The Ship Of Safe Passage

Ki Tetzi

כִּי תִקְצֹר קְצִירְךָ בְשָׂדֶךָ וְשָׁכַחְתָּ עֹמֶר בַּשָּׂדֶה
when the reaper reaps in the field ... Devarim 24:19

Last night before bed I drew the sixth rune, the first rune of the second row in my developing set of personal runerows. It was the 'm' rune mannaz (pronounced mawn-nawz), the rune of Divine consciousness made manifest in the individual and within the race of humanity. Mannaz is also known as the adornment of ships, the androgyne and the guardian of the institution of blood sisterhood.

I dreamt.

Political structures and of the wealthy filled the atmosphere. I was neither a political figure nor wealthy in the material sense, but for some reason I was among these kinds of people and in the politically charged situations. I wasn't a central figure, but my presence had been deemed needed. I was just there - just in case I had been chosen as some believed I was. Some weren't sure if I had been chosen, so I was given no real role in the proceedings - I was only there because some believed I had been chosen. So, I was just there, one among this group of people.

Then, news was delivered to the gathering. There had been a horrific massacre of a group of people. I was chosen by the President to go with the team to investigate the crime scene. We went to investigate.

There was blood all over the place. The people in the place had been brutally butchered, literally. The people had been killed on account of one particular woman's presence, they were her supporters and her group. She had also been killed. Looking around the place, I 'saw' back in time the manner in which the woman had been particularly gruesomely butchered and cut up - her head had first been methodically cut in half from the crown of her head down to her neck. Then, both her breasts had been chopped into large chunks and then rechopped into smaller chunks. The vision was awful, but in it was also a message.

That this gruesome fate had been called up and sealed for either this woman or myself was the message. We could not both occupy the office for which I had been chosen. The actuality of the fate had been called up to discern between us. Watching the woman's dissection at the hand of the Reaper, I did not feel she had been a woman obviously deserving of such a horrible fate. Nevertheless, having been summoned (by whom I don't know), the Reaper reaped.

I woke up.

With it's association as the adornment of ships, mannaz follows perfectly from Thursday night's dream, Mysteries of the Staircase.



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Runes 1-3: Transmission of a Sacred Secret
Rune 4: The Wholiness Code
Rune 5: Mysteries of the Staircase
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The Conditional Commandment

Shoftim

כִּי יִפָּלֵא מִמְּךָ דָבָר לַמִּשְׁפָּט, בֵּין-דָּם לְדָם
If there arises a matter too hard for you in judgment, between blood and blood ... Devarim 17:8

This is a conditional statement - if the judgment is too hard, then do (and don't do) ... all as it is written and be relieved of the hard judgment. Given this conditionality, in the absence of the condition, one should do something different.

In the Hebrew phrase, the word translated as 'too hard for you' is ממך. This Hebrew word can also be translated as 'to become impoverished.'

In the Hebrew phrase, the word translated as 'a matter' is דבר. This Hebrew word can also be translated as 'commandment', 'event', 'happening', 'anything', and 'to come to a conclusion.'

Importantly, the central idea of the phrase concerns 'between blood and blood", בין-דם לדם. The Hebrew word translated as 'between', namely בין can also be translated as 'inter-'. Thus, the idea here concerns inter-blood ties and suggests that the phrase pertains to ancestral connections and tribal 'bloods.'

Taking all this together, it is clear to me that Torah is telling us that there is an active commandment to bring together one's bloods - 'blood and blood' - and that only way to do that is by accepting and following through to its conclusion - to endure to the end of it - the hard judgment naturally associated with doing so. In other words, as taught in Celtic Faery Witchcraft, redemption of the bloodline comes through accepting the work to make corrections (called tikkunim in Jewish tradition) for one's ancestors. Here, the Torah is telling us that tikkunim are effected and brought to a conclusion through an 'event of impoverishment' in some form. If the judgment of some form of impoverishment is not too hard to endure - if one can accept it and perservere through to its natural conclusion - then the work to redeem the blood of one's ancestors is completed with the conclusion of the event of impoverishment, leading to the bloods being peacefully and wholy united into wholeheartedness.

Blessed be all my ancestors through whom I am blessed and all my ways have been made wholehearted! There is no disunity among them. I am a wholy witch indeed! Neither tumah (ritual impurity) nor taharah (ritual purity) exist in me as independent mutually-exclusive qualities. It is all whole, כל קדוש.

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Warding With Reverse Vision

Re'eh

וְהֵסִיר יְהוָה מִמְּךָ, כָּל-חֹלִי
and the Divine wards me from impoverished weekdays ... Devarim 7:15

Last week, a reader emailed and inquired as to my recommendations for warding a journey. Pay attention and see. hamayvin yavin

In my own experience, my circle of protection travels with me wherever I go or frequent - the circle of protection 'just is' and I take it for granted. It's like 'my mark' guards my spaces.

To both protect and bring wholeness into one's space every day in the physical world - a letter, a sigil or symbol, a sacred object, or a prayer that is meaningful and naturally connects one with one's Divine Spark without needing to think about it can be a useful way to physically mark and ward one's space. For example, in my office at work, not only does my routine Presence there 'mark the space' in my office, but I have consciously marked it as well with items which bring up from me the Divine Feminine - a crystal ball, a small spiral Goddess figure, a black cat Bastet statue, an elegant crystal point hanging window prism, a protection mini spell bottle, a small red mojo bag, a tiny hanging besom, and the soft tinkling music of electronic windchimes grace and ward my office space. These items, like segulot and charms, consciously plug me into the circuit of power of my own Divine Awareness. Thus, beyond and within Awareness, supra-temporally and temporally, the space I inhabit is warded, protected and enriched.

