A Barge To Avalon

Bo

וַיֹּאמֶר יְהוָה אֶל-מֹשֶׁה, נְטֵה יָדְךָ עַל-אֶרֶץ מִצְרַיִם בָּאַרְבֶּה, וְיַעַל, עַל-אֶרֶץ מִצְרָיִם; וְיֹאכַל אֶת-כָּל-עֵשֶׂב הָאָרֶץ, אֵת כָּל-אֲשֶׁר הִשְׁאִיר הַבָּרָד.

And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Stretch out thy hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up upon the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land, even all that the hail hath left.'

וַיֵּט מֹשֶׁה אֶת-מַטֵּהוּ, עַל-אֶרֶץ מִצְרַיִם, וַיהוָה נִהַג רוּחַ-קָדִים בָּאָרֶץ, כָּל-הַיּוֹם הַהוּא וְכָל-הַלָּיְלָה; הַבֹּקֶר הָיָה--וְרוּחַ הַקָּדִים, נָשָׂא אֶת-הָאַרְבֶּה.

And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and the LORD brought an east wind upon the land all that day, and all the night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.

וַיַּעַל הָאַרְבֶּה, עַל כָּל-אֶרֶץ מִצְרַיִם, וַיָּנַח, בְּכֹל גְּבוּל מִצְרָיִם: כָּבֵד מְאֹד--לְפָנָיו לֹא-הָיָה כֵן אַרְבֶּה כָּמֹהוּ, וְאַחֲרָיו לֹא יִהְיֶה-כֵּן.

And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the borders of Egypt; very grievous were they; before them there were no such locusts as they, neither after them shall be such.

וַיְכַס אֶת-עֵין כָּל-הָאָרֶץ, וַתֶּחְשַׁךְ הָאָרֶץ

For they covered the face of the whole earth ... Shemot 10:12-15

I had an awful dream this morning.

The time seemed of the past, like in the Nazi era. I was the teenage daughter of a Jewish couple. The Nazis were rounding up all the Jews, my family included. My family was caught. We were brought together into a group of many families who had been caught.

We were all lined up and bound upon gurneys in a row. The Nazis stretched out their arms and extended to each one bound to a gurney a black rod made of locusty-like bugs (reminds me of the machine-like bug in the movie Matrix). They were injecting each one of our bodies (in the right groin area) the line of bugs on the black rod. The bugs would eat us like a black plague from the inside out. After injection, each person would be released, because once injected, death was certain. The person's body would be beset with the black bug plaque and deteriorate from the inside out.

One of the Nazis separated me from the rest of the group because I was beautiful. They would use me until I grew older. When I was no longer of any use, then I would meet the same fate as those on the gurneys.

Later, when it came my time to be injected, when I was no longer an innocent teenager, but a danger to them, they brought me back into the room to be injected. I was injected. My still beautiful face began to turn the bluish grey color of death and started to decay. My whole face was covered with the plague.

I woke up.

THIS WILL JUST NOT DO AT ALL. I reject this dream in it's obvious meaning and outcome.

The magical Hebrew word for locust is ארבה.

I change ארבה into the same word, only now it is Aramaic. And now, it means barge - like the barge to the safety of Avalon, the Mystical Isle of Goddess.

While the Lord's Moses may have been a bringer of deathly plague, and the Nazis likewise were bringers of a deathly plague, I have transformed the plagues into a safe passage to Avalon, the Land where there is no death. It's my barge and I'll laugh if I want to.

(Also, when I woke up this morning, I had a waking vision of mighty angelic feet like radiant steel land standing upon the earth. I felt the Presence of defense and protection for me. The angel's name is Michael. The name was called out and reverberated in my mind as it's landing shook the whole earth.

