Freedom Of Worship - Today's Celebration

Today is Spiritual / Shouter Baptiste Liberation Day on my island. It is a holiday that celebrates the freedom of a people to worship as they see fit. This group has been hounded by authorities in the past. It was illegal to hold flowers, candles or gather to worship with this form of expression. A few years back, the government finally revised the laws that prevented the people from this freedom of worship. Soon they will be given a school for members of their faith.

You would think that in this country, where our multi ethnic and multi belief backgrounds merge; that tolerance would be high. Sadly it is not so. The undercurrent mumblings of the people still speak to distrust based on your flavour of worship. Mainstream religions whisper in the back rooms about the danger of the other. Families commenting among themselves why the neighbor is not to be trusted : "Dey does put ting in dey food. Dey go give yuh a spirit!"

Our colonial minds still cannot fathom that God is All, of many names; and it is our desire to connect to the ALL that acts like an instinct; and can connect our mind with so many channels to choose from. Whatever name we call HIM/HER/ THEM....our minds register the same euphoric feeling. Whether we talk in tongues or dance to the drum, or face east and pay homage; or light our candles, deyas, incense........we connect with ALL.

So... to the woman who got evicted from her apartment because she worships OGUN, this day is for you.
For the young lady who got thrown out of her mother's house because she follows a Wiccan path, this day is for you.

For the Hindu family, whose Born Again Christian neighbors refuse to come to your puja thanksgiving; this day is for you.

For the charismatic group who puts fear of different faiths into the hearts of your followers, this day is for you too.
For all of you who distance yourselves from another because their god has a different name, I hope you learn tolerance, and understanding. One day you may be in the minority, and you would want people to judge your heart, not the way you worship (or don't worship)!

Blessed Be.

Red Riding Hood

Love the creepy........awesome

What I am Reading- How to Create a Magical Home

How to create a Magical Home by Marie Bruce is a practical guide, reminding us of things that we forgot.
Her suggestions for every room in your home bring magick...well.....hone (pardon the shameless pun)

Yes there are the practical "de-clutter" solutions. But there are also decorating suggestions, ritual cleansing suggestions, spells and the like.
The decorating suggestion are magickal, natural, colourful, with information about material etc.

The Passenger - Creepy Animated short.

he Passenger

Love creepy dark animated shorts

Have The Horoscope signs changed

Further to th recent furor about the "change" in horoscope sign alignment, please read the following response from someone I follow:

Have The Horoscopes Changed????

Poem- Raising Power

Darkness call the Witches Night

Tomorrow we have in our sight

See the happenings in the day

See the outcome of our plight

Chant the Goddess

In rhyme and song

Call the elements

You'll be strong

Air, and earth and water and fire

To our Spirit we do aspire

I, the Witch do call this hour

Goddess invoked give me your power.

- Celtic Crystal - 20th January 2011

Catholic Church issues Guide to cure Hindus

......or Muslims...no really....the guide is to "cure" witches, as if our belief was some disease that it can legislate a cure for.

Catholic Church issues

Read the article above first.


If this article was to cure any of the above religions, or known religions, then the furor that would arise would be enough for a jihad maybe?????

How about attempting to "cure" people of their belief in Orisa, or Santaria? Is that any more right?

The bigotry that arises sometimes from "dogmatic" faiths is surprising....."There is only one spiritual path people, and lets mentally abuse those who do not follow it.

Why can't we all just get along?????


   

Revolting Rhymes - Roald Dahl

A must for any Pagan/Witchy family library, Roald Dahl's twisted sense of humour strikes a chord in the heart of the twisted mind.

Wish I had him to read as a kid! He is absolutely...well.....dark!

Here is an excerpt from his version of Goldilocks and the Three Bears:

But Goldilocks like many freaks,
Does not appreciate antiques,
She doesn't care, she doesn't mind,
And now she plonks her fat behind
Upon this dainty precious chair.
And crunch! It busts beyond repair.


and

A judge would say without a blink,
"Ten years hard labour in the clink!"
But in the book, as you would see,
The little beast gets off scot-free,
While tiny children near and far,
Shout,"Goody-good! Hooray!Hurray!

This is an absolute must to get for your kids...loads of fun and we rolled with laughter!

And its available in the Trinidad National Library....the Children's Section of course. Or buy your own below!

