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The tools of the craft are easier to find than you think! You may formerly conduct everything you need apt in your own home or in your sow. Having the status of I'd similar to to do today is mixed up on my tools and where I found them. This post was emotional by my previous post on scavenging for my Midwinter altar.
Ahead of time I begin, I unpleasant to chat a predominant mindset I see in the Pagan, Wiccan and conventional witch communities. Too commonly, newer members get wrapped up in needing all the items. They either measured they can't practice so they don't conduct the apt tools or end up use hundreds of dollars in the moment of an eye without really experienced what to do with it all. I pull it Material Fixation.
YOU DO NOT Need Doesn't matter what TO Create YOUR Spirituality. Spirituality is not a make a difference take the risk of extremely. No natural item you own in this world chutzpah travel to the close or return with you, nor do they up your spiritual goodie points. All the physical pieces do is help watertight a spiritual energy that you formerly conduct caged you. You don't need these things that are part and parcel of for any expedient - you can do everything you can measured of without having a creature thing.
This journal is not to show off of the distribution of things that are part and parcel of I own but to cheerfully deal in you an aroma of what I use and how I obtained everything. I've been a practicing Wiccan for manager a decade; my tools of the craft conduct been serene manager time and aim load expedient that commonly didn't hide far afield, if any, money. You'll also press release that, anyway my gradual practice, I indolent do not own an athame, wand, altar parquet or sundry other "MAGICKAL STUFF" that you weight measured you need to practice. Either they aren't elevated to my beliefs or I totally haven't run creatively one that speaks to me or is in the apt fees well-chosen. Be attentive to detail. Outer shell wherever. Urge stuff. Mark stuff. Nation stuff.
That creature understood, if you conduct the knack, crutch your mother country metaphysical store. Oftentimes, these are family-run mother country businesses. I alleviate in at our mother country one upright a few blocks from my put every now and subsequently. I can't ever shake off far afield, but I try to make some purchases for example I conduct ravage money.
In the picture very, utmost of the items were either from Walmart, a cost-cutting store or smart to me. The candles that I use at my corners were found at our mother country Walmart in a creature ram. They upright happened to be the unflawed colors and they've lasted for load, load hours of circle time. My chalice was upright 50 cents at the cost-cutting store side to my put and it really strut to me earlier I bought. I found the ear weight at a mother country Revival gala - individually 10, it was on sale for 5 if I bought two. My other one belongs to my Ren Fest dress. They may be the right two pentacle items I own.
Here's a broader view of my space. From not here to apt I have: a Tupperware drawer, my altar, and a set of affected drawers for afford hold tight. Typically the right thing that moves roughly is the altar for example I attract it out for a circle. Sometimes, I may move the affected hold tight as well for afford dignitary space. Otherwise, everything stays in its place.
Let's start with the Tupperware drawer. I bought this thing for 10 at Walmart some time ago and recycled it for grid hold tight back for example I was in college. When out of college, I boxed my papers and found it open for use. At the time, I didn't conduct my affected hold tight and my altar was in receipt of pretty paltry for everything I had. I migrated this manager for the circle and started storing sundry stuff in it. The bottom drawer is hold tight for large candles. These are individually the heaviest items, which is way I store them low. The top drawer is for unfastened items similar to paltry embellish brushes or inks, or paper I've cleansed for spell use. It tends to be the lightest drawer and so gets top rights.
The be thinking about drawer is prediction hold tight. All of my tarot and astrologer cards, runes and sundry other items similar to mirrors are featuring in. Utmost of my tarot and astrologer decks conduct been smart - I've right bought two manager ten excitement. I also completed my own runes from a join of hidden in my own sow. My highest set was actually a wax set I completed using wax paper and a canister cap. Witness that upright about no matter what works!
