Mae's Menagerie

Creative Frustration

2012-02-03T07:46:00.000-08:00

Happy Lover’s Month! On the last day of January, I mixed some of best herbs and flowers together for a lover’s delight mix. I figure with this month being so cold and possibly snowy for lots of people it is a good time to love the one you are with –if you know what I mean. I am running a special for the month get any custom love rootwork for $33. This includes a reading and the prescribed rootwork.

Moon Sister Moon
February’s full moon gets a name that is one of my favorites ‘Bone Moon’. Ooooo that sounds so creepy but it makes complete sense when you consider that February is usually the coldest month in the Northern Hemisphere. I consider my ancestors and the need for their farms to die off in winter or at the very least go dormant. It gives the land a chance to rest. Plus it allows the weather to remind us that we can be chilled to the bone. This moon is that beautiful cold slap that says be thankful you are still alive now start sprouting.
For some of my ancestors this would be the Ash Moon a time for introspection and self realization. I am sure this comes about because they were completely sick of being inside and really sick of their family and friends in their tiny spaces. They would want some serious alone time to contemplate not choking everyone around them. I know I like a good day to myself to clean and air out the funk that comes with winter.
I say make a date with yourself this Full Moon go out dancing or take a yoga class and warm your bones. Let your thoughts wonder around then go and watch a movie The Shining you will be better for it come March.

Twisted Root
This week I am going to offer root remedy for Creative Frustration. We have all had it at one time or another. You want to go and finish that quilt, paint a picture or build shed. The desire is there but there is no inspiration coming through. Well this spell is for you.
For those who are rootworkers reading this you will see that it is a tea bath used in lot of erotica remedies, but it is also good for relieving artistic blocks. Sex and Creativity are like a two headed snake the same body with minds that think a little differently.
To relieve creative frustration in the form of writer’s block & artistic frigidity
What you will need – mind you that some ingredients are different for men and women.
Hibiscus Tea & Nettle Tea from the market
3 grains of paradise
for women: add rose petals from one rose and tablespoon of angelica root chips
for men: add teaspoon of basil and teaspoon of juniper berries
In a big pot boil four cups of water. Once it reaches a boil turn it off and drop in two tea bags of each kind of tea, drop in the three grains of paradise then add your gender specific herbs. Put a lid on the pot and let it set overnight. The next morning take a cup of the tea mix and pour into a warm path. Let it soak in and break up your block. I recommend that you take the cup you used to pour the tea and take a cup of that bath water and pour it out into the road letting passer bys break up that energy even more. Do this bath for seven days.
If you have an urge to masturbate after the bath go for it! Making love to yourself or someone else is perfect way to clear your head and focus your thoughts –besides it feels great and makes you smile. I also recommend that you write down any spontaneous ideas that you have throughout the day or any vivid dreams.
The remaining pot of tea should be strained of the herbs and tea bags then placed in a jar in the fridge. It will last about 6 weeks before it turns into something funky. You can also use two tablespoons of the tea in a soap mix for long term use if you have been blocked for more than a year. Drop me an email if you need some soap – I have some already made up. I live with an artist.

Flora’s Favorites
Last year I was sitting at the kitchen table of one of my closest friends looking through her oils. I opened one of the vials and it hit me. The aroma of the oil instantly put me at ease, and I felt my intuitive centers opening. The clarity from what I was picking up was really unbelievable. I asked her where she got the oil or if she made it. She bought it at the store Herbs& Arts in Denver Co.
The next day I called the store and bought the oil. It is called Divination Oil and here is their website, so you too can enjoy this potent little oil. I love it, love it, love it! http://www.herbsandarts.com/. The quality of the oil is amazing and the staff is really friendly and knowledgeable. Bookmark their site because you will go back again and again.
If you want to work on your ‘true dreaming’ skills I recommend taking a dab of the oil and rubbing it on your fingers then touching your temples, wrists and bottoms of your feet before bed then let the dreaming begin. Having the aroma on your hands and body engages your psychic centers while you sleep, plus it gets in your sheets and infuses your bed to be a psychic dreaming machine.

Petitions & Prayers

I handle lots of magick for court cases specifically immigration hearings. I don’t specifically advertise this, but the clients find me. One of the Saints that I find helpful when doing this work is the Child of Atocha. He is called upon lots of times for court but not many people realize that he is a wandering Saint. It makes him especially sensitive to the matters of people who have had to wander from their homes in other places looking for safety, better pay and most of all a more secure life. This little man saint can really perform some miracles for unlocking doors and getting paperwork finished for green cards and getting deportation paperwork overturned.
Here is the prayer that I use call upon his goodness:
Blessed Child of Atocha, protector of those being hunted, freedom granter- hear my prayer.
My friend …. has been left to fend for himself, they have left an old life behind and they are ready to begin again. Let it be in….. Please unlock the doors that would shut them out and run the injustice off of their doorstep.
Innocent Child of Atocha let me hear the patter of your feet as you run through the life of …. helping and healing their way into a life free of fear and full of abundant freedom.
This I pray in the name of Jesus, Amen.

Best of Blessings
I am truly grateful to my readers and clients. You inspire me with your questions and requests. Please keep them coming. I will post again next week with more ideas for a better magickal life.
I have made this post in support of the 2012 Pagan Blog Project.
Flora

Ceremony & Spontaneity

2012-01-28T07:49:00.000-08:00

REMINDER: There are four days left for my January Special then you will have to wait until next year!

Alchemical Roots
I was raised as an elemental witch. I have memories of magick weaving in and out of my life throughout childhood. When I took the step to walk the path back to the Lady, my life changed. Those of us who make that choice find that we have some core practices that influence all aspects of our magick. Some folks who are trained in Reclaiming may have a certain way they cast circle, and those who are trained as Gardnerian may have a method of ritual making that brings the best result in their magick. For me I fine tuned my witch radio to the Elements; the powers of creation. When I say Elements, I mean elements in the sense of earth, water, air and fire and those metaphoric images of alchemy. For me the alchemical process of life either earth to fire or fire to earth brings about the best results for me. I spend a year and a day with each one and my internal witch year revolves around that element constantly doing its work within in me.
This year I happen to be in Earth, and for every year I have walked with this element, it has moved me ever closer to living in harmony with our blue island. My first year in Earth was a lesson in commitments and being grounded in my own beliefs. The second round was about living by example to ground those beliefs in reality. The third round was about finding a relationship that was copasetic with the planet. In my fifth round I find that I want to live my life by following Her wheel of planting, growing, harvest and dying off. That is part of the reason we found a farm.
For every year that I have worked an element, I have expanded in my awareness of how much work goes into being human. I don’t try to transcend into some ideal that the television presents to me or some new age belief that what is in the beyond is better. I have found that being a good human-one that consumes out of need and not instantaneous gratifying want and engaging all my six senses-is a profound ecstatic experience. I give thanks for having my core work in the elements and I respect the responsibility it lays on my path.

Ceremony & Spontaneity
I hold a firm belief that ritual is something that is continuous and really has no room for change. It generally has one purpose and, if done many times, helps to ground a belief in the person or persons engaging in the ritual. Now, ceremony is something very different. Ceremony indicates an emotional event where something is likely to not go as planned and requires an open mind to not freak out when the energy of the event goes in a completely different direction. Ceremonies can have a general skeletal structure that is similar from time to time like a wedding or a funeral, but the guts of the ceremony are different. Many times what is done or said in the ceremony is spontaneous or spirit lead. The result of this spontaneity is that the person engaging in the ceremony learns to bend energy better and releases false fear of control. Ceremonies also hold room for groups of people to bend energy together. Rock concerts are a perfect example of ceremony.
For witches, taking time to honor the wheel of the year through ceremony provides a way for them to plug into the energy of the season and ride that energy. Some witches do the exact same ritual every year to ground that energy into their life. Others do something different every year and have a ceremony to help them plug into what they would like to experience or what they desire to touch in the season. I have done both and both are completely valid methods for working the wheel. I prefer ceremony as a solitary worker.
I have ceremonies that I work with every day like making medicine and it is different everyday. I have yet to say the same thing, hold my medicine bundle the same way, or even do the ceremony at the same time every day. I just know that I want to build my medicine so that I am a stronger healthier witch in the end. I have been doing this ceremony for a few years now and the result is that I am more aware of when my power is being stretched to its limits versus giving over my power to others. I am also less stressed out by not having control of everything around me. Instead, my awareness has expanded. This expansion lets me let others have their space to act on their will without my unspoken judgment or opinion interfering in their life.
I encourage every magickal person to spend at least a year letting every ceremony be spontaneous. It is fine to work out logistics of an event, but don’t plan what you are going to say, sing or dance –let your spontaneous spirit show up and surprise you.

Ceremony for Making Medicine
Native cultures teach a core ceremony that is done daily to build a person’s auric strength. The ceremony is simple but profoundly affective. It also helps to build medicine, which means the power to heal. I do recommend collecting a little tobacco, cedar, sweet grass and sage. Tobacco because it is the first plant given to the world as an offering for smoke in prayers, cedar because it cleanses the living place of disease, sweet grass because it wards off evil, and sage because it purifies the spirit. Take a pinch of each and fold it into a white cloth and tie them in with a red string.
[You will find references for white in red to strengthen the body in all kinds of cultures and places in the world. Think red and white blood cells and you will start to link into the thinking of how important that combination of colors can be in magickal healing work. For future reference if you are going to do a healing candle for someone, make it red with a white label or white with a red label and your results will be better.]
Hold the medicine pouch you just made in your hands. Stand facing east and lift the pouch and touch your third eye. Then, turn to the south and repeat this until you have faced each direction. When you get back to where you started say a prayer of thanks. Hold the pouch between your hands at heart level. You can carry the pouch with you or live it on your altar.
You have just built the core to your medicine bag. Repeat this ceremony often but change it up to keep it present and growing just like your spirit.

Hit the Books
Like most open minded witches in this world, I am a book worm. I seriously enjoy reading someone else’s thoughts on subjects I share an interest in. Or I love a well written piece of fiction that makes me think of the human condition.
This month I will focus on a book that I really love and an author that has never let me down in her teaching. You can usually find it out on Amazon, so when you find it grab it! Huna: A Beginner’s Guide by Enid Hoffman copyright 1976.
I have always been a fan of Max Freedom Long’s work on the lower self, or fetch. The only thing that I didn’t like was all the constant colonization references in his work. Ms. Hoffman doesn’t do that. She totally gets that the exercises and practices found in Huna don’t need a biblical reference to make them valid. She understands that the work itself is profound and can stand on its own. This thin little book is a great way to introduce the Huna energy working methods. I like that it is concise and has plenty of exercises to open your awareness. It is one of those books you can pull off the shelf and re-read every so often because it will continue to challenge your skills as an energy worker.

Turn the Wheel
Like many of my brothers and sisters, in the coming week I will be gathering outside on the hard ground to wake up the land. We welcome the Lady and Lord as the children of a new spring. We will light candles and make wishes like children blowing out candles on a cake.
For me, I will be setting up my outside altar to attract the fey and wildwood spirits. It is my time to renew my vows as a Priestess to the Gods and to ride the quickening of roots moving in the earth. I let the energy of this time of the wheel plant seeds of creative ideas into my spirit leading to inspiration for new magick making.
Dear Little Lady and Lad- Your blessings of finger painted skies and spilled patches of green in my yard remind me to play. Thank you for the reminder to lighten my heart on these cold nights and warming days. To show my gratitude, I will color and draw, dance, and sing silly songs in your honor. Blessed Be!

This post was made in support of the Pagan Blog Project 2012.
May you all have the Best of Blessings this week.

Bones & Birthing Intuition

2012-01-20T07:43:00.000-08:00

Bones & Stones:
There is some serious power in bones. Growing up I used to collect little stones and bones I found around this beautiful Mimosa tree at my babysitters home. I would make a circle with the bones and stones, stand smack dab in the middle of the circle and pretend it was my tower of wisdom. I would name each of my rocks and bones. I would sometime bury the bones simply because they needed to be. I would then unearth them and carry them around in a water can that I used like a basket.
I still have some of those bones and stones. They became the base group of bones I use for doing bone readings. Over the years I have collect pottery shards found at roadside lookout points or shells from a day at the beach. I can wake up some mornings and know that I am about to find a dandy of a bone that day and I usually do. Sometimes it goes in the bone bowl and other times it goes into a mojo bag. It just depends on what the bone wants to do.
Living around the lake gives me access to more fish bones and turtle bones than most places. I use fish bones for safe travel charms, especially for those folks traveling by sea. The turtle bones are special. They are creation moment bones. They can represent a total shift in perspective for people. Creation is about to offer up a new opportunity that should not be ignored. I have a turtle skull that signals new wisdom like learning a new skill that is going to come in handy or a chance to go back to school. It could also mean that the life teacher that most seekers look for is days away from walking into their life. The retractable neck bone looks a little like a fetus, so my mind always goes to new life when it falls into the reading circle. The foot bone always means an improvement in your consistent decision making, setting some boundaries, and, most of all, adopting the motto "Slow and steady wins the race."
The next time you find a bone on the side of the road or out walking in your yard, ask yourself “What is going on this minute in my life?” You might be surprised at the insight you suddenly get from the bone’s power. If you find yourself called to pick it up, clean it off with soap and water, then place it in a jar high up in a cabinet. Eventually you will find the perfect bowl to collect your bones.
Magick in the Art:
Last year one of my best friends put it to me straight that I was neglecting my talent for drawing and painting. The minute she said it, I cried. I placed my talent on a shelf to take it down and look at it some other time in my life. Her one statement opened up some deep channels of wonder in my soul. I have started looking to the artists that I admire to find some inspiration to co-create something beautiful. I thought I would share one of my favorite artists with you all.
Odilion Redon has some of the most beautiful use of color I have ever laid eyes on. His pastel works speak of an artist that knows of many worlds where creatures of the mind lurk, but also where muses dance. When I look through his work, I see a kindred spirit. I see beauty of sacred subjects expressed in vivid blues, blacks and yellows. I also see those shadow lands and beasts that wait just inside our minds. They're drawn with a charcoal stroke that only they can earn.

If Redon were living today, I would write him a letter and ask him so many questions about how color speaks to him. I would ask him how line moves in his mind and, most of all I would ask to meet him.
My grandmother told me one day that when I find someone I admire, reach out to meet them. Let their light reflect upon you. You will fuse with that light at some point and your life will be better for it. I have done this often. It takes some level of confidence to reach out to people you think you know from their work, but don't know them at all. I have never regretted putting that stamp on the letter that is addressed to some of my best teachers. I have never regretted walking up to the local wise woman’s front door and asking her to teach me. The chance meeting in McDonalds with a world renowned doctor of neurology led to my music therapy career. Take some time today and write a letter to that person you admire and get to know them. Let their light shine upon you – it will color your world beautifully.
It is in the Cards:
It breaks my heart to hear intuitively inclined people say they can never read for themselves. I will admit that it can be difficult because of the brain noise going on when you sit down to do the reading. It takes some discipline and a little routine if you are new at reading for yourself. Set aside the belief that you cannot read for yourself. It is more than possible.
I personally do my self-readings on the full moon every month. I don’t work for others on that day – I only work for myself and the Lady on that day. I have one deck of cards I use only for myself – no one gets to touch them! I birthed a deck for the purpose of giving me insight. I light my psychic vision candle then lay the spread. I write it down and look over it a month later. I find that every time I do this review I have a deeper insight into my magickal process.
How to birth a deck for your own use:
You will need a deck of cards that speaks to you. Pick one that has pictures that you love. It can be an oracle deck, a tarot deck, or even playing cards will work. I like to dust mine with a psychic vision sachet powder, or I will rub a little divination oil between my palms and shuffle the cards 13 times to get the smell of the oil or powder into the cards. This aroma will establish a trigger for your brain to know “Oh we are about to ready for the owner of this deck”.
I wrap the deck in a black cloth and place it under my pillow or inside my pillow case. I put it out into the universe that I want the deck to be true to me and awaken only to my touch. I leave the deck there for 9 days and nights. I will then get it out and throw my first spread. I tend to get a new deck every seven years – this is not planned it is just a pattern I keep repeating.
Divination Oil:
½ oz. base of almond oil
3 celery seeds
3 anise seeds
3 Rose of Sharon seeds
Pinch of Calendula flowers
One drop of lime essential oil and one drop of lavender essential oil.
Let it cure while your cards are under your pillow then it will be good to go.

Kitchen Magick:
Some of the most powerful magick in the world comes when a woman cooks a meal. She can either make a man feel really guilty or she can bring happiness to her family with love in the bread. I am going to share a really great recipe that will put a smile on everyone’s face.
4 pork chops cut ¾ inch think – remove the fat
1 tablespoon of butter
1/3 cup finely chopped carrots
1 tablespoon of snipped fresh parsley
2 tablespoons of all purpose flour
½ teaspoon of caraway seeds
One cube of chicken instant bouillon broken up
One bottle of Little Kings Cream Ale or other ale
Sprinkle the pork chops with a little salt and pepper. In a skillet, cook the chops in the butter over a medium heat for about five minutes. Turn the chops and add the carrots. Cook for about five minutes more until the pink is gone. Remove the chops and reserve the drippings and carrots
For the sauce stir in the flour, parsley, caraway, and bouillon into the drippings and carrots. Add the beer and let it thicken and become bubbly. Put the pork chops back into the skillet and heat thoroughly. Serve with sauce spooned on top. This went really well with a Greek salad.

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Magick, Music & More...

