"Devotions of Dance" – July 21, 2007

2007-7-21

Dance has always been one of my major disciplines, the devotional way in which I have accessed my magic. As I continued my studies at the Academy, I incorporated the elemental teachings into the motion arts. Here, I wove together natural mudras of primal substance, mixed into the akido, the capoeira and my own intuitive language of expression …

Every day I am practicing my divinations, using the triad of decks to investigate into the energies of my day, leaving the spreads upon the round table i’ve gathered that adorns the cul-de-sac of my kitchen.

Here, the various items on the walls created a natural grid, a field of cohesion where I could focus into my dance. On one wall I placed a glyph of the Sun, whilst on the other, the glyph of the Moon. Like so many other realms I had the fortune to live within, the Aerie had a circular design. One could flow into the kitchen and back around to the hearth, an endless spiral that formed the beginning of a game North and I would play called ‘Beast on the Bed, Beast on the Floor’.

Here, I invoked daily movements, training the various movements and forms I was studying and blending my dancing with the elemental magics I had always been intuiting throughout my life.

It was a relationship of space.  A way of organizing the flow of the elements through the sphere of energy that i'd been working with in my dancing ….

The Olympus agenda

I am deep in the dance-arts at this time, in my devotion to the Muse of Dance, where I go through my own olympian training, mixing the physical with the esoteric arts I am learning at the Academy. There is a deep sense of the elemental energies as they move through my being during the dance, of the qualities of the deva that shift and change in that sacred space. Through the dance, my grounding point to the earth plane, I feel the textures of my world move, the cohesion and coherence that is my goal just beginning to connect with the natural cycles of the plane of form.

At the time, I am also training with Travis Weaver, a dedicated artist of the physical form who is helping me to ground out my energies in the Earth plane.

Combat and Defense

At the time, I am deeply resolving my sense of combat with the world. The feeling that I must somehow defend myself in a hostile environment. On a subtle level, I realize there is much anger within me, that there is a desire to beat others in a vengeance for real and imagined slights. I wish another solution to this, which draws me to Sensei Jason House at the Matsubadoj, a sense of royal regiment manifest in the Kings Beach.

Characters

North

Travis Weaver