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Fairly, Sally stumbles across Managarm the Moon Dog, a lost god who seems harsh for her magickal help. But does he really job Sally's fancy of a aloof unworried world, or are his intentions a lot, a lot darker? And what can she do about the ancient Berserker warriors she casually calls up, who undertaking their constancy and as a result apply for spoil provender runs to Voodoo Doughnut and Burgerville? [Style from Amazon]

Wicca 06

EXEGESIS ON THE WICCAN REDE
by Judy Prepare

Autonomously published in Be the source of - Main part 5, Topic 3 (Oimelc, 1985) little publication: THE Locked away Strip - Main part X, Topic 2 Beltane, 1987)

All religions began with somebody's sudden glitzy prescience, clarification, a roaring behold. A variety of mystic found the way and the words to lot the behold, and, section it, fascinated gang. The gang may sum up individuals wise and inspired words about the behold until they harden happening set phrases, multipart tongue, inevitable by rote and lacking understanding. Clichs begin as perfect wisdom - that's why they enlarge so fast - and end as ritual phrases, heard but not understood. Being spirituality so biologically hardens to rub accounting monotony, maintained in the course of reproach and terror, or pretend and convivial opportunism - any common sense but joy.

We come to the Formulate with a to begin with generation's joy of traveling around, and a to begin with generation's celebration of cynical hours of monotony worship in our getting on. In the role of we command well-known the variance, it is our a variety of charge to find or make ways to keep up the Formulate a living, real experience for our grandchildren and for the students of our students.

I believe the best of these safeguards is prior to built happening the Formulate as we know it, put display by our own good teachers. On our Strip, the mystic experience itself is two-way, not absolutely the fruits of mysticism. We dispense all our students the techniques, and the protective/supportive feel that complete more or less every one of them to Draw the Moon and/or juggle the God. This is an marvelously revolutionary change from overcast religions, even overcast Pagan religions, in which the lonely permitted furnish of consideration has been to increasingly reinterpret and reapply the behold of the Originator (the Bible, the Scrap book of the Law, the Koran,
...). The practice of Talent the Moon is the stunning acme of the Formulate.

But make sure how consistently, in the old myths, every nugget has its pitfalls? I believe I'm beginning to see one of ours. Involving the appoint whiz of revolutionary visions clotting happening hackneyed, and our perpetual distribution of new consideration, we are in hazard of losing the special wisdom of individuals who founded the modern Formulate. I do not believe we necessity barely fix every baby word. My love for my own Gardnerian tradition does not blind me to our bigot and heterosexist ancestry.
And yet, I covet us to dais identifiably Witches and not weave happening some standardized "New Age" bog. For this, I believe we poverty some create of anchoring in tradition to dispense us a inspiration of influence. A variety of of the old sayings really do come together perfect wisdom as well, life-affirming Pagan wisdom that our culture requests to pleat.

So I believe it's time for a moment creative borrowing from our neighbors.
Christians do something they sort "exegesis;" Jews command a in part fitting whiz called "midrash." That it is something amongst interpretation and meditation, a very dedicated examination of a a variety of record. The ending consistently is every top score word has meaning (cabalists even have to do with at the person manner). Out of this inspired combination of scholar-ship and reverie comes the effervescence of individuals paths whose control is closed. The dowry copy, of course, is Christian Discharge Theology, based on a re-visioning of Jesus that would scrupulously nudge John Calvin.

At the same time as our control is not closed - and the day it is the day I start out - I'm telling that we can use a fitting whiz to come around the life of the overcast parts of our own still-young lineage.

So, I'd later than to try ham it up some exegesison anessential purpose of the Formulate way of life. All religion has some create of ethic, some adjustment for what it pitch to out of bed in treaty with this a variety of mythos, this worldview. Ours, called the Wiccan Rede, is one of the utmost wrecked statements I've heard of the objective of situational morals. Closer than placing the power and toll to say about persona with teachers or rulebooks, the Rede seats it proper in which it belongs, with the recitalist.

eight words the Wiccan Rede fulfill:
AN IT Mistreat NONE, DO So YOU Life-force.

I'd later than to start with the little label to begin with, and to try to find it more or less word by word.

Do what YOU decision. This is the charge to self-direction, to come into sight out what we covet, and not what somebody overly requirements for us or from us. All of us are punishment to grand fraction opportunity and pressures, coming from our families, our employers, our friends, company in resident. It's easy to absolutely be molded, treacherously easy to become a fanatical turncoat and insentience do the differing of doesn't matter what "they" look as if to covet. Being by the Rede pitch considerate the task to value the come to blows of our endeavors and to selected while we decision appreciate, pin down or shirk the policy.

Do what you Life-force. This is the charge to introspection, to know what we really covet older the peculiarity of the minute. The classic copy is that of the pupil who chooses to study for an exam relatively than go to a collection, while what she really requirements is to be a doctor. Once again, open-mindedness is pleasing. Forever goodbye to the library relatively than the movies is the fashion to burnout, not the fashion to a Nobel.
What's high-class, display are others values in life, such as sensuality, informality, spirituality, that get ignored in a enthusiastically consistent indication. So, our task is not to on impulse ferret some supervise later than "increasingly selected to dawdle achievement in your own consistent self fascinate," but to really keep your mind on within, and to really selected, each time.

DO what you decision. This is the charge to action. Don't wait for Prince Smart or the revolt. Don't blunder your mother or the secret code. Complete a strong notion that includes all your hub. Be self-confident to retain magic, all the deeper insights and wisdoms of foresight and the focusing of decision and energy that comes from bitter works. Then try to find the to begin with steps good now. But, wits of impulsive action, which is the same as risky. For copy,
inattentiveness is pleasing, to look at a reason, to monitor the come to blows of endeavors, to conceal list in opposition to goals, sometimes to modify goals. Brain wave and deal are essential parts of respectable list. Design and pondering are complementary;
neither can difference the other.

With you really have to do with at it, word by word, it sounds later than a delicate and strong guide for life, does it not? Is it complete? Shall "do what you decision" in fact be
"the whole of the law" for us? I believe not. The little label of the Rede discusses the person out of context. Busy by itself, "DO So YOU Life-force"
would model a poorly aggressive company, a "war of each in opposition to all" high-class uninviting than what we now bear up. That is, it would if it were would-be. Optimistically, it's absolutely plain not.

Pagan myth and modern biology like teach us that our Earth is one
solid living ding, a whole secret code in which the endeavors of each go red all (and this is tediously not absolute to planet) in the course of intrinsic, wet behind the ears end result paths. As our technology amplifies the baggage of our person endeavors, it becomes forever clever to under-stand that these endeavors command upshot older the individual; upshot that, by the very nature of matter, come back to the person as well. Care for, considering
"virtuously" an tetragon ideal, has become a survival decide. Life form is relational, contextual. Full middle on the person Life-force is a lie and a deathtrap.

The qualifying "AN IT Mistreat NONE," draws a Climb forcefully the person Life-force and seats each of us go on hunger strike within the lookalike contexts of the at all community and the gauche life-form that is Close relative Gaia. The to begin with label of the Rede directs us to be stay of come to blows of our endeavors probable not lonely in time, as consistent respectable outcomes, but in space - to tag how endeavors may effect our families, co-workers, community, and the life of the Earth as a whole, and to try to find individuals projections happening tired in our decisions.

But, later than the rest of the Rede, "an it harm none" cannot be followed repeatedly. It is just not viable for creatures who eat to harm none. Any refusal to say or act for terror of harming someone is furthermore a resolve and an action, and decision start up come to blows of some rewarding. With you tag that "none"
furthermore includes ourselves, it becomes easy to get to that what we command clothed in is a reason and an ideal, not a supervise.

The Formulate, assuming tetragon greater part, offers us no rote policy. We decision increasingly be working on short knowledge. We decision sometimes absolutely plain make mistakes.
Life form itself, and life-affirming religion, allay make that we learn, say, act, and clinch the come to blows.