2012-01-13T12:05:00.000-08:00

I wanted to remind my readers of the special I am running this month - a reading and light setting for $25. You can’t bet that kind of deal. Start 2012 off right with some insight of what this year has in store for you. You can find the special on my website www.americanamagic.com
It’s a Witch Thing
Last Sunday my family spent the day getting the land ready for pigs, chickens and a veggie garden. It was so beautiful outside. It was the first time my daughter was given the go ahead to set up pens and clear land. She loved it! We gave her a task list and that child went after it with determination to prove that she is a farming bad ass. I love her.
We have a tree on the property that I thought it was some type of willow because it had long drooping branches and it looked completely overgrown. My goal for the day was to prune it and get it cleaned up. To my surprise it was not a willow but a peach tree with some kind of parasitic vine that had completely taken over the tree. It had poke weed all around it and weird looking weeds that are some 100 year old hybrid that aliens dumped here. I did not know that a dandelion could grow so large. With the help of my lover man, we got all the vines cut off of the tree. Pruned the seriously dead branches and put mulch and hay all around the base of the tree. Once it was all finished, I swear I heard the tree take a deep breath of relief. I cannot wait to see what type of peaches it gifts us this summer.
The other added bonus was a small bramble rose bush found under the tree. It was clear that someone had planted it with love some years ago. It has been mowed over so many times that it just gets started then it gets chopped down again and again. It keeps trying to come up. I gave it a little food and told it that it was protected now, so it can grow into its beauty.
Now that the area is cleaned up, I can see a perfect spot for a honey bee hive. Can you imagine what peach honey would taste like on a biscuit? Holy Lady of Yum my stomach just grumbles with the thought of it.
Peaches and magick: I like to include a peach seed into my gambling mojos because they bring continual luck not just one it wonders. If you are thinking of making a mojo for yourself before hitting the slots, take a peach seed and paint it with red, black, white and yellow. Annoint it with fast luck oil and put it in your red mojo bag. Best of Luck!
Stroke the Muse
I love to hear what music others find inspiring, engaging and healing. Back in the day, I was a music therapist. My favorite area of study was neurology and how the brain responds to music. I have spent hours watching people at concerts react to their musical experience. Many times they are excited because they are seeing their favorite band, and other times the songs are related to a powerful memory. Then there are those groups of musicians that will take the stage and engage the audience to create a group mind and given them an experience that is truly magickal.
Last fall my lover man and I went to see a couple of concerts at Cain’s Ballroom in Tulsa. We were lucky one of the nights because we got a double feature. It is well known that the opening band has the duty of warming up the audience for the main act. Not this one night. We got two awesome concerts with truly quality musicians for the cost of one ticket. The group that was supposed to be the opening act was in fact mind blowing. I believe they were as good as the headliner.
I am speaking of Sorne. At first I thought we were being treated to a techno meets live percussion band, but OH was I ever wrong. Instead I watched the lead singer Morgan Sorne take the chaos of the crowd and turn it into group mind. Sorne literally took the audience into ritual trance and showed them the beauty of the human experience with rhythm, storytelling and vocal melodies. By the end, the entire audience was building a giant cone of power letting the musical priests on stage take the energy and release it into the multi-verse. I knew magick was afoot because once they left the stage, I wanted to smoke an after sex cigarette. I needed some serious protein to ground the level of energy humming through every cell in my body. Morgan Sorne has the ability to move an audience like Roger Waters of Pink Floyd without the ego and paranoia. He has a pure vocal quality that speaks to the soul. I have never seen a musical group more gracious and authentic in their relationship with the audience than Sorne. I will keep my ears open for their next album and I will be the first in line for tickets the next time they come near my little town. Best of Blessings to them!
Here is a link to the Sorne site. Please check it out you will not be disappointed. http://sorne.com/
Our Lady G
Every time I take a student, I ask that they find 10 Goddesses and learn their myth system. I also ask them to try and find out why those particular Goddesses showed up on their radar. I am also one of those teachers who do the same exercises that she asks of her students. So this year I went hunting for 10 Goddesses. So far I have five that have knocked on my consciousness door wanting to share some head space with me. That means that I will pass the knowledge onto you.
This month I will highlight Our Lady of Guadalupe known to me as Our Lady G. To many she is the listening lady who hears all the suffering prayers of Catholic followers and to others she presents the only vestige of Mezo-Indian culture acceptable by most North Americans. To me she is a Goddess of Sustenance and Beauty. The sustenance comes from her roots in agro-industrial Indians south of the Rio Grande. She radiates the life nourishing sun that is necessary for crop growth but she is also cloaked by the night sky so the crops don’t burn. Her dress has leafy patterns like lettuce and kale and to me she stands on pre 1840 plow share. The innocent hearts of people who work the land hold her up and in exchange she gives them the beauty of crops and food.
I also find that she comes around in my rose garden and when I am doing seven rose cleanse on a client. The power that a rose has to transport the spirit from sadness to gladness is amazing. I consider it a simple miracle. Our Lady G is closely associated with the aroma of roses stemming from the myth around her sightings and miracles.
Look to Our Lady G when you go to the super market because the fresh produce is her gift to us. Send her a thank you when the warm sun feeds your soul and wash your feet in rose water to let her know you are walking with her.
Altar Work
A fellow witchy friend asked me a few days ago what it is that I do to work my altars. I had to stop and think about it. Working an altar is such a second nature process for me it is like taking a bath. I don’t necessarily think about each step as I am doing it because it is just what I do to get clean. Working an altar is just something I do in my devotional work. So I thought on it and I decided that it boils down to what I believe the altar represents in my home and spirit.
I have altars for prosperity, Goddess work, prayers for others, and my ancestors. Each one gets attention from me daily. For my prosperity altar, I feed it with energy so that it will keep me fed and inspired to see great opportunities. My Goddess altar reflects the divine energies I want to hold on the planet. I will decorate it with brightly colored cloths, candles and flowers. I also say my rosary at this altar. My client’s altar has a mixture of things going on. I may have a spell working for a client or candles lit in prayer for their petitions. My ancestors are kept happy with pictures, candles and at times water or coffee. I spend lots of time at their altar asking for their memories and guidance.
In future blogs I am going to discuss the specifics of how to work different altars to bring positive change into one’s sphere of influence, so check back to learn more.
This blog posting is part of my commitment to the Pagan Blog Project 2012. Best of Blessings to you all!

Cold Moon Calling

2012-01-07T07:24:00.000-08:00

Greetings all you magically minded folks and may you be blessed with passion this Full Moon. This week provides a variety of information to massage your brain cells into expansion. For me the week has been loaded with writing instructions for cleansing the aura, doing readings for people, and making love spell magick. Everyone wants to clean up their act from holiday excess or find that someone special before Valentines Day. Both are good goals.

Moon Sister Moon
I don't me drop your pants, however if you feel that a good constitutional outside in the crisp winter breeze is what your butt needs then by all means drop your trousers. Just don't get arrested then I will have to send you a get out of jail spell.
This full moon is the reset button moon. Also called the cold moon or Alder moon. This moon is traditionally used for personal growth and insight. The only insight I have at the moment is that I should not have eaten so much over the Christmas holidays. I take this time and purify my Magick Room, my oracle and tarot cards and clean up my house. Then I seal the deal with a bind rune of protection over my front door. Do a goodle search for the Helm of Awe and that is the rune I use. I also take the time to extinguish all my altar candles and replace them with bright shiny new ones. I am not a wasting consumer of that tosses a perfectly good candle. I use the wax from old candles on my altar to seal letters or make new candles. Waste not -want not I say. Finally before bed I say a little prayer for the Lady and her Lover to watch over my home and family in the next year.

Twisted Root
This week I would like to throw out a recipe for emergency evil eye cleanse. I don’t mean a cleanse for that non stop twitching eye you have from drinking too much over the New Year’s holiday. I am talking about the evil eye that some jealous person gives you over that new watch you got for Christmas. You may not think it is a big deal, but jealousy and envy can chip away at your aura and make you a real Grumpy Gus.

I have a quick remedy that I like to use when I feel like someone has shot me the evil eye. I use Florida Water and I like to add some herbs from the garden. For those of you who do not know what Florida Water is, you are missing out on a true treat. It smells wonderful. It has one of those aromas that reminds you of grandma’s clean sheets with a little dash of spice. I had a Madrina in San Antonio that told me that the heavenly good spirits are attracted to the aroma. It tells the spirits that stand with you that you are in tune with the good inside yourself and you’re ready to help the world. When you add a few herbs and symbols to the bottle, it raises the vibration of the Florida Water, thereby raising your vibes as well. The added herbs fine tune your aura like tuning into the right radio station.

If you cannot find Florida Water at your local grocer, usually with the men’s after shave, you can always make a version of it yourself.

Here is a recipe and process for Florida Water:

Take one cup of water and add one Earl Grey tea bag, a tea spoon of lavender buds and leaves, five cloves, and an orange peel. Bring the water to a boil, turn it off, and let the tea steep over night as it cools. Set aside two tablespoons of the tea and freeze the rest. When I make up a tea that can be used later, I pour the extra tea into ice cube holders and freeze them. I store the cubes in a bag marked with the date and what they are for. Why waste a good thing?

Take two cups of distilled water and add the two tablespoons of tea. Add that to ¼ cup of vodka and you have a base formula for Florida Water that you can add herbs to as you wish. I have never tested to see how long the shelf life is on this formula because I use it up quicker than it could ever go bad. If I had to guess, I would say use it within a couple of months. If you still have some at the two month mark, use it to wash your front steps to attract good vibes.

Flora’s Favorites
A good friend of mine, Allurynn, has an Etsy shop that I truly love http://creationsbymoonlight.etsy.com/ . I want to buy everything on the site but I would have to clone myself so I could wear more than one piece at the same time. My inner belly dancing Goddess wants some ankel braclets and head jewelry from her site. What makes this jewelry unique is that it is made by a true Goddess Woman. She has done her research about the stones and metals she uses in her work. Everything is a piece of art. Plus you know that you are supporting a craftswoman who is a jewelry genius. I have my eye on amethyst bracelet pendulum. Please go and check out her site. You will not be disappointed. When you are finished there check out her blog: http://moonlightmuse.creationsbymoonlight.com/ . Tell her I said Hi.

Petitions & Prayers
Winter wind gives magical folks a great opportunity to use the old magick of tying bright ribbons on bare tree branches. It is a simple but very affective way to give energy to your wishes and prayers. You can even use old scraps of your favorite material. Write your name or one word to represent your wish on the ribbon strip. Hold it between your hands, picture the outcome of your wish, then tie it in the tree. Give thanks to the tree for holding your wish so the wind could read it. Walk away and let the universe do its work.

Best of Blessings
I am truly grateful to my readers and clients. You inspire me with your questions and requests. Please keep them coming. I will post again next week with more pics and ideas for a better magickal life.

Flora

Americana Magic

2012-01-02T10:19:00.000-08:00

Dearest Friends & Family,

I took the internet plunge. I created a website, www.americanamagick.com, that I hope will be informative as well as provide a bit of magick to everyone. I have had four years alone for fine tuning my years of magickal work. I have a blog on the site as well and I will do my best to post every week. I will share insights, recipes, spells, runelore and myth making from the perspective of a coven witch gone solitary.
When I decided to do this site, I asked myself why after all this time. The two answers that came to mind were “You are in service to the Lady girlfriend so get busy!” The other answer was “This is for Audry to have more out of life.” The money made from the site will go to helping her fulfill her dreams and desires in life. Like any parent I want her to have more and do more than I have ever done. So if you decide to purchase something know it is going to sending her to marine biology camp or her college fund.
As a priestess of the Lady, I know that if I am not doing the work I feel depressed and lost. All it took was a few folks in the area asking me for a reading and a charm to help with love and I could literally hear my soul singing. I knew then that I needed to get an attitude adjustment and start my practice full time again. I have my daily work but I mean opening up my home and life to the folks looking for HER. So I hope my site gives a door for people to find the Lady and Lover.
Please visit the site and if you like it tell a friend. If you see something that needs changing, I trust you know me well enough to say something. I am also on Facebook now so visit me there too.
The January Thingy
I am truly learning the life of a farmer. January is not a time of rest. Instead, it is the time we get the house seriously clean and the paperwork in order. It's because the rest of the time is spent taking care of critters, starting seeds for planting in the spring, and pulling weeds. In between all of that, I spend time making magick.
One of the best magick tricks I have learned (and one I have been getting ready to do) is to clean my house top to bottom -back to front. I have an old formula that I will share with you here. My grandma use to make a floorwash from rosemary, sage, thyme, rose petals, cedar, patcholi, lavendar, marigolds flowers, and some other cleaners. First, she would cut the seven herbs, boil them in about four cups of water just like a tea, and let them cool overnight. Then she would add a cup of ammonia, a cup of vinegar and two tablespoons of baking soda to the water. I like that it bubbles like a witches brew! Then she would put it in a spray bottle and get busy. I will warn you that I have seen this mixture take the finish off of some beautiful wood, so try it in a place that no one will notice.
In addition to filling a spray bottle, I personally take about a cup of the wash and put it in a bucket of water. I then scrub my floors and counters with it. It has that nice disenfected smell to it that scares the hell out of germs.
Trying to tell you what portions to use ruins the magick of it. If you really want to learn how this works you will have to feel how much of each herb you will need to make it work for you. Learn the qualitities of each herb and know they will enhance your floorwash with that quality. For instance, if you want more peace and tranquility, you might add a little more lavendar. Or you may want more protection for your home, so throw in some more cedar. How much you put in the wash water is up to you as well. Sometimes the wash looks a little weak to me so I add a little more. Also, I sometimes leave some of the wash in the spray bottle and spritz the air to clean it of negative thought cooties.
I will do my best to give you something every week to ponder regarding magick, runes, tarot, angels, and the arcane. I respect that everyone's experience with this information is as unique as the individual so I hope you will give me the same consideration while reading it.
May your New Year be Blessed and thanks for visiting!
Flora

December Thingy

2011-12-02T11:32:00.000-08:00

It has been almost a year since I made a comment about the Dark Goddess being present in a conversation between my grandmother and mother. Now that I have witnessed it again I think laying energy at the Dark Goddesses feet it not completely accurate. I know pagan women who have a deep fascination for lack of a better word with the dark goddesses in all cosmologies. I have to wonder if that fascination would still be present if they ever had to totally face her eyes locked with her hand on their throat. I would dare say they would shake in their boots.
Instead of giving this energy a “dark goddess” label I think I would prefer Vicious Veiled Lady. She is sly and she gives you exactly what you want. I watched her seep into the head of my mother and start a whole suicidal ideation monologue then jump from my mother to my grandmother and feed her paranoia that everyone wants to call her senile. Then the veiled lady walked through the house injecting my daughter with apathy and my husband with desire to run far- far away. Finally the Vicious Veiled One came to me and she left me with the truth in all its harsh edges.
Since first seeing this misty substance run through my family on two other occasions, I learned that the only thing that balances it all is compassion and one heck of a strong personal shield.
My advice before reacting to a family member hell bent on being angry and hateful it to take a minute and refocus your attention to see if the Vicious Veiled One is present in the room. She may be there waiting for the opportunity to show you the truth about all of the relationships in your life. Breathe in the compassion that is in the core of your guidance and act in love first. There will be time for homicidal ideation on the drive home.
Prime Opportunity for some Whopper Magick!
Beginning December 4th through the 10th there is a great time for doing some of what I call Whopper Magick. Pick something that has been in need of fixing, manifesting or starting and start a seven day spell to help it get moving. I do this type of magick using elements and of course timing. For me Winter time is ruled by Earth so I take a crystal that resonates with my something and I charge it to help me magnify my request and I hold it, touch it and speak to it for seven days straight. I have also been known to carry beans in my pocket to make wishes with during this seven days whopper magick time. I will leave the means up to you, but I am just giving you the heads up that this upcoming week is a special one so use it wisely.
Best of love to you all!

November Thingy

2011-11-08T14:09:00.000-08:00

I had a wonderful weekend. I had a chance to sit in while a former student and now peer taught a class on Diagnostic Tarot. I know she has changed the title, but that was the original title and now it is forever stuck in memory bank as Diagnostic Tarot. It was such a good class and she is a brilliant teacher. It is really nice to see the evolution of someone especially when they are working in their brilliance. I loved it!
When I got home from the class, I hopped in the bath tub. In my relaxed state I thought my daughter was throwing herself off of the couch because the floor was shaking so much that the water was sloshing in the tub. I learned quickly that it was not her trying to fly but an earthquake. THAT’S RIGHT AN EARTHQUAKE. All I can say is wow. My bath time got interrupted by Mama Earth shaking her money maker. Needless to say it was humbling and freaky all rolled in one moment. All I have to go through now is a volcanic eruption and I will have covered all the major natural potentially devastating events. If a volcano shoots up in my back 40 in the morning, I am going on a permanent vacation.

Part of me wants to compare my friends occupying Wal-street and shaking up the system to the earth quake but honestly I don’t care what they doing today . What I am caring about right now is the grandma in Wal-mart who told me that I was blessed. When I asked why she thought that she replied, “You haven’t forgotten how to smile even though they are out of sugar.” She was frustrated because she came to get sugar for her baking and the store had not restocked the sugar. I was simply thinking about sugar cookies for my clients that stop by the house for readings. I saw her and smiled at her; then she commented. I am blessed and I thanked her for witnessing my blessing.

The day progressed to finding a new friend through the phone and the beauty in honesty between friends was completely present throughout our conversation. I love it when I know that I can safely speak what is on my mind and that level of sharing doesn’t completely send the friend into an uncomfortable internal dance of drama. I hope that you all find friends like that in your life.

November is about making those small blessed connections that help you shine your greater blessing in the world. It is about shining so brightly that the crone turns to comment in her darkness and that honesty is ever present among friends. This month’s magick is about knowing deep inside that you are a blessing even with all the “occupying” going on or the reminders of how small we humans really are in comparison to our Earth Mother’s butt. As Americans we get an opportunity to reflect on this at Thanksgiving through revealing what we have gratitude for in the world. It is only one day but it is so very important to take a moment and make the magick linking those little connections in our life web. It is from those little links that we weave a net that will be the hammock when we need to rest or when we need to hold someone not so blessed.
I would love to know how you reflect your blessing ways in the world.

Helping Hand Candles:
I love a good fire thingy. So this month I am going to tell you about something I like to do for my clients. People come to see me for all kinds of reasons and every one of them gets to pick a Helping Hand Candle before they leave. I have a set of candles made up for all kinds of conditions. The client may tell me about how their man is spending all the money at the casino but the blessing candle she picks is one for physical strength. Who am I to say she isn’t sick of heart and needs the strength to face the truth about her choice in men? The blessing is strictly client selected and divinely guided my altar is the safe place for the clients voice to be heard.
You can get your own helping hand candle without coming by my place, but if you want I will always light one for you just ask. Maybe you already have a candle that you have been saving for that special time or have a birthday candle sitting in the drawer and it is the only candle in the house. Take and hold it to your heart and tell the Multi-verse and the Divine Eye Watching that you need a helping hand today. If you need a rhyme here is the one that I use: Lady Divine, this I pray- give me a helping hand today so that I can be a blessing in every way. Then light the candle and if you have to snuff it out later to run errands then that if fine you can always relight your blessings.
If you want you can add condition oils or sprinkle it with fine herbs or a little glitter to make it special. You’re a witch you’ll get it right the first time.

On Another Note:
I have gotten emails from plenty of you saying that you feel something big is happening or that something is about to happen on a huge scale. Well yes I agree but it is not a future event but the present. People are waking up by the thousands and they are in SHOCK. All I can say is that it took them long enough and I am glad you all are seeing it. I think we have a responsibility as children who know the Lady to extend a hand out to the folks in shock. Maybe they are in shock that their religion lied to them or that the tradition they have been practicing has been slowly poisoning them under the umbrella of promised self empowerment. Whatever the reason for the wake up call is not up to me to judge, it is however my duty as a Priestess, Daughter, Wife and Mother to hold a space for them to heal and at the very least hold the light of healing. I know some of you have been asking what can I do to help. For starters, organize our community and open our community arms to nurture healthy power to those in need. Keep yourself alert in the magick by reading and learning how to heal the community through books like Francesca’s book Share My Insanity – it is a great tool for both healing and building a community of healthy people. (Please see my last post for details.) Lastly stay honest about your magick and make sure to smile when the store is out of sugar.
Best of Blessings Everyone. I am deeply proud of all of you and the blessing you are shining in the world.

Something on the Personal Side

2011-11-03T08:47:00.000-07:00

On occasion I will talk about personal experiences with teachers from my past. I have had some really great folks and some really not great folks come across my traveling. There is one person I would like to give a shout out to this morning because I am grateful to her for her dedication to the path of ecstasy in magick- Francesca De Grandis.
Many years ago I started collecting the books of an author, Francesca De Grandis. Her writings spoke to the vein of blood that fed that wild Fey spirit within me. I would start Be A Goddess, one of her many books, and I would get about three months in and put it down to ponder it for awhile. Inevitably someone would show up and I would have the small voice say – give them Be A Goddess – and my copy would be gone. Then I would buy another copy and give it away because I listen to my small voice. Finally when I moved to the tiny town in Oklahoma, I ordered the book again determined to finish it. I am so very glad I did. It healed all of the wounds left by Feri training and showed me a better path to engage my wild heart. Francesca’s words and humor were like good medicine for my sad betrayed soul. When I read her words I heard her voice clearly and saw Victor Anderson nodding his head in the back as he sat in an old rocking chair. I knew that I had found my teacher – she just didn’t know it. I have never taken a Third Road® class nor do I feel the need to. I have read the rest of her books though and look forward to her newest book Share My Insanity: It Improves Everything.

Since finishing Be A Goddess, I have also completed the Goddess Initiation work as well. It was a nice follow up to all the healing work I did in Be A Goddess. Every day I lift my palm up to the Lady and open my heart to her wisdom. I give thanks to the healer in Francesca for pulling the veil off so that I could see that the Lady doesn’t ask me to peel my soul apart to be clean and do good works in the world. I just have to stay clean within my Self so that compassion and the best of intentions have an easy flow into my service in this world. Throw in a wild dash of personality for flare and shazam its magick.
Lots of you have been in that burned out not so fresh feeling place that some ecstatic “teachers” leave in their wake. I also know that you are interesting in working with ecstatic magick. There are options out there so please keep your heart open and try everything, even if it isn’t the “in thing” at the time. Only you can be the judge. Learning the magick of the Lady does not have to make suffer, pick at your wounds or require you to sacrifice your interests. Learning Her wildness is meant to be beautiful, chaotic at times and most of all done in Love.
When you get a chance take a look at Francesca De Grandis’ new book as well as her other books, blog and Etsy shop you will not be disappointed. Here are the details:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1935052535
Share My Insanity:
It Improves Everything
Francesca De Grandis
* Know your beauty. * Be free. *
* Fulfill your fantasies. *
Self-Help meets Mad Hatter meets chaos theory. . . and a few recipes.

