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peterfae posted an update 2 weeks ago
Talking to Bloom
Talking to Bloom on the Zoom call. Feeling the collaboration
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The Blessings of Story
Sharing a quick video (as I continue working on Akashi whilst sitting in my car outside the Ashley River Library aroun 12:30am and feeling the flush of Saga the Goddess of Story all around me ….
Feeling the strength of this Now, I invoke the akashic compass and am unsurprised by the reading, especially given the potency of Cassandra’s cards…
☉ Virgo · Summer“What are the chords around this moment of Story?”Full Moon · 100% lit32.96, -80.20
The ninth step on the path of earth can have an aspect of deep solitude, good works have paid off and there is well established achievement of the garden, yet the earth energy is so strong, there is a tendency to stay at home, and be within that place of comfort and strength, both literally and emotionally. Most of the energies along the path of Earth are ones which tend this way, and the ninth, with the power of three times three, can be a lonely space for all the lushness and success.Nine of Pentaclesdeep solitude, well established achievement
Plenty of house Cats are more comfortable outside; the wild is not far away in this domesticated species. It is questionable whether Cats have domesticated humans more then been domesticated. The Norwegian Forest Cat, and the Maine Coon, are both good examples of how this domesticated desert cat has traveled far and gone wild along with human society. The primary energy of the cat is the ability to pounce from rest, to be languid in one moment, and full of action in the next. Flexibility, Grace, self possession, Full of Purr, with the happy, owning the heart of happy in many ways, while also walking the paths of madness. Archetype of cat wears many colorful coats and holds strong associations the world round.Felis CatThe Pounce
One can be in a romance with life, with the world, and when we find someone to share that romance with, when two paths merge, if only for however limited a distance, into one there is a sweetness, a healing from separation, a world merging momentum. Contradictions resolve, things are both small and intimate and expansive beyond measure. Gateways of self and other can, do, open. Sometimes, everything changes, in an instant. For all the cynicisms, betrayals, and failures of romance, it is quite possibly the real reason that anything exists, at all.Romantic Partner -
peterfae posted an update 4 weeks ago
2026-8-21 - Queens, Kings & Prophets
I’m still reeling from the events of “There and Back Again – Return of the King”, the final episode of leaving New York and returning twenty-five years later with the realization and the proof of the subtle earth. Even writing into this personalized feed is re-settling (as compared to UN-settling :)), where all these ideas are flowing to me…
☉ Leo · Summer“what energies are best for moving forward with my Quest today?”First Quarter · 64% lit33.06, -80.53
The seventh step on the path of earth is made as work in the earth is ripe for harvest, and there is such an abundance that it is overwhelming, even exhausting. It's a bit out of balance, for all the glory of it. The work done and the work to do because of that. Work can gift more work, and sometimes it will feel like too much to handle. It is a time to pace yourself, pull up deep inner resources, or bring in help, for you might lose ground. There is the potential for waste, if this energy runs too long.Seven of Pentaclesripe for harvest, overwhelming abundance
Ram is a Stand Your Ground, Totemic animal of the Emperor, and a strongly Protective family energy. This is the ability to look out over the vista, provide grounding and guidance for family, even when the environment is steep. Pulling this card in a reading often means that you are on the right path, you are seeking a righteous way, you should stay the course.RamStanding Ground, for Self and Family
Fire, Water, Earth, Air and Ether, all have their part to play in clearing, in cleaning the layers of self. That which was purifying, can become toxic. To be alive is to consistently be using some of our energy to clean ourselves, our systems and spaces.Detoxification -
peterfae posted an update 5 weeks ago
5 weeks ago (edited)
Journey to NYC - Terry Tower
I’m lying on the couch in my mother’s apartment, where the sounds of the city hammer on my senses, simultaneously overstimulated and inspired by the events that happened yesterday (which i’ll have to do in a non-sequential post because that’s-what-is) when I returned to the towne I grew up in and had a deeply spiritual experience…
☉ Leo · Summer“What is the best way to work with the energies between me and my mother?”New Moon · 1% lit40.78, -73.94
