Rachel Jackson

17/04/2026

St. George is not simply a saint who killed a dragon.

He is one of the oldest archetypal myths humanity has ever produced, found in nearly every culture on earth, thousands of years before Christianity.

The dragon is not an animal.

In every esoteric and psychological tradition, the dragon represents the primitive forces within the human being. Fear. Desire. The unconquered instincts. The unexamined darkness of the unconscious. Jung would call it the Shadow. It is the heavy, untamed weight of our lower nature, the part of us that devours, hoards, and destroys what it cannot control.

St. George is not an external hero.

He is the part of the human being that has chosen to awaken. That has chosen consciousness over automatism, virtue over animal impulse, spirit over instinct. His battle does not take place on a battlefield. It takes place within.

The princess he rescues is the soul, the anima in Jungian terms. That inner, luminous part of the self that is held captive by the dragon of unconsciousness until the hero finds the courage to face what lives in the dark and free her.

This is why the myth appears everywhere. The Babylonians told it as Marduk slaying Tiamat. The Egyptians told it as Horus defeating Set. The Greeks told it as Perseus and the sea monster. And then the Christian tradition gave it the name we know today.

The story is always the same.

Every human being contains the dragon. And every human being contains the saint who can slay it.

15/04/2026

Anything other than this is just a glorified form of avoidance.

12/04/2026

the intellectual center loves to discuss concepts it has never embodied.

this is one of the most dangerous traps on the path.

gnostic psychology makes a sharp distinction between two types of knowledge:

episteme: knowledge about something.
gnosis: direct experience of something.

episteme can be accumulated infinitely. you can read every book. memorize every teaching. quote every master. debate every doctrine.

and remain completely unchanged.

Samael wrote it directly: "theory by itself cannot bring about anything except an intellectual enjoyment on the part of those who understand it."

intellectual enjoyment.

that is what most spiritual discussion actually is.

the pleasure of understanding. the satisfaction of being right. the dopamine hit of having the answer.

but none of that is transformation.

here is how to tell the difference:

1. episteme makes you more articulate. gnosis makes you quieter.

2. episteme accumulates like a library. gnosis strips away.

3. episteme can be held by someone who has done zero inner work. gnosis cannot exist without direct experience.

4. episteme describes the ego. gnosis catches the ego in the act of running.

5. episteme makes you certain. gnosis makes you humble.

6. episteme can be taught without living. gnosis can only be transmitted by someone who has it.

and here is the esoteric warning most people never hear:

teaching what you do not embody creates karma.

not metaphorically. actually.

when you transmit knowledge you have not verified through your own being you are creating a debt. you are speaking with authority you have not earned. you are pointing to a path you have not walked.

the ancients understood this. real teachers were tested for decades before they were allowed to speak. not because knowledge was secret. because false transmission damages both the teacher and the student.

the teacher accrues karma for every confusion they create. the student receives words without substance. and both remain asleep thinking they are awake.

this is why the path emphasizes practice over theory. application over discussion.

it is not anti-intellectual. the intellect has its place.

but its place is to serve transformation. not to replace it.

the question is not how much do you know.

the question is how much of what you know lives in your body. moves through your actions. shows up when you are tested.

anyone can discuss the ego.

who can catch it in themselves the moment it activates?

anyone can explain the centers.

who can observe which center is speaking right now?

anyone can talk about non-identification.

who can actually remain present when triggered?

that is gnosis.

and it cannot be faked.

stop collecting knowledge that does not change you.

start testing what you already know against the living laboratory of your own psychology.

the gap between what you understand and what you embody is the only distance that matters.

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12/04/2026

“A healthy mind is a castle that cannot be invaded without the will of its master; but if [evil spirits] are allowed to enter, they excite the passions of men and women, they create cravings in them, they produce bad thoughts which act injuriously upon the brain; they sharpen the animal intellect and suffocate the moral sense. Evil spirits obsess only those human beings in whom the animal nature is preponderating. Minds that are illuminated by the spirit of truth cannot be possessed; only those who are habitually guided by their own lower impulses may become subjected to their influence.”

