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| em bareass ment |
| 11.26.05 (5:27 pm) [edit] |
I just couldn't help myself, when my friend sent me this pick I just had to add to the poor guys Embarrassment (em- bare ass -ment is more like it) even more by spending these pics further along in cyberspace. That poor guy was so happy to be sitting by the QUEEN!   In the words of Homer Simpson: "It's funny, cuz I don't know them." Anyone who can fill in the context for that quote is a geek and the WINNER of 1000 useless Tbucks, which I may or may not email to you. |
| feeling better- pay pal still sucks |
| 11.26.05 (1:46 pm) [edit] |
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Thanks everyone for your kind thoughts while I was sick. Made me feel so loved. Both the hubbie and i were down for the count so we took turns lying on the couch, being responsible for the Ruler, and the other lying in the bed. It worked pretty well, the Ruler didn't starve and he got his diaper changed at somewhat regular intervals through the day. The kitchen was a disaster though and if you've ever seen "How Clean is your house?" you'll have a visual for what my kitchen looked like until yseterday. I know i'm still sick when i can walk into a kitchen with two day old food laying on the counters, say "ick" and then *shrug* and walk back out again. I'm on the mend when I walk into the kitchen with three day old food on the counter and say "WHERE'S THE LYSOL?" and have to clean. Yesterday was cleaning day, the kitchen, the bathrooms and the living room all had their horizontal surfaces washed, or mopped and sanatized. TWO, count'em Two loads of dishes went through the dishwasher and every article of bedding from our bed, sons bed and Couch-made-bed went through the wash- four loads and my house is as fresh as a dasiy. I feel much better. Pay pal still sucks: after canceling my account which by the way i had to go through 6 different screens confirming and reconfirming that 'YES indeed I really don't want and account here anymore", I'm still getting 10+ emails a day and I've gotten four emails from paypal asking me to REACTIVATE my account with them. BITE ME! Novel sans typos will be worked on this week, I chose to stay far away from it while sick cuz i'd probably just screw it up more. Early pub date for mid December is still on. |
| still sick... |
| 11.24.05 (8:13 am) [edit] |
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... and pay pal sucks. i will get back to all of you who have been so kind with your well wishes when i'm feeling better. all yor little notes have definatly helped the mending of this cold. anyway ever since confirming my email with paypal I have recieved over 50 junk emails about paris hiltons butt, other companies i've never heard of wanting me to confirm my account with them and any number of penis enlargment drug companies wanting ME to order from them. hhhmmmmm... since this onslaught coincides (man i'm a impressed with myself for spelling that word while sick) with the activation of my paypal account all i can say is hhhmmmm..... and PAY PAL SUCKS! what was i thinking? oh yeah i was sick when i made that stupid decision. :P see you all when i'm feeling better, Happy turkey day to all you americans, for us canucks its just another foggy weekend. :D but I'd love some stuffing right about now. fm UPDATE: bye bye paypal. :P~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I blow sick germs in your general direction. |
| damn typos |
| 11.23.05 (8:49 am) [edit] |
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I got copy two of the book in the mail on monday. Couldn't remember what day, I’ve been sick ever since then and been lying on the couch watch Degrassi Junior High and Star trek the next generation reruns, so I feeling rather confused. I handed the new copy over to my mom to read, since she's been harping on me to read it ever since I got copy #1. I didn't let her becasue the formatting was all wrong and I’m a perfectionist and wanted it perfect before anyone read it. This version had the correct formatting so I willingly handed it over, then disappeared so I wouldn't have to look at her face when she read what her "baby girl" had written. My sister’s reaction to reading the first chapter, last week, was "OHMYGOD ANDREA! HOW COULD YOU WRITE THAT!?" which of course made her husband grab it from her and sit there on the couch surrounded by his in-laws reading it. His face got progressively redder, and I had to leave the room. So about two hours later my mom comes upstairs and hands be back the book, "I don't think you're grandma will have a problem with it, but I don't know how you're