Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Tools of the Trade - Your Surroundings
Yes I know it' sounds weird but where you are can effect your ritual, spell or gathering just like anything else. If it's loud and you can't concentrate then it could be very hard to meditate. Try and make sure that where you are fits in with what it is you are trying to accomplish. Trying to do a past life regression while the kids are running around just won't work. You probably won't ever get to that meditative state that you need. So think about where you are before you start your work :)
Monday, April 7, 2008
Manic Monday
Not a whole lot to report today. I spent a good portion of my day on the phone with various people and agencies for various things. And I was working on the layout for a new blog I am going to be writing on. I will link it here when it is up an ready to go, right now it's still in the designing stage. But will shed some more light on this post Once I post the link if you wish to read great...if not I need it to keep myself sane.
Sunday, April 6, 2008
Weekly Winners 03/30 - 04/05/08
Weekly Winners is the brainchild of the wonderfully Sarcastic Mom, Lotus
Not a lot of picture taking this week. All three (obviously the same cake :) )Are from a cake I made yesterday for my MILs Red Hat Meeting. It was their Queen's Birthday and another woman was going from a pink hat to a Red hat.
(And yes my house is 30 years old. MIL was the original owner and now hubby and I live here. That is an original Harvest gold stove...we have the diswasher to match)
Friday, April 4, 2008
An Open Letter from a Witch:
This was posted on a group I belong to. It is a little long but I think it's worth the read :)
An Open Letter from a Witch:
I am a witch. I do not worship Satan; I am not interested in Satan. Satan was invented by the Christians. Satanism is a form of Christianity. I am not a Christian. I don't go to church on Sunday. Jesus is NOT my savior. He was simply a holy man who lived 2,000 years ago. I am not afraid of going to Hell because I don't believe in Hell any more than I believe in Satan. I believe in reincarnation; that I will come back to this world or another and live out another life. I am not evil. Telling people I am a "good witch" or asking me if I am a good witch implies that there are evil witches. There are evil people in the world and there are people who chose to work with the forces of nature in a way that harms others; those people are NOT witches. The central law of being a witch is: "if it harms none, do as you will." Please don't ask me about sacrificing cats or desecrating churches. I love my cats! And I don't go into churches or synagogues unless a friend from that religion invites me to some special occasion. And if I DO enter a church, I am not struck by lightning. If a Christian or a Jew or a Buddhist came to a pagan ritual, our gods would not strike them dead either. Isn't that something to think about? Wearing a pentacle is no different than wearing a cross, crucifix, or Star of David. If you want me to take off the symbol of MY religion (and Wicca is a religion, protected by the same First Amendment rights as other religions) because it's offensive, you need to make everyone of every religion do that. The five points of the star signify the four elements of Earth, Air, Fire &; Water, and the fifth point is Spirit; encircled by the World. How that can offend anyone boggles my little pagan mind. An image of a tortured, dying man is more offensive, yet thousands of people openly wear crucifixes every day. Please don't ask me if I'm in a "coven" in that half-horrified, half-fascinated tone of voice. If I want to talk about my coven, I will bring it up. If I am a solitary practitioner, I have no coven to discuss. In any case, our rituals have candles, food, drink, poetry, dancing...yes, there is a knife but it only cuts the air, not anyone's flesh. I don't drink blood. I am not some kind of vampire. I wear black because it keeps negativity away and to tell the truth...it looks better on me than pink, orange and purple polka dots! If you want to ask me something related to MY religion, ask me when the next full moon is. Or the next blue moon Or what a blue moon IS! Ask me about herbs. Crystals, Healing, Even ask me to make you a love potion. I don't cast spells on other people and I won't cast a spell on you to make you prettier, thinner, more desirable. I won't cast a spell on your quarry to make him/her love you. Trust me, you don't want that, you don't want the Karma that involves and neither do I! That's a form of manipulation, taking away someone's power, infringing on their free will. Not nice at all. I also won't cast a binding spell to make someone STOP doing something to you. Spell work is about co-creation. A witch works with universal energy, with the Gods, to tilt the engine of probability somewhat. Need money? Don't try to ensorcel your boss to give you a raise. Simply ask the universe to increase the flow of abundance in your direction. That infringes on NO ONE's free will. Giving me a book about the Burning Times is like giving a book on The Holocaust to a Jewish person. It's not funny and is rude! Yes, I do go to Salem, but not because any of those poor executed people were witches(the jury is still out on some of them), but because there's cool pagan shops there. If there were cool pagan shops in a town called East Cowflop, I'd go there as well! Don't try to make me ashamed of who I worship and what I am. Please don't try to convert me or "save" me. Don't throw holy water on me. Don't leave little pamphlets on my desk or windshield. I don't need to be saved. Witches are proud of the fact that we don't recruit people to become witches. We simply ARE and those around us see how we think, how we act and our inner peace and only when someone says "how do I become a witch?" do we take them into the fold with us. I will NEVER leave a religious tract with anyone. I don't have one, unless you count this letter. I am not asking you to convert. I am only asking you to please understand.
