beauty · danger · the sea · allure · reckoning with depth
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The wave is beautiful, and it is dangerous, and it does not care which you notice first. You are drawn to something powerful — a person, a feeling, an ambition — and the pull is real. Go toward it, but go with your eyes open. The sea does not owe you safe passage.
Reversed
The beauty has blinded you to the danger, or the danger has frightened you away from something genuinely beautiful. Clídna's wave destroys and enchants in equal measure. Learn to hold both truths at once.
Irish lore
Clídna was a goddess of beauty and love whose great wave (Tonn Clídna) at Glandore in Cork was one of the three great waves of Ireland. When a king died, the waves roared. Clídna's wave was both beautiful and deadly — the sea's reminder that what enchants can also overwhelm.
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