[i enjoyed this, particularly the phrasing 'the mutable emptiness of the goddess', which really is a great way of looking at wicca as a framework, not just today but in its whole boom. in comparison to the way it's often phrased (eg, the goddess is in everything, etc), 'mutable emptiness' seems initially derogatory but in my opinion it's delightfully neutral, it's not an overwhelming emptiness, a threatening emptiness, it's mutable, defeatable, welcoming. but i'm gonna get lost down wordplay alley if i don't stop myself there and reaffirm that i found your phrasing quite good ]

[i'm really glad that you've got two avenues of value from your trad building. the processes of moving from 101 to 201, or specialisation, or how to actually move from student to teacher with some structure as opposed to opportunistic scavenging, is underserved because of its very nature of being about specialisation. people feel obliged to walk through doorways already in place, even into corridors they are dissatisfied with, because the 'door-building' technique is nowhere near as thoroughly documented as the 101 levels. what is available is tradition specific, coven specific, or washed to such blandness in order to sell it to potentially all solitary practitioners that it lacks practical worth. it's obviously of great personal value because you're building the symbology, the canvas of metaphor and the language of your own understanding, but for where you know it won't work for everyone else, you're documenting the process and results ]