If you don't want to understand, well then just leave me alone
~Author unknown~
An Open Letter from a Witch:
I am a witch. I do not worship Satan; I am not interested in Satan. Satan was invented by the Christians. Satanism is a form of Christianity. I am not a Christian. I don't go to church on Sunday. Jesus is NOT my savior. He was simply a holy man who lived 2,000 years ago. I am not afraid of going to Hell because I don't believe in Hell any more than I believe in Satan. I believe in reincarnation; that I will come back to this world or another and live out another life. I am not evil. Telling people I am a "good witch" or asking me if I am a good witch implies that there are evil witches. There are evil people in the world and there are people who chose to work with the forces of nature in a way that harms others; those people are NOT witches. The central law of being a witch is: "if it harms none, do as you will." Please don't ask me about sacrificing cats or desecrating churches. I love my cats! And I don't go into churches or synagogues unless a friend from that religion invites me to some special occasion. And if I DO enter a church, I am not struck by lightning. If a Christian or a Jew or a Buddhist came to a pagan ritual, our gods would not strike them dead either. Isn't that something to think about? Wearing a pentacle is no different than wearing a cross, crucifix, or Star of David. If you want me to take off the symbol of MY religion (and Wicca is a religion, protected by the same First Amendment rights as other religions) because it's offensive, you need to make everyone of every religion do that. The five points of the star signify the four elements of Earth, Air, Fire &; Water, and the fifth point is Spirit; encircled by the World. How that can offend anyone boggles my little pagan mind. An image of a tortured, dying man is more offensive, yet thousands of people openly wear crucifixes every day. Please don't ask me if I'm in a "coven" in that half-horrified, half-fascinated tone of voice. If I want to talk about my coven, I will bring it up. If I am a solitary practitioner, I have no coven to discuss. In any case, our rituals have candles, food, drink, poetry, dancing...yes, there is a knife but it only cuts the air, not anyone's flesh. I don't drink blood. I am not some kind of vampire. I wear black because it keeps negativity away and to tell the truth...it looks better on me than pink, orange and purple polka dots! If you want to ask me something related to MY religion, ask me when the next full moon is. Or the next blue moon Or what a blue moon IS! Ask me about herbs. Crystals, Healing, Even ask me to make you a love potion. I don't cast spells on other people and I won't cast a spell on you to make you prettier, thinner, more desirable. I won't cast a spell on your quarry to make him/her love you. Trust me, you don't want that, you don't want the Karma that involves and neither do I! That's a form of manipulation, taking away someone's power, infringing on their free will. Not nice at all. I also won't cast a binding spell to make someone STOP doing something to you. Spell work is about co-creation. A witch works with universal energy, with the Gods, to tilt the engine of probability somewhat. Need money? Don't try to ensorcel your boss to give you a raise. Simply ask the universe to increase the flow of abundance in your direction. That infringes on NO ONE's free will. Giving me a book about the Burning Times is like giving a book on The Holocaust to a Jewish person. It's not funny and is rude! Yes, I do go to Salem, but not because any of those poor executed people were witches(the jury is still out on some of them), but because there's cool pagan shops there. If there were cool pagan shops in a town called East Cowflop, I'd go there as well! Don't try to make me ashamed of who I worship and what I am. Please don't try to convert me or "save" me. Don't throw holy water on me. Don't leave little pamphlets on my desk or windshield. I don't need to be saved. Witches are proud of the fact that we don't recruit people to become witches. We simply ARE and those around us see how we think, how we act and our inner peace and only when someone says "how do I become a witch?" do we take them into the fold with us. I will NEVER leave a religious tract with anyone. I don't have one, unless you count this letter. I am not asking you to convert. I am only asking you to please understand.