Synchronicity - Assassination Attempt On U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords)

The Goddess Tree

Vaetchanan

אָנֹכִי עֹמֵד בֵּין-יְהוָה וּבֵינֵיכֶם
I stood, making known to you the interaction of essential elements ... Devarim 5:5

In Devarim 5:5 (cleaving to the sacred circles of a witch's double pentacle), we find the Goddess name בין-יהוה. Importantly, the Goddess name בין-יהוה is an essential expansion of the hei mappik (הּ) of the Goddess name בינהּ (Binah, the head of the left-hand tower of strength on the metaphysical Goddess Tree which integrates All Being and Nothingness - see Rebuilding Reality). Normatively, the magical Hebrew letter hei (the fourth letter, of Binah, which expands and collapses in perpetual oscillation between extremes) has a gematria of 5. Binah derives from the three letter shoresh בין, meaning to "penetrate to the core", "having insight", "revealing, making known", and "understanding the interaction of elements."

לְעֹשֵׂה הַשָּׁמַיִם, בִּתְבוּנָה: כִּי לְעוֹלָם חַסְדּוֹ.
for the heavens are made with understanding, as the beauty of It endures forever

The First

Interestingly, the double portioned witch's pentagram designating numerically the witch words in the magical Hebrew phrase above "has no connotation with good or evil." Instead, the pentalpha (as the pentagram is also called by mystics and in Pythagorean philosophical mathematics) and its circle is a symbol of "unity, wholeness, infinity, the goddess, female power, and the sun [beauty]."

The Last

In ancient times especially, the pentagram (i.e., the pentalpha) was represented by the Greek letter tau (the letter of resurrection, with a gematria of 300) and the Hebrew letter taf (the last letter of the Hebrew alphabet and the letter of truth, with a gematria of 400). The gematria of 300 corresponds to the three letters of בין, and the gematria of 400 corresponds to the four letters of יהוה in the the Goddess name בין-יהוה (Bĭn Īhuvah).

So, we can understand then that, while the Lord may have alot of things to say about this and that, the Lady will always have the first word and the last word to say about everything that is made. It's written into the very nature of reality.

Making Points

משנה ד': עשר ספירות בלימה עשר ולא תשע עשר ולא
אחת עשרה הבן בחכמה וחכם בבינה בחון בהם וחקור מהם והעמד
דבר על בוריו והשב יוצר על מכונו:

Sefer Yetzirah 1:4
Ten Sefirot of Nothingness
ten and not nine
ten and not eleven
Understand with Wisdom
Be wise with Understanding
Examine with them
and probe from them
Make [each] thing stand on its essence
And make the Creator sit on His base.

Each internal angle of each of the points of the pentagram equals 36 (לו) degrees (for example, see angle DAC in the schematic below as it sits upon the base line CD). This then, may be the degrees of this and that which He says that She actually listens to. LOL. Make Her world curl and He may just be able to make a few points.



Related - Awesome Goddess Tree Oil at WITCHCRAFTS by Liorah Lleucu

The Fearful Lord

Matot- Masei

וְאִם-לֹא תוֹרִישׁוּ אֶת-יֹשְׁבֵי הָאָרֶץ, מִפְּנֵיכֶם--וְהָיָה אֲשֶׁר תּוֹתִירוּ מֵהֶם, לְשִׂכִּים בְּעֵינֵיכֶם וְלִצְנִינִם בְּצִדֵּיכֶם; וְצָרְרוּ אֶתְכֶם--עַל-הָאָרֶץ, אֲשֶׁר אַתֶּם יֹשְׁבִים בָּהּ

But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then shall those that ye let remain of them be as thorns in your eyes, and as pricks in your sides, and they shall harass you in the land wherein ye dwell ... Bamidbar 33:55

So, why does the Lord really fear the Canaanites? Let me tell you, for the answer hides in His words.

As Thorns - לְשִׂכִּים

The Hebrew word typically translated as "as thorns" (namely, לְשִׂכִּים) derives from the shoresh (magical 3-letter root) שכך which means "to calm down." The war-mongering Lord fears that the Canaanites will civilize His obediently bloodthirsty Israelites. Under the "evil" influence of the Canaanites, the Israelites will become recalcitrant to wage the Lord's bloody wars, and instead will seek to return peacefulness to the Land.

