With new moon energy, I continue.

It is suddenly as if all the chaos and riot of ideas that have been swimming in my head for nearly 20 years have suddenly amalgamated into this rolling wave of creative energy.

It seems that sword that I stuck in my own back (metaphorically speaking), since withdrawn, has become a tool for personal power and creativity rather than a weapon of self-destruction.

I compared a previous tarot reading to one I received today. The 9 of Swords (self-torture) has given way to a reversed 10 of Swords, meaning that an anticipated goal, previously aborted, has been renewed. I am triumphing over forces larger than myself. This was followed by the Ace of Swords, implying the use of creative resourcefulness to reveal opportunities unseen by others. That is exactly what is happening in my life right now.

In 1993, after my second and final separation from my husband, I birthed the idea of establishing my own religious order (I was a Christian then). A Catholic nun friend of mine, my favorite wisewoman of all time, looked at my hand-written plan and chuckled -- "I see. You want to be the Pope of the Peninsula." (I was living on the Key Peninsula in Washington State.) Not really Pope, just Mother Superior. ;-) Hildegard of Bingen was my inspiration. I was still Evangelical Protestant then.

Now, nearly 20 years later, my vision is becoming reality. Well, not exactly Mother Superior -- my ego has been replaced with confidence and understanding. The opportunity was set forth on the full moon, and today (from the burgeoning effulgence of the new moon) I announced the inception of Bona Dea Temple. It has come to pass. It has been put into my hands, and I grasp it, not with a desperate clinging but with the wonder of a child being handed something to experience for the first time.

Much is done. Miles to go before I sleep. More soon.

Your Great Work

I have so much to share and no time to share it. Sitting here right now, I'm trying to think of the best and most succinct way to express this.

It's not coincidence, and it's more than synchronicity.
It's the veracity of "The Secret," but not in the overblown, popularized way it has been packaged.
It is dream made reality. But more than a dream.

Most of all, one mystical and mysterious word conveys it all: thelema. Believe me, I now understand this word to the depth and breadth of its intent. My life has become the embodiment of thelema. I am thelema.

I could write a book on it, but right now I'm too busy living it.

Please do note that I am using the term with a lowercase "t" to denote the concept itself. I am very much a Thelemite, but I know now that the word transcends any Order or organization or philosophy.

The Great Work is not a ceaseless striving. Your Great Work just "is." When thelema penetrates you to the core, your Great Work is the only thing that can flower from it. There can be false starts, but no failure. You and thelema are co-creators of your Great Work.

I have so much to tell you...