Lift the Curse: Forgive

Macha Lifting the Curse of War

There are no real winners in war. Let your divine feminine aspect lead the way to conflict resolution.

Macha of Irish myth was a faery woman married to a foolish man. Because he boasted about her abilities, she was forced to run a race against the king’s horses while nine months pregnant. She wins, collapses and gives birth to twins. Before she dies, she curses the men of Ulster, saying that when they go into battle, the men will become as weak as a woman in labor. In the painting, she is not only lifting the original curse on the Ulstermen, but also the curse of war from the world of man. The mound in the foreground is her ancestral home of Emain Macha in County Armagh, with the Celtic ritual horns that were found close by.