Author: Elizabeth Invictus

I have a BA with a Specialization in English Literature and Languages from Western University. I am a Level II Certified Reiki Practitioner and offer energy work and energy healing services in my home and online. I also offer Faeries' Oracle readings and Tarot, and provide holistic and metaphysical personal guidance. I began writing short stories at 9 year and poetry at 11 thanks to the encouragement of my sixth-grade teacher. Her guidance taught me the importance of mentorship, and the value of helping others discover their own self-expression. Over the years I have collected many experiences working various jobs from housekeeping and factory work to working as a travel consultant and walking and talking as a door-to-door marketer. Now a full-time student and single parent, I live with my beautiful daughter, my inspiration. I love to read, and studying literature has given me the opportunity to study the record of human thought from mythology and the Pre-Socratics to the contemporary; a discourse that includes mathematical and scientific theory, psychology, philology, and psychoanalysis, linguistics, history, political and social theory among other things. This all-round education reflects the kind of self-education I practice in my life outside of school. My other passions include friendship, photography, yoga, drawing, painting, travelling, cooking, baking, crocheting and other creative/artistic endeavours.

on Good and Evil

An argument aginst basic notions of morality.

To forgive yourself and others is to embrace the ambiguity of empathy and compassion. Nothing is ever simple when it comes to what is good and what is evil, often it comes down to what side you are on and your perspective.

From Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet

“Of the good in you I can speak, but not of the evil.
For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?
Verily when good is hungry it seeks food even in dark caves, and when it thirsts it drinks even of dead waters.”

by Elizabeth Invictus

Invictus Maneo: Strength and Belonging

Invictus is Latin word that means unconquerable, undefeated, or unvanquished.
Maneo is the Latin word for I stay, I remain, I last or I endure.
These two words make up my family motto, and, in turn, have given me strength. I stay unconquerable; I endure undefeated; I remain unvanquished.

The Scottish tradition (where my surname comes from) of having family crests and mottos gives me the feeling of belonging to something greater than myself.
Belonging strengthens my belief that no matter how difficult life is, I can and will endure.
A clan is a group of people united by actual or perceived blood kinship. In other words, a tribe or an extended family. The name unifies people and gives a unified purpose. The collective, in its most ideal form, is a group of people who look out for each other’s interests.

“During times of suffering the shelter of belonging calms us”

John O’Donohue

by Elizabeth Invictus