August 29th, 2014 - Friday - Prince of Disks

August 29th, 2014 - Friday - Prince of Disks - God Form of Asherah - Masculine vs. Feminine inside you!  

And on a Friday!

I was speaking with my son today about the subtle energies around us.  One day he's up, the other down, tired, then energetic, etc.  All sorts of energies flow through us and each day is different.  Today's masculine focus and concentration is being challenged...

And that's okay. It's just what is happening today.  The answer is to relax...and know that your not going to be your sharpest in the mental concentration department today. 

Asherah is the Goddess of Nothing... once the wife of the Jewish God Yahweh, she was eventually 'disappeared' when monotheism took over and Jehovah stepped up as the one and only God.  But in recent times she's been 'rediscovered'.  Where Jehovah became the God of Everything, Asherah became the Goddess of Nothing, meaning she is way more versatile.  She's the anti-masculine, the woman in all of us, and she fights right up against the Prince of Disks today!

The message? Let her win.  Relax.  Flow.  Skip.  Sing.  Wear something different today. When your eyes hurt staring at the computer screen... turn the computer off and go do something else.  It's that simple.  Hell it's Friday... let it all go.  You are in Asherah's hands today...

August 28th, 2014 - Thursday - Wealth

August 28th, 2014 - Thursday - Wealth - As the material world sends wealth your way be conscious once again of the connections and patterns in your life.  Once again Apophenia visits us, and she offers to allows us to see the patterns inside us that create wealth out of magic.

August 27th, 2014 - Wednesday - Hanged Man

August 27th, 2014 - Wednesday - Hanged Man - Out of suffering comes... what?  Apophenia blesses us to see the connections in our suffering, telling us a bigger story.  Consider the isolated vision of Christ on the cross, suffering... for what?  Step back, see the connections, look at how suffering begins to reveal purpose.  Look to your suffering today... but take a step back and see it from a distance.  Apophenia will bless you to see the meanings in even the most cruel moments of your life if you let her.  This a brave thing to try... but dive deep today.

August 26th, 2014 - Tuesday - Swiftness

August 26th, 2014 - Tuesday - Swiftness - Today as I consider the 'communication' card, I can't forget that last night was the new moon.  There is something special about the new moon, the powerful full dark brooding mistress of the night sky... I can feel her even though I can't see her.  When communicating today, think about that.  Reach deeper and bring a hidden depth to your words.  Even if you are talking what we might all consider a very surface type of way (in business, at the store, on the phone with a credit card representative), practice giving a little 'hidden moon' depth to your words.  

How can you give a little extra today to everyone you meet? This is something so subtle, so refined, most people won't even feel it... but give it anyway. Of such refinements are depth made of and life more fully surrendered and ferociously entered into.

August 23rd, 2014 ~ Saturday ~ Choronzon

August 23rd, 2014 ~ Saturday ~ Choronzon~

Get down on the floor in child's pose- legs folded up underneath you and forehead on the floor. Feels good, doesn't it?

Now, adjust your head so that you are facing forward and your chin is on the floor. All the weight of your skull on your pointy little chin instead of your smooth, strong forehead. That...... tight uncomfortable gritting energy exemplifies the difference between your will and the universal flow.

Release the stranglehold that your will can impose on life, love, desire, and freedom and begin living your right and proper life.

August 22nd, 2014 - Friday - Princess of Disks

August 22nd, 2014 - Friday - Princess of Disks - You are having trouble connecting to your feminine creative side today... giving birth to new ideas is always difficult.  But the answers are there... they are in the Aether.  Find some time to be alone, take a walk, and have a talk with the universe.  You will get your answers.

August 21st, 2014 - Thursday - Princess of Wands

August 21st, 2014 - Thursday - Princess of Wands - In the Egyptian Culture there is a Goddess with a Capitol G... her name is ISIS.  She is the Goddess of Everything and she reminds us that the masculine power on this earth depends wholly and completely on women.  Men... are birthed by women... men are then nurtured by women... they are mothered, and then later inspire by them as lovers and soul mates.  Further... men's only hope at immortality lies in the children women bear them.

With this in mind... let us ask Isis... our Goddess of Everything for help today. The Princess of Wands shows our feminine power, fire and instinct to dive into things, to grab that tiger by the tail and head off with our wand and make magic. As we say YES to that... to set fire to our universe and dive in fully... let us ask Isis, our 'heavenly mother' to assist us in our quest. She awaits our call.  

I would suggest you make your request into a magical and creative act...  You can't go overboard approaching her... trust me...

