She Continues
A couple of years back, I had been working with various entities, and I called up one, and She gave me a sigil, symbol, pictograph. At the time, I began reflecting on that symbol in my mind, and I had an experience in which—bam—I started seeing a coiling mass of serpents (I always say wyrms, […] … Continue reading…Mirrors & Spheres
I just finished reading through Stephen Flowers’ Icelandic Magic[1], and I realize that he’s also known as Edred Thorsson (who I’ve read previously in Futhark). And Flowers’ book seems to focus primarily on galðr-derived magic, and I get to the operative parts of the text. The ritual procedure he offers begins with a directional opening […] … Continue reading…Runes, Sigil Magic, Wyrms
[This post draws on notions I get at in terms of aesthetics, worlding, and etc. via Heidegger, Adorno, and Berque.] While engaging in some reductionist and sexist ponderings about tantra, Kenneth Grant offers the notion of tantra (& trance) as getting the object of consciousness (ego) to diffuse itself into the field of consciousness. In a sense, […] … Continue reading…[NB] Worlding Self
Talker as a talker uses language, uses stories, and we use stories to assemble Talker. (Really, Talker assembles Talker from stories.) Some folks like to say Fetch likes symbols, and they mean sigils, visual symbols, things like that—but Talker loves textual symbols, words, stories, and more. Of course, I’m not saying anything peculiar to esotericism. […] … Continue reading…Body, Fetch, Talker, God Soul, and: Part 5: Reweaving Talker
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
I started writing an article on the Wyrms that Are Wise, but I found myself needing to start here, much as I started Antic Delights with these concepts. Early in my renewed, twenty-first century practice, I started setting up a shrine/altar, as one does. Now, some people have very particular definitions for shrine and altar, […] … Continue reading…Representation, Symbols, The Riddle of the Shadow
[I spoke with Star Seeker about the Guardians.] Where do you come from? SS: We’ve always been here. We’re dragons. We’re the WtaW. I’ve been around since there were tempests and the mind gazing out at itself and eternity. […] We do teach, after all. Shapeshifters, and we know to change ourselves, to look into […] … Continue reading…Star Seeker and Guardians