calling for the feminine energy of Melusine during the blue full moon
The lich's rejuvenation is a supernatural ability that cannot be dispelled. You can argue that you could cast dispel magic on the phylactery, if you have decided it is magical in the first place, and then that the phylactery ceases to be a phylactery while suppressed, but otherwise dispel magic is of no use.
în toiul luptei omului cu dracul, cățelul, deși mic, dar vânjos nevoie mare și rău de mama focului, se repezi la cal ca să-l muște iar calul încolțit de cățel, când mai văzu și pe dulăul dela târlă că vine în urma cățelului, îi trecù furiile pe loc și o croi la fugă.
Effect: Turns a body of water into a temporary dimensional portal.
This spell allows the hydromancer to turn any body of water within range into a temporary dimensional portal, through which he or she (as well as any companions) may travel to another location on the planet via the Elemental Plane of Water. Although the spell's duration is listed as being one turn, this refers to the total amount of "real-time" that elapses between entering one portal and emerging from a different one somewhere else. The journey through the Plane of Water takes 1d12 hours in terms of "relative time", as the hydromancer must locate another useable portal through which he or she can re-enter the Prime Plane. During this period, the hydromancer and his or her companions will be subject to random planar encounters, and before undertaking the journey they must ensure they will not drown. Although this spell allows the hydromancer to journey to almost any point on the Prime Plane, the main restriction is that the destination must in or near a source of water.
"There are strange and wondrous things in these lands of darkness... I must intoxicate myself on magic perfumes in order to fathom the secrets that lie hidden in the abysses of the Unconscious."
— Carl Gustav Jung, from a letter to Sigmund Freud, from 'The Dionysian Self: C.G. Jung's Reception of Friedrich Nietzsche'
So much has been written on the feeling of ‘guilt’, on what it means to exist in a state of guilt, to feel the impending weight of society, or an individual’s judgment on you. Guilt is an emotional or affective enactment of justice. We all live with a justice system in which a person is pronounced ‘guilty’ or ‘not guilty’ before their freedom is given or taken away from them.
In Audre Lorde’s famous essay, ‘The uses of anger’, she writes:
I cannot hide my anger to spare you guilt, nor hurt feelings, nor answering anger; for to do so insults and trivializes all our efforts. Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own action or lack of action. If it leads to change then it can be useful, since it becomes no longer guilt but the beginning of knowledge.
Lorde suggested that guilt does not exist on its own, but always in relation to something. It is response which also manages to fail at response. We are caught in its painful circuit. But rather than seeing this circuit of anger-guilt’ as the only one which exists, I think it’s important to stretch this dynamic further, to examine the after-effects of guilt in the ‘non-guilty’.
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Part of RUMINATION, at QUADRO GALLERY, CLUJ-NAPOCA, ROMANIA
galvanized-chromed chain, print on paper, cotton wadding, variable dimensions
It is essential to respond rather than react, and to act rather than react to others. By nature, most people react rather than respond to unfavorable situations. This proves to be costly later. And most people are aware of this, so it is unfortunate that people still react in the heat of the moment and regret it later.
Life is in your hands. You have a choice to make—either to react or to respond to a conflict or a tricky situation. It is said that below-average individuals talk about individuals, average individuals talk about issues, and above-average individuals talk about ideas. Everything is present in the human mind, and informs how an individual views a scenario and approaches to handle it.