I want to write about my experiences with Dionysos and meadmaking.\u00a0 Which of course bring to mind my experiences with jewelry and Hephaestos, and with the upperworld journey that deposited me at the feet of Apollo \u2013 to our mutual surprise.\u00a0 I want to write about my experiments with my Kouros and Cycladic figures, and my attempts to reconcile my fundamental queerness with the archetypal Divine Masculine and Feminine.\u00a0 But, because I\u2019m crazy, I cannot tell these stories out of order.\u00a0 In order to tell these stories I must first tell about the first times I felt the direct hand of the divine.<\/p>\n
My first direct, personal contact was with a god I have yet to put a name to, in Thoth\u2019s Grove at Camp Gaea, on Beltane of 2009.\u00a0 There was a lot going on that night, apparitions the like of which I had never seen.\u00a0 But that touch in that grove \u2026 that was about me.\u00a0 I performed my dedication that night at his behest, utterly abandoning the ritual I had been planning and simply letting go.<\/p>\n
The next direct contact was late November of the same year: a Tree of Life meditation at a public workshop led me further down than it was intended to, into the den of the Magna Mater.\u00a0 She had been waiting for me.<\/p>\n
Each of these deserves a full post of its own, and will get one. But it\u2019s interesting to sit here for a moment, to look back through my journals, and recall \u2013 and in some ways realize for the first time \u2013 the way events in 2009 set so many changes into motion.\u00a0 My dedication.\u00a0 My initiation a year later.\u00a0 The Name I tried to give up and the Name I took tor replace it.\u00a0 The gods who have come into my life, the powers I have navigated and been transformed by.<\/p>\n
I am no longer the person who retreated from St. Louis, let alone the person who left Lawrence for St.L in the first place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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