Acts of Speech is now out and in the wild in e-format. The print is a bit delayed due to the pandemic, although I now have a UPS tracking number for proofs, which is a serious improvement over my previous lack of knowledge regarding where the print version was in the printing process. Tracking numbers … Continue reading Acts of Speech Is Out
Month: October 2020
Two Passages from Proclus
I made these images because these passages both struck me as very useful and interesting. The first one is positing a likeness between various levels of beings and springs/rivers/&c., and I like this imagery a lot. It just struck me as extremely poetic when I read it. The second image comes from a short while … Continue reading Two Passages from Proclus
Heads Become (OK, Are) Roots
I read the final 108 translated pages of Proclus' Commentary on Plato's Timaeus yesterday. It took about six hours, and I was so excited about it that it was difficult to sleep — well worth it, though, as several months ago when I was in the thick of harmonic ratios, it seemed like the words … Continue reading Heads Become (OK, Are) Roots
Some more on my monthly divination approach
Apart from the community-oriented divination that I've started to do every three months, I ask other kinds of questions during my divination routine every month. Here's a bit more about my approach (namely, the types of questions and some rationale), followed by a concrete example. One of my blocks with doing divination when I was … Continue reading Some more on my monthly divination approach
Offspring of the Gods — Something from Proclus’ Commentary on Plato’s TIMAEUS
The passage below is of great theological interest. Previously on this blog, I have mentioned that being in the train of a God is not particularly unique because it could be said about each and every person, and this is yet another passage that deals with that. It's also striking to me looking at this … Continue reading Offspring of the Gods — Something from Proclus’ Commentary on Plato’s TIMAEUS
Interesting Proclus Passage About Parallels “with the Sacred Tradition”
This passage from Proclus comes at the tail end of where he's discussing the visible and invisible periods of the planets, and — surprisingly, but possibly only due to my ignorance — seems to say at 88.30 that each of the planets' years is itself a God. The discussion transitions to a discussion of traditional … Continue reading Interesting Proclus Passage About Parallels “with the Sacred Tradition”
Flashback Post: Some Teenage Ritual Spaces
While cleaning out my old CDs, I found a few from film that I had had developed back when you would get a CD of the film from a disposable camera alongside the physical images. This is circa the early 2000s, back when the world population was a bit under 6.5 billion, we still had … Continue reading Flashback Post: Some Teenage Ritual Spaces
Having a (Memorable) Alternative Halloween in the Time of COVID-19
It's pumpkin time. This post is a departure from what I usually write on this blog, and it falls under the general category of "things I am communicating about my childhood in Wicca that may be useful to adults right now." My goal for this post is to give people, regardless of their religion, some … Continue reading Having a (Memorable) Alternative Halloween in the Time of COVID-19
Black Holes, Chanting That Apollon Boreas Thing, Symbols, and Poetry
Apollon who gleams, who fills us up like a basin —what light within lightlessness?The ancients wrote that all could be illumined —but what illumination for the edge beyond which lightdances eternal with itself alone, bound and liberated,unseen by all, where space dances out timeand time ricochets oracular in the darkest stars?Does it mean that the … Continue reading Black Holes, Chanting That Apollon Boreas Thing, Symbols, and Poetry
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