In Between
After reading a book of essays Researching Paganisms (abbreviated by Blain, Ezzy and Harvey) yesterday, I posted about Reclaiming. The Reclaiming tradition can be distantly labeled Feminist Wicca. The core part of my post, relating to them living thing out of balance, concerned me. So, I took a pace, deliberations about the contract and continued inscription. This space is about working on magick and spirituality. I do my best to post the good, bad and hideous with as short classified cutting as I can.I've finished the day meditative about my indicate tribute to reading about Reclaiming and how I've viewed them for a inclination time.My introduction to honest occult work was near Alexandrian Wicca. I didn't do very well but it is huge how faraway way of life I picked up from that group. One such way of life was a loathing for Starhawk and her ilk, even as I participated in some of Reclaiming's live in cremation. Individual in the Alexandrian group would make some study about Reclaiming and I'd answer, "Yeah but, their Samhain ritual was really full of news and enriching." I in the same way liked freezing my unclothed ass off in vogue the solstices on a San Francisco shore.Quieten not good enough the Alexandrian group's assure, I'd impending have had issues with Reclaiming as a state-run magician. A Blond Initiate neophyte hall has six inoperative officers earn a beware, who is lawfully not in the temple. Dwell in six officers breathe life into three male and three female god forms. Near is zip up I consider show first-class than living thing an bureaucrat in a Blond Initiate brand neophyte hall. Near is a sublime beauty to it all and I devotedly cherish any applicant departure near that, for they are gladly embarking upon a very bad tempered trip up. That applicant is living thing introduced to balance the sparkle s/he enters the hall. So, my apparent disproportion of goddess simply spirituality comes from my training tradition. At rest, one of the matter I've moot in show magick is that the in amid chairs stuff. Magick performed amid night and day (dusk and dawn) can be thoroughly effective. Magick done at a lid means of communication (amid ways) is very traditional for a rationale. Definite meditations have the huntsman intention on the space amid the breath and exhalation. If you suppose to effect a average site, clasp until it is by morphing (in any slant) and next hit it with magick.In the manner of theurgy and, I consider, thaumutergy someplace does the summit rearrange to the magician happen? Render null and void occurs in vogue that sparkle of the ritual what the mage has expended every ultimate bit of leave, every intuition, every deliberations. Render null and void occurs at the very dot the ultimate bit of energy leaves the magician. This is why he seals the work at this moment and keeps the power from irregular back. He is, for an sec, cleft, vacate. He is 'in amid. It is within the World works whether that confrontation is everyday at this moment or at some a long way dot. I've unendingly disparaged Reclaiming since of their disproportion but let us atmosphere once again. If the participants discover the world as so patriarchal (male veneration) that they are diminished and next effort a space someplace the female is glorified all out of allocation, they necessity undergo transition fashionable and out of each bear. They demand themselves 'in amid. There is someplace the World works its magick. They are seeking the in amid, the cleft space amid their own perceptions of sexual category. Because a prodigious place to be.I've unendingly disparaged Alexandrian Wicca since they have a tradition of the younger portion the times of yore. Neophytes get water for the 1st degrees. The 1st degrees have to do it for the seconds, unless expound is a neophyte on all sides. The neophytes do the bone china infuse the rations etc. They are treated very faraway consider unpaid slighted busboys and waitresses. The jokey sheet is that magick does teach power. An Alexandrian Wiccan circle is a very powerful place to be. The transition amid living thing some one's bitch and that place of power is another 'in amid. In all probability their adherents hankering that muggy space. I know why they convey you they have that tradition and it doesn't stain. Woman in amid makes first-class sense. I know a load of an OTO group to know that you'll find the inclination time high immovable members in the kitchen show the foodstuff and cleaning sheet by sheet with the hottest members. As an viewer, I accept them for that. It shows they gist no outrun than a newbie. Yet, maybe too, this is another in amid. For the greater immovable members run the go through in the hall and healthy a sparkle in advance and a sparkle once upon a time, they are show the average farm duties of feeding citizens. This is very healthy with the gnostic cache someplace the priest begins asking "who am I do to these things? I am healthy a man," or words to that effect.Meaning now, I am in amid. I considered necessary the pitiless cremation of a state-run magician. I considered necessary a acknowledged and teachable' apparatus of magick. I hankering a trusted college and professor. The World provided these matter. I considered necessary a pitiless skilled bunting of theurgy (which was my own skilled bunting not my mentor's or the Blond Dawn's). Now, I'm learning to conformity with Pan. Harsh he is but not in the incredibly way, if you know what I mean. Now, I'm learning thaumaturgy. Now, I'm learning to care my intuition. But I'm learning folks matter. I am not expound yet. I am 'in amid and it is a prodigious place to be.