11th step on this path is for the Youth of Water. Swirling depths of emotion, learning to navigate the flow, the ebb and eddy. Wading in the waters, might seem lost in the mysteries of the moment, pulled toward the Swamp. With cup of self cradled close and held out toward the world, in the mixing of it all. Sensitive, raw ability to realm walk and not always aware of it, can seem lost in a dream, floating and sinking and drawing others in while swimming far out to sea.Page of Cupsthe Youth of Water
Bear, perhaps because of its propensity to stand up on two legs, is one of the most anthropomorphized of animals. A strong association with earthly rich rewards, the mythology of Ursa Major and Minor. Star connection and the transcendence that goes with that. The hibernating in the cave, and the emerging from such. Bear is Strength, Retreat, and Return. Bear is an archetype that roams, in slightly or dramatically varied coats, through the history of many tribes of the world. There is a universality to the impression of bear on this earth and into the sky. There is nobility and deep genetic history. I lived in Tahoe for a couple decades. The kinds of black bears which roam the mountains and valleys near the lake are well known to me. They are varied, while most are a dark brown, some are cinnamon, golden, or light blond, they are majestic, yet can possess a near fairy-tale changeableness. I witnessed a cub once, play with a hula hoop I had left outside, getting it to roll and flip. I once startled a bear when I was running in a large coat, I was carrying large baskets on my arms; realized there was a bear there, when I heard fearful mulling, and looked up to see this significantly sized, mature bear running away from me, tail tucked. A little while later, as I went down the street, I saw the head of the same bear, standing on back legs, holding on to the back side of the house across the street. By all appearance, both hiding from me and looking out to see if the coast was clear. Once, I almost grabbed a young golden furred bear by the scruff, I thought it was the neighbor's dog, until she leaped onto the railing of my porch, and scampered off into the night.Bear
The substance of thought, the matter of mind, the fifth element, the home of logic, intention, emotion, and will. As with all elements of creation, there is a small part of each in each. Ether often is the unspoken, the too small to see, the subtle substance that holds when all else appears to disappear.Ether -
peterfae posted an update 5 weeks ago
5 weeks ago (edited)
Kingship, Childhood, Lotus
To be sorted ….
☉ Leo · Summer“What is the energy of the Quest for me right now?”New Moon · 0% lit40.80, -73.75
Bondage and blindness, often of a sexual nature. Sad but true, as 8 is the number of infinity, this is also the chain of abuse that is one of the most difficult to break, the kind that flows from chapter and story along the path of a life, to be hurt and hurt in kind, the reverberations of perversion, of the filth that can fill minds, in traps both seen and unseen. It speaks to society's tendency to disbelieve and thus ignore victims, and the individual's ability to deny the horrific. It is that which is locked in the darkness. The eighth step in the dance of swords is one that loops back in bondage on itself, offering warning of this prison of tightly wound repetitive pattern.Eight of Swordsbondage and blindness
I had an opportunity to travel through Yellowstone on a journey to the east coast, early spring, mid-morning and traffic was very slow, rounded a corner and there, sharing the road, was the local herd of American Bison making their way, in near single file, crisscrossing around and with the cars. The cars rolled at a slower speed then the strolling groups; they looked a bit like tourists themselves, groups of adults and juveniles, including a few recently born calves. I felt escorted in a grand procession, gifted with the miraculous continuation of their line. The greatness of their beingness with the land, one from the arctic circle to the Rio Grande, from California to New York. Range, with deep integration with feminine earth, yin and Gaian forces, balanced by strong mainline. The bison of North America hold sacred space as few other animals in the world, they are connection to source, they walk the path of divinity, as the cow is sacred in many cultures of the old world, this cousin is in its wild way.BuffaloAbundance, Faith
Everything we have, has us; negotiating that truth from the aspects and directions, is part of the Gift, regardless of what we do with that.The Gift -
peterfae posted an update 5 weeks ago
5 weeks ago (edited)
Considerations
There are many times i’ve questioned what i’m doing with the Mythica. And … there have been many times i’ve simply known – recognized that what I was doing had global and holy intent.
