'These Are Not the Druids You're Looking For'
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    Seriously? Stormtroopers? At Paganicon? I'm hanging out in the Druid hospitality suite when the masked and armed trio shoulder in through the doorway, scanning the crowd. Thank Goddess for the Lore: forewarned is forearmed. I step forward. “These are not the Druids you're looking for,” I tell the leader in his white Darth Vader mask. He turns to his comperes. “These are not the Druids we're looking for,” he tells them. “Let's keep searching.” They turn and go. Behind me, the room erupts in laughter and applause. Read More ..read more
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Soothe Your Soul with Homemade Massage Candles
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4h ago
Making massage candles is very similar to making any other type of potted candle. I recommend using soy wax as it is so gentle on the skin. Soy is also nice and soft, so it melts easily and stays together in a puddle after melting and can be reused by thrifty crafters. It won’t irritate your skin unless you have a soy allergy; if you have an allergy to soy, you can use beeswax instead, which is widely used. (For example, beeswax is in nearly every single Burt’s Bees product.) The addition of the oils prevents it from hardening again and enables your skin to absorb it. Essential oils or c ..read more
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The Aurora Cascade: Merging Cosmic Light and Flowing Waters
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1d ago
For some time there was no real certainty as to what causes the otherwordly phenomenon of the aurora borealis. In 2021 scientists finally confirmed that the natural light show starts when disturbances on the sun pull on Earth’s magnetic field. This creates cosmic undulations known as Alfvén waves that launch electrons at high speeds into Earth’s atmosphere where they create the aurora. Have you ever wondered what our ancestors must have thought and felt when they saw the northern lights? How magical and surreal it must have been for them, almost as much as it is for us even now, despite know ..read more
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A Missed Opportunity in Ayodhya
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1d ago
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Oral Fixations
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1d ago
Food can be foreplay, a wonderful prelude to a night of love. I recommend consuming these aphrodisiacs for your pleasure: • Almonds, or erotically shaped marzipan • Arugula, also called “rocket” • Avocado, referred to by the ancient Aztecs as the “testicle tree” • Bananas and banana flowers • Chocolate, quite rightly called “the food of the gods” • Honey, as the term “honeymoon” came from a bee-sweetened drink served to newlyweds • Nutmeg, the traditional aphrodisiac for Chinese women; eat enough and you will hallucinate • Oysters, prized by the Romans for both their effec ..read more
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You Need Rain. You Decide to Do Rain Magic, But It Rains First. Should You Still Do the Magic?
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2d ago
    You need rain, badly. You decide to do rain magic, but before you have a chance to do the magic, it rains. Should you still do your magic? Let me restate the case more generally. You see a need. You propose to cast a spell to bring about X, but before you get about to making your magic, X happens. Do you still cast the spell? In this situation, authorities—such as they are—are in universal agreement: Yes, you should still cast your spell, you should still do your rain magic. Here's the operative question: Why? Read More ..read more
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Eye Scry
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3d ago
Did you know that your cornea – the transparent front part of the eye that covers the iris, pupil and anterior chamber – is about 78% water? That means we are constantly looking through a very thin layer of, essentially, water. If water is all one, and holds and remembers everything like a record, that means this record sits right over our eyes at all times. I have seen very strange and interesting things when I close my eyes, and I don’t mean visualizing them in my mind. I mean what looks like completely real, moving 3D images right in front of my eyes, like a hallucination, in glowing gree ..read more
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The Oracle of Water: Dew
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3d ago
Keywords: Clarity, Refreshment, Newness, Renewal, Fleeting Opportunity Dew is a very fleeting form of water. While the morning heralds a new day and fresh opportunities, the dew declares that these opportunities are fleeting. Dew is frost’s warmer sister; when temperatures are low enough dew freezes to become frost. But on cool, misty mornings the dew is scattered like tiny diamonds across delicate spider webs and thin rose petals. It is nature’s tears of joy for another golden opportunity to begin again. Dew represents a gentle rejuvenation of the body, like the refreshed feeling you have ..read more
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People of the Goat
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3d ago
    Once we dwelt in the fertile plains. Beef was our food, the milk of cows our drink. Then we were driven out. Into the rocky, unfertile hills we fled, which cannot sustain a cow. We became a people of the goat, for whom the Horned wears caprine horns and hide.   Like goats, we witches are survivors. That's why it can't help but seem to me something of a moral failing that I don't like goat's milk. Oh, I've tried. “This chèvre has a nice, lemony tang to it,” I say hopefully. But in my heart, I understand that it's really myself that I'm trying to talk around.   Maybe it's ..read more
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Happy the Cat Left the Earth
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4d ago
Happy got to experience rain, sunshine, and moonlight on the weekend he died. I spent all day Sunday with him, carrying him around and petting his beautiful black fur with its thick, light gray undercoat, and white spots on the neck and belly. Coincidentally it was the day Catholics dedicate to their cat saint, so when I lay in bed petting my napping kitty and checked social media there were an unusually large number of cat related posts. I spent a lot of my time speaking softly to Happy. I also internally spoke with Freya. She told me I couldn’t save him, and that she would welcome him to he ..read more
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