Just back from KinkFest (my first time there), which was an incredible, sacred time -- and so much easier than Pantheacon ( Read more... )

Today may be the first day since LM's death that I feel gratitude for being alive ( Read more... )

I was excited and honored to be interviewed by Galina Krasskova about Queen of the Great Below!

Click here for the interview.

Several of the people who have commented said that this was the first time that they had ever heard of Ereshkigal. It's so gratifying to know that I am helping to introduce Her to moderns!

After two years of work, Queen of the Great Below has finally been released ( Read more... )

My teacher gave me my second degree initiation and ordination at Pantheacon 2009. The next time I went to the vendor's room, I purchased a ring to wear every day as a symbol of my oaths. It fit on the middle finger of my right hand and felt very comfortable there ( Read more... )

I just finished my rededication ritual with Ereshkigal. It was quite moving and contained several surprises. I'm wearing my priestess ring again, but the meaning is slightly different now. I'm not less Her priestess than I was; instead things have opened up considerably. She officially released me from the underworld. I know I've been writing about ( Read more... )

This evening I watched a DVD of Diane Wolkstein doing a dramatic performance of her version of The Descent of Inanna.

The DVD actually included most of the texts from her book, Inanna: Queen of Heaven and Earth, but "Descent" was my focus. It wasn't until Inanna began the actual entry to the underworld that I finally figured out what had been ( Read more... )

I don't know how common this experience is, but for a very long time I've felt both a strong attraction toward and an even stronger resistance against actually practicing magic. One of the most challenging aspects of my priestess training has been actually doing the basic energetic and magical practices. There's all kinds of simple, reasonable ( Read more... )

I don't want to type any details right now. . . but after the post I made an hour or so ago, I went into my room and settled into some deep meditation, starting by following Ereshkigal's directive from the vigil to "release your preconceived notions ( Read more... )

This afternoon I was reading the chapter on Purification in War and the Soul, and it suddenly started triggering insights and ideas. I'm going to skip explaining the context and just focus on what it brought up for me ( Read more... )