August 20th, 2014 - Wednesday - Truce

August 20th, 2014 - Wednesday - Truce - Middle of the week... and we focus into a truce and realize the balance of abundance and justice.  We are in alignment with our inner most authentic needs. As we come out of an age of hyper selfishness, a little new age feminine love will help us along to reach authentic balances inside us.  

To our assistance is Ma'at:

Ma'at is our new age symbol of hippie love.  Really... a little new age revelry today will do you good and help you be in balance.  We're talking love, peace, superconsciousness, dreams... enter into the Age of Aquarius, and find your feminine authenticity.  Peace, and joy, and calm... let it bubble up in you spill out.  You are in balance, you are harmonized... now indulge in a little new age love!

Ma'atby TheOriginalGinger

August 19th, 2014 - Tuesday - Debauch

August 19th, 2014 - Tuesday - Debauch - Well... looks like we might get stuck today... sticky icky sickly stuck. Be prepared for a bit of gummy nastiness.... 

And the archetype to help you deal with this glue? Pandora herself returns after visiting us last week:

The formula is simple: You are stuck because you are not looking at something inside yourself that scares you. Pandora's advice?  Open that box... and take a look at what scares you.Once again I remind you:  "..however high the price of knowledge it ends up costing less than ignorance." - Peter J. Carroll.

August 18th, 2014 ~ Monday ~ Fortune

August 18th, 2014 ~ Monday ~ Fortune ~

Today is the day to take the risk you have been contemplating. You know what I am talking about....... That change, shift, outreach, communication, jump, or turn you have been staring at for weeks, months, maybe years. You have sized it up as much as you are going to be able. You have scrutinized and examined, but you are not truly going to know the outcome until you move.

The good news is that fortune is in your favor today. You have a window of time to make your change. It does not mean it will be challenge-free but you have learned enough over time that you can identify where the hooks and the deception may lie in this transformation . You will not understand the full landscape, complete with pitfalls, until you make the change. But movement is better than no movement at this point in time.

The archetype assisting us today is the Underworld Goddess, Hecate. Hecate is commonly seen in her triple form of Maiden, Mother, and Crone.

Maiden  represents the power of sexual energy. Mother represents the power of reproduction and the secret knowledge it bestows upon those who create and give birth to something new. And Crone represents esoteric knowledge and magic.

As you turn the wheel of fortune today you will need to tap into all aspects of yourself and a multitude of energy sources. Sexual energy is extremely powerful and is a primal driver for the life we live on this earth. Tap into your root and sacral power centers to cultivate the energy needed to shift. This is the volcanic eruption needed to start the wheel in motion.

Use your deep desire for creating this shift to sustain motion as you encounter challenges and obstacles. Use your heart-rending yearning to cultivate and birth this change into a reality.

And lastly, dip into the magical knowing you have about yourself and this shift. When you get quiet and can unhook from fear you will see that you have a wisdom that is unparalleled when it comes to the universe you are creating.

And as with any Underworld Goddess, Hecate also reminds us that to provide the space for new energy (life force) we must let certain aspects die- old fears, habitual stuckness, unhealthy relationships, corrosive emotional imprints.

And last, but not least, Hecate is also associated with witches and witchcraft. You may find yourself in need of your coven as you traverse this metamorphosis. Don't be afraid to reach out to those that can help usher you through with their own unique life force energy, creative genius, and peculiar magical knowledge.

August 16th, 2014 - Saturday - Luxury

August 16th, 2014 - Saturday - Luxury - Today's message is as simple as it gets:  Get outside... and luxuriate in nature.  Mother nature is waiting for you today.  Even if all you do is mow your lawn... get outside.

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August 15th 2014 - Friday - Virtue

August 15th 2014 - Friday - Virtue - It may feel like the path of opening you are on is a little like opening Pandora's Box:

And in a way we really have.  When you get serious about growing up, digging into spirituality and becoming a more authentic person... it's like opening a can of worms. Things can get crazy, and fast.  Makes you want to slam that lid shut real quick!

But today Pandora comes with the Virtue card which tells you this: You are on the right path. You are doing the right thing, and should have confidence.  Look to Pandora:

What does she teach us? To fearlessly seek hidden knowledge, to go after things that everyone else keeps quiet about. Open to the unknown, to the surprise of true being. She is fearless in her curiosity, and brings her feminine mystery and chaos to the mix. When the men were sitting around thinking, should we open the box, should we.... Pandora just went ahead and opened it! 

And don't miss the symbolism. We all came out of woman, that wild mysterious feminine force of creation. (Remember Kali from yesterday?). The time of the feminine is here. It's time to revere her, and open to her, and find her. 

