Blessed Lammas

Merry Meet!
How are you spending this Sabbat?
For my family and I not too much I already harvested herbs and veggies from our back yard. And I have never been much of a bread maker but I do have a recipe from Paula Deen called "Monkey Bread" which is so incredibly easy to make its just ridiculous. So with the monkey bread, and salad from our veggies and herbs along with some sage in my little fire pit that will consist of my celebration/ritual today. So whatever you may be doing I hope its a blessed one for you. I'm adding a little wikipedia knowledge link below for anyone who is curious on Lammas.

Love and Light )o(

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lammas

Finally.......

So for the first time ever I actually got paid for my witchy services today.
I've been practicing my craft for so long and have kept in on a low key that not many people know what I do or ask for anything. Once in a while they ask about an herb or good luck charm and such. And of course my teen's young friends always needing or wanting a spell.
I'm very careful of what I put out there and most of the time I will provide the materials, spell/wording, and guidance but never do the spell myself for anyone.
My family and close friends always ask for cleansing and or house blessings which I do all the time for free because of course I love them and don't charge family.
But the other day I got an email from a former co-worker needing some help.  She has been overwhelmed with bad luck lately and has been on edge. So I gathered up some stuff for her, provided some spell-work, house cleaning and blessing and cleansed her and her family. On my way out she handed me money, I told her no need but she insisted. I felt "wow" I have never been paid.
I love helping people but it does feel good when people know they where provided with a service that was good and want to pay for that service.
Yeah I know I might sound retarded right now but that was just a neat feeling after 10+ years of practicing.
Okay I just wanted to tell everyone and let out my excited feelings. Hope everyone has a blessed day.

Love and Light )0(

Pagan Creation Story

Okay here's our version maybe this way some people will stop asking me or maybe it will enlighten some, sheesh...........for everyone else please enjoy. 

Love and Light 

In the beginning, before people, before the creation of the Earth, there was the All. The All existed in knowing, stillness, silence and darkness. From this place of nothingness, the All drew upon itself and the Goddess exploded into being in an eruption of glittering silver light. Her essence is the totality of perfect love and perfect trust. In Her heart she held the spirit of the Divine, and there was no part of Her that was not of the Divine.

    Delighted, the Goddess began the Great Work. She danced among the heavens, Her bare feet beating out the rhythm of all creation. From this rhythm were created the stars and planets and She bid them to dance with Her. As they began to move, so the cycle of the year was born, and the divine symphony of the Universe came into form.

 

From Her pure, silver light came the colours of the Universe, giving all things vibrant beauty. From the bubbling laughter in Her throat come the sounds of the clear running water of the streams, the gentle lapping of the lakes and the roaring of the oceans. The essence of the Goddess is the Moon and the cycles of life, as all women have a cycle which is the bringer of life. She is the mountains and the oceans and the stars in the sky.

    When her dancing slowed, the Lady sought a companion to share the wonders of the Universe. As the All,  She created the God as Her soul mate and equal and brought Him into being with an explosion of dazzling golden light.

    Even though there were now two spirits, They were still one – They were two halves of the Whole. This Spirit watched with pride as life came into being on Earth, gradually becoming more complex and intelligent and eventually witnessing the evolution of humans. To each being our Lady gave a unique vibration with which to communicate and the Lord bestowed upon each one passion and the burning instinct to survive.

    As a gift for His magnificent handiwork and caring for the creatures of Earth, the Lady gave the Lord a crown of stag antlers, which He wears upon His great head. This appearance of half man, half animal would forever show His joy in both the human and animal creations of Spirit. The essence of the God is the Sun and the green, growing things - forests and fields, all things that grow under the Sun.
 

Much later after the creation of the Universe, when humans began to prosper, they forgot about their divine parents. Although the God and Goddess called to Their children, they did not hear. They were lost, fighting the demons they themselves had created. Not wishing to abandon Their children, the Lord and Lady made the decision to create healers and workers of harmony among the humans to remind them of the Divine source. Within each special soul would be the remembrance of the Great Work: love, creation and movement in harmony. So the Lord and Lady drew forth energy from the Realm of Angels and the Realm of Power Animals to make the essence of Their healers. Into the Realm of Humans They instilled these special souls to convey the divinity of Spirit. These beings of power were called Witches.

    The Goddess taught the Witches the wisdom of the Universe. They were instructed how to cast the Circle and how to communicate with Spirit, because the humans of Earth had forgotten. In each soul She implanted the ability to work Magick. The God taught the Witches how to connect with the elements and spirits of Air, Fire, Earth and Water and to commune with the animal and plant kingdoms.

    At first, the humans accepted the Witches and treated them fairly. But, because the Witches were different, the other humans began to fear the Wise Ones of the God and Goddess. And so the Witches became the Hidden Children, conducting their rites of positive energy in secret, so as not to risk capture and then punishment at the hands of their fearful brothers and sisters.

We are the Witches, the demonstration of the wisdom of the Lord and Lady. We are the power and we are the change - we are embodied in every race and every culture. Once a month, when the Moon is Full, the Witches celebrate the blessings the Goddess has bestowed upon us. Four times a year, as the Sun cycles through the seasons, we celebrate the Fire Festivals and honour the Lord and His love for us. At the four midpoints of the seasons the Witches honour the cycle of life and the gifts of the Earth. When thunder roars and lightning cracks, the Lord and Lady dance the divine steps of the Universal symphony so that we may remember them and know that we are never alone.

Blessing Ritual

So a few weeks ago two of my dearest friends did a blessing ritual for my two girls. I guess you could compare it to a wiccaning but it was a little different. 
My 15 year old wanted to do it because after years of looking into different religions mainly because of her grandparents and her father all being of different religions. She did try the christian thing with her dad and grandmother. Catholic with her grandfather and Jewish with her other grandmother and time after time kept coming back to me with more and more questions on paganism. So finally she felt that she was at a time where she knew what she wanted and felt old enough to decide on her own what she wanted and that was my religion of the old ways. 
My youngest is 4 and I never got around to doing any type of blessing for her. A close friend of mine did do a Navajo blessing on her when she was 2 but being that she is all mine and no other family to shove different religions down her throat or in her head I'm raising her how I want to and that is for her to be Pagan.
It was a lovely event. Very intimate with only the closest of friends in attendance. We had an awesome potluck afterwards and a nice fire pit going in the evening. You could feel all the love in the air it was so nice.
I'm so grateful to the Goddess for giving me such a loving family and friends to do this for us. Just wanted to let everyone know that no matter the age it is never too late to get the blessing or choose the religion you want or feel comfortable with. 


Blessed Be )0(