Presentation For Chalice

Lady Freya, Keeper of Femininity, bless this chalice. Let it be as Thy cauldron, a vessel of productivity that it may be worthy to dispense Thy bounty. Let it be used in Thy service and in the service of humanity. Let it be so bound that no harm may come of it to any being, but let it rather be an instrument of good-will and understanding; of loving harmony. To Thy sacred self I dedicate this vessel, (name of vessel), that it and I may long be of service to Thee.

Lord Thor, companion to the Lady, champion of the Gods, bless this chalice and keep watch over it. Guard the works which come forth from it, that they ever be in the service of Thee and Thy Lady, that they be of service to humankind, and that they abide by the laws of harmony. To Thee I vow I shall use it for Her sacred purposes, and for no other.

So mote it be.

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Holy Fool

The Third member of the Triad -some musings by: the Bard

"Remember, the Moon is only half as big as the Earth, but it's twice as far away."
-Anonymous

After some time musing on the concept of Goddess/God that is common in Wiccan (and most Neo-Pagan groups) and seeing the common theme of "things come in threes" in these belief systems, I fell to wondering "Why only the God and Goddess? If all things come in threes, where is the Third Aspect that should be there?"

So what is this Third Aspect? I feel it is the Holy Fool; the Prometheus who is the Trickster, the God (neuter) that rolls the dice. This also fills in certain holes in neo-Pagan Theology that have bothered me for some time, too.

First, we need to have a quick look at the Holy Fool in religious and/or cultural beliefs, both primitive and modern:

American Indian:

Aztec: Ueuecoyotl
Caddo: Coyote
Chinook: Coyote
Coos: Coyote
Haida: Raven
Hopi: Mudhead Kachina, Clown Kachina
Kiowa: Coyote
Navaho: Coyote
Nez Perce: Coyote
Omaha: Coyote, Rabbit, Iktinike, Orphan
Pueblo: Koshare
Sioux: Spider
Tillamook: Coyote
Tinglit: Raven
Winnebago: Rabbit
Zuni: Coyote

African: Spider, Tortoise, Rabbit, Jackal
Graeco/Roman: Pan, Dionysis
Celtic: Phooka and the like (see Irish: Fear Dearg, and a host of others. The Fool must love Ireland very much...He made so many of Itself there!)
Norse: Loki...-and- Balder
Banks Island: Clat
Micronesia: Nareau
England: Puck, Black Jack Davy
Christianity: "Doubting" Thomas, and The Christ Himself, in many
ways....and Judas, too.
20th Cent. North American: Bugs Bunny, The Joker, Mr. Mxyzpltk, Murphy, ("And Pooh is a -good- example, too!" said Eyesore)
Neo-Paganism: Discordians
18th thru 20th Cent. Appalachian: Jack (from British Isles)
18th and 19th Cent. N.A. Black: Br'er Rabbit, Long John, &c.
German: Tyl Eulenspiegel
Italy: Harlequin (check out Agatha Christie's stories about
"Harley Quinn." VERY interesting!)
Islamic: Juha, Abu Nawwas, Mullah Nasruddin, Nasreddin Khoja,
Nasreddin Hodja
Japanese: Fox, Hotei, and the whole concept of Zen......

And the many, many instances of the Hero figure and his Friend in most people's mythology....Gilgamesh and Enkidu, Robin Hood and Little John, the Mythic Hollywood Western Hero and his ridiculous sidekick, Don Quixote and Sancho Panza.....and many times you see the recurrent theme of the Great Betrayal of the Hero, which leads to His death...and to His Resurrection!

One immediately sees that the Fool is a universal constant in folk belief, just as the Goddess and God are! (NB: I have not gotten more specific for two reasons: one, for limitations of space, and two, to encourage others to do a little reading on their own!)

As most things, the Fool is Personified in three basic Aspects that (of course) overlap with each other and with the God and Goddess. The first is that of the Savior God, the Prometheus, the Culture Hero, who brings Knowledge (and - occasionally- Wisdom) to Mankind. This Aspect loves Mankind with all His Being, and only wishes Good. His Good Intentions sometimes fall short of His (or Mankind's) expectations, however.

The second is that of the Clown, the Nerd, the Jerk, that teaches by his own mistakes (and who usually comes out ahead because of His own Innocence.) This Aspect is mostly neutral, and is how He seems to mostly manifest Himself.

But let us not forget the third, and darker, side of the Fool, best exemplified by Jack Nicholson's portrayal of The Joker in the film version of "Batman." Just as the Goddess has Her Dark side (the Crone, the Morrigan, &c) and the God has His (Odin as Death-God) so does the Fool have a terrifying Aspect (at least, from the human point of view): Chaos Personified.

This is not an Aspect to invoke, as it does not care. Period. It is the ultimate psychopath, the ultimate Spoiled Brat, the quintessence of Egocentric self-love. In some circles, it could be quite nicely named Ahriman, or Shaitan, or Satan, because it fits all concepts of that Middle-Eastern deity.... except one: It does not care if Man worships It or not. It is not in -conflict- with the God and/or Goddess, It is -not- on the kind of power-trip that the Judeo-Christian Satan is represented as having, it just -is-. It should be considered as neither "good" nor "evil," though it can personify both or either....or neither! This is confusing, but with a little thought the concept will (hopefully) come clear. (And, just in passing, the film version of "Batman" is perhaps a very good metaphor for the eternal struggle between the Fool-as-Prometheus (Batman) and the Fool-as-Chaos (the Joker).