Like all good humorists, Francesca De Grandis has a radical and subversive agenda.
—Peter Coyote, Emmy winner, actor, writer

[A] group studying the writings of Francesca De Grandis or Thomas Merton could provide a wonderful and vibrant community.
—The Aspiring Mystic, Carl McColman

If you’re tired of thinking no one understands you, read Share My Insanity.
—MaryColleen MacDougall, President EmeritusInterfaith Council of Franklin Co., Mass.

While protesting at the Wisconsin Capitol, I was also in the middle of my own personal upheavals . . .[Share My Insanity] helped me to make sense of all the inner and outer turmoil . . . and pointed a way to finding balance again.—Kat Anderson

Share My Insanity helps entrepreneurs, potential entrepreneurs, artists, and people from many other walks of life achieve major goals with serenity, joy, and self-love.
—Beverly Macy, Author of The Power of Real-Time Social Media Marketing

[She has] psychologically sound respect for the complexity of human process . . . The techniques Francesca teaches for spiritual growth and healing of psyche, soma, and soul are creative and powerful. —Adrienne Amundsen, Ph.D., and clinical psychologist

Pagans, poets, clowns, healers, survivors, artists,anarchists, Unitarian Universalists, Otherkin, activists,genderbenders, gamers, geeks, entrepreneurs, and
other independent souls—together we create!

Share My Insanity: It Improves Everything (2011, White River Press)
available now online at Amazon and Barnes & Noble

Happy Reading Everyone!

Blessed Samhain

2011-10-31T12:16:00.000-07:00

Every year at Samhain just as the midnight hour turns I light a candle and recite a poem by Raven’s Wing that feels so right as the wind blows outside.
The veil between the worlds now thins.
and Whispered Souls like violins
will speak beyond the tides of time
of secrets foolish and sublime.
And so bid welcome unafraid to the Ever Living Shade.Then I light the candle in my harvest cauldron and think of those departed and what lessons they have taught and still have to teach me in this life. I leave the little people a snack and light the jack-o-lanterns as a beacon for those lost that they may find safe refuge at my home until the wheel turns again.
My cards for the upcoming year forewarned of hard times ahead for myself and all those around me. They also revealed death as a constant friend this year. Thank you foresight I will sharpen my tools and awaken from my laziness. I have taken the year off to ponder and learn so now it is time to surrender to the Priestess call and walk my path as I know how.
To all my friends and clients thank you for all your laughs and support over the last year. I look forward to many more in the year to come. May our ancestors bless us with vivid true dreams this night and may the boogey man stay away.
Blessed Samhain Everyone!

Money Work

2011-10-26T08:44:00.000-07:00

Today starts the work for many folks on attracting money and luck. Here is a pic of two lodestone workings for local businesses who are getting started. I love helping out a new business with training a load stone to attract customers and money for the businesses. For the rest of you that have contacted me about setting lights. I finished up the candles this morning about 5:30 and I will light them about six tonight when the stars are saying it is just right. Thanks to all my guinea pigs! For those of you who don’t know – I am going through a hoodoo correspondence course and I am offering to do conjure /hoodoo workings and setting lights at no cost until March when I finish the course. I figure the more I work it all out the better I will get. I have always done this type of work, but I believe everyone has the potential to learn more. I consider my work now to be like getting a PhD in conjure and like any good practitioner who goes to college they have to participate in internships and practicum, so I am treating this period just like that. If you need some work done shoot me an email and I will put you on the list.

Fall Altar

2011-10-26T08:43:00.001-07:00

I am ready for Halloween! I got my altar set for the changing season last night. I had lots of clients on the altar charging up their workings and it was beautiful. The house got so hot from the energy coming out of my working room we had to open up all the windows and turn on the fans. I loved it. I thought I would share a couple of pics of the altar. I would love to see what your altars look like.

October Thingy

2011-10-06T08:16:00.001-07:00

There is nothing like an initiation to give you perspective! Speaking from the place of being an initiator and one who is being initiated they never go as planned –especially one that deals with the primal innocent wild heart. That is what makes it pure and true otherwise it is only ritual theater. Initiations are one of those living rituals / experiences. I mean that they live of themselves and weave into your life those experiences and aspects that line you up with the Lady and keep your head straight about what is important in the world. Of course there are those folks who fight and initiation and some really tragic things can happen to them, but if you are clean with your intent and heart going into the ceremony the result is magickal.
October is the new year for many of us in the witchy world. I encourage you to take some time and decide what you want to initiate into your life. What paths are you marking and where will you walk? Are you ready if not then get your head straight and your heart clear. Leave space for the universe to do its work in your life then surrender to the initiation. Make sure to offer up thanks and praise for the tools you have received along the way and most of all love yourself for being open to the experience.
The Spell for the Month: Debt Control
Lots of people use Fire in the form of candle spells. They forget Ice is just as powerful an element for producing quick results. Ask any good farmer and they will tell you sometimes the land needs one heck of a freeze to control the pest of the field. The same is true for those pesky bills & obligations sometimes their energy needs to be frozen so you will have time to sort out how to deal with them or find another stream of revenue to pay them off. Not paying bills and fulfilling obligations makes for bad results in all aspects of your life –bad Karma in this life! This is an old tried but true spell and it only cost pennies on the dollar to do.
Materials you will need: Paper, washable fine tip marker – red and a bowl with water or a freezer bag that will hold water.
Process: On the sheet of paper make a list of all your debts that are a burden they don’t have to deal only with money but obligations of time, concentration or relationships. Then take it and fold the paper away from you three times and place it in the bowl or bag. I prefer a freezer bag. Then fill it half way with water. Who care if the ink runs – that is part of the spell.
The Binding Rhyme:
Debts old & new into the Ice you must go!
For now I have no time or money to blow.
Ice freeze these burdens make their energy slow,
Giving me space to make my time and money grow.
By my Will and the law of three So Mote IT BE!

Finally put the bag or bowl in the deep freeze and forget about it. Take it out in the spring and see how those burdens look then. You may find that they don’t exist any longer or that you have the money to pay everything off. IF that is the case take the ice bag to a dumpster some place you do not frequent and toss it away. If it is in a bowl you want to keep let it thaw outside and pour the water and paper out in the road so that passing traffic will carry the burdens away.
May this spell bring you blessings both known and unknown.

The perspective gained that is propelling me forward into the next phase of my life is that I have been in a winter and I am ready to sprout again. I am launching a Mae’s Menagerie website in the next month or two and I have opened my home up to people wanting readings, conjuring, cleanses and angel work. The Lady called and I answered the phone, so I have my orders to get busy. I hope this new path will allow me some more time to garden and spend with my family. I am still making grant magick in the Indian world but I have had my vision of what is to come and my map says the turn is coming up so I need to get the proper lane.
Best of Blessings to you all!

Moon Works the Witch Pt.4&5

2011-09-08T08:08:00.000-07:00

Part 4: This section is coming your way a little late. At the waxing quarter moon you should have a goal from your list that really sticks out and your heart says that is the one. Take that statement, goal, desire and write it out in a statement: I wish the following wish…. THEN from the quarter moon until the full moon look at your statement everyday and visualize how it would feel to have that desire fulfilled, how would your life improve, how would others treat you differently. What will you need to get there? Break it down into baby steps if it is a big wish however if it is a thing you wish for ask the Lady to send it in the best way for you and that it creates no permanent harm to another.
The pulling of the quarter moon to the full moon is so strong. It is like a magnet that pulls iron shavings to a form an idea. You have been making those shavings with your list of ideas over the last month. They have been building. Your wish becomes the focus of the magnetic energy of the moon and all those ideas and desires begin filing in order to help you reach your outcome.

Part 5: On the full moon light a candle. If you want to dress it or carve your wish statement into the candle I would encourage it but it is not necessary. Light the candle and state your wish three times with confidence. Then just like making a wish at your birthday you will have to wait and see if it comes your way. Don’t blow out the candle just let it burn out. I personally use votives or small candles for this magick. Unless it is a really big wish then I use a large 12 hour pillar candle.
I also do a little cleansing ritual before I light the candle. It is part of my personal practice but I highly recommend it so that you make your wish with a clean aura.
I have been using the method described in Moon Works the Witch for years and the results have been positive. It takes a couple of months for you to get into the practice of the moon cycle. Once you get attuned you will start feeling the pull of the moon on your thinking and magick. Best Wishes with the work.

Moon Works the Witch Pt.2&3

2011-08-29T08:19:00.000-07:00

Well the New Moon brings us to part 2 of the moon work and aligning yourself with the energy to manifest your desires. At this point you should have made your lists and black marked everything that needed to go that was blocking your way to what you truly desire in the upcoming month. I personally shred those lists and turn them into compost of some sort or I take them to the local paper recycling place. So from the last quarter of the moon to the new moon you made lists of stuff that was holding you back thoughts, internal chatter and messages that were self sabotaging.
Today is the day for cutting and clearing. This one of the only times I use my blade. I take about ten minutes and breathe in power. The power of life events that empowered me for example the day I married my honey pie and the day I gave birth to my dark flower. I breathe it all in and then there will come a point when I feel full then I take in just a little more. I hold my blade and send some into my blade and send the extra in a kiss blown to the Gods as an act of love and gratitude. Then I take my blade and begin passing it through my aura visualizing that I am cutting away those threads of junk I crossed out over the week and a few days. I got to the point where I no longer see threads but feel them snapping when I cut through the muck. I say a prayer to the Lady to clear those threads of distraction and illusion from me if it is best. Then I take a cleansing bath afterward to seal up my energy body and keep it clean. (I recommend cleanses even if you are not working this method of moon technology. ) I have a bath salt formula that I like using and I only use it for this particular rite.
I take a handful of my salt mix and put it into a really warm bath. I sit in the bath and soak then I completely dunk under the water so that every part of me is touched by the waters. When I get out I air dry –toweling off only wipes the affect of the bath off. Then I cover my head with a white cloth and I put on my clean white night gown. Sometimes I go outside and enjoy the darkness of the new moon time and sometimes I go straight to bed. It depends on how I feel after cutting and clearing my energy body.
I ask myself “What do I truly desire this month?” and I wait for the answer. The cutting and clearing rite is done once you ask yourself that question. You will find that when you start this work at the last quarter moon you are working on what you need maybe not what you desire so notice the shift in your heart space and gut over the next phase of the work.

Part 3-
The day after the new moon cut and clear rite begin saying I desire…. and finish the sentence. I will do this on my computer and make a list of all the things I desire for the month. I do this from the time after the new moon to the first quarter. It doesn’t take long. But I look over my lists and ponder what I have written. Sometimes I circle things that really stick out and sometimes nothing really sticks out and it is like Christmas when the universe start delivering list items or events. I hold my list(s) every day between my hands that have been anointed with my favorite oil. Sometimes I feel like giving the list(s) reiki and some days I simply hold them feeling the weight of my desire. Take note of what you are noticing as you do this portion of the exercise.
Moon Sista Moon shine down upon me……

Here Spider, Spider, Spider

2011-08-26T10:31:00.000-07:00

While out enjoying the cooler weather this morning by my office window, I looked up to see a black widow injecting eggs into a large egg sac. She has the beautiful deadly spot of red on her hiney and one elaborate web that must have taken hours to build. It was not there yesterday. Funny how something so pretty can be so DEADLY! Here are some snap shots of my new office neighbor:

Moon Works the Witch

2011-08-22T10:40:00.000-07:00

Outside of the typical waxing and waning uses of the moon’s energy that magickal cookbooks suggest doing, there is another way a Witch can capture the energy of the moon and use it to embrace her power in magick. I learned to use the moon in this way years ago and as a result I am one heck of a manifesting witch. My magick and intuition is right on as well. I truly believe it takes a few months for your magick self to get on board once you figure out how to use the system, but once you do it will magnify your personal best in all things. I am going to break it down into five blogs to correspond to the moon phase it is related with. Consider this a training session so you can really start using with confidence by the beginning of the Witch year in October.
The work begins at the last quarter of the moon phase. Take the last week of the moon phase and consider all the stuff that is cluttering up your thoughts. Some of this clutter is just mind chatter but some of it is beliefs trying to find a place to live within you. Maybe it is a self criticism you have been fostering over the month for example: “Getting older makes it harder to lose weight.” What a bunch of bulls#!t. Or “I am going to be alone for the rest of my life so I should get on with it.” Or “No matter how hard I try, I cannot find a job.” You know the types of thoughts I am talking about the ones the internal judge thinks could be true. At the last quarter moon take a look or listen to what is going on internally and ask yourself if any of these are true. Write them all down and then cross them out with a big black marker –cancel them out. Next think about the one thing you want in your life right now – new car, new job, new lover, more money, better friendship …. Next make a list of all the reasons why you cannot get it right now. Take that big black marker and start marking through those reasons. Once you finish with this little ritual you may need to follow it up a few days after by making a new list because our brain will make up new stuff and reasons for why we cannot get that what we want and need right now. Sabotaging thought generator (eventually) this behavior of creating mind obstacles will stop if you keep up the moon work.
When I first started this work, I had to do this exercise everyday between the last quarter and the new moon. I had to clear out my illusions of what stood between me and my goals. Now my body, mind and spirit are trained and I can feel when the last quarter is here. I notice that I start making notes of my sabotaging thoughts on the day before or of the last quarter. Sometimes when it is a big thing that I need to manifest, it still takes me a week to clear out my illusions but get it done.
This gets me ready to open cut and clear the way at the new moon (next moon work blog). Until then happy listing everyone.

Do you have a dream?

2011-08-09T10:15:00.001-07:00

Elizabeth Fitzgerald -Novelist Goddess and Friend asked me in an email if I had any life long dreams. My response made me think others might be inspired to listen to their inner Goddess.

Here was my reply:

As far as my dreams. I work in a kinda weird way. I knew growing up that I would need to learn music and learn how to help people wake up. That was my only thought on what I would do when in "grew up". I majored in Music Therapy and specialized in neuro-rehab specifically waking people up from comas. I took a job in Oklahoma City and three months later the bombing of the Murrah building happened and my working life became that. I had multiple patients who survived the blast but needed lots of time to wake up from the trauma. Once my work was done with the last patient - I felt like my work was finished. That was a weird feeling because there I had spent my teen years through 25 learning music and its affect on the human brain. Then I woke up one day and said whoa my career peaked at 25 and I plan to live until I am 110. Holy crap what do I do now? I continued to work in Music Therapy for three more years but it meant nothing to me.

Then one day I said I am ready to be a Mom and I was pregnant within the week. Up to this point I had not used birthcontrol or anything over the years. I just knew that I was not ready to be a mom until that day and the universe agreed.

About the time my daughter turned three, I was standing in the shower and a very clear voice said It is time for you to be a grant writer. That afternoon I had two grant writing jobs and stared working with folks trying to get financial assistance for starting a new business. I projected managed a few things. I knew very little about grant writing and project planning but I learned by fire.

When my daughter turned six, I knew something was coming but I did not know what. Then my mother in law called and asked if we wanted to buy a bookstore in the small town they had retired to. The minute we visited the town I knew I was meant to be there. I put my finger on a map of the area and the name of the Tribe I work for now came into my head. I wrote them a letter requesting an interview. I knew I was going to write grants for them and I have ever since. I have written many grants and recieved millions in assistance to help the Tribe lift up their folks from poverty.

During my first week at this job, I saw that I was going to help a group of women but it was unclear how. The next day I got notice of a grant to assist battered women. I wrote for the grant and won it. The Tribe now has a huge violence prevention and women's empowerment program. IT is going on its third year and is about to be refunded for another three years.

Last year I started getting that feeling that a change was coming. I keep seeing myself in a kitchen of a center. The center supports local lesbian women, single moms, working women and elderly crones. It is a place where they can find legal aide, healthcare assitance, training and have film festivals with a monthly potluck. I keep hearing people call it the Center for Peace and Justice. I don't sense that men are excluded only that they don't come unless they need help. I can tell I am in a holding pattern around it like the years before I moved to Indian land. When the Goddess says its time I will go because she has not sent me any where I could not handle.

While all this has been going on, I have maintained a wise woman practice. I talk to the Lady daily, sit before my thinking altar and sort out my troubles, go outside and worship the land. I hold monthly rituals for women and sometimes men that honor the Goddess and her Lover. I teach the craft to those who ask and I read cards or workup charms for folks when they need it. This has been the golden thread that weaves consistancy in my life.

My dreams are truly visions. I see myself in settings where I am needed and then I go out and get the skill or learning necessary to bring out the best in any place the Goddess puts me. Writing it down makes it sound like it was easy - I just woke up one day and said here I go. It was easy because I listened to my intuitive voice and paid attention to what was calling out. Along the way I have seen how horrible people can be but also how we give to one another in blessings. I would not trade how I walk my path for anything.

I hope this inspires you to live in what I call needed time. You do what it needed at the time and release the sense that you have to have one career all your life to be considered successful. I have had many careers and some I still have and will till the day I die. I have yet to live without what I need and I have prospered by listening to that heart voice.

Be Blessed Sisters.

Flora

Why I love the Man

2011-08-08T17:08:00.000-07:00

My honey love has started blogging finally! His site is elmore3000@blogspot.com and you will like his stories. I am so glad he is sharing his brilliant writing and insights.
Congrats on his blog and I will read along with ya'll.

Every Witch Needs A Black Cat

2011-08-08T16:22:00.000-07:00

We are finally getting everything unpacked at Farm ? - we still trying to think of a good name for the place. A family friend calls his place Toad Hollow. It is such a cool place it needs a cool name. Included in that cool place comes field mice and one decided to move in with us. OH NO says the witch of the house while the house cat yawned. Lucky me a friend just happen to have some kittens who were born mousers. And on top of that they survived the Joplin tornado. That is just what we needed. Of course there is a black one with orange eyes. My dark flower daughter said hey lets call her pumpkin and so we did. Here is a pic of me kissing Ms. Pumpkin. The only thing she has caught so far is our hearts -still waiting for mouse.
Thanks to my dark flower for the photo. She has such a good eye with the camera I sometimes think it is her 3rd eye.
May we all be blessed with a black cat to walk along this path with us.