As Pricks - וְלִצְנִינִם

The Hebrew word typically translated as "as pricks" (namely, וְלִצְנִינִם) derives from the shoresh צנן which means "to chill", "to cool" and "to shield with a protecting cool-headedness." The hot-headed Lord fears that the Canaanites will influence His easily emotionally-driven Israelites away from violent barbarity and toward civilized cool-headed thoughtful, civilized rational reason. He fears His people will "chill out" and prefer to have barBeques with the neighbors instead of killing them.

And Harass - וְצָרְרוּ

The Hebrew word typically translated as "and harass" (namely, וְצָרְרוּ) derives from the shoresh צרר which means "to bind together" and "joining." Most of all, the fearful Lord fears that His stiff-necked Israelites will find that they actually like the Canaanites, will form mutual kinship bonds with the Lady's Pagans, and will join and bind together to "calm down and chill out" the fearful Lord Himself.

Taken together, we can easily understand then that the Lord fears the power of the Canaanites who follow Goddess (also called the Lady in Pagan Witchcraft) to successfully transform Him in the very heart of and throughout the Land. He fears the Lady and Her Canaanites will civilize Him and all His Israelites. She and Her Canaanites are just so wicked, don't you know!

You see, the Lord just cannot win a war of words with the Lady, He fears. LOL.

The Circles Of Life And Light

Tazria-Metzora

וּשְׁלֹשִׁים יוֹם וּשְׁלֹשֶׁת יָמִים
three and thirty days ... Vayikra 12:4

וְשִׁשִּׁים יוֹם וְשֵׁשֶׁת יָמִים
threescore and six days ... Vayikra 12:5

The time of purification offered by a mother in intercession for a son is three and thirty days. The time of purification offered by a mother in intercession for a daughter is threescore and six days (three and three and sixty days). The difference between these two amounts of time is not only three and thirty days, it is two magical letters lamed.

The Circle of Life

Three is a number of the Goddess. As a female, a daughter is a living incarnation of the Divine Feminine principle. On account of this, through her mother's intercessory period of purification and recovery from childbirth, a daughter enters into an extra three days specifically set aside through which is purified her incarnate connection to the Divine Feminine principle. At her birth, a daughter is already directly connected into to her own Divine Feminine source. Her mother's intercessory time provides space in time for that connection to become purified in a world made with time. This is the reason a woman does not have to undergo brit milah (circumcision in time, in Jewish tradition) to reconnect to the Divine source. A female is born already connected to Her source and to the endless Divine circle of life. The ritual period observed by a daughter's mother purifies the daughter's born connection within the context of spacetime. A female is born a priestess of Goddess. Threescore days are equal to sixty days directly corresponding to the magical letter samech, the creation letter corresponding to ordination and to the endless cycle of life.

The Circle of Light

The two extra magical letters lamed (each with a value of thirty) contained within the time of a mother's intercession on behalf of her son come together to create the number of magical samech (with a value of threescore or sixty), the number of connection into the feminine circle of life and light (sovev kol almin). Through his mother's time of intercessory purification and recovery from childbirth a son becomes encircled and protected by the encircling Divine Feminine Light called sovev kol almin, the encircling encompassing Divine energy which is perceived as universally permeating yet transcendent, supraconscious and elusive by the masculine mind. Thus, the perceptually transcendent Divine Light (as taught by many patriarchal religious teachings) is actually a Light of the Divine Feminine, and while it may be perceived as transcendent by the masculine mind, to the feminine mind, there is no separation in the Light - it is ever whole and complete.

Taken together, the differences between the purification periods observed by a mother for her daughters and sons reflect the fact the a mother is acting as a priestess of the Divine Feminine with these observances. Through the days of a female, a daughter is herself ordained a priestess of the Divine Feminine. Through the days of a male, a son is encircled and protected by the Light of the Divine Feminine.

The Witch's Wheel

Tzav

עַד יוֹם מְלֹאת, יְמֵי מִלֻּאֵיכֶם
until the days of your consecration be fulfilled ... Vayikra 8:33

The time of consecration numbers seven days. The number eight represents the time of fulfillment.

The Hebrew words 'consecration' (מְלֹאת) and 'be fulfilled' (מִלֻּאֵיכֶם) both derive from the shoresh (3-letter etymological root) מלא meaning to 'fill to abundance', 'satisfying', 'having full value', 'equipping' and 'conferring authority'.

