Blessings Darlings!
Since I am dreading and thus putting off blogging about the Wiccan Rede ... this seems like a great time to talk about the Vice of Malkuth "Inertia", since I'm experiencing it. But as long as I'm here, I'll look at the other vice of Malkuth as well.
You might not know what Malkuth is, if you're new around these parts. It's the last Sphere of the Kabala, the beginning of the trip up the Heavenly Tree towards ... let's say enlightenment, given Ayn Sof. At any rate, it's the start of any path - it's Earth and the mundane. And you have to be functional in this Sphere before you can really get to the other spheres. Taking the first NEW step can be hard to take.
Malkuth is sphere most bound by Newtonian physics, and one of the laws of Newtonian physics is that a 'body at rest stays at rest/a body in motion stays in motion' unless some other force acts on it. In magical terms, your Will is not a part of your body, so it can get your Malkuth-bound ass in motion.
The problem is often that at that point ... the other vice of Malkuth takes over. Greed. And since we're talking Malkuth - materialism. Folks tend to get this idea that you need All The Things to be able to move on the Path before you. Pentacles! Books! Athame! Wand! Offering plate! Pentacles! Cauldron! Chalice! Pentacles! Robes! Incense! Oils! Herbs! Books! More Pentacles! More everything!
People mistake "buying things" for 'doing the spiritual work'. And often they don't know if what they are buying is actually useful or not. Because without having done any of the work, they haven't developed the VIRTUE of Malkuth - Discrimination.
So folks who are still at this point of barely tapping their big toe on Path start 'advising' others that 'buy all the books! Every book has at least something useful in it" as if folks have unlimited money to Buy All The Things and unlimited time to Read All The Things - and they COMPLETELY ignore Working Any Of The Things. Because all the tools and shit that you can buy is USELESS if you don't do the work. If you fill your time with Buying All The Things and Reading All the Things (even if they are virtually worthless) you are NOT NOT NOT going to have time to do ANY of the things.
Do . The . Things.
Yes, I'll write that blog today. It won't be going up until June 14, the way I've got the 'oft quoted phrases' posts scheduled. While it's on today's 'TO DO' list ... that doesn't mean it has to be the first thing done. Using my Discrimination - doing THIS topic was inspired 'do this thing' to add to the list, not to crowd anything out.
So there.
That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
Frondly, Fern
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Thursday, March 29, 2012
I Dream In Color
Blessings Darlings!
I rarely share dreams here, but last nights dream seems different.
It started post Shit Hitting The Fan, with lots of trains, all going down the same track. Then a parallel track, on which a train of Army women in green colored fatigues. I was wearing my Assembly of the Sacred Wheel tabbard, in it's specific blue. Had to deal with a train full of folks in black on the track my stuff was on. Another train had all sorts of brightly colored children's books, one series that was coordinated by color. Realized that coordination of trains on tracks had to be re-established and my group was the one to do it - me standing on the tracks waving at the random trains wasn't cutting it. Found the original round house area .... where I realized that the train lines were coordinated by color. A Wise Woman - rather like the recently passed Shakmah Winddrum - commented on how finding this was the right approach, so I showed her the few clues to how it was done before that we'd found and where we were looking for more.
Okay, that was the dream. But let's add in that yesterday online in a group we had been discussing Kontantinos' "Nocturnal Witchcraft". Which I compared to Scott Cunningham. I didn't go into detail on WHY saw them as equivalent (other than to say both tend to be rather Kindergarten Wicca). But the dream commented on that for me.
Cunningham and Konstantinos both tend to work strongly with a white/black duality. Black. White. Only grey lies between them. Okay, that's one map of the territory.
In my dream there were all the colors of the rainbow, shown by the rainbow of knowledge in the books. My job is to see the best way to combine all those many and varied colors. I suspect that the roundhouse also has 'color wheel' associations - there are NO 'pure colors' outside of the filing systems like the Kabala and the chakras. Which are GREAT filing systems, but it's not good to mistake the map for the territory.
But the stuff on trains, or in books, don't do any good while still on trains. Mix, match - and use in every day life. The train load of coal is nice and all, but it's more 'useful' to me as electricity that I use to power my life.
I rarely share dreams here, but last nights dream seems different.
It started post Shit Hitting The Fan, with lots of trains, all going down the same track. Then a parallel track, on which a train of Army women in green colored fatigues. I was wearing my Assembly of the Sacred Wheel tabbard, in it's specific blue. Had to deal with a train full of folks in black on the track my stuff was on. Another train had all sorts of brightly colored children's books, one series that was coordinated by color. Realized that coordination of trains on tracks had to be re-established and my group was the one to do it - me standing on the tracks waving at the random trains wasn't cutting it. Found the original round house area .... where I realized that the train lines were coordinated by color. A Wise Woman - rather like the recently passed Shakmah Winddrum - commented on how finding this was the right approach, so I showed her the few clues to how it was done before that we'd found and where we were looking for more.
Okay, that was the dream. But let's add in that yesterday online in a group we had been discussing Kontantinos' "Nocturnal Witchcraft". Which I compared to Scott Cunningham. I didn't go into detail on WHY saw them as equivalent (other than to say both tend to be rather Kindergarten Wicca). But the dream commented on that for me.
Cunningham and Konstantinos both tend to work strongly with a white/black duality. Black. White. Only grey lies between them. Okay, that's one map of the territory.
In my dream there were all the colors of the rainbow, shown by the rainbow of knowledge in the books. My job is to see the best way to combine all those many and varied colors. I suspect that the roundhouse also has 'color wheel' associations - there are NO 'pure colors' outside of the filing systems like the Kabala and the chakras. Which are GREAT filing systems, but it's not good to mistake the map for the territory.
But the stuff on trains, or in books, don't do any good while still on trains. Mix, match - and use in every day life. The train load of coal is nice and all, but it's more 'useful' to me as electricity that I use to power my life.
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