A Council of Gods within
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🌒 When Wisdom Kneels
Reading the Gospel of Thomas as an Initiation There are texts you study…and then there are texts that quietly begin studying you. The Gospel of Thomas feels like the latter for me. Not a gospel in the sense of doctrine… Continue reading
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🌑 When Healing Changes the Field ✨
For a long time, I believed certain patterns in my life were simply fate. The same relational dynamics.The same sense of obligation.The same quiet pressure to manage, appease, and anticipate others — even when it cost me my own center.… Continue reading
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👩🏼🏫Proof Enough for Me
🪞A Reflection on Meaning, Metaphysics, and the Human Middle I don’t dismiss the metaphysical. I don’t dismiss symbols, synchronicities, or moments that feel quietly charged with something more. They have woven themselves too intimately into my lived experience for me… Continue reading
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🔥 Sacred Fire vs. Performative Fire
Discerning the Flame in an Initiatory Time There is a great deal of talk right now about fire—about desire, will, embodiment, courage, initiation. Much of it is sincere. Some of it is necessary. And some of it, if we’re honest,… Continue reading
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From Covenant to Consciousness
On the Evolution of the Divine Image ✨📜🕯️ There comes a moment on any sincere spiritual path when the old questions no longer suffice. Not “What does this text say?”But “What kind of consciousness does this text arise from?”And perhaps… Continue reading
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✨🕯️Sacred Counterparts: Marguerite Porete & Jakob Böhme 🔥🌑
There are mystics who speak about God.And then there are mystics who speak from inside the rupture where language fails. Marguerite Porete and Jakob Böhme never met, never read one another, and never belonged to the same spiritual moment —… Continue reading
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Mythic Mondays: Odin: The Masculine Who Kneels to Know 🐦⬛🗝️
When we speak of the masculine in myth, we’re often handed a narrow script: conquest, dominance, certainty, the hero who never doubts. But Odin—the All-Father, the Wanderer, the one-eyed god of wisdom—fractures that story completely. Odin is not powerful because… Continue reading
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Ereshkigal: Queen of the Unlit Truths
🌑 Mythic Mondays There are goddesses who guide us toward the light—and then there are those who wait for us when the light fails. Ereshkigal does not chase, persuade, or rescue.She receives. In the ancient Sumerian imagination, Ereshkigal is the… Continue reading
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Theos: A Small Word With a Vast Horizon
For a word so ancient, theos still trembles with relevance. ✨ In Greek, theos simply means god—but the nuance reaches far beyond a single definition. Rather than pointing to a rigid, monolithic deity, the Greek use of theos emerged from… Continue reading
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🔱 Council of Gods Within — Vol. 5
Juno: Keeper of Sacred Vows, Guardian of the Bound Heart We often speak of love as though it is simply a feeling —the warmth of affection, the spark of romance,the intoxication of attraction. But there is a deeper current —a… Continue reading
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