I've gotten out of the habit of posting things on the commonplace book tag, mostly because — just after embarking on my read through Book 2 of Proclus' Timaeus commentary — I realized that the text was rapidly becoming so interconnected that posting things without people knowing the context could do more harm than good. … Continue reading A Quotation of Interest from Proclus’ Timaeus Commentary
Tag: polytheism
A Bullet Journal Follow-Up
This weekend, I did my bullet journal migration. You can read an earlier post for information about my planning process, as this post (mostly) contains images that display the end results of my process. Not all of my bullet journal pages are here — just the ones that seemed the most relevant to KALLISTI. The … Continue reading A Bullet Journal Follow-Up
Minimalism in Plato’s Phaedo
This week, I reread Plato's Phaedo for the first time since embarking on reading the Late Platonists. It was an entirely different reading experience from before to the point that I may have excitedly messaged my partner in an enormous paragraph or several about how delightful it was, and at one point, I got up … Continue reading Minimalism in Plato’s Phaedo
Bullet Journaling and the Gods
I started my current bullet journal on January 1, 2019. At the beginning of September, its pages will have run out. Starting a new volume excites me a lot, and I'm brainstorming the types of collections I can incorporate into my new journal and identifying others that were not effective in my last book. I … Continue reading Bullet Journaling and the Gods
Playing with Prosody
Yesterday night, I started reading Alfred Corn's The Poem's Heartbeat: A Manual of Prosody because I want to better my understanding of it. Similar to how I sleepwalked through grammar classes in school and relied on intuition until I learned how to conlang, most poetry I write finds its form via intuition, not crafting, with … Continue reading Playing with Prosody
How to Find a Patron God
For years now, in many communities — Reddit, private religious organization fora, Twitter, blog comments — one of the most common questions people ask is about finding a patron God. I have discussed this in other posts, and many other bloggers in NRM polytheisms have also contributed to the conversation. However, the "Just Do It" … Continue reading How to Find a Patron God
I’m Sharing a Divination Thing (it was community-focused)
The divination question was about self-improvement with a community focus. This post contains the divination results and a bit of commentary.
A Miscellany of Quotations — Proclus Discusses Prayer in Book II of the Timaeus Commentary
On Friday night, I hit the second large chunk of text (299.21-303.23) of Proclus' Timaeus commentary that deals with the theological meat that I really enjoy reading. This morning, while scrubbing dirty things in the kitchen, cleaning the shower with an Exciting New Eco-Friendly Scrub that Actually Works As Advertised (lol adulthood), and so on, … Continue reading A Miscellany of Quotations — Proclus Discusses Prayer in Book II of the Timaeus Commentary
Contemplating Aristonoos’ Compositions for Apollon and Hestia
For the past three days, I have been pondering a few lines from Aristonoos' paian to Apollon, written in a Delphic context, as translated by Furley and Bremer in Greek Hymns: Volume 1 – The Texts in Translation. (I put it in the Thargelia ritual.) The translators say that "Delphi awarded Aristonoos and his descendants … Continue reading Contemplating Aristonoos’ Compositions for Apollon and Hestia
