Quotes from Robin Artisson

anything you do will be for nothing, unless it leads you to the Goddess of the Underworld

The overlap between the human and animal dead who go into the spiritual dimension of the earth and the natural spirits

It is a bad thing to forsake the old ways, and what is once lost can never quite be recovered." (Briggs

you can spiritually revitalize yourself and your world, in accordance with what is possible for your own age, and the Strangers occupy an inner world of timeless power, which is still available to all that have the courage and love to make the fires on the stones and spill some blood for them.

I was young once, and I wandered alone; The wide road was bewildering; I didn't know much. Then I met a friend and I felt very rich, For man is ever the joy of man.

Autumn nights are the most fickle: good and bad weather All in five days, and more than that in a month.

Cattle die, and kinsmen die, And we will die ourselves; But fair fame never dies For the one who can achieve it.

Praise the day at evening, a woman on her pyre, A weapon after it's tried, a maiden at her wedding, Ice after it's crossed, ale after it's drunk.

The beginning and the end- the origin and the consummation- are always in the same place, always the same thing, truthfully speaking. This spiritual maxim is one of the foundational wisdoms of the entire Western world- the oneness of beginning and end means that everything is a circle, held together, complete as it is. The firmly bound nature of the circle of reality is nothing more or less than the adamantine, circular bond of Fate itself, holding everything together as it must be.

Who should accomplish your deeds? Who should carry your virtues and vices? You do not come to an end with your life, and the dead will besiege you terribly to live your unlived life. Everything must be fulfilled. Time is of the essence, so why do you want to pile up the lived, and let the unlived rot? -C.G. Jung, from Liber Novus

The core reality of the fairy as postmortem being for deceased humans (or other breathing creatures in our world) has been laid bare. When we bring to mind the intimate overlap and interchange that the Fairy-world or spirit-world has with the ordinary world of experience, we must remember that fairy-beings can just as easily and accurately be described as the pre-natal beings of humankind or other breathing creatures.

For every ill beneath the sun, There is some remedy, or none Should there be one, resolve to find it; If not, submit, and never mind it. -Ancient West County wise saw or saying