TLDR: When Daddy is drunk, our civilization needs to walk away from the dinner table. Witchcraft can help us find the courage to leave. Plus, reminder that Full Moon in Capricorn ritual is this Sunday at 11am PT.
There’s little I enjoy less than being held hostage to the moods of other people.
I was thinking about this the other day when my dear brother (and oracular assistant), Conor, dm’d me an Iranian agitprop video where Lego Trump tantrums because Obama’s presidential center’s ceremony gets a shitload of celebrity endorsements.
According to my brother, Iran has a group of psychologists brainstorming how to manipulate Trump.
Honestly, triggering an epic narcissist like Trump probably isn’t that hard. When your ego is a black hole, it doesn’t take much effort to fall in.
But my concern is less with Trump than how we, as a species, have accepted a situation where one person’s mood has such an excessive impact on the wellbeing of our entire community? Of the entire world?
Humans have been held hostage again and again by tyrants. If we keep getting held hostage, maybe it isn’t just the tyrant that’s the problem.
I’m not trying to blame the victim here, but I do think that until the entire culture wakes up, we’re condemned to repeat this history. (Marx said it first, but I second his emotion).
Tyrants take over cultures by force, but they maintain their power through indoctrination. They convince people to justify and maintain their own oppression.
We live in a culture that produces hostages and tyrants. Culture entails all human activity, therefore all humans play a part in creating it.
Recently an influencer I follow suggested that Leftists should be more forgiving of their parents. They pointed out that many Leftists believe we need to expand our sense of community beyond the nuclear family.
And yet, our parents are just wee little humans, not super heroes. Of COURSE they can’t meet all of our needs. Humans require a full community to be healthy (which most of us don’t have).
If everyone in a family cowers and tiptoes because Daddy (or Trump) is in a bad mood that is the COMMUNITY’S problem — not just the kid’s.
Patriarchal culture teaches us to conform, to accept authority, to believe that cultural change is Sky Daddy’s responsibility, not our own.
Global transformation requires that we all change together. Little by little, we all must reorient ourselves towards liberation and community.
Despite our upbringing or our culture, we all must practice taking responsibility for our own happiness and liberation, instead of outsourcing it to distant gods and violent men.
We require a spiritual transformation if we want future generations to thrive.
By ‘spiritual’ I mean ‘relational’. I mean privileging values that serve life and the dignity of life.
Our spiritual traditions must encourage us both towards interdependence and animism, but also towards personal agency.
The rituals of witchcraft offer us opportunities to dissolve the old worlds obsessed with domination and acquisition, and build new worlds oriented towards creativity and care.
On a practical level, we’ll also be making Moon water clearing sprays.
I use clearing sprays after my appointments with my clients to cleanse myself of energy that isn’t mine to carry (energetic hygiene like this is crucial for people in healing professions, if you want to avoid burnout).
But anyone can use these sprays anytime they want to bring their energy back to neutral.
The Full Moon rituals are available to all members of Mystery Cult – a gathering space where we practice ritual, seasonal magic, spiritual ecology, and collective care together. Paid subscribers* receive the Zoom link and ingredients list for the ceremony in the subscriber section below.
*We have discounts for those in financial need. Let’s find something that works for both of us. Don’t be shy. To find out more, email us at: guardian@oracleoflosangeles.com
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