Monthly Archives: October 2011

The Bone-Man, the snake and the alraun

snake at the neck, the snake of wisdom
the snake wind around the base of the bone-man’s head. The serpent is the bringer of wisdom and all manner of deep and otherworldly magic.

Finally, it is completed!  Handcarved by Andrew Jimenez and Angelina Nelson (me).  Ready to be dedicated on the dark moon.  The (real ebony) wood was sained in silver-tear, rubbed in juniper, censed with juniper branch and mandrake leaf, oiled with my private blend of wormwood/mandrake anointing oil (everything hand collected and hand made of course).  It rested on a bed of its own shavings and rabbit bones during the last dark moon.   We sanded and smoothed it, blessed and re-blessed it and everyday felt the weight of its beautiful energy.  

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Here and Gone

For the past few weeks I have been working on a very special post.  It was to announce my pregnancy.  I had kept a log of every week and how I was feeling and journaled my emotions and everything.  I was so excited about it, but kept it a secret for all these weeks because I wanted to share it at a special time.  I had told some of my friends but not all of them to see if the others would guess,

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Just one of those days

Have you ever run across people and wonder how they ever get through life without having someone wipe their ass for them?  You know the ones I mean..they are the ones that wander around letting others make decisions for them or others and just going with the flow without giving any thought as to what […]

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Book review – Freya, Lady, Vanadis

 For this Monday’s book review I am going to look at the book Freya, Lady, Vanadis: an introduction to the goddess by Patricia Lafayllve.
  This book is an excellent resource for anyone wanting to learn more about the Goddess Freya. This is an indepth, academic look at her which goes beyond the surface examinations found elsewhere. Each chapter deals with different aspects of the mythology and how they shape our understanding of this goddess in relation to sex, love, war, …

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Sometimes things are not always what they seem

People freak out of the weirdest things.  Take dreams for instance.  People dream things and they immediately think things are as they seem.  Now I dream things such as going to the swamp to see Maman, but those are more like “visions” because I don’t always have to be asleep..I can will myself there if […]

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By A Thread

Migraine time again. So many images sweeping me up into a vortex of cacophonic assaults of light and movement. Many of them, nothing but misfirings of stressed neurons. Something to chuckle at, then discard like a Facebook opinion. But two days after one image in particular, I keep finding my attention drawn back to it. …

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By A Thread

Migraine time again. So many images sweeping me up into a vortex of cacophonic assaults of light and movement. Many of them, nothing but misfirings of stressed neurons. Something to chuckle at, then discard like a Facebook opinion. But two days after one image in particular, I keep finding my attention drawn back to it. …

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to contemplate, watch, observe..fine..but what did you learn?

I’ve been able to go through life as a watcher/observer of people and their nature.  It’s fascinating really to see how they behave in a myriad of situations.  So sometimes when I am on a group page, I am content to watch what plays out there or not say much for others doing the same […]

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Reflections

 So, the beginning of October has arrived once again. I have a lot of plans for the blog this month including more discussion of who the Druids were, as well as who I feel Druids today would/should/could be (and are of course), a post on Samhain, and one on traditional types of Celtic ination, and also a post on seidhr and the ancestors…but to start off the month I’m feeling generally reflective.
  Everything right now seems to be at such a pivotal point. October has long been …

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