Finally, I leave you with a quote from Peter J. Carroll. Digging into the muck of your soul can surely be hard work, scary work, and it can be ugly work.  A lot of crazy things can up when you really look.  But Peter assures us:  "...however high the price of knowledge it ends up costing less than ignorance."

Go ahead.  Take a peek inside.

August 14th, 2014 - Thursday - Ace of Wands

August 14th, 2014 - Thursday - Ace of Wands - Grab your magic wand today... and cast a spell. What do you want? You have the energy to go, to move, to shimmy, to shake... but again... what do you want?

The answer comes from our dream visitor, who happens to be Kali again (she visited us yesterday!).

Yesterday she came to us to cut off our head, sending a message loud and clear.... but today she serves another purpose. She is portrayed in our current culture with many different guises, but the one that we need today is the guise of Mother, love, fertility, time and death.

What do you want to give birth to today? What is your passion? This powerful feminine force will tell you what your passion is, where to point your wand, and what to make happen. She is the dark mother, meaning she represents "both a loving mother and a harsh murderous mother to us by turns" as Peter J Carroll suggests.

Both sides are powerful forces that can propel you toward what you want to create. Ask Mother Kali today, in whatever way you can creatively imagine. (But don't deny her darkness.  Don't you dare!) In death... life is possible. Mother Death may seem like a contradiction... but she points the way to your true passion... just ask her...

August 13th, 2014 - Wednesday - Ace of Swords

August 13th, 2014 - Wednesday - Ace of Swords - There is resistance inside you today... resistance to a change in your world.  You've been courageously rolling through change lately and need to be congratulated... but today you are putting your heels down and digging in.  And the message? Resistance is futile.  The universe is moving in your direction... and change is coming.  Best let go and accept it.  

To help you come two archetypes:  Michael the Archangel, and Kali.

Both of these titanic forces, one male and one female, are going to deliver change to you today whether you want it or not. The best course of action is to retreat into solitude and invite both of these forces to act.  Be a  participant in the change and formally grasp it with fierce acceptance.  Be the master of your own destiny.

August 12th, 2014 - Tuesday - The Moon

August 12th, 2014 - Tuesday - The Moon - So yesterday we received Completion and a dream of the moon goddess... and we rested and relaxed.  Today we got the Moon again!  She is ever present in our thoughts and feelings. She watches over us in the dark, always there, but not always visible.

Our dream guide this Tuesday is Anubis. The Egyptian Lord of the Dead, he is a friend who can be tuned into in order to live a more noble and authentic life. As the moon embraces us in her sensuous grasp, Anubis reminds us to feel into our death at this  moment, and let our future death be a springboard forward into a moment well lived.  In the midst of the feminine swirl of life, find the balance between nothingness and everything. 

You are here.  You are alive.  The Moon Whispers:  Do not waste this day.

August 11th, 2014 - Monday- Completion

August 11th, 2014 - Monday-  Completion - Whew... That was a big weekend... Full Super Moon charged energy with more than a touch of lunacy as we embraced our opposites... Mars and Venus, War and Love.  The moon has seen your work, honored your intention and blessed you. She is on your side.

Rest today. Relax.  Assimilate your opposite natures with a lunar blessing.  It's not more complicated than that. You've earned it. Salute!

August 10th, 2014 ~ Sunday ~ Princess of Wands ~

Whew..... there is a cool crackle in the air today. Some vital energy is on the move and it is strumming along our sacral, solar plexus, and heart chakras.  It feels good. It feels powerful and expansive.  It awakens our multi-selves that do not necessarily get to come out and play during the week. Now what do we do with it?

Why engage it, of course. Meet this energy breath for breath, eye to eye, palm to palm, soul to soul as it pulses through your core. Turn off the t.v., turn down the chatter.Turn up the music, breathe into your belly, break out the paints, laugh, cry, dance, grab your partner and ravish them. Fire and heart today......... oh yes............. There is no one that keeps you from your essential self but you.

Today, the archetypal assistance is coming from none other than the Virgin Mary, Mother of God. Who else is better suited to remind us about fire and heart. Who better to remind us that we are a vast multitude of complexities, all of which need moments to be expressed or they become knotted or even rot.

No other woman in history has been the subject of as much art, poetry, and the written and spoken word more than Mary, herself. And yet, she remains such an enigma. One thing is for certain, though, this woman was not a simple, one-dimensional creature.

She was mother, wife, protectress, oracle, dragon slayer, benevolent love, vicious sorrow,  queen. She is a mystery and a magnet.

