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I love polarity energy! I love the feel of it bouncing back and forth between two or more people. I even love solitary polarity workings, although I do a lot less of that. Polarity work is controversial these days. Many of us, of many different occult and Pagan paths, were taught that polarity is absolutely essential to magical work. We may also have been taught, though, that polarity is "gender polarity," and requires an entirely heteronormative view of the world. For that reason, polarity has a bad rap in many more inclusive corners of the occult community, and so a lot of people haven't really explored this energy, or have even actively rejected it. That's a shame, because when you ...
Divination is the manifestation of the human yearning to discern the seemingly indiscernible. The diviner attempts to forge a connection between themselves and the totality of the conscious multiverse of which they are a facet, using this connection to glimpse a wisdom beyond the current of conscious thought. This can be done using any number of the myriad tools designed across the ages for this purpose. Divinatory tools are catalysts, sparks to light the flame of intuition that represents a connection to the underlying thought pulse of divinity that comprises the interconnected network of being. Many divinatory tools have been devised throughout history, from throwing bones, to runes, to ...
The Tree of Life is depicted and mythologised through many different cultures. There are Trees of Life sheltering birds and animals in tapestries, carpets, and paintings. We think of Druidic groves, the World Tree, Ydraggsil; sometimes a tree is invoked as a method of passage between the upper, middle, and underworlds. Kabbalah's more staid glyph of the Tree of Life—ten (sometimes eleven) circles spaced in strict relationship to each other—doesn't come as close as these other examples to representing the emotional impact of an actual tree. Yet perhaps the two are not that far apart. Traditionally the Kabbalistic Tree of Life depicts the descent of the divine into the ...
Be honest: When you hear the word, "Qabala," what comes to mind? Hermetic Qabala is a spiritual framework for understanding ourselves and the universe, using a glyph called the Tree of Life. It has tons of practical, magickal uses, but it's not uncommon for someone to take a quick look at Qabala and decide it isn't for them, for any number of reasons. Many people see Qabala as an antiquated spiritual tool bogged down with undesirable concepts like patriarchy, hierarchy, and monotheism. But I'm one of those weirdos who started digging into Qabala early in my Pagan spiritual journey, and then just couldn't stop. From the moment I read my first Qabala book, The Witches Qabala by Ellen ...
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