Challenges of worthiness do not come when we are strong and at ease; they strike unexpectedly when energy is down and we are disempowered
Despite “the whitening of the face,” when we literally blanch at what is before us, we must still face seemingly insurmountable odds
Demands your best behaviour
Sovereignty and self-determination
The ability to handle surges of energy, wildness and passion is a sign of maturity and spiritual development
Wholeness and inner sovereignty can thus be achieved
Courage through difficulty
Movement through stuck emotions or repressed desires
Open the heart to pleasure and intimacy
Leave behind fears of commitment
Challenge in both positive and/or difficult ways, not always pleasant but always worthwhile
Cleansing
Purity
Chastity
Protection of the inner realm
The sacred marriage between the intellect/mind and feelings/intuition
Fairies, the White Stag, unicorns
Herne the Hunter
Cernunnos the Horned God
The Green Man of the Woods
Maiden goddesses
Mother Goddesses
Apply discipline and restraint
Clean up your act
Hold your inner life and body as sacred
Respect boundaries—your own and those of others
Honor commitments made to yourself and others
Be open to the Mysteries
Pack of wolves, for a terror to any one is a pack of wolves, owing to the affinity of the name, for they are a thorn, in the same way
Blanching of face, for blanched is a man's face when he is encompassed with fear or terror
Because it is formidable owing to its thorns
Most difficult at night
He happened one night to be on the top of a tall ivy-clad hawthorn tree which was in the glen. It was hard for him to endure that bed, for at every twist and turn he would give, a shower of thorns off the hawthorn would stick in him, so that they were piercing and rending his side and wounding his skin.