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A Gaian Eternity
2008-08-09 23:21:00 ?' ?? ????"?Lughnasadh 9In follow-up to my earlier entry discussing my shabbat dream (Endless Legion From The Elementary Sea), connected to the dream's reality is the fact that last night I went to sleep after reading the chapter Creation, What Every Pagan Should Know About Evolution from Starhawk's book The Earth Path, Grounding Your Spirit In The Rhythms Of Nature.In this chapter, Starhawk discusses the concept of Gaian evolution. After reading the chapter last night, as I lay in bed contemplating my own Gaian connections, the reality of those connections emerged. Reaching far back into premanifest consciousness, evolving up through the elements into single and multicellular organisms and into beyond the human animal, ever-existent within the ever-evolving yet timelessly unchanging tapestry of Nature, my Eternal 'Ancestral' Matrix made its Eternal Presence known. It is very good and beautiful. More About: Eternity
Endless Legion From The Elementary Sea
2008-08-09 21:45:00 ?' ?? ????"?Lughnasadh 9I dreamt.Behind the scenes some who didn't like me were trying to create animosity against me in secret meetings within a community located by the sea, where I too was located. It was a small movement doomed to failure. More and greater were those in need of me.In the dream, another evening meeting place over and against the instigators' meeting was occurring in the gymnasium of the elementary school I had attended as a child (the building is no longer a school). I was sitting on the stairs (in the middle) right outside the gymnasium, which led up to the fourth/fifth and sixth grade classrooms which I had once occupied in the 4th, 5th and 6th grades.* Here in the elementary school of my youth, support for me was mustering together.The wizard who now owned the old elementary school was calling up forces more powerful than those against me, and way beyond the small domain of my enemies' forces. Sitting on the stairs of old Lynch School, I felt trusting, inn... More About: Legion , Endless
Personality & Multiple Intelligences Profiles
2008-08-03 17:24:00 ?' ?? ????"?Lughnasadh 3INTJ PopulationTotal: 1.5%Male: 2.5%Female: 0.5% More About: Profiles , Personality
Importance Of Natural Archetypes In Mysticism
2008-08-03 00:48:00 ?' ?? ????"?Lughnasadh 2Related to the metaphysical concept of soul-friends as discussed in previous entries (Anam Chara - Reyah - Soul Friend and The Blessing Of Rejection) is the concept of natural Archetypes and their importance to soul craft, magic and mysticism.Scottish magician R. J. Stewart (The UnderWorld Initiation) distinguishes Archetypes as they pertain to esoteric traditions from those of modern psychology:We are not discussing an archetype in the modern psychological sense; an Archetype is a Matrix or key Image which gives shape and direction to energies arising out of the Primal source of all being.Modern astronomy has shown us the physical expressions of such Matrices in the vast spiral shapes of distant galaxies, while physics reveals patterns upon the most fundamental atomic levels. These material reflections of Archetypal Matrices (long understood by the ancients in the pure shapes of the Platonic solids) offer us exterior clues to our interior consciousness; and... More About: Natural , Mysticism
Simply Compassion
2008-08-02 23:48:00 Cat Adopts Rabbit @ Yahoo! Video More About: Compassion , Simply
The Blessing Of Rejection
