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Witches of the Moon

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Imbolc 2014

Sorry so late people but hey better late then never!!! LOL....I went 3 weeks without internet so I'm behind but catching up. Enjoy!!

First Imbolc flowers that bloomed in my front yard.

My altar with the candles lit.

New Moon Seed Intentions

Aditi~ Goddess for September

So just this morning I pulled from my Goddess Inspiration Oracle Guide deck and this month I will be studying a little with the Hindu Goddess Aditi.

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

Aditi~Mother Space

Creation

Universe

Nurturance

In India, Aditi is honored as the creator of life. For it was Aditi who gave birth to the gods and goddesses, they, in turn, brought everything into consciousness, thus creating what we consider reality.

The benin goddess is addressed as Mother Space because she gave birth to the planets and stars. Some associate her with thre endless sky, appropriately, her name translates as "limitless".

Her children, known collectively as the Adityas, are connected with the twelve months of the year. They also symbolize the twelve signs of the zodiac, whom some believe control fate.

"Your thoughts create reality. Be conscious of what you choose."

Mother Space

Moon Goddess Isamba~ Goddess for August

So I didn't realize how long its been since I've done a blog entry for my monthly Goddess. So here is last months Goddess Isamba. I felt a real connection with her even though I found it hard to find much information on her via the internet. So this info is from my Goddess Inspiration Oracle Guide.

Isamba~ Goddess of the Night

The Moon
Death
Cycles

Isamba, a goddess of the Issansu people of Tanzania, was considered the personification of the moon at night. She was married to the sun god.
When Isamba competed with her husband to discover which of them was the wisest, she accidentally became the creator of death. Since then, she has been associated with the cycle of life.

The moon, with its predictable cycles of waxing and waning, has long been associated with the cycle of life and death. Our Individual lives also go through cycles of waxing and waning, though they may mot be a clearly delineated as those of the moon. If we understand that what is empty will eventually become full again, it becomes easier to accept that all is as it should be in our lives.

"You are where you are meant to be. Cultivate acceptance."

*This Goddess came to me at a very important time in my life and helped me out a ton.

http://www.deviantart.com/art/Moon-Goddess-75060089

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I know I havent been Blogging much but I still do check it weekly but for those few who do follow me please feel free to find me on any of my other networks. My Facebook page and YouTube channel I'm on daily and my Twitter I'm on once a week or so.

So hopefully I will see some of you on my other sites. Other then that I want to wish everyone a Happy Earth Day. Let's take care of Mother Earth and she will take care of us in return.

Much love and light to all of you. Blessed Be....


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Blessed Ostara

So I'm still having a slight case of writers block but I wanted to jump on here and wish everyone a very Blessed Ostara this year. I will try to remember to post some pics and try to do a lil blurb on our Sabbat this year. We will be celebrating Thursday with the family and Saturday with our coven. Sooooo excited cant wait. Much love and light and Blessed Be my friends.

I'm Still Alive

Sorry my friends that I have not posted in a long time. For whatever reason I just have not had the feel or energy to blog. Don't know why but that's how its been. But I do check my Blogger daily and hopefully get motivated to start blogging again. In the mean time hope this one finds all my Blogger friend well, happy, safe and healthy. I do enjoy reading your blogs, keep up the awesome work and may you all have a most Blessed and Magical Imbolc.

Love and Light....

HAPPY THANKSGIVING

Our family wishes you and yours a Happy, fun, safe and blessed Thanksgiving!!! I'm thankful for so many things but one of them is my awesome blogger friends and followers.....Much Love and Light.

My baby girl Lyric with her pilgrim hat she made in school : )

BEST WITCHES THIS SAMHAIN!!!!

FROM MY FAMILY TO YOURS HAVE A FUN AND BLESSED SAMHAIN/HALLOWEEN/ALL HALLOWS EVE & AN AWESOME FULL MOON!!!!!!!!!!!! LOVE AND LIGHT.........

Costume Shopping

So Friday night was hours filled with costume shopping and a bunch of shenanigans between the four of us. LOL....the fun happenings of a deranged family, gotta love it.

Wishing everyone a Happy Pre Halloween!!!!!

My hubby and our youngest daughter Lyric.

Myself and my oldest daughter Harmony.

Me and my girls running amok in the store, lol. Good times....

Halloween Fever

Yup this household including the pets are getting anxious for Halloween/Samhain holiday!

Blessed Be my friends!!!!

Persephone

So Octobers Goddess to study is Persephone. When I first pulled this card for this months Goddess I looked at it and thought to myself "Oh I know all about her" but still I carried on my studies of the different stories and beliefs of Persephone. All are basically the same but different names and locations for her and the story etc........

