Magickal Correspondences
February 24, 2008by Jeffrey Pierce
A very short mailbag column this week - and don't worry, a chunk of it is about catching up, not disappearing.
First of all, many apologies for falling behind. There are some very valid reasons why the delay occurred (more on those in a moment), but ultimately, there will need to be a few (minor) changes in the publication schedule. All Around Us is going to be an "every now and then" feature, rather than publishing every other week. The First Cycle and weekly articles will continue to be published as usual, as well as the weekly installment of Magickal Correspondences. All of the special features will continue to appear, but I feel pretty safe in saying that they'll be posting a little bit slower than normal.
I'm dedicated to catching up on what we've missed the last couple of weeks. The First Cycle will be brought up to date in the very near future and I have a handful of articles in my mental queue.
However, you may notice that there are a few breaks in the upcoming publication schedule. For instance, there will be a gap of a little more than a full lunar cycle right around Summer Solstice.
"Why?" you ask.
I'm getting married!
My journey with Otter had drawn to an end and I ended up writing a blog and posting it on Craig's List in my local area, encouraging people to take time for themselves after a divorce, to heal and rediscover who they are. It's been my role to step into such situations and help folks heal and, to be perfectly honest, every time I thought I was being cast in the part of a partner, it was really that of catalyst and healer. To my surprise, a large number of women responded to it as if it were a personal's ad and I politely declined one after another, assuring them that I really wasn't looking to be in a relationship.
But in this sea of responses, one email stood out. And as I began to read it, I felt a warm ball of golden light descend over me, completely enclosing all of my chakras. It was a unique experience, even from my perspective. Emails were exchanged, then phone numbers, and at last we decided to meet for coffee.
I arrived early, having seen a single photograph of Briana. She was slender with short dark hair and an award-winning smile. As I waited, one woman after another came in, slender with short dark hair. None of them were the person that I was waiting for. But as I sat there, I realized that it was completely unimportant to me what Briana actually looked like. Over the course of our correspondence and phone calls, I had developed real feelings for the woman I was waiting to meet. I simply wanted to meet her.
And as if it were a Hollywood movie, she stepped through the door and was simply beautiful.
A 3:30 PM discussion over coffee turned into a night that stretched until almost 4:00 AM the following morning. We discovered a magic that you only see in movies and, before the night was over, we had fallen in love. Our spiritual paths blend seamlessly together. Our dreams and visions of the future integrate and round out what the other has been working toward.
It was a wild, crazy, whirlwind sort of way for things to unfold and our world was understandably filled with it's share of skeptics. But really pure magick has a tendency to grow and each person that spent even a moment together with us - whether they were a friend of one of the four generations of Bri's family - simply agreed. It's meant to be. My friends love her and Sparrow and Bear adore her. Her kids began calling me Daddy almost immediately and her family feels we're equals and partners. We are so perfectly matched that there's actually a running joke in her family that we're George (and Jane) of the Jungle - tremendously in love and living in our own magical world that somehow works perfectly for us.
Briana and Jeffrey.
The handfasting will be held on June 21, 2008 on her grandparents' farm. Continuing the perfection of our partnership and reunion (we both have strong past life and Elsewhere memories of the other) we'll share our honeymoon backpacking and exploring sacred sites, most likely in the Southwestern portion of the United States. With both of us as writers and photographers, I'm sure that there will be plenty of stories and photographs to share.Old Ways will be taking a break in publication from June 14th through July 18th, giving Briana and myself time to get married, go on our honeymoon, and get settled in our new home.
However, Briana is truly my soulmate - which means that our paths intertwine in endlessly amazing ways. In addition to being pagan herself, she is also well-versed in herbal healing and the making of soaps, salves, and the like. Briana is a talented writer (I'm impressed with the eloquence of her writing) and she'll soon be joining me here in the pages of Old Ways, sharing her wisdom and knowledge and her insights from the feminine perspective of a path very similar to my own.
Things have been slow lately because whenever my world goes through a massive transformational shift, I feel completely under the weather for about a week of so. Things are grounding on this side of the change and I should have new material in your hands in the very near future. Thank you for your understanding and patience.
In peace and light,
Jeffrey Pierce
www.oldways.com
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