2008-08-02 22:47:00 ?' ?? ????"?Lughnasadh 2Given the metaphysical reality of soul-friends as discussed in my previous entry (Anam Chara - Reyah - Soul Friend), it becomes clear that each of us, in our search for a coven or other esoteric group in which to belong, the concept of soul friend bonding is very important and consequential to successful shamanic magical mystical work. Necessarily then, to be 'rejected' from core membership into any particular coven or esoteric group should be understood through this concept.Each of us needs to find our true place, the unique coven or esoteric group which will support Divine consciousness among the collective blend of soul friends. Finding our true soul friends takes time, commitment to pathwalking, exploration, iterative self-evaluation and patience. Likely, we will be rejected and we will reject others many times upon this quest. These rejections are not value judgments, but steps upon the way toward finding our true group of soul friends.I give thanks f... More About: Blessing , Rejection
Anam Chara - Reyah - Soul Friend
2008-08-02 21:59:00 ?' ?? ????"?Lughnasadh 2In follow-up to an April entry (Reyah - A Friend Like Me), I've discovered the Celtic term which describes the concept of soul-friend (as does the Hebrew term, ???? reyah). The Celtic term is anam chara.Oonagh Rodgers explains the Celtic concept of anam chara:Anam Chara is a Gaelic word meaning soul-friend. Anam - soul, Chara- friend. The concept derives from an ancient Celtic tradition and is still a popular practice in many spiritual traditions in Ireland today. The anam chara acted as mentor, teacher, companion and spiritual guide. The emphasis was on spiritual companionship and direction as opposed to today's romantic notion of the 'soul-mate'. The relationship was much deeper and often lasted a lifetime.The Celts believed the anam chara was joined in an ancient and eternal bond with his/her friend of the soul and this bond could not be broken, even if the friend moved away and there was a great physical distance between them. The Celtic understandin... More About: Soul
Ishim, Keruvim And Prophets
2008-08-01 00:55:00 ?"? ???? ????"?Faunus 30Documenting synchronicities -In follow-up to a recent entry (Excalibur-Lughnasadh-Luchot Candle Dressing) and in documentation of synchronous events leading up to Lughnasadh (traditionally observed tomorrow), I note the synchronicity of the the shattering of the first set of luchot (tablets of the commandments received at Sinai) with today's plane crash of business travelers en route to a meeting with a glass company.As discussed in the linked entry, Luchnasadh is associated with and joins together both the first and second sets of luchot in its symbolism. The harvest of Lughnasadh is not shattered, and consequently, neither are the luchot associated with Lughnasadh shattered despite the presence of the psi energy carrying the 'code' to shatter 'that which came down' (as loosely evidenced by the crash of the plane on landing en route to a glass company).The news report:Jet crashes on landing on way to meet with glass companyThursday, July 31, 2008At leas...
Out Of The Broom Closet At My New Job
2008-07-31 01:15:00 כ"ז תמוז התשס"חFaunus 29My first three days at my new job have been wonderful. I did training on the organization's systems with the corporate nurse yesterday and today, and I really like her. Equally important, it came out in casual conversation at lunch time (when several women were remarking that they liked the skirt I was wearing) that I was also a witch (in addition to being Jewish with a gypsy heart). So, I'm out of the broom closet! at my new job now!The corporate nurse, as she was leaving for the day, goodnaturedly joked with me, "now don't bewitch anybody."It's going to be good there. :) More About: Closet , Broom
Greenman At My New Job
2008-07-29 04:49:00 כ"ה תמוז התשס"חFaunus 27I started my new job today. There is a large pagan greenman! wall plaque prominantly and solitarily placed on the hallway wall leading back to the area where my quiet office is located. I also noticed that the organizational symbol on our name badges is a tree!I had a very good first day at my new job. The people there were so friendly. It was great. The nurse training me to take over her job was great (she is going back to school). We laughed so much together. I felt so relaxed and welcomed.This is very good beginning. I'm so happy!