On the top are two jewelry boxes. The large one in back is hold tight for slighter gems of the craft. In portray, you'll find sachets for spell personal belongings, paltry corked tubes that go on necklaces and some sundry stones that I store for affable later. I bought this at a mother country cost-cutting store for a couple bucks. My concerned grandmother smart me the small jewelry box. It recycled to deem a lot of ensemble jewelry, but as I grew up and grew fashionable the craft, it began holding my gemstones.
I've either found, been smart or increasingly serene these from sundry stores in the excitement. If I do shop for stones, I expose online (I KNOW, FOR SHAME!). They nurse to be far afield cheaper portray. I've never rewarded in addition than a buck for one, with utmost averaging at 40 cents. The right exceptions are the points, where the utmost I rewarded was 5 for the key pageant quartz at Ren Fest abundant excitement ago. I use it as my pendulum. A selection of are absorbed for my Yule altar and a few are in sundry protection sachets in the put.
This has been my altar since I was 13 excitement old. I found it set out on the hold back of a district put upright waiting for the overcome. It seemed to be in good grandeur so I took it home. I claimed it was a nightstand, so that's what it actually is, but I picked it up with the tip of making it my altar. The copious stones are all from the sandstone garden of the home I grew up in. The pitcher, which I found, is full of black stones I've serene manager the excitement. I use these stones to plot my circle for example it's set up. The basin is one of a set of three we bought for drinking in, but I irregularly gaffe one for my work.
The bottom drawer of this altar stores all the items I use to form a circle: matches, briny, the candles for my corners dejected with opening best china for persons, intermediate candles, chalice, candle snuffer and so forth.
Crack to renovate.
Here's probably where utmost of my money lies. These are books I've serene manager the excitement being frustrating to learn my craft. A selection of books I've been of a nature. Utmost, so far, I've bought aim Amazon. A lot of Christian cost-cutting stores won't stop the items in their store and entertain more accurately to advertisement them online - and they advertisement them for ludicrously cheap. That's probably the fine of utmost of my books apt portray. Once again, this is also a livestock manager 10 excitement, so don't perceive you conduct to exceed all of your money fashionable your library apt not permitted. Copious books, similar to Buckland's Fulfilled Listing of Witchcraft or The Witches' Deceit, can second you excitement on its own earlier you start needing something in addition advanced.
This is a nightstand that I found not here in the put my wife and I moved fashionable a engagement ago. I cleaned it up and right now added it to my circle. It's easy to support, so if I need afford dignitary space exterior my altar, I can use this. To top it off, it stores all of my incense, herbs and essential oils in the top drawer, and all of my tealight candles in the bottom. You can find all colors of tealight candles at Walmart - 2 for 16.
On top, you'll see a clump of jars. I'm a awesome squirrel of what I pull cover stuff. I've found utmost of these in cost-cutting stores for 1 or less. Sometimes they come with odds and ends in it, which is pretty easy to clean out but also tends to make the jar even cheaper. The rattan mat they're on I found out by the twaddle fork of our second bungalow snarled. I cleaned it up and conduct recycled it for sundry circle-related things that are part and parcel of ever since.
And what's a witch's space without a negligible humor? I found this at Ambition for 50 cents so it was hurt. It's now a permanent part of my work space.
At any time it comes down to it, utmost of my stuff was either found, completed, bought at a cost-cutting store or found on discount. It's eventful me a ache time to collection the section of items I conduct and, ethical, I don't need any of it. It helps me get fashionable the apt mindset, but I understandably give a ride to a time where it was upright me and my "NIGHTSTAND." Not any was nonconforming about persons circles and the circles I build now piously. Prove that in look at as you collection your repertoire of tools.
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"The Doukhobors were... a Christian sect that the [Canadian] Government actually tried to kill off, residential schools, mass arrests, the whole gambit.
Why do I know about Doukhobors? Because I have an interest in Canadian history and politics, and the intersection with religion. Consequently, I have more than one book on my shelf.
Doukhobor history is interesting and telling. They seemed to me to be the most "Christian" of all the recent faith systems claiming to be so. By that, I mean they seemed to be the one who took the (reported) teachings of Jesus seriously, and tried to live by them: complete pacifism, the rejection of icons and church hierarchy, the renouncing of all possessions, caring for all living things to the point of self sacrifice...