As I write this, I sit here in my witchy bedroom purring with a satisfied feline delight, surrounded in a sacred space filled and equipped with many magical trinkets and treasures, many of which have been handcrafted or rescued and repurposed.

This witch's wheel is one such rescued item, recrafted for use in my sacred space. It has eight wooden spokes, one spoke for each of the eight witches' sabbats. Made of wood (עץ), each spoke concentrates essential primal energy to a goal, and strengthens and stores power. The spinning wheel represents that with which the witch weaves together threads of destiny and magical power.

The Name of the Celtic spintress goddess of spellcraft and magic is Habetrot. Upon Her wheel are the fibers of All Desire spun into the fabric of time itself. Wearing clothing She makes heals All Illness.

My sacred space is equipped with the full authority to do it.

Yellow, the color of my wheel, is the color of the sun. The magical power emanating through it is one of brightness and gladness, spiritual perfection and illuminating clarity (אֶת-הָאוּרִים וְאֶת-הַתֻּמִּים).

The Witch's Mask

Ki Tisa

אֶת-הַמַּסְוֶה
with the mask ... Shemot 34:35

Last week, we saw the relevance of the witch's hat to the office of kehunah (priestesshood) and to generating the Divine occult energy through which magic may be performed. The ritually generated energy (as symbolized with the witch's hat) is perceived in the form of a cone circling up, from tav (the final lowest most differentiated magical letter of the Hebrew alphabet) to aleph (the first highest most paradoxically Divine-human magical letter of the Hebrew alphabet), from the evocative (summoning up) direction of involutionary (most outward to most inward) consciousness. This week, we shall see the relevance of the witch's mask to bringing down and utilizing that energy, from aleph to tav, from the invocative (expressive) direction of evolutionary (most inward to most outward) consciousness.

The Hebrew word הַמַּסְוֶה, meaning 'mask', begins and ends with the letter hei (ה), a grammatically feminine letter. Consequently, we can see then that we are dealing with an element of the Divine Feminine, of Goddess. That specific element is a mask of Goddess - in other words, a Goddess mask. Goddess Herself casts Her sacred circle around Her mask by encompassing, surrounding and entering into the Hebrew word for mask (namely, הַמַּסְוֶה) with two Divine feminine letters hei.

The Hebrew word et (אֶת), in this case meaning 'with', is not be translated directly through understanding but indirectly through inherently known inference and actualized association. Et is purely a grammatical word implying a global inclusiveness of everything that is and is not. Additionally, there is no 'space' separating the word אֶת from the word הַמַּסְוֶה - the two words are inseparably joined together (אֶת-הַמַּסְוֶה), Goddess and Her Mask, the witch and her mask. Et carries the connotation of all from aleph to tav, and also carries the connotation of 'coming to add'. Thus, Goddess comes to add (as symbolized by the witch's mask) Her blessing to the Divinely magical energy ritually generated (as symbolized by the witch's hat) within the sacred circle. It is with the witch's mask that Goddess Herself enters into, empowers and blesses the sacred magic conjured up within the witch's circle. The witch's mask is a vessel of Goddess, Her power and Her blessing.



Here is shown the handcrafted leather Goddess mask I've acquired following last week's Full Moon witchy Purimfest for Samhain this year. The hand tooled top quality vegetable tanned leather is painted metallic black with an overlay of shimmering iridescent purple, and embellished with black dimensional painting. All of the leather forming, painting and design work is done freehand. Black and silver satin ribbons add the perfect finishing touch. A one of a kind artful expression, my Goddess mask is exquisite and enchantingly magical.

Meheitavel

Vayishlach

וְשֵׁם אִשְׁתּוֹ מְהֵיטַבְאֵל
and the woman's name is Meheitavel ... Bereshit 36:39

The Queen's name is Meheitavel (מהיטבאל). Meheitavel means She who in Goddess (מהי) is immersed (טבאל). With a gematria of 97, Meheitavel embodies all time (זמן). Importantly, she designates time and prepares each moment with purpose.

