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The collective conscious is incredibly drained. There are protesters all over the world fighting for their own rights and the rights of their human and non-human brethren.

Those of us that consider ourselves witches, those that pray, those that meditate, we could all be helping to replenish that energy by focusing on our intention on feeding strength to the collective -- using protesters as a focal point.

There is a reason we are all bogged down. Our energy is being pulled towards where it is needed, with or without our intentions attached. Let’s attach our intentions and make sure our power goes where it is most healing and productive, not damaging and destructive. 💛🌟🌟

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sometimes i gotta wonder if ancient prophets were having visions of the future and assuming they were visions of Hell itself

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Sometimes when i want to call upon my ancestors, there is hesitation because many of my ancestors were American, going back to the European invasion and genocide of the indigenous peoples here, where i still live. Some of them owned and trafficked human beings. Some of them were those trafficked human beings, against their will brought violently into a bloodline that rejected their very humanity. One of my grandfathers was married to the granddaughter of Matoaka before she passed away and he married my maternal ancestor.

It’s work.

My ancestors allowed their souls to become intimately entwined with darkness while also refusing to acknowledge that the darkness was not light. When i call upon them, it is not necessarily useful to do so for advice or comfort; when i call upon them, i am working to try to pull them back into the light, while knowing deeply that i am still affected by the darkness they have woven into our bloodline, with my own personal healing and my own confrontations with self.

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a houseful of half-empty cups with coffee grounds dusting the countertops and dreams unfolding like flannel sheets shaken into the wind and floating like so many seeds set adrift in an open sky that calls for us in all directions because the seed is the center and life expands outwards irrepressibly in directions we pretend to choose

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I have just finished reading the first volume of a four volume translation of the Hermetica, a collection of ancient Egyptian philosophies as re-written by slightly-less-ancient Greeks. In it, there is repeated mention of Agathodaemon as a representation of part of God (the over-arching idea so far is that god is all things, all things are created by god and with the material of god, and Destiny, Necessity, -- basically his will is played out by a hierarchy of his representatives that are also him because everything is him... anywayssss) which stuck in my mind as something/someone I wanted to look further into.

Looking further into it, Agathodaemon refers to a lot of things, but I think you can see all those things funneling downwards towards a specific center. A fragment of Egyptian alchemist writings attributed to Agathodaemon who created a particular type of poison. Interesting! Sometimes associated with the Egyptian god, Set. (Fella who cut up his brother Osiris for Isis to have to find and piece back together.)

Digging deeper, however, Agathos Daimon was a Roman gladiator whose epitaph reads: Agathos Daimon alias ‘Camel’, an Alexandrian, boxer, victor in Nemea. He died here in the stadion in the fight after promising Zeus either victory or death. Aged 35. Farewell.

Agathos Daimon was a common name for Alexandrians, it means “the good spirit” and Agathos Daimon was the serpent protector god of Alexandria.

What!

Digging further into that, the story is that when Alexandria was being built, a giant serpent already lived there and began eating the workers, causing them to live in fear. Alexander, when he heard of the disturbance, ordered the beast be hunted down and slain. Once that was done, he ordered a shrine to that beast be built as its mausoleum at the spot where it had been slain. When the shrine was completed, non-poisonous snakes poured forth from it. That is how the serpent figure became the god of Alexandria, where the texts of the Hermetica were originally likely written and spoken. When a snake entered an Alexandrian home, it was worshipped as a kindly protector of the home, driving out venomous creatures.

The snake drove out those with poisonous intentions. There are ancient letters telling of snakes leading Alexandrian bound travels through the featureless desert to their intended location; of a snake winding itself around the head of a deposed Alexandrian leader to protect its features from carrion activity; appearing in a fever dream to tell the dreamer the correct antidote for the poison which was killing them. Agathodaemon is invoked in surviving ancient texts being called “the Helper,” as whom “permitted [Isis] to rule in the entire Black Land,” “for whom all gods serve as body-guards.”

I truly believe that the ancient Greeks who translated these texts from Egyptian stripped away the importance of this particular name for the all encompassing good that is the source of all things, to the Hermetics. I also find it veeeeeeerrryyyy interesting that the religion that the Hermetics disliked and avoided speaking about, Christianity, turned the snake into a liar, when it is made very clear in ancient texts that snakes were very wildly and very specifically associated with Alexandrians and Egypt.