It is the eighth day of the 12 Days of Dreaming.
In Norse traditions this day honors Skadi and Ullr, the gods of winter, skill, precision, and survival. Hunting was a vital necessity, providing food for the table, yet life was not solely about survival. The Norse made room for joy, storytelling, games, weaving, and laughter.
Today is also aligned with the virtue of Truth.
Truth isn’t about confession. It is integrity. The courage to let words and actions match. The willingness to see clearly, without avoiding what is real.
In Norse cosmology oaths, promises, and one’s word carried immense weight. Oaths were binding. To live out of alignment wasn’t just a personal failure, but a fracture of trust. This day asks a simple question:
Where am I living truth? And where am I managing, softening, or withholding it to feel safer?
Day Eight invites alignment and honesty. It doesn’t have to be perfect, it just has to be true.
It is also a day to think ahead to August, the month of the Harvest. This period symbolizes future abundance and reminds us of the rewards of diligence and preparation. By living truthfully today, you plant the seeds for tomorrow.
August arrives with the harvest and, with it, the Ace of Cups.
If July’s Queen of Disks asked me to tend, nurture, to stay with what I chose, August asks me something different.
It asks me to feel what staying makes possible.
The Ace of Cups is the beginning of emotion. It is the moment the heart opens because the body finally believes it is safe enough to do so.
This is the second Ace of the year for me. April brought the Ace of Disks which is the birth of action in the material world. August brings the Ace of Cups, the birth of feeling.
The goal is love.
Love as devotion to life, as the willingness to let experience move through the heart without immediately managing it, interpreting it, but to just allow it to exist.
In the image the shell encrusted with jewels is meant to suggest the Grail. The feminine womb from which life emerges. The Ace of Cups is not something outside of us.
It is the heart itself.
What fills it matters. What we drink from it matters.
When it is open, it circulates life.
August feels like a softening. A return to trust. A nervous system that no longer believes feeling is dangerous to hold. This isn’t about losing myself to emotion, but allowing feeling without disappearing. Letting love move without trying to control the outcome.
Truth, in August, is this:
Admitting how I feel.
Letting it flow.
Trusting that my heart knows how to hold itself.
The seed of this card is love, and I am allowed to receive it.
Affirmation:
“It is safe for me to feel. I let love flow through me in honesty and trust.”
Always,
Your Trusted Friend ✨
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