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The Other Mother Is Not Only A Whore

  • EliseOursa
  • Magic
  • Aug 23, 2019
Maria Met Kind, Quentin Matsys

We’ve got it wrong when we talk about the Madonna/Whore complex, that feminine polarity of self sacrifice vs self serving. There is no polarity there at all.  The two are only on the same scale, even archetypically, in so far as some whores are mothers and vice versa. Playing to this dynamic – in ritual,…

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Every Act Of Magic Begins At The Middle

  • EliseOursa
  • Magic
  • Jul 31, 2019

The tree rises up from the middle of the swamp, a still and silent pole around which the dark mumblings of the currents flow. The tree is dry and still, the waters are the opposite – although their motion in this instance is barely detectable. The tree is the anchor and the fulcrum for the…

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Magic Snacks Day 2 – One For The Impossible

  • EliseOursa
  • Magic, Magic Snacks 2017
  • Dec 16, 2017

Our moonlit ponderings have prepared us to take another step down this liminal path and ask what’s really up with all this seasonal giving & receiving. Illuminating our travels today, however, is not The Moon, not The Sun, but a bolt of lightning. Straight from the above into the below, blowing the roof off this…

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