Dreaming and remembering


Bits and pieces

This originally appeared on a list I was on (since disbanded) on October 31, 2005.


There are two pieces on my altar right now that have a great deal of meaning to me.

One is an old iron skeleton key. It belonged to my grandfather. It is still one of my favorite magickal tools. You can peer through the loop to help focus and "see," and the shaft works very well to direct energy. When I wear it as a pendent, it helps me find my center. Hard to explain, but that is the way it is. It's also mostly iron, which can be very useful.

We found it in a desk he had made himself, way in the back of a drawer. In has power in my mind because of the family history tie. We're not sure, but it may have been a key to my great grandfather's house from before my grandfather married. He wasn't the oldest son, but he took his family responsibilities seriously, especially after his father died. Of course anyone who knew my great-grandmother knew that her kids didn't look after her, she looked after them until the day she died.

The other piece is a mass produced polyresin skull covered with Celtic inspired designs. While it has been blessed, it has no sentimental value. It's a symbol of where we are going and where we have been, that is what gives it value to me.

You see, skull veneration is a long tradition with the Celts. It wasn't unusual for a favorite ancestor or an honored foe to be kept as a relic and ritual tool. It was decorated, polished, and carefully tended.

The fact that this one is polyresin makes it an apt symbol of the modern technopagan. It's symbolic of the manifestation of humanity's hidden roots in tomorrow's technology. And for you purists, it is not entirely artificial, there was a bit of blood magick involved in it's blessing. And yes, it has a name.

For me, both these items are symbols of the bridges between the worlds. Not just the esoteric and the mundane, but where we came from, where we are, and where we are going. And maybe even a dream of what we could be.

Someone who didn't know the stories would look at them and not understand. But for me, they draw thought and passion from one world to another.

Posted: Tue - January 27, 2009 at 01:47 PM
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