Boob Cake Party, Part II
The entry into Chapel Perilous
To continue where we left off in the last post (which you can read here if you missed it) , I am unfolding to you the mysteries of the Four Elements of Booby Milk. Like the holy book that it is, I read the text of the relevant passages and concluded with the offering, “We thank the Great Mother for giving us Booby Milk and give her back some of what is left.” Then I led him through the visualization of having the milk energy come back as a gift from the Great Mother, coming up through his feet, his legs, torso, through his limbs, and to the top of his head. He grew dragon wings and embodied the dragon entirely.
During the week when he wanted to nurse, I led him through the visualization again, ending with his great big dragon wings. Each time it calmed him down and he composed himself, running off to play or continue what he was doing before. Now, about a week and a half after this, I ask him if he can feel the dragon energy. He says, “Yes. It’s in my body,” and pats his chest.
The next one, which happened Monday, is Bear Strength energy. This signifies naptime nurse. Well, it was supposed to go a certain way, then it didn’t. The next two days we were in the car and he slept there. I decided we needed to redo the ritual, clearly this one requires more than one packet of Milk to make it powerful enough of an exchange.
Essentially, we need to learn how to put him to sleep without nursing, besides car rides. I can count on one hand the accidental times this has happened and all of those were at night, never during the day. This is going to be a big challenge for us all. We are definitely calling on Bear Strength to get us through this.
Once we get through the next two powers, Lion Stability and Eagle Comfort, Baby Hawk will be transformed.
I have him pictured here reminiscent of Vishnu lounging on the giant serpent, Shesha, floating on the cosmic ocean. This is his new self, a fully contained new persona that has emerged from the ordeal in his hero’s journey. He’s awakened as baby Phanes, God of Light.
Then, the story and ritual conclude, coming back through the spiral to the beginning, but now, evolved and transformed.
The last image in the book refers back to the first and second images, the double spiral with a sprouting seedling that has now grown into a full cosmic tree and the dragons doing their double ouroboros lemniscate. The culmination of this, like all hero’s journeys, brings us back to where we started, but we are forever changed. Difficulty in life is unavoidable, but personally, having a mythic way of thinking through it has always made those times bearable and even meaningful to me. This is what I hope to instill in him with all of this. Things are often bigger than us, bigger than our life experience alone can truly understand or even account for. Framing them into a mythopoetic worldview is how countless generations since the beginning of humankind have put them into context. And that’s what I’ve done here for him.
Thank you all for being here on this mythic hero’s journey with us.
I am coming along on my Eleusinian Mysteries themed painting. I just want to share how it’s going since I am so excited about it - especially the background.
I wanted Persephone on the left to have space behind her and Demeter to have a Sunrise. Persephone is katabasis, going down, which somehow to me in this special case means space, and Demeter is anabasis, going up and that is sunrise. But they needed to comingle because that is the mystery as I understand it. My solution that struck me at midnight the other night - tie-dye. Squeel! This is just the colors. Of course once I get into it more, all of the details will be added. Stay tuned!