Really, it’s the nature of the difference. When things are in light, when things are in darkness. When we can see, and when we cannot. And in this is…
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peterfae posted an update 5 weeks ago
5 weeks ago (edited)
Journey to NYC - Saturday Morning
Recognitions flood through my awareness as I sit up in the bed and breathe deeply into the body. The sense that I am not the doer, that the very sense of self-identification with the process of being is what generates more karmic substance, is clear. It was not “me” that built the plugins, that moved through the field, that has acted as a witness and proof of the akasha, though I experienced the actions.
The fear hits just as I awaken, coming alongside a clarity at the very heart of my question and discontent with the fluctuant conditions of my consciousness and the forced necessity of inner work, and I actively, consciously breathe into the body, dropping the locus of focus into the belly and the root.
It is not a feeling of happiness. Nor one of contented resolve. There is the realization that “I” am just an extension of the Divine consciousness, but without the bliss usually associated with that revelation, producing a massive feeling of existential frustration, longing for basic human comforts and companionship whilst continuing to wonder why I was created and what grounded purpose it serves in the world.
This doesn’t disrespect the work that i’ve done, it doesn’t take away from the idea that I have built a way of seeing the unity, seeing how our karmic substance causes us to occur in each other’s stories and how such things are part of the planet - it simply clarifies the question of how this vantage on the subtle earth will make it to the people and help facilitate the understanding of that unity in a way that is of service, proving to myself and others that we have not been forsaken to the destiny of mere cogs in the machine, that there is mercy and support for the experience of being mortal, albeit trapped within the causal substance of that which is and it’s sharp view on the idea of personal will.
Yet this brings up the question - While such is the attainment itself, how does it speak to the nature of desire? To the people’s want for some process or technique that will help them attain their desires? For that matter, how does *my* desire for joyfulness and creativity, for collaboration and connection, be fulfilled? What is the functional purpose to the recognition of our unity which supports me in my longing for companionship and creativity?
I don’t know. And the repetition of it’s unanswered question is torturous. While I have created something which can show the people how we are connected, what my heart longs for is a simplicity of life with a loving companion, a way to publish and present which affords me the time and space to enjoy what time on earth I have left.
As a note on the quest, when I meditated this morning I moved the locus of focus into my body, recognizing that the mind is madness, and breathed deeply, shifting my focus out of that swirl of repetitive thoughts, past the vritti of a fluctuant mind, in an effort to find sanctuary from the nature of existence itself. In this, at the least, I feel a new dawning, a new willingness to engage the processes, yet I confess I have yet to feel the torque of what shall transform my conditions into something more palatable, it is a new investigation married to the timeline of my descension into this plane and it’s marketplace of madness, trying to find ways to change what is with a certainty I do not feel.
☉ Leo · Summer“What energies will be most effective in integraing what I have realized this morning?”Waning Crescent · 23% lit
Fifth step on the path of earth is an imbalance point, a place of need. It is the energy of someone requiring outside help in order to proceed. Sometimes, no matter how much we hold ourselves, feed our fire, and survive in the cold mountains, it is not enough to overcome the trial, help is needed, and it is there. There is a light shining from the mountain in the distance, and from the skies above this rock, the clouds are parting, there is a supportive universe. Help will find us. One of the keys to this energy is seeing and receiving when we are the one in need, and holding that energy for others where and when we can. This will lead us all through the difficult places, back into balance.Five of Pentaclesa place of need
Fox and I came into opposition when I sunk into the land, and I chose to dig in deep, and collected many wheel barrows full of rocks to protect the chickens with, lest they be successful in their dig. I sussed out their den, and took rocks from that pile to build a low wall around the chicken run. And while I felt the archetype of it, it was just a day of exhausting work in the heat that I chose to do. I loved both the chickens for their sweet little peckish souls, and for the eggs they gave, though I did not hate the fox: I trusted they could live without my chickens for dinner. Being both a farmer, and a shaman, has it's moments of contradiction. Fox has many strengths, one of the smallest of predators, yet by no means weak: the scream of a fox in heat is at first easily mistaken for a banshee or a large wild cat. Fox is not to be trifled with, persistent, cunning, trickster, red runner of the cold, the high, the wet, and the deep places. Embrace your foxy power, and own the vulpine smile. You are desirable, sly, and a survivor, warm in the cold, creative, playful, transformative.FoxSeen and Unseen
The longest of days, the most intense power of radiant sunlight, the least night, the least shadow. The summer solstice is the apex of productive solar power, and the tipping point where days begin to shorten. There is fullness, a ripeness, even an overload in the fullness of the cup of heat and light that is this season. And there is the power of opposite pulls, of the apex being the beginning of a fall, that there is a shadow side even to the brightest of lights.Summer Solstice
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peterfae posted an update 5 weeks ago
Meanwhile - At the Temple ...
