Author: jason.triefenbach
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Hekate Praxis (2 of 3)
: : “Through your alchemical ash, I am transformed.” -Cyndi Brannen, Keeping Her Keys : Hekate altar, March 2023.Author’s personal archive. In my recent post “Be Not Afraid” I wrote about Time and some of the ways humans try to organize and chart it. Against the spectre of an unwieldy final piece of writing, I…
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Hekate Praxis (1 of 3)
+ “Hail mighty Hekate of thresholds, many-named goddess of roads and crossroads, gate-mistress, patroness of travelers and of the lost; Solar and Saturnian, bearer of chains who dissolves that which binds us…” + Hello my loves. In this first of three short updates about new ongoing projects, I want to share an experience that is…
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Be Not Afraid
Order, Chaos and Calendrical Observances “Baby I was afraid before But I’m not afraid Anymore!” -Belinda Carlisle (1) We are haunted by the Past; by nexus points of the choices we have made; by their crucial, far-reaching, often unforeseen consequences upon our lives. Until we absolve ourselves of our histories, the outcomes we perceive as…
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Of Sun and Stinging Stars
Hello folks, I am still enjoying a shadowy afterglow of October’s three- night Prayer To the Moon working (linked HERE ), as well as the energetic pressure-washing of the lunar eclipse earlier this month. I will be releasing a full transcript of the Prayer rite soon, but I am also excited about two new lines…
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Lunar Salutations and Hallowed Howls
– – “When the spirits ask ‘who are you?’, you better have a damn good answer.” – Aaron Leitch (on Glitch Bottle podcast episode 10 Aug 8 2017) … Hello my friends, and Happy October! It is Autumn in Portland and although the weather here is still warm most days, other harbingers of the season…
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Twisting and Growing, Glistening and Glowing
“Time is ever an accelerating force and as the evening air here deepens into end-of-summer coolness some fresh starts are beginning to ripen.”
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Solar – Martial Storms
.. It is strange and satisfying to be home, down the slope of the old volcano, fixing garden beds, pulling buried bricks out of the yard at odd points, wrestling the plants and the ground under them. Cutting roots, turning earth to earth; everything’s changed again and I’m feeling changed too. The intense heat here…
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The Cannibal Hymn
“The most powerful force in the Universe is nostalgia.” -Peter T. Struck (1) Are we in an age of contraction? Certainly there are warring agendas at work, unsleeping, insidious; insisting on drawing the perimeters around who we are and what we are, where we come from and where we are going. Shots ring out. The…
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Hubris, Breakdown, Transition and Restitution
_ My friends. Sometimes it’s hard to keep our lamps lit. The flame flickers and snuffs, light falters. I’m writing this amidst a particularly violent stretch of days, even by the standards of this particularly violent nation in which I live. I used to say that in other countries people kill each other over their…
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The Angelic Conversation
_______________________________________ We’re always worried about whether we can see a spirit. But very few people ever ask, “Can the spirit see me?” -Jason Miller, North Witch Podcast April 12 2022 (1) Hello Folx, It has been a busy month as always and I am writing this a thousand miles from home! My journey thus far…
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Enflame Thyself
Enflame Thyself Hello again Friends, I hope this finds you in improving circumstances as our shared plague begins to loosen its grip. At a recent corporeal gathering of friends we debated whether Covid is really losing power or if the coming months will see a new resurgence of illness and corresponding quackery from the political…
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Film Review: The Kybalion
The Kybalion, 2022 Directed by Ronni Thomas, featuring Mitch Horowitz The Kybalion is a book published in 1908 in Chicago IL, written by attorney William Walter Atkinson under the alias “The 3 Initiates”. Its focus is on the “7 Principles of Egyptian Hermeticism” claimed to have been transmitted to the ancients by the mysterious figure…
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Breaking Ground (archived)
“The more you consciously remember your indigenous soul, the more you physically remember it.” -Martin Prechtel Hello Friends, Quite a few twisting and turning thoughts this month on Empathy, Self Improvement, and Fortune; long on exposition, short on coherent theses? As I’ve tried to wrangle this edition into some semblance of order,…
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An Astro- Chthonic Call (archived)
Dress yourself in royal vestments of yellow and golden silk, and put a crown of gold on your head, and likewise a golden ring on your finger, and equip yourself in the manner of the great men of the Chaldeans, because the Sun is the lord of their ascension.” -Picatrix, Bk3 ch7 Hello again…
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Family Dramas and Palliative Sacrifice (archived)
Crawl out to be devoured. This is the promise that Life makes, the process enacted symbolically by gods and heroes and which is met very much literally by every physical being. To be alive is to die: to come together, to be constituted, is a temporal condition balanced in every way by a corresponding dissolution. …
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NEW MOON MISSIVE (archived)
“Luxurious in a spray of Myrtle, she wore tooThe glory of the rose upon her, and her hairwas all a darkness on her shoulders and her back.”-Archilochus of Paros, 6th c. BCE Hello again and thanks for subscribing! I’m sitting in my car in the grey Portland drizzle, happy for the rain that has come…
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Light To Share (Archived)
My Friends. Over these 20 months of protective shutdown, my interests have centered on home and family, individualconversations, and private pursuits. But two projects made for sharing, and that I’m very happy about, arejust being released! Synchronistically, they both involve wolves. The first is Sun Duel- LOVE SONG, the opening track on SCUZZ REPORT #666 available from noise…
Ecstatic Agendas 