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Random things that have been on my mind

Published May 6, 2011 | By Juniper

I need to work with my casting collection more. I require clients. I have been considering offering to do a few castings at the Wild Geek Hang. I’ve never done long distance castings before, that should be interesting.

I have also been looking for an additional piece, something to represent kids, children, childhood, the inner child etc … maybe a brightly colored bead?

I am also interested in trying casting into a wooden bowl and reading from the top down. But since I have a new cloth I am still working with, this will have to wait.

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There are creeps and then there are creeps.

There are men who aren’t skilled socially, the kind of guys you have to draw firm and obvious boundaries with. Sometimes you gotta say “no” loud and clear. Usually they don’t mean harm, they are just either clueless or the kind of guys who push their luck.

I understand *intellectually* that many women find men who are “social retards” to be creepy. But honestly, I don’t get it. Is it that they can’t defend their own boundaries; can they not say “no”? Do they not know how to shield? Do they… Continue reading →

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Walking

Published April 15, 2011 | By Juniper

I was walking a street in suburbia this afternoon. The sun was at my back and the wind was cold. A few doors down and across the way a door opens. A man in a brown jacket steps onto the front porch and then turns back to speak to someone in the house.

Then it hits me. As if the wind did not break upon my body but rather ran through it. Half a moment of fuzzy confusion and then a familiar shift in consciousness. Suddenly the world is full of glare, lens flare, as if the sun had swung around and into my face.

The only thing in focus is the man in the brown jacket. His head still turned to face inside the home. He begins to speak, I can hear him clearly, despite the fact that he is not close and is turned away from me. His voice echos towards me as if amplified somehow. He says “Okay Juni, stay the course. Everything will work out in the end.”

I blinked. And still walking, turned my corner. The man closed the door and started down the drive.

Another shift. A deep breath. The wind ceases to flow… Continue reading →

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Parlez Vous Français? (Part One)

Published April 12, 2011 | By Juniper

(I’ll stop posting about politics and social studies soon … for a while anyways. This blog reflects the things on my mind and I guess that is what is on my mind. Also, please don’t kill me.)

It’s a funny thing, being a country this big, the second largest in the world land-wise. Being this big means that sometimes the west coast doesn’t know what the east coast is up to and the south almost forgets there’s more to the north than ice, snow and oil.

There is a Canuck tradition to do the Great Canadian Road Trip at least once in your life, traveling from one end of this gigantic country to the other. A trip that can last two weeks or two months depending on how much of a hurry you are in and which route you take. Even still, there’s only so much culture you can soak up staying in Moose Jaw … or Medicine Hat, or Thunder Bay … for a day or two before moving on. It takes a while to get to know a place and its people.

It’s a big country, a young country, still being colonized you might say.… Continue reading →

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Mortar and Pestle

Published March 31, 2011 | By Juniper

The new piece in the casting collection (aka divination set) has now been blessed and blooded, as well as the new casting cloth. A couple of other items got their blessing in at the same time. As you can see in the photos, when I wind up needed extra table space I just set up the TV tray as a kind of side altar.

In case you missed it, the new piece for the set is a small pewter mortar and pestle. It shall symbolise health, healing, medicine, doctors, herbalism and the like.

The new casting cloth is made of deer hide. The ink I used to make the sigil was not totally dry before I rolled it up for the first time; as such an imprint was made on the back. Which actually turned out pretty awesome; I love it when happy accidents like that happen.

Anyways, the whole set got a month off (well technically one whole menstrual cycle) to relax, soak up the sun, enjoy the “super” full moon and all that jazz. And get acquainted with the newest member of the set of course. Each individual piece has just a tiny sliver… Continue reading →