psychology
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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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✨🕯️🌒 Beyond and Becoming: Transcendence & Transformation
There are moments on the path when the language itself asks to be listened to more carefully.Not because the words are complicated—but because they are alive. Two such words that often get braided together in spiritual spaces are transcendence and… Continue reading
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🪞 Historical Mirrors:
Simone Weil — When the Mirror Refuses Comfort Some mirrors do not reflect beauty.They do not reassure.They do not console. Some mirrors strip the soul bare. Simone Weil (1909–1943) was a philosopher, mystic, laborer, activist, and reluctant saint whose life… 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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🪞12/12 — The Mirror That Knows You
There are moments when time stops pretending it’s neutral. 12.12 is one of those moments. Not because it’s trendy.Not because it’s “lucky.”But because 12 is a language the psyche already speaks. Twelve zodiac signs circling consciousness.Twelve disciples as disciplined facets… Continue reading
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Neptune Stations Direct at 29° Pisces
The Last Breath of the Ocean Before the Fire There is a moment — just before dawn breaks — when the whole world holds its breath.Neptune stationing direct at 29° of Pisces, the final degree of the zodiac, feels exactly… Continue reading
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Mystic Mondays, Vol. 13
Persephone — The Descent, The Return, and The Self That Learns to Walk Between Every soul eventually meets Persephone. Not as a mythological figure —but as an interior presence. She is that part of us that learns:🌑 how to move… Continue reading
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Historical Mirrors, Vol. 18
Proclus of Athens — The Soul That Remembers Its Own Light There are thinkers whose minds become ladders — not merely across ideas, but between worlds. Proclus of Athens, the 5th-century Neoplatonist, mapped a cosmology of consciousness that did not… 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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🌑 Oracle & Lantern — Vol. 19
Grief at the Table: A Week of Thanks-Giving There are some seasons of life where “gratitude” doesn’t float easily off the tongue like the scents of cinnamon and clove. Sometimes the word catches in the throat, heavy with memory, thick… Continue reading
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