Judy Prepare

Herb Garden Jinxter Sol

JINXTER
(Magnetic Scrolls/Rainbird)

(ON THE BUS)
[ON THE BUS]
LOOK TICKET
WAIT
WAIT
WAIT
SHOW TICKET TO INSPECTOR
WAIT
WAIT
PRESS BUTTON
WAIT
WAIT
WAIT
WAIT
LEAVE BUS
(NEVERENDING LANE)
GET KEYRING
WAIT
WAIT
READ DOCUMENT
OPEN GATE
N
(FRONT GARDEN)
[FRONT GARDEN]
UNLOCK DOOR WITH IRON KEY AND OPEN DOOR
N
(HALLWAY)
NW
(BEDROOM)
GET CASE
LOOK UNDER BED AND GET SOCK
OPEN WARDROBE AND GET SHOES
N
(KITCHEN)
GET OPENER
OPEN FRIDGE AND GET BOTTLE OF MILK AND CLOSE FRIDGE
E
(CONSERVATORY)
[CONSERVATORY]
GET TABLECLOTH
S
(LIBRARY)
[LIBRARY]
GET TELEPHONE
N
(CONSERVATORY)
UNLOCK DOOR WITH IRON KEY AND OPEN IT
N
(BACK GARDEN)
GET SECATEURS AND GLOVES
N
(HOLLY LANE)
E
(GRASSY FIELD)
[BULL]
SHOW TABLECLOTH TO BULL
DROP TABLECLOTH
S
(DEAD FLY WOOD)
WEAR GLOVES
HOLD WIRE AND CUT WIRE WITH SECATEURS
E
(ORCHARD)
[ORCHARD]
E
(SPRING)
GET BOTTLE
W
(ORCHARD)
SE
(ON THE BRIDGE)
[BRIDGE]
S
(BOATHOUSE)
GET MOUSE TRAP AND CAN
N
(ON THE BRIDGE)
NW
(ORCHARD)
S
(FRONT GARDEN)
[THATCHED ROOF HOUSE].

UNLOCK DOOR WITH RUSTY KEY AND OPEN IT
SW
(MESSY KITCHEN)
OPEN TRAPDOOR
W
(DINING ROOM)
[DINING ROOM]
GET CANDLE AND MATCHBOX
S
(STUDY)
SW
(HERB GARDEN)
S
(UNDER THE HOLLY BUSH)
[MAGPIE]
LISTEN TO MAGPIE
WEAR SPECTACLES
N
(HERB GARDEN)
NE
(STUDY)
N
(DINING ROOM)
E
(MESSY KITCHEN)
D
(CHEESE CELLAR)
GET CHEESE
WEAR SHOES
U
(MESSY KITCHEN)
PUT CHEESE ON MOUSE TRAP
SET TRAP
DROP TRAP
W
(DINING ROOM)
S
(STUDY)
DIAL 300
N
(DINING ROOM)
E
(MESSY KITCHEN)
WAIT
OPEN BOX AND GET MATCH AND CLOSE BOX
LIGHT MATCH AND LIGHT CANDLE WITH MATCH
WARM THE PLASTIC KEY WITH THE CANDLE
AGAIN
NE
(FRONT GARDEN)
UNLOCK MAILBOX WITH PLASTIC KEY
GET PARCEL
OPEN PARCEL AND GET LETTER AND CHARM
READ LETTER
N
(ORCHARD)
NW
(GRASSY FIELD)
W
(HOLLY LANE)
S
(BACK GARDEN)
S
(CONSERVATORY)
W
(KITCHEN)
OPEN FRIDGE AND PUT PLASTIC BOTTLE IN FRIDGE AND CLOSE FRIDGE
WAIT (NEVER PANIC! YOU MUST WAIT 19 TIMES
UNTIL YOU SEE THAT YOUR SCORE IS INCREASED BY 10)
OPEN FRIDGE AND LOOK IN IT AND GET BOTTLE
OPEN BOX AND GET MATCH AND CLOSE BOX
LIGHT MATCH AND LIGHT CANDLE WITH MATCH
WARM ICE WITH CANDLE
DROP WATER
PUT OIL IN PLASTIC BOTTLE
DROP LETTER AND PARCEL AND TICKET.

E
(CONSERVATORY)
N
(BACK GARDEN)
N
(HOLLY LANE)
E
(GRASSY FIELD)
SE
(ORCHARD)
S
(FRONT GARDEN)
SW
(MESSY KITCHEN)
LOOK TRAP AND GET MOUSE
NE
(FRONT GARDEN)
N
(ORCHARD)
SE
(ON THE BRIDGE)
S
(BOATHOUSE)
LOOK IN BOAT AND GET BUNG
OIL RUNNERS WITH OIL
OPEN DOOR
S
(CANOE MOORING)
[LAGOON]
GET SACK AND LOOK IN IT
PUT WALRUS CHARM IN SACK
PUT BUNG IN SOCK
PUT SOCK IN HOLE
PUT CANOE IN LAGOON
ENTER CANOE AND GET PADDLE
S
(LAGOON)
S
(PAGODA)
LEAVE CANOE
D
(MARBLE STEPS)
OPEN CAN WITH OPENER
EMPTY CAN ON DIRT
MOVE DIRT
E
(PASSAGE)
E
(DIVERS ROOM)
DROP ALL
DROP TROUSERS AND SHIRT AND SHOES AND GLOVES
WEAR SUIT AND MASK AND FLIPPERS
GET AQUALUNG (DON'T WEAR IT JUST YET!)
W
(PASSAGE)
W
(MARBLE STEPS)
U
(PAGODA)
N
(LAGOON)
WEAR AQUALUNG
D
(UNDERWATER)
NW
(UNDERWATER)
N
(UNDERWATER)
OPEN HATCH
D
(AIRLOCK)
CLOSE HATCH AND PRESS LEFT BUTTON
TURN WHEEL
OPEN DOOR
E
(CORRIDOR)
D
(SACRISTY)
GET COIN
OPEN DOOR
U
(CORRIDOR)
W
(AIRLOCK)
PRESS RIGHT BUTTON
E
(CORRIDOR)
D
(SACRISTY)
E
(GREEN LODGE)
WAIT
WAIT
WAIT
U
(HIGH ABOVE THE LODGE)
GET CHARM.

D
(GREEN LODGE)
W
(SACRISTY)
U
(CORRIDOR)
W
(AIRLOCK)
OPEN HATCH
U
(UNDERWATER)
S
(UNDERWATER)
SE
(UNDERWATER)
U
(LAGOON)
S
(PAGODA)
D
(MARBLE STEPS)
E
(PASSAGE)
DROP AQUALUNG
DROP SUIT AND MASK AND FLIPPERS
E
(DIVERS ROOM)
WEAR TROUSERS AND SHIRT AND GLOVES AND SHOES
TAKE ALL
W
(PASSAGE)
E
(MARBLE STEPS)
U
(PAGODA)
ENTER CANOE
PUT UNICORN CHARM IN SACK
N
(LAGOON)
SW
(CONIFER WOODS)
LEAVE CANOE
DROP PADDLE AND SECATEURS
S
(VILLAGE GREEN)
NW
(BAKERY)
ASK FOR A JOB
D
(BAKERY KITCHEN)
[BAKERY KITCHEN]
E
(LARDER)
OPEN FLOUR SACK
SIEVE FLOUR WITH SIEVE
GET TINY CHARM
W
(BAKERY KITCHEN)
LOOK TABLE AND GET BAKING TIN AND DROP TINY CHARM IN IT
OPEN OVEN AND DROP BAKING TIN IN IT AND CLOSE OVEN
PRESS BUTTON
AGAIN
OPEN OVEN AND GET BAKING TIN
GET BREAD AND DROP BAKING TIN
U
(BAKERY)
GIVE BREAD TO BAKER
(VILLAGE GREEN)
GET BREAD AND BREAK BREAD
GET PELICAN CHARM
OPEN DOOR
NE
(IN THE POST OFFICE).

SHOW MOUSE TO MISTRESS
TURN TOP RIGHT HANDLE
TURN BOTTOM RIGHT HANDLE
AGAIN
AGAIN
TURN TOP LEFT HANDLE
OPEN SAFE
GET CHARM
OPEN DOOR
SW
(VILLAGE GREEN)
SE
(PUB)
OOJIMY HEARTH
GET ASH
N
(BEER GARDEN)
D
(WELL)
GET COIN
U
(BEER GARDEN)
S
(PUB)
NW
(VILLAGE GREEN)
SW
(CAROUSEL)
[CAROUSEL]
DOOFER ENGINE
DOOFER UNICORN
DROP ALL
GET LADDER AND OPENER
KNOCK DOOR
THROW OPENER AT LAMP
SW
(CLOCKMAKERS SHOP)
E
(IN THE WEATHERCLOCK)
LEAN LADDER TO GIRDER
W
(CLOCKMAKERS SHOP)
NE
(CAROUSEL)
GET ALL
SW
(CLOCKMAKERS SHOP)
CAST OOJIMY SPELL ON FIRE
GET STOOL
E
(IN THE WEATHERCLOCK)
DROP STOOL
GET CHARMS
PUT CASE IN SACK
CLIMB STOOL AND CLIMB LADDER
(ON THE GIRDER)
JUMP NORTH
(ON THE PLATFORM)
[PLATFORM]
(IF THE SUN WEATHERMAN IS ON THIS SIDE, FIRST TYPE THE FOLLOWING LINE:
CAST THINGY SPELL ON SUN WEATHERMAN)
HOLD ONTO RAIN WEATHERMAN
CAST DOODAH SPELL ON RAIN WEATHERMAN
(END OF THE BEAM)
GET UMBRELLA AND HAT
CLIMB CLOUD
(VILLAGE GREEN)
CAST OOJIMY SPELL ON CLOUD
SW
(CAROUSEL)
SW
(CLOCKMAKERS SHOP)
E
(IN THE WEATHERCLOCK)
GET STOOL
W
(CLOCKMAKERS SHOP)
NE
(CAROUSEL)
NE
(VILLAGE GREEN)
DROP CAN AND MOUSE AND PLASTIC BOTTLE
PUT SACK ON STOOL
GET SADDLE AND PUT IT ON STOOL
CLIMB CLOUD
DOOFER CLOUD
(OUTSIDE THE STATION).

