autumn twilight
… where the water meets the sea, between the worlds, within the void …autumn twilight
… where the water meets the sea, between the worlds, within the void …Lancelot and Galahad (Part 2)
If Arthur and Mordred are the enemies of time, both Lancelot and Galahad are the agents of Time. The warriors For Time. They herald and honor the movements of time and change in the world around them, but for different reasons.
Lancelot, the stereotypical Knight in Shining armor, is the essential warrior. His purpose in life is to fight, to protect. Unlike Arthur however, he is not fighting to stave off time. Lancelot doesn’t attempt to change the world, or bring about some mighty shift in the nature of mankind. Instead Lancelot fights for Love, for Honor, and for Duty. This is where his nobility comes from.
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Arthur and Mordred (Part 1)
Samhain is drawin near. I can feel it in the air. Or rather, I can feel it inside, and the spirits seem to be whispering about it. True Samhain is somewhere around the 6th of November. 90 degrees Scorpio. But the energy is present already, and will remain so for days afterwards.
There’s been a lot of stuff going through my mind lately. So many things that I’m trying to get done, and transformations I want to make. As a result it’s been really hard for me to focus on any one thing, even though it’s very desirable for me.
There is an older woman on the train talking to a noncorporeal entity. Not sure if she’s delusional or if her friend John is really with her. She doesn’t have an otherworldly air about her, but neither does she seem deranged.
Last week before she left for international travel, Herbis Orbis and I were talking about the divine masculine, primarily in the context of Arthur and Galahad, as the pillars of that divine form. We neglected to discuss Mordred and Lancelot, although I think it’s primarily because we aren’t faced with a compelling example of that aspect of the masculine diivne in our experience.
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A picture from the wedding:
I love this picture:
Marrying Alex and Sam
making the right choices
I’ve been thinking a lot about responsibility lately. About duty. There are a lot of ways to look at that feeling, but one that is on my mind a lot is my duty to the people around me. As a mentor, and as someone who is working to become a priest, what are my responsibilities? How is it appropriate for me to behave, and what do my ethics tell me about the decisions I make?
One of my most important ethics is something I touched on in my previous post. I don’t believe it’s ethical to force people into the path that I would take, or the path that I think is best. I would be a poor person indeed if I didn’t have my opinions, and if I wasn’t willing to share them when asked, but the purpose of my service is to help people become who they want to be, not who I think they should be.
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we are building a religion…
I was looking forward to writing a little tonight. Then I got busy and it got late and I figured I’d just go to bed. But now my mind is buzzing with a thousand thoughts. Writing for a while is the only thing that will give me any hope of a restful night, so here I am.
Ruby Sara of Pagan Godspell had an interesting post today in which she talked about religion as culture. Her words struck a chord in me.
Once upon a very distant time, Religion wasn’t. Religion wasn’t, because Religion was Culture instead. Then, civilization came along, and divided Religion from Culture, and Religion had a choice. It could either choose to support the dominant Culture, or it could be Countercultural.