August Thingy

2011-08-02T09:50:00.000-07:00

Big Blessings to you all this August. The weather here is dry, dust filled and my garden is in shock from being moved in the middle of the heat. I hope it recovers but if not then I will try again next year.
Like most Americans I am watching the circus in the government going on all the while thinking Civil War is just one shot away. I know that may sound harsh but history is churning out some old lessons all over the world. The melting pot of America is boiling rich against poor and minorities against majorities. What is a witch to do? She protects her interests!
This month I thought I would chat about what I do to protect and insulate myself from muggle befuddlement. More than ever I don’t let thoughts fester in my mind. When I feel thoughts of lack, negativity, doubt and scarcity start rooting in my noggin, I write them down. This gives them some place to go. I clean them out of my system with a little Kala.
I truly believe that my personal life will be reflected in the world around me. With that thought I ask myself daily “Is my house in order?”. Every day I look at my money, my clean house, my muggle job responsibilities and I watch them and give them energy so they harmonize. Yes it takes lots of energy and focus and no it is not easy. It is witchcraft. This is me being accountable for my presence on this planet. Now for August I am going to ask the rest of my fellow Americans to take a look and ask “Is my house in order?” If everyone stopped feeling shame for their debts, apathy and lack of attention the little details and did a little cleanup work then the government would reflect the people. Of course there are going to be places like our bank accounts that are like the closet you don’t want to open because it has that dress you bought thinking it would fit after losing 20 lbs but it is so pretty. Who cares – it needs to be dealt with. I can remember a time when my heart would race because I would look at my bank account and see that I had 30 cents to my name. We all have those days at some point –even the wealthy. Simply making yourself look at what you have to be responsible for like your bank account takes energy and courage. Sometimes it is not the bank that is needing attention maybe it is the house full of things from your life long ago. How can our government change things that are old like tax loopholes and closed door meetings if we cannot even donate the old sweater Aunt Laura gave us on our 32nd birthday. It doesn’t fit any more let go of it –let it be recycled. Finally I give thanks for the job that I have because so many of my friends are without a job right now. Some of their duties got passed onto me because someone has to do it otherwise the machine malfunctions. For those looking for work I advise you to not let worrying become your full time job. I had that job a few years back instead let determination be your occupation until a muggle door opens for you. For those of us with a job know that we are holding space for other people to join us soon.
With the political climate as it is and the unrest stirring at the bottom of the pot, I also insulate myself from public notice. I like my life and my heretic ancestors that burned are a constant reminder of what can happen when you blow it. I would rather be the batty old lady who has extra garden veggies to share or an old home remedy for sore muscles than town scape goat. This doesn’t mean I would denounce my ways only that I am not stupid. People are starting to show their prejudice asses again just look at Little Rock, AR for proof. I came here to be of service to the Lady not to be dead on a noose. I know I sound a shade paranoid but a paranoid witch is a protected witch. Brothers and Sisters I say stay clean, be sound and you will resonate with whatever is coming from the government down.
Kala
My first experience with performing Kala or the Feri Rite of Unbinding came way before I ever put my ecstatic foot down on a path. I was in a reiki session and the woman giving me the session told me to make Kala before I got on the table. She showed be how to do it and since then it has morphed into many versions. Below is my current method of performing Kala to cleanse all things that block me from being the best witch I can be.
First I spend some time just breathing and body scanning myself. I look for any places that feel tight or knotted up then I ask my body –What is going on? Sometimes I get an answer and sometimes nothing. Then I take a sheet of paper and a pen and I write for one minute. Anything that comes to mind and sometimes I need more than one piece of paper and sometimes I need more than a minute.
I take a glass of water and I hold it in my hand filling it with piercing light of color and purity. I drink the full glass and let it hydrate and infuse into my being all the while saying “Mother takes these blocks from me so that I may be in union with all things.”
Then I proclaim: “All three souls are straight within me – I make all things sound.” Sometimes I say amen and sometimes I give it an old fashioned OM.
There are lots of versions of Kala so find one that you like and modify it to fit your life and your experiences.
May we all be blessed on this walk in life –Amen.

Dark Goddess Rising

2011-07-12T09:21:00.000-07:00

Being an aware Witch requires constant vigilance of the natural laws in motions around her. Over the last months I have been closely watching the death of the lake I live near. Between the federal government agencies trying to regulate water flow and the ‘good ole boys’ trying to cover up what is going on within the lake, it is impossible to ignore that the birds are acting sick, fish are dying and algae is choking the lake. When you add chicken waste from processing plants and feeding houses near buy you get a mix of toxins that will take years for Mother Nature to heal.
Out of fear of being sued the State of Oklahoma finally made the decision to tell people to stop swimming in the lake and started posting signs that the water is not safe due to algae. They picked the 4th of July weekend to do this. They should have done this sooner nevertheless the panic it spread over that weekend made people stay away from the nice little town I live in. People didn’t think how nice it would be to visit and shop in the little town they only thought of not being able to water ski or wake board on the lake and they stayed away. It did not occur to them that the lake is a beautiful place to sit and watch – it is a place to contemplate life. Oh wait life is really scary right now because all of our debts are catching up with us. Instead lets go dump adrenaline into our system and forget our greater problems in the muggle world.
There is so much that is affected by a major shift in the environment – how we work, how we raise food and how we relax. I see the death of our lake then I speak to my grandma on the phone. She tells me that she watched a dirt storm move through the area she lives that reminded her of a time when she was 3 in 1933. She lived through the dust bowl and the Great Depression.
The tone in her voice indicates her burden and worry of what is ahead for me and my family because she has seen it all before. Thank God we are moving to a place where we can raise our own food and thank God our new place is large enough for family to live with us when the time comes –it is coming. She shared stories of how people share the family burdens of feeding one another and taking care of each other while someone looked for a job. Grandma, I am listening. This Witch has been ready for awhile and I continue to stay vigilant that the times are changing. The Dark Goddess is dancing with us all.
My heart is heavy for my friends who have lost their jobs and I feel their fears daily. It is scary when you have no idea where the money is going to flow from to get groceries to feed your babies. While searching for security you have to redefine yourself just to find a simple job and at the same time give up the ideas of being qualified to change careers when so many other people are in the same boat. I know that fear. I chose to leave my old life behind before everything went down the drain in the economy. I pulled the band aide off five years ago and swallowed the pill of make it on your own sister. When we moved here I went without a job for months and literally lived with my in-laws for six months. I learned what the pentacle point of Pride was all about. My only advice would be wake up every day, ground, and expand your energy so that your light shines. You never know where SHE will put you and for what reasons but it will be to make HER world a better place. Go into this challenge with your eyes open.
I truly believe that a Healthy Priestess makes all things resonate or sound around her. I am trying to find the harmony in watching the lake die, listening to the dissonant sounds of my Grandma’s memories and acting as a sounding board that responds to my friends while they rebuild their self image.
Lady walk with me in the union of all things. Amen

July Thingy

2011-07-07T13:57:00.000-07:00

This month’s Thingy is about the power of story in our lives. Storytelling magick stirs up memories of summer campfire stories, listening to grandma’s stories while making lemonade or reading the great American novel while listening to the Great Mother’s waves lap against the sand. As some of you know I am in the process of moving homes and while packing I came across papers from my earlier works and it takes me straight to the story of how that piece of paper came to me. Some of these papers are collected in GIANT notebooks for magick courses and others are private diary pages that I ripped out so that others would not include them in some future collection in a museum of well noted witches. Of course I home I am inducted someday. All of this paper shuffling and pictures looking keeps drawing me to the story of my birth. I have been recently reading about the power of a woman’s birth story not only the story of how she gave birth to her children but about how her mother gave birth to her. The mind presence of the mother at the time of the birth of her children lays a pattern for how she will parent that child in the future. What powerful magick!
It is part of my daughter’s yearly birthday ritual for her dad and me to tell her about her birth story. Every year it is a little different and lots of times she will tell us what happens next in the story. My husband and I both feel that it was such a life changing day that it should be remembered and the story told repeatedly. On the occasions that I ask my mother to tell me about my birth she tells me that it happened on a Sunday and that my father hit every pot hole in the city on the way to the hospital. Once she got there they gave her a twilight drug and she was completely unconscious for my birth. She was told later that I was considered breech because I was coming out sideways left foot and arm first. Everyone in my family thought my mother was dead when they went in to see her before I was born because she was sleeping so soundly through my birth. I was kept away from my family for two days except to be fed. What a difference from my daughter’s birth – I was awake and fully present for the whole experience. I had the support of my husband and my coven sisters in the room. My mother was knocked out and surrounded by strangers laying flat on her back for the birth –for birth happened like getting your teeth pulled. How unfair for both of us.
My parenting style is completely different from my mothers. Could this be a result of our birth experiences? What magickal spark happened on those days? If a woman’s birth experience was not the best how does she heal that and change the life patterns resulting from that magick. All of these questions keep moving around in my mind looking for some explanation or someway to help other women rise of above birth magick patterns.
What is your birth story? Does your mother’s parenting style reflect her birth experience with you? What are you doing to heal or accentuate your birth experiences? I would love to know.

Soul Spackle Give-away

2011-06-30T07:30:00.000-07:00

As you know I have been following my friend Sara's blog re-launch and today's give away is one that we could all use. Daphne is offering up a series of course to get you on track with your body, mind, and spirit and all the stuff that holds that together. I enjoyed surfing her site and know I will be going there on a regular basis. Check it out if you have a minute today -it might change your life:
http://thepleasurenutritionist.com
Happy Surfing

House Cleaning Time

2011-06-30T07:11:00.000-07:00

I am in the middle of packing up the house and moving it to a hobby farm. It never ceases to amaze me how many slobs live in my house with me being the worst. I found dirt that didn't even know could exist last night. I thought Mae honey I know you clean something everyday but this is weird. Then that got me to thinking about my house cleansing process. When we moved to this tiny town I did a major spirit cleanse on the place we live now to let what ever was left from the previous folks that witch was moving in and it had about 3 seconds to hit the road or get obliterated into thousands of shards of astral compost. Then I maintain that happy place with a monthly cleanse.
I thought I would share what I do to cleanse a space when moving. First I do hands on the floor with a scrub brush cleanse on the tile /hard floors of the house we are moving into. I use the following floor wash recipe:
I make a tea of lavendar, sage, rosemary, mint, patcholi and rue. This tea is made in a large spaghetti pot (6 cups of water) with a handful of herbs each. I let the herbs soak in hot water over night then I strain them out and I am left with some really interesting brown liquid that could knock you out. I add one cup of lemon ammonia, one cup of vinegar and a handful of baking soda to the pot and I stir it counter clockwise. This stuff cuts grease and cleanses the place of the nasty funk left behind. It leaves a nice anteseptic clean smell - you know the one your grandma likes because it makes her think that no germ could survive.
I vaccum the place and wipe down the walls starting from the back of the house to the front door.
NOW comes the fun part. I open the far back window just a crack and I open the front door and back door. I let it be know that I am about shake the house down so nothing that means harm or hurt can stay, anyone who lived there before will be no more once I get done and that only those with love in their hearts, happiness in their spirit and respect for my family can make it through my doors. I personally liek to start the spirit cleansing off with a bit of ceremonial flair using a Star Ruby. My daughter takes some bubbles and goes about the house blowing bubbles to cleanse the air, I cleanse it with salt and water -flicking it in the air as I go. Then we consecrate it in our family's name with beautiful incense and ringing of bells.
This is the important part -I take a picture of somethign sacred or an object and I see my whole house surrounded in a shield of powerful light and I anchor that shield to that picture or object.
I am not finished there. When the last box is moved from my old home and the last counter has been wiped down, I banish any thought of me or my family from that place and I seal it with a Star Ruby.
Please feel free to try this when you move or add to it or comment on what you do to cleanse a space. I love hearing what other do to make their world a better place.
Be Blessed in your Walk

Loving the Blood

2011-06-29T07:37:00.000-07:00

Today I feel inspired to speak about self love because one of my Goddess friends is re-launching her website with the intent of helping all of us love a little more in this world. My daughter also provided me some inspiration over the weekend. Her questions stirred the muse to rise up and witness how important self love is to women in this world. My daughter is 10 and she asked me “Mom, why are men afraid of women?” My intuitive, empathetic child was tuning into the undercurrent of a National Geographic story about child brides. She understood that the men in areas of the world who take young girls as brides do it to oppress them so that they do not have power as they come into womanhood. She gets it and she is only 10 –watch out world.
I answered her with “It is because we bleed and do not die. Truly men do not have the change to deal in blood except when they hunt and that is why many coming of age ritual for young men involve their first kill in hunting. For women our coming of age is about bleeding and living –big difference.” I went to tell her about the importance of a woman’s blood to the community. A woman’s blood in the month relieves the home, family and community of sorrows, tension , unspoken feelings and the impressions left that need to be released. I explained that during that time especially that first day of bleeding needs to be spent quiet and contemplative if possible. I told her on my first day of my blood I drink lots of my favorite teas that help cleanse the body, I give my hair a good scrubbing and I paint my toe nails blood red. I eat foods that are super foods that help fight disease and I walk a lot on those days. Anything that I can do to move those energies and community vapors that resonated with my monthly blood needed to be release otherwise it turns into extra weight, moodiness and insomnia for me. Once I learned how my blood worked, it became a beautiful tool for me to help my community.
How does your blood flow? How do you love your blood? What would you tell a young lady getting ready to meet her first blood?
Be Blessed on your Walk this Day.

Sista Promotion

2011-06-24T12:25:00.000-07:00

I love seeing Goddess Women working together to help wake everyone up. It is going to take a huge wave of nurturing, empowerment and rightous action to get our mother back in harmony. I truly try every day to find that harmony with my constant reminder that a Healthy Priestess makes all things sound. When mama is not right then the whole house knows it -not a good thing. Sometimes it just takes me processing anger while doing the dishes and I don't mean taking them out back and shooting them with a shot gun. I hand wash my dishes while I stare out the back window and carry on multiple scenerios to resolve my anger. Anyway -the whole house knows or at least they can feel my discord and that I am out of harmony with something.
I take stock in what makes me sound and whole and perfect in this skin every month and sometimes I wait for the big stuff until the day before my birthday. Some things just take a year to work out. Creativity is one of those ways I take stock and see where I have harmony and where I need to get my tuning forks out and re-tune my life instrument.
An internet sista is a life coach and she has offered up a gift of a creativity class on her website: http://www.empoweredlife.biz/products.html. Go to the very bottom of the page and read the description. We women are co-creators in this beautiful world and when our creativity gets all clogged up we need some help getting focused again. Classes like this really help. So check Robyn's site out and sign up for a class if in need.
Be Blessed Sista's and keep the informatin flowing.
Oh- you can also sign up for a give away of one of Robyn's courses at http://www.soulspackle.com/1/feed - tell Sara howdy while you are there!

Revamp those Goals

2011-06-17T12:35:00.000-07:00

At the beginning of the year I started the Goddess Guidebook and kept up with it for months until the economy ate into my plans and some of my goals. Then my muggle job snatched up a portion of the time needed to complete things on my list. I did not mind the time crunching because it was well worth it, and it will give me extra time in the future. I took a minute today and looked over my guidebook and OH how things of changed since I started the book. It is times like these that I am grateful that I am not a computer. A computer would just keep trying to make the same program thought up in January try to fit into the life now leading. Instead I am human and can say keep the good stuff and revamp the rest sista. So that is what I will be doing over the weekend.
Between the economy using my budget as a toothpick and my priorities changing because of the economy, I will get to empower my money and let it go a little further. My goals for living within my means stay the same just how I do that is changing.
My time on the weekends for a spa day is moving to my garden time because I am getting more from being in my garden than painting my toe nails. Nothing says tension release like shoveling dirt and pulling weeds. When I get done in the garden then maybe I will paint my toe nails.
I am revamping my clothes closet and moving more into a color filled life because my office is soooo drab.
I highly recommend a hard look at those goals set at the beginning of the year and move them around, expand some and toss some out of the way. Some of those goals definitely do not fit any longer and some need a little tlc.
Have fun over the weekend and get ready to celebrate SUMMER!!!

Power in Friendship

2011-06-07T06:52:00.000-07:00

Over the weekend I had a great visit from some old friends. It was a chance to catch up on stories, joys and sorrows. It was also a moment for me to reflect on how much I gave up moving to this no-where land. Going back to work in the muggle world changed how I dressed thereby changing how I feel in my skin. I also got to reflect on how much my magick has shifted into a completely solitary path. I don't know if I could even handle moving group energy any longer. I have internalized so much magick just to keep it contained in my work space and around town as to not draw unwanted attention to my bright shiny magickal self. There is a time for bright and shiny and being in the middle of a Ubber-Conservative Fundamentalist Rally is not one of those times.
The visit did let me plug into my battery recharger and get a dose of freedom again. I realized how much I love being at home doing magick all day. I do magick at work all day but it is not the same. There are times when a girl just needs to whip out a star ruby and that is just not possible in muggle office.
SOOOO to keep this witchy battery charged - I am having a wardrobe make over. It includes showing more skin and keeping the air moving around me. Good bye pants and hello skirts. So long polyester and welcome black lace with sparkles. Muggle world here comes the local WITCH! Thank you to my visiting friends for showing me the LOVE.
Be Blessed in your Skin.

New Blog RE-Launch

2011-06-07T06:50:00.000-07:00

One of my good friends is re-launching her blog and she is giving away and wide array of stuff from 6-21 through 7-1. Some of my goodies are included in the give away. Take a minute and check out Soul Spackle and give Sara a shout out for support in her new endeavour. Way to Go Sista!!!

June Thingy

2011-06-06T10:25:00.000-07:00

The month of June showed up and forgot to tell me that time was flying by. Everything is in full bloom here in rural Oklahoma. Wildflowers everywhere are popping up to give praise to the sun. One of my favorites is purple spider wort. This wild flower is the highlight of this month’s June Thingy. This plant has a long history with Native Americans for bringing peace to the home. Sprinkle the flowers outside of your home’s entrance to attract happiness and peaceful friendships. I have heard elder folks say that spider wort dried in the wallet will keep money in its place not out of pocket.
For this month I am going to share cleanse for improving your chances of getting a good paying job using spider wort. You will need:
One handful of Spider Wort flowers
One handful of three way salt (Epsom, sea salt and baking soda)
On the morning before starting your job search fill a bath with luke warm water. Take the salt and breath into the salt. Empower the salt to cleanse you of any old job patterns that no longer serve you. Then take the flowers and breath into them. Empower them to bring out the inner and outer beauty that is unique to you so that any employer will see it like a shining star so bright.
When you get out of the tub try to air dry if possible. Then sit down with a piece of paper and write down all the things you want in a job leaving the amount of money you want to be paid out because the universe will bring you something more than you expect if you do. Write out your wish list 49 times and then sign it 49 times. Fold the paper up and leave it on your altar along with some sprigs of spider wort for the duration of one moon cycle.
Grandma always says if you have the knowledge to help yourself with magick then take the wisdom and make it work to your advantage.
Some folks have asked me to post a picture of me at work in my conjuring. Well here it is. I am doing some ribbon weaving for a children’s blessing. Enjoy.

A point of interest for my readers: My family is moving to a haunted house. Every witch needs a good haunting every once in a while. The house is located very near the tiny town we live in. It is over 150 years old and the spirit living there has been reported to appear for the last 120 years. Her name is Liza and she walks between the kitchen and root cellar. Some say she likes to move stuff around in the kitchen but she has never hurt anyone or tried to be a pest. This is my first experience with spirit cohabitation so any advice you might have would be most appreciated.
I am wishing you all a great Summer Solstice!

More Pictures

2011-05-23T10:10:00.001-07:00

Here are some more pictures I collected from local news station sites. The one with the woman in the photo. My house in across the lake by just left of the bottom tree branch. Of course you can not see it in the photo but that gives those of my relatives some idea where I am at.

The funnel cloud went over my in-laws house before it touched down.

House near my daughter's school.

This is one of my favorite picts this the back side of the storm yesterday as it was going over our area of town. Isn't it beautiful!

Siren's Song

2011-05-23T08:33:00.000-07:00

About seven o'closk last night I heard the most haunting sound of my life. That includes the lack of sound made by the bomb in OKC just before the boom. I stood on my porch as all the winds came to a complete stand still. Then all around us hundreds of tornado sirens started singing the sound to take safety. I could not tell where the sound was coming from but it was a sound that reminded me of a crying woman wailing with a deep moan. Later I found out it was not sirens that I was hearing but a water spicket tornadoe moving up the lake just west of our house. The rain was so blinging that you could not see a thing but you could definitely see the birds being propelled through the air and clounds dancing some weird death dance.
I have always had a great respect for tornadoes and when you see one then you will run for cover - they are big and bad ass.
What I had never done and shame on me for not even thinking of it was listening for one or expanding my awareness to sense the air temp or wind changes. Lesson learned big mama - I will hone my multi-sensory skills.
This tornado was the one making the siren song sound near my house.

Sometimes you need new eyes

2011-05-18T09:41:00.000-07:00

Howdy all - sometimes it is nice to have a complete stranger take a look at your story and give you some advice. Stella Seaspirit is offering through a contest on her blog an Informed Witch Session. I don't know exactly what that entails but the questions make you think. Hop over and put your name in the pointy hat for free session and get a fresh look on what you're magick makes.
Visit http://ow.ly/4Wfzb to enter.
Best of Luck!

