Gate: The Stomach of Jörmungandr I entered the vision gate and found myself at a remote cabin in an ancient forest which was situated in a stark mountain range. Giants made of the night sky and spiders formed of the elements and storms occasionally made their way over the peaks, causing brief periods of disruption […]
Read more "Chapter 99: Gathering Strength at a Mountain Retreat"Gate: A Mouse’s Shadow I entered the vision gate and found myself standing in front of the large stone well that Badger, Dream and I had used to retrieve the voice of the goddess. The All Mother stood around the well, divided into her three aspects. The youngest of her aspects, the Maiden, was drawing […]
Read more "Chapter 98: Retrieving the Tiger God and a Messenger’s Lost Faith"Gate: Venus of Willendorf As Companion reached out his hand to help me stand from the floor next to Hades’ coffin where I had fallen, my consciousness was pulled into the Venus statue in my hand before I could speak a further word to the ancient lion spirit. Through the statue’s gate, I saw a […]
Read more "Chapter 97: Releasing the Secret Furnace of the Gargantua"Gate: The Well of Memory Companion took my arm as the jaws of the Devourer were about to close over me within the Jungle of Blood. “Come now, Heidi,” said the ancient lion spirit. “Though the path we traversed was a difficult one, we have gone through it. Dry your tears for it was you […]
Read more "Chapter 96: Remembering the All Mother’s Voice"Gate: A Fountain Merlin and the Inner Child tumbled through the gate in reality and landed in a stone fountain, merrily spraying water into the air. The wizard checked the pocket watch given to him by Time and the centipede’s arms, for the most part, remained pointed in every direction but up. “We still have […]
Read more "Chapter 94: The Capture of Khan and Discovering Champion"Gate: The Night King’s Sigil The shadow of the spider’s living darkness cleared from my eyes and I beheld a nightmare landscape. Odin, Oberon, Dionysus, Eros and Venus approached the outer gates of the Night King’s obsidian castle in the sky. His royal seal, the sun set within a crescent moon, shone with a dull […]
Read more "Chapter 92: Returning to The Night King’s Castle"Gate: A Wolf’s Howl “This time,” Companion said. “I want you to treat the vision you perceive in Hades’ coffin like a game.” “Oh, I love games,” I said, the Inner Child bubbling to the surface of my mind. “I just don’t like this one.” I felt the energy and exhilaration of my childlike shadow […]
Read more "Chapter 91: The Hunt for the Devourer Begins"Gate: A Sunset I opened Hades’ vision gate and beheld Merlin on a high plateau overlooking a field filled with horses whose mane and tails flamed with the light and energy of the noon day sun. He shaded his eyes to better observe his wooden puppets carefully maneuvering among the creatures, counting their number and […]
Read more "Chapter 89: Disaster and Dancing in the Fields of Helios"Gate: Lord Hades, god of the Underworld I entered the vision gate and found myself among a running herd of horses. When I realized where I was, I reached out and held onto the sides of the creatures so that I would not be crushed beneath their churning hooves. We ran for a time, as […]
Read more "Chapter 87: Beginning the Dream of Hades"Gate: A Broken Heart I entered the vision gate and found myself moving to tribalistic music in the center of a crowd of dancers just like me. The spirits of men and women were dressed in brightly colored feathers and sported orange bands around their arms and legs. All of a sudden, Shadow appeared in […]
Read more "Chapter 86: Changing the War Against Heartbreak"
The Light Congress 