But what got me was the day I pulled her I sat in front of my laptop thinking I wanted to blog about certain Samhain/Halloween traditions I do. So I wanted to blog about what I do with the pomegranate. Then after I posted the blog I realized that pomegranate was a part of Persephone's story on why she has to stay in the underworld. So I just thought, "huh cool".

Next my hubby walks in the house from getting groceries and he turns to me and says " I got you some pomegranates. " And now I think whoa weird! Then I log into my Facebook and one of the pages I follow has the story on pomegranates posted along with three recipes for and how to use pomegranates in daily meals. So what are the odds? What does it mean?

So any who back to the Goddess of October study is Persephone. Card pulled from Goddess Inspiration Oracle Guide by Kris Waldherr.

PERSEPHONE-The Maiden/The Seasons, Sexuality, Innocence
Find ways to use your innocence as a strength.

Persephone, the treasured daughter of the harvest goddess Demeter, was honored by the ancient Greeks as the queen of the underworld. She is also acknowledged as the kore or maiden aspect of the triple goddess.

Persephone's transitional journey from maiden to queen of the underworld was instigated when Pluto, god of death, kidnapped her. The girl's heart was unmoved by the god's declarations of devotion. Instead, she wept for her mother and refused to eat. Finally, after some time had passed, Persephone tasted six seeds of the pomegranate  This act defined her sexuality and of Pluto as her husband. It also ensured her separation from her mother, Demeter, for a month for each seed. This myth was used by the ancient Greeks to explain the creation of spring and winter.

Well that is the story from the oracle deck. If you know of anything different or the symbolism of pomegranates popping up in my daily life please let me know. Hope all of you enjoyed this. Love and Light....

Pomegranate

I found this article online and had no idea of the different folklore that accompanied the fruit. My grandmother just always told me that on Halloween to slice one in fours and put them in the 4 corners outside your home. That way the spirits who walked the earth that night who are no invited into your home can eat and keep going without stopping to haunt you. She was a very superstitious grandma but I still do as she did to this day. Here's the link but the article is below. Enjoy!!!

http://www.squidoo.com/fruit-folklore

Pomegranate

Ancient red fruit, with many seeds that symbolize fertility.

The Pomegranate was often used as a herbal remedy to lengthen life and restore vigor, these qualities often made it a symbolic link between the living and the dead.

To the Romans, the pomegranate signified marriage, and brides decked themselves in pomegranate wreaths.

Pomegranate seeds appear in the famous Greek myth of Demeter, goddess of the harvest, and her daughter, Persephone...

"One day, Persephone was picking flowers in a field, when Hades, the King of the Underworld, seized her and carried her to his dark underworld to be his wife. Grief-stricken, her mother, Demeter, killed every living plant on earth and refused to let new crops grow. To prevent man-kind from starving, Zeus ordered Hades to release Persephone. However, before she was released, Hades tricked her into eating seven pomegranate seeds, "The Fruit of the Underworld", this condemned her to life in the underworld for four months out of every year. For those months (winter), the world is plunged into a dark cold emptiness, but when Persephone returns to her mother each year, the earth again begets flowers, fruit, and grains."

"A single fruit grew on that tree, a bright pomegranate fruit. Persephone stood up in the chariot and plucked the fruit from the tree. Then did "he" prevail upon her to divide the fruit, and, having divided it, Persephone ate seven of the pomegranate seeds." - The Golden Fleece by Padraic Colum (1881-1972)




In Greek myth, Orion's wife was very beautiful, even rivaling the beauty of Zeus's wife, Hera. For her daring to compete with Hera, her children were killed and she was persuaded to believe herself the culprit. In agony, she threw herself from a cliff. The location of her blood was where the first pomegranate tree grew.

In the modern-day traditions of many Greeks, it is customary to adorn the holiday table with pomegranates. The Greeks consider the pomegranate to be a symbol of abundance; a fruit that spills over in plenitude and good luck. They are set out in honor of the fertile land and its bounty. Pomegranates also make an appearance during weddings, funerals, and New Year celebrations.

Pomegranates in China are associated with fertility. One of these fruits, shown half-opened, is often a wedding gift, it means a hundred seeds, or more completely, a hundred sons. The word for seed and sons in Chinese is "zi", it is also the word for "sons."

Religious Symbolism
To the early Jews, pomegranate seeds were an affirmation of their faith. Each pomegranate was believed to contain exactly 613 seeds, a number that corresponds with the number of commandments in the Torah. This belief was once so strong that the Old Testament calls for the pomegranate's image to be woven into priestly robes.

The pomegranate may also be the original fruit from the Garden of Eden, making it the representation of all that is forbidden. One taste of its ripe seeds and all knowledge of death, sex, and sin are suddenly clear. However, this didn't stop early Christians from idolizing the fruit.

Christian art, often depicts the Virgin Mary with a pomegranate, either in her hand, or nearby. This was to symbolized the Virgin Mary's power over life and death, as well as the seed that bore the Son of God.

