Spring is here.
New year. New season. New cycle. New start.
Spirit of Aries, cardinal flame, I invite you to make your mark upon me, to empower and impassion, to see the possible as possible, to look at what is not and imagine what could be.
Xalki, caster, thank you for sharing space in your foundry. Your work is aspirational, your pieces a source of wonder. May my own efforts delight and inspire others as yours have touched me.

The Work Continues.

@literorrery Can I ask questions about some of the content here? :)

@indi Of course.

@literorrery So, "Xalki" sounds like it's referencing calcination, but here seems personified? I have found that there is a Hephaestus epithet "Χαλκεύς" which actually seems to refer to copper and now I'm just here boggling over the apparent similarity between that and calcine, even knowing the latter via calx and wondering if these are false cognates or there's just some strange deep PIE route between them.

@indi Xalki is... a personal goddess? So, at some point I should write this up in long form, but I had a pretty deep trip after reading a bunch of stuff about Greek myth and envisioned a trans narrative around Hephaestus -- maker of female forms, "disfigured," delicate soul with emotional trauma, artisan in ways other gods weren't, at the time -- that's been slowly reworking my ideas about the rest of the gods.

@literorrery Also, playing catch-up here (this post is what reminded me to talk about gods more broadly, since you reminded me here how much more coplex Hephaestus is than just 'forge-god' (as you clearly know too)) -- Remind me please sometime to tell you about one of the Wanderer-Gods I'm starting to learn about now, the Sculptor-of-Pieces. It sounds like there might be a lot of commonalities here.