Are you confused? If you are, GOOD! If you are not, keep thinking by not-thinking. (Wha-a-a-a-a-t?)

Some of the best examples of the three Personifications are found in the Navaho and Zuni tales of Coyote, or the Br'er Rabbit tales, or the older Bugs Bunny cartoons, or even Walt Disney's Goofy. And, while speaking of classic animation, if you can see any of the cartoons of the Cannibal Boy and the Mynah Bird, do so! It shows not one, but TWO Aspects in action!

For a look at His more serious (?) side, try J.R.R. Tolkien's wonderful evocation of Tom Bombadil...who is described as "the oldest." Prof. Tolkien came very close to the core of the truth with that one!

The Fool is your slightly daffy Uncle, that comes to visit at Christmas and is such fun to be with, but who seems to have a sadness about him too, that you found out later, when you were all grown up, was his slide into alcoholism. The Fool is the American sit-com "Daddy" who never seems to get anything right, but wins out in the end anyway. The Fool is the classic scene of Bugs Bunny, floating in a washtub in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, happily singing "As Time Goes By," blissfully uncaring about his obvious predicament...one which would send a human into sheer despair....knowing that something will turn up, some scam that he can pull that will get him out of the washtub and into clover again. The Fool is the Tarot's Fool, of course....but He is also the Hanged Man.

Do -not- invoke the Fool unless you are ready for literally ANYTHING to happen! He just might turn you into a Large Green Frog just to observe what happens......He is capricious. He is unpredictable. He is what He is, and nothing you can do will turn Him from His Purpose, whatever that may be at any given moment. He is "Murphy," and whatever can go wrong, WILL go wrong...or right. Unless you have an uncommonly flexible mind, you -might- not be able to handle it!

He has no Festival, unless it is the Lupercal, or perhaps April Fool's Day, or even New Year's Eve, for every day is His, as He chooses. Some have inquired about the seeming overlap of functions in the Goddess/God/Fool triad, and this should be addressed here. The modern Western mind tends to "pigeonhole" things, and rigidly excludes other things from these pigeonholes. This, I feel, is in some ways an error in thinking, especially about the Triad. One cannot and should not "compartmentalize" the God/Fool/Goddess into three rigidly separate Beings, but rather think of them as three separate sources of ripples in the same Pond: the ripples interact and intersect, and act on each other, but move within the same Source, whatever That may be.

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The 10th Sephirah Malkuth

MALKUTH, THE TENTH SEPHIRAH

Title: Malkuth, the Kingdom.

Magickal Image: A young woman crowned and throned.

Situation on the Tree: At the base of the Pillar of Equilibrium.

Yetziratic Text: The Tenth Path is called the Resplendent Intelligence because it is exalted above every head and sits upon the Throne of Binah. It illuminates the Splendors of all the lights and causes an influence to emanate from the Prince of Counenances, the Angel of Kether.

Titles given to Malkuth: The Gate. The Gate of Death. The Gate of the Shadow of Death. The Gate of Tears. The Gate of Justice. The Gate of Prayer. The Gate of the Daughter of the Mighty Ones. The Gate of the Garden of Eden. The Inferior Mother. Malkah, the Queen. Kallah, the Bride. The Virgin.

God Name: Adonai Makekh or Adonai ha Aretz.

Archangel: Sandalphon.

Choir of Angels: Ashim, Souls of Fire.

Mundane Chakra: Cholem ha Yesodoth, Sphere of the Elements.

Spiritual experience: Vision of the Holy Guardian Angel.

Virtue: Discrimination.

Vice: Avarice. Inertia.

Correspondence in microcosm: The Feet. The Anus.

Symbols: Altar of the double cube. The equal-armed cross. The magick circle. The triangle of art.

Tarot Cards: The Four Tens.
Ten of Wands: Oppression.
Ten of Cups: Perfected success.
Ten of Swords: Ruin.
Ten of Pentacles: Material gain.

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Home Blessing

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A home blessing meditation for charging a room:

Sit Straight with palms on lap, take deep breaths, relax, and move into a mental space where you activate your intuitive senses. Imagine a cord of energy from your spine connecting you to the Earth, and channel energy from the Earth through it. Silently ask for divine protection, guidance, and blessing.

Direct your psychic sensing outward, and feel lines of force coming out of your aura. Note where the strongest energy is (check out the floor, ceiling, directions, etc.). Note spots that feel empty or dead, note places that feel full alive, focus on where you are sitting and how you feel at that particular spot.

Imagine a sphere of light and love energy at your heart, feel it pulsing outward with every breath. Feel the radiance increase with every breath, feel your self as a star, continue to breathe deeply and send out the energy, letting it pulsate in the room. When ready, start making power sounds representing the love and light you are channeling; use it to amplify the light you are weaving; and fill the room with the energy. Then shift focus to sending a probe out into the room, and note the differences in the quality of energy and how you feel about it. Repeat if necessary, When done, feel the completeness of the work.

