argh

God damn it.  God damn landlord.  He had a guy over estimating work on the property and part of it included work on the tree that all my rituals are under.  The one that hangs close to the ground.  I went out and showed them that they could not cut certain branches and we agreed up which ONE could be cut and no others.  And that jerk just cut off four branches.  I’m in tears. I’m so fucking angry.    He says he didn’t do anything that changes things. AS IF I AM NOT INTIMATELY CONNECTED and don’t know my own goddamned ritual tree.  I hate being treated like I’m stupid.  It will grow back he tells me. As if I don’t know how trees grow. There will never be lower branches on that tree again.  And now the squirrels don’t have the connecting branches.  It gives me no end of pleasure to listen to them stampede across the roof and then pause thud leap and the tree shakes. I know that tree like the back of my hand and it will never be the same living here.

No more privacy on my patio.  I’m broken hearted.

ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Chicken Man you need to hurry it up and we need to get a house that WE make the decisions on.

Stealth Magic

Stealth mode.  Perusing the photos from Pagan Pride just for fun and there was me in the class I took.  Tis me with the very short, kinda messy, white hair and green velvet jacket…  Listening very intently to the folks discuss things like eating in a magical way.  The two cool priestesses from the Aquarian Tabernacle Church are there in the center facing us in black.  I don’t think they mind me saying as their photos are on the ATC website too. I am seriously considering going to Hecate’s Sickle but I digress.  I need to get some money coming in before I go there.  Money comes easily and frequently.  Blessed be.

There was discussion of a great magical ritual around food.  You can do it at your desk at work while eating your lunch and only you will know that the witch is at work.  I’ll share it with you here. Two, two tips, two for the price of none!

If you’re like me you get emails or calls out from the universe that someone is in need.  They need our energy or our prayers or some other type of magical work but they are far away.  I find it always helps if I also get a photo of the person (human, animal, or plant, etc…)  So. The request has come in. Typically over the interwebz and through my email so I’m usually sitting at my desk and in the past in my public office.  How do you do this service in stealth mode? This is what I usually do.

I relax.  If there is a photo I stroke it and get to know the face I’m seeing.  The animals especially get petted.  I say nice loving things to the being in the photo.  Then I sit back, close my eyes, and ground.  Once grounded I start drawing energy up through the grounding channel and get it coursing in a deosil circle though my body and back down through the earth and back up into my body, round and round.  Once the energy is really flowing I start holding it in my body, typically my chest cavity, using my lungs to suck up more and more energy.  When I can fill up no more and I’m buzzing strongly I hold my hands to my mouth and I start blowing the energy out into the ethers helping it flow out by moving my pulling it with my hands.  I do this thrice. So Mote It Be.

Okay that part wasn’t so stealthy but it’s amazing, no one has ever walked by when I set up a little circle to do this. I also had wards set up which are partly responsible I’m sure.

 

The new thing was to use food to do this.  Take an apple for instance, a very magical fruit, fruit of the goddess. For those who don’t know, when you cut an apple in half horizontally, side to side, and open it up there is a five pointed star.  The apple blossom is a five petaled flower and since the fruit forms from these five points, the inside remains five pointed.  A natural pentacle. Pretty cool. And very beautiful. So take the apple, relax, and ground, and start thinking of the well being of the person etc you are helping.  As you eat the apple, let every bite be a blessing, send your energy out with each large bite and then take in the juices, the pulp, and make it a part of yourself.  Make the eating of the apple be a ritual as you concentrate, with focused intent, on the healing or blessing.  Leave the apple core for the critters, put it in the compost, or if you are the kind of person who likes this, eat it. 

Stealth Magic.  My favorite kind.

The Day After

Yesterday was such a very good day. There was a great turn out at Pagan Pride, Two ritual circles, one to open the event and the other to honor Mabon. There were merchants and music (and of course the requisite belly dancers) and workshops. Brooke and I stopped in at one workshop led by two priestesses from the Aquarian Tabernacle Church on Magic in Daily Life. I’m always interested in hearing how others go about this. Great discussion.  I was most interested in the two priestesses, they inspired me quite a bit and I really enjoying listening and watching them interact and talk about their lives.

There were burgers, both beef and veggie, that were very excellent. Laughter, kids, the usual wonderful pagan atmosphere.  A good time was had by all.

Got to my friend’s house 40 miles away in the other direction around 4:30. These folks are my other tribe.  And I laughed my butt off.  There was the lake, boats, pool, hot tub, gorgeous house with two kitches (!), a sauna/steam room, the woiks.  It was the first time, and probably the last time, this summer I got to immerse myself in water and it felt great. 

I came home at sunset through the woods the surround the water house feeling very incredibly peaceful and happy.

Aaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

Pagan Pride Day in the Puget Sound

Off a little earlier than usual for me but OLOTEAS is doing the opening ritual at 11am. They were worried folks wouldn’t be there so I’m going as support. Picking my friend Brooke up in an hour.  It’s a beautiful day, September has been glorious.  Leaving PPD a bit early to go to a friend’s house for a barbeque.  Yay!  His house is on Lake Washington, he’s got a pool, should be fun.  Must be nice. 

I finished the embroidery (finally!) on the cauldron pouch.  Now I have to put together about 8 pouches by the 27th.  Did get a cork board to display my earrings on at Concentric Circles, needed something I could prop up. 

Almost there!

 

Ba-RACK the Vote – Go to the polls in hoards

I know I’m probably preaching to the choir but if you find that while you and I think very much alike you are still out of love with American politics, I urge you, beg you, to reconsider. WE THE PEOPLE have sat by too long and done nothing.  It is time to remember that WE ARE the PEOPLE.  And take back our god given right to vote and speak out for what we believe in.  People died so you could vote.  Do not let the fundamentalists be the only ones galvanized this time.  This is a serious rant and frankly I’m mostly writing it for myself.  I just gotta get it outta my system.

I think the one thing I’ve noticed the most about this year’s election that is different from every election I’ve witnessed is that there are people who never vote biting at the bit to do so. For the first time in years people who have felt too disenfranchised to bother to vote know that this time their vote will make every difference in the world. And their children are beginning to see the light too and they are going to vote. Gang bangers on the corners might even see through their drug induced haze that perhaps this one time even THEIR vote will count and they will go to the polls and maybe even take their grannie to the polls with them. The people, the non-white people, have hope for the first time maybe ever and they are going to be out of their homes to vote this year. So you, you disheartened white folks, you do the same! Do not waste this opportunity. Barack Obama is not just another politician. Swear to god, I can see people’s hearts and this man is different. He’s risking his life to change this place we call earth and don’t you for one moment think otherwise or dis it by not doing the right thing and casting your vote. It will change lives for a long time to come if we can just do things different for once. And they know it. Please tell me you do too!

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