Man Threatenes To Kill All The Witches In Town
2008-07-29 01:39:00 כ"ה תמוז התשס"חFaunus 27The Janesville, WI GazetteXtra reports today that in June a man had threatened to kill all the witches in town by detonating the town's watertower.Whitewater rumored to have witchesBy Ted SullivanJuly 28, 2008 - 11:21 a.mWhen a Whitewater man was arrested inside the city’s water tower in June, he said to the officer: “Do you believe in witches … I have to detonate this tower and kill all the witches.”Although he was charged with two felonies and two misdemeanors, the man can’t be accused of having a healthy curiosity.The water tower is believed to be a meeting place for witches, according to www.weirdus.com, and residents once called police on Halloween after seeing people in robes performing a candlelight ceremony next to the tower.According to the Web site, other rumors about Whitewater’s haunted history include: Four people have died after reading a secret book that is now kept locked in the university’s library.The cemeteries in ... More About: Town , Kill , Witches
Hatred Of Liberals Turns Into Toxic Killing Spree
2008-07-29 01:18:00 כ"ה תמוז התשס"חFaunus 27The man who opened fired with a shotgun during morning services this past Sunday at a Unitarian Universalist church, murdering two and injuring seven, did so in conseqence to a toxic hatred of the church's support for liberal policies. He really hated liberals. He wanted them dead. So, he murdered some.AP reports:Police: Man shot churchgoers over liberal viewsBy DUNCAN MANSFIELD – 2 hours agoKNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — An unemployed man accused of opening fire with a shotgun and killing two people at a Unitarian Universalist church apparently targeted the congregation out of hatred for its support of liberal social policies, police said Monday.Knoxville Police Chief Sterling Owen IV said a signed, four-page letter written by Jim D. Adkisson, 58, was found in his small SUV in the church parking lot after gunfire interrupted a children's performance based on the musical "Annie" Sunday morning. Seven people also were injured in the melee."It appears... More About: Liberals , Spree , Toxic , Hatred , Killing
Total Solar Eclipse, Foxes & The Navi Sheker
2008-07-27 18:16:00 כ"ד תמוז התשס"חFaunus 26A total solar eclipse is observed this friday August 1 in parallel with Lughnasadh (the witches' new moon sun sabbat).A solar eclipse occurs when the new moon passes between the sun and the earth. A solar eclipse can only happen with a new moon, and when the moon and sun are in conjunction with respect to their positions in relationship with the earth.The judge Shimshon (Samson) has parallels in Torah to both the sun (shemesh) and to foxes. A nazarite of the Divine (one who has taken a vow of self-consecration to the Divine for a designated period of time), Shimshon uses foxes in an attempt to destroy the Philistines. In the end, Shimshon himself is destroyed.How do the Shimshon parallels parallel with the events of this week?First, on friday there occurs a total solar eclipse of the sun, where the sun is linked to the name of Shimshon. Thus, the sun's masculine power will be eclipsed by the feminine power of the moon.Second, Foxnews reports on a... More About: Solar , Total , Eclipse , Solar Eclipse
Kabbalah Of Excalibur
2008-07-23 18:02:00 ?' ???? ????"?Faunus 2232 Paths of Chochmah (Wisdom) according to the Gra.An interesting kabbalistic connection comes to light when considering Excalibur 's legendary journey from the mystic water of the Lady's Lake into her mighty hand.The channels linking Chochmah (Wisdom, symbolized by water, #2 on the diagram) and Gevurah (Strength, symbolized by the left hand feminine power, #6 on the diagram), according to the kabbalah of the Gra, is characterized by two Hebrew letters - zayin (symbolized by a sword, channel 2-4) and yud (symbolized by a hand, channel 4-6).Thus, the mysticism of Excalibur and the Lady of the Lake fits perfectly with the 32 kabbalistic paths of Chochmah (Wisdom) according to the Gra.The combined gematria (numerology) of zayin-yud is 17, the same gematria as 'tov' meaning 'good'. More About: Kabbalah
Votive Offerings
