Woo; Describing My Practice (1)
It occurs to me that I haven't talked much about my actual practice so much as the /status/ of my practice on here, initially because everything was very early and rudimentary and not fully formed. I believe enough of the contours of my practice are defined now that I can feel comfortable starting to talk in more depth about the work I've been doing.
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On the side of internal entity work, I presently have two 'advisors', constructed (from my psychologicalist perspective; YMMV on whether they're constructed) internal characters whom I can both bounce conversations off of and assume the role of for the purposes of doing Work; entering states of mind and reframing problems I'm working on. Their names are Selena and Andromeda.
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My attempts to lay a foundation are still frought, but some signal is starting to come through in the noise.
My fixation on the suit of swords in tarot, particularly the court cards.
How I glow when @KoBunny tells me I'm aligned with the element of air, intellect and reason.
How the tale of Odin crucifying himself on Yggdrasil to learn the secrets of rune magic fascinates me.
How I frame my own secularism as personal truth at the cost of comfort. A choice.
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How, when studying the history of tarot cards, I sidetrack into thoughts about the printing press, and rather than seeing it as evil intrusive industralization, I regard the proliferation of knowledge and literacy to the masses and breaking the elite's monopoly on such as being a borderline sacred act.
The fact that I associate with a student archetype so much that I'm giving -myself- assignments.
Even my dabbling in technomancy as part of my exploration.
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I could go on. There seems to be some notion of knowledge and the empowerment through it as sacred, intrinsically valuable, personally resonant. I haven't even gotten into the themes present in Andromeda's character narrative which also run with the same colours.
What it 'means', I'm not all the way there yet. But the angles of fixation are increasingly obvious the more I do foundational Work.
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It's not the whole of my practice, of course. There's work involving emotional states and pathos. Selena in particular is suited to that task. There's the whole tarot practice as well.
There's some notion that the work must both have internal components, but affect the outside world. Perhaps through behavior in the form of basing the foundations in particular virtues or values.
I study further, and continue to explore what it means to be me.
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@MagentaForge very interesting thoughts, which spark more thoughts for me. thank you for sharing them!
Woo; Describing My Practice (2)
A lot of the work I've been doing thus far has been internal entity work, glyph work, and refining elements of practice. Along the way, I've had to examine, re-examine, and interrogate my base views of reality in a way that, while difficult, has also been refreshingly honest. Nothing like putting your beliefs in a crucible to see what comes out strongest.