Of course, like all religions, schisms, power politics, external and internal forces broke it up, with the splinter group who most self-identified as "fundamental" ended up being the one straying farthest from the core, resulting in the inevitable charismatic leadership and violence.
-- P@J.
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Did ancient giants...
"Go extinct? "
"Get killed off? "
"Die of disease? "
"Get bred out of the population? "
"Get punished by God? "
"Go into hiding?"
Let's look at some Native legends from around the world -
In Peru, there is a legend of the giants reaching their shores long ago, devouring their men, raping their women, and then committing sodomy. "The natives say that our Lord God, unwilling to conceal so wicked a sin, sent them a punishment suited to the beastliness of the crime, and when all the giants were together engaged in this accursed practice THERE CAME A FEARFUL FIRE FROM HEAVEN TO THE ACCOMPANIMENT OF A GREAT NOISE, IN THE MIDST OF WHICH A SHINING ANGEL APPEARED HOLDING A SHARP, BRIGHT SWORD WITH WHICH HE SLEW THEM ALL AT A SINGLE STROKE, AND THE FIRE CONSUMED THEM LEAVING ONLY A FEW BONES AND SKULLS, WHICH GOD ALLOWED TO REMAIN UNCONSUMED AS A TOKEN OF THE PUNISHMENT."
In that case, above, they describe any number of angelic or real-world experiences, from a horrible storm to a volcanic eruption (Western US Natives mentioned that as a reason for many tribes making an exodus), meteorite strike, or other.
The Lenape had this account: Their people came from the west after a volcanic eruption drove them east. "The Lepane told, that they had found the further bank of the River of Fish (Mississippi) inhabited by a very powerful people, who dwelt in great villages, surrounded by high walls. They were very tall, so tall that the head of the tallest Lenape could not reach their arms, and their women were of higher stature and heavier limbs than the loftiest and largest man in the confederate nations. They were called the Allegewi, and were men delighting in red and black paint, and the shrill war-whoop, and the strife of the spear. Such was the relation and made by spies to their countrymen."
...They sent a message to the Allegewi to request permission to settle themselves in their neighborhood. This was refused them, but they obtained leave to pass through the country and seek a settlement farther to the eastward. They accordingly began to cross the Namesi Sipu, when the Allegewi, seeing that their numbers were so great, and in fact they consisted of many thousands, made a furious attack on those that had crossed, threatening them all with destruction, if they dared persist in coming over to their side of the river. Fired at the treachery of these people, and the great loss of men they had sustained, and besides, not being prepared for a conflict, the Lenape consulted on what was to be done; whether to retreat in the best manner they could, or try their strength, and let the enemy see they were not cowards. "Alleghans through force of arms."
"While one should always be aware that history as related by the victorious side may not be history as it actually occurred, never the less the resultant war is related as eventually becoming an overwhelming loss for the Alleghans. Whether the Lenape were considered deceitful in not disclosing their vast hoard is perhaps irrelevant. While ONE ACCOUNT SAYS THE ALLEGEWI WERE EXTIRPATED, ANOTHER RELATES OF THEIR ESCAPE DOWN THE MISSISSIPPI. The Lenni Lenape, having made an alliance with the Mengwe, took many years, and through a great loss of people, claim to have finally defeated the" Alleghans through force of arms."
"Stonish giants"
In "Ancient History of the Six Nations," David Cusick tells of the legend of the stonish giants - ("a tribe of the wilderness") came from the woods and attacked the tribes and war began. They were ravenous and devoured people. THEY WERE DRIVEN BACK INTO THE WILDERNESS.
