Blood Moon Meditations and the Apocalypse

September 2015 lunar eclipse A total lunar eclipse will take place on September 28, 2015. It is the latter of two total lunar eclipses in 2015, and the final in a tetrad. Other eclipses in the tetrad are those of April 15, 2014, October 8, 2014, and April 4, 2015. Wikipedia Much of the Blood […]

Heliacal Risings

In looking for the astronomical anchor for the women’s side of the archeo-astronomical path of initiation, it occurred to me that the Morning Star is prominent in Revelations and there are twelve  gateways made of single pearls (stars) in the heavenly city. I thought that I’d take a look at the list of stars whose […]

Citrinitas and Rubedo

We start off the chapter on yellow with a brief mention that many alchemists did not include the stage of yellow, especially in the later years of alchemy’s heyday, but moved directly from white to red. Hillman, who was himself trained as a Jungian analyst, suggests that Jung included the yellow because he was fond […]

The Silver Wheel and the Lady In Red

The hexagon is called the mother of all rune shapes, which made no sense to me until I found out about the constellation of the Winter Hexagon, also known as the Hoop of Nations. The six stars that mark the points of the Winter Hexagon are: Pollux in Gemini Procyon in Canis Minor Sirius in […]

The Scarlet Virgins

Once I began to compare Black Elk’s Horse Dance with the esoteric translation of the the original version of Revelations. I found some startling similarities from the color of the horses to the phrases spoken by the participants. Evidence is building that the Horse Tribes of the the Southwest and the horsemen fleeing the Spanish […]

The Inexplicable

When I was drawn to do shamanic workshops in Germany in 2001, the Rune Field took the opportunity to introduce itself to me. I eventually realized that my visionary experiences were responses to my father’s and godfather’s prayers for healing. In my Pueblo godfather’s view, my father’s cancer could only be healed by addressing his […]