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Magical Jericho, Unlocking The Land
2009-01-01 21:14:00 ה' טבת תשס"טGrael 6The sabbat of Imbolg (alternatively, Imbolc) will be upon us February 2. Marking the midpoint of the dark months, Imbolg nurtures the return of new light, new growth, and new beginnings.For this magical time when slumbering consciousness reawakens to new awareness, I am going to craft and dedicate my own perfume oil blend. This perfume will be my own one-of-a-kind, beautifully unique, lovingly handcrafted witch potion. I have forthnamed my perfumed witch potion - Magical Jericho .Carefully blended by smell, Magical Jericho will contain notes of frangipani, rose of Jericho, Egyptian jasmine, zanthoxylum, guiacwood, amber in a pheromone oil base, leather fragrance, mimosa, sandalwood, tuberose and vetiver.Between now and Imbolg, I'll be studying the magical art of perfuming.This is going to be a wonderfully witchy woman's smell! The scent of enchantment.Related entries:Notes Of Magical JerichoPerfume Making More About: Land , Unlocking
Divine Unknowing
2008-12-29 02:48:00 ב' טבת תשס"טGrael 3The thirty-sixth shaman stone in my Temple Collection corresponds to the spirit of Unknowing - the power to reach into and create from one's core nothingness, unknowability, unrootedness, and experience of meaninglessness. Without a folklore of its own, I have designated the unwritten stone quantum quattro to correspond to the spirit of Unknowing. The colorful four mineral combination of royal blue shattuckite, robin's egg blue chrysocolla, forest green malachite and forest green dioptase (in a smoky quartz crystal base) found in quantum quattro corresponds to the mystical four-letter essential Divine Name. With this stone, from nothing, all is written.So mote it be, amen.
Mystery Of Manifestation
2008-12-29 01:10:00 ב' טבת תשס"טGrael 3The thirty-fifth shaman stone in my Temple Collection corresponds to the spirit of The Key, symbolic of the vital power to unlock inner secrets, open doorways to the mysteries, reveal portals of magic, animate manifestation, and unleash the power to spiritual evolution. The Key imparts life force, vitality, breath, soul, energy and vigorous drive into shamanic work, bringing objectives to fruition.As the shaman stone to signify The Key, I hereby designate a natural honey citrine cluster. A Stone of Manifestation , honey citrine adds vitality, evolves creative ability, enhances mental abilities, expands awareness, and brings success to any endeavor. More About: Mystery
Artful Discipline, Sacred Sight
2008-12-28 20:20:00 א' טבת תשס"טGrael 2In follow-up to an entry from last month (A Witch's Familiar), the thirty-fourth shaman stone in my Temple Collection corresponds to the Feline spirit. As written in A Witch's Familiar, Felines epitomize "the archetypal qualities of grace, elegance, charm, deep insight and intuition, agility, speed, strength, ferocity, deadly claws, patience, affection, motherly protection, birth, bounty, luxuriant simple pleasure, playfulness, music and the dance of joy."In Celtic shamanism, whether big or small, cats exemplify the lunar qualities of stillness, quiet watchfulness, waiting, patience, biding one's time, being in the right place at the right time, making one's move at the right time, and not being thrown by anxiety such that one makes the wrong move. The Feline spirit imparts the ability to practice patient self-discipline.Cat is a guardian creature, especially in out of the way places, near stone circles, in ancient forests, on lonely country roads, al... More About: Discipline , Sight , Sacred
Playful Survivor
2008-12-28 02:48:00 א' טבת תשס"טGrael 2Thank Goddess for friends through whom She communicates! My friend Makay has brought into my awareness the identity of the thirty-third spirit in my Temple Collection of shaman stones.It is the spirit of Squirrel.For about a year and a half now I have been steadily employed full time after a very long stretch of years of unemployment (sprinkled with a few months here and there of significant underemployment). Given my current experience of steady full time employment I have been on a minor spending binge to obtain ritual tools - like a squirrel stocking up should winter come again.On Squirrel as a power animal, it is written (Beyond the Rainbow):Like most people who have bird feeders, I have had battles with squirrels, most of which the squirrels have won. Despite my frustration, I have learned to feel a deep respect for this animal.The idea of insurmountable obstacles is not part of Squirrel's viewpoint; nor is giving up. I once saw a film about an obst... More About: Survivor
