Today, we look at Rhiannon, the Celtic goddess of Inspiration and of the Moon, hailing from Wales.\u00a0 She is known as the \u201cDivine Queen of the Fairies.\u201d\u00a0 Her story is one of triumph and tragedy and we can learn how to bear an injustice while still keeping our joy.\u00a0 Here is Rhiannon\u2019s story.<\/p>\n
Rhiannon (her name is either “Maid of Annwn” or a variant of Rigatona, “Great Queen”), is a version of the horse-goddess Epona and of sovereignty.\u00a0 One day, Pwyll saw her riding her horse \u2013 a beautiful woman wearing gold.\u00a0 He sent his fastest horseman after her but she outruns them.\u00a0 On the third day of this, she stops and tells Pwyll that he didn\u2019t have to chase her; he could have won her by speaking to her.\u00a0 She was promised to Gwawl, a much older man who she did not want to marry.\u00a0 Pwyll and Rhiannon fell in love and agreed to meet a year and a day later.<\/p>\n
Pwyll and Rhiannon were married but her people were not happy about it, because she should have married one of her own.\u00a0 She went to live with Pwyll\u2019s people and she was happy.<\/p>\n
During the next few years, Rhiannon bore a son.\u00a0 She had seven ladies-in-waiting to take care of him so Rhiannon could get some rest.\u00a0 One evening, while Rhiannon rested, her ladies-in-waiting also went to sleep.\u00a0 When they awoke, the crib was empty.\u00a0 Rhiannon\u2019s ladies did not want to take responsibility for losing the child so they killed a puppy and smeared its blood on her.\u00a0 Rhiannon swore her innocence but no one came to her defense, including her husband Pwyll, who was in too much grief.\u00a0 As punishment from the court, Rhiannon was to spend seven years under a heavy horse collar, telling her story to all that came to the court and offering to carry them on her back to the court doors.\u00a0 Rhiannon took this punishment without complaint and word spread throughout the land of her courage and20quiet dignity of the punishment.<\/p>\n
The thought was a suitor that Rhiannon had rejected kidnapped the child as revenue of Rhiannon.\u00a0 This child was found by Teymon, who was helping a mare who lost her foal.\u00a0 When looking for it, Teymon found the child and he and his wife adopted him.\u00a0 Four years later, Teymon, his wife and the adopted child went to the court where he met Rhiannon.\u00a0 She offered to carry them to the court.\u00a0 The child handed her a cloth that she recognized as the infant\u2019s clothing she knitted.\u00a0 And when she looked in his eyes, she recognized Pwyll.\u00a0 The child was returned to Rhiannon and Pwyll and Rhiannon was released from her sentence.<\/p>\n
Rhiannon\u2019s themes are movement, communication, rest, ghosts, fertility and leadership.\u00a0 Her symbols are the color white, horses and the Moon.\u00a0 She can also work with in situations with mothers, motherhood and lost children.<\/p>\n
If you want to work with Rhiannon, you can ask her to help you with communicating with others, especially if you are trying to take on a leadership role or assert yourself.\u00a0 This can apply to writing a report or presentation, filling out important papers (especially around a situation that deserves justice) or mediation.<\/p>\n
Rhiannon also teaches us to find ways to survive, even with joy, after a si tuation seems to be bleak.\u00a0 Rhiannon took her punishment without complaint and made the best of it.\u00a0 We can work with her to help see the light in the dark moments.<\/p>\n
Bringing Rhiannon in your life shows that you are looking to work with strong powerful feminine energy to get what you want and deal with what\u2019s been presented to you.\u00a0 Rhiannon will help you live your life with happiness and forgiveness, no matter what is your destiny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Today, we look at Rhiannon, the Celtic goddess of Inspiration and of the Moon, hailing from Wales.\u00a0 She is known as the \u201cDivine Queen of the Fairies.\u201d\u00a0 Her story is one of triumph and tragedy and we can learn how to bear an injustice while still keeping our joy.\u00a0 Here is Rhiannon\u2019s story. Rhiannon (her name is either “Maid of Annwn” or a variant of Rigatona, “Great Queen”), is a version of the horse-goddess Epona and of sovereignty.\u00a0 One day, Pwyll saw her riding her horse \u2013 a beautiful woman wearing gold.\u00a0 He sent his fastest horseman after her but she outruns them.\u00a0 On the third day of this, she stops and tells Pwyll that he didn\u2019t have to chase her; he could have won her by speaking to her.\u00a0 She was promised to Gwawl, a much older man who she did not want to marry.\u00a0 Pwyll and Rhiannon fell in love and agreed to meet a year and a day later. Pwyll and Rhiannon were married but her people were not happy about it, because she should have married one of her own.\u00a0 She went to live with Pwyll\u2019s people and she was happy. During the next few years, Rhiannon bore a son.\u00a0 She had seven ladies-in-waiting to take care of him so Rhiannon could get some rest.\u00a0 One evening, while Rhiannon rested, her ladies-in-waiting also went to sleep.\u00a0 When they awoke, the crib was empty.\u00a0 Rhiannon\u2019s ladies did not want to take responsibility for losing the child so they killed a puppy and smeared its blood on her.\u00a0 Rhiannon swore her innocence but no one came to her defense, including her husband Pwyll, who was in too much grief.\u00a0 As punishment from the court, Rhiannon was to spend seven years under a heavy horse collar, telling her story to all that came to the court and offering to carry them on her back to the court doors.\u00a0 Rhiannon took this punishment without complaint and word spread throughout the land of her courage and20quiet dignity of the punishment. The thought was a suitor that Rhiannon had rejected kidnapped the child as revenue of Rhiannon.\u00a0 This child was found by Teymon, who was helping a mare who lost her foal.\u00a0 When looking for it, Teymon found the child and he and his wife adopted him.\u00a0 Four years later, Teymon, his wife and the adopted child went to the court where he met Rhiannon.\u00a0 She offered to carry them to the court.\u00a0 The child handed her a cloth that she recognized as the infant\u2019s clothing she knitted.\u00a0 And when she looked in his eyes, she recognized Pwyll.\u00a0 The child was returned to Rhiannon and Pwyll and Rhiannon was released from her sentence. Rhiannon\u2019s themes are movement, communication, rest, ghosts, fertility and leadership.\u00a0 Her symbols are the color white, horses and the Moon.\u00a0 She can also work with in situations with mothers, motherhood and lost children. If you want to work with Rhiannon, you can ask her to help you with communicating with others, especially if you are trying to take on a leadership role or assert yourself.\u00a0 This can apply to writing a report or presentation, filling out important papers (especially around a situation that deserves justice) or mediation. Rhiannon also teaches us to find ways to survive, even with joy, after a si tuation seems to be bleak.\u00a0 Rhiannon took her punishment without complaint and made the best of it.\u00a0 We can work with her to help see the light in the dark moments. Bringing Rhiannon in your life shows that you are looking to work with strong powerful feminine energy to get what you want and deal with what\u2019s been presented to you.\u00a0 Rhiannon will help you live your life with happiness and forgiveness, no matter what is your destiny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":487,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions\/487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}