#urda

Lady in Red, 2024

Today hasn’t been a crafting day, but it’s been a good hobby day! I biked to the park to volunteer for the Park Run, where my “job” is to bike out to the turn around point, put up the turn around sign, then sit there and read a book while I get to say hi to and maybe briefly chat with every passerby and their dog. I started Furiously Happy, by Jenny Lawson, which I’ve read before and definitely recommend!

Later I did some gardening work, mostly clearing out the dead pea plants, and gathering dried seed pods, as well as trimming and gathering blackberries! While I was working on the pea plants I took this picture:

A curl of pea tendril cast a perfect shadow on a seed pods!

As some bonus hobbying, some of the glass left all over this patch by the previous owners (SO MUCH RANDOM GLASS) looked pretty cool, and I found a decorative stopper, so I suddenly took up archeology as a hobby and started digging up the bottle shards, with my handy dandy hand sheers.

I’ll see what I can reconstruct later!

Got a bit of cleaning done, showered, and then my partner had prepared a whole fondue plate, because they’re amazing! We tried to use the chocolate fountain we got from goodwill, but the cheese was too thick; it was still delicious!

THEN we planned out the Guild Lands for the D&D world we’re building together, Urda!

It’s a chaotic adventurer’s market, and a densely packed mini-city, all in one! It includes a packed market, cramped but posh housing for the rich, even more cramped and significantly less posh housing for everyone else, a hospital and healing district crammed up against a cheaper market, bathhouses, temples, docks, a party district, a theatre… everything adventurers might need as they return from one adventure and prepare to set out on the next!

The Fates in Greek Mythology

Moira 638

Named after the Moirai, the Fates, in Greek mythology

The 3 Fates (Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos) decided the destinies of every being, including the gods

How long one would live, what trials a person would have to go through in their life to fulfill their destiny

In mythology, the 3 sisters would visit a baby 3 days after it was born to determine its fate

Klotho 97

the beginning...

Named after Clotho, the first of the 3 Fates and the spinner of human life

She determined when a person was born and whether or not a person could be saved

Lachesis 120

...how it's going...

Named after Lachesis, the second of the 3 Fates and the measurer of Clotho's thread

She determined how long a person would live and could choose the person's destiny

Atropos 273

...how it ends

Named after Atropos, the third of the 3 Fates and the cutter of the thread

She determined how someone died and would be the one to end a person's life by cutting his/her life thread

The Norns in Norse Mythology

Urda 167, Erda 894

Past...

Named after Urd, the first Norn associated with the past and the decider of people's fates

The name means "fate" in Old Norse

Werdandi 621

...Present...

Named after Verdandi, the second Norn associated with the present and things that were happening or becoming

The verb "verda" means "to become" or "in the making" in Old Norse

Skuld 1130

...Future

Named after Skuld, the last Norn associated with the future and debt

What could this look like in a birth chart?

I know these asteroids have to do with heavy things like mortality, but you can also see these asteroids as the "life span" of a passion, purpose in life, relationship, whatever it is. Look at aspects, house, sign, and any other asteroids around to figure out what the Fates and Norns are telling you.

Examples in my chart

Golden yod formation with the first Norn

Urda makes a golden yod with Chiron biquintile Midheaven.

Funny since yods are also called the finger of fate. I have yet to write a proper post about yods, but I'll dip my toe here. In my Urda golden yod, MC is the apex. Urda is quintile Chiron. Maybe this has to do with developing knowledge/skills that have to do with my past or destiny or other people's pasts/destinies. Whatever it is will affect my career/how the world sees me. Once again, I have to live through some more life to get a better idea...

Another aspect pointing to my destiny with the first Norn

Erda is conjunct Moon/Juno and trine North Node/Chiron.

Erda aspects my NN, the path we are supposed to take in this life. It also aspects my Chiron like my Urda golden yod mentioned earlier. This one, however, is conjunct my Aquarius Moon and Juno in 6th House. Oh boy...I think I briefly talked about this in another post, but here is another marker that I am supposed to be in a marriage/long-term relationship. Either that or my marriage is to my work (6th), and this my fate?

Endings on my Angles

Atropos in Scorpio 4th House conjunct IC.

Skuld conjunct Sun-Mars-DC conjunction.

Skuld is conjunct my Sun-Mars-DC conjunction. It is a wide orb with the Sun and DC. It is also conjunct Iduna 176 (eternal youth). Hopefully, this means I'll live a long life, or I'll at least look youthful even in old age. It is also conjunct Devience 21419. The results of anything I do will end up deviating from the expected?

OKKKK so Atropos is literally sandwiched between my Moon/AC midpoint and Juno/AC midpoint. Moon-Juno themes happening again here.

It is also interesting that Atropos is conjunct Fantasia 1224 and Skuld is conjunct Morpheus 4197. Both can be associated with dreams and non-reality.

Other Aspects

Lachesis is sextile Mercury/Uranus and trine Pluto.

The Mercury/Uranus/Pluto theme is coming back from Klotho. I am destined to be someone who wants to uncover truths? Astrology isn't my professional career, but I guess I am so into it because, in the end, I want to know just how real it can be.

Moira is sextile Venus.

Moira is also conjunct Polyhymnia 33 (liberal/fine arts, creative spirituality). Fated for a more creative pursuit? In Gemini 10th House too...

Werdandi is biquintile South Node.

Falling back on already "mastered" life lessons and traits and creatively using them? Perhaps my past/past lives are helpful to my present.

Overall something about the past/beginnings (Klotho, Urda, Erda, SN) is very important in my life.

Find your fates and destinies! (but know that you are also not locked into one type of life forever)

Just poppin' by to post some sketches of my wife