Becoming The Phoenix - Flying Into The Age of Air and Fire
A mythic descent into alchemical fire and the medicine of the Phoenix for an age of upheaval. This episode of The Elder Fire Podcast presents a threefold invocation moving through underworld, middle world, and starry heights, serving as a sonic talisman for those standing at the threshold of necessary transformation.
This episode of The Elder Fire Podcast is a magical descent into alchemical fire, as we explore the magic and medicine of the Phoenix, a power that is becoming increasingly necessary in today’s world.
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It is an ‘aural sigil’, an enchantment, and a gift for these troubled times. It can be returned to as an ongoing practice, when we feel we are at the precipice of necessary change…but can’t quite make the leap (or just require help).
All the outer transpersonal planets of the solar system, have entered into zodiacal signs of air and fire, and with them sense the world is burning in the winds of chaotic change. The Phoenix ask: are we to be extinguished or be reborn in the fire?
This podcast was not written by me however, it is a poetic invocation titled Becoming the Phoenix from Normandy Ellis’ rendering of the Egyptian Book of the Dead in Awakening Osiris, mixed with music, sound effects, timing and rhythm. It is not a literal translation of the original text, but a deeply soulful, living transmission of the ancient current behind the text.
It is perhaps one of the most beautiful pieces of writing I have ever encountered.
The voice of the Phoenix speaks from ash and eternity. From bone and star. From anguish and radiance. It burns illusion. It remembers scars. It praises the heat of transformation even when that heat is unbearable. It is not concerned with ‘self help’ my friends, it is concerned with becoming.
At a mythic level, this podcast moves through the architecture of the three worlds, or ‘the world tree’ of myth.
It descends into the lower world, a place deep bass tones, the dead, chthonic forces and ancestors.
It inhabits the middle world, breath, body, humans, animals, plants, spirits and physical elemental forces.
And finally it rises into the upper world, of star fields, angelic company, eternal flame, the continuity of light that survives a thousand deaths.
For this reason, the invocation is spoken three times, yet each iteration is entirely unique, with its own powerful soundscape.
Each recitation carries a distinct energetic current, aligned with the triplanar understanding found across many ancient cultures: lower world, middle world, upper world.
This episode can be listened to for its artistic beauty alone. It can also be returned to in seasons of personal alchemy, when you feel the pressure of necessary change, when you stand at the edge of a threshold, when something must burn so that something more essential can rise.
To know the fire is to become the fire.
May it serve you well in times of combustion.
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