Witch Weather - Part Two

How have you responded to part one of this series, and in which sort of weather?

What were your emotional responses to the information and to the weather?

What were your intellectual responses to the information and to the weather? 

What were your responses to your experience of time at the time?

All the wonderful witches in the world are preparing for events in Scotland.

Perhaps you are, too.

What do you know about weather in relation to the biodiversity of life?

Perhaps you mainly think about weather and biodiversity in economic terms, or romantic terms, or scientific terms, or political terms, or epic terms.

How do you respond to stillness and dormancy and silence?

While the wonderful witches of Australia usually inform their practices considerably with Indigenous Australian knowledge of seasons, they also inform their practices with knowledge gained through various other heritages.

How do you inform your practices, and what do you, in fact, practice, and why?

How do you observe, acknowledge and interpret environmental change?

You may be aware that the Revolutionary Climatological Needlepoint Committee is preparing for COP26.  Perhaps you are, too.

Wonderful witches, all over the world, inform their practices through the work of the committee.

Perhaps you have been making a point with needlepoint patterns of weather events, dramatic scenes and mythological stories. 

How are your various practices informed by myths, legends, arts, crafts and sciences?

Perhaps you wish to become better acquainted with the committee:

 

 

Wonderful witches are not only preparing for COP26 but for many other events, in various parts of the world, including in Scotland and Australia.

If you are preparing for any important event or goal, please ensure you are capable of distinguishing clearly between witchery and trickery.

What do you know about gestures and signals in various contexts?

What do you know about incantations in various contexts?

Are you aware that prayers are incantations, even in political contexts?

In emergencies, people do not require prayers or any other sort of incantation, they urgently need safety, and so do other species.

How are you responding to the climate emergency?

Perhaps you are aware that declarations and promises are much the same as prayers and other incantations.  They are merely words, even when provided in a ritualistic or legalistic way.

Much politics is ritualistic and ridiculous.

Much journalism is ritualistic and ridiculous.

Much of academia is ritualistic and ridiculous.

Many conferences are ritualistic and ridiculous.

Most meetings within and between organisations are ritualistic and ridiculous.

Many military practices are ritualistic and ridiculous, even in conflict zones.

How much of your life is ritualistic and/or ridiculous, and why?

Perhaps you are economically reliant on various ritualistic and ridiculous systems.

Perhaps you are emotionally reliant on various ritualistic and ridiculous systems.

How do you tell the difference between the importance of a person, the importance of a role, the importance of an organisation, the importance of a phenomenon, the importance of information, the importance of a performance, the importance of a skill and the importance of a decision?

Perhaps you would rather focus on a ritual, particularly one you find comforting.  Perhaps you think that ritual makes you safe.

Perhaps routines make you feel safe, or bored, or productive.

Perhaps you prefer following a script or pretending your life is one.

Perhaps you mistake unnecessary routines for necessary procedures.

Perhaps your routines and rituals make you feel calm.

But never forget Hecate.

How do you tell the difference between a goddess, a priestess and a witch?

How do you tell the difference between a deity, a ceremony and a glitch?

How do you define the meaning of a celebration in various contexts?

How do you interpret the metaphysics of various levels of consciousness or awareness or sentience?

Perhaps you are seeking to participate in a course associated with this grimoire.

Are you sure you are willing and able to make the necessary commitment?

Studying at a quaternary level is usually an epic experience.

What do you already know about the Epic of Gilgamesh, and how do you know it?

What is your acquaintance with Hesiod and Homer?

What do you know about the Rainbow Serpent in relation to beginnings and ends, life and death, creation and destruction, and sustainability and cultural continuity?

Perhaps you prefer not to think of the Rainbow Serpent in terms of dichotomies. 

Perhaps you prefer not to think about the symbolism of survival at all, from any cultural perspective.

Yet culture is mainly about symbolic representations of meanings.  Those meanings have relevance, and possibly importance, within the culture but not necessarily outside it. 

What is your acquaintance with the Mahābhārata and how did you acquire that acquaintance?

In various cultural context, how do you distinguish between definitions, descriptions and interpretations?

How do you distinguish between simple promises, symbolic oaths and legal obligations?

How do you assess such matters in relation to trustworthiness?

What is your current schedule, and why?

How do you distinguish between epics, eras and epochs?

What do you know about meteorology, acid rain, space weather and sea serpents?

If you have studied epic poetry from various cultures, and various times in history, what have you discovered along the way?

