Category Archives: Archetypal Mythology
The Mermaid Wife
“Mermaids Kissing” by Alphonse Mucha space The water seeress comes to me up from the abysm of our sleep, a fish-woman both animal and numen, scaly-nubile, her voice in the sea so blent in blue that dreams crest and breast … Continue reading
Filed under Archetypal Mythology, Art and Heart, Beauty Heals, Blue, Devotions, Grails, History, Immrama, Love, Oran, Otherworlds, Post-Christianity, The Sea
The Quest
space Sixth Letter to a Dead Shaman For half of my life Your quest flowed underground, its ends unknown to me, its means so upside-down, the way a fool inverts a king’s gold crown into a potty of mired sounds. … Continue reading
Camera Obscura
space Why is it that cameras are forbidden in dreams? At least, that’s the word I’ve gotten for two nights straight, first when I wanted to take a picture of my wife sleeping bathed in early light from the sun’s … Continue reading
The Tiddy Mun
space Limpelty lobelty the Tiddy Mun haunts the lost wetlands of my words, grey but not ghastly, a ghostly blue phosphor who perambles lands I will never know though I’m ever drawn there here in the next foray into water’s … Continue reading
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The Old Forest Road
space Taking a myth as one’s own is a way of reading opaque events. I have long believed that one’s personal history is simply a branch of a larger tree of mystery, the world’s larger soul re-written in the small … Continue reading
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The Naked Singularity
space I. When a star collapses, spent of its fuel so much that it reverses pulse – refracting back all that once beamed — inversion mounts to a threshold beyond which everything dances behind darkest veils, canceling our ability to … Continue reading
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A Pail from Brigit’s Well
space Your crannog is pure breast, a well of milky-blue, a silver spring which blesses every name for You. Brigit of the fertile gasp, candle of all wombs rouse my words to spark dark waters with a tide of brighter … Continue reading
Blue Moon, Harrow of Light: An Imbas on the Eve of Candlemas
space I wrote the following for the Imbolc 2010 issue of Eolas, the magazine of the druidic Order of the White Oak. Imbolc (or Candlemas) is the first Celtic cross-quarter festival of the year and is celebrated on Feb. 2. … Continue reading
Crossing The River Whose Source And End We Are (Because We Cross It)
The Euphrates River in southern Turkey, not far from the ritual site of Gobekli Tepe, where the excavation of a ritual site for hunter-gatherers predating agriculture is challenging conceptions of how human civilizations began. space I. The hunt takes them … Continue reading
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Mare o’ The Mere
“Blondie “ by Margaret Bednar (aka Art Happens 365) space You killed off all my horses and then gave me back just one, a huge white mare from the hill of ancient Uffington. Standing at the gate of your mansion … Continue reading
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