Shaman Shadow Balancing: Soul Light and Shadow roaming in life and after death

By Phoenix the Elder – Entering the Season of Night (Autumn and Winter) brings with it, thinner veils, the transformation of nature into its slow death, and the huddling together of people who seek like company, to understand their unique experience of their world through this seer and psychic abilities they are. This is true […]
Vernacular Fiction and Celestial Script: A Daoist Manual for the Use of Water Margin

Introduction: Bugang is the “pacing the Stars of the Big Dipper” which combines two Chinese words, bu meaning to step; tread; or pace (off)” and gang 罡 which means the “Big Dipper ( stars in the handle of the Big Dipper”). The variant bugang 步綱 “pacing the guideline”, uses a different gang word 綱 “headrope […]