Freed from the most fundamental of cycles, we are nevertheless beings bound by cycles.Our heightened awareness of ourselves and the world around us forces us to acknowledgenatural rhythms that others simply ignore.As the day waxes and wanes, we can feel it, and we know that the true realm of magick isthe night, for that is when we wax in power. As the moon grows gravid and slim, we feelit, and we know, too, that there are more complex rhythms of power tied to her phases.As the wheel of the year turns round, we feel the wild times, the apogees and nadirs of power.The dark time of the year is our time, as are the threshold times when we celebrateSamhain and Beltane. These days are our Im Kheperu, the Day of Transformation, andour Im Sekhemu, the Day of Double Power. As beings poised on the threshold of manythings, the energies of these holidays affect us profoundly. At these times we enjoy our greatest power, but in balance, we also pay a stronger price. Waves of energy rise and fallwithin us, and when in their grip, our hunger burns.Forever, we are active elements moving through passive worlds.Our rules are our own. We accept no others. We define who we are and what we shall become. There is nothing in our lives which we cannot control if we but choose to.Our memories are carried like gems within our souls. Over the lifetimes they build andcrystallize until we can take them out and gaze upon them as we choose.Life sustains us, but death defines us. We are the many-born. Our conception was indeath, and each death now brings us a new beginning, forever without end.
III. Catalysts of Change
Everything we touch, we change. We take in energy constantly, and although this is howwe feed, this energy is never destroyed. Through us, it is transformed. It changes states. Itresonates to a higher level.Yet every birth is accompanied by struggle and pain. Every rebirth is just as painful. Itmay seem that we bring destruction, chaos, and turmoil to all those around us. And in asense we do. But the changes are always for the better, even though the initial changemay seem terrible.Change is terrible. It tears away what we've grown comfortable with. It destroys what wefind familiar, stable, and simple, leaving uncertainty in its wake. But to face uncertaintyand to thrive is to become stronger. Everything must change or die. We are active participants in this universal mystery.
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