Sometimes we’ve just got to get something out of our system . . . When we’re coming up to Full Moon, we first encounter the tension of something culminating before we can relax.
Ithaka is the journey poem of the Soul. A story of the Hero that we all are.
There’s nothing like the tension on a journey if you think you’re not going to make it because you’ve got yourself lost! The story in the poem Ithaka is based on that of ancient Greek King Odysseus, young King of Ithaka when he left to fight in the Trojan War . . . and old when he finally got back home having been “lost” in the Mediterranean Sea.
The story actually is that, as he didn’t pay respect to the Gods after winning the war they got their revenge on him and taught him a lesson or two by diverting him, his boat and crew around the islands: with wind energy, dark feminine wiles, magic and other psychic ways. It’s a tale of finding the Hero, and thus the Truth within: you won’t encounter monsters on your path unless your Soul has set them up before you.
One of the most beautiful journey poems ever, in my opinion, by Greek poet C.P. Cavafys. This is my reading, an offering for Full Moon on my Youtube playlist The Kindest Revolution:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kWqG6srsBA&index=3&list=PLbYKdByITt4-qeiVU03w02xCOq5NAGNTW&t=0s
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