Editing takes longer than writing. I spent an hour editing and rereading my manuscript. I have been working on it for a little over 3 months and I have a little over 50 pages. Why? Because editing takes longer than writing, and research takes even longer than editing and writing combined.
I am almost finished with Julius Evola's 'Tantra, Shakti, and the secret way' and it is really good. I am breezing through most of the last half of the book because he is primarily discussing kundalini shakti and the chakras, and I have all of that memorized from getting my meditation certification. I like the fact that the book delves into Tibetan Tantra and Hindu Tantra. Most books discuss one or the other, or if they discuss both they are so entirely generic that they wind up in the bottom of the magazine rack in the bathroom underneath my issues of Yoga Journal and Tricycle Magazine.
Next I am going to read one of my new Sex magick books. So will I be learning to scry the Enochian Aethyrs, or will I read about the Taboos of Sex Magick and Religion? Haven't decided yet. IMO you get knowledge from books, and a basis for comparison concerning information from another source as opposed to your own personal gnosis. To be a fundamentalist in your practice is silly.
I have been rereading the Bardo Thodol, I have the planetary chain of Sangsaric existence figured out, I think, but don't see the details in the book.
Transcendence (Samadhi); The sun
Devas (gods); mercury
Asuras (titans, or jealous gods. Lucifer is a good example); venus
Humans; Earth
Brutes; Mars
Pretas (hungry ghosts); Jupiter
Hell; Saturn
If anyone has read the Tibetan Book of the dead and has any thoughts on these correspondences, please feel free to share.
I am almost finished with Julius Evola's 'Tantra, Shakti, and the secret way' and it is really good. I am breezing through most of the last half of the book because he is primarily discussing kundalini shakti and the chakras, and I have all of that memorized from getting my meditation certification. I like the fact that the book delves into Tibetan Tantra and Hindu Tantra. Most books discuss one or the other, or if they discuss both they are so entirely generic that they wind up in the bottom of the magazine rack in the bathroom underneath my issues of Yoga Journal and Tricycle Magazine.
Next I am going to read one of my new Sex magick books. So will I be learning to scry the Enochian Aethyrs, or will I read about the Taboos of Sex Magick and Religion? Haven't decided yet. IMO you get knowledge from books, and a basis for comparison concerning information from another source as opposed to your own personal gnosis. To be a fundamentalist in your practice is silly.
I have been rereading the Bardo Thodol, I have the planetary chain of Sangsaric existence figured out, I think, but don't see the details in the book.
Transcendence (Samadhi); The sun
Devas (gods); mercury
Asuras (titans, or jealous gods. Lucifer is a good example); venus
Humans; Earth
Brutes; Mars
Pretas (hungry ghosts); Jupiter
Hell; Saturn
If anyone has read the Tibetan Book of the dead and has any thoughts on these correspondences, please feel free to share.
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Without wishing to sound like I'm jumping on the bandwagon here, (see comment from Ash above) I have recently discovered that I, too, have my moon in Aquarius. I am Sagittarius, Capricorn rising, with moon in Aquarius. I think it's pretty interesting having my whole astrological profile bunched up around the winter months like this, don't you?