She Continues
I was trying to describe why I found Mulholland Drive affecting, an influential film for me, and in doing so, I found myself speaking more broadly on my response and my take on David Lynch and his oeuvre. In articulating that perspective, I realized I was articulating something that was pertinent to most any experience, […] … Continue reading…Discovered Countries
Reflections on Tolkien, Welsh saints, syncretism, enchantment, Quenya and barbarous names, the neighbors, and more … Continue reading…Syncretic Middle Earth
Have you read something—stories or even history, especially something that has a wondrous component to it? And have you ever felt that sudden sense like the walls pull away, and you can feel that world expanding out around you— … Continue reading…Royal Roads
I’ve been enspiriting statues and icons. In fact, just last night I’d enspirited the final one I had planned. There’d been a couple of delays, but I finally got around to it. I try to listen to what they want for anointing oils. This one wanted road opening oil. Bam. Done. I got a distinct, […] … Continue reading…Winter Clarion
Seeing More, Imagining More I tried using a scrying bowl filled with spring water the first few times I tried scrying, but it wasn’t providing the experience I needed or wanted at the time. I had acquired a small obsidian mirror a while back, and I have a small, handheld (well, finger-held, usually) obsidian orb […] … Continue reading…Imagining Reflections
If we want to avoid being characters in someone else’s drama, then I argue that this theatrical, shapeshifting, role-shifting perspective is one magicians, witches, and other practitioners should cultivate. We want to be the directors, writers, and volitional, agential, aware actors even as we perform different personae. Magonia and Faerie and spirits often have associations with tricksterism: however, so do witches and magicians. Fight Trickster with Trickster, I say. As we work to better know and bridge with our deeper selves, with our own spiritual realities through our enchantments and practices, and as we do so in pursuit of realizing and having—of earthing–our faërian dramas, so too should we be ready to adapt and improvise when we encounter the daimonic, Magonians, spirits of all kinds, the other, and even each other… … Continue reading…Cosmic Theater
The topic of the spirit of a performance came up, and that led further into the intersection of drama, ritual, and magic. … Continue reading…Ritual, Acting, Enchantment
My polytheism recognizes that what we know of the past is grounded in the political—from what was allowed to survive for centuries (or millennia), to how it was recorded (audience, purpose, occasion), to how it has been adapted and historicized and represented today, to how I choose to use it. My polytheism recognizes that the past, that religion, that the present, that texts are always rhetorical—perhaps especially the inspired, channeled, or “spiritual” ones. … Continue reading…My Polytheism
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]