All things being equal, I have been pretty happy lately, but in my connections with others, I know that not everyone is.  This is for all of us:


Spiritual Investment

The true worth of any ceremony in which we take part is exactly equal to our own personal spiritual investment into the value of that ceremony.  The umbrella of religiosity or institution or society is no more important than the language in which the ceremony is performed. It may be part of our personal spirituality or it may be just that, an umbrella to keep off the overarching entropic rain of disarray.  If we are strong in our personal beliefs then our own hats and scarves will suffice to protect our spiritual investments should our umbrellas be blown inside out.

We network ourselves as layers of strength against the inevitability of aloneness, but each of us knows we can find ourselves isolated and vulnerable.

I draw strength from the mysteries of the world that I have been witness to, which make every trespass of my fellow kind like dust in the wind.  We have choices.  And the choice to be strong even when we are at our most violated melts the bonds of any kind of psychology that people who are too weak and frightened by themselves and others may enlist against us as an attempt at entrapment for sad little games.  Poor little losers!  You don't realize you have entrapped yourselves and karma is knocking at the door.  Do you hear it little people of the world?  Don't worry, it has the keys to your very heart, and it is coming in whether you open the door or not.  

To those who use law (either for or against) and brute force to bring about your will, you are equally in danger.  This is not a question of religion or belief or disbelief in the clockwork structure of social hierarchy, it is magic that you have no control over.  Historically, even the greatest among us only guide magic, and those who attempt black magic find that it is oh, so slippery! How many of us fall under its spell without realizing it until too late to stop it permeating everything around us?

There are white lights in the dark or fog which guide our hearts--OURS alone. We have personal markers both in the past and in the present, and even, if we are prescient, before us in the future from which we may draw polar energy in any black storm or subterranean pit.  They are our contact points, which, when we offer them an electrode, become an arc.  This is white magic and is by far stronger than any dark if we allow our hearts to reach out to it.  When we connect with our beacons dark is banished and those who use it are exposed.  See them shrink in our blinding flashes!  They are burned and better, they are marked by the balancing forces of the world as if by GPS.  Oh, yes, karma is coming now, creepy crawly things!  Now it knows where you are.  You are stuck with your own limpet mine.  Polarity works both ways!  Dark can so easily be reversed.

This is the importance of magic.  ALL things are imbued, and the great concepts which we place so much importance on, and value in, Religion, Science, Philosophy, Society, all are but subsets.  We may unite with, or avoid, subvert, and hide within any or all of them, and yet we are not hidden from magic or the inherent balance of energies within and without all of us.  It surrounds us, and we only wish we understood.  In fact, it is imperative for all mankind to understand, first ourselves, and then how we may come together, but we have a long way to go to come back to that realization.  We are divided, and we believe that our separation makes us invisible to balance--it does not.

Our best strength is our own, but we are not alone and so we must both tap in to our own personal resources, and help to channel the magic of those within our network, and deflect the forces of entropy and dark.  Vulnerability may catch us off guard, but our magic is as strong as our spiritual investment in our own protection.

To those who feel they are without recourse. Follow your beacons.  In connecting with them you have all the energy of the world to tap into.  To those who play games with the way of the things:  you are exposed.  


--vikingjon  2012, Beltane