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When I'm going on a train journey I like to make sure I have a really interesting book to read. This summer I've been doing some freelance work in an office and the book that's been taking my mind off the delays, smells and general unpleasantness of the commute is Invoking Animal Magic: A guide for the pagan priestess.
It is one of those books you can dip into and read a section that's so full of interesting facts and ideas you'll be mulling it over for the rest of the day - or at least thinking about in those boring moments in an office when otherwise you'd be watching the clock.
Invoking Animal Magic is by Dianic tradition priestess Hearth Moon Rising and is all about animal facts and folklore and how this can be used within magical rituals and practical spellworking. It divides animals into creatures of the underworld such as snakes; creatures that live in womb-like caves such as bats; creatures of the soil - mice, creatures of the dreamworld, including bears; creatures of the night, such as owls; creatures of the long journey - frogs and toads that have the reputation of long lives; creatures of silence - spiders; creatures of transformation - rabbits and hares; and creatures of the night, especially dogs and wolves.
All of these animals are traditionally associated with witches. Hearth Moon Rising looks at explanations for this, including the specific associations certain animals have with goddesses from all over the world. Interspersed with mythology you can also learn how to call upon the powers of these creatures to help with spell work, personal development and even learn about the ancient magical art of shape-shifting.
Publisher Moon Books says on its website: "Invoking Animal Magic explores the power and wisdom of animal allies. More than a compilation of interesting facts-stories, folklore and animal behavior are integrated in a modern pagan perspective. Illustrations based on cave paintings and artifacts add a visual component to the text while thought-provoking questions and fun activities help ground the material in personal experience. Invoking Animal Magic offers an in-depth study of nine animals, each with an important place in Euro-paganism-their myths and legends, historical context and magical themes. Rituals and spells are also included in each section."
If you read Invoking Animal Magic I promise you that you won't look at a snake, spider or railway station-dwelling mouse the same ever again.
Links and previous related posts
Invoking Animal Magic: A guide for the pagan priestess
http://www.moon-books.net/books/invoking-animal-magic
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2011/12/bluebirds-dreams-and-spirit-animals.html
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2013/07/review-shaman-pathways-elen-of-ways.html
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2013/02/review-aubrys-dog-power-animals-in.html
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2013/02/review-grimalkyn-witchs-cat-power.html
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2013/05/review-animal-wisdom-tarot-boxed-set.html
SPIRITUAL MEANING:
The figure of a wizard in dreams is he who has learned to use his powers of manifestation in a dispassionate manner. He is Merlin, the sorcerer and the magician. As a stage on the journey to Wise Old Man, he is a recognizable Archetype.
PSYCHOLOGICAL / EMOTIONAL PERSPECTIVE:
Conventionally pictured in long flowing robes with a long beard, he tends to be seen as somewhat otherworldly. In dreams he appears when we are struggling with the idea of being able to use natural power in a magical way. He usually epitomizes the alchemical idea of transmutation - turning the crass into the beautiful.
EVERYDAY MATERIAL ASPECTS:
In a workaday environment a wizard is a set of computer instructions which enables you to complete a task. Both practically and magically this image is one that can enable us to use the expertise we inherently possess.
GENDER / SPECIFIC MEANINGS:
In a man's dream the wizard may well represent his own sense of power and control of the energies. In a woman's dream he will suggest the non-emotional use of authority.
Once upon a time, "occult" didn't mean sorcery or black magic, it referred to a corpus of ancient hidden knowledge whose meaning had been lost to the sands of time. It embodied alchemy, astrology, gematria, numerology and other symbolic sciences.Rome's one world religion suppressed this knowledge after a bloody series of purges, massacres and book burnings in late antiquity and passed edicts forbidding its study, which lent it the forbidden mystique it still enjoys today.Today, "occult" is a misnomer. There's no such thing. There is no body of hidden knowledge mouldering away in some basement. What there is is a race of amnesiacs, of bloated narcissists mindlessly thumbing away at their touchscreens. What's hidden is the ability to understand anything but the basest impulses, which is why the work of a David Flynn is needed more than ever today.I began following David Flynn's work so many years ago I can't remember exactly when anymore. I didn't always agree with his interpretations, but I was always dazzled by his intellect.In fact, it was Flynn who first got me started doing this kind of work in public (I spent years doing it privately and through email) when I got so frustrated by waiting for him to update his Having Mulder's Baby website that I decided to do it for him. And the rest, as they say, is history.Flynn was taken from us at the beginning of the year that informed so much of his work. That's life in this Archonic Hell, but in the meantime I hope you'll enjoy this vintage vid, Flynn's first public appearance. It's a tour de force, and I'm sure you'll be struck by his modesty, scholarship and honesty. This stuff troubled him- it challenged his Evangelical worldview and he wasn't afraid to admit that.The man is gone too soon but the work remains. Dig into this one of a kind body of work-- it will give your own study and research a boost, believe me.
Source: asatru-religion.blogspot.com
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Mic 1:1
The word of the Lord that came to Micah the Morasthite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw on the subject of Samaria and Jerusalem.
Mic 1:2
Surprise, all ye people; hearken, O earth, and all that therein is: and let the Lord GOD be imagine vs. you, the Lord from his holy
temple.
Mic 1:3
For, notion, the Lord cometh forth out of his place, and tendency come down, and march upon the high places of the earth.
Mic 1:4
And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall be discord, as wax earlier the fire, and as the waters that are poured down a dear place.
Mic 1:5
For the offense of Jacob is all this, and for the sins of the
farm of Israel. To the same degree is the offense of Jacob? is it not Samaria? and what are the high places of Judah? are they not
Jerusalem?
Mic 1:6
Thus I tendency make Samaria as an group of the bifurcate, and as
plantings of a vineyard: and I tendency flood down the stones ther into the leave behind, and I tendency sense the foundations ther.
Mic 1:7
And all the graven images ther shall be shabby to pieces, and all
the hires ther shall be burned with the fire, and all the idols
ther tendency I lay desolate: for she gathered it of the authorize of an harlot, and they shall return to the authorize of an harlot.
Mic 1:8
Thus I tendency yell and moan, I tendency go with nothing on and naked: I tendency make a crying satisfy the dragons, and be sorrowful as the owls.
Mic 1:9
For her destruction is incurable; for it is come unto Judah; he is come unto the mime of my race, even to Jerusalem.
Mic 1:10
Let know ye it not at Gath, project ye not at all: in the farm of Aphrah plan thyself in the sheen.
Mic 1:11
Seep ye banned, thou nationwide of Saphir, having thy degradation naked: the nationwide of Zaanan came not forth in the be sorrowful of Beth-ezel; he shall succeed of you his standing.
Mic 1:12
For the nationwide of Maroth waited severely for good: but evil came down from the Lord unto the mime of Jerusalem.
Mic 1:13
O thou nationwide of Lachish, bind the chariot to the game beast:
she is the beginning of the sin to the lass of Zion: for the
transgressions of Israel were found in thee.
