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Scenes from #TROE2019
Alder: I don't know if I should use the crème brulée torch to light the ancestor candle.
Rocket: You DEFINITELY should use the crème brulée torch to light the ancestor candle.
Alder: If I have to go to the ER, that does not simplify this ritual.
Thinking this evening about using kabbalistic structures to write poems that are also incantations that are also "evra kedavra," I create as I speak, the way that naming things in the right language is synonymous with creating them. If I can name the mill, I can create the mill. All any Oracle has ever told me is that my part to play rides on wordsmithing. If I can name the mill, I can create the mill. Shit, I have a lot of research to do in the next eight days.
Dea Magna, Dea Cybebe, Dea Domina Dindymi, procul a mea tuus sit furor omnis, era, domo: alios age incitatos, alios age rabidos.
Catullus 63.91-93
Though we're both really unsure of how to go about being practically dedicated to a deity, I think it's an important step for me to give thanks to my Lady Cybele for the timely fashion in which my life and my Brother's life have intersected. This would be so much less okay if I didn't have them by my side.
I really want to tell Fae Trouble about how bad-ass Pepper was in Iron Man 3 but I don't want to spoil the movie for her. Dilemma. (Also, the resolution of our concern about 'The Mandarin' was actually pretty clever and hilarious. Obvy it's not up to me whether it's racist or not but it definitely seemed to me like the best way that character could have ended up being handled.)
Semper fac puer esse velis.
Ovid describing Attis's devotion to the Goddess Cybele
Read Tarot with the Captain tonight. I asked how I can best become receptive to what Cybele is trying to teach me. The answer seems to be: you have lost a lot and you are afraid of losing more. You are feeling broken and ashamed, but healing will come when you stop trying to find it in a book and work on integration, service, and self-care. Your woo brunch family is behind you and when you feel hope for wholeness and traveling forward, your path will be illuminated.
The most vivid dreams that reocurred over and over were of an enormous, larger-than-life beautiful woman dressed mostly in white robes. In those dreams She comforted me, told me things I could never quite remember upon waking, but those dreams were incredibly peaceful and soothing and had a profound effect on me. Today I know that is the traditional way She calls Her [children.]
Cathryn Platine, head of the living temple and abbey of Cybele, interviewed in Hermaphrodeities: The Transgender Spirituality Workbook by Raven Kaldera
