glitchedpup replied to your post: Do Magick: Day 15 – Pivot
Patron saint of necromancers and witches… Huh. Well you certainly do follow a theme. *smile*
I try to avoid themes, actually. Part of why it took me so long to accept the imagery of the corvid for myself is because of how cliché it is. I side eye bandwagons. I ignore “That happened to me, too” chains.
St. Cyprian has been riding the popularity circuit through my twice and thrice removed connections for almost a year now. And up until this morning, I have successfully avoided any first degree or personal entanglement. Mostly because of said commandment that I still have not been able to source.
It’s not even a “Cyprian is the devil’s man” kind of bullshit that I would expect from the cults I was involved in. This is a much more personal and specialized prohibition. “Cyprian will rewrite your head and you will never be disentangled from the occult.” If this seed was planted during the cult years, then I am not surprised I freaked out like I did. Deep fear is very fucking deep.
But... I’m already hip deep in the occult, and my experiences means I’ll never be disentangled from the occult because even waking up in the morning into a vision can be a mystical experience for me. (And that’s before coffee!) Shit, even going to Mass is an occult experience for me. (The shimmer was there this week.)
If I have a theme, it is Madness™. Granted, on the other side of the bell curve (at last), but that’s the defining thread of my life. But to be “Of course, it’s Cyprian. You are X therefore Y.” Ah... no. It’s not. And I am bothered.