In this video I show a couple cuneiform tablets that I made for Inanna, and then I show how I make my tablets. I also talk a little bit about the Sumerian language and my relationship with Inanna.
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Returning to Inanna After Breast Cancer: My Transformational Story
This video is inspired by the Ishtarfest 2024 presentation “Become your own (s)hero like Ishtar with transformational stories” by Lori Angel Nagel. I used her transformational story template to tell my story of how my breast cancer journey brought me closer to Inanna.
A Solo Improv Scene Inspired by the Six of Arrows (Babylonian Tarot)
I originally posted this to Instagram before I realized that normal landscape videos and are frowned upon there.
This is an improv exercise I came up with to practice between classes. I draw a tarot card and then perform a short scene based on the card. The card for this one is the 6 of Arrows from the Babylonian Tarot. I played an old-timey doctor who is attempting to treat a patient who presented with an arrow to their shoulder. (I literally just acted out the scene pictured on the card. I need to get better at “A to C” thinking).
It’s not great acting by any means, but I really like how I was able to combine three of my biggest interests: Mesopotamian religion, tarot, and improv!
Rod and Ring: An Initiation Into a Mesopotamian Mystery Tradition – An Overview of My Experience
I know I’ve written a bit about my experiences working through Rod and Ring here, but I wanted to talk about it a bit on my YouTube channel as well. This video is an over view of the initiatory journey and a little bit about some of my experiences going down this path.
How the 3 of Swords Confirmed My Belief in Tarot (and Other Thoughts on Breast Cancer)
I know I wrote an article about this for HubPages a while ago. I’m not sure if I posted the link to that article here or not, but I thought it would be an interesting topic for my YouTube channel, so I also made a video about it.
Reflections on Ishtarfest 2024
I made a short video to reflect on my experiences at Ishtarfest 2024. I mainly talk about the rituals that I was able to participate in and what I liked about them, and a little bit about the other programming too.
I still have to verify my ID before I can add the links to the description on YouTube, but here are the links related to the event and the groups I mentioned in the video:
Ishtarfest (Presented by Hands of Change)
Circle of Inanna, part of Circle of Stars Mystery School (Contact Prisca for more information, her website appears to be undergoing renovations right now, so this link is for the Facebook page).
Temple of Inanna and Dumuzi (send them a message on Facebook to get the Zoom link and join email list).
Inanna, Fierce Mother Lioness – Pagan Devotional Poetry (video)
I wrote this poem to perform at the Gathering of the Ancient Bards last night during Ishtarfest 2024. It is a devotional poem to Inanna thanking Her for always protecting me, and helping me make it through during difficult times.
YouTube Channel Welcome Video
This one is just a video introducing myself and this channel. I discuss why I started this channel and what kind of content you can expect me to post. I plan on posting things about my spiritual practices, devotional artwork and writings to Inanna, divination using Tarot, and probably stuff about learning the Sumerian language. So basically the same kinds of topics I blog about here! I’m sure there will end up being “off topic” content since I have a lot of different interests.
Dedication Poem to Inanna (Video)
I am excited to participate in another Ishtarfest this year! In preparation, I made a video of the poem I wrote to present to Inanna at the dedication ceremony at Ishtarfest in 2023, when I was first formally dedicated to Inanna.
Quick Tarot Spread to Communicate with Deities (video)
I made a second video for my YouTube channel today. Well, technically I filmed it yesterday and finished putting it together today. Its a short tarot reading to connect with the Goddess Inanna to ask her how she feels about the idea of me making a YouTube channel to talk about my spiritual journey and my relationship with Her.
I do have a more in-depth spread that I usually use to communicate with Her. I believe I’ve posted about it here before, but I’ll probably do a video explaining it too one of these days. For my first tarot video, I wanted to use a smaller spread.
I think for tarot videos, I’m going to stick to showing different spreads using an example reading for myself. I’m not really into the “general reading for whoever happens to see it” videos that a lot of people make.