Dive beneath the surface and the facade today and let vital energy move. You will find that it nourishes and rejuvenates you so that you can move into the next week with the fire and heart to press into the next challenge, the next obstacle, the next opportunity, the next dream.

Take a cue from Mother Mary and live so fully that your life becomes art.

August 9th, 2014 ~ Saturday ~ The Star

August 9th, 2014 ~ Saturday ~ The Star ~

The dance between light and dark, pain and pleasure, grief and joy, lethargy and exhilaration has landed us in new and expansive territory. By engaging all facets of  the multi-self and multi-universe we can achieve a width and depth that was previously unavailable to us. With this newly tapped expansiveness we can now begin to manifest dreams and desires that were previously banished to the aether by fears and apathy.

Any dream worth dreaming also comes with fear. Fear of failure. Fear of rejection. Fear of loss. Fear of change. Unbind your dreams today and provide them the rich soil to unfold and grow. You have been through shadow lately. And if anything, shadow reminds us we are stronger than we thought, and life is shorter than we would like. Your dream or desire will not last forever so you might as well let it have its moment in the sun.

The Archangel of Earth is the perfect ally as we summon forth dream wisps and muster the energy to manifest them in tangible form. Earth elementals remind us that we are a collection of molecules assembled in such a way that we can evoke magic in life. Look around you. Look at nature. The Earth has summoned forth some of the most bizarre, beautiful, astounding, breathtaking forms imaginable (or unimaginable). The Earth is our greatest example that anything is possible and anything can be manifest once it is free from the restriction of fear and apathy.

Plant your dreams and desires today and watch them flourish. Why not? What have you got to lose?

August 8th, 2014 - Friday - Sun

August 8th, 2014 - Friday - Sun - Clunk! Bonk! Boink? Digging around in  your soul can be nasty business. Look! Here's a piece of yourself you didn't know even existed. And who put THAT in here? You like WHAT? You hate THAT? Who keeps all this stuff up here? Haven't you ever wanted to start over and CLEAN HOUSE? Well that's what you've been doing... cleaning house.  Hauling all the junk out to the curb. Or maybe piling it up in the back, pouring gasoline on it, and setting it aflame. So... Who ARE YOU?

Not who you thought... that's for sure.

The angels have looked at your work...which right now looks like one of the worst episodes of Hoarders ever, and are saying: YES. 

And... they are asking you a question:

Do you mean it? Really? This is dark work. You can take your commendation for starting and go home right now. Why not? It's murky, mucky, stinky in here.

Do you want to go further?

A man named Eliphas Levi (February 8, 1810 - May 31st, 1875) wanted to go further as well. So he created a god form that he could commune with to help him do just that. Sound crazy? It's not so different than psychologists naming different parts of our psyche. Levi just labeled his psyche in more spiritual terms. So who did he come up with?

Bahphomet.

This constitutes his image of God, and hence of himself.  The key parts are as follows: 

Dualistic: both God and Devil.  Levi saw in himself both light and dark, and didn't have a problem with that.  He saw himself in both male and female terms, understanding that he had both masculine and feminine parts in his psyche. Not only that, but his deity broke from the monotheistic male God Ruler image so prevalent at the time.  God has boobs?  Yep. 

Illumination: Baphomet bears a torch which shines light on hidden things: There are no secrets.  We are going to look and see everything: the good, the bad, and the ugly.  

Shamanistic: Baphomet is clearly part animal, accepting animistic parts, as well as shamanistic, dealing with the spirit of the land, the animals and nature.

Sexualized: Baphomet is sexualized: In a time when sex was steeply controlled by the government and church, Levi proudly proclaimed his God (meaning himself) was a sexual being.

Magical: Baphomet is magical... clearly a magician in the world.

This is very crazy stuff, you have to know that.  Levi basically took everything in his culture (he was a former Catholic Priest) and turned it on it's head.  All the parts of himself he had been taught were bad, he instead saw as neither good nor bad.  They just 'were'.   

So... what good is Baphomet to YOU?  Well... in our dualistic dig into your dirty underwear this last week, it helps to have a symbol of all that is human in the world.  We are all trying to become better people, more loving, more light, more giving, more authentic and gifting.  

So to help us in this quest... when did we humans create a God that was only half human? Or let's be honest, actually not human at all?  Perfect, Shining, Loving, and solely MASCULINE may be an ideal to strive for, but it's not very realistic... is it? 

A quick view of nature reveals nothing of the sort.  HE... is nowhere to be found.