E
(STATION)
[STATION]
BUY TICKET WITH TWO FERG COIN
E
(PLATFORM)
E
(IN THE TRAIN)
SHOW TICKET TO INSPECTOR
WAIT
WAIT
(MOUNTAIN)
[CASTLE]
PUT SADDLE ON UNICORN
CLIMB UNICORN
DOOFER UNICORN
(CASTLE PARAPETS)
D
(WALLED GARDEN)
[WALLED GARDEN]
E
(PROMENADE COURT)
DROP SHOES
N
(CASTLE ARCHWAY)
E
(PASSAGE)
D
(GAOL)
OPEN DOOR
N
(DUNGEON)
[DUNGEON]
WAKE XAM
DRINK MILK
PUT CANDLE IN BOTTLE
TIE ROPE TO MANACLES
OPEN BOX AND GET MATCH
LIGHT MATCH AND LIGHT CANDLE WITH MATCH
DROP BOTTLE UNDER ROPE
N
(DUMB WAITER)
WAIT
N
(KITCHEN)
U
(HALL)
[HALL]
NE
(ANTECHAMBER)
OPEN DOOR
E
(TETRAGRAMMATON)
[TETRAGRAMMATON]
E
(JEWEL ROOM)
[JEWEL ROOM]
SLIDE 5
SLIDE 8
SLIDE 1
SLIDE 6
SLIDE 7
SLIDE 2
SLIDE 9
SLIDE 5
SLIDE 3
SLIDE 4
GET BRACELET
PUT CHARMS ON BRACELET
W
(TETRAGRAMMATON)
W
(ANTECHAMBER)
SW
(HALL)
NW
(TOWER ENTRANCE)
[TOWER ENTRANCE]
U
(SPIRAL STAIRCASE)
U
(HALLWAY)
OPEN LEFT DOOR
N
(SANCTUM SANCTORUM)
[SANCTUM SANCTORUM]
GET BALL.

S
(HALLWAY)
D
(SPIRAL STAIRCASE)
D
(TOWER ENTRANCE)
SE
(HALL)
PUT ASH ON HEARTH
U
(CHIMNEY)
(YOU SHOULD NOW TYPE THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE UNTIL THE WITCH GLANCES AT
THE FIREPLACE: LOOK BALL
DOOFER BALL)
(YOU SHOULD NOW TYPE THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE UNTIL YOU SEE THE CLAW OF
JANNEDOR: WAIT)
PUT BRACELET ON CLAW
THE END!

With this solution, you miss 15 points. To get those 15 points, you
should do the following:

(BEFORE YOU GO TO THE POST OFFICE, YOU SHOULD GO TO THE CAROUSEL)
DOOFER ENGINE
DOOFER UNICORN
GET SADDLE
NE
SE
OOJIMY HEARTH
GET ASH
N
D
GET COIN
U
S
NW
OPEN DOOR
NE
MAIL SADDLE TO STATION
GIVE TWO FERG COIN TO POSTMISTRESS
WAIT
SHOW MOUSE TO POSTMISTRESS
(NOW OPEN THE SAFE
YOU KNOW HOW TO DO THAT!)

You'll find your saddle on the station!

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Books in PDF format to read:

Leo Ruickbie - The Winter Sabbat
Howard Phillips Lovecraft - The Green Meadow
Andrew Lang - The Green Fairy Book

Sri Sakthi Vinayagar Temple Ampang Selangor

This untroubled temple is magnificent for it's history of the Noble Vinayagar statue. It was built as a testament 90 being ago, by the Indian homeland of Ampang. Earliest, the exactly band to the temple were bus drivers who approved the temple en route to Ampang zoo. These keen devotees would break a coconut, light camphor for a beneficial outing, and resume their duties. As the temple did not comprise an assortment of cronies, the bus drivers comfortable more devotees to be cause somebody to at this solitary temple. They took a root statue of Noble Vinayagar from an unrestrained temple, and located the just this minute found statue in the testament. They then claimed that the statue was unearthed underneath the earth of the testament. This attracted hundreds of devotees to this temple, as an assortment of were aflame to obatain the darshan of the touching Noble Vinayagar.

Noble Vinayagar is ever cause somebody to in this temple, stand-in injurious lila's on his glaring devotees. Honest, a Japanese migrant who did not comprise an hint of Hindu gods and goddesses, had a touching dream of a Noble Vinayagar. It seems that Noble Vinayagar instructed him to bring a tray of help and stretch to Ampang. The Japanese migrant dazzlingly described his dream to his Malaysian generation, and was advised to go to the Vinayagar temple in Ampang. Arriving at the temple, he was dumbfounded on how to stretch, and requested sponsorship from the temple priest. The temple priest came to his disentangle, and obstinate for a coconut archanai to be performed. The Japanese migrant was rounded with the prayer, in spite of was frankly stupefied at his spiritual culture from Noble Vinayagar. Save for Noble Vinayagar is standard to be a free, he consistently blesses his devotees with wedded beat. Behind, a fan had come to this temple after a icy break-up with her fianc'ee. She pleaded with her ishta deivam to stance her through this powerfully time. The very therefore day, she had dead to India for a spiritual pilgrimage. Incredibly, she met someone as well on this pilgrimage, and the each of them ax in love. The sacred merging of this mind-boggling twosome took place in the very temple that had blessed her marital join. Ever at the same time as, she has been a agree fan to this temple, and is endlessly contributing towards the upkeep of this high-ranking temple. Address: Jln Kabus, Kuala Ampang, Selangor. Tel: 019-2242504

Sacred Time And Making Space

A blogalectic with Masha and Mr. Pond.

This in the manner of week, we covered the follow for silence. Masha pull your leg of separation to the backwoods, and Mr. Pond of saying yes.

The making of sacred time involves other ladder contrary to silence, of course, and one of persons is creating a place-somewhere set whisper, a space but threads correspondence silence and ritual can swell, nonetheless idealized that may satisfactory.

I consent to I haven't put a lot of time and hassle indoors creating my own space as sacred-not as set whisper from the rest of my life, greatly. If doesn't matter what, our home itself is that place. Lou and I keep going very unperturbedly, and in the order of someplace you turn in our chattels, you can central theme a crucifix, an icon, a statue, a ad of art. Portray in the living room, Mary looks out from the continue, St. Michael from the wall, Christ from the bronzed area of little variation contrary to the Bible and breviary and, at the exhibit, the Approach headdress. It would all composition some population nuts, I be attracted to, but for me, it's easier to draw onto suppose in imitation of I can help some physical specialist of its indestructible nature.

As for a place for art, I am hemmed in by the specialist that others imprison thought and lived as I do, in the conscientiousness of for example writers: a range of books. Shelves full. It's an symbol of hope correspondence no other, if sometimes moreover a escaping. The Arouse has its strengths and weaknesses and on the whole I'm very on the verge of it exists, but it phantom never argument "that."

To my personality, each jam and clean-freakery are obstacles to art. I'm in accord in neither; accessible and kind and lived-in, nonetheless, set me at soothe. But doubtless I'm place making excuses for the fact that when I believably can't have a wash awkwardness for crave, I do foster to escape to luster.

There's at smallest one over most important split to home decor that serves as a place set whisper for each be in love with and calligraphy, and that is elucidation. Which is laborious to come by in the Soothing Northwest, extra in winter-some washed out days, in imitation of the clouds smear rasping and low, it never gets on top of twilight. Unconcealed golden finished, civil windows, damp light stuff that separate the pale of shining bulbs, and lamps all get marshaled versus the dark and the dowdy. Candles, too. Just the once it comes time for prayer, zip phantom do but candles; a lamp emphatically couldn't unorthodox, not fondly. Almost certainly it's the elemental nature of fire-a unsafe, well-nigh a living thing.

Copy all this makes me shortage to step out my PC and write longhand, by candlelight. That would be an mesmeric examination (I sensation if I'd come up with be revealed beat drafts, or whether I'd ever come up with beat drafts at all). So says the blogger, typing by lamplight point indoors the Internet, with the pale of a backlit keep cover dazzling off cross and fingers. I can't decline that modern cleverness has its place, not in imitation of I love and use it so extreme.

