This post describes my current spiritual practice and the cyclical routines I’m cultivating in my life. I had the idea of sharing this a few weeks ago, but several conversations recently (and also reading someone else's post about their current practice) prompted me to sit down and write this up. As I mention in The … Continue reading Prayers and Spiritual Practices: What I Currently Do
Anthesteria 2023, Day Two
Last night, I covered my shrines for the second night of the Anthesteria (and I use HMEPA for calculating this; we're in the 700th Olympiad, so click on that bracket). I always take PTO for Anthesteria. In the teens of our current century, every time I didn't set the time aside, a snowstorm would do … Continue reading Anthesteria 2023, Day Two
Happy Anthesteria
Wishing you all the blessings and joy of the season.
Print version of THE SOUL’S INNER STATUES
The print version of The Soul’s Inner Statues is now available for purchase. As a reminder, the ebook is freely available online: PDF, mobi, epub, and HTML. The HTML page uses the gitbook package because it allows for customization of contrast and fonts for reading accessibility — it's all in the top menu options. The … Continue reading Print version of THE SOUL’S INNER STATUES
February 2023 Update
One day early in the month, after reading about crystal balls setting homes on fire (which I already knew about) and seeing something about the danger of glass bottles, I got worried about the glass bowls that I use for pouring offerings into. Like, really, it can happen. The next day, about twenty minutes after … Continue reading February 2023 Update
Teachers, Students, and Community: A Few Initial Thoughts
The title of this post is self-explanatory. Despite being a longer post (with section headers), it isn’t meant to be comprehensive, but part of an ongoing process to understand how people work and what it takes to develop a healthy baseline for thinking about both teachers and spiritual companions/friends. This post is going to combine … Continue reading Teachers, Students, and Community: A Few Initial Thoughts
Ara
Ara is a constellation in the southern hemisphere that is named for an incense censer or altar. In the myths, this is the altar where Zeus and his allies swore oaths to defeat the Titans. each vow the Gods speaka dart traveling, perfumingmaking an altar the contact spacethick murmurations of smoke omeningheld fast is the … Continue reading Ara
A Children’s Book with Plotinian Themes, Followed By Book Chatter
If you've been keeping up with my monthly updates, you may recall that I mentioned switching to the Calm meditation app from Headspace in part because the mini-dharma talks are at the end of the meditation time instead of at the beginning. I would get excited by the discourse in Headspace and not be able … Continue reading A Children’s Book with Plotinian Themes, Followed By Book Chatter
AI-generated passages to learn prayer-related Greek vocab
I've been using ChatGPT over the past week to supplement Duolingo's Modern Greek track, as one of the drawbacks of Duolingo is that it isn't that great at reinforcing or providing grammatical infrastructure scaffolding. (I love grammar.) It's also difficult for me to think about how words are actually spelled or where the accents are … Continue reading AI-generated passages to learn prayer-related Greek vocab
KALLISTI 