But a quick glance into nature, into the real human condition, and Baphomet very quickly appears as the more useful explanation of the human psyche.

Of course the monotheistic culture we live in has crowned Baphomet the DEVIL... which is baggage some of you might have to deal with before you start talking to her/him.  

This needs to be said: No one is bagging on a particular vision of Deity, one way or the other. The point of all this is that we are HUMAN. Which means we have a lot of different parts... good... bad... and ugly.  And rather than shunting them off into dark corners of our attic... we are opening the windows, letting the sunlight come in, and seeing ourselves for who we truly are.  This is tough work... we get to see parts of ourselves that we would rather keep hidden...

But the real bounty of all this work on self only comes from seeing all sides of yourself.  

The sun is shining for you.  It's a good sign. The best of signs.  Now all you have to decide is whether to look inside yourself or not.  Warning: If you look... brace for impact.  Promise: If you look... magical bounty awaits. 

August 7th, 2014 - Thursday - Swiftness

August 7th, 2014 - Thursday - Swiftness - Open your mouth and speak. Say what you mean, mean what you say.  Be quick about it. If it's on the tip of your tongue, spit it out. We are on the verge of virtue... something good is right there for the taking... but you have to claim it.

And then step through the awful door that awaits: This step looks horrifying. It looks nothing less than the end of all things.

Human mythology is filled with the Death / Rebirth process.  We have to face the truth about how our mind/body works: For something to be born, something almost always has to die first.
  
The caterpillar builds a coffin, enters, with no sure knowledge other than he goes to his grave.  And he's right. That's the damnable part!  He who enters does NOT return.  Yes... a butterfly comes out, but what part of a butterfly resembles the caterpillar who entombed himself?  None.  It's a total transformation.

Out of the vast floodplain of the Nile River comes the God Osiris... who teaches that even GODS must die. 

Gods dying and coming back is nothing new in human history. From Ishtar to the Quetzalcoatle, from Adonis to Horus, from Ishtar to Dionysus, Odin to Chinnamasta... not to mention Jesus Christ himself.

But what about YOU dying?  What part of you needs to swiftly die?  A merciful death?  Yesterday we poked the bear and had a heart to heart with our dark side, our little Bastard.  What did he/she say? What did the little revolutionary want to escape from?

That's the part that needs to swiftly die...

But... what good is such thinking today, on a Thursday, in August, 2014?  Really?  You are at work, reading this, and thinking: Yeah... that sounds good, drop some baggage, free myself, I'll die and become a butterfly...  But how in the hell do I really do that? You look around at your house, your family, your job, your community.  How much of this is beautiful and how much of it is actually holding you back from becoming that butterfly?  After all... the butterfly doesn't come back and visit the caterpillars.  He flies away... never to return.

That's a harsh business.  

Where to start?  My advice?  Ask your little bastard.  The supreme bear poking genius inside of you knows exactly where to start, and he'll tell you... if you ask him.

August 6th, 2014 - Wednesday - Magus Bear Dreamer

August 6th, 2014 - Wednesday - Magus Bear Dreamer - It's time for a conversation.  You, alone, with... you. You have your many personalities, the sides of yourself that you show to the world, but deep down you have a few 'selfs' you keep hidden.

You've heard the expression... let sleeping bears alone?

Nah... not today!

We've been doing a lot of prodding, poking, and picking as ourselves lately, and today is no different. Time to go poking the bear(s) inside you. He's hibernation, but he's always aware of what's going on. Some cultures call him the 'little bastard'. (My little bastard is a he... but yous could easily be a she.) Others call him the 'secret revolutionary'. You know who he is, the guy in there plotting for freedom...

Time to wake him up and have a conversation with him because he has something you don't. He has access to the Aether.

You live in a very linear world... where there is the past, the present, and the one and only future. But the Archangel of Aether is in touch with infinite variations and possibilities for all quantum conditions, including variable pasts, presents, and futures.

The invitation today is to prod those sleeping bears inside you, wake them up... and start talking. Have a discussion with your multiple selfs, the good ones, the bad ones, and yes, even those ugly ones. It's time to start a dialogue, a discussion, and ultimately a deliverance.  The Archangel of Aether offers the greatest of gifts that can be had:  Illumination.

It's time to wake the bears! You are many parts, many pieces, and it's time to let them all come out and have a go at it. Give them their time on stage, and listen.See what your multiple selfs have to say. I guarantee you will be surprised, delighted, inspired... perhaps disgusted, disturbed and destroyed... but above all... you will be illuminated, and it will mean all the difference when you strut through your life with a sure confident knowledge of all your hidden parts.