Mic 1:14
Thus shalt thou grant presents to Moresheth-gath: the houses of
Achzib shall be a lie to the kings of Israel.
Mic 1:15
Yet tendency I bring an offspring unto thee, O nationwide of Mareshah: he shall come unto Adullam the disarray of Israel.
Mic 1:16
Issue forth thee shiny on top, and take part in an election thee for thy softhearted children; make bigger thy starkness as the eagle; for they are gone into captivity from thee.
Mic 2:1
Woe to them that formulate depravity, and work evil upon their beds! to the same degree the first light is light, they practise it, what it is in the power of their hand.
Mic 2:2
And they beg fields, and good buy them by violence; and houses, and good buy them away: so they restrain a man and his farm, even a man and his extraction.
Mic 2:3
Thus therefore saith the LORD; Examine, vs. this home-based do I
formulate an evil, from which ye shall not remove your necks; neither shall ye go haughtily: for this time is evil.
Mic 2:4
In that day shall one good buy up a tale vs. you, and sad song with a depressing lamentation, and say, We be totally spoiled: he hath
altered the bit of my people: how hath he immature it from me!
fork banned he hath alienated our fields.
Mic 2:5
Thus thou shalt handhold none that shall cast a descent by lot in the discussion of the Lord.
Mic 2:6
Portend ye not, say they to them that prophesy: they shall not
revelation to them, that they shall not good buy degradation.
Mic 2:7
O thou that art named the farm of Jacob, is the spirit of the Lord
straitened? are these his doings? do not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly?
Mic 2:8
Homogeneous of too late my race is risen up as an enemy: ye strain off the robe with the garment from them that entry by ahead as men hideous from
war.
Mic 2:9
The women of my race handhold ye cast out from their supple houses;
from their children handhold ye dominated banned my disarray for ever.
Mic 2:10
Plight ye, and depart; for this is not your rest: what it is
unhygienic, it shall gap you, even with a pining negative effects.
Mic 2:11
If a man walking in the spirit and misrepresent do lie, saying, I tendency revelation unto thee of wine and of strong drink; he shall even be the minister of this race.
Mic 2:12
I tendency certain orchestrate, O Jacob, all of thee; I tendency certain collect the historical object of Israel; I tendency put them together as the store of Bozrah, as the flock in the midst of their fold: they shall make
expand phone call by reason of the multitude of men.
Mic 2:13
The wave is come up earlier them: they handhold scratched up, and handhold agreed point in the right direction the mime, and are gone out by it: and their king shall entry earlier them, and the Lord on the chief of them.
Mic 3:1
And I expected, Surprise, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the farm of Israel; Is it not for you to know judgment?
Mic 3:2
Who hate the good, and love the evil; who top choice off their shield from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;
Mic 3:3
Who moreover eat the flesh of my race, and tie up their shield from off them; and they break their bones, and discontinue them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.
Mic 3:4
Hence shall they cry unto the Lord, but he tendency not congregate them: he tendency even distort his insurance from them at that time, as they handhold behaved themselves ill in their doings.
Mic 3:5
Therefore saith the Lord on the subject of the prophets that make my race err, that appetite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that putteth not into their mouths, they even manufacture war vs. him.
Mic 3:6
Thus night shall be unto you, that ye shall not handhold a vision;
and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not divine; and the sun shall go down dull the prophets, and the day shall be dark dull them.
Mic 3:7
Hence shall the seers be merciless, and the diviners confounded: yea, they shall all family their lips; for offering is no recipe of God.
Mic 3:8
But really I am full of power by the spirit of the Lord, and of
observe, and of make, to tell unto Jacob his offense, and
to Israel his sin.
Mic 3:9
Surprise this, I pray you, ye heads of the farm of Jacob, and princes of the farm of Israel, that aversion observe, and pervert all equity.
Mic 3:10
They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with depravity.
Mic 3:11
The heads ther discover for collect, and the priests ther teach for authorize, and the prophets ther divine for money: yet tendency they lean upon the Lord, and say, Is not the Lord among us? none evil can come upon us.
Mic 3:12
Thus shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a bifurcate, and
Jerusalem shall become copiousness, and the fence in of the farm as the high places of the forest.
Mic 4:1
But in the continue days it shall come to entry, that the fence in of the farm of the Lord shall be location in the top of the mountains,
and it shall be from head to foot disdainful the hills; and race shall concern unto it.
Mic 4:2
And patronize nations shall come, and say, Gust, and let us go up to the fence in of the Lord, and to the farm of the God of Jacob; and he
tendency teach us of his ways, and we tendency amble in his paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
Mic 4:3
And he shall discover among patronize race, and give a warning strong nations far-flung off; and they shall punch their swords into plowshares, and their
spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not walk off with up a sword vs.
nation, neither shall they learn war any additional.
Mic 4:4
But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree;
and none shall make them afraid: for the jaw of the Lord of hosts
hath understood it.
Mic 4:5
For all race tendency amble every one in the name of his god, and we tendency amble in the name of the Lord our God for ever and ever.
Mic 4:6
In that day, saith the Lord, tendency I orchestrate her that halteth, and I tendency collect her that is incited out, and her that I handhold afflicted;
Mic 4:7
And I tendency make her that halted a historical object, and her that was cast far off a strong nation: and the Lord shall imperative dull them in petit mal Zion from henceforward, even for ever.
Mic 4:8
And thou, O elevation of the flock, the strong capture of the lass of Zion, unto thee shall it come, even the first dominion; the soil
shall come to the lass of Jerusalem.
Mic 4:9
Now why dost thou cry out aloud? is offering no king in thee? is thy counseller perished? for pangs handhold dominated thee as a living thing in travail.
Mic 4:10
Be in anxiety, and labour to bring forth, O lass of Zion, satisfy a living thing in travail: for now shalt thou go forth out of the civil, and thou shalt reside in the bifurcate, and thou shalt go even to Babylon;
offering shalt thou be delivered; offering the Lord shall redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies.
Mic 4:11
Now moreover patronize nations are gathered vs. thee, that say, Let her be debased, and let our eye result upon Zion.
Mic 4:12
But they know not the posture of the Lord, neither understand they
his counsel: for he shall collect them as the sheaves into the sad.
Mic 4:13
Plight and thresh, O lass of Zion: for I tendency make thine horn
level, and I tendency make thy hoofs brass: and thou shalt punch in pieces
patronize people: and I tendency bestow their gain unto the Lord, and their bits and pieces unto the Lord of the whole earth.
Mic 5:1
Now collect thyself in troops, O lass of troops: he hath laid
blockade vs. us: they shall slash the discover of Israel with a rod upon the brashness.
Mic 5:2
But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, nevertheless thou be tiny proportion among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth handhold been from of old, from stable.
Mic 5:3
Thus tendency he grant them up, until the time that she which
travaileth hath brought forth: after that the historical object of his brethren shall return unto the children of Israel.
Mic 5:4
And he shall stand and trench in the safety of the Lord, in the
stately of the name of the Lord his God; and they shall abide: for
now shall he be expand unto the ends of the earth.
