The Next Stage of the Journey
Jan. 8th, 2008 07:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
qosThings have been in a deep/quiet stage recently. The "Watcher on the Threshold" tests seem to be over, but that means I'm entering a new phase of my work that hasn't been completely defined. It didn't seem right to just go back to doing what I'd done before. . . but I also didn't get any handwritten scrolls telling me what I'm supposed to do next. So I've been trying to keep gently on my current path and see what comes up.
One change I did make was to start my evening devotions earlier, to give me more time without compromising my sleep. Last night was the first time to do this, and I was richly rewarded with a helpful inner journey followed by the best contact I've had with LM in weeks.
My path has never been straightforward, and it's becoming more and more clear to me that I need a certain amount of complexity to keep from getting bored. The challenge is to choose the right variables and pursue them in a persistent, meaningful fashion, not just chase rabbits and end up with nothing to show for it but grass stains.
The journey last night reinforced that I do need to keep pursuing some of the same things I've been, but go on to new lessons: the Otherworld/faery work, the sacred sexuality, deepening my contact with LM, the work with Ereshkigal that touches most of the rest but also will expand more into the Ordeal Path. I also need to continue the hermetic work I started, to help add discipline and structure to my work with energy and spirit.
My inner guide also pointed out to me that I need to do more of my own brand of journeying. I've been working with teachers more faithfully than at any other time in my life, but I need to stay in touch with my own gifts. I need to be doing at least a couple of journeys a week: at least one on a weeknight and a longer one on the weekend. That's where I will be able to go deep and make the contacts I need to help guide the other work.
On top of this, I'm doing personal reflection and writing and "workshops" with Michael to prepare for teaching my class at Pantheacon, and I need to put together a book proposal (on the mysteries of Inanna and Ereshkigal) for a meeting with a publisher while I'm there.
One change I did make was to start my evening devotions earlier, to give me more time without compromising my sleep. Last night was the first time to do this, and I was richly rewarded with a helpful inner journey followed by the best contact I've had with LM in weeks.
My path has never been straightforward, and it's becoming more and more clear to me that I need a certain amount of complexity to keep from getting bored. The challenge is to choose the right variables and pursue them in a persistent, meaningful fashion, not just chase rabbits and end up with nothing to show for it but grass stains.
The journey last night reinforced that I do need to keep pursuing some of the same things I've been, but go on to new lessons: the Otherworld/faery work, the sacred sexuality, deepening my contact with LM, the work with Ereshkigal that touches most of the rest but also will expand more into the Ordeal Path. I also need to continue the hermetic work I started, to help add discipline and structure to my work with energy and spirit.
My inner guide also pointed out to me that I need to do more of my own brand of journeying. I've been working with teachers more faithfully than at any other time in my life, but I need to stay in touch with my own gifts. I need to be doing at least a couple of journeys a week: at least one on a weeknight and a longer one on the weekend. That's where I will be able to go deep and make the contacts I need to help guide the other work.
On top of this, I'm doing personal reflection and writing and "workshops" with Michael to prepare for teaching my class at Pantheacon, and I need to put together a book proposal (on the mysteries of Inanna and Ereshkigal) for a meeting with a publisher while I'm there.
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Date: 2008-01-08 07:15 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-01-08 06:50 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-01-08 07:08 pm (UTC)Oakmouse: Duck season!
CoS: Rabbit season!
Oakmouse: Duck season!
LM (grinning and licking lips): The wolf eats all of them!
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Date: 2008-01-08 07:19 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-01-09 02:50 am (UTC)I'm afraid that with the class preparation and the book proposal to write I don't have time to go trampin' about the highlands in search of elusive delicacies. . .
Yes. . . that's it.
*shudder. . . .
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Date: 2008-01-10 04:36 am (UTC)Me: If you've eaten liverwurst, you could handle haggis. It's sort of like liverwurst meatloaf.
(I'm sure that's just convinced you all to heck and gone, right? *g*)
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Date: 2008-01-10 04:50 am (UTC)Ye'd best be smiling when you say that, laddie.
It's sort of like liverwurst meatloaf.
This is supposed to entice me??
*looks around for some prime rib and pudding
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Date: 2008-01-10 04:57 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-01-10 04:57 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-01-09 01:47 am (UTC)That was a really scary thing at that point in my development, but I did learn and She can back to me later and said now that I had learned what She'd specified, She would be more hands-on again. I believe it was necessary for me to undergo that, but WOW was it a difficult time for me!
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Date: 2008-01-09 02:23 am (UTC)It always helps to know others have gone through the same thing.