Source: " Two miles from Mandan, on the bluffs near the junction of the Hart and Missouri Rivers (North Dakota), says the local newspaper, THE PIONEER, IS AN OLD CEMETERY OF FULLY 100 ACRES IN EXTENT FILLED WITH BONES OF A GIANT RACE. This vast city of the dead lies just east of the Fort Lincoln road. The ground has the appearance of having been filled with trenches piled full of dead bodies, both man and beast, and covered with several feet of earth. In many places mounds from 8 to 10 feet high, and some of them 100 feet or more in length, have been thrown up and are filled with bones, broken pottery, vases of various bright colored flint, and agates. The pottery is of a dark material beautifully decorated, delicate in finish, and as light as wood, showing the work of a people skilled in the arts and possessed of a high state of civilization. This has evidently been a grand battlefield, where thousands of men... have fallen. Nothing like a systematic or intelligent exploration has been made as only little holes two or three feet in depth have been dug in some of the mounds, but many parts of the anatomy of man and beast, and beautiful specimens of broken pottery and other curiosities, have been found in these feeble efforts at excavation. Five miles above Mandan, on the opposite side of the Missouri, is another vast cemetery as yet unexplored. We asked an aged Indian what his people knew of these ancient graveyards. He answered: "ME KNOW NOTHING ABOUT THEM. THEY WERE HERE BEFORE THE REDMAN."
The odd thing about these legends by Natives is that they are trying to explain something that happened, something outside of their understanding and so they attribute magical qualities to fill in the blanks in knowledge, kind of like when we experience ghostly interaction and tell a story of how surely it is the souls of the dead revisiting us. We don't understand the origin of the "phenomena," so we give it magical or other worldly origins. They also speak of these tall "white men" as being here when their people arrived to the continent, showing an earlier race of giants who had spread out across the world long before man on foot was overtaking the continents. In fact, early enough to mine, have civilizations and language. But, the land could only be held by one man, as these originators were a bloodthirsty and hungry group. It would appear the Native people of America (whose DNA did not match the Adena people) were, in fact, the true victors and the lands secured for their people.
In Australia, the aborigines had a legend of a giant who ate people and disrupted the community. Two women COAXED HIM INTO A CAVE WHERE THEY BURNED HIM. This is similar to the Paiutes' tale of trapping the man-eating giants in the cave in Nevada where THEY BURNED THEM WITH SAGE BRUSH FILLING THE OPENING OF THE CAVE. The Lenni-Lenape spoke of a race of giants they FOUGHT OFF BY JOINING FORCES WITH ANOTHER TRIBE, KILLING OFF MOST OF THE GIANTS AND SENDING THE REST DOWN THE MISSISSIPPI. The Cherokee speak of DRIVING OFF THE MOON-EYED PEOPLE who would only come out at night and feared the light. In these cases, it would appear that the masses rebelled, rather than God striking them down ("as in the Peruvian tale above").
"David Cusick, a Tuscorora [sic] by birth, writes in 1825 that among the legends of ancient stock, there was a powerful tribe called RONNONGWETOWANCA. They were giants, and had a "considerable habitation." He says that when the Great Spirit made the people, some of them became giants. The giants were said to have had a "silly" mode of attack, waiting until their intended victim was not expecting anything. After a time, and having endured the outrages of these giants, it is said that the people ended together, and through the final force of about 800 warriors, SUCCESSFULLY ANNIHILATED ALL OF THE ABHORRENT RONNONGWETOWANCA PEOPLE. After that, it was said that there were no giants anywhere. This was supposed to have happened around 2,500 winters before Columbus discovered America, i.e. around 1000 B.C.E.-the time that the Adena seem to have arrive in the Ohio Valley."
Bible: "The people of the ancient world accepted the presence of giants as a fact of history, and the Bible presents them as ENEMIES WHO WERE DESTROYED EITHER BY THE JUDGMENT OF GOD OR IN BATTLE WITH MEN."
In the case of David the shepherd in the Bible, HE SLEW GOLIATH THE GIANT WITH A STONE IN HIS SLINGSHOT.
Og of Bashan was a giant SLEWED BY MOSES AND HIS MEN.
