Mystical on the Outside
I have been tossing around the idea of letting my external presentation be a reflection of my internal world. Though not my hair. I really don’t like when my hair gets too long.
Why? Partly, but not entirely, to attract clients for services such as astrology or tarot readings.
The deeper motivation is I have this desire to sync up my insides with my outsides.
I am always exploring ways to find ways into greater depths in the mystical realms. By living even the most mundane aspects of life in a deeply enchanted manner, for example.
What choices for outer appearances are available?
Clothes might be a start. Maybe a themed tee-shirt? Or some kind of subtle jewelry?
Coats are fun and useful on the windy PNW coast beach where I live. Not sure about a super long one like a duster. What do astrologers wear when beach combing? Or more generally modern professional occultists?
Then again clothes might not be the thing. Necklace? Bracelet? Ring? Rune inscriptions?
What am I putting into motion which can be shared? Not specific workings. What general energies and pathways I am exploring?
How am I directing energy moment by moment just living in society? Along those lines I am putting together what I call my Liminal Computer. No electronics. Tarot cards, astrology dice, wooden blocks and shapes, and other curiosities.
Things I can play with at a coffee shop. Strike up a conversation around.
Think I will start with jewelry of some kind. Subtlety has always proven powerful and effective.
I have a pair of black and silver dragon bracelets. Maybe?
AI and Curiosity
AI is a curious phenomena for me. Back in 2015 I took Stanford’s online course in Machine Learning. Found it fascinating in many ways. Lots of statistics and vast matrices doing massive amounts of calculations behind every task.
No doubt much more advanced now. But I suspect the basic idea is close enough to discuss today. A huge statistical pattern recognition and generation engine.
Which is how I see and treat the tool now. I use it to look for patterns in text using text and generating another pattern of text.
What AI doesn’t have though is very important. I saw mention of this somewhere a few days ago.
AI is not curious. Which is fascinating to consider. Where does it come from and what is the energy behind or which makes up curiosity?
I don’t pretend to know the answer to that question.
Curiosity as a force? Feeling into it? Flowing into it? Being of the energy called curious?
Definitely.
Benefits of Meditation
Took me three plus years of consistent daily meditation to get this benefit.
The ability to let go in a heated discussion.
I mean really let go. Not just back away holding on to my certainty of being right.
How meditation helped is the interesting bit.
In the style of meditation I am practicing I pick a theme and explore it. If I get sidetracked I follow the path back to my theme. Noticing the path taken to the distraction.
Which is what it feels like to notice my attachment in a conflict!
Meditation helped me learn how to find my way back to myself. With practice I barely take the first step and am back again. Most of the time.
Twin Flames on Quora
This morning I have been thinking about my experience writing on Quora. My writing was focused on answering questions about Twin Flames and Soulmates. Inspired by my own relationship experience, I shared my perspectives on what turned out to be quite the drama filled topic.
Apparently, this topic can drive views. On average I had around 4-5,000 views a week. Not setting any records but more people reading my writing than I had ever had before or since.
Even had my name in a Quora question about, as I recall, whether Twin Flames were real. Only had one “hate” mail. Someone berating me for not including my wife in my profile picture. Or maybe she was too pretty to be my Twin Flame. I forget.
I eventually deleted the account. In hindsight I might have created a more emotionally healthy business of some kind with that audience.
At the time I just couldn’t see myself diving into what appeared to be an endless river of dysfunction. If I were doing it over I see I could have probably switched my focus and kept some of my readers.
Natural Cycle Magick
My natal chart with the South Node in Scorpio 12th House and North Node in Taurus 6th House has me pondering my spiritual path. How to develop my practices in alignment with my chart?
So, this morning I have been thinking through natural cycles as a frame or symbol set for my magick and mystical practices.
Looking into alchemy was a recent inspiration along these lines. Yet, the refinement aspect of the art wasn’t really catching my interest.
What I liked was there were appearances of a cyclical process evident in alchemy. It just took me a few years to realize!
Follow your intuition. Yes, a big lesson. my intuitive practices were pretty much on target before I was unaware of more formal approaches to magic and mystic development. Energy sensitivity and facilitation practices pretty much constantly during daily life. Presence in nature being the foundation.
Now with some background in more formal occult systems another shift feels ready to happen. I’ve learned a bit about ritual and symbols and have developed a strong meditation practice. Might be time to bring all that into a new intuitive approach. From what I can tell I think this shift allows for a smooth integration of natural cycle based systems from the scale of astrology (and bigger) down into natural cycles of microorganisms. Including physics, new and old.
Whatever this turns out to be I am using the working title Natural Cycles Magick and Mysticism. Alright back to surfing the energy wave as I did in my youth! Kind of.