Elemental Fire Month 3
12-26-11 Fire burns and consumes. What you don’t want can be burned away, turned to ashes. You can recycle the ashes, contribute to new growth. For Christmas, my mom gave me a picture album with lots of pictures I don’t believe I ever saw. I can’t remember anything about a lot of those pictures, because [...]
Elemental Balancing Ritual Fire Month 2
11-27-11 Something which has always frightened me has been my own fire. It’s frightened me, in part because of the various people in my life who at one time or another told me I was too passionate, too intense, or just plain too much. I’ve gotten so used to pushing that intensity down or directing [...]
A new Year, A new you
I saw this blog entry on Twitter and was intrigued by what the person had to say about reinventing herself. It reminds me a bit of the elemental balancing ritual I do each year. I’m in the 2nd month of my new year, and in a sense the new person I’m discovering as I work [...]
Elemental Fire Month 1
10-22-2011 I’ve been staying very mindful of the element of fire in my life. I attended a divination party tonight, where you could offer readings or get readings. I did five readings for different people and told them about the magical experimenters meeting. And while doing their readings, while talking with them, I had a [...]
Switching to Elemental Fire
Every year on my birthday I switch to a new element. This year, it felt like a good idea to switch to the element of fire. I feel like I’m ready to work with fire, to find my balance with it and through all of that come to know it in a different way than [...]
My high school years
I practiced magic for the majority of my high school years. I’ve already touched on how I first began studying magic and my first teacher. After what happened with him, I realized that I needed to look toward books and my own experiences to teach myself magic. I had a couple of friends who practiced, [...]
Communicating with the Land
I’ve always communicating with the genius loci or the spirits of the land. Communication with the land is not something verbal, so much as kinisthetic. It is a feeling, but it is even more than that. It’s a relationship. Communicating with the land also differs from place to place. In my recent trip to Seattle, [...]
Of Wounds and Tattoos
In a previous post, I showed off my most recent tattoo. Since showing it off, I’ve had an interesting, if somewhat painful experience that I want to relate. A couple days after I’d gotten the tattoo, I had three sores appear around the tattoo. One sore was actually in the tattoo, but on a spot [...]
Identity Tattoo Part 2
Yesterday I went in for the last session of the identity tattoo. This time, for me, the focus wasn’t on covering something up, but being open to identity and where it could take me. Instead of trying to rewrite the past, I just allowed myself to be open to the present, and the possibilities [...]
Tattoo for Identity
When I ended the elemental Emptiness working back in 2009, I’d switched to the element of Time, or so I thought, but I ended up realizing part way through the year that I’d really ended up with element of Identity, which makes perfect sense, because after emptiness I found I needed to establish a new [...]
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- I finished the latest revision of Magical Identity, at 93,535 words. Off to the editor and then layout! Expect a pre-order post soon.