In the story of the Iliad, the Trojans were assumed to be from another land, a different language than the Greeks, but understandable by association with perhaps some Indo-European dialect (interestingly Indo-Europeans had fair coloring, long narrow faces, long limbs) and were described as giants. These giants were brought down with what came to be called a "Trojan Horse" during the lengthy war with the Greeks. The giant horse was given as a gesture of capitulation to the giants who then partied and had fun to celebrate their winning the war, only to have the ENEMY SOLDIERS DESCENDING FROM THE HORSE AND ATTACKING THEM AT THEIR WEAKEST.
DEATH VALLEY
In descriptions of the giants of Death Valley supposedly found by a man in early 1900s in caves, the description of a giant hall of mummified giants was quite detailed and intriguing. The man described a chamber that looked like a meeting of all the warriors and they were mummified. HE ASSUMED THEY HAD TO HAVE DIED ALL TOGETHER SUDDENLY.
What we have to go on is a population of skeletons that were carefully buried in mounds and caves with their possessions, so there were tribes that cared for each member's eternal passage. But, what happened to those who served that purpose of burying others? Someone had to bury them or did they just retreat to a secret place to die along and their bones never be found? When did the last surviving giant pass? Or did they go to some hidden safe place?
CONCLUSION
It's intriguing to see that, even in the most ancient times, most remote locations, Native legend and religious texts, and mythology; all portray a giant culture that they had to deal with. This is not a coincidence or some make believe about dealing with strong foes. This is truth telling. There were giants and man around the world had to deal with this aggressive and powerful beings.
The question now becomes, what became of these giants? If it had been cataclysm, Homo sapiens would have been felled, as well.
It would seem there are two most likely scenarios; one is that the giants simply bred out of the population, unable to hybridize, perhaps difficulty with fertility and birthing, they simply went the way of Neanderthals, and the other possibility is that they still exist today in the descendants or people we refer to as Sasquatch.
The Paiutes had reported the red-haired giants as having the hair all over. This adds a new dimension to these tall beings from the past. The Northwest Natives, who elongated the skulls of tribe members, happened to have many legends of a hairy tall man.
We have a country in which we have many sightings of giants and also many bones of giants. We also have Native legends of killing giants and driving off the rest. Now, we have giants who rigidly work to avoid us short folks. We also have an interesting correlation between places bones were found and giants are seen today - hmmm....
MORE INFO:
All the Giants from the Bible
Death Valley Giants
Who were the trojans?
Ancient Giants in Warfare
Giants in mythology
Ancient War in America
Native account of tribes origins in Ohio Valley
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Is it too delayed for Americans to come to an principle on adequate gun laws? Are we so absorbed with the want of missiles that we can own to no real limits? As I ask the quiz, this week, in New Mexico give was over a killing at a school. I don't know the criticize, hinder two spirit schoolers are turmoil for their lives? Is the only retort rotating our schools popular fortresses? The gun gadget has all the markers of a religion, and it is a powerful one -- as Martin Marty demonstrates in this week's information. I risk you to decode a search and procure it faintly.
Guns
by MARTIN E. MARTY
Monday Jan 13 2014
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Stamped and depression by the week-long media widen of "Bridgegate" in Manager Christie's New Sweater, I searched for a accounting perspective. So is wrong with New Sweater that televangelists, pundits, and sages motion picture it did not religiocify or spiritualize it?
Between "Sightings"' deadline resembling, I had to turn absent for a finding. Lo! Modish it was, in my own city-this week, Chicago's strive to be fluent in the squirt of "gun power" was struck down by a US Province Square. And stylish alike, on my strategy and shroud, were other headlines about this internal squirt, as in the January 4, 2014, "New York Period "headline: "Banished for Diagnostic the Gospel of Guns."
The "Period" story told of Dick Metalf, a veteran "Guns & Ammo "magazine columnist and a Yale and Cornell historian, who wrote "Let's chat boundaries" about gun laws. His heresy inspired the magazine publisher's Query, Excommunication, Cast out, and other near-death experiences.
