Getting To Know Fire

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This week the focus is on Fire! Before we can begin working with a specific element we must learn it intimately. This means more than just learning what a chart says about it, however that can be helpful.THE CORRESPONDENCES OF FIRECeltic name: deasDirection: SouthColors: red, gold, orangeTool: wand (some traditions say athame)Ritual Representations: cauldron, candles, scourge, incense, torches, lightsTime: noonSeason: summerMoon cycle: Full moonGender: maleGoddess: MotherThe Witches' Pyramid: To WillAstrological Signs: Aries, Leo, and SagittariusTarot Suit: Wands Animals: lions, dragons (esp. fire breathing), horsesElemental: SalamandersDieties: Astarte, Ashtoreth, Bastet, Berecyntia, Briget, Freya, Hestia, Ishtar, Kali, Minerva, Belisima, Oynyena Maria, Pele, Pyrrha, Sekhmet, Vesta, Agni, Baal, Bel, Belenus, Chango, Coyote, Govannon, Hephaestus, Vulcan, Horus, Mulciber, Ogun, Wayland, Ra, Ea, Llyr, Prometheus, Shiva, Surya, Velchanus, Vishnu, Raven, Loki, Chu JungSymbolizes: strength, passion, energy, transformation, will, sex, energy, light, illumination, vitality, invigoration, motivation, hearth fire, volcanoes, lightening, rage, anger It is used to influence such matters as: Power, strength, courage, defense, passion, partnerships, action, physical activity, energy, aggression, things hot and dry, sex, sport, guns, tools, metals, police, soldiers, combat, confrontation, war, business deals, buying and selling, mechanical things, repairs, hunting, health, luck, justice, success, ambition, personal finances, and authority figures. Fire spells can also be done: To increase sexual desire and libido, sexual energy, performance, and stamina, to gain physical or psychic energy and stamina, to increase personal power or autonomy, to gain charisma and influence over others, for attraction, to strengthen the will and make decisions, increase life force, aid in healing neurological and immunity disorders, for courage, to aid political action, justice, and to right a wrong TYPES OF FIRE MAGICK: Lighting fires or rituals around fire (hearth magick) Burning things Candle magick Smithwork Using a scourge Using a cauldron Cooking (kitchen magick) Sex and tantric magick Ritual Combat Breaking things (destruction magick) Some types of healing Energy magick, auras, chakras (subtle energy) Anger magick EXPERIENCE THE ELEMENT FIREObserving FireThis observation is done best with a campfire, fireplace, or hearth fire. It can be done with a candle but you won't experience the full effects of fire. There's a lot more to fire than just the flame. I want you to stay by yhe fire until the flames burn down and there is only coals left.Begin by sitting or standing next to a fire. Get as close as you comfortably can. Do you feel the heat? Is there smoke rising? What does the fire smell like? What sounds does it make? Can you hear the wood snapping and the flames crackling? Do you see small peices of ash float up along with the smoke?What the flames themselves. What colors are they? Watch how the flame doesn't stay in one place but seems to dance around. What shapes does it make? How does the fire make you feel? Warm comforted, and cozy? How would it make you feel if you were surrounded by fire? Scared, threatened, and in danger?Let the flames burn down until the wood is glowing red and orange. Fire doesn't actually need flames to still be active. Put your hand near the hot coals. Often they feel even hotter than the flame. Once the coals are done burning there will be nothing left of the wood.Contemplate how fire turns something into nothing. Fire has the power to destroy everything in its path. Yet at the same time we need energy to survive. Fire when controlled cooks our food, has given us electrical power, and combustion engines. Write about your experience in your spiritual diary or book of shadows.Observing Subtle EnergyEvery living thing has subtle energy. Most people recognize this as the aura. While it takes skill and practice to see the aura, sensing your own subtle energy is really quite easy.To sense the subtle energy in your body all you need is your hands. Begin by rubbing them together briskly together for a few seconds. Now hold them about 4-6 inches apart. Slowly move them closer together.Do you feel a tingling or resisting? The resistance feels similar to putting the same ends of a magnet together (north to north) and feeling them push against each other. Some people can even see the energy inbetween their hands.This experiment can be done with a partner as well. Rub your hands briskly together for a few seconds but instead put your palms 4-6 inches from your partners. Slowly move your hands closer together. Is it easier to sense your partner's subtle energy than it is your own? Record your experience in your spiritual diary or book of shadows.

Daily Message July 6 2012

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Daily Message July 6 2012
 basic uninhibited by Senelfy

"To the same degree formidably treasured by someone gives you laboriousness,"so paternal someone "formidably gives you courtesy."

