The true warfare with the Giants takes place in souls: whenever reason and intellect rule in them, the goods of the Olympians and Athena prevail, and the entire life is kingly and philosophical; but whenever the passions reign, or in general the worse and earth-born elements, then the constitution within them is tyranny. Proclus, Commentary … Continue reading Internalizing Externals and Fighting One’s Way Out
Soul’s Inner Statues Live Beta
Since late November, I have been working on The Soul's Inner Statues in GitHub, a project that is meant to supersede many pages on this blog about developing a practice that celebrates many Gods. It is written for anyone getting started with a practice, and it combines practical advice with grounding in (to be honest, … Continue reading Soul’s Inner Statues Live Beta
For Athene
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
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
Looking Back at January
As I write this, snow is making dappled patterns on my windows as clumps catch in the screen while the wind blows and heaves outside. It's an exciting close to a month that has gone well, a time of renewed and deepening connections to the Gods, and a time in which I have honed in … Continue reading Looking Back at January
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