Paracelsus -- De Ente Spirituali

11/04/2026

09/04/2026

“All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.”

~ Demosthenes

Artist: Bilquis Evely & Mat Lopes

05/04/2026

“The waiting is the hardest part — but also the holiest.”
– Caroline Myss

She sits veiled in white beside the tomb, because she has “nowhere else to go”. There is no map for what happens next. How many times have we been in that place, where one thing leaves, the next has not yet come and we are feeling lost and a bit hopeless? Knowing so much, we can’t possibly go back, but the fog is thick and moving up the mountain could find us in absolute disaster.

And so we sit, and we wait. This is the threshold.

Key Principles:
Liminality, holy waiting, surrender, sacred unknowing, faith beyond vision

Context:
This card is Magdalene at the empty tomb, the moment before revelation. She doesn’t yet know resurrection is near. She is suspended between loss and miracle, between what has died and what will rise. In this image, her back is turned to us, but we instinctively know how she feels. She has nowhere else to go but into the stillness.

Jungian/Alchemical Insight:
The threshold is the nigredo, the dark stage of the soul's alchemy. It is the moment when we have lost our bearings but not our essence. Magdalene here represents the sacred state of “not knowing,” which opens us to divine transformation. The ego cannot resurrect what it has not surrendered.

Artwork Description:
Magdalene is seen from behind, cloaked in white, seated before a barren, abstract tomb space. The simplicity is intentional: it reflects how the sacred often appears as absence, and serves to remind us that waiting consciously is a holy act. She is still, but the image carries a charge — something is about to happen. It is a reminder that all is not lost, that Love is not gone.

Card Meaning:
You are in a holy pause. There may be no answers, no direction; only stillness. But beneath the silence, something is quickening. Do not try to rush across this threshold. Wait, listen, trust. You are being transfigured.

Mantra:
I remain at the tomb, not because I have certainty — but because I have love. And there is nowhere else on this earth for me to go, so I shall wait.

“Awaiting the Gardener (Magdalena)”, from the upcoming “SheWhoIs” oracle
Mixed Media
2025

Prints:
8X10 Matted & Signed: https://shewhoisart.etsy.com/listing/4326021602
4X6 Altar Art: https://shewhoisart.etsy.com/listing/4326016439

28/03/2026

21/03/2026

Spring equinox marks the return of the Sun. Tulips, daffodils, hares and lambs are the messengers of Spring signalling new life is ready to emerge.

The light is only beginning to increase and everything is in its infancy form, tender, vulnerable and innocent. All of these fledgling forms would appear to be fragile, not able to protect themselves in this dog eat dog world. Hopeful but weak, soft.

We associate hope with a child’s naivety, most of us think shrewd savviness is strength and the prerequisite needed to get ahead, especially to know how to beat the game.

Perhaps, the opposite is true. Cynicism, bitterness, and resentment are weaknesses born out of eyes going dark refusing to recognise love’s presence and a heart closing to the Divine.

It is easy to lose faith.
It is easy to bow down to resignation.
It is easy to enjoy malice and blame.

It is far more courageous to stand in the eternal Spring of Spirit which has endured the winter’s doom, knowing full well the light always returns and the light always wins.

It is not the savvy adult that can stand in despair with a bloom still intact in one’s heart, it is only our innocent nature that knows light is victorious.
Undefeatable, impenetrable, infallible, Innocence.

To travel this world and meet darkness in ourselves and others is part of this path. But no amount of darkness will ever extinguish our Innocence.
It is our Innocence that allows us to stand in resistance to all that is dark and declare there is another way.

When we disconnect from our inherent innocence we believe and activate such things such as shame, guilt, judgement and punishment.
We no longer believe in the transformational power of the Soul and cling to the contradictions of the personality of ourselves and others.

Returning to our conscious innocence is the most powerful stand to take because it is a declaration of what the Soul truly is,
Undefeatable, impenetrable, and infallible.

It is the seemingly meek act of surrender to what we truly are that allows victory in this lifetime and beyond.

Like the lamb this Spring Equinox, May we all experience the joy of remembering who we are.

Artwork by Rasa Tamošiūnienė