When magickal folks travel to other worlds, they dislike becoming lost. Much like planning a mundane road trip, magickal people will consult a map to decide what route to take. After that, they will decide on interesting sites to see and the necessary rest stops to make. Armed with a plan, they can take an enjoyable and hassle-free journey ( Read more... )

Life on the Earth was pushed to the edge of extinction at least five times. The worst happened about 250 million years ago (mya) when 90 percent of life was wiped out. However, our Deep Ancestors survived the Great Dying of the Permian Period to repopulate the Earth. We, the Living today, are the result of their endurance, and ability to change ( Read more... )

Lay out several nuts (acorns or hickory or walnuts, etc.) in your writing space. Then speak out-loud ( Read more... )

Whenever I am blocked in my writing, I watch squirrels. I see them bouncing from tree to tree or chasing each other. At other times, one squirrel will dig up a nut that another had just buried. Once I witnessed a lone squirrel sneaking up on a curbside vendor to steal a nut-bar from her truck. Before the hapless vendor could react, this crafty ( Read more... )

Position Four: West (the Element of Water ( Read more... )

In their essay, “Bloodwalking,” Kaldera and Vongvisith suggest several methods of how to walk back through your bloodline. One method is to use strings of beads to connect with a particular set of Ancestors. Each bead would represent a known ancestor ( Read more... )

In 2006, an amazing discovery was made in Nunavut, Northern Canada - an ancient fossil of a fish with limbs. Called “the fish that made humans possible”, Tiktaalik demonstrated how Fish transformed Themselves to live on the land. The Nunavut Elders Council named this remarkable animal, “Tiktaalik” which their language means “large shallow-water ( Read more... )

Card 4: West (the power of water): “Obstacles or challengers you need to be aware of.”
The card drawn for this position is “The Magus (1)” (which is “The Magician (I)”). “The Magus (1)” is like the element of Water since He creates and changes forms at will. Baggott alludes to the energy of this card as “drawing down spiritual energy”. I interpret ( Read more... )

Cardinal Spread Reading

Since I own the “Imperial Dragon Oracle” by Andy Baggott and Peter Pracownik, I decided to use the five card spread featured in the oracle’s booklet. According to Baggott, the “Cardinal Spread” ties “the energies of the four directions and their elements” to answer the querent’s question. Therefore, the answer, which is the ( Read more... )

The other two cards that we felt a kinship with were the “Six of Cups” of the Minor Arcana and “The Star (XVII)” of the Major Arcana. We regarded these two cards to be the bookends to the “Knight of Coins”. Together, the three cards represent the whole of us and the nature of our relationship.

The “Six of Cups” features several dragon boats (steered ( Read more... )