The secret of magic? It's about the way you look at the world. No effort, ever. Magic has always been here and it always will be. The only question is: are we willing to take the time and open our eyes to it? If we don't, Earth will just be magical, peaceful and beautiful without us. Stop the endless quest for power and control and the world will shower you with miracles. End the age of patriarchy and the age of magic begins.
...and WAR ...and whatever else she f*%§ing WANTS to be the Goddess of! She'll be our guest at next Sunday's edition of HANG WITH THE GODxS! * You are all that * Weekly Archetypal Playtime (Online) (if she cares to show up).
SHE is not adaptable to the gender roles of western civilization, is kinda into violence, sometimes appears as male, is finally saved from the underworld by one or many non-binary creatures, was served in her temples by castrated, potentially homosexual priests and by female high priestesses who might have been sexual alchemy experts... the most magnetic principle of freedom and se><ual sovereignty. Also manipulative and greedy. Unspoiled beauty. Unforeseeable. Dangerous.
What is beauty, actually? What's our relationship to it? ISHTAR holds a key to the complexities of beauty and the mysteries of ugliness - let's see if she is willing to share some of it with us. We might also follow her on her way down into the underworld, where she meets her dark sister Ereshkigal, who literally strips her to the bone. Dress to impress! And be ready to give it all away.
It's on at Feb 20th, 6PM CET on Zoom. Proposed donation is 15 -25€. There will soon be a monthly membership for those who wish to attend regularly and to connect the dots between themselves and all these archetypal forces together with others.
In the first edition we met Demeter, Greek Goddess of Soil, Grain and Abundance. It was an embodied theatre exploration into what Hildegard von Bingen called "Viriditas": the green force (Grünkraft), a principle of life of death, a constantly nurturing, mothering, compost quality. Inquiring where this touches our lives and expressions in the midst of ecological breakdown and a world ravaged by patriarchy.
Last week we continued with Odin/Wodan, the seer, seeker and magician, father god of the Norse/Germanic tradition and with him explored how sacred rage can make us see. That turned out to be quite a shamanic journey. It activated something fascinatig that I will start to call The Myth Body, giving me another hint of the general direction of this work. More about that soon.
I am aware that these short weekly encounters can only give glimpses of what these archetypal forces are a portal to. There's so much more that wants to come through and I am still learning how to portion that, haha. It's potent. So, inevitably, there are deeper offerings around the Myth Body already growing, sourcing from all that I have learned in 20 years of making theatre and the sense of permission for all human expressions in play that I long to offer in the transformational spaces I am creating. There will be at least one in-person retreat this year, to be announced very soon. Exciting!
If you want to register for this Sunday, send an Email to daniellovepower@gmail.com and I send you all the information necessary. I propose not to wait until last minute if you hear the call. This way you can prepare more gently and take in all the preparatory notes. Looking forward!
He's the one-eyed god since he gave the other eye to Mimir in order to be able to see into the future. He's also the god who hanged himself from Yggdrasil, the Tree of Worlds, for nine days and nights, until the secrets of the runes were revealed to him. Not all-knowing, not even capable of doing what regular Germanic women, the Wala/Völva seers, would do to support their community. No battle would take place without the counsel of their female wisdom. Also the runes were easily read by the norns, ancient maiden entities, weavers of fate, residing at the roots of the tree of worlds.
So here's a patriarchal father god who realizes how disconnected he is from that kind of intuition. A restless wanderer across his worlds, in search of lost truth, clarity, vision. Odin/Wodan could be a patron to contemporary western truth seekers, as so many of us are desperately seeking to reconnect to some lost innocence as well, a clarity of vision that we feel our culture has lost while conquering the world and demonizing its own pagan roots. Odin could guide a way back towards our inborn, highly non-economic, super irrational, totally natural ecstatic potential. Or did he undergo all these ascetic practices just in order to gain more and more and more p o w e r and control? Is this what we are actually after, too, when we enter a spiritual path? And what makes it so easy for white supremacist wannabe pagans to claim his heritage, this weird shaman and restless wanderer, a figure that I could easily imagine to create under the influence of amanita muscaria... Let's look into it.
I proudly present you the ecstatic poet god ODIN, riding the eight-legged horse, as our highly problematic, mind-altering guest at this Sunday's edition of HANG WITH THE GODxS! * You are all that * Weekly Archetypal Playtime (Online) 6PM CET on Zoom. We will explore some seeeeing and some poetry ...and with our bodies feel into what this archetype can do and be for us, here and now. It’s as much a cute hangout as it is a transformational space. To register, write to daniellovepower@gmail.com. For more info click on the name of the event above or ask me.