Chaos Craft: The Wheel of the Year in Eight Colours by Dee Steve & Vayne Julian

Author:Dee, Steve & Vayne, Julian [Dee, Steve]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The Universe Machine
Published: 2015-02-01T16:00:00+00:00

Down to earth spirituality

This recognition, of the presence of the sacred in every moment, allows compassion to arise even for those people whom we find difficult. It allows us to act (albeit sometimes to painfully prick the poison boil) without feelings of hatred or the need to take refuge in a (suffering-tastic) de-humanising attitude. Our orientation to events changes, so while we may still feel that something is a bad situation we don’t so much rise above it but engage with it in a way that betokens a caring motivation, a stance that nourishes rather than depletes our psychic reserves. This allows groups to flourish and develop a culture of mutual respect and empowerment (both internally and in their relations with others). It also helps them successfully adapt to inclusion and exclusions, to develop what has been called ‘collective wisdom’, which in magic-speak is the empowerment of the community’s egregore.

In the face of the slings and arrows of fortune, and the vicissitudes of human nature, working magick in communities can be a huge challenge (as well as being, for folks like me, greatly rewarding). So let us have compassion for ourselves too, and practice the wry grin of the bodhisattva. After all nobody said The Great Work, or indeed our refuge in the Sangha, was going to be easy!

JV

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