banishing rite frets

Worries about banishing rites are so dorky and I can feel myself stuck in the same place I've been for about a decade, regardless of how many new frameworks I encounter to explain it - like, what if it was tuning a space? What if it was banishing internally? And regardless of my own limitations as a mage, like - it's maybe arrogant to worry about me doing wholesale destruction to the local energetic ecosystem right out of the gate.

the hawk and the heron

I am absolutely howling at an explanation in my current reading that the phoenix represents the hawk and heron of the Egyptians, the Eagle and cygnet of the Greeks and the peacock of the Hindus, and also the river Nile; like Ken that's just...thats just birds, Ken. All of them.