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[haptalaon]

This is something I started writing on last week for the last run of how-to-build-a-path, but I've been meditating on it since and...I think there is something very important about not letting the gods "fix" for you, like, not letting them reduce to a severe-looking woman in a robe with an owl and a helmet, but keeping them in "motion" somehow in your mind. Not letting them become a correspondence list, or a fixed set of jobs, but keeping your visual imagination and emotions engaged. Fencraft focuses a lot on mystery/unknown, I think because that's exactly what the Easy Wicca For Everyone books of my childhood lacked: a lot of recipes, but without the luxury of taste and smell. & so it's trying to keep approaching the Powers & the divine in a way which continually re-centers their God-Ness, their Magical-Ness, their Awe-Someness, that childlike sense of wonder, or a mortal sense of terror, or *something* which makes the experience bigger than just talking to an imaginary friend who looks and feels very much like me. So cultivating a sort of slipperiness, a mutability, and any time I feel the imagery I'm using feel too rigid and like it can be catalogued (a difficulty at a time when I am actively cataloguing gods), finding a way to let it move again. I think that's part of the value of the Commonplace Book: when you're compiling *other people's* words, it's a way to get you out of your own head when thinking about something divine. You're revering the same presence and experiences, but someone else's words can help you rediscover Them from a different angle.