Uranus Magick Part two

There were so many different openings to this blog that I thought of. So many angles of life giving you lemons and past experiences that I had.
But lets start here......
Sometime back I did a mini spell, when Jupiter and Uranus were so close to each other that they looked like one star in the night sky. In my extremely indisciplined way that will make any conventional witch shocked at my behaviour, I called upon the energies of Jupiter and Uranus to inject some serious change into my life......remove the chains that bind me to this conventional eight to four life and give me the tools and freedom to earn a living off of my passion! My art, my brush and canvas other me!!!

So the Universe begins to set the stage....and I begin to throw tantrums.

Thats the thing about spell work......we want the change...and when the furniture starts shifting around and we have to make decisions to mental let go of the old mental furniture, we sometimes throw out our own fear based chain and want to hold on to a concept for all its worth!

Now lets do the rational.....if you want to let go of the 8-4, and paint....you have to let go of the 8-4 right??? So when the stage peices start moving around, the the department at the 8-4 is going through a restructure...why does my mind start panicking??

And I panicked for four whole days!!!!!

I heard the news, I felt the fear, I threw a mental tantrum! How unfair! I work so hard! How can they do this to me!

And after four days of Tantruming, I realised that I had unhealthily become to attached to being the 8-4 person. That the idea of it being removed from me brought on a sense of fear that was unreasonable.

"But you wanted this...you wanted to be an artist! To take up your new role, we have to change the stage set!" - says the Universe.

Quietly, other movements are happening on another level that bring the artist side of me to the forefront of my existence. That persona, was no longer the sideline over the last few days, but became the front man because of opportunities which came forward for my creative side.

When a buyer called to tell me the reaction by some very important people toward my art........I felt like the clouds had cleared...the doors had opened wide.....

I laughed....a stink scandalous laugh of someone who just realized the joke was on them...and could appreciate the greatness of the joke!

I order to embrace the tools of the new me...... I had to let go of the old me.......and Magick- that mischievous Pan-like creature that she was, was giving me the easy gentle way to let go a bit at a time.......
and I was throwing tantrums!!!!

By this morning I was a calm sea.....waiting to embrace whatever ride I had to endure to make that transition of change........

Fairy House Challenge

 

The challenge was to create a FAIRY HOUSE using only products found in Nature. I cheated  bit with some string to tie the twigs together. So bit of twigs and leaves and moss and flowers came together in a rough structure which could barley pass as a house........but it was a fun project to pass the afternoon with.

These are some others I found online....I bow to their creativity:

    

THE SIGNS ARE ALL WRONG??????

Okay...first...watch this video!
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41062376/ns/technology_and_science-science/?GT1=43001

These are supposedly the new sign months:

• Capricorn: Jan. 20-Feb. 16.
• Aquarius: Feb. 16-March 11.
• Pisces: March 11-April 18.
• Aries: April 18-May 13.
• Taurus: May 13-June 21.
• Gemini: June 21-July 20.
• Cancer: July 20-Aug. 10.
• Leo: Aug. 10-Sept. 16.
• Virgo: Sept. 16-Oct. 30.
• Libra: Oct. 30-Nov. 23.
• Scorpio: Nov. 23-29.
• Ophiuchus: Nov. 29-Dec. 17.
• Sagittarius: Dec. 17-Jan. 20.

So are we following someone else fate????

I had long since stopped following horoscopes because reading them put thoughts and expectations into my mind which were not necessarily in keeping with my own goals. I have noticed that certain astrologers broad overview of the star alignment is in keeping with general predictions of what will happen globally. Whether that shifts to individual levels I have yet to be convinced.

However, because "Thoughts become things" I sometimes even write my own "horoscopes" to keep my focus on what I want during a certain period.

Ralph Marston, in one of his daily inspirational offerings says " Your perspective controls which possibilities are most prominent in your awareness." And we all know, that the possibilities most prominent in anyone's awareness, are the possibilities most likely to happen.

So I like to keep my possibilities all in keeping with my goals........which is why I won't let anyone else inject another possibility for my life into my head.

Just another perspective......Blessed Be.

Loreena McKennit - The Wind That Shakes the Barley

My absolutest, favourite-est musician in the whole wide world, is in the process of releasing her new album.
You can hear sample songs here:
The Wind That Shakes The Barley

Of course.....being in the middle of the Caribbean Sea, I would have to wait a while before it gets here........Amazon should be shipping it now!

Nothing's Brewing

See it.....empty eh??

Absolutely nothing is brewing in my mind. Its Another Period of Self Analysis People!!!!! Goddess help me. Nothing learning, nothing creating, nothin magicking.....nothing.

I am in a rutt....which happens occasionaly.  I have to do something absolutely new and exciting.....hmmmm lets see what mischief I can get up to?????
Tell you soon!