Moura rosary meditations.

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Dear Reader,

It is the holy, yet mournful season of Moura. As Our Lady descends into the Netherworld, she faces challenges that all make for strong meditative foci while reciting the Rosary.

Decade One: The temptation of Our Lady and her fear in the face of it.

Decade Two: The abasement of Our Lady as she is stripped of her signs of power and authority.

Decade Three: The humiliation of Our Lady as she is forced to kneel before the Dark Queen and suffer the insults of the Dark Queen's daughters as if she were not royalty herself.

Decade Four: The death of Our Lady. This one is pretty self explanatory. 

Decade Five: The desecration of Our Lady's corpse by hanging it upon the world pillar.

These meditative foci can be used at other times of the year. But they are especially well timed for Moura, Kala, and Hiatus.

Let us consider the time between Luciad and Moura.

Dear Reader,

At the time of Luciad, Our Lady Anna steps onto the iron wheel of incarnation. To move through the different layers of Creation, she must take on different forms. Indeed, she must move through the whole of Creation to reach the Netherworld and where the Abyss of Khear awaits her. 

On one hand, many will rightly argue that Our Lady is present within our hearts and therefore in the world. This is a powerful mystery in its own right but to focus only on this one is to ignore her sacrificial descent. Because of her descent through the whole of Creation, there comes a time where she will incarnate in this layer of Creation. There are infinite ways she might incarnate. Perhaps as a bird, perhaps as a sleeping seed, or as a human child that breathes three breaths and then dies. We can not to know how or in what form Our Lady will incarnate in this layer of Creation. But it will happen and her shining light will bless our layer of Creation in her infinite mercy.

At Moura, she has reached the outer reaches of the Netherworld. Moura-eve we celebrate her successful journey to those dark gates even as we prepare for the solemnity of her journey through the Netherworld.

Disregard my incense recipe for Loki!

 Dear Reader,

If you happen to have a copy of my incense recipe for Loki, throw it away and don't use it. In my ignorance, I included cinnamon which is toxic to burn. Please, for the love of what is holy and the good of your health, don't burn cinnamon. It can have very negative effects on you if you breathe it in.

I apologize for a lack of Divination related posts.

Dear Reader,

I have not given up the practice of divination. Indeed, I am still deeply in love with this aspect of magical study. My problem is I am rather stumped on what direction to go next. I have to review the plethora of posts I have made on this topic to find the loose threads that got dropped so that I can pick them up and work them out.

It has been difficult to do that because of two things: 1 - there are so many posts to go through from the years that it is overwhelming. 2 - my health issues are getting in the way of posting things or really doing any writing except for that which is therapy related. It's kinda bad, y'all. I'm working with my doctors and specialists to get it sorted out. I'm eyeballs deep in alligators trying to make handbags while they're gnawing on me. It's not fun. But I'm trying.