{"id":1505,"date":"2009-04-01T01:10:55","date_gmt":"2009-04-01T06:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paganpages.org\/content\/?p=1502"},"modified":"2009-03-20T13:38:09","modified_gmt":"2009-03-20T18:38:09","slug":"elemental-perspectives-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/2009\/04\/01\/elemental-perspectives-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Elemental Perspectives"},"content":{"rendered":"

Diving Deep <\/strong><\/p>\n

This is the second in my Elementals Perspectives series for PaganPages.\u00a0 For those who didn\u2019t read the first one in the series last month, let me briefly review what I\u2019m trying to do with these articles.<\/p>\n

Most of us have a working knowledge of the classic four Elements (Air, Fire, Water, and Earth) and the so-called fifth one, Spirit.\u00a0 It\u2019s a handy way of categorizing the universe and that\u2019s useful when we work magic or even for just getting a handle on what\u2019s going on.\u00a0 It\u2019s easy to think of the classical Elements in much the same way as we were taught to think about the Periodic Table of Elements in our science classes.\u00a0 But, even though the ancient notions of atoms and elements were the seeds of modern physics and chemistry, we must remember they weren\u2019t really applied in the same way as that.\u00a0 Instead, they were a system of categorizing the forces and characteristics of the observable world of the ancients.<\/p>\n

As magic workers and as priests and priestesses of our own spirituality, learning to use this simplified but flexible system is extremely valuable because it provides an adaptive structure able to support and strengthen all our works.\u00a0 But to accomplish this, we must practice using it as our model.\u00a0 Though hardly anything in our universe is solely of one, pure Element, we can use each of the Elements as a perspective on the world around us.\u00a0 When we do so, we are able to clear away some of the more distracting aspects and see it in a less complicated manner.<\/p>\n

This article will deal with the Water Element, which most magical systems put in the west, though it can really be any of the directions.\u00a0 The Water Element is in many ways the most important because it deals with emotions, how we feel about things.\u00a0 I say this is likely the most important because how we feel determines what something means.\u00a0 Last month, we dealt with the Earth Element, which is all about how things are manifested in the world.\u00a0 But before they are made manifest (come into being), they must have some kind of meaning; we must be able to relate to them.\u00a0 Otherwise, we wouldn\u2019t even be able to recognize them as part of our world.<\/p>\n

As kind of an example of the truth of this, let me introduce you to the xchirtelizer<\/strong><\/span>.\u00a0 This handy-dandy little thing is quite possibly the wonder gadget of the century.\u00a0 But if you don\u2019t know what it means, it won\u2019t do you a lick of good, will it?\u00a0 Would you be able to recognize the xchirtelizer if it were in your world?\u00a0 Absolutely not, because you don\u2019t even know what it means.\u00a0 What if I now told you that the xchirtelizer was the Lower Slabovian word for a Swiss Army Knife?\u00a0 Ahah!\u00a0 I have now brought the xchirtelizer into the world of the five senses (the realm of the Earth Element).\u00a0 And, because I told you earlier that the xchirtelizer was the wonder gadget of the century, you feel good about it (Water Element) and will want to run right out and buy a dozen, right?\u00a0 Well, okay, maybe a half a dozen.<\/p>\n

All right, that was kind of cheating a bit.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t set up any new feelings about the xchirtelizer; I used the feelings you had about Swiss Army Knives.\u00a0 But to further illustrate the importance of feelings, let\u2019s look at something we\u2019ve seen in the news and how our feelings make it what it means.<\/p>\n