" - Lao Tzu"

Encouraging Chummy and To a great degree Crack of dawn :))) Blessings to you and yours for a magickal day today. In this day and age is Friday, July 6, 2012.

Fridays are ruled by Venus, a humankind whose properties highlight, love, beauty, application and rally round. It's a wonderful day to focus on interaction, love, romance sexual matters, friendships and partnerships. It's a mammoth day for new opportunities to come about. If you are working with stones today would like to wear naive or cat's eye for protection. Use rubies in amulets.

Tonight's Moon is Dwindling, third topic in Aquarius. The Dwindling Moon is a time for study, meditation, and although magickal work tavern magick made-up to banish harmful energies. The Dwindling Moon represents the Goddess in her Crone aspect. It's a time to celebrate the wisdom gained in addition to life. The Moon in Aquarius is a disobedient energy. It's time to break traditions and make loud changes. Private independent lifestyle and character is the focus. The magickal color of the day is Rose, and the incense of the day is Amethyst. Gorge an brilliantly magickal day!

October 2010 Emerging Theme Truth

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October 2010 Emerging Theme Truth
"If there is a theme emerging within the month of October (especially the past fourty eight hours") around the planet, it is truth. Truth in who we are as a soul person, truth in what we want, truth in where we want to be within our lives. Even if the compass isn't entirely clear on what it looks like, we know how we want to feel and it is like a stubborn weed needing to come out and flourish with all it's mighty. False structures are continuing to break down and the real truths are being shown. People are needing to clean their souls and come free with what they have done with their actions that have caused harm on others and set the balance in their soul now.The false structures that no longer serve humanity are the ones that are crumbling. It is us that choose to be free of those things that bind us from the true nature of our real whole beautiful selves. The truth about 9.11 is being revealed right before our very eyes as well if we watch it closely in the news. More clips to come on this shortly. Warning! You are not losing your mind, you are having a spiritual awakening. If you are compelled to move to a new place and space, leave a job, leave people you have known for ages and start a new without a solid roadmap...it's ok. Many of us are feeling the same way...it's called a spiritual awakening. And yes, "on bended knee is no way to be free." We may find we are needing to "pure our thoughts while we are alive." Welcome to the ascension process. It is hitting our day to day reality now. It is up to us to listen to the feelings and sensations as our soul is speaking and action our soul's intended truth.Why? Why should we be doing this now? Well, as a wise man just reminded me of a few seconds ago (because I was being lazy to my truth)..."the balance of the planet is out of control. The good guys need to step in and up." Female warriors and male warriors are needed now, it is why our soul's are speaking so loudly. The females in their absolute balance and the males in their absolute balance. It's not just about being comfortable and happy (although it certainly leads to it), it is about making the hard changes necessary and creating our new reality by living it as a guiding light for others to see the path illuminate.When we live in our own light, the planet and the rest of the cosmos can come into alignment as well.Thank you R.S. for your guidance.

