Tags: Initiation
- Shamanic Illness as Initiation
Diary of Drawings
This is a drawing I made in the mid 1980’s.
During the two and half years that Saturn transited my Eighth House of love and death, I went a little mad you might say.
It wasn’t insanity or anything, it was because of psychic attack.
I had been in a deep relationship with a man who [...] - Attributes of the Horned God During the Dark Night of the Soul
This picture saved me!
Christina Oakley gave this extremely powerful image to me over tea and cookies in her office at Treadwells Bookshop in Covent Garden, London. Seven years after my harrowing spontaneous initiation with the Horned God, I had finally drummed up the courage to ask for help. It was not easy to find [...] - London: How I Encountered the Spirits of the Land
The Faery Queen and the Horned God
In March 1998, I went to live in London, England. I had thought I would stay there for 18 months while I researched my Grail Bearers’ Tarot, but the Spirits of the Land had other plans for me. I have since come to believe they called me to the [...]
- Babalon Diaries: Ninth Gate and the Great Whore
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This is the second in a series of posts about my adventures during 2005, leading up to the performance of Paul Green’s play Babalon. The story is full of cloak and dagger, initiatory strangeness, chaos, and hysteria. It [...]




