It seems that Spirit or "the powers that be" which guide me have completed working through me in the "technical" or "how-to aspects of helping to guide members of Pagan Clergy to better perform the duties of their ministries and are ready for my work to begin a second phase, that of life guidance in general through stories based upon our Pagan heritage which deliver parables to help us find the way through the morass we often find ourselves in as we stumble through this great adventure called "life"
I completed a series of children's stories and sent that work on my publisher "Waning Moon Publications" then started working on a 2nd volume which will have more adult type themes and stories more suited for us older kids of 16-160 Oh the previous work, "Wizard Tales" is interesting even at my age after writing, reading, editing re-reading re-editing and reading yet again, it still had not lost it's appeal and one can find more and more hidden parables in those yet to be published pages.
I recently completed another story for the next of the series, but it is of such a nature that I am thinking few will actually see or understand the spiritual/life messages contained in those few pages. The story is of the life of a man who came to a new country (born into a new life) from the east, across the sea (the womb). He set shore at the new growing town of Jamestown to prepare (learn and acquire rudimentary skills and the tools needed) for the next leg of his journey.
His journey takes him up river (following Spirit) toward the distant Mountains (Earth mother/Goddess) Along the way he not only has to work against the current, but he also has to learn how to survive on his own without falling prey to hostile Indians (the pitfalls and traps that we encounter in life). The constant testing of Spirit makes him stronger as it does in our lives. He observes, sees and learns. Along the way he meets a wounded Indian woman who will eventually become his wife. He would not have survived were it not for her, nor would she have survived were it not for him, and together, they are able to meet and overcome each and every challenge the wilderness tosses at them. Of course being a short story, all this is brief and alluded to in the mind of the reader. Then he gets wounded in the leg (thigh). Sends his wife on along with their children to a new and more fertile valley where they can live together peacefully without the constant threat of attack by a hostile tribe.
The wounded thigh is a classic metaphor of castration, the stoppage of the flow of the fertilizing agent which needs to pour forth in order to initiate life within the mother/earth. He lets go, freeing his offspring
and his mate, remaining behind until he is able to travel, then he sets out alone. In the mountains, the womb of the Great mother he meets his death.
While he was alive the hostile Indian tribe sent only the young men to attack him as a right of manhood. He gets bitten by a serpent ( infused with wisdom) and then is killed in a weakened state by a war party. There is a twist right at the end which I will not reveal here.
But not only is this the life of the man, it is the parable of the male mysteries. And I think if the reader were to examine the story from the perspective outlined here, those mysteries would begin to be revealed.
Speaking on Men's Mysteries, there is a new book by Terry Michal Riley entitled "Brothers of the Sun, Pagan men's mysteries" that will be coming out this month (March 2011) or so that was the plan. which I believe has been long over due. Terry is a great guy who I had the pleasure to meet about a year ago and I got a sneak preview of the work and would highly recommend it as both a guide and a teaching aid to help one better understand the male mysteries of our long-forgotten heritage.
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