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Another Raven picture inspired by a Celtic Divination book! This time The Celtic Lunar Zodiac (illustration by Margaret Walty).

The idea behind the picture is that it is Winter Solstice (the Nameless Day), the shortest day of the year, when the sun stands still between shortening and lengthening. The Elder Tree (seen in the foreground) is called Ruis in the Celtic system, and is assigned to this day (of course mistletoe is the plant associated with this day). The stones with spirals and the doorway are from the temple of Newgrange in Ireland, where the rising sun shines down a passageway into the earth on the winter solstice. The child that is conceived then is the child of the year, the symbolic fruit of the shaft of sunlight penetrating into the dark womb of earth.

I haven't actually finished this, but can't really decide how to finish it off. The actual picture has a baby in the centre but I'm not sure.

Description
Another Raven picture inspired by a Celtic Divination book! This time The Celtic Lunar Zodiac (illustration by Margaret Walty).

The idea behind the picture is that it is Winter Solstice (the Nameless Day), the shortest day of the year, when the sun stands still between shortening and lengthening. The Elder Tree (seen in the foreground) is called Ruis in the Celtic system, and is assigned to this day (of course mistletoe is the plant associated with this day). The stones with spirals and the doorway are from the temple of Newgrange in Ireland, where the rising sun shines down a passageway into the earth on the winter solstice. The child that is conceived then is the child of the year, the symbolic fruit of the shaft of sunlight penetrating into the dark womb of earth.

I haven't actually finished this, but can't really decide how to finish it off. The actual picture has a baby in the centre but I'm not sure.