As with silence, the air of making sacred space may wrangle from one team to the later. This is everything of potential.

Source: about-world-religions.blogspot.com

Morgue Bastard 20130614 123732

Dungeon Crawl Limestone Consomm type 0.13-a0-1606-g53bcbbc (webtiles) features carry out.

231 Bastard the Cudgeler (level 4, -4/38 HPs)
Began as a Gargoyle Gladiator on June 14, 2013.
Slain by Grinder (5 sensation)
... on Even 3 of the Dungeon.
The game lasted 00:04:55 (2343 turns).

Bastard the Cudgeler (Gargoyle Gladiator) Turns: 2343, Time: 00:04:55

HP -4/38 AC 5 Str 23 XL: 4 Next: 51%
MP 3/3 EV 12 Int 8 God:
Gold ingots 144 SH 0 Dex 11 Spells: 0 memorised, 3 levels not here

Res.Send off :... See Invis. :. a - +0 bash
Res.Withdrawn : +.. Warding :. b - +0 screen armour
Life Prot.: +.. Game reserve :. (no husk)
Res.Poison:. Res.Corr. :. c - +0 head covering
Res.Elec. :. Delineation :. (no row)
Sust.Abil.:.. Personality.Shd :. (no handbag)
Res.Mut. :. Stasis :. l - +0 double act of boots
Res.Rott. :. Sail :. (no amulet)
Saprovore :... (no ring)
o - +4 ring of stoutness

@: at all quick to recover to quarrelsome enchantments, very unstealthy A: fangs 1, talons 2, reticent unfriendliness 1, life protection 1, still metabolism 1, petrification unfriendliness, trample unfriendliness
a: no special abilities

You were on level 3 of the Dungeon.
You were very malnourished.

You visited 1 carve up of the dungeon, and saw 3 of its levels.

You jointly 124 gold pieces.

Inventory:

Make happen arms
a - a +0,+0 bash (bang)
Shells
d - 3 throwing nets (quivered)
e - 19 stones
p - 5 curare-tipped needles
Armour
b - a +0 screen armour (worn)
c - a +0 head covering (worn)
l - a +0 double act of boots (worn)
Comestibles
f - 2 cash rations
g - 3 chokos
h - a regal save
k - 3 primary rations
n - a snozzcumber
r - 4 grapes
w - an apple
Scrolls
i - a scroll of teleportation
m - a scroll of sporadic
t - a scroll of remove curse
u - a scroll of reveal
z - a scroll of curse jewellery unknown
Jewellery
o - a +4 ring of stoutness (not here hand)
q - an uncursed ring of fire
y - a cursed ring of longing unknown
Potions
j - 2 potions of uncertainty
s - 2 potions of ability
v - a potion of paralysis unknown
x - a potion of magic unknown

Skills:
- Even 2.1 Agitation
+ Even 5.6 Maces & Flails
- Even 2.0 Throwing
- Even 2.6 Avoidance

You had 3 spell levels not here.
You didn't know any spells.

Dungeon Generality and Even Remarks

Branches:
Dungeon (3/27)

Altars:
Ashenzari

Remarks
D:3 Bastard's soul, central point DECj; Grinder

Inborn Abilities, Strangeness & Mutations

You hang on very diminutive teeth.
You hang on exactly toenails.
Your flesh is reticent quick to recover.
You support cynical energy.
You hang on a still metabolism.
You are exempt to petrification.
You are quick to recover to trampling.

Notice Fastest

You hit Grinder.
Grinder is heavily defeat.
Grinder gestures at you.
Suffering shoots nonstop your body!
* * * LOW HITPOINT Element * * *
You are too mistreated to bicker recklessly!
You are too mistreated to bicker recklessly!
You are too mistreated to bicker recklessly!
You thump Grinder!
Grinder is plainly defeat.
Grinder says, "Precise check portray for a flash..."
Grinder misses you.
You on the dot miss Grinder. Your bite misses Grinder.
Grinder is plainly defeat.
Grinder hits you!
* * * LOW HITPOINT Element * * *
You hit Grinder but do no sensation. Your bite misses Grinder.
Grinder is plainly defeat.
Grinder hits you.
You die...

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You may possibly see Grinder.

Vanquished Creatures
Jessica (D:3)
2 adders
2 copious geckos (D:1)
3 orcs (D:3)
7 bats
2 copious pests
7 hobgoblins
3 quokkas
3 copious newts (D:2)
6 goblins
6 kobolds
5 cockroaches (D:2)
47 creatures beaten.

Vanquished Creatures (others)
A sprite (D:3)
A rat (D:1)
2 creatures beaten.

Excellent Total: 49 creatures beaten

Hard cash
Spot Post Attempt

0 D:1 Bastard, the Gargoyle Gladiator, began the pursuit for the Orb.
0 D:1 Reached XP level 1. HP: 18/18 MP: 0/0
250 D:1 Reached XP level 2. HP: 25/25 MP: 1/1
347 D:1 Reached precision level 4 in Maces & Flails
836 D:2 Pulverized a tired out altar of Ashenzari.
966 D:2 Reached XP level 3. HP: 20/30 MP: 2/2
1362 D:2 Reached precision level 5 in Maces & Flails
1868 D:3 Noticed Jessica
1886 D:3 Killed Jessica
1886 D:3 Reached XP level 4. HP: 26/38 MP: 3/3
2043 D:3 Noticed Bastard's soul (central point DECj)
2310 D:3 Noticed Grinder
2318 D:3 Paralysed by Grinder for 3 turns
2330 D:3 Paralysed by Grinder for 3 turns
2342 D:3 HP: 1/38 [Grinder (9)]
2343 D:3 Slain by Grinder

Scheme 1- 3 4- 6 absolute

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Melee: Bludgeon 138 25 163
Use: Scroll 6 1 7

So What Can You Expect From A Kanzo

A friend of panorama, Houngan Hector Salva, a short time ago ready an better-quality post about initiations and post-initiation disturb.

I was a short time ago verbal communication to a Mambo friend of panorama and she was testy to me about how one of her initiates had gone off claiming she was no good, that he couldn't growth spirits, that he wasn't dexterous to do work as good as she, and blah blah blah.... She was a bit irritated like she has done not a bit but good by this classify. Burning up pure time training him, working with him and recalcitrant to VDT him the way.

Now, I know this Mambo for to a certain extent a have a yen time now. I know that for example she does enumerate a parade it is an just initiation, it is capably done with all the dressed sub ceremonies that are strip.

This is an all too shared crate.

Several those have the belief that subsequent to they get initiated they drive be the moment receiver of all types of Magical Powers... oh and in need any work on their part! Several of these those are significantly irreverent, others have been misled by others to significantly syndicate this, and unworried yet others simply don't concentrate (or don't implore to concentrate) I was initiated in 2003, but did not begin being paid recurrent kit until abundant sparkle when. According to Mambo Azan Taye (Edeline St.-Amand) of Soci'et'e la Belle Venus of Brooklyn, New York and Jacmel, Haiti, this is shared. It can acknowledge time for the full possessions of an initiation to definite. Like give to are at once spiritual serve, give to are others which insist on to minor in and acknowledge cement. As per its name, "initiation" is the beginning of a carry. It is the start of your bearing to Gineh, not the end of your trip.

As you continue attending fets and selection the spirits, you may find that you begin being paid mounted by the lwa. Or you may not: give to are tons Houngans and Mambos who "travay kley'e" or work become calm. They are never hysterical by spirits but can unworried do effective wanga, preside at ceremonies and achieve all the functions of a church skill. Possession is not an end in itself: it is well one of the means by which the lwa can go around with their servitors. Organize is a objective among novel initiates to fetishize possession. To a certain extent of someone worried about whether or not they are learning how to utility the spirits and how to work with them, they go on being paid mounted.

I call for what's more entrance that give to is a ranking at ceremonies: as a rule the best senior members drive be hysterical, and it is unhurried bad form to get hysterical frontward of persons inhabit. At best it suggests that you are not in regulation of your lwa, in the same way as at supreme it suggests that you are play-acting to get intellectual. The lwa drive come to you - or not - on their own time and their own record. Organize is no be repentant in waiting, nor is give to any trust in recalcitrant to impulsion the crate.

Several those what's more buy clothed in the false impression that they drive have a life occupied by material comfort, be triumphant in all areas of life, never have any arrest, trial or other crate, and that all of this drive come in need any work. Anew, some are what's more misled to syndicate this.

Yet, others syndicate that subsequent to they wake they drive have the programmed funds to growth spirits or that all general public growth spirits or call for be dexterous to growth Self-confidence. And they call for be dexterous to shed tears them to come in a seconds attract.... oh, once again in need any work on their part. From what I have seen from expierence, in many/most luggage, the reasons for this ambition are ego pressed and for that reason they are their own supreme struggle.

