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which twin is the active one and which one's the passive, on whom the spell is worked? --Morgana
Um. I dunno; both, ping-ponging the influence back and forth between them? Neither, with the spell being worked by some overarching consciousness?--which takes us, I suppose, into the realms of Sekhmet's cloned or divided soul.
I always believed there are some kinds of magic I like and others I can't really be bothered to do. Ceremonial magic e.g. just wasn't made for me. --Morgana
Interesting. I felt much like that at first, but with practice I sort of pushed through the feeling, until the rites came quite naturally. Take the LBRP; at first I felt like a proper wally, but if you keep at it you sort of click, and it's as if the rite is doing you rather than vice-versa: you seem to slide effortlessly through it, as if there was some invisible template around you guiding every movement. Mark you, I never really took my HCM practice very far. I really had to make quite a lot of conscious effort to keep up any kind of daily practice, and was forever finding 'reasons' (read: excuses) to skive off or abandon it altogether.
Now, my spirit-work--that's a different story. I really haven't been working in this way very long and I'm still pretty clueless when all's said and done. However, I have made quite a lot of progress in a short space of time, largely because I simply cannot get enough of it. My practice is now the first thing I think of when I wake up. Pretty much anything else (aside from my OCD writing problem) is something I want to get out of the way so I can go and look up some piece of lore or another, or go and see to someone's shrine, or get on with making/refurbishing an item in connection with the work. I suppose this is all just as well since I have seem to have remarkably little say in the matter anymore, but am I digging the work because I'm 'good' at it in some innate way, or am I getting better because I like the work? Is there some other force at work here, possibly manipulating my enthusiasms so I'll spend more time mucking about with my drum and less time practicing my LBRP?
Can you accept that it may well be destiny for some people to grow up with what others may consider physical abnormality --HairyAngel
Well, yes I can. But you're still talking about genetics in your post, whereas the example I offered--an individual suffering from cretinism--is disabled not through genetics but through an outside force, to whit: iodine deficiency. He might have the best genes in the world, but they would do him very little good under the circumstances. Of course it could be his fate (if we assume the existance of some force which we could call fate, destiny, karma, wyrd, will of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, whatever) to be born into such circumstances, but that still leaves genetics rather out of the equation. I am happy to accept that genetics could possibly = destiny) but it doesn't follow that destiny necessarily = genetics. |
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