For two days running, I’ve drawn Trump XX as my Tarot card of the day. In the Waite-Smith deck and its variants, Trump XX is the Judgment, but in the Crowley-Harris Thoth deck that I’m currently using, it is called The Aeon. If the Judgment is the end of the world (as we know it) [...]
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An end is always a beginning
Posted in Admin, Inner Work, transformations, tagged aeon of horus, aeon of isis, aeon of osiris, aleister crowley, new aeon, thoth tarot on November 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Names, teachers, images, and the Work
Posted in Adepthood, Buddhism, Christianity, Druidry, Inner Work, Paganism, Witchcraft and Wicca, the great work, the work, tagged kissing the limitless, thorn coyle on April 24, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I was baptized Methodist and confirmed Episcopalian. I discovered paganism when The Spiral Dance was published and waffled back and forth between Christian and pagan for the better part of twenty years, until I began practicing a form of Hermetic magic that pointed me to Buddhism, and I took refuge.
I am an Anglican, a Druid, a witch, [...]
Cautionary note for aspiring magicians
Posted in Inner Work, tagged magic, work that pentagram on April 19, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Don’t go off and practice the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram when the eggs you put over the flame are already on the boil.
The view from the hermit shack
Posted in Buddhism, Christianity, Druidry, Inner Work, the great work, the work, transformations, tagged national library week, seasons, thorn coyle on April 14, 2009 | 2 Comments »
There is a large chessboard laid out on the floor in the central court of the library where I work. The chess pieces are three or four feet high. Two men are playing a game, while a couple of others stand watching. I think this is for National Library Week.
I keep reading on our local weather [...]
A dream that is persisting
Posted in Inner Work, tagged dreams on October 30, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Along with a young blond man who resembles an Anglo-Catholic friend of mine, I am a caretaker for a very old shrine located within a cathedral. The cathedral has an Anglican feeling about it; the shrine, I understand, is actually much older, pre-dating the cathedral, which grew up around it. The important thing about the [...]
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