2008-07-23 05:14:00 ?' ???? ????"?Faunus 22In follow-up to my previous entry (Excalibur), I note that in Celtic legend, Excalibur comes from and returns to the mystically liminal Lady of the Lake.Patrick Hunt of Archeography Photoblog writes of the Lady's Lake within the context of the legendary Arthurian Excalibur:In the Celtic world, springs, lakes and marshes are liminal sacred places that are intermediary loci between, among others, the living and the dead. When Arthur?s legendary and to some extent magical sword Excalibur is returned to the Lady of the Lake, this is most likely an excerpted old echo of a longstanding Celtic votive ritual.Examples abound in Europe and the British Isles of just such votive offerings.Votive offerings exist in Torah as well as in Celtic legend. A votive offering is a neder.Rabbi Stacy K. Offner of writes of a neder, a Jewish votive offering:The most powerful kind of word that a person can utter: a neder, ?vow.? A neder is an extraordinarily powerful kind of word, be... More About: Offerings
Excalibur
2008-07-23 03:06:00 ?"? ???? ????"?Faunus 21Excalibur art by Bob PeakIn follow-up to entries from earlier today, first where I mentioned that I had slain a rampaging bull with a spear-like weapon (unclear initially when describing the dream as to whether the weapon was a knife or a spear) and second, where the ability to slay the bull and prevent fatalities was described as coming through the channel of chochmah to gevurah, I note that perhaps I was unclear at first as to the exact form of the weapon used to slay the bull because the weapon was neither a knife nor a spear, but rather, it was a sword.Interestingly, the sword Excalibur comes from water (chochmah). Excalibur is one of three of King Arthur's weapons - the other two are a dagger (knife) named Carnwennan and a spear named Rhongomyniad, the two fuzzy forms (in the dream, The Bull And The Bulldozer) which now come together from the water (of Chochmah) into the form, Excalibur (through the clarification, Provoking Divine Mercy). Thesis - Antit...
Provoking Divine Mercy
2008-07-22 21:48:00 ?"? ???? ????"?Faunus 21Dreaming Of Moshiach blogs in Provoking Divine Judgment:Grand Rabbi Mayer Alter Horowitz Shilta, popularly known as the Bostoner Rebbe of Jerusalem, commented on the first despicable tractor terrorist attack in Yerushalayim and said that we are considered like "sheep to be slaughtered." The Rebbe Shlita hinted that the terrorist attack was a result of the abomination parade that caused desecration of Yerushalayim.The shame parade took place in the Holy City Jerusalem June 26th. Six days after the abomination parade, we witnessed the first bulldozer terrorist act in the streets of Jerusalem, killing 3 people, HI'D and injuring dozens.It's not always easy to see Divine Judgment, but this one can be very easily seen: TWENTY SIX (gematria YKV"K) days after the abomination parade inside the Holy City, the city of Dovid Hamelech [King David], on King David Street, the same street the abomination parade took place, the second horrific bulldozer terrorist driver at... More About: Mercy
Horns Of Paradox In The Arms Of The Universe
2008-07-22 19:54:00 ?"? ???? ????"?Faunus 21???? (Adamah, The Earth) Malchut bet David. The Divine Feminine establishes forever unity of the Divine soul (aleph, ?) with the earthly body (dam, ??) through five malchuyot (?). More About: Universe , Arms , Horns , The Universe , Paradox
The Bull And The Bulldozer
2008-07-22 18:59:00 ?"? ???? ????"?Faunus 21Last night I dreamt.The part of the dream synchronous with and significant to this morning's news event is this:My dream -I killed a rampaging bull that was attacking people (who were coming to my house) outside in my house's yard. No one whom the bull had tried to kill (including myself) was killed. I can't remember in the dream if I shot it or speared it. I am pretty sure I speared it in some manner.The news event -None were killed from today's bulldozer rampage in Jerusalem, the second one this month.Sixteen people were wounded, one of them moderately, as a bulldozer driver went on a rampage in central Jerusalem Tuesday afternoon in an apparent attempt to recreate the terror attack in the capital earlier this month.The vehicle reportedly left a construction site near the Yemin Moshe neighborhood and set off towards Liberty Bell Park (Gan Hapa'amon), near the corner of Keren Hayesod and King David streets. It drove a distance of approximately 160 meter... More About: Bull
With Six Letters, Three Cauldrons Of One Torah
