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I Woke Up This Morning

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How I Learned Three Mystic Truths & How They Helped

A Fiddler’s Green Leaflet by Clint Marsh

At the Crossroads

My day job, my health, and my sanity seemed poised to pop next, along with my personal finances. Everything good in my life was collapsing around me, and I knew I had to do something to shore up what little remained intact.

The prudent move at the time would have been to make calls to a divorce lawyer, a real estate agent, and a job-hunting service. What, then, was I doing spending all my evenings and weekends in the garden shed behind the house?

Why, I was studying alchemy, of course.

Faced with a life-changing crisis, a young man seeks salvation in self-directed mystical study. The allegorical truths he finds in fantastical alchemical engravings, rich kabbalistic texts, and early American folk recordings shine a light on a path through the darkness and back toward better days.

In I Woke Up This Morning, Clint Marsh recounts his tumultuous passage through his first Saturn return. His experience grants him three foundational mystic lessons, presented here to help anyone going through hard times at any point in life.

Originally printed in the sixth issue of Fiddler's Green Peculiar Parish Magazine, Marsh's essay is illustrated with a selection of engravings from sixteenth- and seventeenth-century sources.

How I Learned Three Mystic Truths & How They Helped

A Fiddler’s Green Leaflet by Clint Marsh

At the Crossroads

My day job, my health, and my sanity seemed poised to pop next, along with my personal finances. Everything good in my life was collapsing around me, and I knew I had to do something to shore up what little remained intact.

The prudent move at the time would have been to make calls to a divorce lawyer, a real estate agent, and a job-hunting service. What, then, was I doing spending all my evenings and weekends in the garden shed behind the house?

Why, I was studying alchemy, of course.

Faced with a life-changing crisis, a young man seeks salvation in self-directed mystical study. The allegorical truths he finds in fantastical alchemical engravings, rich kabbalistic texts, and early American folk recordings shine a light on a path through the darkness and back toward better days.

In I Woke Up This Morning, Clint Marsh recounts his tumultuous passage through his first Saturn return. His experience grants him three foundational mystic lessons, presented here to help anyone going through hard times at any point in life.

Originally printed in the sixth issue of Fiddler's Green Peculiar Parish Magazine, Marsh's essay is illustrated with a selection of engravings from sixteenth- and seventeenth-century sources.

  • Fiddler’s Green

    Leaflet Zine, 20 pages, with duotone illustrations throughout.

 

About Fiddler’s Green Peculiar Parish

Fiddler’s Green Peculiar Parish Magazine was born of a languid afternoon of conversation on a sunny tavern lawn. Taking its name from the pleasant afterlife dreamed into being by sailors, cavalrymen, and other adventurous spirits, Fiddler’s Green gathers friends, good cheer, and a bit of magic to create a better world not someday, but now.

In ecclesiastical terms, the word β€œpeculiar” refers to a district outside the jurisdiction of the Church. It’s also a good word for describing my own view of reality, and likely yours as well. And so here is a β€œpeculiar parish magazine” for anyone who doesn’t feel the need to have their inner life directed by others. If it is peculiar that we wish to govern our bodies and souls ourselves, then let us be peculiar.

The conversation continues, and there is room for you in it. Each of us is on our own journey, both in this world and whatever lies beyond it. Sometimes the path is well lit; at other times it is obscured. Your wanderings have brought you here, and I hope you’ll stray for a while with me and the other souls gathered at Fiddler’s Green.

Clint Marsh [Publisher]

Description

Clint Marsh uses elements of myth, magic, folklore, and humor to help Β­people navigate everyday life. He is the Β­editor of Fiddler's Green Peculiar Parish Magazine and a winner of the Β­Bookseller/Diagram Prize.