This episode is about the Celtic goddess Danu, first mother of the river! She's a favorite of mine. She's really grounds me. I hear Her calling and bubbling and whirling. Another great mother deity to work and have fun with! And She’s a little less intimidating than some of the other ones I think… although her kids are very intimidating! LOL

In this episode, I'm going to talk about Danu, talk about what it means to connect, and how we connect to one another. Danu connects to all things! Then we're going to do a a little feeling the river ritual. I hope you like it.

Enjoy my friends,

David

Danu Story:

You may know Her as the First River, First Mother of the tribe Tuatha Dé Danann, who fought the Fomorians and all that good stuff with really cool albeit weird weapons and tools, like a giant bowl! However, I speak of a time before then. So far back our mouths seem far too small to speak of such hugeness.

Once Upon Before Time There was a Danu. The first. She was The Alll and The Nothing. She spied thru all that was and was not and suddenly longed… wanted… a first desire of many more to come.

She saw mountains of frost and Rivers and Stars and so many words and worlds drifting, floating being and unbecoming… The beauty of Chaos became clouded with a want to share… connect… desire.

So She marveled at how one would do such a thing as to…tie some of these things together to coexist.. And be bound… Hmmm

She pulled Ore from a friendly star

And a Ribbon of a wave from the first River

And a long song whispered at what would one day be dawn.

She wove them together.

This turning back and forth, forth and back and learned the motion of all things;

the sunwise and widdershins of it all.

And with the help of Time, effort, and patience, She created love and tied that up in Her now fierce rope.

She tied a star to a Moon to a Mountain

and it, to a river that plunged and splashed

and tied that to a rock under a tree which was secretly a door to somewhere.

She tied laughter to love and skipping stones to racing as fast as you can. But She was not through.

She tied me to you.

Them to us. Round and bound She found our hearts in the All and Nothing and it came for us to be known. Our own desires. Our own wants. Our own hearts, beating to be bound. And thus it is said that as Danu connected all Things and unthigns… So we choose and are chosen.

Blessédly we can choose Her and All connections, matter and un, infinite and fabulous. Forever or for now.

Danu, I choose You. Danu, I choose You. Danu, I choose You. Thrice Spoken and done.