A Beginning

 Don’t you love it when it all lines up?


Today is 1 B’atz, which according to my understanding is the first day of the cholq’ij. It’s also a Sunday—the Lord’s day—the first day of the week. The Sun is in Poiel’s quinance of Jupiter’s decan of Capricorn (the First), and Jupiter is in Gemini.


All that to say—isn’t this a great day to begin writing about these sort of things?


I’ve been meaning to for a while, and people have certainly been bugging me to do it—but it has only recently lined up that I have become able to.


(I got my Dad’s old laptop!)


So I suppose the theme of today is beginnings.


And that starts with endings.


These are the last three days of 2024—which has been a year for the books. I achieved a major life’s ambition of mine this year: I got myself to Egypt. I’ll have to get into that another time, but that was definitely the end of something and the beginning of something.


We got a dog, or rather a dog came to us. Poppy. Cute. A friend of my mom’s found her in a gutter in Norco and she was full of fleas and ticks. She couldn’t have been a month old. We can only imagine what happened to her brothers and sisters. We’re calling March 20th 2024 her birthday cause she seems to be more Aries than Pisces, but she is very sweet and all chihuahua/Jack Russel mixes are pretty Arian so…


I joined a wizard club—the OTA. Started Capoiera. I’ve met a lot of great new friends this year.


Funny there are still two days left to the year and this is shaping up like a wrap up, and yet it’s supposed to be a beginning. 


About half an hour, maybe forty five minutes ago while walking Poppy I found a very newly deceased White Crowned Sparrow.


Sparrows are ruled by Venus, and I had a very long conversation with Venus in Egypt which I can barely remember now because I was a on mushrooms, but I’m quite sure she sent me this little bird. I went to bury it in the yard, and the burial could have gone more gracefully, so I think I may cremate her in Poke’s brazier.


Poke Runyon (really Max Paul but with Poke’s reluctant assent) graciously lent me a fire pan on the solstice so I could execute my long planned forging of a Christmas-forged hammer. That went pretty fuckin awesomely I think. So theres this fire pan and it may be a good thank you to Astarte to return her bird to the fire.


And this was supposed to be so fresh and new, and insightful and informative—for who?


The Sun is down now, and what has this 1 B’atz been to me?


This morning was beautiful and cold and foggy, like the rest of the world was unrendered more than a couple blocks past my house. Outside: plenary potential. Inside: a lot to put away. It was definitely winter, right on time. I lazed in bed for longer than I intended, and then called Poiel.


That’s another thing I’ve been doing this year: walking with the angels of the Shem HaMephorash, a la Gordon White’s Decan Walk. Today with just a degree and change to go on the clock I introduced myself to Poiel, an angel I have been meaning to talk with for a long long time now. I noticed Poiel’s Mathers sigil has YSL’s logo in it—or rather YSL’s logo has Poiel’s Mathers sigil in it. Some of that promise of creating infinite luxury feels like it could be 1 B’atz.


It has been a nice, slow thoughtful day. A day that feels like things are coming together.

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