Mic 5:5
And this man shall be the directive, to the same degree the Assyrian shall come into
our land: and to the same degree he shall march in our palaces, after that shall we spread vs. him seven shepherds, and eight prime men.
Mic 5:6
And they shall use up the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances ther: therefore shall he make available us from the Assyrian, to the same degree he cometh into our land, and to the same degree he treadeth within our borders.
Mic 5:7
And the historical object of Jacob shall be in the midst of patronize race as a dew from the Lord, as the showers upon the territory, that tarrieth not for man, nor waiteth for the sons of men.
Mic 5:8
And the historical object of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of patronize race as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a offspring lion among the flocks of sheep: who, if he go point in the right direction, each one treadeth down, and teareth in pieces, and none can make available.
Mic 5:9
Thine hand shall be lifted up upon thine adversaries, and all thine enemies shall be cut off.
Mic 5:10
And it shall come to entry in that day, saith the Lord, that I tendency cut off thy stock out of the midst of thee, and I tendency gap thy
chariots:
Mic 5:11
And I tendency cut off the cities of thy land, and throw down all thy
strong holds:
Mic 5:12
And I tendency cut off witchcrafts out of thine hand; and thou shalt handhold no additional soothsayers:
Mic 5:13
Thy graven images moreover tendency I cut off, and thy standing images out of the midst of thee; and thou shalt no additional admire the work of thine hands.
Mic 5:14
And I tendency top choice up thy groves out of the midst of thee: so tendency I gap thy cities.
Mic 5:15
And I tendency annihilate fate in enrage and ire upon the heathen, such as they handhold not heard.
Mic 6:1
Surprise ye now what the Lord saith; Plight, fight thou earlier the mountains, and let the hills congregate thy escape.
Mic 6:2
Surprise ye, O mountains, the LORD's crusade, and ye strong
foundations of the earth: for the Lord hath a crusade with his
race, and he tendency petition with Israel.
Mic 6:3
O my race, what handhold I done unto thee? and wherein handhold I wearied thee? state-owned vs. me.
Mic 6:4
For I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the farm of servants; and I sent earlier thee Moses, Aaron, and
Miriam.
Mic 6:5
O my race, give a ride to now what Balak king of Moab consulted, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from Shittim unto Gilgal; that ye may know the honesty of the Lord.
Mic 6:6
Wherewith shall I come earlier the Lord, and bow individually earlier the high God? shall I come earlier him with overcooked help, with calves of a see old?
Mic 6:7
Will the Lord be ecstatic with thousands of rams, or with ten
thousands of rivers of oil? shall I grant my firstborn for my
offense, the fruit of my stick for the sin of my soul?
Mic 6:8
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord
need of thee, but to do honestly, and to love mercy, and to amble
moderately with thy God?
Mic 6:9
The LORD's escape crieth unto the civil, and the man of wisdom shall see thy name: congregate ye the rod, and who hath as it should be it.
Mic 6:10
Are offering yet the reserves of evil in the farm of the dissolute, and the scant dowel that is abominable?
Mic 6:11
Shall I tally them sweet-tempered with the dissolute balances, and with the bag of scheming weights?
Mic 6:12
For the fattening men ther are full of waywardness, and the community ther handhold understood lies, and their dialect is scheming in their jaw.
Mic 6:13
Thus moreover tendency I make thee ailing in smiting thee, in making thee risky what of thy sins.
Mic 6:14
Thou shalt eat, but not be satisfied; and thy casting down shall be in the midst of thee; and thou shalt good buy capture, but shalt not deliver; and that which thou deliverest tendency I grant up to the sword.
Mic 6:15
Thou shalt sow, but thou shalt not reap; thou shalt march the olives, but thou shalt not anoint thee with oil; and wonderful wine, but shalt not infusion wine.
Mic 6:16
For the statutes of Omri are diffident, and all the works of the farm of Ahab, and ye amble in their counsels; that I essential make thee a
hopelessness, and the community ther an hissing: in this fashion ye shall retain the spot of my race.
Mic 7:1
Woe is me! for I am as to the same degree they handhold gathered the summer fruits, as the grapegleanings of the vintage: offering is no set to eat: my
basis attractive the firstripe fruit.
Mic 7:2
The good man is perished out of the earth: and offering is none decent
among men: they all lie in fulfil for blood; they force out every man his brother with a net.
Mic 7:3
That they may do evil with each one hands apprehensively, the prince asketh, and the discover asketh for a reward; and the expand man, he uttereth his
wayward desire: so they swathe it up.
Mic 7:4
The best of them is as a brier: the furthermost decent is sharper than a
irritate hedge: the day of thy watchmen and thy visitation cometh; now shall be their incomprehension.
Mic 7:5
Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not firmness in a guide: running the doors of thy jaw from her that lieth in thy bosom.
Mic 7:6
For the son dishonoureth the twitch, the lass riseth up vs.
her mother, the lass in law vs. her mother in law; a man's
enemies are the men of his own farm.
Mic 7:7
Thus I tendency result unto the LORD; I tendency fulfil for the God of my salvation: my God tendency congregate me.
Mic 7:8
Rejoice not vs. me, O vision enemy: to the same degree I fall, I shall arise;
to the same degree I sit in mysterious, the Lord shall be a light unto me.
Mic 7:9
I tendency retain the resentment of the Lord, what I handhold sinned vs. him, until he petition my upshot, and annihilate observe for me: he tendency bring me forth to the light, and I shall notion his
honesty.
Mic 7:10
Hence she that is vision opponent shall see it, and degradation shall family her which expected unto me, Somewhere is the Lord thy God? vision eyes shall notion her: now shall she be trampled down as the tangle of the streets.
Mic 7:11
In the day that thy defenses are to be built, in that day shall the achievement be far immature.
Mic 7:12
In that day moreover he shall come even to thee from Assyria, and from the protected cities, and from the fortress even to the creek, and
from sea to sea, and from fence in to fence in.
Mic 7:13
Motionless the land shall be risky what of them that reside
therein, for the fruit of their doings.
Mic 7:14
Seek thy race with thy rod, the flock of thine extraction, which
reside solitarily in the wood, in the midst of Carmel: let them trench in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.
Mic 7:15
According to the days of thy coming out of the land of Egypt tendency I shew unto him marvellous kit.
Mic 7:16
The nations shall see and be overcome at all their might: they
shall lay their hand upon their jaw, their ears shall be deaf.
Mic 7:17
They shall lick the sheen satisfy a serpent, they shall move out of their holes satisfy worms of the earth: they shall be frightful of the Lord our God, and shall despondency what of thee.
Mic 7:18
Who is a God satisfy unto thee, that pardoneth depravity, and passeth by the offense of the historical object of his heritage? he retaineth not his enrage for ever, what he delighteth in mercy.
Mic 7:19
He tendency turn anew, he tendency handhold munificence upon us; he tendency end our iniquities; and thou disappear gradually cast all their sins into the depleted of the sea.
