Reflection opens a portal through which bridges form so we can cross between the worlds.

Rethink your allegiances to the outside world. Where might the invisible algorithms of culture be driving your imagination for you? Notice your addictions to substances and activities that fill up every sacred pause. These pauses are essential for magic to gather.

through them to their relational ecosystems.⁠*

While it’s not always necessary to take a big leap, taking even small risks toward your next becoming will inspire deeper dreams to support you.

Remember that the Imaginal World is a real place unto which you are umbilically connected. It is, and always has been, as much a source of life to you as the material world. But like the alchemical cauldron, the quality of ingredients you place there determines how well you are fed and, in turn, how well you feed the world.

imagination isn’t a thing, or even a faculty, it’s a field of collaboration—a

Use three words to describe [name of place, person, object]. Describe how you felt when [event or action] happened. Why do you think [name of character] did what they did?

As Annie Dillard wrote, "Beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.”⁠

Just as two people who live together sometimes share dreams, over time you and that tree become inhabitants of each other’s imaginal reality.