tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3889529596531127755.post7315607854618463848..comments2024-03-12T12:06:53.187-07:00Comments on Doing Magick: Where are the Female Mages?Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10144040453666802786noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3889529596531127755.post-78993035244839178892012-04-16T12:54:23.277-07:002012-04-16T12:54:23.277-07:00Certainly it does seem as if the theurgical arts a...Certainly it does seem as if the theurgical arts are male dominated. I have been a part of three Temples (all in the same Order but in different areas of the U.S.A), and there always seem to be far more men than women. It is intriguing especially since systems such as The Golden Dawn and Thelema do not leave out the Divine Feminine in their practices and in fact really encourage thier members to get in touch with the feminine energies.<br /><br />My hypothesis on this situation is that 1.) the nature of theurgy in general is outwardly expressive in it's nature. Magic focuses on raising, harnessing, and focusing energy...this in itself has a very masculine quality. <br /><br />2.) The work that is entailed in following a theurgical path tends to focus more on what men need than women.During my years of teaching yoga, meditation, magic, and being an Adept in a G.D. Order I have found that many women naturally get in touch with energies far faster and easier than men do. This is due to the fact that women tend to have more practice in trusting and listening to their intuition and therefore find quicker success in their internal practices. Because of this theurgical material can seem very dry and even superfulous to many women. Men and mercurial or martial type women on the other hand get a real kick out of memorizing facts, reading ancient tomes etc, finding out all the details. These type of people see their magical sucess (at least in the beginning) as being based on what they know rather than what they are feeling. This is why you see the ego-based pissing contests occurring so frequently that our dear Soror has complained about.<br /><br />What is important in the Great Work for both men and women is to realize that we are looking to join the Sun and Moon. Thus we need to explore these sides equally. If we find great success in the internal arts we should use them to help master the more external arts within us and vice versa.Soror FSOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00115294073214207540noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3889529596531127755.post-59468254666877280682012-04-15T20:42:01.073-07:002012-04-15T20:42:01.073-07:00Sol, skip to the beginning of this blog. It is ful...Sol, skip to the beginning of this blog. It is full of my mistakes, my arrogance, my folly but others learned from that. <br /><br />Revealing yourself is a service to others but you can only serve others when you are ready.Roberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10144040453666802786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3889529596531127755.post-55526217914447538862012-04-15T20:40:26.776-07:002012-04-15T20:40:26.776-07:00I see the tree as an embodiment of both forms and ...I see the tree as an embodiment of both forms and neither. In every form of the tree, there is only love, hidden beneath the forms and ideas of its parts. There are no parts only a whole.Roberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10144040453666802786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3889529596531127755.post-84991446797651831582012-04-15T16:01:31.804-07:002012-04-15T16:01:31.804-07:00The martial thing makes total sense for a Hermetic...The martial thing makes total sense for a Hermetic tradition. There's mainly only one woman on the Tree, and she's in Netzach. Of course, there are more you can find if you factor in other correspondences, like Isis in Chesed or The Priestess in Da'ath. I'm sure you've seen female mages who embody those archetypes too.<br /><br />I'm not really a mage, but I intend to write a lot more about both theurgy and thaumaturgy in the future. As tiresome as pissing contests are, I do think it's important for women to challenge themselves and others, and to take pride in their own work, whatever the chosen field.V.V.F.https://www.blogger.com/profile/10639414609015277447noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3889529596531127755.post-19720114205925536352012-04-15T11:02:47.820-07:002012-04-15T11:02:47.820-07:00I'll stick my toes in the water and say this m...I'll stick my toes in the water and say this much. I'm a female who has been involved with Theurgy for a few years now. My Work isn't at a place where I'd feel confident enough in blogging about it though. Not yet at least.sol2solhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16141792567010446344noreply@blogger.com