Mic 7:20
Thou disappear gradually perform the truth to Jacob, and the mercy to Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days of old.
Many things are changing... and many more will change soon!
This FULL MOON ~ called by the DRUIDS as the OAK MOON ~ is going to clarify for anyone who had doubts that the era of the Eclipses is gone... the only thing that's left is the memory of the prior events and maybe this still hurts! The Moon will be on the 7th degree of CANCER conjuncting with MIZRAM, a fortunate Star which will bring enjoyable feelings and a favorable energy across the Cosmos. MIZRAM is the Announcer of SIRIUS, a very important Star in Astrology and Magic. We could expect the rise of someone very powerful leader (of any kind / politics / religion / arts...) perhaps very soon!
At the same time the SUN will conjunct KAUS BOREALIS another fixed star which also bears good and humanitarian qualities. Furthermore Mars will be on the 1st degree of Aquarius leaving the troubled Capricorn and signifying a new passionate beginning in our communication.
The Magic of the Full Moon is unleashed... Revive Magic in your Life!
a wonderful picture by ROXRIO
Let's see each sign individually!
ARIES: With Mars being more helpful in Aquarius and a Full Moon full of power in your Career (possible opportunities will rise during these days!) you should try to find a balance between your work and your relationships. A ship has sailed but where is it heading to?
TAURUS: Your close friends and people who you are attached to demand your attention. Probably that's a good thing because they might have to say something really fortunate for you. After all, this Full Moon is very favorable for you! You might end up discovering great things about your life!
GEMINI: Money talking... it's time to show how genuinely smart your are. There are many things that happen regarding your financial situation. It's time to look closely at the details and get what you deserve. Make a more rich environment for you and your endeavours.
CANCER: Full Moon in Cancer, the House of the Moon. The cosmic energy of the Great Lady of the Night is focused on he children, you! What does your heart say? What does is say so persistently? Stop avoiding your instincts and embrace them. This is the only way to handle yourself and weave your destiny!
LEO: A Full Moon which will probably make you very sensitive. Mars is opposing you now demanding for actions! You may feel somehow weird but the world seems to need you more right now. Find your balance. Meditate and act!
VIRGO: News from your Love life and Friends. This Full Moon shines upon your heart and illuminates what you want and what you need! Something very important might happen regarding your emotional life. A new mate? A new friend? Time will tell!
LIBRA: Your work demands your attention and you get tired! But at the same time your relations tend to bring you anxiety! However Mars will now provide your with all the energy you need to deal with your problems and shine like a diamond!
SCORPIO: A fortunate Full Moon will heal the wounds of Saturn in your sign. You may perceive it like just a glimpse of happiness but that's not true! It's a huge opportunity to find and live in joy! Open your eyes and be patient! The opportunity may be knocking your door in few seconds!
SAGITTARIUS: I know that your world is changing but sometimes your overwhelming optimism brings out your chaotic self. Try to handle your will to spend too much money and have some boundaries in that area. You don't want to wake up in 2013 feeling broke, do you?
CAPRICORN: The world is focused on you, once again! And you are focused on your relations. This might bring our some tense but it's for the better. You got very positive influence and now that Mars leaves your sign you feel more relaxed, more free!
AQUARIUS: This Full Moon talks about what you left behind and what your future promised for you! A new era in beginning with this Full Moon. A new era of hard work but much Good luck. Deal with what you can and let the other to the Universe.
PISCES: Love and Friendship are two sectors of your life with will make you think more and pay more attention. You might feel more anxious or tense but this is just a phase. A new year is beginning in a while and you should observe its Dawn with an optimistic eye!
ASTROLOGY FOR SPELLCASTERS! If you want to attract GLORY and FAME this Full Moon is absolutely the BEST for this kind of spells! It's also a great opportunity to perform SUCCESS SPELLS!
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COMMEMORATED ON OCTOBER 19
Saint Prokhore the Georgian, a descendant of the noble Shavteli family, was born at the end of the 10th century and grew up in a monastery. When he reached manhood he was ordained a hieromonk and labored for one year at the Lavra of St. Sabbas in Jerusalem. Then, with the blessing of his spiritual father Ekvtime Grdzeli, he began the reconstruction of the Holy Cross Georgian Monastery near Jerusalem.
According to tradition, at this spot Abraham's nephew Lot planted three trees-a cypress, a pine, and a cedar. Eventually these three trees miraculously grew into one large tree. When the Temple of Solomon was being built, this tree was cut down but left unused. It is said that the Cross on which Christ our Savior was crucified was constructed from the wood of this tree.
In the 4th century, the land on which the miraculous tree had grown was presented to Holy King Mirian, the first Christian king of Georgia. Then in the 5th century, during the reign of Holy King Vakhtang Gorgasali, the Holy Cross Monastery was founded on that land. The monastery was destroyed several times between the 7th and 9th centuries.
Finally, in the 11th century, King Bagrat Kuropalates offered much of his wealth to Fr. Prokhore for the restoration of the monastery. St. Prokhore beautified the monastery, then gathered eighty monks and established the typicon (the monastic rule) for the community in accordance with that of the St. Sabbas Lavra.
When St. Prokhore had labored long and lived to an advanced age, he chose his disciple Giorgi to be the monastery's next abbot.
Then he departed for the wilderness with two of his disciples, and after some time the righteous monk yielded up his spirit to God.
Beyond this, little is known about the life of St. Prokhore. According to Georgian researchers and scholars, he was probably born sometime between 985 and 990. He spent the years 1010 to 1015 in Jerusalem, and labored at the Lavra of St. Sabbas until 1025. He reposed in the year 1066, between the ages of 76 and 81.
The holy martyr Luka of Jerusalem lived in the 13th century. He was born to an honorable, pious Georgian family by the name of Mukhaisdze. After the repose of Luka's father, his mother left her children and went to labor at a monastery in Jerusalem.
When Luka reached the age of twenty, he traveled to Jerusalem to visit his mother and venerate the holy places. After spending some time there he decided to remain and be tonsured a monk. He was later ordained a deacon and became fluent in Arabic. Soon the brothers of the monastery recognized his wisdom and asked him to guide them as abbot. For three years Luka directed the monastery in an exemplary manner.
But the devil was envious of the holy father and provoked a certain Shekh-Khidar, an influential Persian at the court of Sultan Penducht, (Probably Sultan Zakhir-Rukedin-Baibars-Bundukdar of Egypt (1260-1277)) to take up arms against St. Luka. Sultan Penducht then transferred possession of the Holy Cross Monastery to Shekh-Khidar, who "treated the Georgian monks in a beastly manner and finally ousted them from the monastery altogether." Fulfilling his God-given duty, the blessed Luka insisted on personally confronting Shekh-Khidar in defense of his brotherhood.
Luka's Christian brothers and sisters warned him, saying, "Shekh-Khidar is threatening you.... Flee and hide from him!" But Luka paid no heed to their admonitions, certain that it was more fitting to die for Christ than to live for the world. As he had insisted, he himself approached Shekh-Khidar and asked for the release of the imprisoned fathers.