Ancient Arab women used pomegranate seeds to predict their own fertility. The pomegranate was dropped on the ground, in the center of a circle. When it broke open, the number of seeds that landed outside the circle, was the number of children she would have.

Pomegranates are a Chinese Sign for Fertility

Makes a Great Wedding Gift!

Albuquerque Pagan Pride Day!!

September 30th was our annual Pagan Pride Day. I went late and left early cause I had a sick kiddo at home and didn't want to leave her alone that long with grandma, especially since she was starting to feel under the weather as well. But we had a great time and it has gotten so huge. I remember the very first one. It took up one corner of the park. No stage, kids corner, altar set up in the middle and maybe like 6-7 vendors. Now there were two stages one at each end of the park, took up the entire space of the park, nurses station, bathrooms, kids corner like always, petting zoo, and like 20 vendors. And food too!!!!! It's so neat to see how it's grown in the last 5 years. Love and Light to all my tree loving friends out there.......................

Me and my girls at PPD!

One of the many belly dancers with her partner. The big snake, lol!!!!

This guy was just chilling with his owl in the middle of everything.

Chang O

So I recently purchased a new Goddess Oracle Deck by Kris Waldherr and in the deck of 80 cards I probably know 15-20 of the Goddess'. So I decided to learn as I pull from them. So here we go...........


SEPTEMBER
September's Goddess is Chang O "Queen of the Moon"

Around the world, the moon is associated with numerous objects. The fanciful believe it is made of cheese because of its pocked surface. Others claim to see the face of a man in the moon. In China, the moon is associated with a celestial white rabbit, who is said to reside there with the goddess Chang O in a palace built of fragrant cinnamon wood.

Every September (odd I pulled her for this month) when the full moon is at its most brilliant, the Chinese honor Chang O with a moon festival. This celebration also celebrates women and features family reunions. Besides gathering to admire the moon's luminescent brilliance, people bake special round treats called moon cakes, which are filled with delicious red bean paste. As people eat them, they are reminded of Chang O, queen of the moon.

WOMEN, FAMILY, CYCLES-Celebrate your femininity with pride

 You can always find out more with online searching here's a link I enjoyed reading about Chang O.

The moon festival in China

Hope you all enjoyed this. Let's see who I study up on in October. Love and Light my friends.

I LOVE MERMAIDS!!

The story below this video and picture is why I identify myself as a mermaid (siren). A good friend of mine April Bottomley gave me a book that had this story as a gift back in 1989 or 90, and at the end of the story she wrote in "me too". I felt so much love in that gift and small comment that ever since then the Mermaid is one I love and wish I was. Guess I should learn to swim first, lol. Yeah no comments on that one folks, hehe......Enjoy!

Mermaids by Robert Fulghum 

“Giants, wizards and dwarfs was the game to play.
Being left in charge of about eighty children seven to ten years old, while their parents were off doing parenty things, I mustered my troops in the church social hall and explained the game.  It’s a large-scale version of Rock, Paper, and Scissors, and involves some intellectual decision making.  But the real purpose of the game is to make a lot of noise and run around chasing people until nobody knows which side you are on or who won.
Organizing a roomful of wired-up gradeschoolers into two teams, explaining the rudiments of the game, achieving consensus on group identity–all this is no mean accomplishment, but we did it with a right good will and were ready to go.
The excitement of the chase had reached a critical mass.  I yelled out:  “You have to decide now which you are–a GIANT, a WIZARD, or a DWARF!”
While the groups huddled in frenzied, whispered consultation, a tug came at my pants leg.  A small child stands there looking up, and asks in a small, concerned voice, “Where do the Mermaids stand?”
Where do the Mermaids stand?
A long pause.  A very long pause.  “Where do the Mermaids stand?” says I.
“Yes.  You see, I am a Mermaid.”
“There are no such thing as Mermaids.”
“Oh, yes, I am one!”
She did not relate to being a Giant, a Wizard, or a Dwarf.  She knew her category.  Mermaid.  And was not about to leave the game and go over and stand against the wall where a loser would stand.  She intended to participate, wherever Mermaids fit into the scheme of things.  Without giving up dignity or identity.  She took it for granted that there was a place for Mermaids and that I would know just where.
Well, where DO the Mermaids stand?  All the “Mermaids”–all those who are different, who do not fit the norm and who do not accept the available boxes and pigeonholes?
Answer that question and you can build a school, a nation, or a world on it.
What was my answer at the moment?  Every once in a while I say the right thing.  “The Mermaid stands right here by the King of the Sea!” says I.  (Yes, right here by the King’s Fool, I thought to myself.)
So we stood there hand in hand, reviewing the troops of Wizards and Giants and Dwarfs as they roiled by in wild disarray.
It is not true, by the way, that Mermaids do not exist.  I know at least one personally.  I have held her hand.”