{"id":76,"date":"2021-02-02T21:41:47","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T21:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonne.sonverrid.org\/sanctuary\/?page_id=76"},"modified":"2024-12-21T20:24:23","modified_gmt":"2024-12-21T20:24:23","slug":"spiritual-essays","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sonne.sonverrid.org\/sanctuary\/essays\/spiritual-essays\/","title":{"rendered":"Spiritual Essays"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-color\" style=\"color:#d59d43\">~&#8221;<a href=\"https:\/\/sonne.sonverrid.org\/sanctuary\/blog\/2024\/12\/21\/guided-by-my-matriarch-12-19-2024\/\">Guided by My Matriarch<\/a>&#8221; (December 2024) &#8212; essay covering various aspects of lessons and energy from animal guide, Horse, and how that has impacted me, including her as a shadow guide<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color\" style=\"color:#d59d43\">~&#8221;<a href=\"https:\/\/sonne.sonverrid.org\/sanctuary\/blog\/2021\/02\/02\/riding-dragonflies-butterflies-taming-muses-may-18-2011\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/sonne.sonverrid.org\/sanctuary\/blog\/2021\/02\/02\/riding-dragonflies-butterflies-taming-muses-may-18-2011\/\">Riding Dragonflies &amp; Butterflies: Taming Muses<\/a>&#8221; (May 2011) &#8212; thoughts on learning to balance and better utilize my artistic muses through symbolic and totem-like animal concepts<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color\" style=\"color:#d59d43\">~&#8221;<a href=\"https:\/\/sonne.sonverrid.org\/sanctuary\/blog\/2021\/02\/02\/my-personal-view-of-deities-october-8-2009\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/sonne.sonverrid.org\/sanctuary\/blog\/2021\/02\/02\/my-personal-view-of-deities-october-8-2009\/\">My Personal View of Deities<\/a>&#8221; (October 2009) &#8212; description on various parts of my individual interpretation of what I believe deities are or may be<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color\" style=\"color:#d59d43\">~&#8221;<a href=\"https:\/\/sonne.sonverrid.org\/sanctuary\/blog\/2021\/02\/02\/reflections-personal-guidance-from-mongoose-december-18-2008\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/sonne.sonverrid.org\/sanctuary\/blog\/2021\/02\/02\/reflections-personal-guidance-from-mongoose-december-18-2008\/\">Reflections: Personal Guidance from Mongoose<\/a>&#8221; (December 2008) &#8212; explains some of the lessons I have learned or am in the process of learning from Mongoose as a guide, with emphasis on &#8220;finding my personal niche&#8221; and social matters<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color\" style=\"color:#d59d43\">~&#8221;<a href=\"https:\/\/sonne.sonverrid.org\/sanctuary\/blog\/2021\/02\/02\/the-watch-guardian-mongoose-energy-and-symbolism-november-8-2008\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/sonne.sonverrid.org\/sanctuary\/blog\/2021\/02\/02\/the-watch-guardian-mongoose-energy-and-symbolism-november-8-2008\/\">The Watch-Guardian: Mongoose Energy and Symbolism<\/a>&#8221; (Novemer 2008) &#8212; an extensive description on the aspects and symbolism I feel are associated with Mongoose as a totemic guide. It is divided into numerous sections and two parts:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sonne.sonverrid.org\/sanctuary\/blog\/2021\/02\/02\/the-watch-guardian-mongoose-energy-and-symbolism-november-8-2008\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/sonne.sonverrid.org\/sanctuary\/blog\/2021\/02\/02\/the-watch-guardian-mongoose-energy-and-symbolism-november-8-2008\/\">Part I<\/a>&nbsp;&amp;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sonne.sonverrid.org\/sanctuary\/blog\/2021\/02\/02\/the-watch-guardian-mongoose-energy-and-symbolism-part-ii-november-8-2008\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/sonne.sonverrid.org\/sanctuary\/blog\/2021\/02\/02\/the-watch-guardian-mongoose-energy-and-symbolism-part-ii-november-8-2008\/\">Part II<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color\" style=\"color:#d59d43\">~&#8221;<a href=\"https:\/\/sonne.sonverrid.org\/sanctuary\/blog\/2021\/02\/02\/oryx-and-the-desert-may-5-2008\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/sonne.sonverrid.org\/sanctuary\/blog\/2021\/02\/02\/oryx-and-the-desert-may-5-2008\/\">Oryx and the Desert<\/a>&#8221; (May 2008) &#8212; detailed explanation of the importance and meaning of Oryx as a guide to me and also what the concept of the Desert spiritually signifies for me<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color\" style=\"color:#d59d43\">~&#8221;<a href=\"https:\/\/sonne.sonverrid.org\/sanctuary\/blog\/2021\/02\/02\/guiding-black-wings-essay-on-crow-february-2006\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/sonne.sonverrid.org\/sanctuary\/blog\/2021\/02\/02\/guiding-black-wings-essay-on-crow-february-2006\/\">Guiding Black Wings: Essay on Crow<\/a>&#8221; (February 2006)&#8211; describes my long relationship with and connection to my life totem, Crow, and some pulls that has on my knowledge of my therianthropy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>~&#8221;Guided by My Matriarch&#8221; (December 2024) &#8212; essay covering various aspects of lessons and energy from animal guide, Horse, and how that has impacted me, including her as a shadow guide ~&#8221;Riding Dragonflies &amp; Butterflies: Taming Muses&#8221; (May 2011) &#8212; thoughts on learning to balance and better utilize my artistic<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonne.sonverrid.org\/sanctuary\/essays\/spiritual-essays\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Spiritual Essays<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":41,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-76","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonne.sonverrid.org\/sanctuary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonne.sonverrid.org\/sanctuary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonne.sonverrid.org\/sanctuary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonne.sonverrid.org\/sanctuary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonne.sonverrid.org\/sanctuary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/sonne.sonverrid.org\/sanctuary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/76\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":675,"href":"https:\/\/sonne.sonverrid.org\/sanctuary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/76\/revisions\/675"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonne.sonverrid.org\/sanctuary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonne.sonverrid.org\/sanctuary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}