Luka told him that he was prepared to accept any demands. The wicked Persian leader demanded nothing from Luka except that he convert to Islam, promising to make him emir if he consented. When he refused, the furious Shekh-Khidar ordered St. Luka's beheading.
After the terrible deed had been performed, St. Luka's severed head turned toward the east and gave thanks to God with an expression of pure peace. Soon after, his precious body was set on fire at the command of the bewildered Shekh-Khidar. This occurred in 1277. St. Nikoloz Dvali the Martyr was born at the end of the 13th century to a God-fearing couple who directed his path toward the spiritual life.
At the age of twelve Nikoloz traveled to the Klarjeti Wilderness and was tonsured a monk. From there he made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem and remained in the holy city, settling at the Holy Cross Monastery. Burning with desire for the apostolic life, Monk Nikoloz was determined to die a martyr's death.
In Jerusalem a group of godless men arrested and tormented St. Nikoloz for publicly confessing the Christian Faith, but a group of Christians succeeded in rescuing him from prison. Then, in accordance with his abbot's counsel, St. Nikoloz relocated to a Georgian monastery on Cyprus. There the pious monk beseeched the Lord to make him worthy of the crown of martyrdom. One day, while he was praying before the icon of St. John the Baptist, he heard a voice saying, "Nikoloz! Arise and go to Jerusalem. There you will find a Georgian monk who will teach you the way of righteousness and encourage you on the path of martyrdom. He has been appointed to guide you."
Accordingly, St. Nikoloz returned to Jerusalem, met the monk whom God had appointed, and informed him of what had been revealed. The Most Holy Theotokos and St. John the Baptist appeared to St. Nikoloz's spiritual father, who had been praying intensely for guidance, and told him that it was the Lord's will for Nikoloz to journey to Damascus.
While in Damascus, the holy father entered a mosque and openly confessed Christ to be the Savior, reproving those present for their folly. The angry Muslims seized St. Nikoloz, beat him, and cast him into prison. After a great struggle, the metropolitan and local Christians succeeded in recovering him from captivity, but he immediately returned to the Muslims and began again to denounce their ungodly ways. Again they beat him mercilessly, lashed him five hundred times, and cast him in prison for a second time. But the holy martyr's wounds were healed through the miraculous intercession of St. John the Baptist, and after two months he was released from prison.
By chance the emir of the city caught a glimpse of St. Nikoloz as he was preparing to return to Jerusalem. The emir recognized him and sent him to Dengiz, the emir of emirs. Dengiz flattered him and offered to convert him to Islam, but St. Nikoloz bravely defended his faith in Christ. In response, Dengiz ordered his execution.
At the hour appointed by Dengiz, the blessed martyr turned to the east, joyfully bowed his neck to the sword, and prayed, "Glory to Thee, O Christ God, Who hast accounted me worthy to die for Thy name's sake." The sword pierced his neck, but the severed head glorified God seven times, crying out, "Glory to Thee, O Christ our God!"
The Persians burned the saint's body, and for three days a pillar of light shone at the place where it lay.
When St.Nikoloz's spiritual father heard about his martyrdom, he prayed to God to reveal to him whether Nikoloz would be numbered among the saints. Then one day while he was reading, he saw a vision of a host of saints standing atop a mountain, illumined and surrounded by a cloud of incense. Among them the Great-martyr George shone especially brightly, and he called St. Nikoloz, saying, "Nikoloz! Come and see the monk, your spiritual father. He has shed many tears for you."
Nikoloz greeted his spiritual father, saying, "Behold me and the place where I am, and from this day cease your sorrowing for me."
St. Nikoloz Dvali was tortured to death on Tuesday, October 19, in the year 1314. The Georgian Church continues to commemorate him on that date.
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Happy Earth Day Everyone!
I've met some "epically-awesome" friends over the course of publishing this blog! I'd like to share a few of the treasured gifts bestowed upon me and Pagan by Design recently. In the photo below, you'll see the beautiful bookmark that Magaly of PAGAN CULTURE made for me, along with the handmade Tarot Deck and matching Crystal pouches that my dear friend Bine sent to me recently. Not shown in the photo (I'm not a very good photographer, lol) is a homemade blend of Crone Tea and note from my friend Rox, Author of THE HEALTHY HEATHEN, too.
Vickie, author of AOIBHBEAL'S LAIR has bestowed the following award upon Pagan by Design, and
Cheryl, whom I consider to be an expert Tarot Reader and owner of TURTLEMOON TAROT, awarded my blog, "The Moonlit Grove", with the "Very Inspiring Blogger Award for 2013"!
Thank you so much to each of you! You've brought me endless smiles and sunshine! :) May you be blessed today and always.
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PROPHECY SIGN: INCREASED CHRISTIAN PERSECUTION
"IN FACT, EVERYONE WHO WANTS TO LIVE A GODLY LIFE IN CHRIST JESUS WILL BE PERSECUTED, 2 TIMOTHY 3:12 NIV"
THE NAME OF JESUS HAS BECOME A DIRTY WORD IN POLITICALLY CORRECT AMERICA
"IN THE UNITED STATESTODAY, THERE ARE VERY FEW WORDS THAT PROVOKE AS MUCH OUTRAGE AS THE NAME OF JESUS. IT IS BEING BANNED FROM GRADUATION CEREMONIES, CHAPLAINS ALL OVER AMERICAARE BEING FORBIDDEN FROM USING HIS NAME IN THEIR PRAYERS, AND MANY SCHOOL OFFICIALS ALL OVER THE NATION HAVE BECOME ABSOLUTELY FANATICAL ABOUT ELIMINATING EVERY TRACE OF CHRISTIAN EXPRESSION FROM THEIR SCHOOLS. One elementary school in North Carolinaeven ordered a little six-year-old girl to remove the word "God" from a poem that she had written to honor her grandfathers. Political correctness is spreading like a cancer in this country, and our "freedom of religion" is rapidly being transformed into a guarantee of "freedom from religion" for those that hate the Christian faith. Without a doubt, there is a war on the Christian faith in Americatoday. It is being waged in classrooms, courtrooms and churches all over the nation."http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/the-name-of-jesus-has-become-a-dirty-word-in-politically-correct-america
OPEN SEASON ON CHRISTIANS AFTER PRO-GAY RULINGS
"CHRISTIANS WHO SPEAK OUT AND STAND UP FOR TRADITIONAL MARRIAGE ARE MORE LIKELY THAN EVER TO BE PERSECUTED AND EVEN PROSECUTED FOR IT. THAT'S BECAUSE OF HOW THE MAJORITY AT THE U.S. SUPREME COURT WROTE THEIR JUNE 26 PRO-GAY MARRIAGE RULINGS. The high court majority attacked the motives of those who came up with the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) in 1996. DOMA enshrined traditional marriage in federal law and prevented federal benefits from going to same-sex couples. "The avowed purpose and practical effect of the law here in question are to impose a disadvantage, a separate status, and so a stigma upon all who enter into same-sex marriages," Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote in the United States v. Windsorruling."http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2013/July/Open-Season-on-Christians-after-Pro-Gay-Rulings/
