She Continues
I’ll share a couple of photos here with you. I’ve been trying to scribble into journals for ages. Here in the first photo, you can see a motley collection. The leftmost six are old magical journals from mostly the ’90s, and most of them are not full. I got most of those little journals at […] … Continue reading…Marking Time, Counting Books
Old folktales, legends, and myths point to concepts like the Fetch, Doppelganger, and Vardøger and/or Fylgja, and Ka and so forth as supernatural doubles (or attendant spirits) that some people manifest at various points. A corporeal person has a body and a spiritual presence (that they may or may not be aware of). Modern occultism has […] … Continue reading…Body, Fetch, Talker, God-Self, and: Part Two: Fetch and Talker
This was a popular interpretation, as thanks to such romantic idealists as Robert Graves, everybody expected goddesses to be in charge of the moon anyway. Male gods were generally assumed to be solar and active, goddesses were lunar and passive by nature, ah, the simple myths of the nineteenth century. –Jan Fries in Cauldron of the […] … Continue reading…Reading on a Friday Night
Many traditions divide the soul/self into a variety of parts, elements, and so on. Those familiar with the GD system know that they adapt and steal a qabalistic model: Neschamah—the highest part of the self, that which the soul aspires towards Ruach—the middle part of the self, that which relates to the mental faculties Nephesch—the […] … Continue reading…Body, Fetch, Talker, God-Self, and: Part One: Introduction & Body & Fetch
I felt trepidation about Black Mother the first time I called to her, and I felt more trepidation about Fire in the Earth. In hindsight, this trepidation came out of Talker/Dariar and my unconscious resistance to the kinds of transformation Fire in the Earth can cause, will likely cause. I have to admit that T […] … Continue reading…The Guardians: Part Five: Fire in the Earth, Center, and Closing Thoughts
My experience of Black Mother has tended to knock me down, pull me down, feel overwhelming. Calling Black Mother also triggered one of my first possessory trances, though I feel these trances have mostly been light ones. In appearance, Black Mother resembled a very attractive woman, an actress who caught my attention a while back, but Black […] … Continue reading…The Guardians: Part Four: Black Mother and Heaven Shiner
In my experience of Shining Flame, he has tended to be more no-nonsense, brusker, incisive, cutting through bullshit even as he moves you to do so as well. Where Star Seeker would ask me “What have you learned,” Shining Flame tells me, “Speak truth to me, Crowess.” My call for Shining Flame is built on […] … Continue reading…The Guardians: Part Three: Shining Flame & Water Maker
My early experiences with the Guardians proceeded in stages. I began by calling Star Seeker/Star Finder, and I called him alone at first. The following represents my present, typical call to Star Seeker, with notes. Facing East, ahem, East-ish.[1] I invoke by the Wyrms that Are Wise. Here, I generally trace and traject/project the two […] … Continue reading…The Guardians: Part Two: Star Seeker
This post begins a series on the Guardians, and this post serves as my overly broad introduction on that topic. My knowledge of the Feri Guardians comes primarily via T. Thorn Coyle, but with some inflection from other sources. I have learned that many Feri initiates considered the Guardians initiatory knowledge, lore only to be shared […] … Continue reading…The Guardians: Part One
I started writing an article on the Feri Guardians, but I found myself referencing the Wyrms that Are Wise[1] (WtaW), and I realized, well, I should probably talk about the WtaW. All symbols are alive. Or they can be. Or some are more alive than others. Some symbols are more alive for some people than […] … Continue reading…Wyrms that Are Wise, Experientiality, Otherworlds