Into The Moment
2008-12-27 20:25:00 ל' כסלו תשס"טGrael 1In follow-up to my previous entry I hereby designate heliotrope (also known as bloodstone) as the thirty-second shaman stone in my Temple Collection and correspond it to the spirit of The Magic Word. Heliotrope is a dark green or green-blue form of chalcedony dotted with red jasper blood-like inclusions.Associated with the sefirah Malchut and the base chakra, heliotrope brings magic 'into the moment' of the 'here and now'. The power to bring magic into the moment embodies the seal of spellcraft (so mote it be) and the seal of ritual prayer (amen).Other correspondences associated with heliotrope include: abundance, wisdom, magic power, alignment, courage, detoxification and stabilization, stimulation of immunity, organization, promotion of smooth energy flow, and restoration of boundaries. The word heliotrope means "turning". The stone signifies fertile time.Heliotrope specimen with a river of fire in it. More About: Moment
The Magic Word
2008-12-27 19:06:00 ל' כסלו תשס"טGrael 1As I was waking up this shabbat morning, a mysterious magic word came into my conscious awareness. The word I saw was 'pesenesach' (pronounced in my mind as pay-seh-neh-sock). The magic word, which means nothing to my normative awareness, brought with it the immediate meaning of worthiness.In the magical Hebrew alphabet, pesenesach could be spelled פסנסח.Drilling down into the word to find more meaning, the 'p' sound corresponds to the Hebrew letter pei (פ, pronounced 'pay') and pertains to communication and to the transmission of esoteric knowledge.The next letter samech (ס) corresponds to the ideas of circle, sphere and encircling.The next two letters (נס) spell nes which means miraculous event.The final letter chet (ח) corresponds to both the lifeforce and to the gateway to the mysteries.The last three letters (נסח) in combination form the shoresh (root) nasach meaning to 'pluck up'. In Jewish meditation, nasach pertains to clear... More About: Magic , Word
Higher Ground
2008-12-27 16:36:00 ל' כסלו תשס"טGrael 1In response to one of my dreams last night, the thirty-first shaman stone in my Temple Collection corresponds to the spirit of The Kindred. The Kindred are spiritual allies and coworkers, guides to the inner mysteries, teachers of ancient ways, ancestors of both blood and soul, and guardians of the way. Kindred beings aid the witch in shamanic work, to help maintain balance between the spiritual and the physical, and act as supports toward spiritual evolution.Designated as the shaman stone for The Kindred is the Stone of Truth, a rich royal blue marbled, deeply veined natural specimen of sodalite, a gemstone formed in the heart of the earth. Nearly as old as the earth itself, sodalite is associated with fellowship, secrets of the ancestors, truth and wisdom, communication, balance between rational and intuitive modes of thinking, objectivity and detachment, peace and harmony, the planet Mercury, endurance, and healing. Sodalite also enhances creativity ... More About: Ground , Higher
Dark Moon Magic
2008-12-27 06:36:00 ל' כסלו תשס"טGrael 1inside shattered dreams, insight licks the minda beautiful mysterious height, the deep deep night[From my poem originally posted here.] More About: Moon , Magic , Dark
Radiant Being
2008-12-27 04:35:00 ל' כסלו תשס"טGrael 1In follow-up to an earlier post (No Ordinary Gargoyle, My Gargoyle) in which Gargoyle was further transformed into Radiant Being, I hereby designate my thirtieth shaman stone (shown below in magnificent glory) to be this exquisite specimen of absolutely stunning rust, exotic, rare, orange, reddish, radially transparent to translucent Creedite crystals on sky blue to dark aqua blue-green Fluorite crystals from Rodeo Durango, Mexico.Appropriate for the spirit of Radiant Being, creedite [1] is connected to the Crown, flows with a high spiritual vibration, attunes to the Universal Wisdom embodied in ancient texts, imparts energy to spiritual evolution, improves and guides the ability to move between different states of consciousness, and harmonizes the physical with the changing spiritual vibration. Fluorite [1] grounds and integrates evolving energies, reorganizes and orders disordered energy, heightens intuitive powers, promotes quick thinking and deliver...
