She Continues
I wrote this post a little while back, but I held off on sharing it because the experiences pointed me to a particular experiment to perform, and I wanted to do that operation first before sharing the post. Then, “Black Seas of Infinity” came to me as I was reading through The Brazen Vessel, and […] … Continue reading…Force Majeure
A friend had bugged me ages ago about writing on “ritual dramaturgy,” and the idea made sense, got me thinking, but despite making an outline and starting to draft something, it fell by the wayside because it got boring. I was approaching it in the wrong way, and I was very much overthinking it or […] … Continue reading…Ritual Dramaturgy
I’ve waited on making this post because it reflects experiments I had begun with the eclipses of January, and continued on with the July eclipse in Cancer. I began this experiment after having several brainstorms. I knew the eclipses were coming up this year, and they’re hitting pretty sensitive places in my chart. Indeed, I […] … Continue reading…Out of the Shadow: Eclipse Experiments
I’m going to talk today about divine twins, the Gospel of Thomas, higher and lower dimensions, textual interpretation, and the imaginal. (Wait! Come back!) As I do so, I’m more thinking aloud than offering any concrete theology or cosmology. I’m still early into thinking with these ideas even as they build on plenty of stuff […] … Continue reading…Twin Inter-Play
I was meditating a few weeks back and got a strong ping from the Pleiades, the Seven Sisters, and I’ve always had a fondness for the asterism. I always enjoy looking up and recognizing the Pleiades (and Orion). So, I decided I’d try my hand at calling up the Pleiades. What do I mean by […] … Continue reading…Seven Sisters
So, magical language as reality, performing that language, thinking about where it comes from, and where and when we do it. In this post, I’m going to begin by covering some familiar territory, but I’m doing so for three reasons. Firstly, I try not to presume everyone remembers where I’ve gone before (let alone those […] … Continue reading…Strange Grammars
Introduction & As You Like It I’m going to talk about Shakespeare and enchantment. In particular, I want to talk about how enchantment comes through several of Shakespeare’s plays, and I’ll begin with my favorite comedy, As You Like It. I also talk about Much Ado about Nothing some. Now, as much as I am […] … Continue reading…Shakespeare and Enchantment 1
It was a busy October, and it’s been a busy first third of November. Lots of magic going on. Lots of spirit contact going on. In the lead up to Halloween, I had more, and more explicit, synchronicities happen to me than at any other point in my life thus far. These synchronicities have resulted […] … Continue reading…Retrogrades, Gentleness, Participation
I was listening to friends discuss “enlightenment” earlier. It’s one of those conversations I try to avoid getting into myself with said friends—the virtue of Keeping Silent has become something I’ve noticed myself doing more (sometimes, at least)—mostly because in my experience my perspective winds up being perceived as aberrant, atypical, or relies on my […] … Continue reading…Sliding Light
Reflections on Tolkien, Welsh saints, syncretism, enchantment, Quenya and barbarous names, the neighbors, and more … Continue reading…Syncretic Middle Earth