2008-07-20 08:20:00 ?"? ???? ????"?Faunus 19Scribal oddity of two 'n's as found in Torah scroll (shown aove).The Celtic Ogham alphabet of the Druids is called Beth-Luis-Nuin. Through designating the Ogham alphabet beth-luis-nuin, in some manner then, the three letters (beth, luis, nuin) call out the soul of the Ogham into active creative manifestation. In other words, the letters symbolize the three creative rays of Awen, and the creative energy of the Divine Feminine known in kabbalah as hashra'ah.From the perspective of a Jewitch, beth-luis-nuin have correspondences to the Hebrew letters Beit-Lamed-Nun. In Torah, beit-lamed-nun symbolize the soul of Torah.Beit-Beth, with a 'b' sound, is the first letter (???) of the first word 'bereshit' (???????????) in the first book of Torah, Genesis (called in Jewish tradition 'Bereshit'). The six letters of the word 'bereshit' can mean 'with six'.Lamed-Luis, with an 'l' sound, is the last letter (?) in the last word 'Yisrael' (??????????) in the... More About: Letters
Slideshow - Meforash, Walking On Fire
2008-07-13 21:53:00 ?' ???? ????"?Faunus 12I created this small slideshow for my CovenSpace. More About: Walking , Fire , Slideshow
The Great Gulf
2008-07-13 16:07:00 ?' ???? ????"?Faunus 12In follow-up to an earlier entry (When All Else Falls, A Claddagh Remains), here is a funny 1999 video lifted from DovBear which illustrates how great a gulf can be. More About: Great , Gulf
Mountains Tremble With Moon Square Mars
2008-07-13 14:49:00 ?' ???? ????"?Faunus 12In follow-up to my previous entry (When All Else Falls, A Claddagh Remains), a few interesting features of my sidereal whole natal chart:5 Stellia: Stellium with Sun: 24Sag26 and Mer: 26Sag22 and Jup: 21Sag47Stellium with Sun: 24Sag26 and Mer: 26Sag22 and Sat: 26Sag21Stellium with Sun: 24Sag26 and Jup: 21Sag47 and Sat: 26Sag21Stellium with Mer: 26Sag22 and Jup: 21Sag47 and Sat: 26Sag21Stellium with Plu: 13Leo42 and Nod: 14Leo43 and Asc: 15Leo44Grand TrineGrand Trine with Ven: 10Aqu16 and Mar: 10Gem54 and Nep: 16Lib49Cradle of Creativity:Cradle from Mar: 10Gem54 to Plu: 13Leo42 to Nep: 16Lib49 to Jup: 21Sag47T-Square :T-Square from Mid: 12Tau27 to Ven: 10Aqu16 and Plu: 13Leo42Moon Square Mars Moon (Vir) Squ [Gem] Mars - orb: +1:47' - power: 10.888 astrological points in zodiac houses associated with elemental fire signs More About: Mountains
When All Else Falls, A Claddagh Remains
2008-07-12 23:54:00 ?' ???? ????"?Faunus 11An interesting snippet from a long series of interwoven dreams this shabbat morning - I was facing two skyscrapers. My vision was able to penetrate the concrete and steel of the buildings to see inside each of them.On the top floors of the skyscraper to my left was a woman. On the top floors of the skyscraper to my right was a man. They were both on the same "level" of their particular skyscraper. My impression was that the man and woman were husband and wife, but that neither could reach the other because each was trapped in some way within the structure of their respective skyscraper. They were not yet together, though they were "married" spiritually.All of a sudden, the skycrapers started to break apart as if in an earthquake. The left arm of the woman outstretched through the crumbling concrete and steel outer wall toward the place of her husband, and the husband outstretched his right arm toward the place of his wife through the crumbling concrete and st... More About: Falls
Well Prepared With Proof
2008-07-04 14:21:00 ?' ???? ????"?Faunus 3Well, I soon have an out of state interview for an MDS (Minimum Data Set) Coordinator position. I've also assembled the evidence to support my excellent job performance, which includes a graphical analysis of the facility's CMI (case mix index - an index of financial signifiance in Indiana) "before" and "after" I was employed as its MDS Coordinator.The graph demonstrates quite clearly my "turnaround accomplishment", taking the facility's CMI from a significant negative trend (with a slope of -0.024 CMI points per quarter) to a significant positive trend (with a slope of +0.031 CMI points per quarter). The slopes may "look" like small numbers in this prose post, but when the CMI range is 1.06 (the state average) - 1.20, the slopes (rates of change) are quite impressive.What is even more impressive is how the turnaround accomplishment translates into dollars.For example, generally for every 0.01 point of CMI change, there is a corresponding change of $0.65 pe... More About: Proof
Anol Shalom & The Witch's Curio
2008-06-29 01:01:00 ?"? ???? ????"?Alban Heruin 26I love this song (Anol Shalom meaning Now We Are Free) by Lisa Gerrard. Interestingly, I found this video on YouTube a little over an hour after posting a magically related entry on Craftwork - Secure Boundaries Of The Universe - about the newest curio added to my cabinet of magic. Read about the mystical geometry of circlecasting garnet granules at Craftwork Of A Jewitch.
