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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.
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.
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1 February 2022 17:07Did you know? A traditional way to celebrate ancient pagan festivals is to grandstand on social media about how things that everyone else believes and does are FAKE and were MADE UP by blokes in the 19th and 20th centuries. Wow! What a raw encounter with the liminal and the sacred!
Something something about better working towards the coexistence of - on the one hand - pagans who recognise how deeply intertwined Christian culture is within magical/pagan history and work with that - and on the other hand - pagans who, for personal reasons, cannot be within sniffing distance of the slightest Christian thing, who are drawn to paganism quite specifically because it is non-Christian; and on a third hand - pagans with a spiritual/aesthetic interest in not centering their thought and cosmology around a Christian framework, of consciously trying to untangle that from being the norm, the baseline, and get through to something *other* (but we're all at the same parties and all reading the same books and all notionally friends and have to get along)
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28 January 2022 16:23I am trying to be mature about answering questions on twitter with reference to my own esoteric magical system, but it's hard sometimes like, someone was asking "what's going on with the moon??" and it was like. I've been studying this for a few years now, I know the answer in an instant - but is the work I've been doing viable? Today the question was "why is Mercury orange" and like, i have an answer for that too. But is it helpful or egotistical to jump in with an answer? And esp when that answer is "well if you were to make reference to this 40 pages of documented esoteric exploration that, btw, only I really understand, then you'll see that..." that's kinda asshole behaviour BUT you don't become a technical mage if you don't lowkey get off on deep-diving into bizzare texts and symbols so haha