MILITARY CENSORS CHRISTIAN CHAPLAIN, ATHEISTS CALL FOR PUNISHMENT
"LT. COL. KENNETH REYES IS A CHRISTIAN CHAPLAIN CURRENTLY SERVING IN THE U.S. AIR FORCE. He is stationed at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Alaska. As an ordained clergyman whose duties are to provide religious instruction and spiritual counseling, he has a page on the base's website called "Chaplain's Corner."REYES RECENTLY WROTE AN ESSAY ENTITLED, "NO ATHEISTS IN FOXHOLES: CHAPLAINS GAVE ALL IN WORLD WAR II." THIS COMMON SAYING IS ATTRIBUTED TO A CATHOLIC PRIEST IN WORLD WAR II, MADE FAMOUS WHEN PRESIDENT DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER SAID DURING A 1954 SPEECH: "I am delighted that our veterans are sponsoring a movement to increase our awareness of God in our daily lives. In battle, they learned a great truth that there are no atheists in the foxholes." As reported by Fox News's Todd Starnes, WHEN REYES REFERENCED THIS FAMOUS LINE IN HIS ESSAY, THE MILITARY RELIGIOUS FREEDOM FOUNDATION (MRFF) CONTACTED THE BASE COMMANDER, COL. BRIAN DUFFY, DEMANDING HE TAKE ACTION ON REYES'S "ANTI-SECULAR DIATRIBE."http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2013/07/24/Military-Censors-Christian-Chaplain-Atheists-Call-for-Punishment
CHRISTIAN CHURCH EVICTED FROM NYC RESTAURANT FOR PREACHING AGAINST SAME-SEX RELATIONS
"THE GALLERY CHURCHIN NEW YORK CITY CLAIMS IT WAS BOOTED FROM ITS 25,000-PER-YEAR RENTAL SPACE IN A LOCAL RESTAURANT FOR PREACHING CHRISTIAN MESSAGES THAT INCLUDED SERMONS AGAINST SAME-SEX RELATIONS AND MARRIAGE. The church pastor, Freddy Wyatt, said in a story reported by The Blaze that "this particular sermon series struck a nerve in the neighborhood. There was an enormous amount of backlash.... The restaurant said that if it had only been a couple of phone calls [it received] it would have been one thing - but it was more than that."On the church's online blog, Pastor Wyatt said that services had only been held at the new rental space for a couple of months, before owners of the restaurant that was hosting the congregation asked them to leave. "http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jul/25/christian-church-evicted-nyc-restaurant-preaching-/
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The before time repayment league about decisive whether a specific group is a cult.
"Libel cults are popular by their use of sting and weighty about."
Do JW's fit the bill? Investigate.
Methodical these quotes from the Watchtower Publications (with help from www.jwfacts.com):
"Jehovah's Witnesses enjoy equivalently out cold from the Scriptures that the go out with 1914 nearby the beginning of this world's time of the end and that "the day of observe and of devastation of the ungodly men" has smooth draw to a close. Watchtower" 1993 Aug 15 p.9
vs. the reality:
"THE "Years of the End," a session of one hundred and fifteen (115) natural life, from A.D. 1799 to A.D. 1914, is really nearby in the Scriptures. "The Day of His Rehearse" is latest name special to the precise session Studies in the Scriptures - Thy Put in at Emit "p.23
So give, very naively... JW's use Swindle.
How about "weighty about"?
The WATCHTOWER IS NOT THE Instrument OF ANY MAN or set of men, nor is it published according to the whims of men. NO MAN'S Guidance IS Spoken IN THE WATCHTOWER. GOD FEEDS HIS OWN Population, and obviously God uses frequent who love and carry him according to his own impulse. Natives who hinder The Watchtower are not economical of analytical the truth that God is donation to the children of his coordination, and this is the very strongest information that such opposers are not of God's coordination. Watchtower "1931 Nov 1 p.327
Gather who claims that hardy them is hardy God? I authority this "weighty about", IMHO.
Far-off factors:
Oppressive Leadership? YEP
Deception? YEP
Libel Good sense Control? --> "immersing strain in a firmly structured, high-pressure expressive conditions... they brink their saturation to top information" YEP
In this way --> JW's are a off-putting cult.
Offer are four types of cult: Religious, Adherent, Remedy, Advertisement. JW's are, noticeably, in the "Religious cult" style. "In some, an elite group claims to know the real meaning of Scripture"... YEP! JW's do that. A lot.
I theorize latest, fifth type of cult, that Hassan didn't pronounce outstanding, is the one-over-one relation. Population can act ardor off-putting cults.
For that reason Hassan goes popular on actual on the Run of the mill Characteristics:
"Exclusivity/Isolation: Advantage, sting, convention and isolation, all other churches are dead and ungodly, procure spends his back on all his friends
Low esteem of power: Threatening prophecies, cult director or management asks for money and property"
For that reason Hassan describes his Enter Interactive Type, which is alternative than his creative books or methods. It is mollify being it not just worries about accomplishment the cult member out of the cult, but it furthermore takes care of solving other issues that ability stop in the line ardor lack of security or others, that help shaped the woe in the before time place, or that would make it naughty to get the cult member out of the cult.
I really ardor this quote:
"Fitting love is stronger than contingent love... The member impulse retrieve that your love is absolute, what the cult's akin to depends on their conference forthcoming and goals'"
For that reason he league about play a part preliminary work, pondering beneficially, and having goal-oriented idiom.
One needs to learn about cults, as far away as not obligatory. Both, one needs to learn how to support beneficially, to sloooowly get the cult member's security and work towards opening up his/her head.
That's the before time chapter!
Tomorrow I impulse dissertation about the luxury one.
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Imbolgen 23
A storm happened appearing in Thursday night and all day Friday.
It snowed unlike inches appearing in in the midwest USA exceeding all period (all period together constituting 'Friday' internally according to Jewish and Celtic timekeeping), everyplace on Thursday night, I dreamt of discrete on the zenith flabbergast of a high mound (everyplace I was looking for an residence home) chanting an ancient old form of ritual Hebrew (Licensed Old-fashioned Hebrew Gossip), and the storm, as it increased moving east from the midwest, was responsible for the deaths of father-son Samaritans in Virginia. The Samaritans' car had stopped to help at the scene of a snowstorm-related passage luck as a passenger in their car was a cure who can help with any injuries to the populace in the car resting in the disappeared northbound lane. I am a cure. Rise Hermon, a accumulation mound of flurry, is the reserve of water for the Affirm of Israel. The dream prophesy of chanted words (Devarim on Rise Hermon) Thursday night is like melted flurry and dew.
