It’s been a while since I’ve shared some Tarot Kitties, though these two often just like to be in the room with me instead of right by the cards. Newt prefers the desk in our new study/studio room while Miss Willow likes the chair (though she prefers the one I’m sitting in at the moment).
This week seems to a string of cards that are fairly serious in nature. We shall see how this continues to go.
Honeysuckle – Lonicera peliclymenum (Latin), Ul Uinllean (Ogam)
Green Man Wisdom: Wisdom hides in secret places
Meaning: The ancients often saw wisdom as hidden or secret, accessible only by the initiate rather than the ordinary man or woman. This notion came from a desire to preserve the power of the Mysteries, the point of divine interaction with the everyday world. Their true nature was known to all, but the practices and rituals flowing out of the teachings of the gods were kept hidden, for to make them available to all would have diluted their powers. The revelation of thesis, through the initiation experience, shone a light into the darkness of the soul and illuminated the innermost longings of humankind.
Wisdom can be just as hard to find today, but it is there all the same. Honeysuckle in a reading suggests that a wealth of meaning lies hidden, r easy to be uncovered and explored.
Honeysuckle Lore: Honeysuckle folklore centers around love and courtship. In Lowland Scotland, a young man visiting his sweetheart always carried a stick cut from honeysuckle, as it was Sid to bring lucky to the venture and to indicate honorable intentions. Its strong, sweet=smelling flowers, scenting the air most strongly at night, Brough young women erotic dreams and luck to any marriage. Hung over the door of house, honeysuckle kept unwanted visitors out and good luck in, and over the entrance to the cowshed it protected cattle from milk theft by the faeries.
The Twining Plant: Honeysuckle is famed for its climbing properties. It loves nothing more than to embrace the trunk of a gree, often covering its host in delicate golden blossoms. In Shakespeare’s A MIdsummer Night’s Dream, Titania, Queen of the Faeries (having cast a spell over Bottom that puts him to sleep), said, “Sleep thou, and I will wind thee in my arms … so do the woodbine, the sweet honeysuckle, Gently entwist.”
The Spirit of Nature Oracle by author John Matthews and artist Will Worthington
Parting the Mists 
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