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Equal Opportunity Disaster: The most important magical botanical ingredient you can carry with you into exploring this material is a pinch of salt. Obviously these encounters mean a lot to you in your personal mythology and are tied up with health problems and probably all sorts of emotional stuff. Which is all the more reason NOT to invest in this narrative wholesale - or to fill in the sizeable gaps between your empirical sensory experiences and what may or may not be happening, with wish fulfillment fantasy and over-active imaginings.
The Mysteries tend to be pretty mysterious, and to a fair extent engaging in creative narrative is the process through which we come to an understand anything about them. But these narratives must always be kept supple and malleable enough to be tweaked and revised based on new evidence that may present itself to you. Interactions with deities are constantly in this state of flux, as are all living relationships. All you can ever go on is the evidence of your senses and your gut instinct, and this is a better guide than any grand arching narratives you may fabricate around these experiences and then find yourself strongly invested in.
I don't think you really have enough information to go on about who this mysterious character from your dream may or may not be, whether they are a God or an ancestor or a sub-routine of your physiology given form. You don't know what pantheon they may or may not be from, although without saying it outright your post suggests an affinity or leaning towards the Northern trad in how you are conceptualising this material. Maybe you are right about that. Or maybe its something totally different. I don't think you are really in a position to make a clear call on that at this stage.
I would suggest that all that really needs to be done right now is what you are doing. Honouring the contact, if that's what it is, and recognising it as something meaningful in your life that could potentially lead somewhere in the future. You could formalise it with some simple acknowledging ritual where you light a white candle, pour a glass of wine and break some bread or give some fruit as an offering. Bread, fruit and wine are generally pretty good generic offerings when you don't know much about a deity's tastes or personality. But leave it at that. Don't try to push any further. Don't try to go from step A to step Q in one evening. Baby steps. Suss out the terrain. See what it's all about.
Tune in when you are making this offering and see if anything seems to come through to you, but don't jump to any conclusions. Unless anything particularly interesting or revelatory comes through from your mystic thank you note, that might in itself suggest further methods of enquiry, I would just file the whole thing away in the memory banks for later and not worry about it too much. I have a lot of stuff like that myself. Experiences that come up, and seem pretty important, but aren't directly and obviously a part of anything I'm doing right now. If it's important, it will come up again and you will get to the bottom of it. If its genuinely from Deity, they tend to have a way of making their interests abundantly clear one way or another eventually. So don't get yourself too hung up on this material. Keep on keeping on with whatever it is you were doing before, but be open to the idea of this stuff being the end of a thread that might take you somewhere and suddenly start to make increasing sense as you go on.
The Magician's Sword of Discrimination really is a hugely important tool to be carrying with you in this sort of work. Or else you can end up convincing yourself of all sorts of mad nonsense, and find yourself totally hopeless at getting out of the complex tangle of narratives you have woven around yourself and are unwittingly bound by. Keep it real. Always take it down to brass tacks. Evidence of the sense. Gut instinct. |
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