A room blessing involving elemental quarter invocations:

Face each direction (with arms out in appropriate elemental invoking gesture), and say, while channeling and visualizing elemental power: - Powers of (say direction), - Powers of (say corresponding element), - We great you, we honor you, we welcome you here! - Watch over and bless and protect this place. After each invocation, shape the energy into columns of light by sweeping ones arms together until they are parallel and sweeping them up and down while channeling and shaping the energy. When the energy is properly shaped, say so "mote it be."

After you have done all four quarters, channel in spirit energy.

To return the energy to a more mellow state while energizing yourself, put your hands out and take in a bit of the energy into your self from each direction, going widdershins, hold hands to your heart and take in the energy (techniques also exist for bringing it into a stone and retrieving it when needed).

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Learning Anything

One of the most important skills you will ever learn in your life is learning which questions to ask and when to ask them.

You will never learn how to do much of anything in your life if you do not learn how to ask questions, and not only that, but to question the answers you get in return.

For instance, "I want to learn about wicca," is not a question. It is a statement.

"Teach me about wicca," is also not a question. It is a command, even if you add the word please.

Think about what you really want to ask. "Can you teach me about wicca?"

Ok, you're getting closer to the question you really want answered. "Will you teach me about wicca?"

Even closer, but the topic at hand is a large one.

Look for where you actually want to start learning.

Good questions to start working with are "What makes wicca different from other paths?" or perhaps, "What is the first thing I should learn to start my journey of learning about wicca?"

These last two questions are good questions because they are specific and and give the person you are talking with an idea of what you are actually interested in learning.

Here's another example.

I want to learn how to bake bread.

First of all I find someone that knows how (the right person).

Then I wait until they have the time to help me and a place ready to show me how to bake bread.

I try to read up a little ahead of time if I can and show up well rested and ready to learn hopefully without any preconceptions (the right time).

Now I could ask them what the chemical structure of bread is, or why it browns when it bakes or what type of butter to use on it, but none of these are very good questions to help me towards my goal of learning how to bake bread.

True it might be useful information, but I can always learn the answers to those questions later once I have learned the basics.

So my first questions are, "What are the ingredients we use?" and "How do we start?," two specific and useful questions.

A good question asked at the right time to the right person helps the person answering it almost as much as it helps the person asking it.

If the person you are asking questions to has no idea of your level of knowledge of the subject or your specific area of interest at the moment they cannot help you nearly as well as they could if they knew these things.

Good questions are one way of helping a person understand what you want to know and what level of difficulty you want it explained at.

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Dark Moon Dead Moon

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The Moon continues to grow small, and soon, very soon, it will have waned completely, and we will find that it appears to have vanished completely. This is why it is called the "Dark Moon" or the "Dead Moon". It signifies death, but not literally a physical death, but because it is because this is the last cycle of the Moon, and there will be no Moon for us to see...because the Moon is now conjunct the Sun...rising at sunrise and setting at sunset. To the ancients, this was a symbol of death. Some people just don't even deal with this period of the Dark Moon which lasts for approximately three days...the day before, the day of the "New Moon", and the day after. This is when the power of the Moon is at its weakest. But, I believe this is a very important phase. For many, and this is important for those of us who feel drained, this is a time of rest and introspection where little or no magickal workings are done. This is where we give ourselves a much needed break, to turn to self and to pamper and replenish our energies.

Yet, some traditions hold that the Dark Moon holds the same power as the Full Moon. The Goddess has turned her face away from us, and darkness walks the earth. For those in these traditions, dark energies are conjured during this time; it is a time for black magick and dark working.

"THE KEYWORD FOR THIS CYCLE OF THE MOON ARE SOLITUDE, INTROSPECTION, DIVINATION, REST, AND RESURRECTION."

"SPEND SOMETIME OUTDOORS ON THE ASTRONOMICAL DARK OF THE MOON. YOU WILL FIND THAT OUTSIDE, WHEN THERE IS DARKNESS ALL AROUND, THE SOUL STANDS ALONE...AND WE FIND OURSELVES IN AN ABYSS, SEPARATED FROM THE VISUAL WORLD. CONTEMPLATE THE DARK GODDESS WITH HER VEILED FACE TURNED AWAY FOR JUST AS THE DARKNESS OF THE NIGHT WILL GIVE WAY TO THE DAWN OF A NEW DAY, AN ENCOUNTER WITH THE DARK GODDESS WILL PAVE THE WAY FOR NEW BEGINNINGS. REACH OUT AND CONNECT WITH THE STILLNESS OF HER ENERGY. EXAMINE YOUR OWN HIDDEN FACE AND THE DARK SIDE OF THE SOUL WITHIN US ALL. MEDITATE ON DARKNESS AND ON ENDINGS. RECOGNIZE THAT EVERYTHING HAS A SEASON AND A CYCLE; A TIME TO BE AND A TIME TO END. IDENTIFY AND RELEASE ENDINGS IN YOUR OWN LIFE...PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE."

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