one of the reasons i've been connecting with the reclaiming tradition (i started out with the witchcraft reading starhawk in the early nineties, but was extremely diaphanous in my approach until the last couple years) is because you can bring your own concept of deity to it. there are, in fact, atheist reclaimers. there's some universal ritual protocol that allows us to work with group energy, but it's expected that the fine details of your practice will not match anyone else's.
i added to the notebook that this content came out of for the summer solstice and thought: maybe i'll post the first few passages of this on livejournal for the solstice. it's... i don't know, exactly, what that notebook's about yet. maybe i'm not supposed to. toward the end of may, i wondered what it would be like to write contemporary scripture in alignment with my personal variables. so i established sacred space and wrote the first three passages of this. (the forth passage, here, has been added: with any kind of magical work, it's good form to dismiss anything you invoke, even in a livejournal entry. ;-) ) it is a little bit like writing poetry, but feels a little more "right" to me, more like writing poetry used to feel. so we'll see.
man, i wish i could've workshopped under ginsberg, or at least seen him give a reading. i've felt like an anachronistic beatnik for most of my post-adolescent life. and lines from "america" keep going through my head, lately. gosh, i wonder why!
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Date: 2016-06-23 05:57 pm (UTC)i added to the notebook that this content came out of for the summer solstice and thought: maybe i'll post the first few passages of this on livejournal for the solstice. it's... i don't know, exactly, what that notebook's about yet. maybe i'm not supposed to. toward the end of may, i wondered what it would be like to write contemporary scripture in alignment with my personal variables. so i established sacred space and wrote the first three passages of this. (the forth passage, here, has been added: with any kind of magical work, it's good form to dismiss anything you invoke, even in a livejournal entry. ;-) ) it is a little bit like writing poetry, but feels a little more "right" to me, more like writing poetry used to feel. so we'll see.
man, i wish i could've workshopped under ginsberg, or at least seen him give a reading. i've felt like an anachronistic beatnik for most of my post-adolescent life. and lines from "america" keep going through my head, lately. gosh, i wonder why!