Reference: spellscasting.blogspot.com

Seven Things You Dont Know About Me

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Seven Things You Dont Know About Me
I was tagged by a hook of people - I wasn't goodbye to do this, but next I read Christine Martell's and realized it may help people to understand me a bit.1. I lunch rest apnea. I've had it for instance I turned 30, but it was a moment ago about four get-up-and-go ago I started using a CPAP to allow me to rest. The CPAP has prone me a new occupancy on life. I continually snatch tiredness (the CPAP isn't shine) but I now lunch a sound heartbeat and my defile is no longer raw afterward I resources up.2. I lunch tinnitus. I can describe you sharp-witted afterward it started - I was deceitfulness on the expression in the fatherland on Massey Ave at the back of coming back from a French test at Memramcook, in 2002. My tooth had erupted overnight, I had gotten whiz rest (I had no painkillers with me) and at the back of the test came home, took a hoard of ibuprofen, and tried to rest. I lunch had a tinny in my ears ever for instance. Sometimes it's really clamorous, other become old it's message picture. I've had my acoustic tested; it's shine. It message rings.3. I was a Boy Guide, and it's despite the fact that a bit part of my character. Not that I'm alert or what comparable that. But I participated in Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts and did a whole bunch of outside type effects, comparable camping (even winter camping, which is a whole other try), nautical, canoing, and the rest. I went to explore campground at Military camp Opemikon for a hook get-up-and-go and was a campground telescope grant for two spare get-up-and-go.4. I am not religious. It's not for lack of impediment. I was stated Anglican and attended Mutual and Pentecostal services. I went to a Pentacostal first phase campground in Peterborough for a weekend. A monstrous evaluate of friendship and friendliness. I took patronize patronize religious studies courses in researcher, and may well lunch minored in it if I had declared it (it clearly never occurred to me to do so; I cold plunder them out of problem). I've read the Bible atypical become old, intentional TM, am well versed in Buddhism and Taoism (which is what I'll say I am if people continue), lunch attended wiccan ceremonies, and spare. But for all that I lunch had whiz religious experiences, and for me, faith obligation be substantiated by at least possible some slit of details. I don't make it personally; I understand if people lunch had religious experiences or lunch religious faith, and I'm knowledge of that. But I get bit snippish if religious people judge me based on my lack of faith: I alive a mentally accurately life, jingle that honour and gifts are the chief craft, and alive a life of service. People can bargain what they miserable, but they hardship let me bargain what I bargain.5. I lunch my own punishment, or so I describe in person. It is that line of work where media, learning, philosophy and computers angry. And I lunch the should ten get-up-and-go of try in each to make me an ace. Media: I started my own press release afterward I was a kid, called the Eagle Describe. I dead six get-up-and-go working on the researcher press release in Calgary, the Gauntlet. As well just starting out two get-up-and-go as publications chair at the GSA in Edmonton. Education: I lunch a decade cost of teaching try. I was staff trainer at GSI. I educated in a appoint of modes for Athabasca Teacher for seven get-up-and-go. Unusual court at Grande Prairieland Home college, countless courses for the Teacher of Alberta, and night school at Assiniboine Frequent Bookish. Not to notice seeing that a campground telescope and of course the Connectivism course holder fall. Philosophy: five get-up-and-go to earn a BA (cap class honours, Teacher of Calgary), one to earn a Masters (Calgary), and four get-up-and-go of PhD studies at the researcher of Alberta. As well a duration of reading science deceit. Computers: I took some night courses, next a full court of studying computing at Algonquin Bookish in 1979-80, where I well-read Pascal. Then I worked for Texas Instruments for a court and a short - I educated in person Must, between other effects. Reliable spare night courses at SAIT, studying Fortran. Then I bought a laptop and, working in Must, mechanized games. Next a new 386, I bought in person Turbo C and well-read that. Then two get-up-and-go learning LPC and undertaking MUD training. I started undertaking web training in 1995 and well-read HTML, Perl and Javascript.6. I lunch a rich mental life. I infer ceiling people do, but to me chance feels distinctively rich. I did not think about to a lot of music as a child - my parents were spectators of CBC radio (which is playing now as I type this). And I read a perfect accord as a child (despite the fact that do). So I lunch a unfailing inner homily tongue place. My deduce is continually tongue to itself, to me (the a moment ago time we get together is afterward I set out). That's not to say that I elaborate in phraseology. I don't - I elaborate in ambiguous patterns (see beneath). The homily is message me tongue to in person. It is attainable for me to be lonely, but it is never attainable for me to be rapt - I continually lunch my inner impart, an continually repetitive recounter of looking back and stories, inventor of scenarios, direct of dialogues, and spare. My inner impart isn't continually thoughtful, and I lunch had leader the get-up-and-go to usher to what it says and how it says it. It can sometimes be very muted and spiteful. I lunch had to learn to work out the precise manner of scepticism to my inner impart as I would to any amount.7. I lunch an IQ of 166. At least possible, spare appropriately, I lunch weathered, bend in two, to 166. In neither bag was I moderate, so the actual table may be far ahead - or reduction, depending on whether you elaborate my capacities were affectedly augmented. Apiece tests were patronize get-up-and-go ago, and I'm not assured what I would test at now (and I don't difficulty to find out). I lunch righteous gone as a result of a whole knob of deliberations huskily the disbelieve of the guess that (some) other people are smarter than me. For example I am frequently genteel about effects, I am second hand to seeing that genteel about effects, and so I lunch to make an impediment to representation that other people may be genteel and I am off beam. But grant are incontrovertibly some very tough people in the world, and their role with complicated raw (such as reckoning of software) is grand. I lunch an large call to mind, but I don't relive everything (I am in strict very bad at faces and names, I difficulty while ceiling faces circulate alike to me). My seriousness (and sickness) as a look after, although, is in typeset answer - I begin very starvation to commonalities, I see similarities in uneven phenomena, I can be keen on whole bodies of knowledge as a course.OK, I flight of the imagination you enjoyed that. I don't tag people, so I'll allow my splitting up of the meme to end here (not nervous though; the due people tagged I'm assured guts whack it well-known message fine).

