Day 3/12

Today marks the third day of the 12 Days of Dreaming.

In Norse and Heathen traditions, this day is often dedicated to Máni, the god of the moon, and the virtue of courage.

Máni does not blaze like the sun. He reflects. He illuminates what is already there. He illuminates the edges, paths, and quiet truths, guiding those who must travel through uncertainty rather than around it. To honor Máni is to remember that light does not disappear in darkness, it simply changes form.

This feels especially resonant on a day devoted to courage.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the willingness to move with integrity while fear is present. It is the steady choice to act rightly, even when the outcome is unclear. Today invites a reckoning with the quiet bravery required to keep going and trust, even when we can’t fully see where we are going.

The third day also looks ahead to March and the Spring Equinox, The moment when light and dark are equal before the wheel turns again toward growth and renewal.

Thinking forward to March the tarot card drawn to represent this month is The Chariot.

In the Tabula Mundi Tarot, the charioteer is not armored and rigid, forcing forward motion. He is balanced on a surfboard, riding a wave. The message is subtle but profound: this is not about domination or control, but about responsiveness. Forward motion comes not from brute force, but from trust in the current that is around carrying you.

The horses are not even normal horses. They are Hippocampi, creatures that are half dolphin, half horse. They belong to both land and water, symbolizing mastery across realms. The horse carries the energy of victory and momentum; the dolphin, protection and intelligence of emotional depths.

Taken together, this card feels like the answer to what January and February prepare.

January asks me to align my will. February detoxes my heart. And March arrives with momentum, forward motion that honors both instinct and intention.

The oracle of this card is not “charge ahead”. It is to ride the pipeline.

Stay balanced. You are armored. You are protected. Move with victory in mind. Drink deep. Ride th wave.

This card carries personal meaning for me as well.

The Charioteer bears the Grail, which is a vessel in which the Lovers have been dissolved and recombined. Separation transformed into union. Duality returned to essence.

To me, the Grail has always symbolized inner essence.

For much of my life, I have measured myself against others. I have close friends whose essence I can feel clearly. One is like a riverbank in spring, another like a wide-open hilltop at the height of summer. When I finally turned inward and asked what my own essence was, the answer surprised me.

A rock.

At first, I felt disappointed. A rock? Still. Ordinary. Unremarkable.

But then came the remembering.

The Grail itself is said, in some traditions, to be made of stone. My favorite telling says it was formed from Moldavite, which is a stone born of meteor impact, forged when heaven met earth with such force that transformation became inevitable.

A stone of cosmic origin. A vessel shaped by collision. A material changed forever by contact with the divine.

Suddenly, the image shifted.

A rock is not passive. It endures. It anchors. It holds memory. It survives pressure, heat, and time.

Perhaps courage, for me, looks like this:

Not rushing. Not forcing. But trusting the shape I have been forged into.

To ride the wave while remaining grounded. To move forward without abandoning my weight, my depth, my truth.

By moonlight, we learn to travel this way.

Not because the path is easy, but because we are ready to walk it.

Affirmation:
“I do not force my becoming. I trust the path that meets me and move with courage.”

Always,
Your Trusted Friend ✨