The Samaritan Cohen Gadol was mourned Thursday, having approved sideways Wednesday at his home at the age of 83. The Jerusalem Rise reports:
SAMARITANS Lament THEIR Vast Priest
BY BEN HARTMAN
05/02/2010 05:00 ("Jerusalem Rise")
ELAZAR BEN TSEDAKA, 83, suspicious AND philanthropic,' TRACED HIS Cave Supply TO AARON.
Snowstorm flurries drifted to the nation on Rise Gerizim overlooking Nablus on Thursday, as mourners gathered to buckskin the spiritual prime minister of the Samaritans, who approved sideways the past day.
Vast Priest Elazar ben Tsedaka ben Yitzhaq was instinctive into a storm 83 living ago, one mourner said. On Thursday, as he was discrete laid to rest at the holiest site in the Samaritan religion, the flurry began to fall over.
According to Samaritan tradition he was the 131st pencil case of the post because Aaron. This is not be accepted by all historians, but the chest may well go back to the Hellenistic space, which would restful make it the oldest chest in the world. One record in Josephus bring up that it is an outlet of the Zadokite high priests in Jerusalem from about the time of Alexander the Zealous.
Mourner Menashe Tsadaka described Elazar as "a suspicious man in the community who populace always came to for answers."
The Samaritans are a follow up, in essence misunderstood tranquility that practices a religion that is a touching on keep pace with to Judaism. Samaritans resign yourself to theirs is the true religion of the Israelites and follow their own Samarian Torah, on paper in an ancient form of Hebrew in essence peculiar to modern Israeli eyes. Today's Samarians stool pigeon their outline to Israelites who generate lived in northern Samaria in front the Babylonian dismiss, and they restful view Rise Gerizim, not Jerusalem, as the foundation of their religion.
Mourners took hold on to from the inundation confined the community foundation in the peak payment of Kiryat Luza, everyplace considerably of the ethnoreligious group of 730 lives. With brute force all the rest put up in Holon's Neveh Pinchas payment.
As the profile efficiently disappeared the churchyard, populace headed to the shiva circumstances at the high priest's home, everyplace exceeding heaping dishes of rice and chicken, mourners wept for the loss of the prime minister of one of Israel's lowest amount communities atop the accumulation that has been the foundation of their religion for millennia.
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Last week on Facebook I came across a photo with information about how the goddess Ishtar is related to Easter. I thought maybe I had been living under a rock because I always believed Eostre was the goddess from which Easter originated. When I shared it on my Facebook page, many of my Facebook fans told me they had never heard of Ishtar being associated with Easter either. A few even outright refused to accept it writing "[it is] Eostre not Ishtar."Others said that they are the same goddess. They explained that as followers of Ishtar migrated North, she morphed into Eostre. The people of the new land took the old idea of Ishtar and made it their own, turning it into Eostre.However, one commenter who described herself as a "friendly pagan sceptic" took the opportunity to debunk several myths about paganism and Easter. Her name is Luna Garcia and she says the information came from her friend Adrian Bott. Because I don't want to break any copyright laws here I won't repost her list of "debunks" in this article, however, you can find them here. They are extensive and quite detailed. (On a side note, The Doctor Who reference in #10 was subtle but awesome!)I want to tackle debunking both goddesses in two separate posts. In part one I will discuss Eostre and in part 2 I will discuss Ishtar. I will answer questions like: Does Easter come from Eostre or Ishtar? Are they indeed the same goddess? Did Eostre even exist or is all this just the romantic notions of us pagans? Note, not one shred of the evidence I found came from Luna's post. Instead, I found several sources giving the same info Luna gave for Eostre.DID EOSTRE REALLY EXIST?The truth does appear to be that Eostre may have never existed. Like Luna shared, most of the information about Eoster does seem to come from Jacob Grimm who is well known as one of the brothers from the Brother's Grimm. Grimm did more than just write fairy tales. He studied German linguistics in the 19th century. However, it seems Grimm's research is based off of a man named Venerable Bede.Eostre first makes her appearance in literature about thirteen hundred years ago in the "Temporum Ratione "by Venerable Bede who was an English Christian monk and scholar. Bede tells us that April is known as "Eostremonth," and was named for a goddess that the Anglo-Saxons (who descended from the Germanic tribes that migrated from continental Europe) who was honored in the spring. He says: "Eosturmonath has a name which is now translated 'Paschal month,' and which was once called after a goddess of theirs named Eostre, in whose honor feasts were celebrated." However, it's argued that Bede would have no reason to make up the goddess. Still, his mention about feasts is all the information he gives. There is nothing about eggs, hares, or anything resembling Easter save that it was April.In fact, Eostre doesn't appear anywhere in Germanic mythology, and despite belief that she might be a Norse deity, she doesn't show up in the Eddas either. If she did exist, she was limited to a specific tribal Germanic group and was an oral tradition. This means that her story or myth was never written down and no proof of Eostre actually exists.SO HOW DID EOSTRE GET ASSOCIATED WITH EASTER? Blame Jacob Grimm and linguistics. Grimm claimed "Ostara, Eostre seems therefore to have been a divinity of the radiant dawn, of upspringing light, a spectacle that brings joy and blessing, whose meaning could be easily adapted to the resurrection-day of the Christian's God." Key words there are "could be". What we do know is that 'Ostara' is simply the Old High German name for the Christian Festival of Easter. Perhaps because of this, Grimm took his assumptions a step farther. He wrote, "This Ostara, like the Anglo-Saxon Eastre, must in the heathen religion have denoted a higher being, whose worship was so firmly rooted, that the Christian teachers tolerated the name, and applied it to one of their own grandest anniversaries."This means the idea of hares and eggs being sacred to Eostre is also incorrect. Basically because eggs and hares are symbols of fertility and spring, someone associated these with Eostre at some point. In fact, the Oxford Dictionary of English Folklore states, "Nowadays, many writers claim that hares were sacred to the Anglo-Saxon goddess Eostre, but there is no shred of evidence for this; Bede, the only writer to mention Eostre, does not link her with any animal."It was a man named Adolf Holtzmann, writing in 1874 in German Mythology, states "The Easter Hare is unintelligible to me, but probably the hare was the sacred animal of Ostara." Probably!? And there's only one sentence about it?What pagan(s) decided this entire Eostre myth from only a few chosen sentences? It seems we can blame a handful of authors following Holtzmann. These were 1883 CE: K.A. Oberle in 1883 whow wrote "probably the hare was the sacred animal of Ostara" Then in 1890 Charles Isaac Elton wrote that Easter customs at 'Hare-pie Bank' at 'Harecrop Leys were probably connected with the worship of the Anglian goddess Eostre.' Next in 1892, Charles J Billson refers to Oberle's association of the hare with Ostara as a conclusion, rather than as a speculation. More recently 1944, John Lanyard stated that "the Saxon Easter Goddess does seem to have been connected with the hare." And most recently in 1976, Christina Hole states that "The hare was the sacred beast of Eastre (or Eostre) a Saxon goddess of Spring and of the dawn." Christina Hole also wrote about Witchcraft in Britain. It seems Pagans have been mistakenly making the associations ever since.PAGANS MAY HAVE ACTUALLY STOLE TRADITIONS FROM CHRISTIANITYYes you read that right. The theory has always been the Christianity stole the traditional images associated with Ostara and made them Easter. Evidence that I found seems to prove the reverse might actually be the truth. Pagans have been claiming hares and eggs are Ostara traditions, when in fact they were possibly originally Christian traditions of Easter.There are associations in English folklore between hares and the Christian festival of Easter. For example, in 17th century Southeastern England there is evidence of a custom of hunting a hare on Good Friday, and in 18th century Coleshill there was a manorial custom in which young men tried to catch a hare on Easter Monday. However, there is no proof that such customs go back to pre-Christian times. The hare appears to be, in fact, a Christian association.Do we at least have eggs? Nope. Probably not. According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, "Because the use of eggs was forbidden during Lent, they were brought to the table on Easter Day, coloured red to symbolize the Easter joy. This custom is found not only in the Latin but also in the Oriental Churches." So somehow a Germanic culture started copying Latin and Oriental traditions? Might I point out that none of the authors that associated the hare with Eostre even mentioned eggs?What's even more interesting is how this myth has grown with no evidence whatsoever. One website claims, "According to myth, pagan children would present eggs as a gift to the goddess in return for the coming of the spring." Where in the world did this come from?If the myth of Eostre and her association with Ostara and Easter is likely completely false, it makes me wonder how many other Pagan myths I have believed that are most likely completely inaccurate and wrong. I don't want to use the word "betrayed," but the idea that the story I've been told for a decade and half about Ostara and Eostre is wrong affects me on a profoundly deep level. I feel the exact same way now as I felt as a kid when I found out that the Easter Bunny wasn't real!PaganWiccan About.comWikipedia (Jacob Grimm)Wikipedia (Eostre)Manygods.orgCavalorn.livejournalCatholic Encyclopediathemonastary.org"This post has been part of the blogging project The Pagan Blog Project 2013. This is a year long blog party where you blog on pagan topics from A to Z."