No Ordinary Gargoyle, My Gargoyle
2008-12-27 01:27:00 ל' כסלו תשס"טGrael 1In follow-up to previous posts (Transformation of a Demon Creature and A Safe Home For Gargoyle), I had another odd vision regarding my gargoyle before I went to sleep last night. Many other "demons" were coming en masse to attack my gargoyle, to remove him from being under my protection (odd that my protector is under my protection, but nevertheless he is). They were jealous of him and wanted to tear him apart.I reinforced his position as being within my circle of protection, added energy to him, and cast the condition such that when any others approach him, he transforms into an awesome radiant being of great power, brilliance and majesty. Others become humbly awestruck by the brightness of his countenance when they encounter him. He's surely no ordinary gargoyle, my gargoyle! I'm taking care of him!I whispered 'good night' to him, my friend, before I went to sleep. More About: Ordinary
Hoopeston Witch School Documentary
2008-12-26 01:30:00 כ"ט כסלו תשס"טShamash 30The entire 4-part documentary on Witch School 's experience in Hoopeston, Illinois can be viewed here. More About: Documentary
Elder Staff
2008-12-26 00:03:00 כ"ט כסלו תשס"טShamash 30The twenty-nineth shaman stone in my Temple Collection represents the spirit of Elder Staff , the card I drew last evening in a Hidden Path divination. On Elder Staff it is written [1]:In ancient times, among some tribes it was believed that trees were the dwelling place of a god or goddess. This is one reason why sacred groves were established. A branch was taken from the tree and carried by the priestess or priest as a sign of her or his connection to the diety of the grove.This is particularly interesting to me given that this divination occurred in the evening of the morning that I had my waking vision encounter with a tree and it's faerie door. Thus, for me, Elder Staff represents both my own inner Druid Priestess and my link to other Elder Druids throughout all time.On Elder Staff it is also written [1]:The Elder Staff informs us that the path we walk takes us through worlds not known by the average person in life. The message of this card is ...
Entrance To The Mysteries
2008-12-25 21:54:00 כ"ח כסלו תשס"טShamash 29Torah commentary on Miketz from Garden Of The Dark Moon Jubilee - Entrance To The Mysteries.
Fearless
2008-09-07 01:16:00 ?' ???? ????"?Belz 8If you watched the video linked in my previous entry, one idea David Icke brought out in it is the idea that the things we fear are attracted into our lives by virtue of our fear of them. Likewise, Reb Newman of Mystical Paths expresses the same idea in his post today (now Sunday in Israel), writing, "there is anecdotal evidence and books written about the phenomenon of attracting things we are afraid of into our lives."Given that I have come upon one idea from two seemingly very different and opposite sources - one a New Age spiritual teacher and the other an Ultra-Orthodox religious teacher - I ask myself what major fears I have had during my life:1. That I would end up stuck working in a nursing home. I greatly feared this in nursing school, and this fear indeed materialized in my life. I've worked on and off in nursing homes for as long as I've been a nurse, even working in one part time for extra money while employed full time as a research biochemist for... More About: Fearless
Turning Tides, Transforming Consciousness
