Moon and Sun oil on canvass by Sheryl Humphrey - own it!
I have to be honest. I don't get the week thing. Days are obvious: the sun repeats its light course in this period. Seems useful to annotate time using days. I understand that the next natural cycle of time annotation would be 28 days - the length of time the moon takes to repeat it's phase (not path, though) and 28 days is a month. Oh, wait: sometimes it is 30. And sometimes it's 31. That part is explained by religious force interfering with human common sense to acknowledge nature's obviousness. Hey, a year is pretty good in terms of time annotation, too. And those Equinoxes and Solstices marking turning points of the yearly cycle (in my opinion, obvious celebration days). But c'mon, what's all this about a week?
I am doing a self-initiate spagyric study right now. Not the study of alchemically producing spagyrics (Al-Qemi has taken care of that part of this work). Rather, I am studying the planets' effects on me personally. In my opinion, it's more like studying a new language. And I'm using spagyarics, meditation, raw foods, rocks, colors, dance and journaling to facilitate. The only hard part is relating a planetary energy to a day of the week though, because ... I don't believe in weeks.
Oh, I believe in weeks alright. Like a Chaote: "Nothing is true. Everything is permitted." After all, if I wanna play the human society game (which I do), then it behoves me to be at the filming studio at the agreed upon call time. But week's are otherwise entirely arbitrary to me. And I'd like to hear any explanation as to why the week consists of 7 days. After all, nature is the obvious time keeper and nature repeats nothing, to my knowledge, every 7 days. And please, if you think you know, why are most days so specifically named for a planetary archetype? I mean, I am following the rules of study here, but they just don't make sense. Why was today Sun day? The sun shines every day (in Los Angeles)! And there are more than 7 planets. In a way, this spagyric study is starting on like raw foods. I remember the day I woke up to the convenience store system and thought to myself as I and a friend stared at shelves of non-food sale items intended for ingestion, "Why does this exist?" I woke up and stepped outside of the convenience system. And subsequently the Western Medical system, the perscription drug system and the food pyramid system, too. Spagyric study is waking me up to the fact that I am choosing to make weeks work, just because everyone else does. I feel like I am breaking the time system just a little bit here. Has anyone ever seen the Luna Press calendar that I have hanging in my house? Notice something? No weeks!
Okay ... okay. My Sun Shadows journal. Let's get to work: Today was Sun day. I meditated with citrine on my heart chakra, bathed in warming rosemary essential oil, wore yellow beads around my neck, placed the Sun Magistry under my tongue, walked outside feeling sun warm my bare skin, drank desert fruit juice for two meals and skryed the sunset. Noteworthy occurrences: everyone I passed on Hollywood Blvd looked at me like I was just the precious child to hold and love. Like I was shining some confident light or something. That dirty dread locked homeless dude smellin' real bad and that perky white couple walking from the farmer's market with flowers in their hands and even that 7 foot bald, black man looking all menacing in his mechanic jumper - even he smiled at me precious-like. And the tap film I choreographed and effectively A.D.ed for today - it wrapped hours under time. Unheard of! The shoot went so easily. I felt like there was exceptional rep between the crew, star Carol Lawrence and I.
There. I did my shadow keeping. But I still don't get the whole concept of a week annotating time. Good thing I don't have to understand. Good magick isn't based on what one understands, it's based on what works.
2 Comments:
Tonya,
Thanks for sharing how you're working with our Spagyrics! The daily work is an amazing course to go on, I have learned so much from it each time I've done it.
The week thing does seem artificial in a lot of ways, I agree with you there. But, interestingly, the same time division with the same planets ruling the same days in cycles of seven crops up all around the world.
Ancient Mesopotamia to Greece, Egypt to the Chaldeans, even in the East in Japan and Tibet- the list and each day's correspondence is the same!
So, even though it seems to be man-made, I feel it is a man-reflected system of a higher structure that exists on another level, but has been followed for so long here that it has its own life as an archetype now.
Strength & Wisdom,
Micah at Al-Qemi
Micha, whoa, what an honor! Thanks, really ... I am super into your (Al-Qemi's) spagyrics and especially am appreciating the teacher plants - I am a direct descendent of blue green algae!
Hahaha. You know I am a raw vegan, too, so all this is really fun for me.
Your perspective of "not knowing" but instead noting the pattern throughout history of time being measured in 7s and planets consistently matching this order of days is helpful. If you have any links to these cultures' - I don't know: calendars? Or something relating our Monday (moon day) to the Tibetans, for example, that would be really cool.
Of course, if you write about it on the Al-Qemi blog I can read it there, too, and other studiers can enjoy that info, too.
Do you have an idea as to why we only use some planets and not all of them in alchemic study as well as day denotation? Was it simply because we humans created this communication construct of time before the others planets were acknowledged?
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