Amid Thelemites, Aleister Crowley is fanatically called Uncle Al. For example a deed on his name and the holy book he wrote; Liber AL (vel Legis).
In our time,October 12, is his wedding anniversary.
He tempered his spirituality/philosophy with a sanity of humour, a person gone amongst true believers. As well as adopting the repute 'the Burly Beast', everything his fundamentalist mother called him, he above and beyond said;
"I am a Hell of a Religious Guru"
Edward Alexander Crowley 1875-1947
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SUNDAY IN HELL
NEW AGE LIBERTARIAN MANIFESTO
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By Kurt Keasler
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Whatever you might have ever thought about you not wanting to be happy and healthy in every way, dancing with life, know it isn't true.It just seems that way sometimes.This is a very powerful evocation of one of the greatest powers in the universe.It WILL HELP YOU to find the strength within you need to stand up and cast off all that heaviness and sadness, anger and loneliness, shame and misery.And it gets easier once you get the ball rolling, you know that's true.Light a white candle in a totally dark room and speak the following invocation (you need to learn this by heart before you start but you can do that, right). Weight Loss Spell - Venus EvocationVenus,Goddess of Beauty,Goddess of women,Goddess of love,I evoke your powerto aid me,to make me strong,to fill me with your powerto help me in my purposeto be the bestthat I can be.Venus,Goddess of Beauty,Goddess of women,Godess of love,I evoke your powerto heal me,to cleanse me,to charge mewith lifeand love of life.Venus,Goddess of BeautyGoddess of Women,Goddess of Love,I call youinto my lifeto stand beside meto protect meto guide metowards beauty,and love.SFX 2006Look into the candle flame and see yourself in the future, of the right age, BEING HAPPY and ALIVE (which is MUCH more important than "being thin"!).When you are ready, blow out the candle.Here comes the real magic.Anytime before you eat (and where you can), light a candle to Venus before you start.A lot of people eat a lot of stuff and they don't get fat - it's a mystery, really.Let the power of Venus transform your whole eating experience.When you're done, leave a small morsel as a token offering and blow out the candle.When you are in a place where you cannot light a candle, imagine one so strongly in your mind that you can nearly see it right there on the table in front of you and act just the same, quietly inside.Should you feel it wearing off after a week or so, do the ORIGINAL full on evocation with the prayer above again to strengthen it even more.This is very powerful, it really does work and YOU deserve to be happy, and alive ABSOLUTELY.Blessed be,StarFieldsA Further Note: Weightloss is also about changing the way you eat and what you eat, AND what attitude you have when you're eating.That's the practical side of weightloss, and this is a place where this spell and the Goddess Venus can come to the rescue.For example, if you are getting those feelings inside that tell you that you need to eat to relieve them, what really helps is to say:Venus, Goddess of Beauty,Goddess of Love,Goddess of Women, Goddess of Power, STAND BY ME!Help me, change me,make me right, make me bright!Transform me in your imageThis is my will.... or words to that effect, so that the *energy* of the Goddess Venus can flow through you and really, truly, CHANGE you, help you change what needs to be changed so you can be healthy, flowing, beautiful in the truest sense of the word.Do this all the time, like a mantra, it makes A LOT of difference, you'll see!* A further update:I have had *a lot* of feedback from people saying they LOVE this and how much it has helped them, especially in dark nights when you are all alone and feel you need to comfort eat, but also when you are out and about and get the sense that others are judging you.One young lady from the US told me that it had really helped her with GUILT over having eaten at all! This can only be for the best, that's for sure.This invocation and the idea to call on Venus particularly for help with weightloss/being more beautiful and more healthy was delivered to me in the old fashioned shamanic "flash of an insight" in response to the original request. I don't know if this works for men, I suspect it is very specific for women of all ages, for the essence of Venus is - WOMAN. I'll see if I can find something similar for men, and I guarantee it won't be Mars, either...Books You Might Enjoy: Aleister Crowley - Eight Lectures On YogaAleister Crowley - Rights Of ManAj Drew - Wicca Spellcraft For Men
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In the manner of you picture that ceremonies and expenditure of the daughter's marriage were deceased, you discover that you trouble been co-opted into THE Tubby ORIENTAL JEWISH Clique (pic), and you are due at the Groom's Saturday ritual. The Ashkenazi "minhag "(come into being) is to read the Torah early the marriage, but surrounded by US Oriental Jews the surpass Saturday associates the marriage is "SHABBAT HATAN" everywhere the males of the band are called to the Torah (Pentateuch) and the Haphtarah (Prophets), and we are even to feast the believers. The place was the Kadoori Moallem Synagogue of the Bagdadi Jews in Ramat Gan (aka "Ramat Bagdad"). One by one we were called to read from the Torah nonetheless the womenfolk bombarded us with candy from the upper circle. The severe recited the "Echad Yechid" blessing, which goes -,,, "One and diverse and special is God, questioning man's life-force, but God is good towards the population of Israel, Alleluya." Person may peruse it differently, pompous utterly. I am behindhand blessing various glasses of kosher wine.
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