Posts Tagged ‘Praying in the Dark’
prayer before gods, prayer after gods
Theme: Magicians Reporting for Duty Week 41: prayer before gods, prayer after gods Beautiful Magicians, Prayer for many of us, has been a complicated maze. I call it a maze on purpose. If prayer were a labyrinth, you could find your way into the holy center and back out again simply by following the unicursal…
Read MoreDo you know who you are?
Theme: Magicians Reporting for Duty Week 40: Do you know who you are? Beautiful Magicians, This has been a strange and wonderful and terrifying week. Seven days positively reeking of fury. I feel it. And so does every woman I know. And a few men. But sadly, only a few. Only a few are appalled…
Read MoreThe contract is clear: if you want to live…
Theme: Magicians Reporting for Duty Week 39: The contract is clear Beautiful Magicians, I’ll say it out loud, even when no one is listening: it’s hard to be human right now. That is, it is hard on us, the ones who pay attention. Who notice. Who see what is happening and feel helpless to stop…
Read MoreWhat is the opposite of fear? (Hint: it’s not love)
Theme: Magicians Reporting for Duty Week 38: What is the opposite of fear? (Hint, it’s not love.) Beautiful Magicians, On Tuesday, we had our first gathering in Praying in the Dark: When People Feel Safe Patriarchy Falls Apart. And it surprised me. Despite planning the intensive for weeks, writing the teaching outline, creating the slides,…
Read MoreFour levers end patriarchy. Safety is first.
Theme: Magicians Reporting for Duty Week 36: Four levers end patriarchy. Safety is first. Beautiful Magicians, In last week’s Notes from the Field, I attempted to convey two massive ideas that arrived in the days before the lunar eclipse. Two ideas that have the capacity and power to change how we pray, how we live, and…
Read MoreEinstein weighs in on prayer
Theme: Magicians Reporting for Duty Week 35: Einstein weighs in on prayer Beautiful Magicians, Last Sunday I wrote about something arriving. Something uninvited. Unanticipated. Unannounced. And suddenly, everything has changed. For the better—the much much better. I must have been talking to myself because that happened to me twice this week. Twice. And not with snippets of…
Read MoreWhat does it truly mean to be safe?
Theme: Magicians Reporting for Duty Week 34: What does it truly mean to be safe? Beautiful Magicians, Has this happened to you? A symbol or being or creature or idea arrives on your doorstep, uninvited and unannounced, moves into your house, starts singing in the shower and rearranging the furniture. And there you are, standing…
Read MoreWhat happens when prayer has transcendental power?
Theme: Magicians Reporting for Duty Week 33: What happens when prayers hold original transcendental power? Beautiful Magicians, When mystic oracle and artist, Cathy Stevens Pratt, and Minotaur-initiated shaman, Tony Goncalves, and I opened Praying in the Dark: How Visionaries Pray in a Time of Collapse in July, we described the purpose on the registration page this way:…
Read MoreWhat memories is the Solar Eclipse revealing for you?
Theme: Magicians Reporting for Duty Week 32: What memories is the Solar Eclipse this Wednesday revealing for you? Beautiful Magicians, This is a big week. BIG. On Wednesday, August 12, there will be a new moon Solar Eclipse in Leo at 20° 1’. At first, that may sound like nothing more than a fact. A…
Read MoreThe 5 crimes patriarchy commits against men
Theme: Magicians Reporting for Duty Week 31: The 5 crimes patriarchy commits against men Beautiful Magicians, Last week, I began what is turning out to be a long and profound healing journey walking beside the wounded Minotaur—the poster child for the abused and vilified masculine. And in the process, find myself stumbling upon unexpected discovery…
Read MoreWhat happens when the Minotaur heals?
Theme: Magicians Reporting for Duty Week 30: What happens when the Minotaur heals? Beautiful Magicians, What happens when the Minotaur heals? Have you ever asked yourself this question? Or even thought about it? Do you even know who the Minotaur is? Or why he needs to, or wants to, heal? Or why his healing might…
Read MoreIs the darkness itself calling the light forward?
Theme: Magicians Reporting for Duty Week 29: Barbault’s Basket. Is darkness itself calling the light forward? Beautiful Magicians, You’ve undoubtedly heard astrologers and friends talking about what’s happening this week in the cosmic skies. In short, four outer planets, Jupiter, Pluto, Uranus, and Neptune, have moved into a very unusual and perfectly balanced geometric pattern that looks…
Read MoreWhat happens when sacred medicine prayer enters your body
Theme: Magicians Reporting for Duty Week 28: what happens when sacred medicine prayer enters your body Beautiful Magicians, Last Sunday I talked about meeting The Song of the Morning of the World rosary for the first time and noticing how radically different it is from any rosary or other prayer beads I’ve ever touched. And I’ve touched…
Read MoreThe first rosary without religion is radical, beautiful, alive!
Theme: Magicians Reporting for Duty Week 27: my rosary for Praying in the Dark arrived, I put it on, and something happened Beautiful Magicians, Yesterday was July 4 in the United States, a day intended to celebrate American independence. A day 250 years ago, when a cluster of wealthy white men in thirteen American colonies decided to…
Read MoreAstrology in the Summer of our Collapse
Theme: Magicians Reporting for Duty Week 26: in which we ponder the intense astrology in this summer of our collapse Did you find me in your spam folder? Please put my domain email in your address book janet@janetconner.com All newsletters will come from this email address from now on. The old one with tampabay.rr in the…
Read MoreRemembering real male-female partnership
Theme: Magicians Reporting for Duty Week 25: in which we remember what real masculine-feminine partnership looks and sounds like NEW EMAIL Did you find me in your spam folder? Please put my domain email in your address book janet@janetconner.com All newsletters will come from this email address from now on. The old one with tampabay.rr in…
Read MorePraying in the Dark is here!
Theme: Magicians Reporting for Duty Week 24: in which we see the dark and decide to pray our way through NEW EMAIL Did you find me in your spam folder? Please put my domain email in your address book janet@janetconner.com All newsletters will come from this email address from now on. The old one with tampabay.rr…
Read MoreDevotion is not worship
Theme: Magicians Reporting for Duty Week 23: in which we consider the radical differences between devotion and worship. BIG NOTICE I was not able to send a newsletter last Sunday. My phone and email were hacked by a guy in Sumatra (!) and I’ve done nothing since then but deal with the outfall. It’s been stressful.…
Read MoreThe first rosary untainted by religion
Theme: Magicians Reporting for Duty Week 21: in which we find we need to pray a whole new kind of rosary, a rosary untainted by religion Beautiful Magicians, Things are converging. Disparate things. Things that didn’t feel connected in any way when they were happening. But now, as I stand—and you stand—in this strange, exhausting,…
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