Blessings Darlings!

Hurricane Sandy has just about finished having her way with my area now. Howling winds, torrential rains, 5 leaks in the house, etc. We didn’t lose power, in fact very few in our county have lost power – probably because the derecho took down most of the at-risk trees at the end of June!

Being a prepper, I didn’t have to hit the store for supplies. I did hit the stores before the storm because the Spawn wanted to make lasagna so he gave me $ and a shopping list. Most of the other carts had one or two cases of bottled water and other supplies each. Which was a surprise ….

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The other day, in “The Life You Save”, I pointed out how a volunteer firefighter was useless in the face of an emergency. She’s no longer my problem now that I don’t work with her. My problem is…

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So you say that you are a Witch, or Wiccan, or some other form of Magic User.  You Create Change in Conformity to Will (a phrase that goes back to, gasp, Aleister Crowley).  Or so you say …..

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I have a VERY good first aid kit. Full boxes of face masks and bandages and other supplies, full bottles of alcohol and such, lots of pressure wraps, 1st aid book, arm slings, eye patches, etc.

Yesterday it came into use.

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Neatly bucketed black walnuts, now scattered over the deck.
Very cute garter snake sunning itself on the back step.
Dreams for a week all about the same area of Chicago.
Barking foxes every night at 11.

Are any of them omens? How would you know?

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For discussion purposes I ‘divide’ magic into two broad categories, thaumaturgy and theurgy, the thaumaturgy being measurable ‘miracle working/money drawing/physical healing/etc’ and theurgy being “spiritual development work”.

I’ve posted some about those things before, like…

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Starting last year, the fall hype about Pumpkin Spice Lattes got my attention. The hype is greater this year, and that ‘rumor of unknown origin’ that Starbucks ‘is running out of’ the stuff made my inner marketer smirk. Ah, ADDED urgency – not just the limited time it’s available, but now limited amounts! Everyone to Starbucks, …

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I’ve been blessed with the poke berries and the mullein that I was looking for. Poke berries are drying for future use even as I type, I’ll dry the mullein after they are done and I’ve washed everything clean of the toxins.

I’m still putting out to the Universe that I’m looking for…

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I spent much of the last waxing moon making my first batch ever of magical chalk. Today I tried out the finished product. Clearly my skills in this still need some work. The chalk is…

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I just read Byron’s lovely article “Food For Thought … and Spirits“, to credit the inspiration for this post.

Byron has a great advantage over me on this one.  The bulk of my ancestors are buried almost 900 miles from me, in two Jewish cemeteries in Chicago, while she lives close to hers.  And she has a different heritage of working with them.  Jews DO visit their cemeteries, and DO work with each ancestor on the anniversary of her/his death, but decorating graves or eating/drinking at the cemetary is right out.  It was a VAST break in Jewish tradition when we planted flowers along with burying my uncle Maury – but everyone at the cemetery service knew Maury and knew that he LIVED in his garden, so knew why we chose to break tradition in this way.

So where do I go now to honor my Ancestors?

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