Bearing the Blade of my Work

2011-05-18T08:34:00.001-07:00

This will have to serve as the May thingy. The last two months in my muggle world job have been a challenge because I diligently worked to get an international grant for the folks I work with. I began working with a group that provided proof of working with an international aide organization. They committed millions of dollars to 21 projects that I had proposed to them. The projects included building schools, clinics, affordable housing and a community cultural center. I was feeling like my Great Work was in process because I have a deep desire to serve and help others pull themselves up out of poverty.
On Monday I received confirmation that the world aide organization that I had been working with did not exist in the capacity of granting. They had other endeavors they helped with. The people presenting themselves as representatives of this organization are part of a larger fraud organization. What was so disappointing was that I found out the information on my own without the assistance of any law enforcement or investigative team. The intuitive witch in me kept pressing to ask more questions, dig deeper and pull out the poison weeds if there were any- and there were- thank you intuition.
Here is a description of what they do: the fraud organization comes into the community and reviews all the project files and takes a tour of where the community wants to start the projects. Then they create a holding company to provide the discretionary grant through. When the community leader signs the grant agreement, unknowingly the leader releases the community’s power of sovereignty and within 40 minutes all of the community bank accounts are moved to an offshore account and depleted, leaving the community destitute.
I thank the Goddess that I found them out before there was any document signing. I went home on Monday really ready to give up because I felt that I had completely compromised the trust I had built within this muggle community that I work. I also watched as hopes and dreams of building a better place blown away in the length of a one hour phone call. Needless to say I dropped the “F” bomb more than once.
So now I come to the topic of my heading. In my magickal work I seek out ways of building a better world for my family, friends and the community I live in. Sometimes my seeking comes in the form of cutting a circle with my blade and casting a spell. I have always thought that blades were funny tools because of their double edged nature. I cast a spell at Samhain for the upcoming year to bring great wealth into my life, so that I could build a better community for my daughter to live. I thought that I got an unexpected result with the promise of a $948 million grant instead I get to put 30 people in jail for defrauding the innocent. With the blade you have to pick one or the other but never both because you will get stabbed.
I give thanks to the Lady for showing me the direction and potential of this community I work with. I give thanks to the LRG for giving me the sense and practicality to not look away when the dream gets shattered. I give thanks to myself for not going down without a fight.
May we all live in courage and may we not get cut on our own blades.

Product Review
In the merry, merry month of May, I was walking through the Tulsa international airport. To my delight I found magick afoot in one of the overpriced snack and book shops. There was a tripod display of Watchover Voodoo String Dolls. I thought to myself – holy crap how cool is that!
Of course I had to buy two -One Ake Oni and one Witch. Then on my return trip I picked up a Genie. I love them, love them.

They fit right in with the 10 cent doll baby of Hoodoo work but there is a little twist they have been produced with the intent of helping the owner in a particular way. The Original designer was a company called Ethnic Voodoo. They are a hoot!
Ms. Mae’s Doll Baby Wake Up Call Spell
Pick a Birthday for your Doll Baby and on that day set aside a time you want to birth them. Make sure they have a special box to sleep in or wait for you along with toys if they are a child or something to do in the form of a petition also have a tiny blanket for them to cover up with when they are asleep. I recommend a black cloth. Have a little cookie or cake and a candle for their spark of life.
Now on with the spell:
Take your doll baby and hold them in your left hand and with your right hand mark a cross above them opening the astral space to pour life into them. Next purify and consecrate them. I like to purify with salt and water mix sometimes I use Florida water then I consecrate them for sacred work with fire and smoke (incense sticks work best for me.) Then I say something along the lines of “I name thee _______ and by _______ you will be known to me. Listen when I call you, work with me and never against me, speak to me when spoken to, protect me when danger is near and have may back when I face fear, love my family as I love them and I shall love you as long as you last.” Then I blow on the doll and say “ By my breath I give they life and by my kiss I make thee my ally in all things. SO MOTE IT BE!”
I light the candle and sing to the doll baby visualizing energy going into every fiber of my doll and I direct the flame to feed the life of my doll. Then I leave the doll on the altar for three days – I feed it water and flame for those three days and once a year on its birthday or if something really great has happened with their aide I give them cake and a candle. Sometimes they need some refreshing so I will put them to sleep in their box then I will bless them with salt and water and fire and smoke again to charge them up. We all need a spa day.
For those of you who know what golems are they are made in a very similar way only they are made from clay and fired into life.
I have known women who have one central doll baby for their altar who watches over everyone in the home and then they have 8 small dolls they work with through the wheel of the year. I think I may try it and see how it goes.
Book Review: I am still all about Deborah Harkness and her book A Discovery of Witches. I am on my 6th reading of the book and each time I find something new to ponder and feed my imagination. If you have not read the book yet, you are missing out on a treat for sure. She has created a youtube site for the characters and their favorite music. I love to listen when a writer has a back story for their characters.

Tornado Alley

2011-04-15T07:06:00.000-07:00

Nothing like hearing a of load sirens, but because so many are going off from so many towns you can not tell where they are coming from. I had a rockn'roll'n afternoon and night last night. This beauty of a tornado was spotted about 11 miles from my house yesterday. Of course like any good red neck I stood out on my porch looking around for it while my daughter and do were huddled in the closet.
Minutes before this beauty touched down, I was laying in my drive way watching the clouds swirl and stew like soup - gorgeous. Then here comes the waves of rain, then hail about the size of a quarter started THEN absolute silence. About that time a sheriff drive by and starts yelling at me to take cover.
I had no idea that the floor of my closet was so dirty. I definitely need to vacuum the floor in there more often.
All my folks are fine. My heart goes out to the families in Tushka who didn't get a chance to take cover. It was a fast storm and ever changing.
Hug your kids today and tell everyone you love them because who knows when the wind will show up.
Be Blessed

Garden Blessings

2011-04-14T10:46:00.000-07:00

Last night gave me some processing time in the garden. I have been working by booty off on six grants for the last three months and I need to go and ground my thoughts. The best place for that is the garden. To my surprise my garden rewarded my full attention and focus with bloom galore this morning. I have attached some photo as well as some new additions. I purchased a fig tree last night - eve's plum yum yum.

Great Book

2011-04-14T10:36:00.000-07:00

I am all about a book that I have finished over the weekend and I am on the second reading of it. It is smart, fun to read and speaks to the witchy heart of mine. If you get a change to read it then buy and keep it. I have a deep fascination with alchemy and this book ties science and magic together. It also has a handsome vampire and daemons mixed in. Beautiful book - A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness. I will be the first in line for book 2!

April Thingy

2011-04-06T11:49:00.001-07:00

This month’s thingy is a little delayed simply because of LIFE. I have been out burning my candle at both ends then finally a moment to breathe and write. I have wanted to blog for days now but just now time without distraction to concentrate on the power of words. April in northeastern Oklahoma means wind, fire and really cool thunderstorms. It is truly a harsh time of year and a humbling time to reflect on how we humans are a part of something greater and subject to those laws of the greater. I catch myself chuckling to myself about how legislators and companies try to manipulate and bend natural laws to fix what they have literally tried to harness and make their own. It is not the nature of plutonium to stay in a reactor and be cooled by water. It is not the nature of a wild fire to burn in a straight line and stop when it reaches the nice ranchers yard. Managing nature that is funny that is like a sugar-holic trying to manage their addiction by eating sugar only on Monday-Wednesday –Friday and expecting the problem to go away.
Onto the work of April, it is a time of opening windows and cleaning out the winter muck and for those of my readers in the South it is a time to harvest the goods of your garden and get ready for the heat. Summer in the deep south means being shut in for three months when the rest of us are just getting to come out and smell the flowers. On both ends of that spectrum it is nice to have a clean house. This month I am offering a recipe for my grandma’s famous floor wash and oil called Fiery Wall of Protection.
The floor was can be used on cabinets too. My grandma puts a big pot of water on the stove and sets it to boiling then she throws in a handful of rosemary, lavender, sage and rue. She lets that steep for an hour while the water cools. She strains the herbs out of the water and adds a cup of ammonia and a cup of vinegar with two heaping tablespoons of backing soda. Then she puts it in a glass bottle and lets it set overnight. Then when the first daffodils pop open she gets to cleaning. I will offer this warning – if you own cheap ass cabinets then it will flake the finish right off of the cabinet. Otherwise it is good on floors and it is a great degreaser.
I personally clean one room at a time from front to back and top to bottom. I clean it by scrubbing, then smoking and then I use a pendulum to see if I missed anything. My daughter helps out by blowing bubbles and singing songs to change the vibe in the room.
I maintain my clean vibes with a monthly smudging /smoking and I spray Florida Water around the house to cleanse the air. I also walk my property once a month to mark the line in astral fire that keeps cooties out.
Now the Fiery Wall of Protection, I take a mix of salt, dragon’s blood , frankincense, myrrh resin with optional ingredients of rue and cinnamon and sprinkle it around the edges of my property. Sometimes I use an oil to anoint my house candles. The oil uses the same ingredients added to jojoba and castor oil bases. I let it cure for a month then it is ready for use.
Happy Cleaning!
I wanted to write about one more thing for the April thingy. I have recently had contact with a group of kitchen witches who love letting me know that they have Cherokee Indian in their ancestry. When I asked about their family or their role number they sat and just looked at me like I was speaking a foreign language. Then when I asked if they had just been told this information from a family member but had no tangible proof they said yes. They knew it in their hearts because Native American “ways” spoke to their heart. This kind of culture borrowing drives me crazy. The first problem with it is that Cherokee Indians are not the only Indian community in the United States. There are well over 300 tribes –nations-bands and or pueblos. When people start telling me that they smudge and make medicine wheels and make a claim to being Cherokee, I know they have not got the foggiest clue about what they are saying. It is truly an insult to the Cherokee People to assume that they are a medicine wheel people, or that they use smoke in their ceremonies. Hollywood has given dumb viewers a picture of Native Americans based on white man accounts of brief encounters in the indigenous people’s life. And this picture does not fit all people.
I see that the claim of ancestral Indian lineage insults everyone. It is like the president of Bora Bora knocking on my door, inviting himself in and telling me that he knows everything about my family because we are related. Then he proceeds to assume to know the foods I eat, why I shower in the morning, and how I pray because his grandma said “We are Oklahomans.” My advice to those folks who think they are Indians get proof before you make the claim.
This month’s give away –I will send out a package of spiritual bath blends to any of the readers who recommend my blog on their facebook page, blog or tell a friend then shoot me an email and let me know you did it.
Be Blessed!

Picking a President

2011-03-09T08:25:00.000-08:00

I have been laughing all morning over a statment made by a great Witch. She made the comment that she has been middle management fo the Chaos Gods this last week. OH my speak it sista -aint that the truth! Then it got me thinking the next time I go to vote for a President, I will keep this question in mind, "Does this person seem like someone who could be middle managment for the Chaos Gods?" If the answer is yes then they probably will get my vote. Considering all that is going on in the world I think I want someone who has been tapped to by the Chaos Gods to deal with their junk.
I am still laughing. Everyone have a great week and thanks for reading!

March Thingy

2011-03-02T09:07:00.000-08:00

Another thingy is here. I thought this month I would focus a little on psychic self defense. This is a subject near and dear to my heart. For years I would say yeah yeah – shield and ward whatever. Really I did say that out loud because I watched so many of my fellow witches get all worked up over stuff they thought might be happening. I am a proof is in the pudding kinda gal so I paid little attention to attack theories out in the community. I still think most of it was distraction drama created by some of my peers to avoid facing the real personal crap going on in their life. However there is that 5% that had a legitimate issue with psychic muckedy muck. This month’s thingy is to keep yourself out of that 5% and prepare you just in case you get psychically slimed. It happens to the best of us at least once in a lifetime.
There is more than one method to kill an attack. The first and most responsible method is to create a daily, weekly or monthly ritual that will grow in power over time to deflect any shit thrown at you. I personally cast a protective bubble of fire around myself every day. I have used other images to build this protective bubble but for now fire is my best tool. Monthly I cleanse my house, car and work space. I pick two days before the new moon to do this cleanse because it is the peak of the waning moon. This is also the day I do work for jinx breaking for other folks. For my house cleanse I use three things: a smudge blend of tobacco, sweet grass, juniper, white sage and mint oil; a salt mix and runes. First I open the back door and smoke the place with my herb mix telling everything that is not resonating with my family’s best benefit needs to high tail it out of there or else I am going to curse its very existence. I visualize the rune Hagalaz in every room and space breaking up the yucky muck energy. Then I like to wash my hands, light a white candle and take the salt mix of Epsom, celtic sea salt and table salt then I add herbs that feel right like lavender for comfort, roses for love, eucalyptus for health and rosemary for good memories. I crush all that up with my hands until the herbs release their aroma. I take a little and add it to some water and sprinkle it all around feeling the blessings of the blend connect with all the atoms in my house, car and work area. Sometimes I chant and sometimes it is all I can do to focus on all the atoms. I walk the edge of my property sprinkling the remaining salt along the edge of the property. I see the rune Elhaz rising up out of the ground to form a hedge of runes around my property protecting everyone who is invited to my place from evil while they are there.
My family always says they can tell when I have done the ritual because the house is more at peace and it is quiet outside when I do the work. I will warn you that if you have a retail business it may limit your customer visits so I would think about using a different rune during the day to attrack business during the day and use Elhaz at night before leaving. We cleanse our shop almost every day because you never know what a customer is dumping off their aura in your store. Better safe than sorry.
Now what about those times when there is definitely a hostile co-worker or crappy neighbor. I have a practice of picture talking that seems to really work well. If I can get a picture of a person which is much easier these days with cell phones than it use to be, I will use that. But sometimes you just have to take a photo copy of their signature or shake their hand then rub that hand on a napkin. I put the essence of the person in a jar and every day I open the lid of the jar and say something along the lines of “Today you need to leave me alone and find someplace else to complain.” I have also said “I am not your enemy so don’t treat me like one.” Or “Stop your gossip now.” It takes a few days but I notice a definite change with little effort on my part, plus I get my message across without harm. I like that method best. I am not saying it always works but it is a good start.
Movie Lookout:One of my best friends sent me a present this week. It was the movie The Secret of Kells. Let me just say HOLY COW what a beautiful movie. If you get a chance to watch it make it a ritual experience.
My first go at the movie my ten year old daughter watched it with me. I was interrupted frequently with questions. However the second time I watched it waited for everyone to be at peace in my house and give me some space to make a pallet on the floor, pout a glass of Guinness and light some woodsy incense. I got sucked right into the art work of the film – it was like some kind of eye ball orgasm. I loved it. I highly recommend it. Run don’t walk to you local movie rental place and demand they get it for you so you can rent it then buy it.
This month’s Give Away: This month I am giving away an psychic protection oil blend using herbs from my garden and oil from a local distiller. All you have to do is mention me on your blog, post a comment to my blog or give my blog a shout out to your friends on facebook. THEN drop me an email and let me know that you did it. I will toss your name in the hat for a chance to be drawn out of my black pointy hat on the full moon. I toss out all the names after the draw so every month has a clean slate so you have a good chance of winning.
Last month’s winner was: Zedral Z over at the Witchn’ in the Kitchen blog. I love her blog and she is getting ready to start a witchy kitchen book club check it out. Zedral Z shoot me an email to get your prize.
Photo of last month’s attraction altar to increase my husband’s business.

Wild Intent

2011-02-24T07:12:00.001-08:00

While I was driving the other day I was listening to NPR’s The Story show. I like this show because I love hearing other people’s stories and insights into the life we all share. I find myself giving thanks to all those folks who are brave enough to reveal a moment of their life and to be open with it. What a gift. During this particular show a woman was telling about a penguin that saved her life. She had fallen in a very dangerous ice field that had started to crack. If she moved just an inch it was likely that she would fall through the ice to a very cold death. Suddenly a penguin showed up and this penguin was also in a desperate place because it could not finish molting for some reason –I didn’t catch that part of the story. Anyway the penguin used its instinct to show the woman the only path out of the ice field inch by inch until they both reach safety. The woman said at the end of the encounter with the penguin that it was a moment of shared experience with the wild and that the “wild” is not sentimental. I have thought on this statement all week. The wild is not sentimental. How very true this is. I have thought on how I project emotions into the critters that live in my home. I had to laugh because if the choice for my dog is to get a good scratching or chasing a squirrel then the squirrel wins every time.
I have had experiences of buffalo coming to the fence out of curiosity to give me a good looking over. Once a mother buffalo literally brought her new baby over to show him off to me, the experience was unbelievable. When I apply this thought that the wild is not sentimental I can see it because that buffalo mama did not stick around to shoot the breeze she went right back to eating hay. I was just a moment for her. She could have also been taking her baby by me to warn him that humans are not so kind so get a good look and be warned if you see another one.
I do have to wonder about those in between moments when something from the wild like an animal or a sunset intentionally engage me to the point I pay attention and share my life in that moment. Those are the moments that change all the worlds. I hope that I take that time and approach with love in my heart and awe in my spirit so that nature continues to speak to me.
May we all be touched by the wild this week.

Product Review

2011-02-15T13:27:00.000-08:00

I thought I would spread the monthly thing out, so that I could post some helpful info over the month. Plus it saves me some time writing in small sessions. This week I am going to chat about a calendar that I really love. A few years ago a friend recommended that I look at the Seasons of the Witch calendar published by 7th House Publishing. I fell in love with it. The images spoke to my witchy side and the information was different than any other occult /metaphysical /wiccan calendar out there.
Victoria David Danann has put so much quality work into the timing factors for spell work, art work and layout. I think she needs a prize for Witch of the Year –seriously. I like her down to earth common sense approach to magick. Speaking from a witch who uses her timing suggestions for spell work – I can say that it is invaluable. The personal satisfaction I gained in outcomes of my spell work made me add Victoria and the crew at 7th House to my daily gratitude list.
My interest in this calendar expanded and I enrolled in the Seasons in Avalon course. It is a great class with really good core information. I have been around for a long time so I have to admit my expectations on any class are really heavy. I am in my second year of classes. For those of you who know me the fact that I have stuck with the class says I am learning something new.
I give Victoria and the folks at 7th House Publishing a golden pentacle of goodness for the course and calendar.
Here is the web address to the site if you are interested : http://www.7th-house.com/

Snow, Snow and more SNOW

2011-02-11T07:10:00.000-08:00

What a couple of weeks I am having here. At my house we have had about 30 inches of snow. I have attached a picture of my driveway during the early part of the storm. Now the snow is up to my thigh in depth. It is all powder like whip cream. My dog looks so funny when he gets out to run. He looks like a dolphin hopping through the water.
I have to include a photo of one of the local's tractor/plow. We saw this in the parking lot of Wal-marx yesterday. I think it is genius and definitely green. Reuse of a Lazy Boy box. There is a dash of southern engineering thrown in to make this cab cover.
Congrats Zedral Z. I pulled your name out of the hat this morning so I will be emailing you shortly about your prize.
Everyone hug someone you love today because they are what keeps our joyfire lit.
Be Blessed.

The February Thingy...

