Key Tools To Know Thyself with Rachel Munoz
The great Rachel Munoz joins us for the 2-2-2022 show! An avid researcher of various systems of self-gnosis, Rachel also innovates her own ways of deepening a personal relationship with the divine. Topics on the table are Gene Keys, Runes, and building your own systems through reforging archetypal associations to suit one's desired purpose in life.
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Core themes
Breath as Prayer and Templīs Aquária
Chance used the announcement slot to point listeners toward Kalina Lux, who had just appeared on Crrow777 Radio. He said she started a church in Puerto Rico, run as a private member association, that supplies people with religious exemption paperwork. Chance relayed her point that their prayer is the breath, and that staying connected with spirit through respiration amplifies the ability to manifest what one intends. He tied the story back to an earlier talk about private and public, and posted links to her earlier InnerVerse interview from about a year before.
Elemental Magic, Infused Tea and Everyday Alchemy
Rachel named elemental magic as her favorite system, describing it as balancing the elements to support medicine, health and the world around you, a conscious magic practiced almost without thinking. One of the hosts described checking his own elements when his flow stalled, asking whether he was cold, hungry, tired or short on breath. Rachel called cooking one of the easiest forms of alchemy, and she described setting a stone in clean water under the sun, then pairing it with herbs chosen for a body area, as a way of working with earth, water and resonance.
Brigid, the Forge and the Black Madonna
Rachel described Brigid as a creator goddess linked to poetry, blacksmithing and healing, and said she felt a personal connection to her at this time of year. In a recorded call-in, Gabe asked whether the Black Madonna might relate to the Star card in Aquarius season. One of the hosts said the Black Madonna was not familiar ground, so the question waited for Gabe to join live. He then suggested that a patroness of the forge would be covered in soot, echoing the explanation often given for dark statues. Rachel mapped smithing, medicine and poetry onto physical, in between and higher bodies.
Gene Key 25 and the Shadow of Constriction
Rachel explained Gene Keys as a blend of the I Ching and astrology, with each key moving from shadow to gift to highest state. Gene Key 25 became the worked example because it matched episode 25 and doubled up in one of their charts. Reading from the Gene Keys book, one of them said constriction exists where love is absent, appearing as a repressive form that stays ignorant or a reactive form that turns cold. They agreed the gift was openness and acceptance of love, and that the highest state of the key was universal love.
Rachel's Hand Drawn Charts, Runes and Void Mudra
Rachel showed a hand drawn seasonal wheel that she said she realized afterward followed the Fibonacci sequence, with thirteen constellations, eight fire festivals and a fifth element she chose as metal, a conduit between water and fire. She also showed a rune world tree in colored pencil, with Chinese medicine organs and energy centers added, and described singing the runes as a healing practice. Rachel demonstrated a void mudra that she said came to her spontaneously, held pointing downward at hip level, and the talk that followed described the void as space where nothing and everything exist at once.
Quotes
“It is one of the holidays that is an in-between. So it's just to mark a midway point between the winter solstice and spring equinox. So they get overlooked and not everybody celebrates them.”
“Focusing on the elements, how to balance that out because it can tie into medicine and health and the world around you. So making sure those things are in order and really using that as magic. It's kind of a conscious magic that you do all the time sometimes without thinking about it.”
“She said something that was so amazing that when we connect with the breath, our ability to manifest whatever we think about and intend is amplified to a near instantaneous level, the more consistently we stay connected with spirit, which is breath, respiration.”
“I finished recently the recording of my first audiobook production, which I did for Dylan Saccoccio, his third book, Spirit Whirled, July's End, which is an amazing etymological journey through all of the different cults that represent the sun god symbolism and just how similar those things are.”
“That fact that she's the patroness of smithing of the forge is really hitting home for me because February has to do with fabricating and the making of things. We know about the candles of the Imbolc ceremonies at this time of year, all having to do with fire inside. Indoor flame. And I just think it's really beautiful because we're in the dark season, the longer nights.”
“I didn't realize this when I started, but afterwards, I realized that this is all the Fibonacci sequence. You have three, which is in these little orbs here as colors and actions.”
“I was debating a long time on what this element was, this fifth element. But it's absolutely metal because this is water. This is fire. And you must have a conduit for that. You need a physical conduit for that.”
“Yes, we've been going through those, which is super exciting because if it weren't for his first videos on them, I probably wouldn't have had the direction that I needed to do them on my own because I definitely took what he put out and ran with it.”
“So this is the world tree with all of the runes. I managed to find a set of colored pencils with 24 exactly. It does get a little bit foggy because there's a lot of greens, but they're all here.”
“Like they just never looked at the world as if the world owed them something or they owed anything to the world. In fact, they never owed anything to anybody. Everything they did was gift. Everything they did was in a non transactional type of consciousness.”
“You're not the first one in your line that dealt with that. You may be the first one that could actually conclusively heal it, though, and pass forward a different vibration to future generations. And even if you don't procreate, you're still influencing the entire fractal of life force energy.”
“And I think there's beauty to all of those possibilities, and it's not either or per se. But what I was thinking today was about if you were the patroness of the forge and you're working in the smithy, you're going to be covered in soot, just like they tell us about the black Madonna.”
Gabriel, known on air as Slick Dissident, co-hosts InnerVerse's Vibe Rant show and is a longtime recurring guest on the podcast. He teaches occult symbolism and tarot on his YouTube channel, ranging across the Major Arcana, the esoteric Enneagram, mythology and archetype, mystic linguistics, and the symbolism hidden in popular film. He is best known for Tarot-tories, his own system mapping the 22 Major Arcana and zodiac archetypes onto the geography of the United States.
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