I No Longer Believe in Coincidence

After a very long time of pain, inertia, and frustration, I'm starting to see sudden movement in several places in my life, including a nice big income tax return just as my savings was starting to get perilously low, not one but two strong leads on jobs (a second interview on one and a call from a friend on another), new sacred sexuality energy in my life, creative work on the Ereshkigal devotional. . . even doing better helping Wolfling focus and follow through on her homework.

And the timing corresponds pretty strongly to my starting the Malkuth meditations in my Tree of Life studies.

Malkuth is the physical world, not just in the "pentacles" sense of body/house/job/money, but the entirety of the plane of physical existence. Any magical working (or any creative endeavor) begun or worked in the other planes must come into existence in (or at least have its energy come down the planes to impact in) Malkuth for it to be meaningful on the human level.

It feels as if the energy of my meditation is kick-starting several other areas of my life.

Now to keep focused and keep the meditation going in a consistent way as I enjoy/pursue all the unfolding goodness. . . !

Progress. . .

I'm finding that "progress" in my priestess studies manifests in a variety of ways. One of the most satisfying to a Queen of Swords like myself is realizing that I am comprehending a text which previously caused my eyes to cross.

My copy of John Michael Greer's Paths of Wisdom is falling apart from hard use, so I don't take it anywhere. Instead, I pulled my copy of William G. Gray's Ladder of Lights off my shelf this morning for lunch break reading, bracing myself for a serious challenge. The last time I tried to read this (at least six months ago, and possibly as long as a year), it was very slow going and I thought my head was going to explode from the sheer bulk of utterly alien concepts.

What a pleasant surprise to discover that the first two chapters now make perfect sense! I don't claim to fully understand all the concepts or their implications, but this book no longer reads like a foreign language. For example: I still have trouble remembering which of the four worlds has which name, but I *get* the four worlds and their differences. (Imperfectly, to be sure, but it's now part of my understanding.)

This is me doing my Queen of Swords happy dance!


(And if anyone can create an effective Queen-of-Swords-Happy-Dance icon you'll have my eternal gratitude and some kind of gift! Bonus points for animation. . . )

Sword Dance

Earlier today I made a slightly silly reference to a "Queen of Swords Happy Dance".

This isn't at all what I had in mind, but it's so beautiful that I had to share it.

I would love to be able to move like this.

And if you watch to the end, she proves that not only are the swords *not* merely ornamental, she knows how to use them for more than dancing.