Paganistan: Notes from the Secret Commonwealth
In Which One Midwest Man-in-Black Confers, Converses & Otherwise Hob-Nobs with his Fellow Hob-Men (& -Women) Concerning the Sundry Ways of the Famed but Ill-Starred Tribe of Witches.
Dark Twin/Light Twin
The things warlocks worry about.
I was born at the Summer Solstice of 19xx. My friend and brother warlock Adaron was born at the Winter Solstice of the same year.
Clearly, the two of us embody (in some sense or other) the Dark Twin and the Light, if only to one another. (Life imitating myth imitating life imitating...) But which, may I ask, is which?
(Bear in mind that, being warlocks, we both want to be Dark Twin.)
Well, you might think that, in a bipolar year, it would be the Winter-born Twin who's the Light Twin. So one might think.
But, of course—this is mythology that we're talking about, after all—it's not quite that simple. You're telling me that Him who reigns over July, August, and all the Harvest is the Year's Dark Half? Sorry, I'm just not buying it.
Well, at thirteenth and last, I've got both a light side and a dark, and so does Adaron. We all do. A crow needs two wings to fly with. The paradox of the divided self lies at the very heart of Old Craft theology and psychology: we're all our own opposite, dark and light. When you notice yourself projecting onto someone else, be sure that it's you you're projecting.
So happy birthday, beloved friend and Twin.
Dark or Light, I'm still the elder brother.
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Thursday, 26 December 2019This reminds me of the Bucca in Gemma Gary's "Traditional Witchcraft: A Cornish book of Ways" described as a goat headed hermaphrodite half black and half white.
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Thank you elder brother! I think that you are correct, each contains a part of the other, as in the Yin/Yang symbol, the so-called opposites are contained within a moving/growing wholeness. We should always remember that the Horn Father has two horns, one of light and one of dark. The flame of illumination burning between them is the synthesis of these two sides of the same coin in a realization that leads to gnosis. Many mysteries, including those of the caduceus and the lemniscate (infinity symbol) are waiting here for the wise to realize. Blessings twin brother, A