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.

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.

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.

The Queen of Heaven and the Night – Devotional Art Piece

For maybe a month or so, I’ve started getting into posting Reels on Instagram/Facebook as sort of a way to get more comfortable speaking in public/being visible in general/etc to work on my social anxiety issues. This past weekend, I also decided to start making longer videos to put on YouTube. I wanted to show off an art piece I made based on the Burney Relief, and I knew my explanation for it would go beyond the 90 seconds that Instagram allows, so I took the plunge and put it on YouTube.

Anyway, here is my first YouTube video about my mixed-media devotional art piece that I made for Inanna.

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