Wow, that is really hitting it on the noggin, at least it is in my perspective. A lot of people seem to get caught up in the book reading and not in the reality or the experiential part of it.

I’ve been a bit frustrated by people who are so focused on singing the exact right traditional song for the occasion and are unwilling to create something new that may be better suited for their needs or the needs of the group. Sure, traditional is great and shouldn’t be tossed on the wayside because something shiny and new seems to be better, but to concern yourself so much with the exactness of tradition that it takes away from the intended experience or that a slight alteration is blasphemy and shouldn’t even be considered is a bit overboard in my opinion.

“This made it pretty clear to me–don’t make correspondences just because you see them. Sure, twelve prayer bead meanings and twelve months match up nicely. But do they really have to?”

I like how you pull back from being swallowed into the time consuming uselessness of over reading into things. It is pretty easy to fall into – speaking from experience. It takes a lot to just say, “hold on there, why should I care about all this other stuff. What’s important is what it means to me, not what other people tell me what it means.” It took me a good long time to figure that one out. Glad you were able to too.

Sure, I’m an author. But that doesn’t mean that I’m only associated with writing.

There really is a line between have a magical cosmology/structure that helps the practioner structure their magic to effectively tap into the Otherworld AND be lean enough that it does interfere with the practioner’s ability to experience the Otherworld on its own terms, I don’t want my experiences constantly mediated by other people’s experiences and conceptions of what it *should* be. Same thing with correspondences.