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Dream Work for the Jewish Witch
In my previous post, I outlined numerous examples from Jewish scripture about the magic of dreams. Today I build on that research as well as my general witchcraft practice to present a Jewitch’s guide to inducing meaningful dreams, dealing with nightmares, and interpreting dreams. (more…)
From my altar to yours, have a blessed Lughnasadh.
Dreams and Dream Interpretation in Judaism
This is the first of a two-part post exploring how to pull from my Jewish roots to make working with dreams a bigger part of my witchcraft practice. This first post will focus on examples of the belief that dreams hold significant spiritual meaning and of dream interpretations in Jewish tradition. My second post will focus on specific practices I use to induce or interpret dreams. (more…)
I can sum this whole reading up in the words of the 20th Century #HopePunk prophetess Octavia Butler:⠀
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God is Change,⠀
And in the end, ⠀
God prevails.⠀
But meanwhile… ⠀
Kindness eases Change. ⠀
Love quiets fear. ⠀
And a sweet and powerful ⠀
Positive obsession ⠀
Blunts pain, ⠀
Diverts rage, ⠀
And engages each of us ⠀
In the greatest, ⠀
The most intense ⠀
Of our chosen struggles. ⠀
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ოᕱᎩ Ϯ♅ᎥᏕ ᎠᏒꂅᕱო ცꂅ ᕱ gԾԾᎠ ᎠᏒꂅᕱო. ᗰᗩƳ 丅ᕼᎥᔕ ᗪᖇᗴᗩᗰ ᗷᗴ ᗩ Ǥᗝᗝᗪ ᗪᖇᗴᗩᗰ. ოᕱᎩ Ϯ♅ᎥᏕ ᎠᏒꂅᕱო ცꂅ ᕱ gԾԾᎠ ᎠᏒꂅᕱო. ⠀
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Find the full unpacking of this reading at patreon.com/devotaj_arts (or see IG profile link)⠀
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Starting in 2019, I’ll be giving away amulets regularly to Patrons at the $3/month level and up. Check profile link for details!
Just in case you need another reason to join Patreon, and support my work as a Patron.
I’ll have a few pieces for general sale to the public over the year too, but most will reserved for the Devotaj Sacred Arts community on Patreon.
Want to see what the first giveaway will be in 2019? Swipe!
Giveaway for this piece will be selected on January 1st, 2019 — anyone who is a patron will be eligible.
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Correspondences for the Month of Elul⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
I call Elul the moon of Making Space.
Each month of the Jewish year is packed with rich correspondences for sacred arts and spiritual alignment/growth.⠀
Most of these come from one book - the Sefer Yetzirah. It is one of the most ancient mystical/magickal texts in Jewish tradition, far older the kabbalah. It is also from a different school than kabbalah, but the original kabbalists did pull aspects of their philosophy/theology from it.
The alignment of the elements with the seasons comes from Rabbi & Rav Kohenet Jill Hammer’s - The Jewish Book of Days. There she teaches that each season has an inner and outer element - the one in need and the one of abundance. Using the classical symbols for the elements, paired with this teaching, provides the opportunity for the creation of a new series of sigils. Above the woman (symbol for Betulah/Virgo) is the sigil I created for Air within Earth which are the inner and outer elements of the season.⠀⠀⠀⠀
One of the correspondences that the founders of Kohenet Kohenet: The Hebrew Priestess Institute, developed early on, is aligning the Netivot with the Months of the Year.
Our Netivah (singular) of Elul is the Tzovah or Shrinekeeper - here shown in her three suits from the Eht/Aht: a Netivot Wisdom Oracle deck: Vessel, Offering, Ally.⠀
In my #NamingtheMoons I call Elul the Moon of Making Space. That is the gift of the Tzovah! The transformation of any space into a sacred one.
The amazing YA recently posted on IG about the month of Elul saying this, “As we call to our beloved on the field, we call to the return of our beloved within ourselves. As we clear the space, and we let things be we make space to see the lovely within. And tending the shrine that we are. "⠀⠀
This is the essence of the Tzovah. Elul is also a gateway month between the year that was and the year that will be, and the Tzovah can also be understood as the guardian of the gateway.⠀⠀
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Last Day!
