Athene of the summit, blazing with intellectual fire,Goddess who burns the perimeter around material desires,quenching them to embers, awakening the soul’s seedto grasp for the highest summit, may you hear this prayer,O daughter of Zeus and Metis, virginal and chaste,adorned with the aegis, shaking your shield,your spear reaching down into matter's deep recesses,a sign and … Continue reading For Athene
Month: February 2022
February Updates
Before I get started, I want to drop a link to the International Rescue Committee, founded (in part) by Albert Einstein. They are active around the world to help displaced people, and they are now mobilizing to help Ukrainians. I donate to IRC monthly because I want to ensure that displaced people — there are … Continue reading February Updates
Now
It is all too much. My mind, off to anywhere peaceful, anchors down upon the flower-thick sky.WASP-121b’s titanium rainsfall fast and hard, down and in.How fast do its ripping windscurl back to the beginning?Can I exist in every space of my owntidally-locked becoming,a calm oasis from extremesturbulent and beautiful?The water splits apart, arid,the soul has … Continue reading Now
A Draft, Rough Around the Edges
This weekend, I marathon-wrote most of the open access primer that I have been working on — I actually did all of chapters 5-7. I worked off of many blog posts I have written on KALLISTI, far beyond just the ones on the New to Polytheism? page, with some new content to weave all of … Continue reading A Draft, Rough Around the Edges
2022 Anthesteria Plans
Today, I had a PTO day to get myself together for the Anthesteria — to finish up a work-adjacent-but-not-actually-part-of-my-job thing with a deadline early next week, buy wine, and dive into Proclus readings. Once two of the three items were done (is one ever done reading Proclus?), I thought through how I feel about the … Continue reading 2022 Anthesteria Plans
After a Libation to Apollon
the same prayers each day (or are they steady, tree-slow growth) renewing with each fresh-day moment eye contact — the image a gravity well astonishment, gratitude, love stunned silent into speech swept into an updraft, unexpected do I feel the patter of diamond rain on Jupiter the push and pull of sublunary oceans the Sun’s … Continue reading After a Libation to Apollon
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