When it keeps slipping away
April 2026
"I hinder the blood, I slay the disease." — from a 15th-century Irish medical manuscript, RIA ms 24 B 3. Trans. David Stifter.
Irish healing charms were rarely vague about what they were doing. They named the condition directly, stated the intention clearly, and worked to stop whatever was causing the harm.
The blood staunching charms are some of the most direct examples. Their structure is the same whether the wound is physical or otherwise: name what is draining you, and stop it.
April often brings a particular kind of drain. The year is well started, the initial energy has settled, and somewhere along the way something has begun leaking. Attention scattered in too many directions. Effort going into things that aren't returning anything. That low grade sense that you're working hard but losing ground all the same. In Irish tradition, this kind of slow drain was not ignored. It was named and addressed, with the same practical seriousness as a wound that wouldn't close.
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