You can\u2019t turn on the news or look at a magazine cover right now without being bombarded with gloom and doom titles and stories concerning our economy.\u00a0 It\u2019s a mess; it\u2019s catastrophic; it\u2019s been going on since (fill in date); it\u2019s hardest on (fill in group); it\u2019s the worst since (another date); the numbers are (find some statistic that\u2019ll scare the bleep out of everyone).\u00a0 So says (some expert you never heard of before).\u00a0 Everything sweet and comforting, like chocolate, is selling better and better these days.\u00a0 To the guy making a bunch of noise on the street corner, this is a sure sign of the beginning of the end.\u00a0 The sky will fall this afternoon at precisely 3:34 p.m.; news and pictures at 11.\u00a0 In the words of Ben Stein in the Visine ad: wowwww.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not trying to make light of the problems being faced by a huge number of people at this time.\u00a0 I\u2019m grateful that I still have a paycheck and a roof over my head and I truly hope for better times for any who don\u2019t.\u00a0 But stop and think about conditions and attitudes not much more than a year ago.\u00a0 According to some reports, the last two decades have been one long road to financial hell.\u00a0 And yet everyone felt comfortable and fairly secure until sometime around the spring of 2008 (that\u2019s right; the time the heavy political stuff was getting started).\u00a0 That\u2019s when the first whispers of the R word (recession) started to creep into the media.\u00a0 Somebody thought this or that; somebody found this or that number and it didn\u2019t mean the same for them today as the numbers meant yesterday, even when they were the same numbers.\u00a0 Just the year before, one bank swallowing up another meant a few hundred layoffs and a stronger stock market tick for the swallower.\u00a0 Ask anybody on the street except those directly connected to the banks in question and they\u2019d give you the standard \u2018who cares?\u2019 shrug and pass on by.\u00a0 Banks that couldn\u2019t keep in the black closed up and crawled away all the time.\u00a0 Does anybody reading this know how many banks got closed or swallowed up in 2007?\u00a0 Did you even care?<\/p>\n

Nowadays, banks don\u2019t go out of business; they fail.\u00a0 Spending is down; the stock market is down; unemployment is up; homelessness is up.\u00a0 And it\u2019s all bad news.\u00a0 How does that make you feel?\u00a0 According to recent reports, the sky actually started to fall in October, 2008.\u00a0 Or was it August?\u00a0 Some say it was late May, 2007.\u00a0 News and pictures (and talking heads) at 11.<\/p>\n

Is everybody sufficiently depressed we can now call this a depression?<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re one of the homeless, the unemployed, the person getting hit by a piece of the sky, you\u2019re hurting and, again, I wish you the best.\u00a0 I am currently engaged in trying to make your lot better.\u00a0 But, for the rest of you, let me ask you a few questions.<\/p>\n

Have you noticed any drop in the congestion on the freeway during rush hour?\u00a0 Has there been any less number of advertisements on the tube lately?\u00a0 How long did it take you to find out what the heck a \u2018Ponzie scheme\u2019 was?\u00a0 I guess you aren\u2019t making enough money to worry about it (neither am I).\u00a0 Of course, I\u2019m old enough to think it was something from a show called Happy Days.\u00a0 But maybe that was Fonzzie.<\/p>\n

So, are you scared yet?\u00a0 Are you feeling bad enough that you\u2019ll stop buying those fancy whiz-bangs for Junior at Christmas?\u00a0 Will your spending be down and your investments less?\u00a0 Well, it seems that you\u2019re not in the minority.\u00a0 Just about everybody is doing just that.\u00a0 And for good reason:<\/p>\n

The market for fancy whiz-bangs dropped this last Christmas season.\u00a0 Spending is down enough to lay off umpty-ump thousands of people, which makes it really difficult to make spending go up.\u00a0 And who wants to invest in a market that\u2019s making noises like a flushing toilet?<\/p>\n

Hmmm, I wonder what would have happened if we hadn\u2019t listened to those talking heads on the tube and spent more last Christmas.\u00a0 Maybe your job (making fancy whiz-bangs) wouldn\u2019t have dried up.\u00a0 Maybe you\u2019d feel better about starting to invest some of that hard-earned cash in a market account.\u00a0 The price of stocks is almost as low as in your dad\u2019s day and the opportunities are really tempting.\u00a0 Or maybe you could give away a dollar to that crazy guy on the corner shouting about the sky falling.\u00a0 After all, that\u2019s just a piece of paper, right?<\/p>\n