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Claiming The Blessing Of Less

Eikev

רְאֵה, אָנֹכִי נֹתֵן לִפְנֵיכֶם--הַיּוֹם: בְּרָכָה, וּקְלָלָה.
Behold, I set before you this day the blessing (בְּרָכָה) 'with a bit of weight loss too' (וּקְלָלָה) ... Devarim 11:26

The root for the Hebrew word (וּקְלָלָה) normally translated as 'and a curse' in this sentence is קלל which can also mean 'light in weight' and 'less material substance'.

Halleluyah! I've dropped a blessed dress size and anticipate more pounds are on the cursed road to oblivion! Thank Goddess!

I'm not weighing myself or counting calories. I'm just eating sensibly now, avoiding comfort foods and drinking more water. At 48, I still have clear toned skin and a pretty face. Now I'm going to take back my healthy body as a witch too, Goddess help me do this for me. I have so much more energy already, with just these few unknown pounds banished into nothingness.

Dittany of Crete is a magic herb I've acquired to walk with me down the blessed road to less weight. Drink the herbal tea plain or add lemon, cinnamon or honey to taste.

Witches can even turn 'less material substance' into a blessing. Abracadabra, so mote it be, אמן.

Related entry - Re'eh

The Magic Of Crossing Over

Va'etchanan

עֲלֵה רֹאשׁ הַפִּסְגָּה, וְשָׂא עֵינֶיךָ יָמָּה וְצָפֹנָה וְתֵימָנָה וּמִזְרָחָה--וּרְאֵה בְעֵינֶיךָ: כִּי-לֹא תַעֲבֹר, אֶת-הַיַּרְדֵּן הַזֶּה.

Get thee up into the top of Pisgah, and lift up thine eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and behold with thine eyes; for thou shalt not go over this Jordan ... Devarim 3:27

Lift up thine eyes and look westward and northward and southward and eastward - with these elemental directions - with west and north opposite one another and with south and east opposite one another, one cannot cross over into a new set of conditions. In other words, to make magic real and to change the shape of reality, one cannot use this order of elemental directions with west and north opposite one another and with south and east opposite one another.

Indeed, the set of directions given to Moses is a deliberate misassociation of the elemental directions. He couldn't cross over because he failed to make the correction.









Try these ritual elemental directions. You may just cross over into a new experience of consciousness.

Mystery Of The Half-Blood Princess

Devarim
Mystery Of The Half-Blood Princess

וַיֵּצֵא סִיחֹן לִקְרָאתֵנוּ
then the foal (Sihon) came out to meet us ... Devarim 2:32

וַיִּתְּנֵהוּ יְהוָה אֱלֹהֵינוּ, לְפָנֵינוּ; וַנַּךְ אֹתוֹ וְאֶת-בָּנָו, וְאֶת-כָּל-עַמּוֹ.
And the LORD our God delivered him up before us; and we smote him, and his sons, and all his people ... Devarim 2:33

וַנִּלְכֹּד אֶת-כָּל-עָרָיו, בָּעֵת הַהִוא, וַנַּחֲרֵם אֶת-כָּל-עִיר מְתִם, וְהַנָּשִׁים וְהַטָּף: לֹא הִשְׁאַרְנוּ
And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed every city, the men, and the women, and the little ones; none were left behind ... Devarim 2:34

שָׂרִיד רַק
(yet there is) only that survivor ... Devarim 2:33-34

A foal (סיחן) is an equine, a young animal (like a horse or donkey, for example) one year old or younger. The Hebrew word for horse is sus (סוס). The Hebrew word for donkey is chamor (חמור). We can see that the Hebrew word for foal (סיחן) contains one letter, the first leading letter from each of the Hebrew words for horse and donkey, namely and respectively, samech (ס) and chet (ח).

The first leading letter of the Hebrew word for foal is also the first leading letter of the Hebrew word for horse, that is, samech (ס). Samech corresponds to the mystical power of equanimity. In kabbalah, each magical Hebrew letter is called a horse. By analyzing the Hebrew words we can understand that in the Hebrew word foal (סיחן) is encoded the state of consciousness where the horse of equinimity (a power of the soul) leads the horse-donkey hybrid of the lifeforce. Thus, a horse represents a power of the soul, while a hybrid represents the soul and body united in harmony as one.

In the Hebrew word foal (סיחן) the power of equanimity, through the Hebrew letter samech, leads and is in control of the Hebrew letter chet corresponding to the lifeforce. This is a step into evolving Mastery.

A foal, which is both yet specifically neither a horse nor a donkey, leading with the Hebrew letter samech, came out to meet the Israelites. No foals were left remaining, but there is only that survivor. A hybrid survives.

The offspring of equine hybrids (בן-כלאיים) are almost always sterile. Almost always. Occasionally, the female hybrid, but never the male hybrid, will be fertile due to differences in the way eggs and sperm are produced. The fertile female hybrid can be bred back with either a horse or donkey to produce further fertile offspring.

The rare fertile female hybrid is a survivor.

Sus (horse) comes from the root סוס meaning to move quickly.

Chamor (donkey) comes from the root חמר meaning basic raw matter or raw material substance.

The rare fertile female hybrid represents a deeper high-energy level of matter which 'moves quickly'. She embodies It. Her will is in It.

She survives, evolves and reproduces.

Foals (novice mystics of any Tradition) came out to meet the Israelities (also novice mystics of the kabbalistic Tradition, in distinction with Levi'im and Kohanim). The question is asked, "why do foals chatter their teeth when they meet each other?" CryHorse answers, "It's called clakking. It looks funny but what a foal is doing is telling whatever horse it is that comes up to him other than his mother is 'don't hurt me', I am small and helpless."

Understand. When the foals met face to face, one female grew up a survivor.

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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