Mainly running around like a headless chicken, consumed by work and travel.
Friends of ours who raise chickens told us about their pair of ornamentals who have feathers partially covering their eyes. If the pair is placed back-to-back, they will run about frantically until they collide with each other, and are thereby reassured that the other still exists. I've known some smart birds, but alas, over all the centuries we've bred all the brains out of those poor (but tasty) creatures.
All of this work means i've had very little energy for anything else. I'm not going to succumb to guilt about that, but if i've neglected answering e-mails, i do feel bad about that. Please feel free to poke me again if need be, with awareness of the coming holiday travel season.
Blessings to you all for a happy Thanksgiving!
Monday, November 21, 2011
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Novena to Holy Wisdom, Day 9
Meditation: Atu VIII
Prayer: i can't even finish a novena properly on time, but i hope that the Subject takes pity on the Object despite the intermediary's failings...
Prayer: i can't even finish a novena properly on time, but i hope that the Subject takes pity on the Object despite the intermediary's failings...
Monday, September 19, 2011
A Novena to Holy Wisdom, Day 8
Meditation: Atu VI
Thoughts: Why is it that so late one finally encounters the Other? Without the horizontal Other, the vertical would have been only the self-image. Hand in hand, walking toward the darkness together, you will see one day that everything in me not of the gods will have been stripped away.
Thoughts: Why is it that so late one finally encounters the Other? Without the horizontal Other, the vertical would have been only the self-image. Hand in hand, walking toward the darkness together, you will see one day that everything in me not of the gods will have been stripped away.
Sunday, September 18, 2011
A Novena to Holy Wisdom, Day 7
Meditation: Atu XIV
Reading: John 1:29-33
Prayer: May blessings descend like dew upon you, you who taught me the art of transmutation. i pray this in the Name of the Prime Transmuter, the First and Last Priest, Amen.
Reading: John 1:29-33
Prayer: May blessings descend like dew upon you, you who taught me the art of transmutation. i pray this in the Name of the Prime Transmuter, the First and Last Priest, Amen.
Saturday, September 17, 2011
A Novena to Holy Wisdom, Day 6
Meditation: Atu XXI
Readings: The Apocalypse of John, 21:1-7. "... the new Jerusalem, coming down from God like a bride adorned for her husband."
Prayer: You have said, "Behold, I make all things new." May Your will be done now to the Microcosm as it will be done to the Macrocosm. Let Your Presence settle upon your Image, restore her glory, and make her one with her Higher Nature. This i ask in the Name of the One who stands to receive the souls of the faithful, Amen.
Intercede for us, Queen of the heavenly hosts!
Readings: The Apocalypse of John, 21:1-7. "... the new Jerusalem, coming down from God like a bride adorned for her husband."
.. magnus ab integro saeclorum nascitur ordo.-- Virgil, Eclogues 4
Iam redit et Virgo, redeunt Saturnia regna;
iam nova progenies caelo demittitur alto.
Prayer: You have said, "Behold, I make all things new." May Your will be done now to the Microcosm as it will be done to the Macrocosm. Let Your Presence settle upon your Image, restore her glory, and make her one with her Higher Nature. This i ask in the Name of the One who stands to receive the souls of the faithful, Amen.
Intercede for us, Queen of the heavenly hosts!
Friday, September 16, 2011
A Novena to Holy Wisdom: Day 5
Meditation: Atu XVII
Reading: Novalis' Hymnen an die Nacht 3. Also recommended: Charles Williams' "The Death of Palomides," in Taliessin Through Logres.
Prayer: "Netzach is the name of the Victory in the Blessing: / For the Lord created all things by means of his Blessing." As you have blessed me once before, come forth and bless me yet again. Yet i will always sing to your praises.
Reading: Novalis' Hymnen an die Nacht 3. Also recommended: Charles Williams' "The Death of Palomides," in Taliessin Through Logres.
Prayer: "Netzach is the name of the Victory in the Blessing: / For the Lord created all things by means of his Blessing." As you have blessed me once before, come forth and bless me yet again. Yet i will always sing to your praises.
Thursday, September 15, 2011
A Novena to Holy Wisdom: Day 4
Meditation: Atu X
Reading: Ecclesiastes 3:1-8.
Prayer: Recordare Virgo Mater Dei.
Notes: Waite cites the permutation "Rota Taro Orat Tora Ator." i have a hard time believing that. All i see when i gaze on this card is dukkha. Similarly, i have a hard time imagining today's god, a god of thunder, a male god with bare arm and lightning spear, as "merciful." On such a day i see only the weeping Mother. (Today is her day, the Day of her Seven Sorrows.) She alone does not grovel, because she has no need. The rest of us grovel before Fortune, before Time, before the manly bare-armed god. Her God is no god at all, or only an upside-down god.
Reading: Ecclesiastes 3:1-8.
Prayer: Recordare Virgo Mater Dei.
Notes: Waite cites the permutation "Rota Taro Orat Tora Ator." i have a hard time believing that. All i see when i gaze on this card is dukkha. Similarly, i have a hard time imagining today's god, a god of thunder, a male god with bare arm and lightning spear, as "merciful." On such a day i see only the weeping Mother. (Today is her day, the Day of her Seven Sorrows.) She alone does not grovel, because she has no need. The rest of us grovel before Fortune, before Time, before the manly bare-armed god. Her God is no god at all, or only an upside-down god.
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