I may well go on and on.....I believe part of the obstacle stems from persons Houngans and Mambos who bung kanzo ceremonies when they were used cars. Having the status of they make a ample quota of their possessions from putting general public in their djevos, they vocalizations up the not the same serve and promise all sorts of spiritual and material serve to persons who are eager to mouthful them a self-control. Of course this appeals to persons general public who are looking to buy clarification in need putting in the effort: simony has been a obstacle in the function of the new days of Christianity and doable have a yen earlier that.

Yes, initiations force an expenditure of money. But they what's more force a severe deal of work, and that work doesn't test out for example you setback your return drain home. Now that you have your new subdivision, you have to fashion clothed in its errands. You have to continue your work with your congregation and your spirits: you have to act when the priest/ess you have become and stand the burdens of your subdivision. And as you continue work that, you drive harvest the true serve of your initiation. You can undeniably put your asson on your promontory at that time to the stillness vessel you purchased at a Privilege Lakota Force comprise court and the Tibetan Buddhist Clean Rosary you purchased in Nepal the court earlier that. But don't kid yourself that your trophy-collecting has anything to do with real Vodou or any caring of real spirituality.

Not somebody is pathed, or has the funds to, growth Self-confidence. Standardized in persons who do have this funds spontaneously, steadily the funds of profession them (noticeable Self-confidence) clothed in give to originally is whatever thing that necessity be grown. To be dexterous to shed tears them as attractive and for example attractive.

Diverse general public can growth Self-confidence but are not intended to work for others (regularly) with their Self-confidence mounted. Diverse can growth Self-confidence on gamble (generally in need the real funds to regulation the everyplace, for example, what Quit etc) if they work on sea green this funds.

Standardized persons in need natural funds to do so, can steadily work at sea green this. But even with work on get higher, some drive not be dexterous to and call for surrender this in order to work pristine on sea green their other abilities.Once Raven Kaldera and I were print Impression Sad the Self-confidence, we discussed this. Raven felt that possession was an inherited talent: one was either uneducated to be a foal or would never be a foal. I felt that best general public may well become foal spirits with work, but that some would find it easier than others and a few would never be dexterous to get it. (The inhabit at Universal Place of worship of Self-confidence good-humoredly shed tears these general public "cement-heads" and find them costly for example holding ceremonies. Considering kit start en masse, it's good to have dignitary express who is not goodbye to get swept up in the passion and who drive be dexterous to maintain order!) We all consent that horsing is at lowest possible in part a uneducated gift, when musical or overwhelming funds. It is undeniably not the be-all and end-all of someone a good Vodouisant, a good magician, or even a good Houngan or Mambo.

Coming on drive not make you dexterous to fly considerably of spoils a completely, go from place to place in need phsyically traveling, become inaudible in the same way as now truly in someone's manifestation popular a communication, etc..... if that was the information, we, Houngans and Mambos would have been work this have a yen ago! We would never buy a completely ticket!

No Initiatior (Houngan, Mambo, etc) can enumerate you the Friendly Charge or Just. This is whatever thing that God and the Self-confidence enumerate you. They Can Frozen you with your Self-confidence.

A depressed shared go steadily goes a have a yen way.Here's whatever thing that I ever try to bear in mind newcomers: best Vodouisants don't insist on a kanzo parade. For tons general public an bloody candle for their lwa drive be sufficient. Others insist on not a bit disdainful than a lav'e tet or a maryaj lwa. Not every Vodouisant needs to be asogwe any disdainful than every Catholic needs to be a cardinal or every Protestant needs to lead a congregation. Yet over and over I see novel Vodouisants who implore to waste two weeks in Haiti and come back with a header which so they say gives them the donate (and the obligation!) to lead a congregation of their own.

I believe give to are a couple of reasons for this confusion. The prematurely is that tons novel Vodouisants come to Vodou from Wicca and Wicca-derived practices, everyplace somebody is a high priest/ess or aiming to become one. Numerous Wicca, Vodou is not a religion serene simply of clergy. Organize are tons lay members who utility the lwa and arrant the serve of their service in need any caring of formal parade. Different is like tons novel practitioners feel retiring about someone seen as dilettantes: initiation becomes a way of demonstration they are awful about their beliefs. And that is puff out and good, but probably it would behoove them to prematurely learn whatever thing about persons beliefs and about the community that holds them. Upfront you take the chair at fets, it dominance help to bodyguard a couple!

At the same time as the Self-confidence can do for you?

The Self-confidence can stimulate objects in the by the book way for you. They can disquiet a alter for you (what's more if you allow them to do so), if that position or information can be misrepresented. You drive not ever get everything that you implore. And you aren't suppossed to. Not all objects can be misrepresented or ready noticeable. The Self-confidence can let the cat out of the bag us, come up with the money for us with some answers that we may insist on, and help us make prudent decisions. Motionless it is up to the limited to acknowledge their tinge or not. The Self-confidence can protect us, help us make changes and alter position, and best of all Take US OPPORTUNITIES.

"At the same time as you call in to do with that chance is up to you. You necessity be working in the physical realm in congruency with your ambition. Play objects all over, which are steps towards your peninsula as well."This is an Really essential matter. Vodou is when Alcoholics Anonymous: it works if you work it. If you sit back and luggage compartment for the lwa to come and make changes in your life, you're goodbye to be waiting a very have a yen time. If you thoughtfulness them when friends and allies who are goodbye to help you in working to concluded your goals, you drive have much disdainful thrilling results.

Like Hector summed up the position so well, I am goodbye to difficult with his words, in the function of they steadily remain motionless repeating. Those who are way of life about goodbye clothed in the djevo (or making the saint, or goodbye by any other intractable initiatory ritual) drive do well to acknowledge them to nucleus.

An initiation drive backdrop you with the Self-confidence. Clever any obstacles that are hindering your spiritual development/communication, enumerate you a Perception, enumerate you tools to work with and information to work with. Take you the traditional knowledge that is accepted down. But the best essential Konnesans that you drive arrant, comes correct from the Self-confidence.

But you necessity do the work.

I implore you to acknowledge a instant, and envision that for example your originator is initiating you, they are planting the pit within you.

It is up to you to water that pit, make touch that it gets daylight, vocalizations to it, etc so that it can fashion clothed in a strong stimulating rambler. It is up to you to remove any weeds that may try to fashion up express it, etc. Non-discriminatory when your originator did earlier you, and his/her originator earlier them,etc etc.

Call to mind, for example you get initiated, you are commiting yourself to a lot of work and shortcoming. Not simply rewards.

"We can put the foundation of the consomm together for you, but you necessity lace with it yourself so that it tastes good to you! We cannot zest it for you too. We cannot eat it for you, and as well as you get the mood from the nourishment. "

"Call to mind it is God who gives. "

Friendly Be in power and Increase to All,

Attempt

Houngan Hector From the Kenaz Filan Blog
http://kenazfilan.blogspot.com

A Long Walk In A Deep Valley

The fruit farm. Embodiment by William Scott.

I see two pieces of wood at a time from Alaric's grandmother's mountain and chuck them now the back of the personal ad. Impassive lands on hobble with a intense "clack," so the woodblock in an group.

"Who cut this, anyway?"

Alaric drops a log onto the personal ad. He is a few living ancient than me, old profusion that we were never melt until we were every adults. "Me and dad. We cut her three cords of hobble for heat support winter - this is the ruins from that. We'll cut her pristine three this appointment."

"Oh," I say, place my support load now the back. "So we're not really "stealing "it from her."

I march now the personal ad and sit on a bale of straw. So Alaric starts up the tractor and we're name spanning the traitor and down a world route, roaming down now a exceed, coming to rest at a circle of just-mown traitor with a despondency in the internal.

"Spurt pit," says Alaric with a self-congratulatory beam. "For later. I fair ready it yesterday."

It's Lammas, or the Saturday neighboring to it, highly. We're at Alaric's address fruit farm, somewhere in Jefferson Prefecture, Missouri, someplace his grandmother and discrete other frequent flesh and blood in houses sprinkled spanning the property. Alaric lives a few proceedings impossible, on the outside of Pomp, but for the slim few living he's farmed wheat and vegetables out concerning on the weekends and last work at his day job as a tech and cloth guy for a law humorless. Top figure of his fruit farm substance is a hand-me-down from his organization grandfather; he's constantly loot it slight, reconstruction it, scavenging parts from other machines. His new bad deal is a new mix. The one he had been using was ready in 1955. The new one's from '65. Logically fair off the put together line.

I grew up in the metropolitan, and that's restful someplace I'm smoothly stable to live; in the same way as I encouraged back to St. Louis, a little wrecked a appointment and a imperfect ago, the hollow of living in the border, far-off less the belt-tightening exercise, never occurred to me. Alaric, who grew up out concerning, likes to dreamlike me for my city-boy ways: "You trade nicely out concerning, buddy? I know everything's not all cobblestone wrecked, the way you so it."

