Workstudy and Articles with Subcription
First Moon of Spring 2023
By Phoenix the Elder – Dear Dreamers, we have completed another entire Magical “Seasonal Year” and Spring has finally arrived. Our new beginning (rebirth) lines up with some other powerful shifts. Start to watch your signs three days before the new moon. We have a busy work-study moon cycle this month and lots of things […]
Dreamer Questions
By Phoenix the Elder – I don’t really do podcasts because they are never really heard or seen in the podcast popular world, so I stick to the basics. I had a dreamer ask me a question, so I thought I would share it here. If you have any questions about dreaming (in waking or […]
Spring: Dragon Raises its Head
By Phoenix the Elder – I am a purist and creative at heart and I have never been a follower of festivals of getting drunk or high that western religions tend to do. Today on Mardi Gras, I celebrate and honor the Dragon Raises its Head Festival. The Chinese Dragon Heads Raising Day falls on […]
Third Moon of Winter 2023
By Phoenix the Elder – We finally made it past Midwinter and now enter our 3rd and final Moon of the Lunar Seasonal Year. Congratulations for those who have completed another full year of moon work. We have no 13th Moon this year so we move forward into our Last Moon of Winter. The New […]
Shuimu – Chinese Magical Water Goddess 水母娘娘 greatMother of Water
“Goddess Positive” information by Phoenix the Elder – I am doing a series of divine women of China and the black and gold cover image will denote that, in the article section. This month it is a particularly favorite subject of mine: Water Goddesses who fall under the mystical, and magical when it comes to […]
Dragons, Drakonia and Draco
By Phoenix the Elder – Like all evolutions, the Dragons who had power still do and they still roam the earth, but one must be an advanced dreamer to really experience them. The female dragons are gentle and powerful in their nature and very different from male dragons. They are a collective animism soul and […]
Chinese Spirit of the Sun
By Phoenix the Elder, Solar Deity by Heathen Chinese; with additions from other writers – Oral tradition was a teaching story on how to apply the fullness of the circle of how the ancients dealt with trauma, hardships, jealousy, and a host of other emotional and physical issues. This was replaced by Mythology in ancient […]
Second Moon of Winter 2023
By Phoenix the Elder – Hello Dreamers, we begin our Midwinter season with the 2nd moon of Winter, beginning on Saturday, January 21, 2023, at 1° Aquarius. Our 2nd full moon of winter is Sunday, February 5, 2023, sitting at 16° Leo. All I can say is wow, the first moon of Winter was very […]
Goddess Taygete the Ceryneian Hind
By Phoenix the Elder – I love mythology but I have had one issue since I was young… women, their stories, and their shamanic cultural stories were all changed when written language began to have more power over societies. These oral traditions and stories turned into written stories from the very beginning, finding women’s entire […]
Midwinter Dreaming
By Phoenix the Elder – Midwinter is a very magical time, it is a time for the dreamers. So many of us feel we have to remain busy or awake during the winter moons but this is not true. Our most ancient ancestors always show us in small ways of the rare pieces left, that […]
The Doctrine of the Mysterious Female in Taoism: A Transpersonalist View
Phoenix the Elder – I’ve always done some Tao work, either martial arts in the Buddist way (a few times) in my long journey or the I Ching practice (one I Ching Hexagram a year) and practiced that all year long as a medicine. It’s been good. I’ve always known that the Tao is truly […]
The Phoenix of Chu Xiong Culture
Various Sources – Chu, or Ch’u (Chinese: 楚, Hanyu Pinyin: Chǔ, Old Chinese) was a Zhou dynasty vassal state. Their first ruler was King Wu of Chu in the early 8th century BCE. Chu was located in the south of the Zhou heartland and lasted during the Spring and Autumn period. At the end of […]