"The Stone Steps" – July 26, 2007

2007-7-26

2007-7-26

Lady Ash and I climb the mountain together. Everything is an act of magic. Of movement through the realms of the akasha. Where our journey along the surface plane is the expression of something much deeper.

There is such deep magic when Evon and I travel together through the realms. Our shared apprenticeship grants the privilege of conversation about the magic, about our constant divination of the movements through the realms, and more.

We stop to bathe and cool ourselves in the running Water. Since the initiations of the misogi invocation and the teachings of the Academy, my relationship with Water has crystallized, the raw knowingness that had always defined me finding a more grounded practicality.

As she bathes herself in the running waters, I see their energies flowing through her, filling her tendons and muscles, balancing out the energies within her form.

For she carries the rainbow in her hands. Embodying the aspect of the Divine Mother and brave adventurer. My respect for Evon is so deep in these moments, appreciating the way in which she handles the aspects of the Earth plane that are so difficult for me to digest.

Magic within the incarnate plane is just that, within the incarnate. Where every small action, every movement, every intention and effort we make is part of our journey across the physical plane. As I walk along the edges of the wood and the water, I move through the very subtle elements of my own self. My own reflection from the substance of the Creation.

It is always a mythopoetic landscape. It is only our vantage on that which changes, ripples in the water of our wonder.

The voices of the deva call out to me as North and I reach the each of a granite overhang, the vibrations of their endless memory moving through the space …

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