Ritual Reflections is a hodgepodge of media, gathered intuitively and offered to you from the bottom of my mercurial heart.
Use what is here for creative inspiration, for entertainment purposes, or as a vehicle for synchronicity to enter your life. Regardless, I hope you enjoy!
Tarot tune
A song based on a tarot card, intended for use as guidance, inspiration, or for entertainment purposes.
Eight of Cups
Seeking ☆ Transition ☆ Pilgrimage ☆ Moving on
goodbye, my doll.
i’m gone, goodbye.
i found a chance to touch the sky.
and when i bore of bliss,
i will come down to you again.
and when i bore of suffering,
i’m gone, goodbye.
i’m gone.
If you enjoyed this week’s tarot tune, you might quite like the last Collective Message:
Theme song
A song I found particularly delightful and pertinent this week.
I remember this song from the Sound of Music, but I only recently discovered that it might not actually be the original version of the hymn; I can’t seem to find lyrics for it. Anyway—enjoy!
Quote
A quote that happened to strike a chord within me this week.
And so, the Christening and claim of the sacred lands of Kildare into the Christian era were completed by a pagan king in his anger trying to rid himself of his worrisome half-Christian, half-druid, and illegitimate daughter of his slave. So it goes! Lo to the man who forsakes the might of women.
- Jeremy Schewe, Aisling: Discovering Keys in the Irish-Celtic Mysteries
Ritual reflections
Magical musings, ritual ponderings, and personal stories from my very own heart.
I suppose this all really started three Februaries ago--with St. Brigid, who asked of me a very peculiar favour:
To be her voice.
Thank goodness I only took her half-seriously. Otherwise, I might have missed the true message.
To be her voice was to become one with her voice.
To become no-one but her voice.
To submit to the poetry within me, to weave words into spells that soothe and heal with their lilting cadence and evocative imagery.
I didn't know I would submit so fully. I didn't see it happening quite like this.
Oh, but I cannot say I didn't see it happening.
Since that fateful visitation, I have embarked on a path of seeking bardic wisdom across cultures, in the hopes that I can create containers for story, symbol, and soma to converge in delighted praise of the cosmic forces of creation.
What does bardic wisdom look like in the late capitalist, post-postmodern West?
What can we learn from looking behind us? What can we bring forwards?
What must be created anew?
These are the questions that guide me as I continue to faithfully and humbly serve the poetic voice of humanity.
I have great news, friends.
The opportunity to finally meet the soil which has inspired my mystical journey in no small amount has finally emerged.
It's been a long time coming.
I will be travelling to Ireland, to learn and walk and pray and sing to the holy soil with a group of multifaith pilgrims for 17 days next month.
8 of these days will be spent walking along an ancient pilgrim's path, walked in full for the first time since the Bronze Age by Jeremy Schewe and his dear ones only a few short months ago.
I'm requesting support from within and beyond my community.
I am calling on the fellow poets. The weirdos. The wanderers.
The ones who were taken by fairies but managed to come back with more than just a little magic for the rest of us.
I am calling on you to support this journey so that I can keep serving the poetic voice of humanity.
So that I can continue to serve you.
I leave in just over 6 weeks.
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Offerings
Talks, workshops, courses, and other ways to receive guidance or ritual support from me.
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Ritual Practise Mentorship
The dragonfly landed on my tent as if it had read my mind.
It had been wandering, my mind.
It had unravelled, gotten lost, danced in an asymmetrical spiral without knowledge of form or direction.
And then, from that chaos, a voice showed me the way toward a glimmer of truth.
“You don’t just shatter the mask. You see into the soul.”
The dragonfly represents illusion in some traditions—the illusions that can emerge when, as Vervaeke says, the same faculties that make you able to think creatively also put you at risk of self-deception.
As within, so without, as the Hermeticists say.
The way of the intuitive is not for the faint of heart.
There are many risks and very little trustworthy support. Without guidance, it can be downright dangerous.
That is why so many turn away from the path of the mystic.
But for those who ache to live fully and completely…
For those who cannot help but notice the intricate patterns of animacy woven into every fibre of reality…
For the poets, the creatives, the lovers, the dreamers…
There is no other way.
If you are unravelling, getting lost, dancing in an asymmetrical spiral without knowledge of form or direction…
I have two spaces available for magical mentorship.
One is the Seership Program. This is a space for your intuition to blossom and become refined through intimate study of six intuitively chosen tarot cards. We’ll dive deeply into the meaning of these cards through guided meditation, devotional practise, ritual design, and more. You can learn more about it here:
The other is for the Living Altar Mentorship. This will be a year-long plunge into the heart of emergent ritual theory and practise, designed with your unique devotional path in mind and carefully crafted to feed the animate forces that guide you. Learn more about that by booking an Insight Session with me.
These days, the chasm of yearning is coming alive in every human heart.
All you have to do to close the gap is take the leap.
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