In your pocket, that paper isn\u2019t doing anything for anybody.\u00a0 But you\u2019re reluctant to spend it because it might be the last one of them you\u2019ve got.\u00a0 Without it, you might not eat tomorrow and that is scary!\u00a0 At the same time, not spending it might mean that your friend next door might not eat tomorrow.\u00a0 And that means the person next door to them might not eat.\u00a0 If you spend that dollar today and get some food to eat tomorrow, the guy next door can make a buck because he sold the food to you.\u00a0 And maybe the one next door to him will also make a buck because he sells heating oil to your neighbor.\u00a0 So why are you not happy to whip that piece of paper out and spend it?\u00a0 Because you\u2019re scared, right?\u00a0 Because you fear a future\u2026 that you are helping to make.<\/p>\n

Franklyn D. Roosevelt said it well when he spoke to the American people during the Great Depression (and, really\u2026 what exactly was so great about it?): \u201cThe only thing we have to fear\u2026\u201d he said in his best Wall Street tones, \u201cis fear itself.\u201d\u00a0 It is this feeling of fear and such that has made all this happen.\u00a0 The feeling has made the meaning!<\/p>\n

Do you know how to start a stampede?\u00a0 Just say, \u201cboo\u201d to the right cow.<\/p>\n

Our feelings create meaning.\u00a0 How we feel about something is what it means.\u00a0 Change how you feel and you change the meaning.\u00a0 Change the meaning and you change the \u2018reality.\u2019\u00a0 Our attitude, how we feel about our situation from moment to moment, is the sole determinate of what our world means.\u00a0 There\u2019s a clich\u00e9 scene in movies where somebody is seeing a shrink, talking about events in their life.\u00a0 And the psychologist or psychiatrist leans toward the patient and asks (with total sincerity) \u201cAnd how do you feel about that, John?\u201d This is not only a very legitimate question; it\u2019s an extremely vital one.\u00a0 A single event can happen to five people in exactly the same way and mean five different things.\u00a0 The meaning of it can be completely opposite for one person when compared to another.\u00a0 The event may be the same\u2026 but its meaning is up to each person\u2019s feelings.<\/p>\n

This Element\u2019s \u2018secret\u2019 has been so life changing for me that I have sometimes come close to being another crackpot on the corner shouting out my brand of \u2018truth.\u2019 It has become a central part of my understanding of both magic and spirit.<\/p>\n

It is also one of the key factors in the work of a friend of mine.\u00a0 He works as an arbitrator, a sort of \u2018referee\u2019 who helps people come to an agreement in disputes.\u00a0 One of the \u2018rules\u2019 he applies in his method of conflict resolution has to do with what he calls \u2018case building.\u2019 Case building is where a person says this or that caused such and such problem.\u00a0 In big issues between powerful companies or entities, it still usually comes down to some version of, \u201cHe made a face at me and stepped on my toy, so that\u2019s when I hit him with the baseball bat.\u201d Whenever negotiations begin to break down to this kind of thing, he halts the conversation and reminds the party or parties that case building is not allowed.\u00a0 Then he redirects them to state how they feel about the events or circumstances.<\/p>\n

Believe me when I tell you that this can be extremely frustrating.\u00a0 We all tend to justify our actions and thoughts by dredging up selected events and using them as \u2018evidence\u2019 against our opponents.\u00a0 And this is true even if our \u2018opponent\u2019 is our own life!\u00a0 We rattle off our Exhibits A, B, and C and claim them to be the reason for X, Y, or Z.\u00a0 And it nearly always is some twist on, \u201c\u2026 so that\u2019s when I hit him with the baseball bat.\u201d My friend is quite adept at recognizing case building and nips it in the bud usually within the first ten words.\u00a0 If you aren\u2019t used to this, it can get your blood boiling almost instantly.\u00a0 It frustrates everyone and, before I became convinced that this method was really terrific, I sometimes felt like hitting him with a baseball bat!<\/p>\n

