I\u2019ve been fighting illness since before I came to Indiana.\u00a0 Sinus infections from stress and working twelve hour shifts in the mall and sucking polishing compound.\u00a0 Seasonal allergies and the freshmen plagues that come with life at any school and doubly at a residential campus.\u00a0 The restless sleep that comes from uprooting my base of power and trying to form a relationship with a new place.\u00a0 The inevitable weakness that comes from loneliness.<\/p>\n
Witchcraft draws its power from the here and the now and from relationships with the flesh and blood and bone of the corporeal world.\u00a0 From what I\u2019ve read and done so far, ceremonial magick seems focused on separating oneself from that world \u2013 the king is not a part of the kingdom, he is above it; to be at the center of the universe is to be separate from it.<\/p>\n
I was sick as fuck, bedridden for a day, after performing the LBRP two days in a row.<\/p>\n
Am I working against myself?\u00a0 Are my ceremonial experiments undermining my attempts at integrating myself here?\u00a0 Or is this a manifestation of what Frater Acher is talking about<\/a>?\u00a0 That in order for the work I\u2019m doing to make me strong and rooted and integrated, I must first be weak, disconnected, and adrift?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I\u2019ve been fighting illness since before I came to Indiana.\u00a0 Sinus infections from stress and working twelve hour shifts in the mall and sucking polishing compound.\u00a0 Seasonal allergies and the freshmen plagues that come with life at any school and doubly at a residential campus.\u00a0 The restless sleep that comes from uprooting my base of … 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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-witchcraft"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8kUcm-1s","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90","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=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}