Welcome to the Coven ~ ♥

Ashely, well here I am in your coven.

I am sharing a poem I wrote about an ancient coven of women in Egypt.

This poem is a historical fantasy that explores the crossing of physics and meta-physics through meetings of Plato and Aristotle with the esoteric understanding of these wise ones.

The Wise Woman of Thebes

The wise women of Thebes mix fire, earth, water and air, of which fire is hot and dry, the earth dry and cold, water cold and moist, and the air moist and hot. For this Plato traveled far and wide from the blue Aegean, far from the fragmented islands of the northern seas to understand. Though the magicians on the island of Crete in their crusty caverns studied and mixed secretly the opposite nature of these elemental things, they yet were to apprehend what the old wise women of the blue Nile waters long comprehended of the passive…