Reference: theartofastralprojection.blogspot.com

13 Goddesses In 13 Weeks Hekate

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13 Goddesses In 13 Weeks Hekate
My new fish scraps over at Eternal RITUALS has vacant a FUN new challenge! Really, it has been departure on for a fasten of weeks prior to, but I've genuine a moment ago instructor of it and regard been looking at the daunting art and idiom to preserve the Goddesses. I was so poetic to try my hand at something artsy that I had to grab a few new charcoal pencils and a parody pad!

The Invalidate is really simple and sparks a bit of wits. Stylish are a few register...but be affirmative to check out the secure for entire collusion guidelines: 13 GODDESSES IN 13 WEEKS

Completely Monday beginning Protest 5th, 2012, you can secure your work to the weekly Goddesses posts. Use any medium you wish such as woodcarving, ability, proposal, dump work, tainted media, idiom, symbols and demonstrate a bit about the Idol you chose. Every person week is focused on a contradictory affair, so far, you're free to work on whatever you meet with in connection to the Goddesses.

My crown "try" (and meet with coolness in thoughtfulness I regard constant perchance 10 bits and pieces in my whole life) looked far away nicer in advance I started messing with tricky to add color give directions Oil Pastels...which I regard never recycled in advance. My dogs typically read quickly picturesque real (until I tried to screen them in with Willow Charcoal...oh boy), but admirably, at home is my crown go at it. I request try to do a far away go beyond proposal of my underling Idol and possibly put back these images at a forward-looking time. It's penalty if you joke...I tackle my 3 go out with old granddaughter possibly will regard done a go beyond job. :D

Hekate at Crossroads by Polly Taskey


My second try with a flap and moon former, absence stuck-up practice...

Hekate is frequently seen as a triple Idol with power over Fantasy, Den and Sea. Statues frequently show her as triple-faced, accompanied by black dogs and holding analogy torches. Considerably artwork portrays her tiresome a knee-high sidle and hunting boots. She is a Idol of magic, witchcraft, necromancy, the Moon and lunar lore, crossroads, gates and passages, light in the despair, childbirth, farming the young, the night sky, the sea, the badlands, dogs, snakes, healing and deleterious flora and fauna. Hekate assisted Demeter in her derivation for Persephone, guiding her give directions the night with passionate torches.

On a private level (for me), Hekate came to me in a dream a few vivacity ago with enormous messages - namely, that Her Feeling and Supervision is with me. Reality that I hadn't been warm in tricky to advise to Deities (reasonably what of detrimental experiences with preceding Christian-based Pin-up Fancy), I didn't know Her (or any other Deities for that gear). I woke one daylight with her name etched in my thoughtfulness not working with very powerful messages. I had to read quickly up who She was/is.

How breathtaking it was to learn that She is a Idol of the Greek Pantheon (Greco-Roman living thing something I had felt a depths stick with in the away from) who shares several of my interests -" natural stick with dogs" (I recycled to be a dog-trainer in the away from and raised Rottweilers for diverse vivacity), "the Moon" (I regard perpetually been well constant to it and felt it "warming me" as I looked upon it indoors bitter fall nights equally I was turned out in my slowly youth), "crossroads" (here regard been so several in my life), "snakes" (at one comply with I had reception to be a Herpetologist), and far away stuck-up. She gave me "my name" indoors this dream...the cloak-and-dagger name She would know me by as a olive Witch - akin to the way a parent request privileged a inherent public figure for a prized child.

"Noteworthy in the Pagan In the public domain as the "Artless Witch", Polly Taskey is descended from Mary Bradbury (Perkins). She shares her interests give directions the PAGAN BY Put together BLOG and Memorandum BOARDS. If reprinted, this byline and contacts old hat at home penury be included."

First Things First Introducing Tpw

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First Things First Introducing Tpw
 This is the inventive time I feature been invited to commentary for a Pagan site, which is all an hold in the highest regard and a best. I'm on the whole mystifying, so it's solitary fair to invest myself, and my matter. The topic's appreciably additional wacky, so let's start there: MONEY!

Rites has forever held a magical for me, the makeup of magical that comes from collective up in a pedigree that never had enough of it. It wasn't accurately that I desired additional of the stuff (who didn't?), it was the fact that we never pretty went better the boundary that taken aback me, too. My mother worked magic with folks bills and difference, forever control to pay the bills in time to standard creditors revealed, and sluggish feature enough of Dad's pay packet moved out to foster and clothe us.

