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Join me for an interview with a very special guest:  the author, mystic, poet, and fine artist J. Wells Kara.  We talk about their book - Muse Mysteria, Book One Invocation - in which we discover the power and the help of the Muses. 

The Russian maiden Vassalisa meets the crone Baba Yaga and grapples with two mothers, and all of this is a big challenge. It’s all about the complications of the maiden-mother-crone deities. In many fairytales, we see three colors, black, red and white. These three colors represent the crone, the mother and the maiden . The crone is represented by black - black equals death; the mother is represented by red - red equals blood and birth; the maiden is represented by white - white equals youth, innocence and blooming. Whatever gender you identify as - it doesn’t matter - we will all go through our maiden-mother-crone cycle and each one of them is rough. If it’s not one thing, it’s your mother.

Part one of this big old Crone, Baba Yaga, also known as “horrifying, terrifying mean old lady goddess”. Russian, cranky, killer, ass-kicker. She has no patience for anybody’s victim story. She does not need you - you need her. She will kill you then she will eat you. She lives inside your deepest fear. You can’t avoid her because at some point you will need her. She holds the fire. And we all need fire. For light, warmth and nurturing. It’s better to go to find her rather than the Baba Yaga finding you. So let’s get up off our butts and find The Yaga deep in our fears.

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That’s a mouthful! NIN-gish-Zee-da an very old Sumerian Deity. Sooooooooooo old nobody asked them to keep a form or to be anthropomorphic. This God shifts shapes whenever they want to. It can be a tree. It can be a dragon. It can be a Lord and a Lady. It can be all these things at once. In fact to translate its name is to say, Lord lady Good tree. This deity is third-gendered if there ever was one, but it’s also a fourth and fifth gender too. Not mention Dragons! They are creators of temples. They bring in the sacred to the mundane. They are the reason for all those staffs that are raised up in the May and Midsummer festivals. If a pole gets raised, it’s Ningishzida, the blossoming and return of life. Queer Fun!

Hecate is trouble. She is a challenger. She is a crone, she takes us into the sacred dark of the winter and to the crossroads of Samhain/Halloween. She brings us to the necessary difficulties of being alive. She brings us to the power and magic of dialog as a way to manifest a narrative of joy. Learning the tools to stay out of pessimism and out of the triangle of doom, Victim-Villain-Hero. Hecate brings us the deep meaning of our life. She teaches us to face our pain full on and deal. Maybe you want skip this episode?

With this episode we continue to explore the Myria myth, focusing on the Red God, also known as the Horned One. The Red God helps us grapple with human adversity and embodiment. I get into the history of cave paintings, the perception of adversity in various cultures, and the importance of rites of passage.

Dianyglas: The first being who emerges out of the Goddess Miria. A stunning Blue God full of enchanted magic. He is the first He and He is soooooo Queer! We see him in the Peacock and he is considered powerful, delightful and frightening.  He is close to your psychic self. Do you feel your third eye tingle​? 

She is the first goddess created by The Nameless Goddess of Total Mystery, The Mystery of Life. (The Star Goddess?)  This is the creation story of how the Mystery of life created a Mirror to see herself.  When She saw herself . . . well just listen to the podcast. But she has ALL the genders in her.