2008-09-06 23:54:00 ?' ???? ????"?Belz 8What I expected and what I found were surprisingly different. I'm not sure from where came the association of David Icke's name with antisemitic, antigovernment conspiracy theorists, but the association existed in my mind nevertheless - before I watched the video. I expected it to be subversive, antisemitic or to advocate violence and hatred against those who have political power - and I didn't see that at all. I really liked the message as expressed in this video. His basic message is one I too advocate - namely, dare to be true to yourself.(Hat-tip to l'l tike oon for link to the video.)Video here. More About: Consciousness
A Woman Named Moshee
2008-09-02 01:57:00 ?' ???? ????"?Belz 3In follow-up to my previous entries (Garden Of The Dark Moon Jubilee and Sidhe Moon Of Black Fire Atop White Fire ), a few things I've decided ...The new Crone Name I've chosen for myself is ??? (Moshee), a form of Moshe (???, Moses). Typically a masculine name, I've nevertheless chosen the name Moshee for myself for two reasons.First, Sidhe is pronounced "shee". The prefix letter mem ('m') of mo-shee, means "from". This ties to the second entry linked above and to bringing to awareness the Torah Nistar (hidden Torah) discussed in that entry.Second, the Hebrew name Moshe (Moses) is actually a feminine name. Moshe (pronounced with a short "eh" sound at the end), the greatest prophet of Jewish tradition and he who first received the Torah at Sinai, was a man with a feminine name. It fits then that to receive the magical-mystical Torah I am to share, as a woman, I will take a masculine form of the name.My Crone Name is hereby Moshee. As Moshee, I'm going to w... More About: Woman , A Woman
????, Garden Of The Dark Moon Jubilee
2008-09-01 02:37:00 ?' ???? ????"?Belz 3After over a year of sporadic menses and months of hot flashes, I have now gone more than 5 moons without menstrating at all. Nearing my 48th year, I am well into menopause at this point I do believe. With it, I am entering into the Crone-Dark Moon phase of my biologic lifecycle. What indeed shall be the Essence of Wisdom to come? I'm giddy with anticipation!I am going to initiate myself into Cronehood during a 53-day period of time, beginning with the Harvest Full Moon (September 15) of Belz-Elul and culminating on astrological Samhain (November 6). Fifty-three is the gematria of Garden (??), The Jubilee (?????) and "from the Malchut of Echad" (????).I haven't yet designed the initiatory rituals I will employ, as the brilliant idea to do this just came to me. One thing I know I'm going to do is to choose a new magical Crone Name for myself, adding it to the names I am already known by. Over the next two weeks, I'll be planning and preparing for this big eve... More About: The Dark
Cauldron Of The Black Moon
2008-08-31 03:16:00 ?' ?? ????"?Belz 2Rosh Chodeshforged without calculationreverberating with eternal essence, the lifeforcebrewing namelessly under the nostrils, purifying recognitionsome thoughtbare combination, a tasty transformationwithin a witch's cauldron, over colorless flames darklysimmering a stew of primeval mysteriesincluding everything, yet nothing yetpercolating in silence, an utterly female sciencepatiently pivoting tongs stirring that connectiondeliciously delightfulsingly uniquesustaining completely, from the timeless time to cometurning historywithout equivocationoriginally published by me at Walking On Fire More About: Moon , Black
Song Of The Banshee
2008-08-30 23:01:00 ?"? ?? ????"?Belz 1Sidhe Moon of Shabbat Belz Machar Chodeshfrom Walking On Fire: Stonehenge - Dark & Light In Perfect HarmonySong Of The Banshee (Faery Woman)immutablecast through a river of fireeternally reverberating impressions orientinginto timesomething essential, something trueblended together as oneigniting with lifea metamorphosis divinesome celestial darkness into endless lightorginally published by me at Walking On FireMore on the banshee - a faery woman of peace who never forgets her mortal family wherever in the worlds we may settle.
