Three Cauldrons of the Soul...

[muninnskiss]

I was looking at a PDF called The DustBunnies/MarchHares Big Damn Handout Volume 1 by Valerie Walker.  It's a handout of Feri-related exercises and lessons.  Feri is an ecstatic Mystery Witchcraft tradition, for lack of a better description, founded by Victor Anderson.  It comes from Italian Witchcraft roots, but draws heavily from Kabbalah,

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[thistlemoons]

This is all new stuff to me. I have heard of Feri, but never knew what is was and I have only learned of Cochrane's work through your journal. Again, I have heard of Kabbalah, but never really looked into it. So I love how all three really relate to one another. You could go even farther to say that they also relate to the whole Chakra idea of the East - although there are seven of them. The first three (which correspond to the lower part of the body) have to do with stability, security and basic needs. The middle ones (middle part of the body) have more to do with love, honor, beauty and joy and the top ones (Head area) have to do with the psyche, and our relationship to the divine. Which when you look at them through this lens you have here, they are very similar to the three cauldrons in Feri - but in Feri, they are grouped together. So I always say when more than one tradition (which are not closely related), are inspired by similar thoughts - there has to be truth to it. Very interesting indeed.

[muninnskiss]

In that PDF, they actually discuss the Chakras, though I haven't heard them discussed in the directly Feri materials. She adds two Chakras, the Auric Chakra and the Surrounding Chakra, giving it nine, to correspond to the nine Sepheroth above Malkuth (the nine I listed in the post). I've never really looked in detail at the Chakras, because they never were something that I connected to, but I've read that different traditions and ancient texts describe different sets of Chakras. I'm not sure if she made up those two, or got them from somewhere. Interestingly, she calls the Chakras Vivi of Vivi, Emi of Vivi and so forth. In Kabbalah, there is what is called the 50 Gates of Understanding (Binah), which are Malkuth of Malkuth, Yesod of Malkuth, etc, through each of the lower seven Sephiroth, ending with Binah after Chesed of Chesed. Similar concept, I think.

The Ladder of Hestia:

[thistlemoons]

Yeah, this is pretty much on target regarding what I know of the chakras. I do (very lose term right now as it has been a while) reiki which is what got me into learning about chakras in the first place. Then the holisitic doctor I worked for also used them in his work. I really love chakra work actually, even though it doesn't have much to do with other aspects of my faith and beliefs.

[thistlemoons]

Oh and I forgot, Happy Lughnasadh! :)
Love those blueberries!

[muninnskiss]

Thank you! Happy Lughnasadh to you as well!

The icon was my favourite amongst various ones on pagan_icons in the last week or so.

~Muninn's Kiss