Hail the Mighty Dead: Empedocles
That’s right folks, this is where those four elements in Neo-Paganism came from.
Plug:
Sassy the Tambourine
So this is my tambourine. Her name is “Sassy”.
Isn’t she pretty? Let me tell you about her!
I bought her at a music store downtown for about $12. Yep, only $12. I know a lot of people spend good money on their drums but since I have never owned one before I thought it would be wise to start cheap. This way if I decide this was a bad idea, or if I break the thing (I’m clumsy) then I won’t be out of much money.
So this is my “starter drum” and that’s just fine with me.
She has about the circumference of a dinner plate, making her roughly medium sized as far as tambourines go. That seemed like a good size to start with, not too big, not too small. Sassy fits in my hand pretty well though I am finding that my hands get a little sore after a while, partly due to not being accustomed to holding something like a tambourine and partly because I tend to tense up and hold her too tightly.
She has 8 double zils or clackers. I was hoping for 9 because I like that number better but it seems… Continue reading
A Little Reading for Thanksgiving
Happy Canadian Thanksgiving folks! Here’s a few worthy blog posts & articles:
What is Neo-Pagan Clergy?
Travelling
Quick Compost
An Essential Witchcraft Tradition
The Importance of Grassroots Heathenry
Is Hedge Craft The New Wicca?
Compass Round or Ring of Art
An Introduction to Animism
The Twenty-First Century Blood Feud
September’s Hearth
Building Your Inner Sacred Space
To Fly By Night
The book is out!
This is the anthology that I wrote and essay for; in fact it is the “What is a Hedgewitch” essay that helps to open the book! It is published by Pendraig in California, a small (but growing) Witchcraft Publisher. It is edited and compiled by Veronica Cummer and has such contributors as …
… to name only a few.
Here is the little blurb:
Hedgewitch Craft takes its name from the practice of travelling beyond the boundaries, of going past the “hedgerows” that divide what is known from what is unknown. Hedgewitches utilize diverse techniques to undertake the night-flight into strange and sometimes dangerous places in order to gain spirit-allies, magickal abilities and knowledge, to heal and to commune with the Gods and the ancestors.”
From the ancient to the modern, from the philosophical and historical to the practical and mystical, these essays span a wide variety of paths and approaches.
My own copies are still on their way, that’s how new this book is, and I can’t wait!
Where can you buy this book? Check out Amazon; check out the Pendraig webpage for a… Continue reading
Todays Rant: Curses! (foiled again)
People think that curses are less or non effective if you don’t believe in them, this is false.
Curses are not less effective if you think they are bullshit. Sorry, it just doesn’t work that way. If I don’t believe in UV rays I can still get a sun burn. If I think that only gays get AIDS I can still catch HIV.
Curses are more effective if you believe in curses, believe you have been cursed and get all paranoid about it. This is why someone who believes in curses seems to get it worse than someone who does not, because a believer will talk themselves into thinking its worse than it really is.
It like two people having the same allergic reaction, one is rational and the other a hypochondriac. The hypochondriac is going to itch and scratch worse because he will make a big deal out of it and obsess over it. The rational person will simply apply cream and shrug it off, or ignore it until it goes away.
Also having someone think bad thoughts in your general direction or even send off a negative vibe at you is not a curse. Putting energy into thinking… Continue reading
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