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.

I Diagnose Myself a Scapegoat 

What is a Scapegoat?

To put it plainly: a person blamed for the wrongdoings, mistakes, or faults of others. What does that mean exactly?

It means that if you are someone’s scapegoat, you are going to be the reason someone else did or said something, or the reason something happened, or more broadly YOU are the problem.

The scapegoat is given a tremendous amount of power, but ends up feeling weak, shameful, pitiable, guilty, or that they are evil, bad, or wrong. In come cases, wrongness becomes inseparable from the way they see themselves: they can mistake what others say for their true identities.

In families, the scapegoat tends to be the person the family collectively identifies as a source of their dysfunctional behavior. The idea being that if the person to blame for familial disruption is somehow fixed, then the family will be fixed.

by Elizabeth Invictus

The Green Woman: Wildness, Natural Magic, Expectant Gratitude, and Untrammelled Creativity

She is not cute, she is striking. Her intensity and seriousness, combined with the playfulness of her gestures are mesmerizing to me. Every time I think of this card I feel grateful to have found her.

“She is the feminine vital vegetative force that enables a root to crack stone, the reed to bend in the wind, and the oak to stand against the storm.”
My first impressions were that she is protective as well as dangerous and that she is tremendously powerful. She hears the natural rhythm of the earth and dances to its heartbeat. She is both ancient and timeless. Her age is shown only in her connection to the earth. She is neither lit nor does she have any true darkness, just as the earth is ancient but can renew itself to freshness. There is a pattern to her asymmetry and a kind of logic-less reason, an ambiguous theory of cause and effect.

In the book, she is one of the Sidhe, the elder race of the Faeries.

by Elizabeth Invictus