Welcome to the first edition of the Spear Point Newsletter!
It’s been on my mind to do something like this for awhile, but an encouraging conversation with my friend Bob Doto ( IG @newoldtraditions) finally gave me the impetus to make it a reality. Bob’s own newsletter Society of the Self is a must read for me every week.
My intention is to use this space to do something constructive with the thoughts that have heretofore just been bouncing around my head. Historically their only release has been half-baked tweets and mid-way-into-second-pint-of-high-ABV-craftbeer fueled rants at whichever one of my friends is unfortunate enough to find themselves stationed across the table from me at the local brewery (Don’t pity them too much, they KNOW what they’re getting into by now.)
My interests these days lay primarily in spirituality, magic, philosophy, theology, ethics, psychology, complexity science and, broadly, how we make sense of the lives we find ourselves in. How are these tools of human inquiry relevant to meeting the historical moment we inhabit ?
At least right now, these are the things that are likely to inform the perspectives I intend to share here. Part of the thrill and the terror is that I do NOT know where these explorations will take me, nor how they will be received. I know, however, that the time has come to make the first tentative steps into getting them out there into digestible form, where they can be interacted with, received, rejected, corrected, refined.
I am also an avid cook and aspiring grill dad, a lifelong fan of professional wrestling and Kung-Fu movies, a gym rat and sporadic yogi, a working stiff in the [increasingly insane] health care system of the United States where I make my home, a musician, and a Tarot practitioner. It’s highly probable that these facets of my experience and identity will also inform the perspectives I intend to share here.
As we proceed, I would love to hear your input and responses. Thank you for joining me on this adventure!
Reads
I just finished the book “The Subversion of Christianity” by Jacques Ellul and BOY did it hit hard. In an upcoming letter I will be putting some of my thoughts on it together, but I think I need to take a breather first. Wheeeewwwwwww.
Other media:
Check out the latest edition of the Dialectal Tarot Series from The Golden Shadow, featuring myself and Chris Gabriel from the excellent Meme Analysis YouTube channel, and hosted by Arran Rogerson and Alyssa Polizzi of The Golden Shadow. In this episode we go deep into the meaning of The Empress and how she manifests both archetypically and in the world we live in.
If you’d like to book a Tarot session with me, send me a message @ Spear of Fire Tarot and we will set things up!
https://linktr.ee/SpearOfFire
yas let us read your diary 👀
Cannot wait for ALL of this. Adding this to “Highlights of 2021.”