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Horned God Devotional

We got a sneak peek at the Table of Contents for the Devotional today! Check it out here.

To wet your appetite and make you run out to buy it when it comes out, here is (a slightly different version of) the essay I contributed.  There’s also a photo, a ritual and a poem of mine in the Devotional. I had started a “Very Brief History Of” but it got a little long and out of hand and then life got in the way. I am still working on that piece though, off and on. Someday I might just finish it! Anyways … I’m sure the Devotional will be amazing, just look at the contributors! I can’t wait!

I lay scattered in the abyss

Surrounded by a bleak

And terrifying nothingness

The creatures I had trusted

Who naively I had followed
Have torn me apart

And left me in a mess

The shock and horror

Their betrayal

The pain of my dismemberment
Fills my being and all that I am

And then suddenly is forgotten
As I begin to contemplate the blackness
And the fact that though torn asunder
I am still capable of self and thought
I realize that… Continue reading

The Flu and Divination

Some awesome questions were posted over at the Wild Geek Hang (the forum) about using pendulums, Ouija boards and what-not and I gave a rather long answers. Since I have the flu they were slightly fevered answers though! Enjoy:

  1. First and foremost, is Ouija as dangerous as common opinion would have me believe? What are the risks involved in using a Ouija board?
  2. Are there any similarities between what I’m looking to do and Ouija in terms of risk?
  3. Are there any specific precautions I need to take when using a board? How different is it from yes/no questions?
  4. Can the pendulum be influenced by other, less benign, spirits?
  5. I’ve heard talk of ‘opening doorways’ – what is it, and is it necessary? I’ve been doing simple yes/no questions without any ritual or faff so far
  6. Is doing this sort of thing without ritual or faff a good idea? Do I need to lay out some sort of protection?
  7. If opening doorways is necessary, how do you do it properly and how do you close it afterwards?
  8. Is there any chance I could get in over my head by doing this? (I accept the possibly, but how severe are we… Continue reading

Waiting Underground

by patti smith, oliver ray

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if you believe all your hope is gone

down the drain of your humankind

the time has arrived

you’ll be waiting here as I was

in a snow-white shroud

waiting underground

there by the ridge be a gathering beneath the pilgrim moon

where we shall await the beat of your feet hammering the earth

where the great ones tremble

in their snow-white shrouds

waiting underground

if you seek the kingdom come, come along

waiting by the ridge there’ll be a gathering

beneath the pilgrim moon

where the railroad thunders

oh where we shall await the beat of your feet hammering the earth

and as the earth resounds where the great ones tremble

and your humankind becomes as one

and then we will arise

in our snow-white shrouds

when we’ll be as one

but until that day we will just await

in our snow-white shrouds

waiting underground

in our snow-white shrouds

waiting underground

copyright © druse music, inc./yam gruel music 1997

Attack of the Podcasts!

While you wait for me to finish editing the next episode of Standing Stone and Garden Gate, please enjoy these recommended episodes of other podcasts:

First up, over at The Infinite and Beyond, Chris interviews Lon Milo DuQuette about Low Magick and much more.

Then head over to New World Witchery for fun winter traditions and to meet Cory’s wife, yay! Stick around for some more Yule Tide cheer.

Then Witch Talk Radio interviews Peter Paddon of the Crooked Path and Pendraig Publishing fame.

Random Encounters

I was reading Sarah’s blog over at the Forest Grove and was struck by this post:

They’re Watching You

… as well as the comments made by her readers.  Go and read it, then come back…

Okay.

I once had a boyfriend who was very much an Odin’s Man tell me of how one time while down on his luck and far from home he went to the bus station to see how much a ticket home would cost. He was  something like $3.12 short and they refused to sell him a ticket even though he was short only a few bucks. He was sitting on the curb outside the bus station trying to sort out what to do, when suddenly an old homeless man walked up to him calling his name. The homeless fellow seemed to know him and said he was so glad to have found him, that he had the money he owed him. My ex had no idea who this man was and had no idea why a homeless man would owe him money. The homeless man insisted he owed my ex money and gave him the exact amount of money he was short for the ticket… Continue reading

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