Author Archives: Fern WiseWoman

Familiars – Is Googling ‘Familiar Spirit

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TL/DR: If it eats and shits, it’s a pet not a familiar spirit.

You KNOW it’s true:  damn near every online Pagan group has constant posts of animals and people claiming that the animals/pets are their familiars.  Such posts take up a huge amount of bandwidth (I’m so old that I remember when that mattered).  So let’s start with what a familiar spirit is and what its traditional functions are.

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Perfect Love and Perfect Trust.

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The oft-bandied about Wiccan phrase we’re looking at today is “Perfect Love and Perfect Trust”.

Can imperfect people do anything perfectly?  And … love and trust in who or what?

Let’s start with an easier part of this.

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Mind The Three Fold Laws Ye Should.

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Alternative title:  Have you paid your debts?

Today I’m looking at another phrase commonly quoted at folks in the NeoPagan community.  “The Three Fold Law.”  Which folks tend to think of as a bean counter computer in the sky that automatically returns to you what you send back, three times over.  In fact, tho’…

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The Vices of Malkuth – Inertia and Greed

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Since I am dreading and thus putting off blogging about the Wiccan Rede … this seems like a great time to talk about the Vice of Malkuth “Inertia”, since I’m experiencing it.  But as long as I’m here, I’ll look at the other vice of Malkuth as well.

You might not know …

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My Worship Is In The Heart That Rejoices.

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This is the first in what will be (I hope) a multi-post series on phrases from Wicca bandied about in the neopagan community.

While Wicca is primarily an orthopraxic mystery religion, it has a few phrases that are quoted y some as orthodoxy.  One of them …

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Everyone Is the Hero Of Their Own Story

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In a Facebook group the other day (yes, one of the vile swamp of dysfunctional ones – those are where I get inspiration for many of my rants) someone was going on about doing a prosperity spell, but to be careful …

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Most FB Support Pagan/Witch Groups Are Vile Swamps of Dysfunction

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I enjoy discussing religion, politics, magic, gardening, prepping, cooking, food, science, and a whole lot of other stuff.  And if there is a topic, there are probably hundreds of Facebook groups for that.  Some of those groups are good, and promote great discussions, and everyone learns new things and grows.  But those groups are really bloody rare.

They seem especially rare for Pagan and Witch topics.  Discussion and citing sources and …

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Altar Placement

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So, we moved again – now close to the house we first lived in in this area, only right on the cattle farm instead of it being  ‘across the street, and behind the house on the other side of the street’ from us.  Moving is always hard when you’re old and have ‘stuff’, but most of that is …

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The Gods are not your bitches.

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Would you walk up to a random stranger on the street and ask them to give you stuff?  Like, “Hey – you don’t know me at all, and I don’t know you.  But …”

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Pearls before … y’all.

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I believe that I’m going to start blogging again. The blogs will probably be mostly reactive, spurred by irritants I run into. But dealing with irritants is how pearls are made, right?

Frondly, Fern

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