2011-02-07T11:02:00.000-08:00

The month of February brings two opportunities to do a major magickal working in your life. Both are bridge spells so if you have never done a bridge spell I will describe the jist of the spell. A couple of days before beginning the work write out what you desire. List the process it will take to get that desire manifested include attracting the right people, circumstances, money, and time. Then on the last space on your list make the statement “and anything else God Herself deems necessary .” I fold this list and keep it safe on my altar.
On a separate sheet of paper make a list of all the crap that could go wrong in manifesting your desire. I personally go through the list and mark out with a thick marker all those items after I finish the list. At the end I say the door is shut on all those glitches and whamees. I then shred this list.
Opportunity No.1: Business Success – this is a 28 day bridge spell to build your business. For this spell I like to white tea light candles. I use white candles in most of my work simply because that is what my family does. Sometimes I will venture out and try other colors but I seem to always find my way back to white. There is only two instances where that is not true finding a home spell and ancestor work. Back to the spell at hand – I dress my candle each night with attraction oil or wealthy way oil. You can find recipes on line or order them from someplace like Lucky Mojo. I use a blend of basil and Irish moss and grind it to a fine powder and sprinkle some on my candle to amp up the vibes around my intent. I leave the herb mix and oil on my altar for the duration of the working.
Next I take nine shiny dimes and place them in a pattern on a plate, tray or piece of glass on my altar. I anoint the dimes with oil as well. Then I write my name and the name of my business on a brown sheet of paper or parchment in red ink nine times each.
On February 10th I pick a time that I will be able to consistently meet for 28 days like when I get up in the morning, when I get home from work or just before bed then I begin my spell. First I clear my head with a breathy prayer and drinking some water. I then consecrate, cast my circle of protection and charge the working space. I call in all my helpers or witness from the astral stream. Then I put a little oil on my hands, unfold my desire list and put it in the middle of my altar. I set the plate, tray or glass on top of the list. I arrange my dimes and place my slip of paper with my name on it in the middle of the dimes. Then I set my anointed tea light still in the metal tin that holds it on top of my slip of paper. Next comes the chant / rhyme: Let my business grow and with it success does flow, blessing my desires aglow into a harvest of the seeds I now sew. In ink and name I have written what I require and all I desire let it be so by my Will and three times three So Mote It Be! Then I walk away from the candle and let it burn out. If there is any leftover candle wax I collect it in a little dish on my altar to put it in a cloth at the end of the spell. I keep the little tins the candles come in to make a wind chime later.
On the next night after I do my prayer and prep work I clearly visualize my list and my business thriving. I see myself walking toward that image getting closer and closer every night of the spell until I feel myself fully engaged in the image. I repeat the whole thing every night at the same time and chanting the same phrase letting it build until holds weight.
On the 29th day after the spell is finished, I collect all the remaining candle wax, herbs, paper and what not. Leave the dimes out. I put all that stuff in a little white cloth and tie it with a red string then hide it in my business space. I take the dimes and put them in my cash register or a jar but I do not spend them. Every time I think about it I will jingle the dimes and once a month I will feed the little bag I hid in my business with oil or my breath. This revitalizes the work and keep it going for about a year.
Opportunity No.2 : Fertility- this is a 28 day spell to conceive something including babies. Be prepared to have lots of sex and pleasure for the next 28 days! If you want to start business, book, album, series of paintings or increasing your chances of conceiving a child then this is the working for you. I caution you to be ready to work your butt off nurturing what you conceive from this magick so this requires commitment. You will need an egg or a small egg shaped stone. If you are using a real egg then please blow out the yolk and let it dry. You will need some dirt for growing stuff, a pot and a tree seed – acorns work great. On a sheet of notebook paper write out the concepts you have in your head. For example: I want to write a book about the Goddess’s gifts in my life. Then write your name nine times around each edge of the paper so that means 36 times. If you are wanting to conceive a child you will not need the pot, the dirt or the seed.
On February 14th I pick a time that I will be able to consistently meet for 28 days like when I get up in the morning, when I get home from work or just before bed then I begin my spell. First I clear my head with a breathy prayer and drinking some water. I then consecrate, cast my circle of protection and charge the working space. I call in all my helpers or witness from the astral stream. Then I put a little blessing oil on my hand. I take the pot and I hold it between my hands [if you are trying to have a baby then you are the vessel so place your hands on your womb] saying “This vessel is a place of nurturing love ready to hold my _________ (insert what you trying to conceive).” If you are trying to conceive a child take the piece of paper you wrote on and hold it between your hands breathing on it visualizing a sperm penetrating an egg. Then go and make love with your lover. Continue doing this work for the remaining 28 days. If you are trying to conceive something else into the world place your paper in the bottom of the pot and place the egg on top of the paper. Sprinkle some dirt on top of the egg. Go and masturbate or even better make love to your lover. Continue blessing the vessel everyday putting dirt on top of the egg until your pot is half full. On the next spell day after you reach the half way mark plant the tree seed visualizing a sperm penetrating an egg. Say the name of your project passionately out loud three times. Sprinkle some dirt on top of the seed. Continue blessing the vessel like in the beginning of the spell and saying the name of the project three times sprinkling dirt over the seed until the pot is full leaving room for watering. On the 28th day speak a vow of commitment to what you have conceived then go forth and nurture it into existence. Blessed Be.
The Give Away- Each month I will gift a personalized spell or phone reading your choice from a name I draw out of the witches hat. To get your name in the hat tell a friend about my blog and ask them to follow my blog, or mention my blog on your facebook page, or give me a shout out on your blog THEN email me at maemoons@gmail.com to tell me what you think about the new monthly thingy. IT is that easy.
Be Blessed and Lots of Love – Happy Casting.

Blog Changes

2011-02-07T11:01:00.001-08:00

Saying that I got lots of snow is an understatement. Thankfully my family is in a warm dry place with lots of supplies. I swear the Walmart looked like armegedon hit. There has been no food for days. This has definitely been a lesson in survivalist mentality. I now have this internal checklist of what I need to do to prepare for the death of the Planet.
I have decided to change up my blog. I am going to try to post a monthly something about magick to improve life. Kinda like a spell of the month thingy – that sounds like a great name for it – Spell Thingy. Plus I am going to give away a prize every month of a personalized working or phone reading. Yes that is right a phone reading. I have delayed doing this for some time because my phone reception has been terrible but new cable has been laid in my neighborhood and the phone lines are better. I have recently put in a magickal workstation in my house. This allows me to do workings for other folks and a space to do readings. YEAH!
Keep reading and lots of blessings to you.

Passionate Attention

2011-01-31T09:57:00.000-08:00

I am currently working lights for a theater production of Widdershins by Don Nigro. It is an interesting play for the most part. It is a little dense in dialog but interesting none the least. There is one phrase from the play that makes me think the play right has been dancing in the between. The phrase talks about looking at the world with passionate attention. Every time the actor says the line I go into some internal dialog about the importance of passionate attention. This is especially true for those of us who walk an ecstatic path in our magick.
I have decided to take up the practice of gazing with passionate attention as a form of meditation practice. When I go out for my spirit walks in the afternoon no matter the length or destination. I will, instead of expanding my consciousness out beyond my visual awareness, look at the world with passionate attention. Consider if the color of the graying tree was my lover or that driving force to push the baby from my womb. To walk barefoot on the grass letting the sensation of the grass focus my attention to a point of passion – that would be a fascinating goal. I am pretty sure I will orgasm multiple times an hour until my capacity to hold this attention increases.
Just as I write about this I am reminded of the surrender and trust this requires in me as a witch that I will not be consumed by the grass or the trees or the little brown fleck in my lover’s eye. Is this what makes us human? Knowing when to say stop or trusting that the multiverse will cherish our surrender.
Lots of deep thinking has come upon me as I watch the grey lady die today. I hope she takes the witnessed chaos with her and leaves me the stillness I truly desire. May we all be subject to the passionate attention of our senses until we become still in the act of surrendering.
Be blessed in your walk this day.

My Eagle is Back

2011-01-14T12:49:00.000-08:00

I have been patiently awaiting the Eagle that is a peeping tom at my house. I thought for sure that he came back in October but alas it was not him only a migrating fellow headed further south. Yesterday I saw him for sure. I almost drove my car off a bridge looking at him. He has grown! He was standing on the ice watching the fish and he looked right at me as a drove 5 miles an hour on the busy bridge. We had a moment and I knew it was him. I think he has a girlfriend because he was doing some interesting flying to show off this morning. I heard another Eagle cry out after his little show off dance. I am thrilled.
When he shows up then it means winter is really here.
Yeah Nature!

Best Vegan Food Ever!

2011-01-10T07:55:00.000-08:00

The best lasagna recipe I have every tried came from a website newsletter that I recently found. It is called the Golden Banana. Patty “Sassy” Knutson publishes the newsletter on line and does a great job. One of my goals this year was to try a new vegan recipe every month at least twice in case I screw it up the first time. So I decided to try the recipes she puts out in her newsletter. This month was veggie lasagna. It was sooooo good. We had enough to for two nights and I cannot wait to get home and cook dinner. The instructions she gives are clear and concise – thank you Sassy. If you are thinking about trying meatless Mondays or flirting with veganism or if you are going to jump in the vegan pool whole cabbage then check out her site, http://www.vegancoach.com . It is well worth the time. She has more than just recipes. If you need to know the truth about living as a vegan then she will help for sure with information about the vegan food pyramid, nutrients that need to be supplemented or added to in the diet. All of the information is in an easy to read quick learning method. I honor the food goddess and all her hard work with this site!

The Great Bird Die Off

2011-01-10T07:54:00.000-08:00

As I have mentioned in earlier posts, I live in a area of the country with a high population of Native Americans. Some of the folks here in Indian Country are from the northeastern tribes and some are plains Indians. Over the weekend I had a really interesting conversation with a few elders who all seemed to be in agreement about the great bird die off in the United States Northern Europe and Italy. They were telling me that there are some teachings from the ancient ancestors that foretold of a time when there would not be enough trees to give enough breath (air) for all living creatures. The first we would see would be the butterflies and bees leaving in mass. Then it would be the birds to leave the planet. Once the birds started dying then it would be the signal that the old ones were coming back to walk this earth. They were clear that this is not a good thing only that it was time to start planning how to live in a way that would sustain our lives as long as possible while trying to do the least harm to all that lives.
If the Titans rise and begin walking this earth again, how will we -Gods work with them and are we ready.

New Year -Intention in Change

2011-01-04T14:25:00.000-08:00

This has been a really exciting time for me. The new year came with a surge of magickal energy like I had not seen in awhile. The planet mercury going direct help push me out of inertia thank goodness. I have been working through the Goddess Guidebook by Goddess Leonie and it has truly helped me get a good and honest look at my life direction for the next year. The questions asked and ritual presented laid the ground work for some intention to take hold of my goals. I established some financial goals that build on my personal work over the last two years. I also had goals for my physical body, work, home, friends /family and BIG dreams. I stepped into this year with clarity and a hop in my step. WELCOME 2011

Gray Lady

2010-12-21T09:53:00.001-08:00

The Gray Lady danced across my yard today whispering mysterious things about stillness.
She told me of the stone throne for contemplating what was no longer so that light could find its way home.
Her voice brought me stories of ancestors on the move and foxes watching my every move.
The Gray Lady welcomed me into this time of stillness and wonder.
She invited me to rest in my faith and to follow my heart’s desire until it would bring me home again in death.
Her voice was but a whisper but its weight was truth to my bone.

Crone Lessons

2010-12-07T11:41:00.000-08:00

I have written about my work with the Kathy Jones book in previous blogs. Today’s blurb stems from that work. I recently had a day of reflection and quiet at home –sometimes you just have to have a day. During my quietness and communion with the Samhain Crone, I got to really look at how much society has lost its sense of time because of Television. My altar still looks like a dark Samhain altar. I have dried leaves of all shapes and sizes, feathers found on spirit walks and rocks with crinkled faces in them. I have a cauldron candle with dark maroon wax earth sent in it. When I look at my altar then look at the natural world around me – they look like reflections of one another. With one exception, my neighbor has a Las Vegas light show going on next door with the assistance of Christmas lights. In the mindless attempt to make things pretty, she has thrown off her yard’s consciousness about what time of year it is. Seriously her grass is dying, bushes are completely barren and no squirrels are visiting her yard to collect nuts.
Everywhere I look the television says it is winter or it is projecting images that make me think of winter. IT IS NOT WINTER YET! The Crone is still walking around helping what needs to stay in this world prepare for hibernation and what needs to die she is showing it the way. No wonder society blows off old people, their thoughts and contributions; they are too busy getting their hearts desire at Yule.
Old Lady, Crone, I respect your space and your influence on my life keep me ever mindful to not rush through the hibernation and dying –this is my choice. Blessed Be, Amen and So Mote it Be!

Affirmations

2010-12-01T12:41:00.000-08:00

Sometimes I love affirmations and sometimes I completely forget about them. This year I have put my affirmations in left over photo frames around my house or randomly in my calendar to help come back to center in my beliefs. I truly believe that is what an affirmation is for – to help us remember what we are here for not what we think we are here for. Below are my affirmations for the next year:
“It is your responsibility to stay health, care for your body and eat right!”
“ Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law – Love is the Law, Love under Will.”
“ I do work with people not for them.”
“ I am the best gauge of myself.”
“Be the change you want to see in the world.”
“Creativity is my Wellspring.”
“My Home is a haven of peace and healing.”
“ I hold the light of Nolava within me.”
“I am a Star.”Posting some of these around my home has empowered my family to discuss the ideas on them. For example my mother wanted a copy of the one about being responsible for your own health. She woke of from years of surrendering her power over to doctors and letting them feed her full of pills. Amazing how that one little statement made her question why she was on 10 different pill that were bankrupting her every month. Hello – ask some questions world. I thought I would share my affirmations and please feel free to cut and paste them into fancy fonts and put them on your frig if you like.
Be Blessed!

Daily Prayer

2010-11-23T12:31:00.000-08:00

Lady walk with me this day, protect me in my magick and inspire me with joy so that I may serve this world honestly.

Sweet November Changes

2010-11-23T09:37:00.001-08:00

November has always been a life changing month for me. Seven years ago on November 5th , I shaved my head just to see what it would be like plus I wanted to see my natural hair color grow in. It was an amazing year of learning about my limits. Nineteen years ago I committed to a relationship with my now husband. It was a definite choice – I like him and I am going to stick it out with him now lets sleep together. Well it has happened again. This year on November 1st I decided that I would no longer eat anything of ‘the flesh’. I had no idea it was world vegan day. When I found that out it made me laugh because I tend to ask my magick to pick the best day for the work to begin or end in spite of what my wishes may be. Well I am guessing that I took the energy of that day and applied it to my magick and whala it worked. I have absolutely no desire to eat anything from or of an animal. Plus my sugar needs of decreased tremendously. I do have my days where I feel like I am coming down with a cold but it passes within in a few hours.
The magick of life can be oh so changing but the timing of it can mean everything in success. I wish I knew why November works so well for me – not even my astrology chart can tell me why. So for now I have faith in November and powerful results this month holds for my commitments to change. May the Gods Bless November!

Why do I even try.

2010-11-18T10:51:00.000-08:00

This morning I had a really great visit with a state politician about the future of the state. The discussion went all over the place. I realized in the conversation that none of it mattered in the end. When it came to election time this politician would do what it took to get re-elected. I seriously believe we need to go a systme where the politicians earn what least paid full time person makes in the state. Can you imagine if a the Govenor or State Rep made what a full time Hobby Lobby worker made. They could have all the power without the pay. IT might encourage them to lift those folks up to a living wage. The term public servant might have some meaning again.
I say live life the way you want with consideration to your neighbor's peace and health. Pay for your sewer, water, electric and sponsor the upkeep of the city roads. Pack a gun to kill rattlesnakes in the house and criminals who want to hurt you and yours. Eat to live and volunteer your fair share - that should be enough. Keep your money, spend it how you will and *#$% the government!
Lets all be blessed today.

Altar for the week

2010-11-16T07:48:00.000-08:00

Gently the Lady brings changes. The more I walk this path the more I realize that the Lady is not a harsh lesson giver but a gentle guide. We expect harsh to mean more and it is in our changing that we learn gentleness is better.

A prayer before....

2010-11-12T12:12:00.001-08:00

I go through periods where I find magickal exercises completely and utterly useless. Sometimes it feels like I am doing the exercise to be doing something in hopes that it works. Kala is one of those exercises for me. Sometimes it feels essential to me and other times it is a 'whatever' action that means little to me. I know I probably sent a handful of Feri’s and Thornites into a fit of anxiety speaking of Kala in such an unholy way. They need to do some Kala about their fit.
I believe part of this apathy for this exercise was because nothing about it touched any part of me. Well I came across a prayer last night in the Goddess Initiation by Francesca De Grandis, pg. 98, that peeked my interest because it glowed on the page as I read through the chapter. It felt like what other people describe Kala as. Here is the prayer: “Mother, if you deem it best, remove these blocks to love, joy, protection and serving others.” Pretty simple but it was affective. The author asks that you use the prayer when you come to barriers in your internal work. I personally will use it after I Mitote. For me Mitote is to set down and consciously write all my thought about people, events and experiences that seem to take my power for the good and the bad. I write about it and let it flow out on the paper then I burn it or shred it. Amazing the tangled webs I weave in my mind about life. I believe this prayer is perfect for this version of straightening out my three souls that are one within in me.
Thank you Francesca De Grandis for this Pearl – I needed it.

Avalon Working

2010-11-09T12:37:00.001-08:00

Wow what a new year! I have taken a step onto a new magickal path and it has really affected my perception. I am working through the Kathy Jones book Priestess of Avalon Priestess of the Goddess. I decided to follow the book exactly beginning at Samhain. This is the time of the Darkening.
At first I assumed that it would be about going within and examine my thoughts and actions. On the contrary it has been about slowing down and paying attention to that which is around me. The Crone and the Hunt showed up this year with a big message. “It is nice to think about saving the planet. It is nice to ‘try’ to recycle and eat with conscience but if you want US to believe you then be a Witch and live it.” The task before me was ‘to change everything about how my family lives on this planet and how I fulfill my role as a steward of the Lady’ land.’ When I take something like this on it usually happens in one big chunk. If I try to break it down into smaller more manageable chunks of change I tend to forget that I am changing and I fall right back into my old patterns.
One of my devotional tasks is to create an altar and change it every week. Below I have attached copies of pictures of the two altars that I have done.
Week Two

Week One

Samhain Bummer

2010-11-01T09:07:00.000-07:00

I had all these plans to celebrate Samhain this weekend and in the end I worked my booty off doing something completely different. I wanted to have a nice stew supper for my family and have a little ritual to give thanks to the Lady for the new year. Instead I spent it cutting fiberglass theater set pieces. I think I will ritual and have the stew supper the weekend of HP7. The Goddess granted me a vision last week so I am counting that day as my first in this new year. I have to keep reminding myself that life happens even when it is a bummer.

DREAM ON

2010-10-29T09:40:00.000-07:00

I made an agreement to start the work found in a book called Priestess of Avalon, Priestess of the Goddess by Kathy Jones. It is nothing to laugh about because it is a chunk of time and devotion. The over achiever in me is dancing with delight!
I read through the first chapter completely last night and I have made my list of things I want to undertake from Samhain to Yule. One of those things is a dream journal.
I have been working on it a week so far and I am using the Dream Kit by Gayle Delaney, Ph,D. It is a great resource for the dream journal remedial folks. For me to keep a journal with any content for more than a week is a miracle -seriously. Anyway I am committed to this because from the little bit I have done my internal dialog has turned down the volume, my intuitive self is so much clearer and I have noticed my homicidal ideation tendencies are gone. I have also noticed that my dreaming mind seems more vivid and easier to recall. Not all of my dreams have been pleasant this week but they have been very informative with regard to my internal state of witchiness.
So I am going to include dream journaling and analysis in my medicine bag as a tool. I had no idea it could be so helpful and cool.

Dark Goddess Time

2010-10-29T09:23:00.000-07:00

It is that time of year the Dark Goddess calls to me to go within and test my resolve. It is such a short time that she walks with me helping me learn about an honest relationship with my SELF. That SELF that makes up my fetch, shining body and Godself and kin-fetch that weaves me into the family lineage I pass onto my descendants.
I use to always see the Dark Goddess as a deity that was misunderstood. She was a deity that was not harsh but in the shadows because she was showing me my flaws. I have learned through my personal experiences that she is not that naïve wish in my heart that all the Gods love me. The Dark Goddess is the sovereign old Lady who has loved and lost, seen humanity at its worst and could give a crap less about what I think is truth. She lives the truth no matter if it doesn’t feel right or good to me.
I think of a time when I got to see my grandmother and mother chatting away at the kitchen table. They were saying some of the worst things that were really offensive. Their truth was coming from FOX news and it did not reflect a single value they raised me to believe. I sat and watched their faces turn wicked and harsh the more hate they spewed. Then it hit me they were channeling the Dark Hag. They were letting me see what I looked like when I got opionated beyond flexibility. It made me examine where my sources of truth came from and if those sources were support by thoughtful fact finding. It made me consider what I wanted to manifest with my speech. The experience of watching my mothers bitch about the president really gave me a moment to pause and reset that internal measure that I live by.
When I choose to walk with the Dark Goddess this time of year I accept that I am going to see the parts of my life that I am not being completely honest about or that look ugly. From that perspective I can be clear about what my path ahead looks like allowing me to walk it in my own sovereignty by changing. The more I know about myself the more honest I am and from that I can shine in clarity and certainty about what makes me whole. The result is purity in the heart – what a beautiful state of mind.