If you don't want to understand, well then just leave me alone
~Author unknown~
Thursday, April 3, 2008
Thursday Thirteen
Well I've been pondering and decided to put up a list of my favorite Witches in TV or movies. Now these are in no particular order. And yes there are Disney Witchs on this list. I have 2 kids and Disney is a staple in this house. I'm watching these shows with them and they are pretty cute. It was hard to get it down to 13 but here they are:
1. The Craft
2. Practical Magic
3. The Harry Potter Series
4. Bewitched
6. The Witches of Eastwick
7. The Wizards of Waverly Place
8. Hocus Pocus
9. The Wizard of Oz
10. Sabrina the Teenage Witch
11. Giles, Tara and Willow from Buffy the Vampire Slayer
12. The Twitches Series
13. The Halloweentown Series
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Not so Wordless Wednesday
I know today was supposed to be Wordless Wednesday. Well if I had been consistently posting lately it would have been. But today I can't be quiet. Today I recieved a huge blow. Now stop right there before you read on. I don't want pity. I just need to get this out somewhere in the hopes that maybe...someone will understand where I'm coming from. There is a lot more going on then I really want to get in to right now...but the basis of my struggle at the moment is I was told I have significant hearing loss in my right ear.
It's been since before Valentine's Day that I was able to hear anything like I used to. It's not going to get any better...ever. In fact it's going to get worse. More likely sooner rather then later I'm going to completely lose all hearing in that ear. As of right now it feels like I can't hear anything in that ear unless you are right on top of my ear.
What does all this mean? I don't know. Tonight it felt like the end of the world. Sitting there with my little boy next to me and because of the way I was sitting I could see his lips moving. But I couldn't hear him. I couldn't hear my little boy tell me he loved me. How long until it's completely gone? I don't know. Yes I know there are things like hearing aids...but they are expensive and money isn't something I have a lot of right now and insurance won't cover it.
The rules of a Witch's life...Harm ye non, do as thy will and you get back what you send out three fold. Something I did in the past has come back on me and this is the form it is taking...
Where's the silver lining in that?
It's been since before Valentine's Day that I was able to hear anything like I used to. It's not going to get any better...ever. In fact it's going to get worse. More likely sooner rather then later I'm going to completely lose all hearing in that ear. As of right now it feels like I can't hear anything in that ear unless you are right on top of my ear.
What does all this mean? I don't know. Tonight it felt like the end of the world. Sitting there with my little boy next to me and because of the way I was sitting I could see his lips moving. But I couldn't hear him. I couldn't hear my little boy tell me he loved me. How long until it's completely gone? I don't know. Yes I know there are things like hearing aids...but they are expensive and money isn't something I have a lot of right now and insurance won't cover it.
The rules of a Witch's life...Harm ye non, do as thy will and you get back what you send out three fold. Something I did in the past has come back on me and this is the form it is taking...
Where's the silver lining in that?
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Tools of the Trade - Ritual Bath Salts
Ritual Bath salts are a wonderful way to cleanse yourself inside and out before performing a ritual. It's actually a rite in and of itself. Take bath salts that you want to use and fill up the tub. Light some candles, play some soft music...whatever works for you. Visualize the water cleansing you of all negativity. Most of all...RELAX. Feel yourself being cleansed of the negative energy. Think about the ritual you are about to perform. When you are ready (and possibly quite pruney, pull the plug. Stay there untill all the water has drained and picture the negative energy goign down the drain and and into the earth where it's grounded.
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