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Month: June 2016

Making Geomantic Dice ?>

Making Geomantic Dice

Background In Lesson 7 of The Nascent Magician course, we learned about geomancy, a kind of earth divination. The geomantic figures have various astrological (and other) correspondences and generating the figures when doing a reading can be done in many different ways (including poking holes in the ground!). Another way is to use dice. Sometimes the dice are attached together on a rod so that you can rotate them to form a figure. These are occasionally for sale but are very expensive. Lind…

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Indian Gap Trail (5-18-09) ?>

Indian Gap Trail (5-18-09)

At the Crossroads- Suspended a moment in time- Pathway as wide as my gait Ribboning outward, forward With no sight beyond the gap; Silence creates a buzz in my ears Too loud, too quiet At the crossroads. Always planning ahead But taking the jump unknown Never knowable And hoping to land safe- The buzz, the adventure- All the dreams dissipate In the clarity of the bird singing In cold mountain air on my legs In rocks and pine under my…

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The Top of Mt LeConte (5-19-09) ?>

The Top of Mt LeConte (5-19-09)

Exhaustion has its own poetry Muscles mildly mutinous Demanding rest right now- Thought falls away Too tired to sustain it. Immense vistas present themselves Nothing else to do but look, feel, smell; Shaking legs, sore knees, There is nothing else But the purple flowers with yellow hearts And the scent of pine.