But if you continue on, if you cooperate with him and honor his rule about no case building, something wonderful happens.\u00a0 Eventually you get past the frustration over being told to stop talking about what happened and how it was the reason for (fill in the blank), and you begin to catch yourself before he points it out to you.\u00a0 You begin to look honestly at your feelings about the circumstances.\u00a0 Then, while trying to find words for these feelings, you begin to understand that it was how you felt about it that made the \u2018meaning\u2019 of the event.\u00a0 Sooner or later, you realize that the \u2018conflict\u2019 is 99% your attitude, your feelings\u2026 and you can change what something means simply by working on your feelings.\u00a0 Since such conflicts almost always are about events and circumstances that are in the past, it\u2019s usually easy to change how we feel about them.\u00a0 This is a marvelous moment; it\u2019s an empowering moment.\u00a0 It is a moment when you face the truth, power, and magic of that one simple sentence:\u00a0 \u201cHow it feels is what it means.\u201d<\/p>\n

Getting in touch with the Water Element is perhaps one of the most transformative moments of anyone\u2019s magical development.\u00a0 Learning to dive deep and swim easily in that Water is well worth the effort.\u00a0 It will mean everything to you.<\/p>\n

Next Month, we\u2019ll look at Fire.\u00a0 Before we do, however, I suggest you review all the warnings and instructions your parents and others told you about fire when you were young.\u00a0 They weren\u2019t wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Diving Deep This is the second in my Elementals Perspectives series for PaganPages.\u00a0 For those who didn\u2019t read the first one in the series last month, let me briefly review what I\u2019m trying to do with these articles. Most of us have a working knowledge of the classic four Elements (Air, Fire, Water, and Earth) and the so-called fifth one, Spirit.\u00a0 It\u2019s a handy way of categorizing the universe and that\u2019s useful when we work magic or even for just getting a handle on what\u2019s going on.\u00a0 It\u2019s easy to think of the classical Elements in much the same way as we were taught to think about the Periodic Table of Elements in our science classes.\u00a0 But, even though the ancient notions of atoms and elements were the seeds of modern physics and chemistry, we must remember they weren\u2019t really applied in the same way as that.\u00a0 Instead, they were a system of categorizing the forces and characteristics of the observable world of the ancients. As magic workers and as priests and priestesses of our own spirituality, learning to use this simplified but flexible system is extremely valuable because it provides an adaptive structure able to support and strengthen all our works.\u00a0 But to accomplish this, we must practice using it as our model.\u00a0 Though hardly anything in our universe is solely of one, pure Element, we can use each of the Elements as a perspective on the world around us.\u00a0 When we do so, we are able to clear away some of the more distracting aspects and see it in a less complicated manner. This article will deal with the Water Element, which most magical systems put in the west, though it can really be any of the directions.\u00a0 The Water Element is in many ways the most important because it deals with emotions, how we feel about things.\u00a0 I say this is likely the most important because how we feel determines what something means.\u00a0 Last month, we dealt with the Earth Element, which is all about how things are manifested in the world.\u00a0 But before they are made manifest (come into being), they must have some kind of meaning; we must be able to relate to them.\u00a0 Otherwise, we wouldn\u2019t even be able to recognize them as part of our world. As kind of an example of the truth of this, let me introduce you to the xchirtelizer.\u00a0 This handy-dandy little thing is quite possibly the wonder gadget of the century.\u00a0 But if you don\u2019t know what it means, it won\u2019t do you a lick of good, will it?\u00a0 Would you be able to recognize the xchirtelizer if it were in your world?\u00a0 Absolutely not, because you don\u2019t even know what it means.\u00a0 What if I now told you that the xchirtelizer was the Lower Slabovian word for a Swiss Army Knife?\u00a0 Ahah!\u00a0 I have now brought the xchirtelizer into the world of the five senses (the realm of the Earth Element).