If you live in the US and want to pre-order a deck at the Kickstarter price of $36 (plus shipping) – today is the last day to do it!
PRE-ORDER TODAY!
If you don’t live in the US, and want to pre-order – direct message or email me ([email protected]). I can’t do the full pre-order for outside US because I don’t know the final shipping price, and I don’t want you to pay too much. Non-US residents can reserve a deck at the $36 by just letting me know to add them to the list.
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Pre-Order: 5 Days Left (7/30/2018)!
Only 5 days left to pre-order the Eht/Aht: a Netivot Wisdom Oracle deck! (see profile link).
If you missed the Kickstarter,thenpre-ordering not only guarantees you get the deck at the Kickstarter price of $36 (plus shipping), but also that you get a deck!.
This is a limited print run, and I don’t know when I’ll do another one.
As I can’t do the pre-order with international shipping, I am reserving a few decks for folks that have reached out about that.
But otherwise, if you REALLY want one --you should pre-order.
Officially they will ship in November 2018, but I’m working hard to get them out sooner than that.
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3 days left and we’re 71% of the way there.
At the $36 Reward Level we need 30 more people.
Have I told you why 4236, besides that about what I figured out it would take to do a print run of $250?
In Gematria (Jewish Numerology)
42 = Immah - Mother
36 is double “chai” - life (18), and Elah “goddess”
If you want to see this project get funded and haven’t told someone else about it yet – now is the time!
If you’ve been waiting until the last minute…Now is the time.
New Reward Level
Many of you have asked how you can get the deck and a reading from me. I didn’t want to promise too many readings, because I know I’ll be really busy over the summer and fall. But I can manage 10 of them. If you are already a backer and want to change your pledge – you can! If you haven’t backed this yet, I hope this encourages you to do so.
Social Justice
I know there is a lot going on in the world right now. And if you are the type of person who would back this project, you are probably giving what you have to help refugees, immigrants, civil rights, gender equality, and so much more. This project also helps fund womxn doing that work to – by donating to the Kohenet scholarship fund.
This deck also portrays as diverse a range of what it can mean to be a woman, as I could manage. The goal was to present as diverse a vision of ‘Womxn’ and Feminine Divine as possible. The roots of this deck are in Jewish teachings, but I wanted to be sure anyone who identifies as a woman could see herself somewhere in this deck. It was also a priority to ensure that the deck was not just “Ashka-normative” – meaning focused on just stereotypical imagery of White, Eastern European Jewry. Being Jewish can be a religious identity, ethnic/racial identity, and a tribal identity.
I tried to incorporate gender presentation, body type diversity, age, as well as race/ethnicity. While in some cases I couldn’t find imagery to incorporate what I was looking for - I tried to leave somethings “unseen” - not to hide anything - but to leave the potential for you to fill in what should be there.
You can’t begin to know how much it means to me that you would see this project as part of that work of Tikkun Olam (repairing the world), and choose to use some of your hard earned “green energy” to back this project.
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A dream is 1/60th part of prophecy
Sivan is a month of “receiving” and prophecy, and the Talmud says that a dream is 1/60 part of prophecy. ⠀
My dreams have been very active the past few weeks. ⠀
It seems like it may be time to start dream journaling again to give them the respect they are requesting and do my best to full receive the messages the Divine is trying to impart.⠀
If you don’t know about Vanessa Ochs’ fabulous book, “The Jewish Dream Book” - it’s so worth checking out. She not only unpacks Jewish dream practices, but also uses those historical practices to weave new ways of Jewish dreamwork. ⠀
Maybe I’ll write out this new blessing she crafted and set it on my altar with the Neviah offering card, and a clear quartz and amethyst.⠀
Blessed is the Source ⠀
of all illumination and all wisdom, ⠀
who guides us in using the knowledge ⠀
we have acquired in our dreams ⠀
for sacred purposes.⠀
~Vanessa Ochs⠀
And of course, if you’d like to make my dream of publishing the Eht/Aht: a Netivot Wisdom Oracle deck happen – it’s funding on Kickstarter now.
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Ahhhhh the Emoji Spell Sticker Kit I won from @devotaj_arts came!!! This is definitely shaping up to be a lovely #jewitch Hanukkah!
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