Dear Ones,

“The masculine hasn’t always been conflated with the violence of hierarchy and domination. Long before the sword wielding heroes of legend cut down forests, slaughtered the old deities and vanquished their enemies, there were playful gods, mischievous lovers, vegetal magicians, and riddling bards. These archetypes of ancient masculinities are mirrored by contemporary discoveries in biology genetics, ecology and quantum physics.

  The flowering wand affirms the holarchic nature of reality, simultaneously composed of worlds and constituting larger worlds, systems that can be understood only in their connective plurality rather than when broken down in parts. Let us give back to the masculine the flowering wand..the thyrsus. Let him find the water in the land so he can protect it. Let the masculine use his wand to pour himself into other modes of consciousness so he can develop a matured ecological empathy. With the wand he does not have to prove anything through force. His job is to connect, to close wounds; his own and the wounds of other beings and landscapes. As he uses the wand, he will feel its vines begin to snake into his own veins, the magic of the world reinvigorating his own sluggish circulation. And then he too can flower alongside his wand, outward, into a power that is soft, curious, connective and celebratory.”

  If these powerful words impulse you to look deeper at the rewilding and embodiment of the Sacred Masculine within and outside of self, then come to this fascinating paradigm shifting Books as Sacrament to dive in and find our thyrus.. our flowering wands together!