I want to take a brief moment to invite you to explore the full Scrying The Well blog over at Brighid's Well, Inc.  I began that metaphysical blog in 2014.  It has been the touchstone of our seasonal e-newsletter, Scrying The Well, and boasts several sections, including: Featured Articles, Herbal Craft articles, Divination articles, a few Book Reviews & Inspirational Quotes.  

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​Peace & blessings, Cynthia

August 1st marks the halfway point between the Summer Solstice & Autumn Equinox.  There is something determined and strong about the energy now, though there is also that sigh of satisfaction or that wistful nostalgia that may caress our fields of energy in moments of reflection.  There seems to be powerful waves of ready-to-go mixed with taking a moment to bask.  It's that air of ripening summer and the full sweetness of the harvests coming in mixed with the desire to keep going and start something else and keep working on it.  But, it's important to remember that we can reap and sow at the same time.  

This time of year affords us an opportunity to slow down and enjoy our blessings.  We have the time to appreciate what we love & desire most in life.  We remember that a "desire" is not always that want or need as yet unfulfilled, but is present and ever changing and thriving with us - requiring our appreciation of its presence with a bit of TLC.  Remember when you first desired your partner (or a partner), children or a family, that car or that job?  Just because you have that now "fulfilled" it's not gone away, it's growing with you, changing with you, has the opportunity to fulfill itself every day... Do you still desire it?  If you do, appreciate it - which is to say, increase its value by offering it gratitude and care.  Put that loving desire of "Yes, I still want this," behind your interactions with whoever or whatever it is.  

Instead of just counting our blessings, let's tend them, recognize them, and when the energy arises "to do" then appreciate them, and when the energy slows "to bask" then relax into the abundant feeling of these fulfilled & thriving desires.  Sometimes more is just more, and sometimes more is merrier, but always what is presently can thrive and grow with our appreciation.  This is where the magic starts! 

Dynamic Alchemy with Venus & Retrograde Effects
Dynamic Alchemy is an alchemy of the soul & spirit, how you as a Being channels Life Force into existence by your Becoming.  It’s the mixing, blending, and tempering of all these energies – subtle & gross (or, dense) – that flow to you and through you and swirl within your experience of life on every level of Spirit, Mind, & Body.
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Venus – either goddess or planetary influencer in astrology – represents the gross, dense, sensual, physical, profane energies of existence pertaining to creation.  More precisely, the creation or manifestation itself.  This energy highlights material form and sensual physical experience – environment, appearance, beauty, relationships, health, abundance, finances, sexuality, food, pleasure, values, interests, enjoyment/ entertainment, etc.  Yet, for all we attribute to Venus’s characteristics and symbolism, we often forget – because these energies engage our physical senses so intensely in our experience – this is the realm of illusion.

In Dynamic Alchemy, there is the symbolism of the Veiled Isis.  She is the inherent weaver and wisdom-keeper of the universal mystery of how Aether is turned into form, how “thoughts turn to things”.  When the Life Force flows to and through you, it is Veiled Isis who - informed by your thought-focus (attention), emotions, and vibrational patterning – spins the threads of the Life Force according to your pattern and into your very real, tangible, and sensory experiences.

Isis Unveiled is this Venus energy, the Creatrix.  This energy weaves the form according to the patterned threads which have arisen within and gives their expression to be experienced without in density with the gross physical senses.  However, we must not forget that the threads, weaving, and patterns all carry the vibration with which we began – the grid or structure of our thoughts, emotions, habits, words, behaviors, etc.  This means that though we heavily get distracted by our physical experience and physical senses, the capacity of our subtle, energetic senses to “sniff out” what emotional & thoughtful patterns we gave to Veiled Isis (consciously or unconsciously) is just as useful and strong if we use them also in how we experience the world.  That is how we can get beyond the illusion and be mor aware and directive of what pattern we give to Veiled Isis and what creation we receive from Isis Unveiled.

This month, as Venus – the Isis Unveiled energy – turns retrograde (July 22 – Sept 3), we can take time to slow down, evaluate what is around us in our experience, an assess our relationships within and without.  Are you connected within and tending your thoughts, feelings, pleasures, pains, self-talk, intuitions, goals, dreams, values?  Are you tending your vehicle of expression – your body, your words, your behaviors, your boundaries, your personality, your integrity?  What is in your experience right now that you appreciate – not just what you’re thankful for but – what do you care for with your gratitude and attention thereby increasing its value?  Where do you put your attention?  Is it something you want to appreciate (more bills & scarcity versus more money & opportunity)?

With the retrograde energy of Venus we can take time to evaluate our attentions, goals, and appreciations.  We can make offering of our attention to our own health & self-care regimen, wealth management, opportunity (schedule) management, and see how we are relating to our environment – relationships with others, relationships with circumstances, relationships with objects in our homes or offices or public spaces.  And, with this evaluation we can find what we want to put our attention on, how we want to create sacred space in our bodies, minds, hearts, homes, and wherever our sphere of influence reaches.   

In our Beingness, we are all the same – energy of a particular consciousness.  In our Becomingness, we are all different – unique experiences of that consciousness.  In our humanity, we all have the capacity to blend the two through living our own lives and through sharing with others.

Everything you desire is already within you – every answer sought, every need, every connection, every want & hope, every feeling, every experience, each thing you covet.  It’s already there because you are Source, the Divine; and the Divine is the “I AM” presence, the All-That-Is, simultaneously the source of existence & existence itself.  Nothing is outside the Divine Source because the Divine did not create anything apart from Itself. 

Therefore, what we seek is recognition – recognition of the Divine that I Am & the Divine that you are.  It’s not a “within, without” thing; it’s rather an “Is” thing.  To recognize that you are Divine, and then to recognize that another is Divine – the same Divinity as you are, at the same time – and then to allow yourself to be humbled by that recognition – how minute yet purposeful your subjective experience is compared to how vast your whole existence truly is.  In that awesome humility, then, we find our sovereignty, our self-mastery.  And then… with sovereignty… then, it’s not so scary to share or to accept – to give freely and receive freely, to share knowledge & experiences & ideas & emotions & resources of all kinds, to cooperate in creating & appreciating.     

The article linked below was originally written in December for the Winter Solstice - a time of darkness & shadow as we (in the Northern Hemisphere) tip away from the Sun's Light. 

However, even summer can be a poignant time to attend you inner light.  For whatever reason we find ourselves off-balance, or trudging through both real and imagined darkness, we need to remind ourselves consistently - daily - that we are the blended energy of Light & Shadow out of the perceived darkness of Void. 

Too often, we find the Shadows within seem to grow deeper when the light perceived outside of us is brighter... 

Take a moment now to...
Tend the Light Within

What is "Scrying"?

By way of an introduction to the source of the "Featured Articles" for Brighid's Well, Inc's e-news & blog - Scrying The Well - let's pop over and explore the idea...

Check out Cynthia's 12/2020 article here:
"Scrying: A Clairvoyant Method for Divination"