#circumambulation

[sitting-1n-silence]

Growing up one of my favorite biblical stories was the battle of Jericho. The idea that an army could tare down a city's walls by marching and blasting a trumpet amazed me. And it's an idea that has some spiritual wisdom to it, as circumambulation is a common ritual practice in various folk magic traditions.

I apply circumambulation to various types of magic, such as claiming/communing with land spirits, for protection work, to tare down other people's spiritual protections, and for building power. Claude LeCouteaux writes about this practice within history and folklore within his book The Tradition of Housespirits, which i highly recommend.

[inniave]

look what came in today!!

im obsessed

[twinsfawn]

SEVERED HEAD SYNDROME

[bizarrobrain]

"Four Teeth" by True Widow - From "Circumambulation" (2013)

[noosphe-re]

Consciously or unconsciously, all things are in motion, in ecstatic circumambulation.

Ahmed Salman

[didanawisgi]

“The circumambulation of the Ka-ba (cube) at Mecca is a symbolic ritual related to the concept of Squaring of the Circle.” - Robert Lawlor, Sacred Geometry: Philosophy and Practice

[harvestheart]

Circumambulation

At the center of the cross (X marks the spot) is the labyrinth. Walking the labyrinth is a ritual reflecting on the nonlinearity with which we circle the truth.

[seolf]

However, the question remains: why are we so intent on ferreting out and destroying the void, absence and death? Why this fantasy of expelling the dark matter, making everything visible, making it real, and forcibly expressing what has no desire to be expressed, forcibly exhuming the only things which ensure the continuity of the Nothing and of the secret? Why are we so lethally tempted into transparency, identity and existence at all costs? An unanswerable question. But perhaps this tendency to be done with all secrets has itself a secret purpose?

Baudrillard, Jean. (2012). Impossible Exchange. †16. via TUMBLR USER becuzitisbitter’s POST.