tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1208084550257016582.post6632810651445265152..comments2023-07-29T09:37:11.145-05:00Comments on Root and Rock: The Book Stayed EmptyScyllahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03822031765851992717noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1208084550257016582.post-51981030608204048282020-03-03T12:33:17.368-06:002020-03-03T12:33:17.368-06:00Do I think it's possible with Initiatory Wicca...Do I think it's possible with Initiatory Wicca? I don't know. Wouldn't dare try to speak on it. People who have a little more ground to stand on there have said that what they're aiming for is polarity and tension (in a magical and energetic sense) and that however you get there is what's important. That probably most covens stick to the hard line of sex/gender, because That's The Way It Is Done, but that the important bit is how your energy behaves. <br /><br />I know from my energy work days that there are some people who have an absolutely uncanny ability for pulling other power inward and changing it. And others who are all about generating tonnes of energy and pushing it outward. I mean, there's a lot more variety than that among energy-workers, but... maybe I could see it being something akin to that? I could see a very powerful spiritual charge being built up by say, alternating "receptive" and "projective" persons in well matched pairs, doing their thing at full tilt. <br /><br />But I can't possibly attach that to gender or sex, y'know?<br /><br />There is SOMETHING there in Wicca that still calls. I can't tell you what it is because I haven't peeked behind the curtain. Maybe I was Wiccan before, in another life. Maybe it's another facet of what I already do and engage with (There are many, many, many paths through the same woods). I guess, if I ever met the right Wiccan I might learn - until then I just puzzle over it now and then.Scyllahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03822031765851992717noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1208084550257016582.post-33713045044005425062020-02-24T15:41:36.200-06:002020-02-24T15:41:36.200-06:00Do you feel it's even possible to approach Wic...Do you feel it's even possible to approach Wicca from a non-sexual-binary standpoint? I'm pretty new to the world of non-Abrahamic spirituality in the first place, but it seems everything even one step removed from Wicca is heavily reliant on a Masculine/Feminine energetic divide often expressed through (hetero)sexuality or (hetero)sexual metaphor. As someone for whom gender performance appears to be inherently about power (and the inequality thereof), this has been a Hard No in my ability to connect to many experiences of people from/near Wicca. Again, only if you're willing to share some further personal information, I'm curious what you feel might be calling out to you from such an apparently gendered space. Thanks again for your time and sharing, it's meant a lot to me in my infantile graspings so far :)sacorbellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06239091922162715919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1208084550257016582.post-49033439782381140322020-02-16T11:42:38.775-06:002020-02-16T11:42:38.775-06:00I typed up a very long response but the reply box ...I typed up a very long response but the reply box is woefully small and useless so please forgive me if this is disjointed as heck.<br /><br />I'm not cis, I'm not het, and I'm not one inclined to physical reproduction so the image that I commonly see out there in the world of "the lord and lady" is not one I even vaguely resonate with. Hell the terms and ideas of “masculinity” and “femininity” are ideas that I have an uncomfortable dance with myself, being that my home base is pretty nebulous.<br /><br />I see the Powers as less individuals and more as accumulations of overlaid impressions. Literally a million-circle venn diagram of the traits of "Horn Wearer", and I try to touch the spot in the middle where they all (or most) overlap. Sometimes my aim is good, sometimes my aim is bad.<br /><br />And I've never gotten a sexual vibe from their interaction... or honestly really ever seen them directly interact. More that they are wardens of specific points/gates/hot spots/mysteries/etc. And one could go down either road without really ever encountering the other - but that the fullsome set of paths and mysteries would be lessened as a whole in the absence of either.<br /><br />In summary: “Huh… I’ll have to think about that because I don’t really ever think about that because I just assume those things don’t apply, but you know maybe they don’t apply BECAUSE I don’t think about them. Huh….”Scyllahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03822031765851992717noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1208084550257016582.post-54488587602205694922020-02-15T11:50:19.081-06:002020-02-15T11:50:19.081-06:00The empty book seems like a potent symbol (this be...The empty book seems like a potent symbol (this being an abstract empty book, not YOUR very-real-not-just-a-symbol empty book). I'mma have to ruminate on that in my own life.<br /><br />Secondly, if you're willing to share, I'm very curious about how you approach what <br />appears to me as the gender essentialism of Wicca. Without disparaging the transformative power of reclaiming Femininity and/or Masculinity from their current dysfunction, I've never felt comfortable applying a heteronormative sexuality to the more-than-human world around me.<br /><br />Thanks for your blog! sacorbell@gmail.comnoreply@blogger.com