My Gratitude Incantation, Part 1

Winter, The Night, The North, The Magician

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Note: This is the first in a series of planned blog posts about a gratitude incantation I’ve created which I do at the end of a meditation practice as part of my morning routine that you can read about here. Each one combines the archetypes of the following four things: directions, time of day, seasons, and the masculine archetypes as defined by Douglas Gillette and Robert Moore in their book, King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine. Today’s post, released in mid-winter, will start with the North, for reasons stated below, and sometime in the spring we’ll head East before going South for the summer and finishing with the West in the fall.

Four directions, all of equal value, where to start? Well, if you take up this practice, that’s entirely up to you. Today’s post is just the way I do it after developing it over several months of trial and error in 2019.

I decided that because I was born in early January in the Northern Hemisphere I would I start by facing the North, which I align with the winter, the night, and the Magician. In addition, this points me in the direction of the North Star, which has been used by navigators in the Northern Hemisphere for thousands of years. This has resonance for me because one of the…