deeper is the betrayal when he chops off her fingers as she tries to lift herself back into the boat. She chooses to trust him again, only to learn the hard way that her trust is misplaced. The consequences of those betrayals leave her wounded. Yet instead of drowning she is transformed, creating life out of her mangled fingers, and she herself becomes powerful, guiding souls through Adlivun and to final peace. Sedna’s lesson is not so much making peace with betrayal but learning discernment and judgment.

As much as we don’t like to admit it, we have to trust people. We trust our mechanic to fix our car, our banks not to steal our money. We have to trust when we drive down the road that the other cars will drive in the right lanes. We have to trust people to function, yet we can’t give our trust away blindly. We have to judge people. This sounds simple but has deep consequences. When we enter the underworld, there is always an element of judgment. Our guides evaluate if we are ready to move on to other challenges. A function of most underworld gods involves judgment. Anubis

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