It's Happening

It’s Happening! 
An Alchemical Approach to COVID   

Alchemy = balanced use of head, hand and heart; 
It keeps changing!
Re-balancing Body, Mind, Spirit.

Crack! Different energies released, 
swirling, spiraling  
Membrane thinned out, 
passage open in both, many directions    

gods re emerging: Pan, Lethe, daimones, fairies                         

House-Bound gods, Household Deities: 
there are many

Loss of Control: Not in Charge in the same ways

Change in our  PUBLIC presences: 
What’s Lost? Gained?

More Vulnerable Open, Prey 
to emotional, unpredictable weather fronts

Challenge to develop a patient, compassionate relationship with yourself.      
                           

Experience the Indifferent, Amoral quality of Nature. Where’s Mother?

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How are you Coping?  with Distress /CRACK     Aware and wary?

Magical thinking, flee, numbing, soothing activities, night vision, denying? 

How are you en-trancing, soothing yourself?         

How else might you react?   Less news, less talk, More Making

1. Notice/Make Note of En-Trancing, Coping Activities

    And encounters w Non-Human, Feral  via Glimpse, chance,

    The Fleeting, accident, casual, transient, fugitive Ambiguity,

    Everchanging, Dreams, find Clan, The Deferred

2. Allow/Invite/Develop Encounters w small gods,

    EMERGING archetypes             The Numinous,         The Sacred               

    Versions in, per,extro, intro          What Stories are Appearing

    Events/Practices of Order/Disorder, short/small , The BackSeat   

                            

3. Be Alert/Brave to inevitable Political/Personal FX/Reactions

    New Ways to See and Sort Stuff. There's a re-prioritizing. 
    A different "mesh" presents for  filtering what's "important."        

4 Seek Ways Review/Update, ReInvest Energies  

 

5. Find Appropriate Activities, Practices, Tools, Lenses 

   Here are some. Details at The Casual Alchemist

   Can be done alone + with others

A. Be as Present and Aware  as possible.

   Create a Thumbnail/Snapshot  of NOW Make notes about your changing  interests, disinterests,

   Daily routine?  What’s persisting, what’s withering, Acts of ORDER?

B. Play     Look up that list of Surrealist Games 

C. Start a Deck of Homemade Cards SMOKEY LIFE/SHADOW           
    your Other times/ways

    SUITS/foci: birth, family       NEEDS awe, play, stories, shadow

    Shapes, Colors, Textures         BODY scars,  risk, habits 

   What you do ALONE              Deceits,   Reactions to Tarot, others   

  

D.Make Objects

E. Gift and Share Things   Find your ways            Share Pictures of What You are Making