She Continues
So, I’ve had some bad dreams of late. Well, they weren’t that bad. They might count as “nightmares,” but they’ve wound up arousing my curiosity more. It’s not even the content of the dreams that gets my attention so much as the perspective-driven mechanisms I’m seeing coming through them. Trigger warning, though: suggestions of abduction, […] … Continue reading…Bedknobs & Dreamscapes
I ponder the leviathan and myths and the Otherworlds. When you are working on your culture and your practice— Does it promote toxic masculinity (or toxic something-else)? Does it exclude other myths, peoples, art? Is it monological & promote instrumental reason? Does it treat the earth & people & nature with respect, even reverence? Do […] … Continue reading…[NB: Further Leviathanic Notes]
I hear more horror stories about how people (often white men, but not always) abuse, threaten, and otherwise treat trans women, & I feel myself imagining myself in revenge fantasy worlds, project these monsters onto the rest of the world. And I notice that I’m erecting a fantasy world around myself that is enclosed, an […] … Continue reading…The White Man’s Glamour
I’ve dreamt a female ghost made my shadow look like it was playing a flute, and with _________, noted her presence in the flat in the corner, though I couldn’t see her. (Dream on 8/26) That morning, I thought I’d felt her in this flat—over at the balcony door while I was at my desk—but […] … Continue reading…Ghostly Dreams, Glamour & Ego, Grunting Out Magic Bricks
I want to better understand and grasp Thorn’s elthil cycling practice and the shining/brightening glamour practice. Last night I danced in Corunor as S played the drum and V, myself, and finally the Morrigan danced about the fire the sisters set. While at the [pub] last night, I noted that while Present with my cycling […] … Continue reading…Shining, Aspiration, Desire & Will
I went into the glade last night, and the Morrigan said the White Mount—what I immediately see is just part of the mountain, and She says there is a city of gods in, on, around the Mount, so it is a potentially dangerous place to go visit. [And well, it’s a lawful Axis Mundi.] I […] … Continue reading…Axis Mundi, Aurics, Four Sphinxes
The upper branches of Elethis can lead to “higher worlds,” but She doesn’t think I’m ready just yet, and to talk of them would mean little to me now. So likewise, the roots reach down into the Lower Realms, but they’re less an “Underworld” than something far more diverse. Elethis (“She” as Dana-Morrigan put it—“we […] … Continue reading…Cosmologies, The Morrigan and Tourism, Sundry Notes on Dunn
JW says [other city] is better than [this city] with a broader variety of things in the Dream, some cells of the flesh beasts—[this city] is a honey trap, having the veneer of art and culture and liberalism and a rich Dreaming to draw in folks to feed on. [Other city’s] far more sincere about […] … Continue reading…Railroads, Bodies, Faith Units
Elaith—it doesn’t seem quite right—the “tower”—elaith-tir maybe? Hurur, Lies, these include the shells of identity that cling to us and which trick us into seeing them as true expressions or egos of self. Self-identification, especially reified, commodified selfhood. They come from without, imposed upon you and accepted—or they’re shells we fashion and adopt defensively or […] … Continue reading…Hurur, Charting a Path, and Considering Silent Goddesses
Being outside makes it a bit easier to relax and to see Chaos and even other realities. Part of it is that I respond to trees and sky and wind, but relaxing into awareness is also a factor. But touching and navigating Chaos—especially jumping, sliding elsewhere, well—I find that a bit easier to envision outside, […] … Continue reading…Otherworlds, Glamour, & Disbelief