\u00a0 And, because I told you earlier that the xchirtelizer was the wonder gadget of the century, you feel good about it (Water Element) and will want to run right out and buy a dozen, right?\u00a0 Well, okay, maybe a half a dozen. All right, that was kind of cheating a bit.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t set up any new feelings about the xchirtelizer; I used the feelings you had about Swiss Army Knives.\u00a0 But to further illustrate the importance of feelings, let\u2019s look at something we\u2019ve seen in the news and how our feelings make it what it means. You can\u2019t turn on the news or look at a magazine cover right now without being bombarded with gloom and doom titles and stories concerning our economy.\u00a0 It\u2019s a mess; it\u2019s catastrophic; it\u2019s been going on since (fill in date); it\u2019s hardest on (fill in group); it\u2019s the worst since (another date); the numbers are (find some statistic that\u2019ll scare the bleep out of everyone).\u00a0 So says (some expert you never heard of before).\u00a0 Everything sweet and comforting, like chocolate, is selling better and better these days.\u00a0 To the guy making a bunch of noise on the street corner, this is a sure sign of the beginning of the end.\u00a0 The sky will fall this afternoon at precisely 3:34 p.m.; news and pictures at 11.\u00a0 In the words of Ben Stein in the Visine ad: wowwww. I\u2019m not trying to make light of the problems being faced by a huge number of people at this time.\u00a0 I\u2019m grateful that I still have a paycheck and a roof over my head and I truly hope for better times for any who don\u2019t.\u00a0 But stop and think about conditions and attitudes not much more than a year ago.\u00a0 According to some reports, the last two decades have been one long road to financial hell.\u00a0 And yet everyone felt comfortable and fairly secure until sometime around the spring of 2008 (that\u2019s right; the time the heavy political stuff was getting started).\u00a0 That\u2019s when the first whispers of the R word (recession) started to creep into the media.\u00a0 Somebody thought this or that; somebody found this or that number and it didn\u2019t mean the same for them today as the numbers meant yesterday, even when they were the same numbers.\u00a0 Just the year before, one bank swallowing up another meant a few hundred layoffs and a stronger stock market tick for the swallower.\u00a0 Ask anybody on the street except those directly connected to the banks in question and they\u2019d give you the standard \u2018who cares?\u2019 shrug and pass on by.\u00a0 Banks that couldn\u2019t keep in the black closed up and crawled away all the time.\u00a0 Does anybody reading this know how many banks got closed or swallowed up in 2007?\u00a0 Did you even care? Nowadays, banks don\u2019t go out of business; they fail.\u00a0 Spending is down; the stock market is down; unemployment is up; homelessness is up.\u00a0 And it\u2019s all bad news.\u00a0 How does that make you feel?\u00a0 According to recent reports, the sky actually started to fall in October, 2008.\u00a0 Or was it August?\u00a0 Some say it was late May, 2007.\u00a0 News and pictures (and talking heads) at 11. Is everybody sufficiently depressed we can now call this a depression? If you\u2019re one of the homeless, the unemployed, the person getting hit by a piece of the sky, you\u2019re hurting and, again, I wish you the best.\u00a0 I am currently engaged in trying to make your lot better.\u00a0 But, for the rest of you, let me ask you a few questions. Have you noticed any drop in the congestion on the freeway during rush hour?\u00a0 Has there been any less number of advertisements on the tube lately?\u00a0 How long did it take you to find out what the heck a \u2018Ponzie scheme\u2019 was?\u00a0 I guess you aren\u2019t making enough money to worry about it (neither am I).\u00a0 Of course, I\u2019m old enough to think it was something from a show called Happy Days.\u00a0 But maybe that was Fonzzie. So, are you scared yet?\u00a0 Are you feeling bad enough that you\u2019ll stop buying those fancy whiz-bangs for Junior at Christmas?\u00a0 Will your spending be down and your investments less?\u00a0 Well, it seems that you\u2019re not in the minority.\u00a0 Just about everybody is doing just that.\u00a0 And for good reason: The market for fancy whiz-bangs dropped this last Christmas season.\u00a0 Spending is down enough to lay off umpty-ump thousands of people, which makes it really difficult to make spending go up.