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Saturn, Shadow, and the Language of Synchronicity
Saturn at the Table 🕯️ If the horoscope is a council of gods, then Saturn sits among them as the most uncompromising elder. Cloaked in time, wielding the weight of limits, Saturn is both shadow and teacher. Jung’s psychology saw… Continue reading
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Between Two Eclipses — Virgo & Pisces
Oracle & Lantern, Vol. IX 🌑 The Liminal Bridge On Sept. 7th, we had a lunar eclipse in Piscis. On Sept. 21 we will be having a partial solar eclipse in Virgo… We are standing in a corridor of shadows,… Continue reading
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Mythic Mondays, Vol. II
The Threshold of Circe — Witch of the Liminal Shore 🌊 At the Edge of the Known There are times when we find ourselves lingering on the shoreline of our own lives — not yet crossing into what calls, not… Continue reading
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Sacred Procrastination: When Your Altar Collects More Dust Than Prayers
Sacred Snark Sunday, Vol. XII The Dusty Devotion Dilemma 🕯️✨ We’ve all been there. The altar is arranged, candles chosen with care, incense tucked in its little box like a spiritual soldier waiting for duty. And then… nothing. Days pass.… Continue reading
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The Pool, The Toad, and the White Figure
Dream Analysis Vol. II 🌒 Entering the Dream A recent dream carried me into an enclosed pool — clean, contained, and surprisingly inviting. Swimming became a vision of joy, even though in waking life such an act may feel distant.… Continue reading
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Mary Magdalene — The Exiled Gnosis
Historical Mirrors, Vol. XIII The Opening Thread There are figures who never leave history quietly. They slip between scripture and shadow, between the altar and the marketplace, carrying the tension of what the world would rather silence. Mary Magdalene has… Continue reading
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Jung, the I Ching, and the Archetypes That Speak Across Worlds
🌌 East Meets Depth When Richard Wilhelm first laid eyes on the I Ching in China, he did not see an exotic puzzle or a foreign curiosity. He saw a living oracle — a voice as ancient as the mountains,… Continue reading
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🌹🕯️Communal Mourning Oil — My Intention and Correspondences
I created this blend in response to today’s tragedies, not for my ancestors but for strangers whose lives — and the lives of those who loved them — were forever changed. These are the threads I chose to weave into… Continue reading
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🌿Threshold Tending
There are days when the heart feels heavy before the reason fully arrives. Tears rise unbidden, the body grows tired, and the spirit drifts toward stillness. Sometimes it’s the echo of yesterday’s weight, sometimes it’s the anticipation of tomorrow’s threshold.… Continue reading
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A Council of Gods Within: Jung, Astrology and the Mandala of the Soul
Gathered in the circle of stars, the gods take their places.Mars strikes the table,Venus opens her hands,Saturn weighs silence in his cloak of stone,while Pluto whispers beneath the breath of time.The Sun burns, the Moon reflects.And I, the listener, enter… Continue reading
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