The Magic Chair Of Machar Chodesh
2008-08-30 20:14:00 ?"? ?? ????"?Belz 1Sidhe Moon of Shabbat Belz Machar Chodesh one of my Walking On Fire Avatars at LiveJournalIn follow-up to my entry of earlier today, linking both Jewish and Celtic traditions to Torah through the time of the Sidhe Moon of Shabbat Belz, I had a dream this morning/last night which again links the Sidhe Moon to Torah through another element of time.This shabbat is not only Shabbat Belz (first shabbat of the month of Belz) according to my Witch's calendar, it is Shabbat Machar Chodesh according to the Hebrew calendar (machar chodesh means literally 'tomorrow is the new month' - according to Hebrew timekeeping). On this special shabbat, when the Torah portion Re'eh (meaning 'see') coincides with a special shabbat (which this one is), in Jewish tradition, we also read a portion of Torah (called a Haftarah) from the prophets, specifically, the portion I Samuel 20:18-20:42. The Haftarah portion from Samuel discusses a 'seat' - David's seat. In this portion, Jonat... More About: Magic , Chair
Sidhe Moon Of Black Fire Atop White Fire
2008-08-30 15:07:00 ?"? ?? ????"?Belz 1Sidhe Moon of Shabbat Belz Machar ChodeshBlack Fire Atop White Fireone of my Walking On Fire avatars at LiveJournalI came home yesterday from work to find that I had finally received the new book in the mail that I had ordered a few weeks ago - The Sidhe, Wisdom From The Celtic Otherworld. I had been waiting for the book on aes sdhe (pronounced 'ess shee') to arrive for an unusually extended period of time and had been considering contacting the bookseller soon to inquire as to the possibility that my book order or the shipment had been lost. That would not be necessary now, for The Sidhe arrived just in time for shabbat of the Sidhe Moon.A Sidhe Moon, also called the Other Moon, is the uncommon phenomenon of two Black Moons occurring in one solar month. The second Black Moon in such a month is called the Sidhe or Fairy Moon. This rare lunar event occurs today, in the year of 2008/5768, on shabbat (weekly Jewish sabbath) of the Torah portion Re'eh (meaning 's...
Modern Exodus
2008-08-27 01:09:00 ?"? ?? ????"?Lughnasadh 2650,000 women abandoning church every year as Buffy the Vampire Slayer turns them on to witchcraftChristian churches in England have lost at least 50,000 women from their congregations every year since 1989, says a sociologist.Dr Aune added: 'In short, women are abandoning the church. Because of its focus on female empowerment, young women are attracted by Wicca, popularised by the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.'Young women tend to express egalitarian values and dislike the traditionalism and hierarchies they imagine are integral to the church.'Read the full article at link above.Jewitchery is a growing phenomenon as well as is Wicca and other flavors of witchcraft. Clearly, patriarchies are on their way out as far as Western women are concerned. We aren't going back to Mitzrayim. More About: Modern , Exodus
New Moon In Virgo, Yechidah In Communication
2008-08-26 14:43:00 ?"? ?? ????"?Lughnasadh 26This coming shabbat the new moon of the witches' month Belz is in Virgo . Corresponding to Virgo are the Hebrew letter yud (the highest level of the soul according to kabbalah, yechidah), the Ogham letter Coll (wisdom, mercury), and the Ogham letter muin (communication). More About: Communication , Moon , New Moon
The King's Children, Ring Of The Interstellar Ark
2008-08-23 23:29:00 The Wild Swans & Princess Elisa from Interstellar Ark in description of the corolla of a vast ring?"? ?? ????"?Lughnasadh 23I am pleased to report the plot (from Wikipedia) of a fairy tale my friend Herbalpagan brought to my attention today called The Wild Swans, about twelve siblings - the holy (whole) witch, wise prophetess Princess Elisa (who foils the dastardly plan of an Evil Witch), and her eleven princely brothers (who foil the dastardly plan of an Evil Archbishop):In a faraway kingdom, there lives a King with his twelve children: eleven princes and one princess. One day, he decides to remarry. He marries a wicked Queen who is actually a witch. Out of spite, the queen turns her eleven stepsons into swans and forces them to fly away. They carry their fifteen year old sister Elisa to safety in a foreign land where she is out of harms way of her stepmother. There, Elisa labors mutely day and night knitting magic shirts from nettles to help her brothers regain their human sha... More About: Children , Ring
Protective Power Of Unity In Plurality