Fith Fath
2008-06-28 19:56:00 ?"? ???? ????"?Alban Heruin 26~I will go in the name of God, in the likeness of deer, in likeness of horse, in likeness of serpent, in likeness of King. More victorious am I than all others.~Scots Gaealic invocation for justice~Point to Point - Point, Line, Area Consciousness - 3 stages of spiritual developmentPoint Consciousness 1 - the name of God (Keter)Point Consciousness 2 - likeness of King (Malchut)Line to Area Consciousness - likeness of deer, likeness of horse, likeness of serpentMore articles on fith fath (pronounced fee-faw):Fith Fath ShapeshiftingShapeshifting in Celtic MythDruid MagicThe Deer's Cry In Celtic ShamanismCeltic Spells & Charms
The Snake That Didn't Eat The Kitty
2008-06-28 16:56:00 ?"? ???? ????"?Alban Heruin 26On Ateret Ha-Yesod. In follow-up to my previous entry (Tradition, Daughters Of The Divine) about my dream while in bed shabbat morning with a house cat that wasn't eaten in it, CNNvideo reports today of a snake that did eat a kitty:Huge Snake Swallows HousecatJune 28, 2008A 9.5-foot boa constrictor slithers into a yard in Orlando and eats a family pet. WFTV reports.Just documenting another psi-synchronicity. The snake in the news report ate a housecat. In my dream, the house cat walked through the unified void (?) filled with a language of song (?) unscathed. Even a single hair of the cat that had been caught up in the unified void was released from the snake-like "quantum tunnel" of the void and not eaten. The "distinct individual otherness" of the house cat was maintained and not consumed in my dream. This is very good. It points to the power of Unity without Self-Obliteration and without Obliteration of the Other. More About: Kitty
Tradition, Daughters Of The Divine
2008-06-28 13:53:00 ?"? ???? ????"?Alban Heruin 26I dreamt.I had a baby girl somewhere down the (family) line. Her birth name is Gwenn. Gwenn is a Welsh name meaning blessed. An inner name within her birth name is Susy (???? literally means 'my horse' and mystically means to actively project the Creative Evolutionary Power of the Infinite into the finite).I nursed her in the dark.Susy has a talent no other human child has - she can dematerialize and rematerialize to teletransport herself from place to place in spacetime like on Star Trek. Only, unlike Star Trek, Susy doesn't need a transporter machine. She can actualize it naturally, at will.In the dream, Susy teletransported herself between points in the living room, rematerializing against the surface of my right leg. As she did this, I heard Susy in conversation with unheard unseen spiritual beings neither I nor anyone else in the room could see or hear. The language Susy spoke in simple song was Divine , primordial, pristine, exquisitely complex,... More About: Tradition , Daughters
IL, Land Of The Deer
More articles from this author:2008-06-22 20:12:00 ?"? ???? ????"?Alban Heruin 20Photo just posted on the frontpage at CNN online, captioned "A fawn is rescued from Illinois floodwaters (AP)".Land Of The Deer The morning star of one day's evening. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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