Home from Omaha. I was surprised at how much I enjoyed the trip and meeting so many people. However, not enough time for keeping up with my practice, and combined with all the extroverted time, I'm pretty wiped out ( Read more... )

( Last week's horoscope. )

Source passes into manifestation. The boundary between Source and Dreaming is the Tao. The expression of Dreaming alternates through Yin/Ice or Yang/Fire. The Dreaming itself vibrates, and the patterns of Yin/Ice and Yang/Fire themselves generate interference patterns. These patterns give rise to Reality, which can be broken into categories, e. ( Read more... )

Shamanism is a pretty crappy word. I've been studying it for about nine years, and I still can't actually tell you what it is. Part of the problem is that nobody seems to agree on what it means; some people talk about Siberians and the language and culture that birthed the word "shaman," other people talk about American Indians, some people talk ( Read more... )

Workshop this past weekend was productive. The feeling right now is that I've made it past a significant obstacle and in so doing have the potential to really shift some patterns. However, the vision to guide that is particularly frightening to me in the changes it will require. Backing down would be very, very easy in a lot of senses ( Read more... )

I came across the following in my notebook from my Helrunic initiation. It seemed appropriate to read right now and to share ( Read more... )

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I've been picking up the habit of daily divination again, using a different translation of the I Ching than I did before. I'm actually quite happy with the different translation, now that I'm getting a bit more familiar with it. Today's reading seems to have been particularly apt. (I'm doing the readings as the final part of my morning altar ( Read more... )

Found excerpts of this online tonight. Some of the best articulations around Wyrd I've encountered. The citation is given as
The Way of the Wyrd: Tales of an Anglo-Saxon Sorcerer
Brian Bates
HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 0-06-250084-8

I'll have to look into this some more.

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I am grateful for how awesome everything was last night. I am an unusually blessed and fortunate individual.