THE ERINYES

goddess' of crisis

Oh Three Dark Immortal Howling Maidens -

Great Goddesses, you who are also known as the Eumenides the Kindly ones, the Potniae the Awful Ones, the Maniae the Madnesses, and the Praxidikae the Vengeful ones.  You are Crisis.  Birthed from anger, you are Three sisters: Tisiphone, Megaera, and Alecto. You are the punishers of sinners, which you refer to as, "those who walk in darkness." Weeping tears of blood and hissing with hair of vipers, you descend like a storm. As long as there is sin in this world, you can not be banished.  

You are in my family today.   You are with Jonathan and Ebony.  They struggle through their emotional turmoil.  They end their relationship.  They leave each other and us, unsure, uncertain, set a drift....

You say: "We are Crisis.  We are fear.  You can not avoid us.  You can not outrun us.  You must face us.  You must deal with us.  Crisis is accelerated growth and transformation, that brings oppurtunity.  We are among you today.  We are with your family tonight.  You can not help mend this crisis.  Your brother must face this alone.  This is not your battle.  This is not your web.  Yet Crisis in his life, brings crisis to your life...and such is it, that we are here...with you...

Today we tell you to send him a "coocoon".  The time to do this is now....no time to look for ideal conditions, an ideal place...  Close your eyes now.  Deep breath, releasing gently.  Sense/feel/see a gently nurturing coocoon being built about you.  Wrap this coocoon around you, then fill it with Love you care for your loved ones.  Take this love and comfort deep into every cell and dimesion of your being.  Hand over this crisis to us, for we Give it, and Receive...breathe it out, breathe it in..

..let it go..

..find comfort in this safety...find comfort in our dual roles.  Destroyer.  Provider. When ready, take a deep breath, releasing it slowly... then remove yourself from the coocoon when you feel ready.

The coocoon is always there for you.  Just as we are.  

Pray for your family member in need.  Take their spirit into the coocoon with you.  We are with you/them."

Thank you fierce Goddesses.  Be with Jonathan and Ebony.  Lead them to their freedom...what ever that must be...

Amen.

"We claim to be just and upright. No wrath from us will come stealthily to the one who holds out clean hands, and he will go through life unharmed; but whoever sins and hides his blood-stained hands, as avengers of bloodshed we appear against him to the end, presenting ourselves as upright witnesses for the dead." [The ERINYES. Aeschylus, Eumenides 310]