How's that Mars Retrograde feeling?

Yea, same.

These past few months, since mars has been in retrograde, I’ve been pulled into something of an underworld journey.

Lots of descent, reflection, and STAGNATION.

There are times when it’s been incredibly frustrating.

Watching the ongoing + rapidly escalating collapse of the empire in real time - and the ramifications its having on literally all of us - facing the profound URGENCY of our work in this moment… and feeling like creativity and inspiration are moving laboriously slowly -

Its been humbling.

I want to do everything. I want to never stop. I have to stop. I can’t do everything. I can barely do enough. Never enough. Even my own calling feeling like a struggle. Meeting immediate needs. My loved ones. My community. My own.

I’ve not so much “realigned”, but rather DEEPENED into my values, these past weeks.

Aliveness. Humanity. Earth. Liberation. And, more so now than ever - myth and ritual.

I desperately need anchors into a worldview and a relationship with myself that wasn’t written by our oppressors.

I lose myself very quickly without regular connection to a reality that’s unaffected by colonial patriarchal indoctrination.

I’m a practicing Hermeticist (Western Mystery Tradition, Golden Dawn type stuff) - so for me, this regular connection looks like a lot of LBRP rituals, sigil magick, planetary rites, deity contemplation, practical + ceremonial work, a buttload of Jungian-style meditation and movement practices, and an ever-deepening intimacy with the Great Work.

The Five Goddesses that rule over the five seasons in any cycle are a big part of my practice these days too. Right now, at cycle day 7, the deity I’m working with the closest is the Maiden (comparable to the Tarot’s Fool, to Spring, to Dawn).

A quick aside, these five Goddesses/Deities, and the five seasons of any cycle that they represent, are the secret foundation of a lot of our work inside REWILDING. They form a map of the totality of our psyche, guiding us out of our indoctrination, and back into our wild humanity.

Regular ritual and reverent connection with myth and magick keep me sane. I’m more certain of that than I ever have been. This is non-negotiable for me.

Ritual, myth, and honestly - the REWILDING collective. Those weekly circles, the shared exploration + discussion of all our recovery, the way we all hold each other through the grit of tangible action… it holds me here.

To all inside- I’m more grateful than I can say.
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May we remember that we are capable of so much more than this.

We are so much more than the indoctrination of this paradigm.

We are so much more.

This world, this reality, this LIFE, is so much more.

❤