Like Hekate, Meheitavel is the Witch at the Crossroads, the Guardian of the Depths, the Queen of the Night and the Light of the Divine Feminine. Her power transcends territorial boundaries. Her magical words influence from afar. Stars ever fall from her hair like torches blazing through the deep deep night.

The first part of her name, namely She who in Goddess (מהי), has a gematria of 55. The Hebrew word behold (hein, הן) also has a gematria of 55.

הֵן הָאָדָם הָיָה כְּאַחַד מִמֶּנּוּ

The second part of her name, namely is Immersed (טבאל), has a gematria of 42. The Hebrew words great (gadolah, גדלה) and jubilee (yovel, יבל) also each have a gematria of 42. Meheitavel is the witch of the Garden of the Dark Moon Jubilee.

Related entry - The Comet

She Who Named Him Adam

Ha'Azinu

כִּי שֵׁם יְהוָה, אֶקְרָא
because I name, I EVE proclaim ... Devarim 32:3

The Divine Name יהוה is the name of Goddess. More importantly, it is the Divine Feminine Essence of our mother Eve. Like Celtic Morrigan, I-Eve is a singular Goddess of triple form (3 unique letters).

The Hebrew letter yod can be translated as "I". This is the pintele yid, the Divine Spark, of every human being.

The Hebrew letters הוה can be translated as Woman, namely Eve. The Hebrew letter ה and the Western/Latin letter e are both descendants of a common ancient Phoenician letter form. Thus, the letter ה can legitimately be translated and transliterated as the letter e. Likewise, the letter ו can be translated and transliterated as the letter v.

Taken together, the Divine Name יהוה means I,Eve. Thus, the Tetragrammaton clearly and psycholinguistically refers to the Divine Feminine Essence, the Creatress of All, to Goddess. It is She who named him Adam.

Redeemer Of Blood

Matot-Masei
ג The Law of The Goddess and The Three Mothers (last night) אמש

גֹּאֵל הַדָּם--עַל הַמִּשְׁפָּטִים הָאֵלֶּה
the redeemer of blood according to the Law of Goddess ... Vayikra 35:24

The difference between the smiter and the redeemer (avenger) of blood is judged according to the Law of Goddess.

גֹּאֵל הַדָּם = redeemer (avenger) of blood
עַל הַמִּשְׁפָּטִים = according to the Law
הָאֵלֶּה = of Goddess

It's simply Torah.

I dreamt a dream. Its details are only for me to know. Even more importantly, those who would smite shall be smitten. So mote it be. אמן

hear the Voice
of the surviving Girl-Child who turns you around
even as you sought to utterly smite
and the seven-branched menorah fell
three mothers
an Englishwoman, an Irishwoman, a Jewishwoman
one Woman in Goddess
still stands
a Mistress of dreams
weaving destiny into time with Her hands

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triple goddesses as permutations of (time) אמש

Oil Of The Left & The Secret Of The Red Cow

Tazria-Metzora

some of the oil that is in his left hand ... Vayikra 14:27
מִן-הַשֶּׁמֶן, אֲשֶׁר עַל-כַּפּוֹ הַשְּׂמָאלִית

The oil in the priest's left hand pertains to oil produced by the 'left hand' path of the Divine Feminine.

Potential roots of the oil (השמן) from the gate of שם (the middle path):

שׁמן - nourish, eight (right hand path)
שׂמל - cover (as in kaparot), left protected side (left hand path)

In the priest's ritual, the oil must come from the left hand path, from the root שׂמל in contradistinction to the right hand root שׁמן. Importantly, a root traditionally believed to have given birth to the "oil root" שׁמן is also the root of neshamah, namely נשם meaning to breathe and to move air. Interestingly, the root נשם can also mean an impure creeper. We can see then, why the priest must use oil from the left hand (from the root שׂמל) as opposed to oil from the right hand (from the traditionally linked roots שׁמן and נשם) in this purity ritual. The left hand path's root will not give rise to an impure creeper.

Traditionally believed to be pure, the neshamah in this element of the ritual will enable introduction of impurity into the whole rite. Traditionally believed to be impure, the left hand in this element of the ritual makes pure.