2008-08-23 19:09:00 ?"? ?? ????"?Lughnasadh 23The SILVERED FINGER, a three-fold cord of the Divine Feminine not easily broken ...Noting mystical synchronicities of two previous entries (The Three-Fold Cord At Dawn and The Inverted Seal) with today's news event:Plane Crashes Near Utah's Arches National Park, Killing TenFoxnews, Saturday August 23, 2008MOAB, Utah ? A twin-engine plane crashed and burned near an airport not far from Arches National Park in southeastern Utah, killing all 10 people on board, an official said Saturday.The plane was fully engulfed in flames when emergency responders arrived late Friday at the site about 2 miles from the Canyonlands Field airport, and there were no survivors, Grand County Sheriff James Nyland said.The airplane was a King Air A-100, said Mike Fergus, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration in Seattle. He said that "to the best of our knowledge" no flight plan had been filed for the trip, but he said that isn't unusual.Nyland said the victims were... More About: Power , Unity
The Three-Fold Cord At Dawn
2008-08-23 05:07:00 ?"? ?? ????"?Lughnasadh 23A three-fold cord of the Divine Feminine is not easily broken ...In follow-up to my earlier entry (The Inverted Seal) describing my dream last night, my friend Muninn's Kiss notes in Two Wells, One Name some relevant similarities between Miriam (Jewish prophetess and guardian of Miriam's Well) and Mimir (Norse god and guardian of Mimir's Well).Muninn's Kiss provides interesting quotes for both wells:On Miriam's Well from The Inner Dimension - "The Well of Miriam was for drinking and also for washing clothing. Water serves two purposes. One is for drinking, when it becomes part of the person's life force. The second purpose is for cleansing the body and clothing. The skin itself is also clothing of the inner dimensions of the body. The fact that water is necessary for washing, is the way to meditate on the Chotam Hamithapech. The water of the Well of Miriam, in addition to being used for drinking, comes to wash the clothing of the Jewish People."On Mim... More About: Dawn , Fold , Cord
The Inverted Seal
2008-08-23 01:06:00 ?"? ?? ????"?Lughnasadh 22I dreamt.The only thing I remember about the dream is the waking vision I had of a man's hand coming forward as if to show me the ring on his finger which 'identified' him to me. It was almost as if I were being shown the ring for the specific purpose of determining if I could see and remember it upon waking. As the ringed hand came forward, it seemed to beckon me to 'remember', and to 'recognize' it. It had the feel of a 'king's seal'.The ring was a very wide band (perhaps even over 1/2 inch wide) of silver with a rough design on it. Inset into the middle of the band was a round white stone about the size of the pupil of an eye. It caught my eye.I woke up.The color of the stone (white) which resembled a pupil is the inverted color of a pupil (black). The ring had the feel of a seal. The dream symbolism I recognize pertains to the 'inverted seal' of kabbalah - the chotam hamithapech, where the very highest (soul) level of yechida becomes physica... More About: Seal
Celebration
2008-08-15 01:12:00 ?"? ?? ????"?Lughnasadh 14Celebration .The three of cups, a card of celebration and abundance, is the card I pulled out from my tarot deck (planetary hour Venus, waxing gibbous moon 96% full) to describe where my life is headed. Now, while I need some good news after the event of my last post, I'm unconvinced.Time will tell.
The Bloodsuckers Are Out
More articles from this author:2008-08-14 13:49:00 ?"? ?? ????"?Lughnasadh 14We're coming up on a full moon and lunar eclipse August 16, and the bloodsuckers are already out to lap up any lifeforce they can.While the administrator, the DON and all my co-workers at my new job are telling me what an awesome job I'm doing, the corporate nurse (who is an LPN) has demoted me to working at a level beneath my professional RN licensure, instructing me to do less than what is written in my job description and goes against the written corporate policy that I have, both given to me by her. I've been instructed to work as if I had the licensure of an LPN and to let the DON sign off for my work as the RN Coordinator.Some people just like to make you bleed and build up their own egos by humiliating others. At a personal level, I could care less. But professionally, this is a slap in the face.I absolutely loathe being an RN in this society, and working for people who don't value that credential, or value a Bachelor's degree in Biochemistry. O... 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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