No Change on the Pagan Front

2010-10-20T09:05:00.000-07:00

I have taken six month break from reading my favorite pagan sites, blogs and newletters. I didn't miss much they are all still bitching about stuff that really does not involve them but they must have an opinion. OR they are spewing out philisophical dribble that makes you believe they lead the most profound lives. Well I have nothing profound to say or have any other comment on the world at large. I think I will continue my pagan crap break and drink beers on my porch watching the Goddess paint the sunset.

Healing Goddess Work

2010-10-14T07:50:00.000-07:00

Week three of my Creative Goddess Course brought me to creating something that when I touched it, gazed at it or was in the presence of it I would feel healing. Instead of making a painting, I ended up making a pendulum mala. The Goddess at the base is me and I send Reiki up the beads until I reach the Elhaz at the top to protect the self healing work I have done. All healing is fragile in the beginning and so is change. I truly love this new magick aide. What aides you in your healing?

Tools to Center

2010-10-14T07:43:00.000-07:00

Two weeks ago I completed some journey work for connecting with the Goddess that is ME. As part of the work I was suppose to remove some obstacles in my way of reaching her. In the journey once I removed my blocks a tool was left to help me remove obstacles in my life no matter what they may be. I took this mean that it was a tool that would bring me to Center and stop all distractions from my Great Work. I was completely amazed to find a rosary as my tool. I love using beads in my personal practice. I am not to keen on crucifixes so I decided to make my own rosary and begin using it daily to build the energy in it to bring me to Center. I finished last week but I am just now getting to contemplating the prayers that should go into it. It was a totally intuitive creation.

Kali's Offering

2010-10-14T07:39:00.000-07:00

As part of my work for my Creative Goddess class, I made a piece of art for an offering to Kali. This offering was given with the intent that SHE would help me transform my muck through a chosen element. Air claimed it and so this afternoon I am going to go throw this dream catcher to the wind and trees. May it feed Kali and may SHE be my sister in my changing.

Goddess Circle

2010-09-29T11:13:00.000-07:00

For the past year I have been working through the Goddess Guidebook by Goddess Leonie. I love it. She has opened the circle for other women to join. I would recommend it if you can swing $99 dollars. You get access to all of her classes and workbooks. Leonie is one of the most positive people I have evern met. At first I did not think she was for real but I was proven wrong. Go Goddesses!

The Lady's Hair

2010-09-29T11:08:00.000-07:00

This morning as I was driving across the bridge that brings me into the small town near my home I saw the most beautiful fog. The curls and wisps of the white air looked like the hair of a dancer moving in slow motion. It made me think that the Lady was doing her Autumn dance in this tiny town I call home. The leaves make the pattern of her dress and bright colors in the evening and morning sky are her eyes shining brightly down on me. The chill in the air is her breath reminding me that the wheel is turning and I am getting closer to having hair as white as hers. My wish is to be a gentle Lady and as I age that I reveal the kind of grace she grants me daily.

Lets take a big bite our of life!

2010-09-27T11:01:00.001-07:00

My full blown over achiever kicked in last week while I took some days off to hit the reset button on my home. I moved furniture, dusted and painted. My family seems not so excited about the changes -tough. The psychic atmosphere of the house is lighter and more healing exactly what I was hoping to achieve. Plus is offers an invitation for folks to visit.
Well during my homesite excorsim I found some old books I LOVE. One is Sacred Woman by Queen Afua. What a truly empowering workbook. I have to say the practices she introduces in the book are some of the core foundation work I put into my magickal practice. Anyway - I sat down over the weekend and organized my week into some reasonable sections to work on each of areas of interest. Monday is Rune day, Tuesday is Creative Goddess Day, Wednesday is Penpal day, Thursday is Prosperity work day, Friday Finish Projects day, Saturday is Sacred Woman day and Sunday I take OFF. I have added to my daily devotional work and house cleaning in homes of maintaining my psychically redecorated house. Good Luck to me and my adventure!

Pen Pal Love

2010-09-27T10:55:00.000-07:00

There is nothing like getting a real letter in the mail. I know when I was a little girl I wanted to get mail so bad I could taste it. I really never had the opportunity to join a pen pal circle. I recently signed up for a series of classes from Goddess Leonie at Goddessguidebook.com, I love her. Within the Goddess Circle she hosts. interesting, funny and smart women from all over the world come together to create a space that is supportive and positive. One of the circles within the greater circle was the penpal circle. So far I have written 17 letters. I got my first two responses last week and I got a new penpal from a random pick.
I love reading the handwriting of other women. The smell of their purfume or home comes through on the paper and the psychic impressions they leave in the letter let my mind build a place of beauty for them.
To all my penpal sisters - lots of love and merry meet.

Breeze Across the Skin

2010-09-16T07:48:00.000-07:00

It has been years since I got to be outside in my birthday suit and I have missed it. Last night we had one heck of a storm here with purple and orange lightening. BIG wind with a chorus of tree frogs urging the coming storm. It was late and my neighborhood was hunkered down for the storm with lights off and silence other than sky thunder reminding them of how small they really are. I finally couldn't take it anymore I stripped down and went out to feel the breeze clean my skin of years of furstration, lonlieness and unfinished business.
Well in the moment I stepped out into the gusting wind I knew that skyclad was never about me and my body consciousness or lack of. Skyclad is about nature making contact with me just as I am. Being present and feeling nature touch me with moon light, rain drops and breezy kisses deepens my relationship with Her. Now if I could just do this more often and instead of releasing my junk maybe I could support the Her as much as she Loves me.

Nobel Peace Prize -What a Joke!

2010-09-14T08:12:00.001-07:00

I am completely stunned that the United States would broker a deal with Saudi Arabia for 60 billion dollars in weapons and military airplanes. We are putting weapons into the very hands that knocked down over 3,000 Americans in one day. It was Al-Qaida that claimed responsibility for 9/11 but they were Saudi nationals first. Where they raised to hate America or was that something that came later. I honestly believe they were raised to hate. I cannot imagine any situation where someone else especially and imaginary God could make me want to kill myself along with hundreds of other people. I would have to be raised and supported by my family to believe such crap.
I am so disgusted with the idea that a Noble Peace Prize winning President would even think this was a good idea. Instead of selling weapons to the richest bully on the play ground why don’t we do something peaceful and helpful? I wonder what our President thinks is going to happen with the Saudi’s sell those planes and weapons to the highest bidder. I will lay money on the probability of seeing our own jets and weapons flying over our troops or America blowing up people. NOT A PEACEFUL THOUGHT MR.PRESIDENT.
I wonder if it ever occurred to the government that maybe the reason so many Americans refuse to pay their taxes is because they don’t like the fact we give our enemies the weapons to kill us. Daddy Bush did it now our Peaceful Dumbass is doing it too! I am sick with anger and sadness that my ancestors died for this kind of theater.

Kind Eyes

2010-09-13T07:43:00.000-07:00

Last night while reading before bed, I came across a statement about kindness in the eyes. That made me zone out on a mind tangent about the power held in some one with kind eyes. I've met people with eyes that said "I hear you and I see you and I accept the greatness in you because you are important." Each time I meet one of these folks I feel so open and I find myself wanting to visit with them for hours. I wonder how they see the world. Is it truth they see. I wonder what the world would be like if we all attempted to project kindness through our eyes. Would it be a kinder gentler world? Would are children be different? Would older people share more of their wisdom? Would our world leaders reach out to one another more often for advise and expertise?
I wonder what people see when they look into my eyes. I know that I am going to send out kindness consciously through my gaze. Maybe I will receive the blessing of true vision when I do.

Life Time

2010-09-10T13:36:00.000-07:00

I spent the day unpacking a library. I love books so it was like Christmas for my inner nerd. I came across this book about time and life and the premise was that if we truly love something we will find the time in our lives to nurture the love. I couldn’t agree with that statement more. I have a reasonable full schedule just between work and my family. But I have activities in my life that make me a better person and I take them very seriously. I volunteer for the arts and have for many years. A woman I knew in the military told me that she had been through seven conflicts and two wars and in each case once the fighting was done and community rebuilding had to begin; the first television station broadcast was always an arts and entertainment channel like bravo. The military understood that it took art, literature, dance, music and art to stabilize a society – it helps a community define its values. This insight hit home so deeply that I stopped volunteering for humanitarian organizations and focused my time on community galleries, theaters and going out to see local musicians. My time is so very valuable that it does take a commitment to give it away.
One other activity is reading at least two books a month (depending on the length of the book). I try to stay current on world events by reading about places and people I know nothing about. The more I can educate myself about different things the better I can direct my thoughts and ideas into positive outcomes.
Lastly the activity that keeps me whole and healthy would be my daily devotional practice to my Gods. Acknowledging them does more than feed them it reminds me that I am not alone in my work as a Priestess, visionary, healer, teacher and warrior on this planet. Christian friends think I am two nuts shy of a bag but for it does not matter if the Gods are real. For me they are a pool of energy that is made in love – a love that I help maintain. There are some days when I believe there is not enough love in the world so I swim in their pool and other days I have abundance in my cup so I share it with them. It is truly a powerful relationship that lifts me and makes me a Powerful person.
In the end all of my activities feed my spirit and open me to greater experiences. They give my eyes glimmer and shine and they fill my heart with joy. My family benefits from my time commitments even if it takes a little from the television show we might watch together or the family debate about football teams. If I am healthy and happy then my environment and the people I share it with will feel the health and hopefully they will strive to be just as healthy and happy too.
May we all have time for the activities we love and makes us whole.

Rain rain, soft rain

2010-09-09T09:53:00.000-07:00

I love the rain! Especially when it is soft and cleansing like the one in my town today. All the critters get a bath and the garden gets blessed with nurturing. My azaelias like the rain too. Here they are just as it was starting to rain yesterday. I love the pink they send.

Abundance Altar

2010-09-08T08:26:00.001-07:00

I finished my Abundance altar over the weekend. It took me a month to get my thoughts and ideas organized. It always comes this time of year. I think that is because this is the time of year my soul settled into my mother’s womb o-so- long ago. It always feels right to start new stuff in the fall. Yellow for the Bright Mother who loves me no matter how messed up I may be on any given day. The purple candle is for the Lady of Avalon and the Black for Morgan in all her faces. Funny thing was that I found a face stone on the beach I was doing energy work on over the weekend. I knew it was Morgan the minute I saw it. She is forever reminding me to laugh when I am in the thick of s*#! . I plan to keep my devotional work with my altar going again this year.
Last year was spent keeping a Feri altar going and it really helped me connect to inner love. I believe that was the intent but when I started that work I didn’t know where I was going with it but I got there in the end. I went in not believing in any particular thing and especially not some external force that loved me. I ended that journey with no doubt of an external force that loves me and I developed a relationship that is solid and co-creative.
This year I plan to ride the Wheel of the Year – want to go for a ride?

The Lady's Land

2010-09-08T08:19:00.001-07:00

This weekend provided a great opportunity to hike in some areas around the lake we never really get to see. The local lake authority kept the lake levels low so some of the areas normally under water were dry and open. I got to visit some of the faery haunts around the lake as well as place runes on the beach. My hopes are when the authorities refill the areas the lake will absorb the energy I put into the runes and help heal the lake. I know we will be hosting pelicans from all over as well as cranes in their migration. In that mix I am sure we will be seeing some of our feathered friends affected by oil and hurricanes. I believe they come hear to build their strength before their journey to wherever. I placed Fehu, Uruz and Elhaz on the beach to speed their healing, reinforce their energy stores and protect them from the ‘human’ factor.

At first the beach seemed really dead and unaccepting of the runes. This is the same beach where I find rune stone wash up on occasion. I was a little surprised but I understood. When I went back later in the day near dusk, I sang the runes into the air and I felt the shift like tentative trust forming. That section of the beach has been underwater for the last two years so I might have been the first human over there in that long. It sits in an area that is only accessible through private land. The cove connecting the beach and lake is so hostile it is almost impassable by water. There is a crane aviary in the cove as well as deer and mountain lions definitely a wild place- beautiful.

The place was definitely defensive of human contact and put up a wall of protection. My first experience with this place was so wondrous. I remember whistling and seeing two trees turn branches to the sound of my voice. This time nothing it was like the sound it a brick wall. The place felt like if you did not come in with an honest heart then don’t bother at all. It is the kind of place that makes some people feel like they are trespassing or they are doing something naughty and they are going to get caught. For me I felt like I was witnessing a Goddess raw from working her ass off to keep life going kind of like those moments after pushing a baby out of your body. That‘space’ where you are just exhausted in your intimacy with you own body and all the people walking around you are not really there. I am grateful I got to glimpse her this way. Maybe over time she will trust me to sing to her again.

On the opposite end of my hiking excursion I got the chance to visit the local community gardens in the town I live. Talk about doted on – the garden has continuous human contact and you can feel the energy activity there. The trees participate in the human conversations with dropping leaves and shaking off droplets of water in agreement.
Flowers bloom out of season and every living thing in the garden knows it is safe. It is an ‘acceptable’ place where humans and nature can interact. Unlike the feral place of my hike, this garden wants you to contemplate beauty and life as you walk through its tiny trails.
It wants to share thoughts with you and most of all it wants you to talk to it. This is the Goddess in her sheltered home. She invites you in and wants to have a cup of tea. She brings out her pallet of Japanese maples, hastas and she throws in a giant red wood to keep the conversation going. You hate to leave because you feel like you didn’t get enough but at the same time you are full wonder. Truly blessed I am with both places.

Truth Seeking

2010-09-03T10:26:00.001-07:00

On the first day of every month I sit down with a Truth Sister and work out my month of inner study. For this month I will look at How to Live the Truth. Some of the questions that came up were “What do you want to do before you die?” “ What are your top five dreams?” “ Who in the world reflects your truth?” All three swelled up inside of me bring thoughts and wonders. I realized that I really had no dreams so is definitely something I need to look into. My dreams as a teenager where met long before I turned 25. My dream of what it would be like to be a mother is happening now. So I got a hard slap in the face that I have stopped dreaming. Definitely need to work on that one.
My goals came up a little easier. I thought of my Witch commitments and the Teacher in me wants to write a book before I die, the Visionary wants to travel and be inspired on two Goddess tours, the Warrior in me wants to join the Women’s International League of Peace and Freedom, the Priestess in me wants to own a car and large house and the Healer in me wants to be a bee keeper. I am well on my way to all of those goals, but each could use a little power so I will give in to the detail planning of them sometime this month.
As for the “who reflects” question I am still looking in the mirror to find the answer!
May our Labor be in Her Name –Blessed Be.

To the Power of Three

2010-09-01T07:36:00.000-07:00

Anytime I start a new vein of thinking or study on begin with an intellectual quest to soak in as much information as possible about a subject. For me it helps me test personal beliefs and build a foundation from what others have learned so I don’t have to work so hard. It also allows me the liberty to build on what is already in the thought pool. I recognize there are times when an intellectual quest is counter-productive to pushing through some ideas that need to be born within. Contemplating POWER requires both.
During the last month I have checked out some books about what the world sees as power and I have been collecting images of what I think power looks like to make a collage. I have also been ‘dropping my awareness’ down into my power house chakras to sense where my personal power is resting and pooling for when I need it. From this I have come to believe that POWER is developed in a person when they have three things working for them. These things can be developed over time and they do not necessarily come from maturity but a proclivity to follow truth in one’s life.
The first is the decision to take full responsibility for the life you lead. Knowing that there are times when you have to take action to maintain your character and your principles for living. This may come in the form of waking up in the morning and saying “I take full responsibility for all my actions today.” Or it comes when you see something completely wrong happening – something that does not support your principles and you choose to step into the situation and act on your truth. For example yesterday I witnessed a Garden Crone leaving Braum’s with two heavy bags of food. She was sweaty and smelled of dirt and onions. It was clear she was struggling to get out the door with the heavy bags. Everyone was standing around watching her struggle and doing nothing about it. I walked up opened the door and offered to carry her bags to the car for her. She politely said no thank you I want to build up my muscles but you could open my trunk for me. When I went back into the store the level of shame was amazing. I could have cut it with a knife. The men standing around drinking coffee and looking at ice cream kept their heads turned down. My daughter asked “Mama are you making those men feel bad.” I replied with “No I did not need to do anything they did it to themselves.” She recognized that the action brought power enough to the people in the place for them to look down and feel shame. I hope my action made them think of their mothers and grandmothers and hope that someone would help the women in their lives.
The second factor for POWER to thrive is having a direction for the energy to move in your life. Early in my life I knew I wanted to play music and help people. Fortunately I got the opportunity to do both. What I thought would be a lifelong career turned out to last seven years then my energy changed and my direction for the energy shifted into being a mama. Then a funny thing happened a community of people started offering up energy because their direction was to learn and mine was to teach. I had to do something with that energy so I shaped it into a vocation. From that place I learned about POWER and how it is shared with others. It finally lead me to a place where I can share POWER and give purpose to the energy that mingles in my life.
The third thing that grows the POWER in one’s life is that you have some guidelines for using power. These guidelines come from lots of places – ancestral heritage, the moral compass in your hear and the choice to believe in or have faith in ideals that feel like truth. All of them set up principle by which we measure our responsibility to society and the direction we steer our lives. For me I believe in a strong work ethic, the eight principles of nature (beauty, strength, power, compassion, honor, humility, mirth and reverence), the law of love and most of all respect others as I want to be respected.
May we all shine in our POWER.

Power to Live

2010-08-25T12:23:00.000-07:00

My awareness of Power in my Life has really changed over the last 10 years. It started with a deep examination of what Feri folks call Power and how they use it. Once my mind was open to the possibility of having unlimited accessible power I realized that was really what people wanted. They could have a little but rarely could they handle that little bit. Witches on the other had have lots of Power and if awake enough to the Laws of Nature then they keep their minds intact.
I closely associate Power with Energy and if I am good at my energy management then my Power doesn’t get inflated or deflated at the change of every breeze. I have also witnessed that when I am in my Power then people feel more at ease around me and I feel better able to listen to them with an open heart. When I am in my Power I am better able to witness the life lessons of others without having to provide needless input, but I can be there and hold a space for learning and healing. When I am in my Power nature hears me and I hear Her.
To do some self support during my work, I read books related to what I am focusing on the wheel. Yesterday I came across a wonderful book and even though the subject matter is not strictly Power, it is about how to live a Powerful life. The book is by a woman who seriously influenced me as a therapist and person during high school and college Elizabeth Kubler Ross and her writing partner David Kessler.
I am only in the first chapter but that little bit has given me some real food for thought. A story at the beginning of the chapter reminded me of a time when I was nearly hit by a Semi-truck.
I was driving on a really busy highway one afternoon. I tried to avoid that highway during rush hour but on that particular day I could not. As we inched our way up into line to wait in bumper to bumper traffic, I looked in my rearview mirror to see a Semi-truck fast approaching my tail end. I had my one year old daughter in the car. My heart sank because I knew the Semi could not stop and I had no place to pull over unless I wanted to drive over the edge of a high rise overpass. I chose in that moment to accept that we were going to die. I turned around in my seat and looked at my daughter and with as much love and compassion I could muster I told her that I loved her with all of my heart. I knew that I did not want to die without telling her that and I did not want her to die not seeing my face in total love to her. Amazingly the Semi burned his brakes while trying to stop and prevent an accident. His front bumper was about an inch from the back of my car. We lived of course but it definitely made me realize that I didn’t want my daughter to go to sleep at night or leave to go to school without seeing love for her in my eyes.
So I ask you who in your life do you want to see the love in your eyes?

