{"id":166,"date":"2008-03-07T11:48:19","date_gmt":"2008-03-07T19:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/privatenook.com\/?p=166"},"modified":"2026-04-19T05:14:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T13:14:43","slug":"the-hierophant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/privatenook.com\/?p=166","title":{"rendered":"The Hierophant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cold, wet and rainy with violent winds circling around the buildings, I hear the storm.  The darkness stifles. I imagine the stars beyond the clouds and ask for messages, for guidance.  Then I turn in and snuggle up to the warmth of my bed.  Fitful sleep, dreams thick and confusing.  One stands above the rest like a beacon for my attention.  I awake knowing that I am the Hierophant.<\/p>\n<p>The telephone rings and my eyelid creeks.\u00c2\u00a0 Destiny answers with a throaty hello.\u00c2\u00a0 With excitement, I drop everything and stand at attention albeit fully nude.\u00c2\u00a0 I am not feeling fully prepared just falling out of bed, foggy and slightly confused.\u00c2\u00a0 All of the things that have brought me comfort spill away from my reach and suddenly I feel lost and abandoned but I know inside that this is not the case&#8230; For once, I am fully bright and illuminating my own path.\u00c2\u00a0 All I have to do is put one foot in front of the other and trust the light that I shine.<\/p>\n<p>We are never truly alone\u00c2\u00a0 with all this expandable energy flowing every which way&#8230; we are bombarded, caressed with it every quantum second but we have become numb.\u00c2\u00a0 Open your heart and feel the electrons pulsing within-without..they pet you with life.\u00c2\u00a0 and we are one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cold, wet and rainy with violent winds circling around the buildings, I hear the storm. The darkness stifles. I imagine the stars beyond the clouds and ask for messages, for guidance. Then I turn in and snuggle up to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/privatenook.com\/?p=166\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-beginning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/privatenook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/privatenook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/privatenook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/privatenook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/privatenook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/privatenook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6047,"href":"https:\/\/privatenook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions\/6047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/privatenook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/privatenook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/privatenook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The constant WPCACHEHOME must be set in the file wp-config.php and point at the WP Super Cache plugin directory. -->