Category Archives: Life as a Witch

Ramping up

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Things are starting to get very busy for me right now. I had intended to make a bunch of stuff to sell in late summer/early fall. A couple days ago I got an email telling me that a local event was accepting vendors who could set up for free. It’s two weeks away. I don’t have a rainsafe booth yet but another vendor offered to share his space with me.

I went over the bags I’ve been working on and realize that I’ve been making astonishing headway. That I could actually have a dozen bags to sell and also some wire jewelry. Crazy busy and working fulltime and Saturday metalsmith class too…

Ride ’em cowboy!

It’s tough to know when to stop. I want to provide a wide variety of price ranges, from $35 to $100. Obviously the more time I spend on them the more embellished and expensive they become. I think the most difficult thing I’m facing is how to price them. I want them to be affordable but I also want to value my time and skill. Decisions decisions.

The other question on my mind is what symbols would folks like to see that I’m not offering. And I must make some business cards before then too because I really want to take commissions, especially for banners and robes.

I would also like to have one new robe and a hood made. Just to show the variety of wares I am capable of.

Here are some pics of some of the pouches that are well on their way to being at least done enough, just need to put the beads on and construct the pouch itself.

Wiccan Fundies

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A couple of questions that are nagging at me…
When your priestess, or you, channel your God/dess after drawing down the moon/sun and s/he speaks, what “collaborative data independent of the channeler” do you receive that makes you believe it is the God/dess? You do realize that drawing down the moon and the sun are not only channeling but possession. Yes?

Do you think SHE is a demon or a trickster sent to mess you up? How is it you can tell She isn’t?

Shouldn’t I be assumed to hold the same ability to discern?

Why is it when I say the channeling I go to is true I get a warning? That the channeling I attend is New Age and not a part of Wicca. What is it that makes it not Wicca?

Channeling and possession are totally part of Wicca so why does it matter who is doing the channeling? How do you know that the person who channels Jeshua isn’t a priestess? How do you know that we don’t ground and center and create a circle? Is it only because of WHO she is channeling that it becomes suspect and not Wicca or a mish mosh of Christian and New Age gullibility?

When you call on Odin or Brighid or Hekate or Tammuz, when does it stop being Wicca? Why isn’t calling on the deity Jesus just as okay as calling on Herne? They are both Lord of the Dance and rebirth aren’t they? They aren’t from the same places in the world but there is far less evidence for Herne as deity than for Jesus.

To me, Jesus is the Middle Eastern Quan Yin, in a very yang kind of way. Cuz there is no doubt that he is a very healthy and robust male.

I’m over here trying like crazy to keep laughing.

Please little faeries

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Will the faeries who are good at finding lost things, please put my silver bracelets that I am missing somewhere obvious today? I’ve looked everywhere I can think of and can’t find them. Where oh where can they be? Are they under the bed? In the sewing box? The freezer? Please oh please, I am sentimentally attached to them as they were love gifts…

Meme time

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Astrological Sign? Cancer with Gemini moon and Libra rising.
Chinese Astrological Sign? Earth Pig
What are you currently setting your intention on or praying for? be the best me I can be
Who do you pray to? myself, everything, the source, the All and sometimes Hekate *wink*
Do you believe God created humans or humans evolved from primordial goo? who created the goo? that’s who
What is your mantra? be the best me I can be
Do you believe in Sin? Do you believe in Evil? not with a capital S or E. I think sin and evil are earth judgement concepts and don’t really exist in the All. Concepts like Sin and Evil keep us thinking we are all separate and that some are better than others and that is not true in my viewpoint.
What do you do when you see 11:11? smile. I like 080808 for the Olympics this year too. The rarer the better.
Do you believe in Angels? You bet. On Harleys. Seriously
Do you believe in God? If so, what does God look like to you? You. And me and them and the trees and the clouds and worms and the bigots and creeps and the flowers and the love the love the love
Is there an aspect of your religion/belief that you haven’t made up your mind about? uh, YEAH. Duh. My conception of things changes all the time. Sorry that was snarky but doesn’t yours?
Is there a religion that you don’t follow, but deeply respect or admire? pretty much all of them and yet none of them. I respect some of the teachings that inspired those religions but once something becomes a religion I think it loses its purity
Who has inspired you the most on your spiritual path? Sober alcoholics, the “dregs” of humanity finding their way to their spiritual center
In your opinion, what is the worst mistake we make, as a species? believing we are the only species of value, in fact that even members of our OWN species have no value. The great ME, the great I I I Them them them when it is Us Us Us. There is no separation. But then I don’t believe in mistakes either.
What is something you would like to believe, but don’t? I don’t think there is anything. I believe what I believe because it IS what I want to believe. Just like you
Do you believe in soul mates? yes but less on the romantic level (although they are there). I think that we have many soul mates and that we enter into agreements between lifetimes on how we will teach each other lessons. In many ways I think we are all soul mates, there is no separation.
Reincarnation or heaven? yes Heaven between incarnations and reincarnations, a place where you don’t pluck a harp but where you plot your next interesting life movie. And hang out with folks you haven’t seen for awhile
Best “ah ha!” moment/epiphany? I want to be alive (moment of clarity when I got sober)
Required spiritual reading? get your eyes out of the books and take a walk, talk to someone you don’t know
If you could pick, in your final moments, what would your last words be? Wow. catch you on the flip side! I wanna go again!
Advice for a lost soul? You aren’t lost, you’re exactly where you chose to be. Sorry. Wanna be somewhere else? Then be there. It sucked when I heard it too. Turned out to be true and didn’t hurt so much once I figured out how to do that.
A song that encapsulates your beliefs?

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