Metamorphosis Healing

06/12/2026

06/09/2026

The Völva was one of the most powerful women in Norse society.

She was not a goddess. She was a seer, spirit worker, and practitioner of seiðr, a form of Norse magic connected to prophecy, fate, trance, ancestral knowledge, and influencing unseen forces. Her title means “staff bearer,” named after the ritual staff she carried as both symbol and tool of authority.

Unlike later ideas of witches working in secret, the Völva could hold enormous status. Chieftains invited her into halls, offered gifts, and asked her to speak on harvests, journeys, war, illness, and destiny.

One of the most famous examples appears in the Saga of Erik the Red. A Völva arrives wearing blue robes, animal fur, gloves, and carrying a decorated staff. Women gather around her and sing sacred songs to help her enter trance. Only after ritual preparation does she begin revealing what she sees.

Their magic was called seiðr.

It was associated with prophecy, spirit travel, altered states, weaving fate, and moving between worlds. Norse mythology even claims Freyja taught seiðr to the gods themselves, and later Odin learned it despite criticism, since this kind of magic was viewed as crossing traditional social boundaries.

The Völva occupied a liminal position.

Respected.

Needed.

Sometimes feared.

She stood between community and mystery, speaking truths people wanted and truths they wished were wrong.

In modern witchcraft, the Völva has become a symbol of intuition, ancestral wisdom, divination, sovereignty, and remembering forms of feminine spiritual authority that existed long before the word witch became an accusation.

The Völva’s power was never that she controlled fate.

It was that she looked directly at it and spoke anyway.

06/04/2026

I am excited to announce that I have been invited back to perform at the Sumpter Renaissance Faire this year!

Come one come all! This year’s performance comes with an extra twist. 🦋

Save The Date!

05/20/2026

“[T]he Gnostics knew something, and it was this: that human life does not fulfill its promise within the structure and establishments of society, for all of these are at best but shadowy projections of another and more fundamental reality. No one comes to his true selfhood by being what society wants him to be nor by doing what it wants him to do. Family, society, church, trade and profession, political and patriotic allegiances, as well as moral and ethical rules and commandments are, in reality, not in the least conducive to the true spiritual welfare of the human soul. On the contrary, they are more often than not the very shackles which keep us from our true spiritual destiny.”
― Stephan A. Hoeller, The Gnostic Jung and the Seven Sermons to the Dead (Wheaton, IL: Quest Books, 1982), 143–144.

05/13/2026

Everyone wants the shortcut.

The technique that skips the suffering. The system that delivers the result without the struggle. The teacher who gives you the answer without making you walk the path yourself. We live in an age that has turned this desire into an entire industry: instant enlightenment, fast-tracked awakening, spiritual bypassing dressed up as wisdom.

Helena Blavatsky spent her life dismantling that illusion.

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky was one of the most remarkable and controversial figures of the 19th century. Co-founder of the Theosophical Society, she dedicated her life to the study of ancient wisdom traditions, esoteric philosophy, and the hidden laws that govern consciousness. Her work synthesized Eastern and Western mysticism at a time when the West had almost entirely forgotten that such knowledge existed.

And her message was consistent: there are no initiates by inheritance, no saints by accident, no awakened souls by shortcut. The divine knowledge she wrote about cannot be transmitted like information. It must be earned through direct experience, through the friction of living, through failure and disillusionment and the slow burning away of everything false within you.

The steep path of trial is not punishment. It is the mechanism of transformation itself. The Hermetic traditions taught this. The mystery schools of Egypt, Greece and India taught this. Every genuine path of inner work teaches this. Difficulty is not an obstacle to growth. In most cases, it is the very instrument of it.

The key, the mortar, the raised hand in this painting say what Blavatsky said in words: something sacred is being guarded here. Not from you, but for you. Until you are ready to receive it.

What trial in your life has turned out to be the most important teacher you ever had?

MysterySchools

11/02/2025

Wise Hermit

10/20/2025

Today’s collective Oracle:

Spirit of the Animals Oracle Deck

Owl is the messenger and revealer of secrets. Their silent flight and supreme vision make them supreme hunters. If they cross your path repeatedly it is a warning to review your situation and see where deception is lurking. If Owl is your totem you are an Old Soul. Be sure to keep your knowledge secret unless asked to provide counsel. The night is auspicious for Owl people. When the Moon is full you are creative and energized. Embrace your gifts and fly with the Masters.

• Are you in the dark about a situation?

• Is Owl asking you to release the past so you can change and take flight?

• Have you allowed yourself to be deceived?

• What secrets do you need to discover to know the truth?

10/13/2025

Today’s Collective read- Divine Circus Oracle featuring the DMT jesters because that’s always who comes through, plus tarot. 🖤🤍

10/13/2025