Winter Rain

[Lucien6493]

Truth be told, I'm just and old witch...nothing less, nothing more. In the language of my Galician ancestors I would be called a cloud-walker. Nefelibata. Stories are the magick I tell, and most everything I know about my spiritual life I learned from the spirits and from the dead and from the ones I pray to. In other words, I couldn't tell you how I go about journeying between the worlds or how I call to the ones that I work with, and I don't really care because from where I'm standing magic is how life happens when I get out the way, and I like the liminality of that just fine. How I translate it into my day to day life in the world, how I live the work that I do so that I can relate to it in the first place is another matter. This is where stories come in. Language; enchantments; the green tongue of alchemy and James Joyce; the meta-languages of creativity, of ritual theater, of dream, of art, and of what's left of the shamanic traditions of our ancestors still retained in folk magic and in fairytales. But well, if you want to know a bit more about my understanding of magick apart from my practice, you might want to reference Alan Moore, Todd Siler, and Gregory Bateson, with a nod to Alan Chapman, but, you know...right loosely. I walk the betwixt and between, as real and as unreal as winter rain, until you get good and sopping wet.

 

[Morell]

Sounds like you're very natural.
Welcome to the forum.

 

[Robert Ramsay]

Truth be told, I'm just and old witch...nothing less, nothing more. In the language of my Galician ancestors I would be called a cloud-walker. Nefelibata. Stories are the magick I tell, and most everything I know about my spiritual life I learned from the spirits and from the dead and from the ones I pray to. In other words, I couldn't tell you how I go about journeying between the worlds or how I call to the ones that I work with, and I don't really care because from where I'm standing magic is how life happens when I get out the way, and I like the liminality of that just fine. How I translate it into my day to day life in the world, how I live the work that I do so that I can relate to it in the first place is another matter. This is where stories come in. Language; enchantments; the green tongue of alchemy and James Joyce; the meta-languages of creativity, of ritual theater, of dream, of art, and of what's left of the shamanic traditions of our ancestors still retained in folk magic and in fairytales. But well, if you want to know a bit more about my understanding of magick apart from my practice, you might want to reference Alan Moore, Todd Siler, and Gregory Bateson, with a nod to Alan Chapman, but, you know...right loosely. I walk the betwixt and between, as real and as unreal as winter rain, until you get good and sopping wet.

Welcome! I presume you've read Alan Moore's 'Fossil Angels' essay?