Blessings Darlings!
I don’t know if crows act as messengers from the Goddess who has me collared, but there are these times when … well, they can certainly be omens. So far, always omens about crap going down at work. It happened again yesterday.
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The Obligatory Mercury Retrograde Post
Blessings Darlings!
About 3 times a year, the planet Mercury is said to go ‘retrograde’ – that is, from the viewpoint of someone watching it from Earth, it goes ‘backwards’ from it’s usual course. This regularly-scheduled event leads to a crapload of posts full of strum und drung among the neoPagan community. “Don’t sign any legal agreement!” “Expect all your electronics to break!” Etc.
Well.
The Spirits Laughed.
Blessings Darlings!
Today is just a typical day at Chez Fern, with the Big Cooking Project making bone broth (don’t worry, it wasn’t anyone you knew).
Tis The Season – 2
Blessings Darlings!
Hunger is every less visible than most issues. One in 6 Americans can’t afford basic healthy food, especially fruits and vegetables. (http://www.feedingamerica.org/hunger-in-america/impact-of-hunger/hunger-and-poverty/hunger-and-poverty-fact-sheet.html). Even when folks are on food stamps, virtually none get the ‘full amount’ (roughly $140 a month for an adult). Many who are in need have no access to stores that sell food at a discount, due to not having cars, due to living in food deserts, due to long expensive bus trips to get to such stores, due to living in rural areas, etc.
Would you know if your neighbors are hungry?
Tis the Season
Blessings Darlings!
Tis the Season … to discuss hunger, homelessness, and related issues.
It Happened Again
Blessings Darlings!
As y’all already know, I make a lot of things from scratch, or almost-scratch. Like – my husband LOVES having Kahlua in his coffee in the evening. He does this three or so times a week. Kahlua is a pricy bitch, so I make my own.
Start Menu – Part 3 – Energy Work for Beginners
Blessings Darlings!
In preparing to write this segment, I pulled more than a dozen books off my bookshelves to see what THEY said about beginning energy work. The books, none aimed at adepts or masters or anything, ranged from Women’s Spirituality to Qabala to Ceremonial Magic and beyond, and since I couldn’t find my copy of The Spiral Dance yet I looked at the index of that one online.
Start Menu – Part two – Focus your mind.
Blessings Darlings!
Having addressed your mundane life in the last “Start Menu” post, let’s move on to another issue, focusing your mind/attention.
No magic here yet – it all comes down to practice!
The Start Menu – Part 1 – Mundane
Blessings Darlings!
So you want to get started in magic/Pagan spirituality/mysticism/whatever. Congratulations! But where do you start? I take a Maslovian view of this – that you start with the mundane.
Therefore, you’d start with things like…
Prepare Ye The Way of the Lords (and Ladies)
Blessings Darlings!
I’d like to expand on a theme I’ve touched on before, over in http://fernsfronds.blogspot.com/2009/06/intimacy-with-gods.html .
I’m in a lot of Facebook Pagan groups. It could well be argued that I’m in too many Facebook Pagan groups. At any rate, I see recurring themes in all the groups, one taking place around spell-begging (asking strangers online for spells for X, Y, or Z, or even for ANY spells) the other around ‘how do I know what God/dess is my patron?”