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Holy Ground

Shemot

The place on which you stand is holy ground ... Shemot 3:5
כִּי הַמָּקוֹם אֲשֶׁר אַתָּה עוֹמֵד עָלָיו, אַדְמַת-קֹדֶשׁ הוּא

Celtic Underworld Tradition transmits that from within the deepest depths of the planet emanates a mystic order of Priestess Awareness associated with Goddess. This hidden order of the Divine Feminine lives beyond the confines of time and is known as the Sisters at the Back of the North Wind [1].

The Sisters appear in meditation as hooded women of great knowledge and power [1]. Unifying all female witches as One into a Sisterhood of Witches, from Beyond at the Back of the North Wind, Sisterhood Consciousness emanates from beyond the place where evil begins. Importantly then, there is no evil in the Sisterhood, making Sisterhood Consciousness a manifest intelligence resulting (as taught in Kabbalah) from the 'elevation' of evil back into the 'realm of the Holy'. Touching each individual witch, the 'realm of the Holy' emanates from and wholly embraces us within the depths of the earth itself.

The ground upon which we stand is Holy.

Footnote:

[1] Power Within The Land, R. J. Stewart

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Modron, Welsh Mother Goddess associated with autumn, harvest and fertility (art by Karemelancholia

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Bereshit מם

וַיֹּאמֶר אֱלֹהִים, יְהִי רָקִיעַ בְּתוֹךְ הַמָּיִם, וִיהִי מַבְדִּיל, בֵּין מַיִם לָמָיִם ; וַיְהִי-כֵן
And Elohim said: 'Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters' ; and it was so.

וַיֹּאמֶר אֱלֹהִים, יִקָּווּ הַמַּיִם מִתַּחַת הַשָּׁמַיִם אֶל-מָקוֹם אֶחָד, וְתֵרָאֶה, הַיַּבָּשָׁה; וַיְהִי-כֵן.
And Elohim said: 'Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear.' And it was so.

וְאֵד, יַעֲלֶה מִן-הָאָרֶץ, וְהִשְׁקָה, אֶת-כָּל-פְּנֵי הָאֲדָמָה.
and there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.

וַיְבָרֶךְ אֱלֹהִים אֶת-יוֹם הַשְּׁבִיעִי, וַיְקַדֵּשׁ אֹתוֹ
And Elohim blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it

in the beginning of the morning, one day ...

A waking vision this shabbat morning - a mist surrounded me and filled my vision. Then, the middle of the mist parted and a mountain could be seen. Both the base and peak of the mountain extended beyond my focused field of vision, and both extended from within the mist even as much of the sloping sides of the central portion of the mountain were clearly visible. Suddenly, a pearl sphere the size of a giant hand fell from the skies within which the peak of the mountain rested. Just as suddenly, a Divine masculine hand reached down from the same skies and caught the pearl sphere in midair just before it entered the portion of the mist covering the base of the mountain to strike the sea/earth in which the mountain rested.

Two ideas came immediately and simultaneously to mind - one, that erev shabbat I had watched the video Mists Of Avalon, and two, "catching" the "falling" soul of messianic consciousness as described in Kabbalah for the Hebrew letter nun.

As I am investigating the symbolism of the vision for this entry, out of the mist it becomes clear to me a connection between the triple aspect of the Goddess Morrigan (of a singular Goddess Modron) and the three verses of the Birkhat Kohanim (of a singular Kohen).

My Fully Human feminine vision, like the hand of the Divine masculine, has "caught" the soul of messianic-shabbat consciousness falling as two opposite tiplets (v'hatum b'shesh taba'ot) extending out of the mist of Avalon (אב אלון, Av Alon - Ab Duir - a Jewish-Celtic combination meaning Ancestor Door/Oak.

Modron is associated with autumn (the "fall" season). Duir is associated with the oak "tree". This morning's hidden path divination performed with the waning cresecent moon 11% full during the planetary hour of Jupiter (door of the sabbath soul) was the card "tree in fall", a card symbolizing liberation.

Today's Torah portion is Bereshit, containing all three symbols - mist, tree and fall - were all singularly caught as one like an acorn of shabbat consciousness in my waking vision.

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