{"id":1150,"date":"2013-09-11T14:49:59","date_gmt":"2013-09-11T19:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.wordpress.com\/?p=1150"},"modified":"2013-09-11T14:49:59","modified_gmt":"2013-09-11T19:49:59","slug":"a-pause-for-reflection-before-i-continue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/2013\/09\/11\/a-pause-for-reflection-before-i-continue\/","title":{"rendered":"A Pause for Reflection Before I Continue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been lying fallow since coming back from the epic road trip with Aradia.&nbsp; I managed to put down an awful lot of things that I don\u2019t really need while I was out there in the quiet, and I\u2019ve pointedly avoided picking back up the mantle of power that I left here in the Sunrise Temple when I set out for Kansas City at the beginning of the summer.&nbsp; I\u2019ve been honoring my gods, feeding my familiar spirits, and mostly working on getting caught up on my sleep while some things work their way through my subconscious.<\/p>\n<p>The ceremonial experiment is officially over.&nbsp; I am delighted that I can now claim conjuration among my magical skills, and the relationships I have developed with planetary powers will benefit me for the rest of my life, but neither the Tree of Life nor the Seven Spheres will ever serve me as a cosmological map.&nbsp; The emphasis on fatherhood and kingship gives me the heeby-jeebies.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>As I mentioned over on tumblr earlier, I\u2019m working on a chapbook with the results of those experiments.&nbsp; Hopefully others will find that useful, and take the results to places I have never even imagined.&nbsp; I meant to have it ready to proof before the school year started, but that didn\u2019t happen.&nbsp; It will be free.<\/p>\n<p>Project Null is still on the back burner.&nbsp; The do-what-works philosophy of Chaos Magick has pretty much integrated itself into my life, but I\u2019m not really at a point right now\u2014as I begin my senior year of college\u2014where I can risk blowing up my life FOR SCIENCE!<\/p>\n<p>As I work my way through my senior year, as I begin seriously putting my spritual practice back together after everything that\u2019s gone right and wrong with my magical experiments of the last two years, and as I prepare to uproot myself from the Temple I have established here at college, there\u2019s going to be some changes on the blog.&nbsp; Hopefully those changes will include more frequent and more thoughtful posts, but I sadly can\u2019t guarantee that.&nbsp; There will definitely be cosmetic changes.&nbsp; There may be services offered.&nbsp; There will definitely be (occasional) plugs for donations: I\u2019m trying to go abroad, and that costs money.<\/p>\n<p>There will be experiments and failures.&nbsp; I hope you all will stick around with me through the growing pains.<\/p>\n<p>PAX LVX ET LAETUS FUTUENS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been lying fallow since coming back from the epic road trip with Aradia.&nbsp; I managed to put down an awful lot of things that I don\u2019t really need while I was out there in the quiet, and I\u2019ve pointedly avoided picking back up the mantle of power that I left here in the Sunrise &hellip; <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/2013\/09\/11\/a-pause-for-reflection-before-i-continue\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8kUcm-iy","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}