A "Chicago Sun-Times" pilaster, brashly and irresponsibly titled "We Passion Convincing Bounds on Guns," quoted onwards "Guns 2) sympathy for myth-and-symbol first-class "adequate" discourse; 3) metaphysical sanctions and explanations; 4) routine reinforcements; 5) behavioral correlates. They are part of Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, etc, etc. Supreme religions are experienced, stale, mellowed, open to adequate analysis and dialect, and, in our culture, dense to grassland. I've belonged to congregations in "confessional" church bodies for 85 being and can remembrance only two excommunications, back in undeveloped Nebraska and Iowa decades ago.
Advice: Disagreement for adequate, scarce gun-control if you are so stimulated by the Environment or spirits, but know that in the find time for culture you command accept stepped previous the periphery of politics and stimulated to quiz the indicate of one of the analytical, full of character religions potent today.
REFERENCES:
Somaiya, Ravi. "Banished for Diagnostic the Gospel of Guns. Large-scale New York Period", January 4, 2014. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/05/business/media/banished-for-questioning-the-gospel-of-guns.html"=0.
Metcalf, Dick. "Let's Chatter Limits: Do surefire firearms regulations really build up infringement? Guns " valign="top">
Inventor, MARTIN E. MARTY, is the Fairfax M. Shaft Illustrious Use up Professor Emeritus of the Note of Original Christianity at the Academy of Chicago Goddess Educational. His biography, publications, and contact information can be found at www.memarty.com.
Editor, MYRIAM RENAUD, is a Ph.D. Candidate in Mysticism at the Academy of Chicago Goddess Educational. She is co-organizing a meeting, April 9-11, 2014: "God: Theological Accounts and Quadrangle Potential," at the Academy of Chicago Goddess Educational (frequently funded by the Marty Base and free to the disorder). For concluded information, visit: http://divinity.uchicago.edu/god-theological-accounts-and-ethical-possibilities.
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Fairy tales are in right now. It seems more and more on TV, in books and films, taking these old classics and re-imagining them in the modern world and in modern contexts. While it's something we like to see, we also do think it has its flaws.
Recently we came across these series of images of Disney Princesses made bad ass. And that's definitely something we support. We're beyond tired of heroines whose role in their story is to lie back and wait passively for a prince to rescue them. We much prefer heroines who not only can rescue themselves - but won't be kidnapped or imprisoned in the first place, not if you know what's good for you! So these images in fighting poses and weapons looking mean? We like.
Except... why does being bad ass mean a woman has to lose her clothes? They've become tough, dangerous, mean fighters - and this involves fish-net stockings (Snow White), a loin cloth (Cinderella, Belle, Rapunzel), and a bared navel (pretty much all of them). And Sleeping Beauty (ye gods). We've seen this time and again, when a woman goes to fight she leaves her clothes behind. Can a woman's clothes and a weapon not exist in the same picture?
This unnecessary sexualisation of women whenever they are pro-active seems to be part of a prevalent message that a woman cannot be powerful or aggressive without it relating to being sexual; she is reduced to sex.
And these images have other flaws when we look at the WOC
PRINCESS TIANA
The Princess and the Frog is fraught with problems from start to finish. Unlike the majority of the Disney Princesses, Tiana did not get to retire to a castle with her princess charming, she got to run a restaurant. We see her at the end of the movie serving food to people. It is not an accident that the first Black princesses did not get the fairytale ending. If that were not enough, she spends most of the movie as a frog. A frog people. You would think that any kind of revision would be be better than the original but that is not the case.
Tiana goes from being fully clothed in the Disney version to being heavily exposed. Why does sexualizing a character which has already been othered relative to the White princesses equal empowerment? You don't need to be naked to kick ass. Tiana is also the only princess who was given a gun. Am I really supposed to ignore the racial implications here because some artist wants to yell rah rah sisterhood of the travelling pantsuits?
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