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
Link Love
I have been updating the link sections for the Hedge and for the podcast. So I figure it’s time to point you all to a few of the blogs, articles, websites and podcasts that I wander over to now and then. (Sorry if there are any repeats from previous link posts)
If Witches No Longer Fly: Today’s Pagans and the Solanaceous Plants by Chas Clifton
Something I am Working On …
… a snippet of the start of something. Raw and unedited.
Abbé Henri Breuil sketched diligently by the dim gas-light, in a high alcove deep within a cave system. What he drew there and in other caves, what theories he later published about his discoveries, would help shape not only modern archaeology but also modern Paganism.
The Abbé was a man obsessed, crawling through narrow passages and scaling walls, only to lie upon the floors of caverns humanity had not set foot upon for thousands of years. All to draw the images he found there within. The most ancient of art in European history called to him. Cave art; depictions of bison and horses, lions and hand prints. And, in only a few instances, images of the human form mingled with that of an animal. The experts call these part-human, part-animal figures therianthropes.
The Trois-Frères cave was just one of many ancient cave systems Breuil would visit in his lifetime. In fact, it is far from the most famous of caves he worked in. Discovered in southern France, the art in this cave dates back to the mid-Magdalenian period of about 14,000 B.C.E. This cave features some 280 engraved images… Continue reading
The Phony Reading
So as many of you may know, the Samhain episode of Kakophonos featured a bizarre disappearance of its host and our friend Rikki. Please click here to catch up on the out come of the shenanigans before continuing to read.
You’re back? Alrighty …
As part of my contribution to the social theatre I posted an update on the podcast website, posted on Facebook, created a “missing person” poster and did a Collection casting “trying” to divine what had happened to Rikki.
It’s the augury that interests me and that is the focus of this blog post. That’s right! I faked a reading, a phony casting with my Collection (click here to see the blog post about it). While doing so I learned something.
Now first let me state clearly that I discussed this with my Collection … And to be honest writing that last sentence felt a little loony, but its true. I unwrapped the leather bag from it’s handkerchief (I keep the leather bag wrapped in a silk handkerchief sometimes), opened it up and explained that we were going to help a friend with a little joke.
Each piece in the set has something of a spirit… Continue reading
Charming
During my Hedge Group’s Samhain ritual we were given pretty bracelets with a large lapis bead each. Being a Gemini with a lot of Crow energy (if you know what I mean) I was thrilled. YAY! NEW SHINY!
Sadly, the bracelet itself was made of a metal I tend to react to. I still wear nickel now and then but I can’t for any length of time. Usually I will spray such items with a sealant as a solution to my itchiness but that was not possible in this case due to the design of the bracelet. Therefore I had to get my creative juices flowing.
As I was contemplating the lapis bead and nickel plated chain I was suddenly reminded of my old sterling silver charm bracelet. Like many little girls, my mother purchased a charm bracelet shortly after my birth. Mine was already a vintage or near vintage item at the time that Mom bought it. According to my Google-fu it is of a style popular in the late 1960s, which sounds about right (I was born in 1980). It comes complete with a traditional box-style clasp with a swing-arm and locking pin on the side.
So I… Continue reading
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