Tag: spirituality

Zinnig Wandelen in Amsterdam Noord – inleiding

Zinnig Wandelen in Amsterdam Noord – inleiding


‘We ontdekken de mooiste plekjes van Amsterdam Noord (en omgeving) tijdens deze meditatieve wandelingen. We overdenken een thema dat past bij het seizoen, van loslaten tot in bloei komen’

zie: Stiltewandelingen

Aansluitend op deze publicatie van Zinnig Noord, brainstorm ik opnieuw over Zinnig Wandelen.

Ik onderzoek de manier waarop wandelen heilzaam kan zijn voor lichaam en geest.
Zomaar wat zegswijzen die ik tegenkom:
‘Even wandelen, de benen strekken, het hoofd leegmaken’
Als ik echt in volle bewustzijn kan wandelen, dan kan ik mijn eigen lijf en tevens mijn omgeving goed ervaren, mijn relatie met mezelf en mijn omgeving verbeteren.
Als ik dit ook met anderen in dezelfde intentie kan doen, versterken we elkaars aandacht en aanwezigheid!

zie: Wandelen in schoonheid

In neopaganistische kringen is het vrij gebruikelijk om de seizoensrituelen te vieren:

De Lente-equinox (omstreeks 21 maart)
Equinox: de dag is net zo lang als de nacht.
Lente: Vanaf dit punt worden de dagen langer dan de nachten
We vieren de definitieve doorbraak van het licht.
Thema: nieuwe bloei van het leven.

De Zomerzonnewende (omstreeks 21 juni)
De zon staat op het hoogste punt, dit is de langste dag, de warmste periode, maar hierna gaat het zonlicht weer afnemen.
We vieren het hoogtepunt van het licht.

De Herfstequinox (omstreeks 21 september)
Equinox: de dag is net zo lang als de nacht.
Herfst: Vanaf dit punt worden de nachten langer dan de dagen.
We vieren het afscheid van het licht.
Thema: oogsten, loslaten.

De Winterzonnewende (omstreeks 21 december)
De zon staat op haar laagste punt, dit is de langste nacht, de koudste periode, maar hierna gaat het zonlicht weer toenemen.
We vieren de wedergeboorte van het licht.
Thema: nieuwe hoop

Zie: Seizoensfeesten

Ter overweging:
De gangbare neopaganistische seizoensfeesten zijn gebaseerd op het klimaat van Westelijk halfrond, verder is het een mix van oude volksgebruiken en nieuwe reconstructies van geidealiseerd voorchristelijke heidendom.

In mijn visie is een seizoenswandeling een beleving van het seizoen, los van dogmatiek maar met erkenning van bestaande oude en nieuwe tradities

2020: Santa Muerte enters the field –04

2020: Santa Muerte enters the field –04


29-Art

‘your project has taken on an important scope and it is necessary to communicate it’

 

This oracle illustrates my current process quite well, I am using my blog to communicate my insights/visions on oracles/dreams.
Apparently the Skinny One gives me a lot of inspiration!
I honor Her with some tobacco 😉

Ping: 2020: Santa Muerte enters the field – Dreamquest

2020: Santa Muerte enters the field – 03

2020: Santa Muerte enters the field – 03


30-Realization:

it is time to understand the nature of your act because realization is coming and results are near

The collected seeds of inspiration gathered by meditation, study and experience, finally are starting to take root and bloom.
All kinds of insights are coming through: oracles, dreams, visions.
Now is the time to share all of this!
Ping: 2020: Santa Muerte enters the field – Dreamquest

Santa Muerte enters the field – 01

Santa Muerte enters the field – 01


First new moon 2021 january, confronting the difficult beginning of this year:
still in lockdown, facing the siege of the capitol, a world going mad!
I have committed myself to working with the Grim Reaper for a month, proceeding carefully…her presence has been haunting me since my childhood when my grandfather died.
After reading the Masque of the Red Death, I became confinced that Death was a Lady wearing a red dress.
Imagine my surprise when I discovered Santa Muerte in Red!
Where to begin? There are several groups and documents online and offline, but for now I will start with the visual meditations.

  • Wellcome the Santa Muerte Oracle deck from Fabio Listrani!
  • Light a candle
  • Offer tobacco

Unboxing: Opening the booklet, looking at the cards…

I will start with the last card: Santa Muerte
the oracle says:
“…this card invite us to accept any change, transformation or drastic severing of perspective with a smile”…”make a firm decision on what to cut and what to change in your life”

My response: OUCH! this is a real challenge, to cope wtih the current pandemic and political upheaval in the world!

ping: 2020: Santa Muerte enters the field – Dreamquest

Grand Tableau yule 2020 – part 2

Grand Tableau yule 2020 – part 2


As visible in previous article, on the vertical axis external-internal influences, the querent is subject to external influences (the cards above the significator), and has no internal influence at all (no cards below the significator): it seems that the querent experiences forces that are out of his control.

Let’s look more into the horizontal axis past-present
Past (left side of the significator): 2♦-6♣-6♥-10♠-Q♣:
A new situation develops at work and in private, Santa Muerte enters the field.
Future (right side of the significator): A♠-K♣-5♣-2♣-A♦-7♠-6♠
The scythe signals the time of harvesting, much work for small profit, many worries, a path of thorns.

2♠ is a fitting summary of this reading: a duel, a rift, a breaking with the past.

Ping: Grand Tableau yule 2020 – Dreamquest

Grand Tableau yule 2020 – part 1

Grand Tableau yule 2020 – part 1


For this grand tableau I use the card meanings of hedgewitchery cartomancy and the Coven of Cards combined with  some methods of the new world witchery guide to cartomancy

I put the Joker as my significator in the complete deck and played the tableau in 4×13, leaving the last card out as a overall oracle for this spread.

To keep the first reading simple, I will focus on the significator and the nearest cards, later on I will expand on other significant cards.

First impression, Significator 00 is nearby the middle of the bottom row where A♠ stands at the center.
The significator is surrounded by challenging black cards!
The oracle is overall summarised by the last card 2♠, crossing swords, a duel!

A♣-Q♠-9♣: Beginning to work with the Dark Lady will change my way of Working.
Q♣-00-A♠:  The Reaping Wife gives the querent the blade to work with.

Looking at the vertical influences on the Significator:
8♠-4♠-1♠-00-2♠: Challenging meditations during lockdown will connect the Dark Lady with the Querent, who will have to confront the Guardian on the threshold.

 

 

 Runes  

 Runes  


The Runes started talking to me after I read Ralph Blum’s Book of Runes, along with the Runic Poems.
Blum made his own intuitive approach on the Runes, so I use this way of looking alongside the available scientific documentation.
My working with the Runes became challenging when I met Folkish Asatru who insisted on Aryan bloodlines (not available in my ancestry).
Then it felt like cultural appropriation to keep working with the Runes. Suprisingly I still feel some affinity with Grimnir. Go figure !

Using the runes as ‘gates’, chanting the sounds, imitating the rune-forms in your body…reminds me of certain Hindu-magick practices.
Singing and carving the runes for trance work and/or magick sounds like seidhr/galdr as hinted in the Edda and Sagas.
Besides the magical part , there is also the religious part, considering the idea that Freya taught Seidhr and Odin taught Runes…
IMHO connecting with the Nordic Gods and Spirits is prerequisite of working with Runes, Seidhr, Galdr.

See: The Book of Runes – Ralph Blum –