What do you know about poetry and cultural history more generally, particularly in relation to societal and environmental changes?

What have you been learning about climate variability and change?

What do you know about current environmental change hotspots around the world?

How have you been learning about acclimatisation and its limits?

How do you know you have been learning the truth about witches, about nature, about deities, about history, and about yourself?

What have you been learning about authority?

What do you know about the history of hymns in various cultures?

There is obviously much to learn if you wish to learn about witch weather properly.

Wonderful witches are actively involved in leading the second Age of Enlightenment.

How do you know you are doing the same?

What, for example, have you been learning from the ghost of Queen Adelaide?

What do you know about the Adelaidezone?

How do you define reality?

You may be aware that some people equate reality with the physical world of nature while other people equate reality with the world of human ideas.

Some people make decisions not only through their beliefs about nature but with an assortment of beliefs concerning the non-natural and the social.

How do you attempt to reach consensus within a group about the boundaries of the real?

How have you established your personal boundaries?

What do you know about critical systems thinking in relation to reality?

How have you attempted to overcome your biases, including an authority bias? 

How much value do you place on knowledge?

Perhaps you are more interested in learning through images of art of one sort or another or another or another or another or another or another or another or another or another or another or another or another or another or another or another or another. 

Perhaps you want to know more about the Vedas, including the Rigveda.

Perhaps you want to know more about various decades of history.

Perhaps you want to know more about the Great Hymn to the Aten.

How do you ascertain the value of a masterpiece and other products of skill?

How do you interpret a mandala?

How do you interpret a prescription?

How do you ascertain the value of an apprenticeship?

How do you usually develop skills?

How do you usually learn procedures?

How do you ascertain the value of skilled work and skilled workers, working bees and worker bees?

What do you know about the unjust coercion and other abuses of power associated with traditional authority and other domineering practices?

What do you know about human efforts to control the weather?

How do you assess the value of human capital, cultural heritage and natural heritage?

What do you know about the uses and misuses of charisma and fidelity when seeking to be persuasive and boost morale?

What do you know about the misuses of authority when seeking to persuade?

How do you attempt to address political problems? 

What do you know about the continuing influence of political theology on public policy, civil disorder and international conflicts?

When, if every, have you informed your documentation processes through ethnomethodology?

How do you distinguish between reasonable and unreasonable forms of social order?

You may or may not associate authority with unjust domination, depending upon your views about political legitimacy.

How do you determine value in relation to ethical matters?

How do you compare Eastern esotericism with Western esotericism? 

What do you know about the ganachakra?

How do you compare natural occulation with social occulation and the occult?

How do you compare political power with legal authority?

How, if at all, have you been supporting the work of the Civility Journalism Circle?

How do you usually assess the qualities of journalists?

What value do you place on communal work of various sorts?

What is your acquaintance with character education?

What is your attitude towards deskilling?

How do you determine value in relation to economic factors?

What do you know about psychohistory? 

The Revolutionary Climatological Needlepoint Committee hopes you are paying attention properly to the truth of history and the truth of science and the truth of politics.

How do you devote attention to quality, especially quality of life?

Quality information is accurate information, of course.

All facts are expressions of quality information.

Quality is truth.

Freedom includes the right to critique claims about the truth, within reason.

Who do you currently consider to be trustworthy, and why?

How do you usually assess charismatic authority and its frequent association with charlatanism?

How have you assessed the causes of violence?

What do you know about the unjust dominance associated with aggressive colonialism?

What do you know about ecological dominance?

How do you attempt to understand the patterns of prevailing winds and their influence on life?

What do you know about population ecology is relation to abundance and scarcity?

What is scarcity to you?

What have you been learning about such matters through the history of the 1200s BC? 

What do you know about mythopoeic thought?

How do you currently ascertain the limits of your understanding in relation to economic inequality?

How do you currently ascertain the limits of your understanding in relation to social inequality?

What is your understanding of nature, and how did you acquire it?

How do you attempt to interpret myths?

What is your understanding of poverty, and how did you acquire it?

What do you know about resource depletion in relation to scarcity, and how did you acquire that information?

What do you know about malnutrition in relation to a scarcity of money, land, knowledge, information and care? 

What do you know about environmental toxicology and how did you acquire that information?

How do you usually think about social boundaries and planetary boundaries?

How are you currently learning through images of art of one sort or another or another or another or another or another or another or another or another?

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