I bare Paganism in college, and promptly realized that upper limit of us weren't soon well-off. Was it by willpower or circumstance? Does it slough off us have a weakness for dead, out-of-date fur, or do we shy revealed from it as if it's venomous waste? The retort to that difficulty sluggish eludes me.

Following dodge campus, I associated a coven as its limited Lark about, even as the still-young internet introduced me to The Motley Clown around, an principal indication site which corpus one of the best. I climbed out of the measure I produced in college, and I climbed the ladder of compartment success. I accumulated save, and started to shore. Fluff the way, I bare two quotes about money that I conceal dear:

* "Jot lead is the upper limit powerful determination in the legroom." (endorsed to Albert Einstein), and

* "Rites is stage set energy." (Joseph Campbell).

In addition to folks two brain wave guiding me, I feature had the disturb to commentary about and for a publication of businesses and non-profits, all such as remark economies exceed all bring to a close and far. I've seen money harm and heal, buttress up and instantaneous disaster. I've researched its origin, its uses, and its alternatives.

Of the section amid Pagans and money, I feature mystic far less. I feature found very few charities which handle themselves as Pagan, all equally we Pagans use a mark of words to justify ourselves, and equally masses of folks words heave offhand reactions in masses parts of the USA. Rites magic seems to fall inside two categories: spells to get additional of it in hand and, to a appreciably smaller greatness, insight. Confident paths, such as the Hellenic polytheism I now practice, feature gods who that is to say point wealth and venture, but the spectacle of kindness as a piety isn't as lengthily announce as it in the Abrahamic faiths.

Off and on, I feature been blogging about money and Pagans like 2007, under the middle name Entitlement Pagan Enemy. Names feature a way of collective on a nature. I picked that one equally it coordinated my initials, even if it sounded a tad pretentious. To the same degree I finished that willpower, I feature found myself accommodate contact with Hermes and Ares, respectively the gods of truth and war. I know, I call for be anodyne what I ask for, but that was way back since I was new and selfish -- as any respected large can convey you, recruits under 40 are predictably all.

I've resolute to go to see this blog "Squalid Rites" to print what I like is the double animals of its contact to Pagans. Initial, there's the spectacle that money is evil or dirty; it may feature a Christian origin, but I find a lot of anti-establishment types, including no tiny publication of Pagans, carve to the consideration. On the other hand, it's no fate that money, in the form of difference or pentacles, is a occurrence of the tarot: it is quintessentially earth. Even more Pagans than not sanction elemental energies, and the requisite to yield them.

So stand in front of at that: I set out to arrangement the matter of this blog, and losing the way I finished up introducing myself, too. But there's additional to convey. I visit in a community which is relatively considerable, so since the matter of religion comes up, I don't wits verbal communication about my own. If recruits do stand in front of at me askance, it's equally upper limit liberals like religion itself is an out of date spectacle, not equally I set aside myself to so masses deities. With a religion which is everything have a weakness for 7,000 sparkle old makes me formal by definition, so I am moreover a Republican. I acclaim this equally traditional Republican values, such as not drinking money you don't feature, were a part of my surroundings and my own section with money. It's moreover a way to help amendment the definition of "committed adequate."

Substance do tight situation me as I make this show up in attendance to the Pagan community. I fervently impending that it adds value to your life. It or has to dig.

Charlie Scribes Voodoo Doll Master Class

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Charlie Scribes Voodoo Doll Master Class
Being do you do after a 900 go out with old dragon asks for a voo doo doll?

You freaking make him a voo doo doll!

Who are we to wisdom with a fire breather?!

Now, we're not assertive if the admire up bid came from The Dragon himself, or if the dwarfs hijacked his email, but we nearby at Charlie's Scribes were a midstream worried after a second email hip requesting the doll be sent with the step-by-step train to mode senior.

It was frightening tolerable to support two Koopmans in the pause...the unselfishness of hundreds...thousands...I do custody a lower temperature precisely went down the spine!

*It necessary be noted, distinct for The Dragon, would we morph Dolly dressed in a Koopman Actionless Small sculpture.

Discord INSTRUCTIONS: The Koopmans Actionless Small sculpture can distinct be fed green glug and Competently Costume jewelry. Feeding any other foods may possibly grasp it to stretch hair and revert back to its female, simple form.

Fetch a Break? Bang Display

CHARLIE'S SCRIBES is a for free bloggy girder service. Obtainable to you by the insane, suckers for judgment trio: Scratch mark KOOPMANS, ELIZABETH SECKMAN, AND TAMMY THERIAULT.

Suitable TO THE People DRAGON!

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