So many things come into my consideration.
Earlier tonight I shared with Niekko Chin what i’d done, quickly running over the Akashi, Haven and my own spellwork of consciously, intentionally documenting my story in an attempt to get a grip on the flickering nature of my mind.
There was such meaning in this. For years, Niekko has been telling me I…
☉ Leo · Summer“Where do I stand on the Quest with Niekko in our alliance?”Waning Crescent · 27% lit
The Hierophant has made deep formal study of spiritual truths, and has obtained a place of gravitas that is comparable to any that can sit a throne. This Seat is for a keeper of the sacred wisdoms that have passed down through the ages. It is a strongly masculine configuration, even when a woman obtains it. The Hierophant wears the crowns of transcendental truths. Even if they have not stepped with ease through all the doorways of working with the energies as other archetypes have, the windows are there, there is understanding of many paths. Just as the 5th card in the minor Arcana represent a tipping point, where things can become imbalanced, the Hierophant can fall into hypocrisy, because they know they know, and so, when they are wrong, it can be a fall from grace. In many ways, the first six cards of the Major Arcana are a group of story arcs that loop together. The sixth is a new pathway meeting up with the rainbow road.The Hierophantthe seat of passed-down wisdom
One of the lessons my father imparted to me, was never to mess with a Badger. He showed me a scar he had on his hand where he almost lost his thumb as a boy: he liked to chase rabbits, he was good at it, and could sometimes catch them; he was chasing one that he thought had gone down a hole, but when he thrust his hand in, it was Badger that let him know his error. In Zunis Traditions, it is Badger that brings protection and healing, in Pueblo tribes, badgers are considered one of the six directional guardians, their place is the south, of the spirit. Healing of the body is the surface manifestation of illness, it is healing the spirit which stops illness from gaining a hold. To quote the Wheel of Time, the best Healers are also the best killers. Balanced Badger is a totemic energy of aggressiveness that accomplishes, it is grounded and ferocious when cornered. Get deep in Badger aspect, and miracle healing can become your everyday practice.BadgerAggressive Healing
The explosive potential of pressurized earth, becoming molten and gaseous, power of destruction and creation, unpredictable, essential to a living planet, something is moving under the surface, and the pressure may be realized in fire, explosion, and ash.Volcano Volatility -
peterfae posted an update 5 weeks ago
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Journey to NYC - Part 6 - Yesterday and Tomorrow
It’s the dawn that strikes me. A set of golden glowing streetlights coming online at the same time as the dawning Sun, where the shadow melt away and I remember once again that I am in a state of completion, cycling back to the city of my birth with the map to the subtle earth that I set out to discover and bring back to the people 24…
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peterfae posted an update 5 weeks ago
Journey to NYC - Part 5 - Traveling the Aka
I sleep multiple times on the journey, witnessing my mind flickering from elation to depression, from inspiration to desperation, moving across a flurry of shadows and bright, and resolve to record it in this scrolling feed, to clarify it, to see it and hold it in my gaze in the hopes of shifting it at last. As I do, a vision comes to me, a…
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