Invocation to Kali
Kali is destroying old boundaries by Alicepopkorn / CC BY 2.0
Invocation to Kali
Penetrate me, Kali
Move through my every pore
Consume me in thy fire
Until I am no more.
Melt down my skins of iron
That shield me from my wounds
Break my bones of falsehoods
That would support me to my ruin.
Break my chains of reason
That tie me to my [...]
Deeper at Artomatic: Tammy Vitale
Tammy Vitale’s inspiration comes from many places — her own restlessness and boredom, the nature of the materials at hand and a drive to learn how to work with them, her dreams, and other artists’ work. After I saw her work at last year’s Artomatic, I’ve been wanting to connect with her. Being an introvert, I [...]
Deeper at Artomatic: Alyson M. Olander
Artomatic opens tomorrow and I’m imagining a series of post about artists whose work is informed and inspired by their spiritual journeys and interactions with the sacred all around them. Artists who dive deep into their souls and bring up images and visions to share of their journey. Artists who intentionally bring a spiritual dimension [...]
Ambivalence of Lammas
For many people, Lammas is a time of celebration of the first harvests. For me, this time of year is a struggle, especially with the blast furnace heat and/or oppressive humidity of the last three places I’ve lived (Oklahoma, Houston, and DC). In August, I feel like someone forgot to close Balor’s evil [...]
Everybody Wordle!
From Wordle:
From What’s up with this aura fluffing thing?
From Prayer to Hanuman. I think this one is my favorite.
From Dedication to Bridghid
Signs from the Gods
An email I received from this blog has sparked my thinking. A young person asks about the significance of signs found in the natural world.
I was looking out from a bedroom window and saw some ravens. For some reason, I counted them, and there were nine. Again for some reason, I felt that this [...]
Musings on Vocation
As a teacher and student, I like to start my explorations into a topic by defining my terms and looking into the origins of key words. I won a season of Lincoln-Douglas debates on my defining “revolution” to exclude the American Revolution, thereby not allowing my opponents to justifying their arguments using that war. [...]
What’s up with this “aura fluffing” thing?
It happens often enough to comment upon. Some unsuspecting newcomer attends a Becoming event or stops by our booth at Pagan Pride Day and is asked if they want their aura fluffed. You can imagine their surprise, and sometimes horror. They may have heard that Becoming is a “well respected” group in the DC [...]
In the hospital waiting room
Sitting vigil with the ill or dying or their family is an awesome task in the original sense of the word. It is a sacred and frightening and joyful and uncomfortable and intimate honor and duty. I hope that these words and ideas are helpful to you when you find yourself sitting in a [...]
Perspectives, Flame Wars, and Divinity
There was an amazing exhibit at the US Botanic Garden, titled sLow Life, that featured time-lapse photos and videos showing how plants move and respond to their environment, when from our human perspective plants are relatively static. This got me thinking about how our perspective really determines our experience of the world.
So much of [...]
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