Familiars – Is Googling ‘Familiar Spirit’ a redundant action?

Blessings Darlings!

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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Are we all pagan/witch brothers and sisters?

Blessings, Darlings!

Subtitle: The distribution of assholes is pretty much uniform thru’out the world and amongst all groups.

Yes, welcome to another installment of “oft bandied phrases” in the neopagan/witch world.  Today is “we are all brothers and sisters.”

You’re probably a nice enough person, but you are not …

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Fairy Donuts are Off Limits

Recently I had written a blog about viewing Fairyland as modern and reassessing our conceptions of it and its inhabitants. Following on that I saw a post by Chas Clifton on his blog at Letters from Hardscrabble Creek ‘In the Land of Fairy Don’t Eat the Pentagram Pizza’ which touched on my blog as well the post by John Beckett that had inspired mine, but Clifton also went further to talk about…

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Fern and Spawn Go To A Funeral

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At this point of time I’m actively grieving the death of a friend.  Her funeral was this morning, my son and I (we both worked with her) were able to attend the funeral but not last nights viewing.

We don’t go to many funerals.  Part of it is our ages (relatively few of the folks were closest to die very often), partly because for family deaths we are more likely to visit the family during the week of observing …

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The Wiccan Rede

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It’s time.  I can’t put off looking at “An it harm none, do as ye will”.

Let’s start with this:  it’s 8 words.  EIGHT  E*I*G*H*T .  Shortening it IN ANY WAY changes it completely.  It’s meaning is not …

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The Morrigan’s Call Retreat 2018

 The beginning of June, for the fifth time, I headed off to the Morrigan’s Call Retreat to share in fellowship with other people who honour the Great Queens. Every year I teach workshops at the Retreat and help in the rituals; I see old friends and make new connections with people. My experiences over the years have been good ones and I always write about them when I get back.

Bridge entering…

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Personal Responsibility

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Today’s installment in my series on ‘oft bandied about Wiccan/Neopagan sayings’ is “Wicca/witchcraft/paganism is a path of personal responsibility.”  Oh, you’ll find that all sorts of folks mention that it’s part of the path, investing one line or two – maybe even one paragraph! – to the concept, but then you look at what happens in almost every online esoteric group …

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This ‘n’ that.

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Maybe I should blog on some of these, maybe not.  So I’m just giving short work on these topics right now:

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Familiars – Is Googling ‘Familiar Spirit

Blessings Darlings!

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.

Blessings Darlings!

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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