Tag: western esoteric tradition
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Rites of Kinship
~ With help from my new cane I made it to the summit of my favorite volcano today, for the first time in over a year. I arrived to the park an hour before sunset, and spent most of the intervening duration sitting on my collapsible stool, facing West, chanting solar-chthonic names to honor the…
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Among the Dwarves
All photos Jason Triefenbach and JM Kamp In my body It is midnight The spray Of black waterfalls Resounds One year ago this week I had the opportunity to visit Iceland with my spouse. In addition to taking in the natural beauty of the island and the quirky culture of its people, I engaged with the…
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Scavenged Rituals
In review: Scavenged Rituals Issue V1N3 released Autumn 2023, available from Portland Button Works and The Spiral House Shop I recently came across an online discussion stating that the Foundation for Shamanic Studies Europe has begun denying entrance to pagans and witches (1). Meanwhile, The Serpent’s Key, an esoteric supply shop in Hanover Pennsylvania, has endured…
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Summer’s Hum
Greetings, folks! I hope that the dreams you have planted are growing bold and majestic under your attention and toil! I’ve been wrestling with composing an extensive blog post for over a month now and finally realized that the reason I can’t seem to resolve it is because there are actually TWO essays in there,…
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Hekate Praxis (3 of 3)
Dream, Voice, Ornament, Offering For this final of three planned posts on my work with the goddess Hekate I’ll refer obliquely to my journal of the past couple months, and some of the ways that this deepening relationship plays out. … “16 names of the goddess” I awoke from a dream one morning in early…
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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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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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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…
Ecstatic Agendas 