Comments for The Alchemist's Garden http://herbalwitchcraft.com/blog Growing With the Spirits: Plants, Magic, and Spirituality Tue, 15 May 2012 14:13:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 Comment on Props by Alchemist in Charge http://herbalwitchcraft.com/blog/2012/05/07/props/comment-page-1/#comment-34984 Alchemist in Charge Tue, 15 May 2012 14:13:13 +0000 http://herbalwitchcraft.com/blog/?p=3009#comment-34984 Makes sense to me both of that image on the tarot card but also for me. Makes sense to me both of that image on the tarot card but also for me.

]]> Comment on Props by Apophrasz http://herbalwitchcraft.com/blog/2012/05/07/props/comment-page-1/#comment-34739 Apophrasz Tue, 15 May 2012 03:16:43 +0000 http://herbalwitchcraft.com/blog/?p=3009#comment-34739 I wouldn't feel sheepish about it - slow changes are always the most enduring, and the journey always winds up being at least as important, if not more so, than the end point in magick and alchemy. Sounds like the best part of the adventure is still ahead. Thank you for sharing this. BTW - I mentioned to the Missus that I told you about her weird wand. She encountered an entity in the borderline last night that encouraged her to add that, a well-crafted magickal prop not only has the artistic/intuitive appeal, but serves to focus the streams of free-flowing energy from the chattering, imitating Ape of Thoth to the Magus's willed manifestation (Ape overshadowing Magus as in Crowley's Atu I). Not sure I grasp this fully, but thought I'd pass it on. I wouldn’t feel sheepish about it – slow changes are always the most enduring, and the journey always winds up being at least as important, if not more so, than the end point in magick and alchemy. Sounds like the best part of the adventure is still ahead. Thank you for sharing this.

BTW – I mentioned to the Missus that I told you about her weird wand. She encountered an entity in the borderline last night that encouraged her to add that, a well-crafted magickal prop not only has the artistic/intuitive appeal, but serves to focus the streams of free-flowing energy from the chattering, imitating Ape of Thoth to the Magus’s willed manifestation (Ape overshadowing Magus as in Crowley’s Atu I). Not sure I grasp this fully, but thought I’d pass it on.

]]> Comment on Props by Alchemist in Charge http://herbalwitchcraft.com/blog/2012/05/07/props/comment-page-1/#comment-34543 Alchemist in Charge Sun, 13 May 2012 15:31:11 +0000 http://herbalwitchcraft.com/blog/?p=3009#comment-34543 I do think that things have come together for me lately. Part of it is I think that the spirit(s) that have been trying to contact me for some years now finally found a way to do it that works for me and vice versa. I feel that I can accept that as scary as they can sometimes be, they do not mean me harm--quite the contrary. I do feel like the choices in terms of color I have made for these objects are a way that I can honor the Familiar. I also feel that I have lost any ambivalence I had about the Saturn energy I began working with a few years ago. And all of these things together have I think resulted in my magical skills being enhanced. I have been having good luck with my talismans, for instance, but lately they have really been working very well for people. I have always had a problem with being scattered, energy going all over, falling down a million rabbit holes. That can be helpful in the end, but it does take a lot of time and energy. I feel like I have gotten to the place where I have the confidence to create my own magical practice based on what I have learned and my experience and the guidance and help of the spirits and the Familiar. It was a few years ago that I resolved to follow my own path instead of copying some other practice or joining a group, but although I felt this was right for me, I did not feel secure about it. Now I do. When I think about it, I do think that a lot of this has to do with Saturnian energy--for one thing, recognizing limits and determining one's own boundaries. I feel a little sheepish that it has taken me all this time to finally get to this point. But this too is a reflection of how I have done other things in my life--taking a long time to get close to the finish, and then sprinting. I do think that things have come together for me lately. Part of it is I think that the spirit(s) that have been trying to contact me for some years now finally found a way to do it that works for me and vice versa. I feel that I can accept that as scary as they can sometimes be, they do not mean me harm–quite the contrary. I do feel like the choices in terms of color I have made for these objects are a way that I can honor the Familiar. I also feel that I have lost any ambivalence I had about the Saturn energy I began working with a few years ago. And all of these things together have I think resulted in my magical skills being enhanced. I have been having good luck with my talismans, for instance, but lately they have really been working very well for people. I have always had a problem with being scattered, energy going all over, falling down a million rabbit holes. That can be helpful in the end, but it does take a lot of time and energy.

I feel like I have gotten to the place where I have the confidence to create my own magical practice based on what I have learned and my experience and the guidance and help of the spirits and the Familiar. It was a few years ago that I resolved to follow my own path instead of copying some other practice or joining a group, but although I felt this was right for me, I did not feel secure about it. Now I do. When I think about it, I do think that a lot of this has to do with Saturnian energy–for one thing, recognizing limits and determining one’s own boundaries.

I feel a little sheepish that it has taken me all this time to finally get to this point. But this too is a reflection of how I have done other things in my life–taking a long time to get close to the finish, and then sprinting.

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