<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Inner Planes Alchemy]]></title><description><![CDATA[Guided courses, contemplative audio, tarot study, and healing tools for inner development.]]></description><link>https://www.gristtheology.com/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 19:38:29 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.gristtheology.com/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Smoky Quartz and the Dark Side of Giving]]></title><description><![CDATA[Smoky Quartz is often described as a grounding stone, a stabilizer, a quiet absorber of excess energy. These descriptions are well established and widely experienced. They describe how Smoky Quartz works at the surface level of the nervous system—how it steadies, settles, and helps energy return to the body. There is, however, another facet of Smoky Quartz that tends to emerge only through longer relationship. This facet does not replace the familiar understanding of the stone. It unfolds...]]></description><link>https://www.gristtheology.com/post/smoky-quartz-and-the-dark-side-of-giving</link><guid isPermaLink="false">697a6e39c1bd63f263fd5acf</guid><pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2026 09:57:54 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/95bab3_5e7c053a8b524b2994cc1d6dfd79bd96~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_720,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Kristi Hall</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[On Deities: A Lived Perspective]]></title><description><![CDATA[After decades of direct engagement, my understanding of deities is more experiential than theoretical. I do not experience deities as ideas, symbols, or psychological projections alone. I experience them as intelligences that exist on a plane of reality that is  deity—a level of existence distinct from the human, with its own rules, structures, and forms of agency. This plane, in my experience, is not moralized in the way human religion often attempts to make it. It is not divided neatly into...]]></description><link>https://www.gristtheology.com/post/on-deities-a-lived-perspective</link><guid isPermaLink="false">697a8197d8141148d40272aa</guid><pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2026 21:37:47 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/95bab3_cec6dc3eaab5469aa9bb5ffa18f98ae3~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_720,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Kristi Hall</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Goal Setting With the Moon: Why the Full Moon Is Not the Finish Line]]></title><description><![CDATA[Many people are drawn to working with the moon when setting goals or building projects. The lunar cycle offers rhythm, repetition, and a sense of right timing that modern productivity culture often lacks. And yet, much of what circulates about “manifesting with the moon” misunderstands what the moon actually does. Especially when it comes to the Full Moon. The Full Moon is often described as a moment of completion: the moment when intentions culminate, when effort pays off, when the work is...]]></description><link>https://www.gristtheology.com/post/goal-setting-with-the-moon-why-the-full-moon-is-not-the-finish-line</link><guid isPermaLink="false">696e8266df75005811cf6289</guid><pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2026 19:18:25 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/95bab3_b08c28c0a1c347f9b724f1ae932e0af0~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_720,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Kristi Hall</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why Imbolc Is Not About New Beginnings]]></title><description><![CDATA[Imbolc is often described as the season of new beginnings—a moment of early spring, fresh starts, and the first stirrings of growth after winter’s long dark. Candles are lit. Intentions are set. The language of renewal appears everywhere. And yet, when we look closely at the land, the myths, and the deeper logic of the seasonal cycle, something doesn’t quite add up. At Imbolc, winter is still dominant. The ground remains frozen. Nothing has emerged. Nothing is assured. To speak of beginnings...]]></description><link>https://www.gristtheology.com/post/why-imbolc-is-not-about-new-beginnings</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69666e99f5f6771556775fd8</guid><pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2026 16:13:02 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/95bab3_c061c5647e414ee5b9f11cce8f48b434~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_720,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Kristi Hall</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Language of the Gods]]></title><description><![CDATA[“The gods speak to us in the deep hidden places, and their native tongue is myth.” Kristi Hall When people speak of myth, they often mean story — something symbolic, poetic, or allegorical. But myth is not something humans invented to explain the world. It is something we remembered in order to speak with forces larger than ourselves. Myth is not fiction. It is a language. And like any language, it has its own grammar, cadence, and logic — one that does not belong to the rational mind, but to...]]></description><link>https://www.gristtheology.com/post/the-gods-speak-in-myth</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69544fd07855315e70c0ca85</guid><pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2025 22:21:07 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Kristi Hall</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Saturn and the Mercy of Form]]></title><description><![CDATA[In astrological psychology, Saturn is traditionally associated with structure, discipline, limits, responsibility, time, aging, and maturity. It governs the principles of containment and form—the invisible architectures that shape development, behavior, and identity across the span of a life. Saturn is often experienced as pressure: delay, obligation, contraction, or confrontation with reality as it is rather than as it is imagined. Because of this, Saturn has acquired a reputation as harsh...]]></description><link>https://www.gristtheology.com/post/saturn-and-the-mercy-of-form</link><guid isPermaLink="false">693d91a038266d8ba626ab18</guid><pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2025 16:29:56 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Kristi Hall</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Red Jasper: The Earth Acclimation Stone — A Personal Gnosis on Walking, Identity, and Incarnation]]></title><description><![CDATA[There are crystals whose purpose reveals itself immediately—brightness, clarity, uplift. And then some stones move in the deeper strata of being, working not with the surface self but with the ancient soul beneath it. Red Jasper belongs to the latter category. In commonly accepted metaphysical circles, it is described as grounding, stabilizing, and strengthening—a stone of blood and bones. But my recent work with this stone’s spirit has drawn me into a far more intimate terrain—one I didn’t...]]></description><link>https://www.gristtheology.com/post/red-jasper-the-earth-acclimation-stone-a-personal-gnosis-on-walking-identity-and-incarnation</link><guid isPermaLink="false">693ace943f57b44172b83d7b</guid><pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2025 14:05:17 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Kristi Hall</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Holly: The Guardian of Old Wounds]]></title><description><![CDATA[Inner Planes Journal Among winter plants, holly carries one of the oldest reputations for protection. Across cultures and centuries, it has been placed at thresholds, woven into homes, and honored as a guardian against unseen harm. It is often described as a plant of boundaries and endurance—one that stands watch through cold, darkness, and long periods of stillness. But beneath its surface symbolism lies a quieter, more intimate current. Holly does not merely guard spaces. It tends...]]></description><link>https://www.gristtheology.com/post/holly-the-guardian-of-old-wounds</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6939c299dbbbf24b585db9c6</guid><pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2025 20:11:54 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Kristi Hall</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wild Cherry Bark: Rekindling What Has Faded ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Inner Planes Journal There are certain plants whose medicine doesn’t shout. They don’t blaze or command; they whisper, coax, and call us back to the embers of what we thought had gone cold. Wild Cherry Bark is one of those quiet allies — a winter herb with a water-laced emotional intelligence and a gentle yet unmistakable capacity to reawaken what has dimmed within us. Most people first meet Wild Cherry Bark in a practical way: teas, syrups, respiratory tonics. But in Inner Plane Alchemy, we...]]></description><link>https://www.gristtheology.com/post/wild-cherry-bark-rekindling-what-has-faded-an-inner-plane-alchemy-perspective</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6935f47de5df846ed3b9447d</guid><pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2025 14:25:13 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Kristi Hall</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>