Workstudy and Articles with Subcription
Three Nights of Dreaming and the Archetype of the Celestial Trickster
By Phoenix the Elder – I have transiting Pluto coming into my third house of Aquarius in 2024, and this means that I am going to have to start dealing with Tricksters on a more daily level in waking or night dreaming. I want to share a story about the three nights of dreaming that […]
Jiutian Xuannü 九天玄女 | Mysterious Dark Lady of the Nine Heavens
Compilation and additions by Phoenix the Elder – “Introduction: I have done a series of compilations on the oldest powerful Chinese Goddesses. In the article’s list, I used the same cover image, so when you scroll through you can identify it. You can also search on the articles page: Chinese Goddess for convenience. As I have […]
First Moon of Autumn and Equinox 2023
By Phoenix the Elder – Hello moon lovers, dreamers, artists, and self-healers… We begin the Season of Night by celebrating Autumn’s beginning and the second half of our Seasonal Year. Our First Moon of Autumn begins September 14, 2023, followed by the Autumn Equinox on September 23rd. The First Full Moon, the Harvest Moon is […]
Phoenician Goddess Tanit
Compilation of the Diety Goddess Tanit – Tanit seems to have been a night goddess, a warrior goddess, a fertility goddess, previous shaman culture goddess remembered. Statues seem to be the great goddess Tanit, the Night Queen of the Heavens, a principal divinity of Carthaginian civilization. Tanit evolved from a fierce warrior lioness and sky […]
Autumn Star & Moon Stick Ritual
By Phoenix the Elder – I am on an Archeological and Art site where there is dialogue and imagery and ran across these Star & Moon Stick photos. I asked the Italian man what were these (the metal star and washer), and where were they from. He said Korea and its related to both weaponry […]
Ancient Egyptian Bird Goddess Magic
Compilation by Phoenix the Elder – Ancient Bird Tribe symbols, talismans, and images are easy for me to see as an ancient bird shaman. As I get deeper into my love of the earth, the goddesses of elements and elementals (night, day, and sky); nature’s animals, birds, insects, and oceanids, respect for the feminine is […]
Third Moon of Summer 2023
Phoenix the Elder – How has your summer been so far? Have you had enough challenges yet or has it been pretty calm? We move one step forward and enter the final summer moon starting on Wednesday, August 16 @ 3:38 am CDT. The Full Moon is August 30/31. The wildflowers and nature is all […]
Daoist Body and the Cosmos: Body, Gods and Starry Travel. Part I
Journal of Daoist Studies by Shih-shan Susan Huang 黃士珊 – While the early construction of Daoist ritual space was devoid of iconic displays, images of the body, and cosmos, they were part of mystic inner visions, central in Daoist meditation from an early age, especially in the Shangqing tradition. Often referred to as Cunsi 存思, […]
Animals, Birds & Oceanids Signs and Planets
By Phoenix the Elder – As human beings, we’ve always had our Myth, Legends, and Folk Mythology, which are a little different lineage than the University, Philosophy, and Scribe History of men and their patriarchal glory, heroism, and supreme god and gods. The older cultures which were more shamanic based were oral traditions, about both […]
Spirit of the Slavic Water Goddess
By Phoenix the Elder – I am not a fan of religious writing, pagan writing, or even modern writing where everything about the goddess is compared only with her consort, her father, or a demoted aspect of her element of the spirit of nature. One of the greatest is the element of water, once great […]
Arabic Moon Mansions
Phoenix the Elder – Moon work is so precious, it is the first society of grandmothers that followed the rhythm and ebb and flow of nature, aligned with the cycles of the yearly moon. How could we have allowed her teachings to be erased and eradicated in the patriarch in the last 5,000 years? We […]
Second Moon of Summer 2023
By Phoenix the Elder – Greetings Dreamers, Happy mid-summer to you and yours! This last moon cycle seemed to go very slow, up to the full moon, and then it slid down the mountain very fast. Today we enter our Mid-Summer, Second New Moon which will begin on Monday, July 17, 2023. Watch for your […]