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🌌 The Star’s Lantern
Oracle & Lantern, Vol. X The night after collapse is the hardest to breathe. Dust still clings to the ribs, memory smolders, and silence feels too sharp to endure. And yet — if you lift your gaze — one light… Continue reading
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Inanna | Mythic Mondays Vol. III
Opening Invocation The gates creak open. One by one, the jewels and garments fall away. The Queen of Heaven descends, not as ornamented sovereign, but as stripped-bare soul. Inanna walks downward into shadow, into silence, into her sister’s domain —… Continue reading
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Hadewijch of Brabant: The Annihilating Fire 🔥🕯️
Historical Mirrors, Vol. XIV The Forgotten Mystic in a Time of Constraint 🌒 In the thirteenth century, when women’s voices were confined or quieted, a radical fire flickered in the Low Countries. Hadewijch of Brabant — Beguine, poet, and visionary… Continue reading
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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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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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🌿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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