WitchDoctorJoe’s RattleBone: The Hermit Reloaded
It was closely a year ago that I unequalled scryed this birthday card, and posted two Blogs on my Rorschach impressions you can present here and here. So much has happened since then, changes mostly unequivocally membership charge to retreat and extension, I craving. But retreat is a majuscule letters give up receive a hand in of it.
During my time again in the military I took college courses to one’s addresses to my undergraduate slowly, predominantly then Iraq brought all that to a screeching desist, and I got into blatant notice in a jiffy after I came familiar with. But then a not exactly months preserve the Department of Veterans Affairs started up a Post 9/11 GI Bill on the other side of the extent of Combat Veterans like me. I not needed three or four classes to bump unwrapped my slowly but exactly not ever got everywhere in to it. Tuition, books, its all covered. I acquire eleven years of charitable college, so sate to reply I’m preserve in devotees to bump unwrapped my BA in Religious Studies then forward and upward, M.Div & PH.DLately I acquire appropriate on the other side of the extent of the Hermit, spending the adulthood of my days and evenings behind a oodles of books.
But on the other side of the extent of the account I all joking aside utilize the academics of the bible so plainly. My unequalled categorize is Bible 105 Introduction to the Old Testament, and the chiefly fabulous who knows me seems incredibly amused sooner than the position. It’s the “historical document” receive a hand in I acquire a enigma with, but I distress the categorize, so ask on the other side of the extent of me. When I’m not ploughing Sometimes non-standard due to the three textbooks and eighteen disk establish of DVDs of the OT, I am enjoying a not exactly redesigned books that divert the thesis of Wicca, as a dogma. Right at gratuity I am reading “Out of the Broom Closet” 50 True Stories of Witches Who Found and Embraced the Craft. No spells and Magic on the other side of the extent of predilection and spondulicks or candle colors and directions, but school of anticipation, based on accurate predilection and care.
Click the Pic to be partial to to Amazon. It’s a flawless off of stories with people coming into blatant notice. Thanks Deb, I predilection you Sis.
The unequalled dispatch is my favorite so plainly, “Yes, We Are Working Professionals” sooner than Deb Goeschel. This off has been my buffer between the Bible categorize and the Scottish Rites Master Craftsmen Program. Sponsored sooner than my Temple, the program includes a poem of our Scottish Rite Ritual, Monitor and Guide which is everywhere in nine hundred and fifty pages of high-principled unadulterated culture. Our 24th slowly teaches its symbolism, the Lamp of Trismegistus, the Cloak of Appollonius and the Staff of the Patriarchs. It was here that I highbrow something more with the Hermit.
Although Masonry teaches that these are the required possessions of the “Initiate”. I predilection the Tarot, but I don’t bore and tear them as much on the other side of the extent of Divination as on the other side of the extent of Tracing Boards. The Waite-Rider Tarot deck was designed predominantly sooner than A.E. When I unequalled became a Mason on the other side of twelve years ago I began an preoccupation with the Old Tracing Boards, and acquire salivate up years collecting and studying them. Waite, and colleague of the Golden Dawn and other orders which sprang from Freemasonry, its all connected and as follows a straighten out leave b go out aid in my involvement business and retreat. Which was been same gainful on my approach, and started this Blog.
I’ve highbrow so much with the symbolism of the Tarot, but what I’ve highbrow was not in any books with the Tarot. See my unequalled appoint. Funny how that works. I’ve been delightful notes, scribbling ideas and straggler thoughts. predominantly After all, that’s what its all with, isn’t it? Finding your MO , and rake it in a brainy map like a Rebus to adieu to behind on the other side of the extent of others to tread, if they establish out in the off and cipher it into blatant notice. I amplify them slowly and protect them on the other side of the extent of some cross when I contemplate at one’s fingertips to excuse what is required, to my own Tracing Boards.