\u00a0 And who wants to invest in a market that\u2019s making noises like a flushing toilet? Hmmm, I wonder what would have happened if we hadn\u2019t listened to those talking heads on the tube and spent more last Christmas.\u00a0 Maybe your job (making fancy whiz-bangs) wouldn\u2019t have dried up.\u00a0 Maybe you\u2019d feel better about starting to invest some of that hard-earned cash in a market account.\u00a0 The price of stocks is almost as low as in your dad\u2019s day and the opportunities are really tempting.\u00a0 Or maybe you could give away a dollar to that crazy guy on the corner shouting about the sky falling.\u00a0 After all, that\u2019s just a piece of paper, right? In your pocket, that paper isn\u2019t doing anything for anybody.\u00a0 But you\u2019re reluctant to spend it because it might be the last one of them you\u2019ve got.\u00a0 Without it, you might not eat tomorrow and that is scary!\u00a0 At the same time, not spending it might mean that your friend next door might not eat tomorrow.\u00a0 And that means the person next door to them might not eat.\u00a0 If you spend that dollar today and get some food to eat tomorrow, the guy next door can make a buck because he sold the food to you.\u00a0 And maybe the one next door to him will also make a buck because he sells heating oil to your neighbor.\u00a0 So why are you not happy to whip that piece of paper out and spend it?\u00a0 Because you\u2019re scared, right?\u00a0 Because you fear a future\u2026 that you are helping to make. Franklyn D. Roosevelt said it well when he spoke to the American people during the Great Depression (and, really\u2026 what exactly was so great about it?): \u201cThe only thing we have to fear\u2026\u201d he said in his best Wall Street tones, \u201cis fear itself.\u201d\u00a0 It is this feeling of fear and such that has made all this happen.\u00a0 The feeling has made the meaning! Do you know how to start a stampede?\u00a0 Just say, \u201cboo\u201d to the right cow. Our feelings create meaning.\u00a0 How we feel about something is what it means.\u00a0 Change how you feel and you change the meaning.\u00a0 Change the meaning and you change the \u2018reality.\u2019\u00a0 Our attitude, how we feel about our situation from moment to moment, is the sole determinate of what our world means.\u00a0 There\u2019s a clich\u00e9 scene in movies where somebody is seeing a shrink, talking about events in their life.\u00a0 And the psychologist or psychiatrist leans toward the patient and asks (with total sincerity) \u201cAnd how do you feel about that, John?\u201d This is not only a very legitimate question; it\u2019s an extremely vital one.\u00a0 A single event can happen to five people in exactly the same way and mean five different things.\u00a0 The meaning of it can be completely opposite for one person when compared to another.\u00a0 The event may be the same\u2026 but its meaning is up to each person\u2019s feelings. This Element\u2019s \u2018secret\u2019 has been so life changing for me that I have sometimes come close to being another crackpot on the corner shouting out my brand of \u2018truth.\u2019 It has become a central part of my understanding of both magic and spirit. It is also one of the key factors in the work of a friend of mine.\u00a0 He works as an arbitrator, a sort of \u2018referee\u2019 who helps people come to an agreement in disputes.\u00a0 One of the \u2018rules\u2019 he applies in his method of conflict resolution has to do with what he calls \u2018case building.\u2019 Case building is where a person says this or that caused such and such problem.\u00a0 In big issues between powerful companies or entities, it still usually comes down to some version of, \u201cHe made a face at me and stepped on my toy, so that\u2019s when I hit him with the baseball bat.\u201d Whenever negotiations begin to break down to this kind of thing, he halts the conversation and reminds the party or parties that case building is not allowed.\u00a0 Then he redirects them to state how they feel about the events or circumstances. Believe me when I tell you that this can be extremely frustrating.\u00a0 We all tend to justify our actions and thoughts by dredging up selected events and using them as \u2018evidence\u2019 against our opponents.\u00a0 And this is true even if our \u2018opponent\u2019 is our own life!\u00a0 We rattle off our Exhibits A, B, and C and claim them to be the reason for X, Y, or Z.\u00a0 And it…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}