Let There Be...

2010-08-25T10:58:00.000-07:00

Every full moon in my own private way I look at the moon even hidden behind the clouds and I worship Her, the Queen of all the Stars. She is forever there calling to my womanhood and blessing me in mysterious radiance.
This full moon I considered an old practice of giving the Wheel Its Due. The wheel of course being the year wheel created by modern pagans in hopes of reclaiming what little bit of custom still lives in their blood. I thought about the command within the Charge of the Goddess – Let there be beauty and strength, power and compassion, mirth and reverence within you. I thought it would be nice to apply that commandment to the wheel and give each some ‘due’ attention. I meditated on the order and the Wheel and I finally came to an order that felt right in action.
Beauty-Beltane
Strength – Litha
Power – Lammas
Compassion – Mabon
Honor – Samhain
Humility – Yule
Mirth – Imbolc
Reverence – Ostara
From the length of time from Lammas to Mabon (which is now) I will reflect and meditate on Power. How I use my personal power, how I protect my power, how I build my capacity for power and how power moves me. I plan on doing this with making a collage for each area as the wheel turns. Plus I am reading books and media that reflect ideals of that particular time.
There is beauty and strength, power and compassion, honor and humility, mirth and reverence within me so I seek you Goddess at the door of my heart.

Summer Morphing

2010-08-20T10:19:00.000-07:00

I expected to take so many pictures of the beauty of the Lake over the summer but that did not happen. The elements of nature had different plans for me. I found myself not wanting to take pictures so I didn't have to share my intimate moments with nature. Those chance experiences of a beautiful sunset or three ravens chatting with me on the beach.
I also had summer of witnessing power with people. I also got to see how power can kill the spirit of generosity, compassion and intimacy. May I always keep my awareness open to see my power and use it wisely.
Be Blessed.

Wrestling the Truth

2010-06-25T07:13:00.000-07:00

Every day that I come to work in a government office, I find myself with more compassion for those who serve our country in the big things. I am not just speaking of the soldier that places their life out on the field of battle for the Gods to ponder. I am talking about the man who is sitting in a computer room off the coast of Louisiana considering what plan of action will do the least harm to the economy, the environment and lastly the people. Funny order of importance you may say but I beg to differ. Economy is more than money. It is the order of streets, clean water and civil order. It requires money to make those things function in a livable order. When I look at countries with no clean water and no way to safely travel down a road then I see civil unrest and corruption in all levels of government. New Orleans was a perfect example of what this country would be like without the basic access to clean water and a way to run away from the trouble. Our economic troubles did not start with a bank fart but with a hurricane. Americans got to see the truth about how much we needed our rules and to be managed and I think we didn’t like it. I know the wealthy saw it and it scared them so they started pooling their money for the next hurricane of civil unrest because they know the guillotine is not far away.
That same person sitting in the computer room is wondering how can we do least harm to the environment and how much more can our planet take. How many birds can we let die and how many fish can we pollute before we really piss off the planet? It is a reasonable expense of the environment as long as the economy does not get totally off balance. We cannot have the people turning on each other because the cleanup of that would be more costly on everyone and especially on our identity as a species. Then in the end it does come back to being all about the people.

Bees-Beautiful- Bees

2010-06-16T09:31:00.001-07:00

For two years I have been mulling over the idea of starting a hobby farm with bees. Of course it is not something you just run and say “I need a bad of bees please.” No there is a subtle art to learning to work with them. Well I got my confirmation that now is the time last night. I had a beautiful communication experience with five honey bees and five bumble bees. It was one of those world-less treasure moments in life. It was the confirmation as well as a push to get busy and build the box for the hive. So as I say farewell to Air and move into Fire, I am taking up the work of bee keeping. The bees are a blend of air and fire. What a nice transition.

Fire and Ice

2010-05-24T08:07:00.001-07:00

I thought I would share a really beautiful simple ritual with you. It is one of my favorites and it acts as a reminder to my whole self that our stories are magickal. I have a bowl that has a candle holder in it. I fill the bowl with water and stick it in the freezer to create a plain of ice. On whatever night I decide I take out the bowl and place a tea light candle in the holder and light it. As the candle heats the holder it makes the ice crackle and mist will sometimes form off of the ice.
I dim the lights and place the bowl with the fire and ice on my dining room table. I sit down and meditate and usually I read a creation story. Right now my favorite story is the Song of Sibyl and the Havamal. When read slowly with the ice crackling it makes me think of my ancestors sitting by fires telling the children how we came to be. Or I think of the old women who held the power of the stories and how they would spin and weave the tales of old into a spell binding lesson of life.
Take some time and try the fire and ice rite and be blessed in its working.

Bat Dancing

2010-05-24T07:55:00.001-07:00

I recently had the pleasure of visiting a city with a large bat population. My hotel had 23 floors and I was conveniently placed on the 20th floor with a perfect view of the city’s downtown. One of the nights of my visit a glorious storm started stirring in the atmosphere and my bat allies were twisting and streaking through the sky for their nightly snack. I went out on the balcony of my hotel to watch the storm and listen to the chirping of my bat friends. The BAM I had a bat attached to my nightgown. It started crying out and attracting other bats. I could feel their sonar song bouncing off my cheeks and arms. The whole time I was having a FREAK OUT in my head but I wanted to stay physically calm because I did not want the one stuck on my night gown to clamp down with it s claws or teeth. All I needed was to file a worker’s comp claim for being bitten by a bat, falling from the 20th floor of a hotel and all the necessary surgeries, shots and what not that followed. So I focused on being the still center of the experience and allowing the action of my ally to feed my spirit.
Finally the bat got untangled from my gown and its brothers and sisters flew back into the night. The sky opened up and poured rain. I took a huge breath and fed my GodSelf with the splendor of the experience . Blessed be our intimate experience with nature.

Magick & Madness

2010-04-28T13:17:00.000-07:00

My very first teacher in magick drilled the idea that magick if done without prep would to madness. I thought "yeah I am going to go run around in black hat and be a real nutter -sure I believe that." What an idiot I was! Prep work is not just casting the circle of protection or containment. It is the going before the Gods daily, fine tuning our magick radio dial to the land we live with and walk on and it is the constant cleaning up of our loose ends /complexes. I have spent this mercury in retrograde watching my friends who love magick and the power it brings into their lives go stark raving mad. I am not really sure at what point they stopped doing the basic fundamentals of centering, grounding, fine tuning, cleansing and being blessed by the Gods but it is clear the prep work has not been done.
This leads me to a thought strand of "more crazy random drama crap blamed on magick, witches and our kin." When in truth it is the lack of soul love and work done by the stark raving magickal person. It also makes me say no thanks I am flying solo on this mission to the stars and I gave up the job of public service magickal sanitation worker three years ago. I am better for it. If only there was a containment unit for those poor shells of witches who blow it and have to rebuild their circut systems. It might make the world a safer place.
Please practice magick responsibly!
Be blessed on your walk,

Wealth in Hard Times

2010-04-26T12:41:00.001-07:00

Wealth is a word I really never considered a part of my vocabulary unless I was talking about someone else. Then after a few years of finishing up projects that just seem to sit in container distracting me with thoughts of “hello over here – remember me” , I started having time to really clear out head space. At that point I had a list of tiny accomplishments from things I always wanted to try to that cross stitch I promised my grandma. With that power added up I decided to tackle the big M. No I don’t mean Martha however I am still reading her magazines and may blog soon. I am talking about MONEY.
I spent five months making lists of all my thoughts about money and what I realized was that my ‘issues’ were not with money. My lack of enthusiasm about financial anything was more about not being wealthy in a country that prides itself in having stuff. With that cleared up I began my journey to understanding the energy management of wealth. As much as men would like to think it is the same for both genders it is not. A few factors affect this difference life expectancy and the fact that we do not make as much as men do in the work place. So I started taking some classes geared toward preparing me for my female independence and let me tell you it was eye opening and empowering.
I had to think about how old I was likely to live to be and how much I have cost my parents since I left home. I realized I am not even close to middle age even though society says I am just a few years away. I still have 15.5 years to go before I can even think about being middle aged. Then came the cost I have given my parents then I multiplied that by five to get how much it will take to help my daughter out when the unexpected happens – holy crap I have some work to do. Not just in preparing her with better coping skills than mine were at 20 but also making her more empowered to deal with money.
I finally got down to understanding how wealth energy worked in my life. As a witch I knew I needed to learn to work with this new energy that is as old as the human race. Even our cave sisters had a wealth of meat or bones or herbs or whatever they accumulated. Now I can accumulate lots of papers and stuff to take up space. I can do it with little or no cost except that it becomes a distraction from what I really want – to have no financial worries when I am older and to help my daughter in her life. So I started doing magick on astrologically fine tuned days for wealth, abundance and prosperity. I have made treasure maps to tune my wealth radio dial in the directions I would like that energy to go. Most of all I have improved my health so that I can prevent the high costs of health care and reduce the burden my family will have when I am 107. Just like collecting mana for magick I collect strands of wealth energy and I store it. I let it tell me how to say thanks with volunteering in my community or establishing a small scholarship for a needy college student. Remembering that as a witch everything I send out comes back three times three.
Even in these economic times when wealth seems most hidden in the shadows, I can find it and dance in its light. Take some time and learn about wealth and the money will come.
The class I took on line is free and I encourage you to take a look at it:
http://wiseupwomen.tamu.edu

Dark Goddess and Family

2010-04-13T15:07:00.000-07:00

Well I survived by visit with my family a few weekends ago. They have morphed into humans that I really do not connect with any longer. My grandmother who I so connected with whipped out some fundamentalist christian propaganda about the government turining into Nazi's and my mother sat there in agreement. I watched this really interesting play that I call family. All the while looking at them knowing that the dark goddess was working her way through my beloved family. I hope they make it out the other side better people and get this pent up hate composted out of their systems. In the past many of the things they said would have really hurt my feelings and made me feel smaller than a seed. This time I just sat and witnessed their changing and the turmoil they were in, the drama spin off from it and the final goodbyes and false promises of calling one another more.
That of course made me think of all the times the dark goddess has moved through my life. I wondered what I looked like to those outside of my changing. I wondered if I looked as foriegn and out of control. The answer is yes! So I hope my compassion with my family will reflect when it comes my turn to dance with the dark one.
May we all be blessed in our composting ways.

2010-03-24T08:58:00.000-07:00

I am head out to visit my grandma this weekend. I am hoping to visit a favorite spot while I am there. Wild wonders are calling me home. I am hoping for a thunderstorm over Palo Duro canyon while I am there. If there is no thunderstorm then I will be doing ritual in the canyon. Here is picture of the famous Light House rock in the canyon.

2010-03-24T08:47:00.000-07:00

While driving through the speed trap alley of Louisiana, I had some time to contemplate the life of alligators. Especially the ones in the hotel /casino that hosted the conference I attended. These alligators live in tiny pools of water in the hotel lobby. I wondered what the alligators thought of us on lookers. I felt said for the on lookers because they were to chicken to go out into the wilds of Louisiana and see these peaceful critters in their natural habitat. Then I wondered when the alligators retired to the nearby alligator farm if they dreamed of the ‘Wheel of Fortune’ or ‘Lusty Devil’ slot machine music plugs. Would they miss the 24/7 noise of people milling around or the bling- bling- bling of coins being deposited. Or would they think that they had been taken by aliens to a foreign land and when they did make it back to normalcy would their relative believe them about their abduction. I know I felt like I was walking through another reality with alligators, slot machines and buffets surrounding me.
In all the trip was very helpful so it met its intended purpose. Plus I got to see a swamp. A part of the wild I have never seen. As much as I love watery things the swamp would take some getting use to. I did find it beautiful and the wildness that lived in the area I visited was heavy with memories of Hurricane Katrina and Rita as well as Factory dumping. It was oddly breath taking to watch a white crane build a nest on top of a Kraft cheese spread barrel. How zen the critter was while consumer shame danced circles in my brain.

Walking Softly

2010-03-08T13:39:00.000-08:00

This morning required the quiet of walking softly through the house.
Like light and shadow I moved listening to the dark of morning.
Walking softly beside me was the black dog- my guardian of the dark time.
What a practice of magick walking softly can be.
Become like the air and move with the light and dark , gently moving with intent.
Walking Softly to greet the dawn.
Mother teach me to walk with intent and gently with your feet.
So Mote It Be.

Actions of Gratitude

2010-02-25T10:48:00.000-08:00

Tomorrow is the big bison give away. The folks I work with slaughtered three bison and we are going to give meat away to Tribal members in the area. Such majestic animals and I am so very grateful to them for providing food for the local peoples especially. This area is so plagued by poverty that any help is wonderful.
Every week I try to do some deeply intended ritual of gratitude for the blessings in my life. Tonight I am offer a special gratitude to the Buffalo allies for helping the people. I am leaving out a combination of sage, tobacco, sweet grass and cedar while I read Paul Goble's book I Sing for the Animals. If you have never read any of Mr. Goble's work you should. It is beautiful in detail, art and storytelling. He is definitely one of my favorite storytellers. If you do not have a gratitude ritual just reading the book is do very touching and takes me to the place where all three souls are straight within me.

1st Chakra Landfill

2010-02-22T11:03:00.000-08:00

Nothing like doing the "work"! I spent the weekend eating my way through every junk food item in the cupboard. I figured it was because I had just finished one of the largest spells I had ever done. I figured oh well I am not storing enough energy to burn for this new working -denial is not a river in Egypt. Well of course none of that was true. I woke up this morning to find my base chakra in the shape of a land fill and is has been building to this state for some time. I have been concentrating on complexes and blocks in my first chakra since the begining of January. Well I guess I got to the core work this weekend. Healer Heal Thyself and get this land fill renewed I say.
I read somewhere during my college years that is takes 7 years for the body to complete a change and renew itself. I will see you all in seven years to confirm or smash this theory.
I bless this chakra and I promise to stop dumping on my fertile soil.
May we all be chakra blessed.

Making things Sound

2010-02-19T07:09:00.001-08:00

A healthy priestess makes all things sound…this is one of the life tenets I live by. I heard it years ago in a Feri workshop and it stuck. I saw so many layers to this statement. The first being the reference to sound meaning whole but it could also be related to the ability to vibrate or resonate with the surroundings. The next layer had to do with my concepts of health. What is healthy and by whose standards I use to wonder. Whoever made this statement surely did not mean the magazine American version of healthy and surely not textbook rules for weight and mental health. For this to come out of Feri made me really think about that because that vein of witchcraft is very flexible with definitions of healthy. Then the word ‘makes’ insinuates power. Of course Priestess takes it all to another worm hole of thinking. All the training and experience it takes just to be a Priestess to your Self is enough to make you resonate to a different sound in the multi-verse.
The last month I have really come to know the meaning of this statement. I have been doing some really deep work using Feri technology and it gave me a great gift to see this tenet in action. I started compassionately working with each of my chakras. Clearing out old patterns and behaviors – complexes as some people might say. Complex is a good word for them because unbinding them is definitely a complex art. I have been made keenly aware of those folks around me doing the same work in their own way. I started working through financial security stuff like my retirement accounts, changing savings plans and finally living with a budget in my family. Suddenly my co-workers and relatives started doing the same thing. I thought well cool the stars must be aligning and we have all tuned our radio dial to that channel. But then I moved forward in my chakra work and gave up some diet choices. I know drink water only. Suddenly everyone around me is giving up cokes, coffee, and tea for water. That is when I knew something was up. When I got to the work in exercise and fitness, the same affect happened. The entire fire department connected to my offices started exercising and then it dominoes – accounting, family services and so forth just start joining the gym with the exact intention as mine to work out 3 times a week.
This was eye opening for sure to me. I have been expanding my ability to sense and psycho-sense my environment. I am wondering if in that practice I haven’t opened a door of power. Of course I am suddenly very sensitive to my deliberate intentions to change because I know it will affect all that is around me. I comprehended this idea before but I did not know this idea before. It is now so very clear. Constantly aligning myself and keeping my mind intentions clear has become so very important.
Lady you are my Cosmic Mother, my greater deep from you all things emerge and unto you we return to keep. Bless this work and keep me mindful in the union of all things. So Mote It BE!

Knowing Everything

2010-02-18T11:16:00.000-08:00

I have recently taken a divination student. I know what a shock. She is very good and I think I am the student not the teacher. This time I have took a different perspective in the teaching process. In the past I went into the teaching space assuming that everyone was in kindergarten, but this time I am taking it as if she already knows everything. My job is to wait until she asks for what she needs. Amazingly it is working. She even noticed in the last lesson: "This is the first time I have asked for what I wanted in a class and gotten what I ask for.", she said. Then she shared that it is reflected in her muggle life as well. She is getting the courage to ask for what she needs and the universe is manifesting it for her.
What a huge lesson. I wonder what would happen if more magickal teachers assumed that the students knew everything and forced the students to ask for what they wanted. For one it would make the teacher reach deep and to get what the student needed. I think doing this also makes the student really pay attention to what they are doing in their work. If they come along and figure out they really don't know how to do something then they make a note to ask.
It has changed me. I am now asking for what I need clarity on more in my life as well.
May we blessed enough to know when to ask.

The Fine Line

2010-02-09T12:55:00.000-08:00

Today I am walking the Fine Line trying to decide if I want to enter back in to a relationship with an old friend. It is a fine line because I can not tell if this is one of those tests to see if you learned the lesson the first time or if it is a an opportunity to change. Time and decisions like these require the use of tools like a pendulum or cards. I am walking that fine line around my center and circumference to wondering if her circle will meet with mine again. Well I will have to divine to see the divinity in the situation.

Home Again, Home Again

2010-02-08T10:13:00.000-08:00

I made it home to a perfectly clean house. I went on one of my manic clean this crap up binges just before leaving for the wedding. It was so nice to come home to a clean house. Then I spent last night cleansing and consecrating the place and resetting house shields -very ecstatic.
I thought I would take it one step further and had a Kala bath. I just spent three days in the land of Dixie and I had forgotten how out of balance it can be. If the world thinks America has made any progress to equal rights they need to visit the backwoods of southern Arkansas. Well I had to get that out of my system and reset my SELF.
I came out of the bath with a new daily practice so that was a gift from the beyond. I started it this morning. I am pretty sure I walked around fully drawn down for about two hours because I came out of it commanding the copy machine to work without turning the power on. Makes be think I will have to change up my grounding and centering work as well. I almost made it to the space station while staying fully clothed and filing papers -what a morning practice.
May we be blessed on our walk.

Practice is Preventative Medicine

2010-01-28T10:25:00.000-08:00

Every morning I wake up about 5:30 and feel my through the dark house to feed the cats, give my dog a treat, get my warm lemon water then I sit. I sit and listen to the darkness outside - the quiet moment just before the birds give the cue that the sun is coming. Once the sun comes up I give prayers of gratitude then I make wishes. Then I march into the bathroom to shower and set my shields for the day. Of course I must make efficient use of my time(hahaha).
This morning I had a deep realization of the importance of my personal practice of listening to the darkness of morning, praying going to water and shielding. It moved beyond being just mine to be necessary. I will try on need practices sometimes and force myself to conform to some other set of prayers or sitting practice in hopes of obtaining what the teacher of choice is reflecting. It rarely works out. Over time I have found a practice that is necessary for me to be aligned and fined tuned to listen to my self allowing me to know myself and all my parts.
My practice reflects the witch I am and the circle I set for my life. I listen to the Air and Senses of the quiet dark, I pray with fire in my spirit, I go to water to release and reshape my being and I seek the iron of earth to shield me from that which would harm me. Wow what a connection.
My thoughts then moved to my grandma going straight into a practice of washing dishes and dusting when she is worried or fearful. My mother-in-law chewing gum and invoking the power of Jesus. My mother sleeping to resolve her worries. My childhood friend pulling weeds to work out her money worries. These were all practices mastered over a lifetime to be medicine when their souls become wounded or they step to close to the edge of our circles and nearly fall off.
The Native Americans I work with often say medicine is power so today I witnessed my practice in its full power.
I would like to know what your practice is.