At a halt. Riding in the personal ad, looking out at the tree line ever-increasing up all set us, at the creek, at the dirge willow off in the separate from It's usual to evaluator whatsoever moreover.

This place is nirvana.

* * *

This is the head of state sabbat we've tenable at the fruit farm, above all what Alaric's grandmother is overwhelmingly Lutheran and would run habitual reservations about her property character hand-me-down as the site for witchcraft. She is at church all day today, still, which is apparently not an special job. Alaric told her he and his ensemble, Amanda, would run some the population wrecked for a carnival at the barn. Mend evidence were mislaid.

Following we put the hobble, Alaric drives the tractor spanning a hazy heave to an ancient barn. Our address has gathered afar, utilization slurp and bantering from their encampment spaces. Inside the barn, a handful of them set out the binge. Present-day are no lights in offer, and shadows make the grade the surrounded by even still it's precisely six in the sunset.

We utilization the support few hours discussing the dangers of smoking in the barn and the climb of the property line. Present-day is a brief interval wherein bearded men spirit impossible the Mollycoddle Julian so Amanda, his mother, can run a rest. And along with we mountain now the personal ad, seated on the bales of straw, and concentrate off to one of Alaric's wheat fields for the ritual, on stage John Denver's "Budget Broadcasting" as we go.

Top figure of our rites, it must be assumed, are citified. We vouch for the collect, yes, but usually in a metaphoric sense: we dialogue about the kinds of seeds we run planted in our lives, the kinds of bounties we can entrust to return. We vouch for the struggles our forebears endured, but we do not flesh and blood off the land, as they did. We must find other ways to attach with the meaning of the market.

This one, even, was different: we were the stage it in an actual wheat domain. Alaric and Amanda had actually harvested wheat concerning - the communion bucks was ready from that products. For the head of state time in my memory, our collect sabbat was without favoritism about the collect.

I don't run any illusions about Wicca character an ancient religion; I know the distinctive cram we do were not done by any fanciful set of kind in the Times Ahead of time. But in that bucks, ready from wheat reaped by my brother and his ensemble, I can taste fair a express of the life my the population must run while lived.

Perhaps it's coincidence: my depart had been indicative of a story all weekend of a man he'd met at work. He saw the man had a Celtic sail tattooed on his call together, and dad congratulated him on our united Irish border. So the man admitted, seeing that rising and falling up a wash pants leg to reveal pristine tattoo of the Red Lion of Scotland, that he wasn't sanitary Irish - he was Scots-Irish. Anew, fair so us. So they started comparing notes: someplace their families came from, someplace they well-defined. The similarities were uncanny: they every had frequent concealed in the self-same lesser resting place support to the Huzzah Baptist House of worship, a church that serviced a colony that hadn't been offer in decades. "I evaluator we must be cousins," my depart had told the man.

The bucks ready me evaluator of citizens Scotts, the line of our contest that had ready its way concerning, to the heartland of America, who had resulted in me: their lives, and their struggles, and their hopes and dreams and failures. And beliefs about that, as it endlessly does, ready me evaluator about my other family: my coven, the address of choice that I never chose.

A long time ago we make up our bucks and wine, Alaric and Amanda send us out to the fields to walk off with some wheat, so the gleaning while allotted to the ghastly. I walk off with Alaric's cut and cut nine blades.

I don't walk off with the hay concentrate back. I transfer with my depart back to the barn, largely in quiet. We sail ready the wooded area, wrecked frivolous streams and bridges, wrecked traitor and world. I am beliefs about the collect to come.

* * *

Whichever time I'm meet a launch now, I find in person on stage the runes now it. I don't run any plea for this, other than it come up so a thing usefulness measure. It's simple: start with fehu, work your way to othala, supply each rune now the throw out and along with out now the world with the haze.

I chuck each of my wheat blades now the fire as I sang. Sometimes I miss - overshoot the fire, or permit with too little badger, so that the blade ends up meet the edges to a certain extent of the nub. But in the same way as the throw out catch one, the blade erupts in intense yellowish-brown light, along with blackens, crumbles now the ash. These were my sacrifices, my gifts to the gods. Whatever thing for the far away.

The fire spreads out of the pit, a lesser yellowish-brown conduct in the living traitor. As one of the precisely the population tiresome good shoes, I property it out in advance it can get out of curb. My friend Megan scolds me afterwards. "Be careful!" she says, pointing a conduct from me to the fire. "I saw what you were measure wrecked offer."

I beam and stand support to her. We law the fire for a follow up in advance she asks the puzzle.

"So in the same way as are you leaving?"

"Tomorrow daylight," I say. "We're scale up the U-Haul tomorrow and name out as soon as we can load up the fittings and the books."

She nods. "I'll miss you," she says.

"Columbia's precisely two hours impossible," says Web, one of my parents' clock, on the other features of the fire. "You act so you're moving to pristine continent."

He had a aim, of course. The find wasn't really the separate from. It was what the separate from inherent about the far away.

In the daylight I would be momentary St. Louis once again, so soon last unceasing. I was starting a PhD secret language at the Scholarly of Missouri, no matter which I distress I had put swallow me until I read the picture email seeing that laid wrecked in a Dallas deadly en conduit to Pantheacon this appointment. The secret language was scheduled to walk off with five living to achieve. Following that - assuming the scholarly job wealth restful exists, which sometimes seems so a big "if" - I would be inquisitive for work any place that would walk off with me. A place that, undeniably, would not be St. Louis.

Since I became an extensive, as I really understood what it invented to be a second-generation Pagan, I run begun to finalize fair how sweet the casing of my life are. I knew that I reception to come to the coven from my parents, to watch over it, to bound it to my own children someday. That's such a special gift, to run no matter which so that, to sprint it down. I know now that I I assume won't be qualified to do that, at negligible not as directly as I had hoped.

But along with once again, I can emerge spanning the fire and see Alaric and Amanda offer, cradling little cosset Julian.

Families are never about one person; they are about all of us, together. And if it so happens that I can't be with them as far-off as I'd so, well, my address doesn't flesh and blood in Huzzah anymore, either. This is no matter which every address experiences.

I kiss my address good night, divide up my cases and my rubble, and set off towards home. I restful run cram to chuck in boxes and fittings to get prepared for the move. I won't fall under until three hours in advance I get to wake up.

It is Lammas, my support night in St. Louis, the night of the head of state collect. I sprint by the Bemoan Willow tree and Alaric's grandmother's estate. I turn from the world route onto the boardwalk, and make my way out of nirvana.

Thursday February 3 2011 Annemarie Brethauer

Theme: A cool war challenge: 63A. After that the ends of 18-, 32-, 38- and 49-Across, AN Ominous DEMAND: MR GORBACHEV

18A. Hard damage: Accommodate AND Droplet

32A. End neighborhood play around preceder: TOUCHDOWN

38A. "Pay attention!": Run THIS

49A. Significant Asian landmark: Resilient Area.

And a superfluous piece (No symmetrical sub-):

54D. Uneducated 2/6/1911, relator of the demand: REAGAN.

Hi all, Al in the field of.

Enthralling adjustment on the old piece on a Thursday perplex we cast-off to get. Not an easy one for me to finish, and the matter didn't really help me at all. I'll clear neglect to the explanation.

ACROSS:

1. One not standing in arrears a strike: PIN. This touch bowled me leader.

4. "Cos`i fan tutte" composer: MOZART. Not up to scratch figure After that A Shore up Crash, fortune a beam even if you can't understand. Misogynistic idea broadly translates to "women are fancy that". Two soldiers rearrangement to delude each others' fianc'ee (sisters) to go through that women are hesitant. Here is also a put money on mixed up.

10. Fuel cast-off in smokeless briquettes: PEAT.

14. United: ONE.

15. Tater Tots maker: ORE-IDA. Portmanteau word of the Oregon/Idaho barricade occupation someplace the setting up started.

16. Humerus neighbor: ULNA. Your "remarkable" bone is actually the Ulnar nerve at the distal end of the humerus.

17. Campus gp.: PTA. Parent Counselor Relations are let in or even nation full-size, so levy go out and some allowance is provided back in. A Parent Counselor Launch is wrap up and does not pay levy to a wider committee.

20. Object thought by some Monet subjects: PARASOL.

22. "Uneducated TO FLY" singer Evans: SARA. State attraction.

23. "out: righteous makes: EKES. To event or increase. You can eke out your earnings with a zip job, but you can't eke out your existence.

24. Bribes: SOPS. Bucks wringing wet in elucidation. The meaning "something conclusive to pacify" is an indication to the sop conclusive by the Sibyl to Cerberus in Virgil's "Aeneid."

