An apology

Written by thehouseofvines

Hey guys. Unfortunately I’ve had some health issues come up over the last couple days which have put me in a state where I could not properly perform the divination for the fundraiser. I was able to do the first batch before it hit, but I’ve still got 3 or 4 clients remaining. I am terribly sorry for the delay and will try to get them out later tonight or tomorrow, now that I’ve overcome this and restored the necessary level of purity to hit the mat. Thank you for understanding. 

13 thoughts on “An apology”

    1. I got really drained energetically during Anthesteria, and that led to some really random physical ailments which we almost went to the emergency room over. Thankfully plenty of prayer and altered states work got things to level out and the symptoms disappeared – but it was a scary couple of days before that, and frustrating because it’s not like I could easily explain any of this to a doctor in such a way that they’d understand and not give me a psych eval. LOL

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      1. I was miasmic for Anthesteria this year (which seems to be happening the more old I and everyone around me keeps getting!) so didn’t get to celebrate. I’ve for sure had some unexpected and alarming reactions to both the Anthesteria and the Lenaia. I’m so glad you’re feeling better!

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      2. You know, Sannion, I really think I ought to have you schedule an appointment with the clinic I’m studying at. We take clients from out of state on Zoom. It’d be infinitely better to look at you in person so we can check your organ pulses but I feel like it wouldn’t hurt to get you some care from people that’d know where you are coming from regarding all of this. Do you want me to send you some information?

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  2. Ah, the body has other plans than the mind cannot imagine. I struggle with this with my writing. I accept I have bad brain days and good brain days.

    About ritual purity and illness, I never considered that before. Perhaps when you are better, you offer a blurb or two on that. Is it only the body or does it include the mind such as insanity and mental illness?

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    1. Illness – including physical, mental and spiritual – produces states of miasma. Now, not all miasma is the same*, most of it is morally neutral, and some of it doesn’t impact one’s ability to perform religious rites or be present in sacred space. But when you are acting in an oracular or divinatory capacity you need a greater than normal degree of clarity, which the miasma from illness can impede. (All miasma clouds our perception, especially our ability to hear and feel the divine.)

      * In fact “miasma” has become a sort of generic, catch-all term for pollution, while the ancients employed a much richer vocabulary for these states. While I personally prefer that kind of precision the whole concept tends to be confusing for modern people, so I just keep things simple unless I’m conversing with colleagues. (And even then most of my colleagues are from other traditions so I don’t dump a bunch of obscure Greek and Latin vocabulary on them either.)

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      1. Well as a Roman interested in ritual purity, I would like to put in a blog topic for future – the difference degrees, etc. I understand about the clarity – I do use divination to ask about doing my regular devotions when I am ill. Physical illness like a cold, COVID, etc which involve germs, I get no. Brain spazzes is mixed depending on what is entailed – no rituals of course but lighting incense and prayers is fine. (Of course, that is a ritual, but I mean the more formal ones.)

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        1. Filing that away in the “good ideas for future posts” folder. So little is said about impurity in general, let alone parsing out the language the ancients used to describe such states, and what to do about them. Of course that would require rereading Parker’s monumental tome on miasma, but I should probably do that anyway, for reasons.

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  3. When we divine as a household (not sure if Sannion does the same thing by himself), we always start by asking if we are permitted to divine at that time. If the answer is yes, we go on with our prep and prayers and protocols. If no, we make an offering and table it for another time.

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