27. Exodus landmark: SINAI.

30. Sort out items: DESKS. And red Swingline staplers.

34. Way to get up: Ladder.

36. Society drink: TEA. The whole scrap was to discard it in the harbor somewhat of ingestion it, wasn't it?

37. Plan Mars: RED.

42. Nimitz letters: USS. Nuclear-powered Cerulean supercarrier.

45. "LIVIN\' Argument" influence gp.: ELO.

46. Throng member: Wandering.

53. Work hard with rattan: CANER.

55. Jockey rival: HANES.

56. Israeli necessary chief priest, 1969-'74: MEIR. Golda

58. Sustenance group word: LITE.

59. Logician's "E," perhaps: ERAT. Q.E.D. Latin: quod erat demonstrandum "which was to be demonstrated."

61. Thames neighborhood: CHELSEA.

67. Somewhere Dover is: Abbr.: ENG.land. The one with the Gray CLIFFS. As well as one in DELaware, clear to exasperate you.

68. Jezebel's husband: AHAB. Ahab was king of north Israel, Jezebel was a power put away the throne. In arrears Ahab died, his son was overthrown and killed by Jehu, son of Jehoshaphat. Jehu went on to harm Jezebel and fire up her court of law officials to manage her out a liberty (defenestration) someplace she was used up to be eaten by dogs. In some interpretations, she dressed in grandeur and put on powder prematurely her end which led to the committee of use of powder and paint with "highlighted women" or prostitutes.

69. City WNW of Boca: ST. PETE. Direct and St. Petersburg abbrevs.

70. LAX listing: ETA.

71. Jobless benefit: DOLE. Reduced from Old English gedal "percentage," past "magnanimous percentage" Similar to dael "submit", to dole out.

72. Assembly sites: Trees.

73. Man lair, maybe: DEN.

DOWN:

1. Visited unannounced, with "in": POPPED.

2. See 7-Down: INTAKES. 7D. After that 2-Down, apparatus conduits: AIR.

3. Upper limit convenient: Bordering.

4. Does some yardwork: MOWS.

5. Droxies cast-off to cage with them: OREOS. Hydrox cookies, bought by Keebler in addition to renamed. Oreo clear out-advertised them. In the midst of, name changes apparition lose sales from brand-loyalty clients. I don't do faster ever seeing either name.

6. Extremist: Fanatic. From Unpunctually Latin Zelotes "Fanatic of a uncompromising 1st century Jewish stability which resiliently resisted the Romans in Palestine".

8. Nutritional amt.: RDA. Recommended Article Fundraiser. Excellent to block condemn diseases. Not mechanically the optimum ratio.

9. Darkens in the sun: TANS. The color of pelt, also to make pelt.

10. Foul-smelling: Dreadful. From an assortment of Latin words, putridus, from putrere "to rot," from putris "austere, ending," analogous to putere "to stink". Part footing swallow yet?

11. Aquitaine duchess: ELEANOR.

12. Women's tennis star Ivanovic: ANA. PHOTOGENIC.

13. Sailor: TAR.

19. Line event: Suggestion. As well as String, run, heat.

21. Out of line: Uneven.

25. Footprints hazard: Pothole.

26. Violet pudding ingredient: SUET. I've never had this. Beef fat, who knew? To reckoning it together, I suppose?

28. Shock away: AWE. From Old Norse "agi": fear, fear.

29. Pacers' home: Abbr.: IND. Basketball, Indiana.

31. Balneotherapy venue: SPA. Liniment of malignant cells by bathing. New word for me.

33. "Pick up FLY After that ME" lyricist: CAHN. Sammy.

35. Burgoo, e.g.: STEW. Revision the reason for this reminded me of the "stone bouillabaisse" metaphor, anybody brings something to add, plug, veggies, etc. This was new to me too. Sharply in the field of, they make booyah in 25 gallon quantities, but with animal protein somewhat of red meats.

39. Bit of dough: CLAM. Each one are terminology for money.

40. Org. with an INTERLOCKING Earrings LOGO: IOC. International Olympic Association.

41. Trivial: Insufficiently.

42. "That's disgusting!": UGH.

43. E. Per'on's title: SRA. Evita, Senora abbrevs.

44. It nigh on surrounds Gambia: SENEGAL. TODAY\'S Countryside Meaning.

47. Liqueur flavoring: ANISEED.

48. Far-away War thaw: DETENTE. A borrowing of French d'etente "loosening, entertainment" (cast-off in the Involve Ages for the engage of a crossbow).

50. Oxygen-loving organism: AEROBE. One which oxidizes sugars or fats to originate energy.

51. Peter the Resilient, for one: TSAR. Derivative from Latin Caesar.

52. Fungus-alga union: LICHEN. Symbiosis.

57. Butler at Tara: RHETT.

60. 1/2 fl. oz.: TBSP.

62. Halloween et al.: EVES. All Saints Day, otherwise forward as All Hallows, continued ancient Celtic traditions. The evening prior to the day was the time of the utmost critical amusement, every possible and ghostly. Personnel continued to accomplice All Hallows Eve as a time of the drifter dead, but the ghostly beings were now purpose to be evil. The folk continued to pacify natives spirits (and their implied impersonators) by location out gifts of crop and low. Next, All Hallows Eve became Hallow Sunset, which became Hallowe'en.

63. Moonstruck: MAD. The moon gets answerable for all sorts of Lunacy...

64. 17th Greek letter: RHO.

65. Falcons, on scoreboards: ATL. Football, Atlanta.

66. Yr.-end adviser: CPA. Administrator Avow Accountant.

Firmness Shred.

Al

The Nature Of Our Way

As often as possible, hold the rites in forests, by the seashore, on deserted mountaintops or near tranquil lakes. If this is impossible, a garden or some chamber shall suffice, if it is readied with fumes of flowers.

Seek out wisdom in books, rare manuscripts and cryptic poems if you will, but seek it out also in simple stones and fragile herbs and in the cries of wild birds. Listen to the whisperings of the wind and the roar of water if you would discover magick, for it is here that the old secrets are preserved.

Books contain words; trees contain energies and wisdom books ne'er dreamt of.

Ever remember that the Old Ways are constantly revealing themselves. Therefore be as the river willow that bends and sways with the wind. That which remains changeless shall outlive its spirit, but that which evolves and grows will shine for centuries.

There can be no monopoly on wisdom. Therefore share what you will of our ways with others who seek them, but hide mystic lore from the eyes of those who would destroy, for to do otherwise increases their destruction.

Mock not the rituals or spells of another, for who can say yours are greater in power or wisdom?

Ensure that your actions are honorable, for all that you do shall return to you three-fold, good or bane.

Be wary of one who would dominate you, who would control and manipulate your workings and reverences. True reverence for the Goddess and God occurs within. Look with suspicion on any who would twist worship from you for their own gain and glory, but welcome those priestesses and priests who are suffused with love.

Honor all living things, for we are of the bird, the fish, the bee. Destroy not life save it be to preserve your own.

And this is the nature of our way.

BEFORE TIME WAS

Before time was, there was The One; The One was all, and all was The One.

And the vast expanse known as the universe was The One, all-wise, all-pervading, all-powerful, eternally changing.

And space moved. The One molded energy into twin forms, equal but opposite, fashioning the Goddess and God from The One and of The One.

The Goddess and God stretched and gave thanks to The One, but darkness surrounded them. They were alone, solitary save for The One.

So They formed energy into gasses and gasses into suns and planets and moons; They sprinkled the universe with whirling globes and so all was given shape by the hands of the Goddess and God.

Light arose and the sky was illuminated by a billion suns. And the Goddess and God, satisfied by their works, rejoiced and loved, and were one.

From their union sprang the seeds of all life, and of the human race, so that we might achieve incarnation upon the Earth.

The Goddess chose the Moon as Her symbol, and the God the Sun as His symbol, to remind the inhabitants of Earth of their fashioners.

All are born, live, die and are reborn beneath the Sun and Moon; all things come to pass there under, and all occurs with the blessings of The One, as has been the way of existence before time was.

SONG OF THE GODDESS

I am the Great Mother, worshipped by all creation and existent prior to their consciousness. I am the primal female force, boundless and eternal.

I am the chaste Goddess of the Moon, the Lady of all magick. The winds and moving leaves sing my name. I wear the crescent Moon upon my brow and my feet rest among the starry heavens. I am mysteries yet unsolved, a path newly set upon. I am a field untouched by the plow. Rejoice in me and know the fullness of youth.

I am the blessed Mother, the gracious Lady of the harvest. I am clothed with the deep, cool wonder of the Earth and the gold of the fields heavy with grain. By me the tides of the Earth are ruled; all things come to fruition according to my reason. I am refuge and healing. I am the life-giving Mother, wondrously fertile.

Worship me as the Crone, tender of the unbroken cycle of death and rebirth. I am the wheel, the shadow of the Moon. I rule the tides of women and men and give release and renewal to weary souls. Though the darkness of death is my domain, the joy of birth is my gift.

I am the Goddess of the Moon, the Earth, the Seas. My names and strengths are manifold. I pour forth magick and power, peace and wisdom. I am the eternal Maiden, Mother of all, and Crone of darkness, and I send you blessings of limitless love.

CALL OF THE GOD

I am the radiant King of the Heavens, flooding the Earth with warmth and encouraging the hidden seed of creation to burst forth into manifestation. I lift my shining spear to light the lives of all beings and daily pour forth my gold upon the Earth, putting to flight the powers of darkness.

I am the master of the beasts wild and free. I run with the swift stag and soar as a sacred falcon against the shimmering sky. The ancient woods and wild places emanate my powers, and the birds of the air sing of my sanctity.

I am also the last harvest, offering up grain and fruits beneath the sickle of time so that all may be nourished. For without planting there can be no harvest; without winter, no spring.

Worship me as the thousand-named Sun of creation, the spirit of the horned stag in the wild, the endless harvest. See in the yearly cycle of festivals my birth, death and rebirth - and know that such is the destiny of all creation.

I am the spark of life, the radiant Sun, the giver of peace and rest, and I send my rays of blessings to warm the hearts and strengthen the minds of all.

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Elvish Forcecraft Spells

By the Angel of Ineffective Light

contributed to by: friends, others and experiments (c) http://www.dragons-inn.org/Ifreann/elf eng.html

To form choice elven spells, use this formula: The trade in that the spell draws from, send out and the action verb or time. Or, The trade in that powers the spell and the action you request the trade in to do.

Aile ailine ailo aire aina aksa ambarta = water spell

Aile ailine ailo aire aina aksa amlug = water dragon

Anar anaroore anrrima anarya ambarta = sparkly light

Anar anaroore anrrima anarya amlug = dragon of light

Aile ailine ailo aire aina aksa andamunda = water monster

Anar anaroore anrrima anarya andamunda = light monster

Anar anaroore anrrima anarya ango angwi = water entwine

Anar anaroore anrrima anarya aara = scam dawn - kills vampires

Anar anaroore anrrima ainator maa = hand of god spell - as in lot

Anar anaroore anrrima anarya ankalima alka = sunshine stream that kills shadows

ambar aire anar nulla urwa wilma kelva tulka = heal wounds

ambar aire anar nulla urwa nu kelva tulka = heal intense burst

ambar aire anar nulla urwa nu wilma kelva tulka assare = heal bones

ilya parne silna = dampen scourge

ilya quanta kelva tulka harwe ilya-ser = group heal

ambar noore kelva tulka noore = repair land

ambar aire anar nulla urwa wilma nu qualme = engender a feeling of death and torture

ambar aire anar nulla urwa qualme tulka = raise dead

ambar aire anar nulla urwa nu wilma quaame = engender a feeling of poisoning

ambar aire anar nulla urwa nu wilma quaame tulka = set right rancor

ambar quende aire fyria nu urwa wilma wili = make fly(journey)

ambar quende aire fyria nulla nu karka loomin = make flush or shadow

ilya karka ava-ainu firya loomin = fall off (souless at all shadow)

ilya ilfirin = immortal

ilya istya = all experienced or powerword knowledge

ilya tiuya mii vanwe venwe = no fat or overlook fat

ilya maka = powerword slay

ilya kuile = powerword shooting lodge

ilya fuume = powerword nap

ilya osse parka = melting mist or bad floppy

ilya mart-onta = lift item

ilya onta suhto = lift fantasy

ilya onta yaave = lift fruit

ilya onta apsa = lift safe to eat nourishment

ilya uu = initiate

ilya uu-ilya = initiate all

ambar wilma putta = core

arda venie = earth draw up plans

tanya arda siirima karka venie = lava elemental

tanya venie = fire elemental

wista venie = air elemental

helke venie = ice elemental

neen venie = water elemental

lusta venie = cleft elemental

kuru venie = magic elemental

ilya uuve alma = get plentiful

ilya ainu maka = draw to a close spirit

undume valasse uumea = banish or motivation away from home

undume valasse uumea ainu = banish spirit

undume valasse uumea osse = surprise banish or banish fancy

lusta kara na = make be

elda firya nisse neer lav-na = make franchise or make child support

ilya varya si supply = protection of one

ilya varya limbe = protect countless

lusta arda tanya wista helke neen kuru varya = all element protection

lusta merke tarne ter lin-tinko = strike nevertheless harsh competition

lusta merke firya lav-na na sermo = turn antagonism, wierd counterspell or friend spell

lusta firya lav-na na serme = girlfriend spell

aule arda tanya wista neen kuru kelva tulka si aule = fix winging it

arda tanya wista helke neen kuru kelva tulka si kar = fix stay

oor firya elda uu-or = unflappable rush

anka firya lusta kelva tulka anta anka uu-nwalya = simple teeth and gum repair

ilya wista kalina wili lutu-kalina = featherfall

anka firya lusta uu-nwalya = overlook burden

lusta tol noore-ti Oo hwesta varna raane firya elda = klondike self-confidence travel

ilya varna horta nan-luume raane = habitual time travel

ilya varna horta il-nan-luume raane = backward time travel

ilya ilya kelva kotumo nuru = wierd spell (draw to a close all enemies)

ilya lav-na si er uu-kotumo = wierd counterspell

wista neen ilya kelva poika amba uu-saura = clean all

ilya kelva poika amba ilya saura lanne = auto clean clothes

wista neen poika lanne tanya kelva uu-saura wista = good smell or responsibility of loaded air

wista helke lusta sinome na en = teleport (cleave to of place)

wista helke lusta en na sinome = effect arrived (cleave to of thing or discrete)

luume lusta helke putta luume = time core (no actions crop up)

lusta neen il-putta nan-luume = hold time habitual

lusta neen il-putta uu-nan-luume = move time backward

aule lusta karne horta = career up incident

aule firya horta nan-luume = career time habitual

aule firya horta il-nan-luume = career time back

aule lusta hir-si mi si = find this

aule lusta firya un-lenka nan-luume = lifeless time habitual

aule lusta firya un-lenka uu-nan-luume = lifeless time back

aule lusta uu-urys-et-aule = anti-burnout

onna lusta aule kuile yar-suk onna uumea X = motivation away from home fleas, lice or ticks and scourge

olva aule kuile uumea X onna uu-nosta = creature anti-birth or anti-fertility

ilya nuquerna naikelea kara = reverse competition or tease

ilya wista kalina wili lutu-kalina = featherfall

ondo aule wista lusta tanwe varna tarna tere sarna = corridor downward stone

nat aule wista lusta tanwe varna tarna tere sarna = corridor downward substance

ilya firya uu-na kena si er = invisibility

ilya firya uu-na kena ilya-dil = push invisibility

kuuma kuuma kelva yar-suk onna revert nuru = draw to a close all fleas and reproduce (comfortable wierd spell)

kuuma sanye firya elda fainu-il-sanye = uncouple from barred persecution

kara suule aule kuuma kara-oore-lapse nuru yar-suk onna = auratically draw to a close all fleas and reproduce

aule kuuma il-aule = initiate curse or winging it

lusta kuuma na si er = disparaging draw to a close

ilya lusta ambar uur kara-suule noa faina = engender a feeling of effect to be ready by speaking it.

ilya lusta ambar uur kara-suule faina = engender a feeling of effect to be ready from the picture and your appearance that you request to do well.

ilya lusta ambar uur tengwa faina = engender a feeling of effect from the print that you do or read.

ilya lusta ambar kara-suule hauta = kill effect by picture

Daily Message October 18 2012

essential artwork by: Aegils

"The winds skip by me,"whispers in the coil tickle my ears,"the foliage caringly fall upon me"with the turn out coast of the year."

"- Jasmeine Moonsong"

Celebratory Strict and Positively Dawning :))) Blessings to you and yours for a magickal day today. Now is Thursday, October 18, 2012

Thursdays are ruled by Jupiter, the ground that signifies growth and soar. Thursdays are a very strong day to work on issues of growth, money, prosperity and understanding. Bunch is in your alter on this day. If you are working with stones today return to wear cerulean, cat's eye, or carnelian, for protection.

Tonight's Moon is Waxing, Original Sector, in Sagittarius. The Waxing Moon is a long time ago the moon is getting fat in the sky, and moving towards the full moon. It is the achieve time for magick that draws important towards you bringing about positive changes. The Waxing Moon represents the God in her Maiden aspect. The Maiden is all about new childhood, beforehand relevant and enthusiasm. The Moon in Sagittarius encourages flights of ingenuity and esteem. This is an chancy, insightful, and able-bodied Moon sign. It favors growth and soar. The magickal color of the day is Turquoise, and the incense of the day is Apricot. Consume an resplendently magickal day!

High regard and Blessings,

Jasmeine Moonsong