grandfather will like it. Oh and I found some typos in it." TYPOS!!! after reading it through a million times, hiring and editor to read it through a million times, still six typos were discovered by my mom. I should have had her read it in the first place! Should have her edit it back in the summer. Should have given her the first version, bad formatting and all, and caught all of it all at once. there are all typos where a word is in place of another, like though instead of through; feels instead of feel. that sort of thing easy to miss, but there nonetheless. everyone once and a while you come across a typo in a novel. It happens. but it’s usually just one within 300 pages or something like that. But here I have 6, SIX! in a book that's only 90 pages long. Bad form, bad form. So it's back to lulu to create version 6, and fix everything. ARGH! FM please excuse any typos in this post, I'm still sick and risking it all by not saving this to word and having spell check look it over with a fine tooth comb |
| paypal comfirm email... |
| 11.21.05 (12:02 pm) [edit] |
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I'm attempting to set up a paypal account, both to recieve payment of royalties from my book and so that pontential people can purchase the book through me directly. (this may or may not cut down of shipping costs for my friends, I'm trying to figure that out) however to comfirm my account I need some funky number that paypal has apparently emailed me... 15 minutes later no email has arrived.... so here I sit. don't forget to join the mailing list bitterwatersthenovel@hotm ail.com and see below for a link to read the first chapter. :D FM |
| Bitter waters the novel- read the first chapter |
| 11.21.05 (6:26 am) [edit] |
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Bitter Waters a novel   Andrea Ellis's intriguing first novel Bitter Waters is a raw clash of emotions. Lust, guilt, fear, love... and another dose of guilt grope for attention in this tale of poignant longing. In Bitter Waters, we find a woman; a good woman and faithful wife who is plunged into temptation after bumping into an old flame. He was her first love, a love laced with the sticky sweetness of innocence stolen from the corner store. This attraction plays against her marriage and her long held beliefs from a force-fed faith. What ought to have been a comfort for her in times of trial, becomes a hindrance; a smoke screen, obscuring the gut-simple choice between trying to be someone she once was and who she has become. Black or white? Right or wrong? The choice between giving in to this infatuation and devotion to her husband plays out against and amid her ever weakening faith. The tender yet tight prose flows honestly making the characters eminently believable. As the compelling plot unfolds, many of us will easily identify with this flawed but loving woman, whether we like it or not, or perhaps more accurately, whether we admit it or not. Get to before everyone else does, early December 2005  join the mailing list, email bitterwatersthenovel@hotm ail.com Please note this novel contains, er um adult content, not super over the top, but if you're under 18 and your parents don't let you read stuff with adult content, you'd better listen to them. (there my disclaimer is done, my butt is covered) |
| art work, as per surrogates request |
| 11.15.05 (6:45 am) [edit] |
Surrogate requested to see some of my art. So here are a couple of sections to give you an idea of my creative mind. The black and white drawings are for my sons fairy tale book that I'm also writting for him. The coloured imaged are cards that I've made for different occations. i don't have pics of my larger work, that will have to come later. All images are in thumbnail, so click them to make them bigger.  A little fairy offers help  The Witch gives a seed     |
| This morning... a pink sunrise |
| 11.14.05 (6:08 am) [edit] |
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This morning I got up with the Ruler of the universe. It was my turn to let the hubbie sleep in. As I staggered bleary eyed, looking for coffee, into the kitchen I noticed something bright out the window. It was strange and at first I didn't understand what could be so bright at 730 in the morning. Then I realized, it was the sun rise. For the first time in day, weeks even, the sun was shining on the mountain outside our kitchen window. The mountain was covered in snow and shone with this orange pink glow. The picture I took doesn't quite capture the colour. But it is going to be a wonderful day, SUNSHINE!!! Yippee!!  other stuff that's going on: I spent the weekend working on book number 2, a fairy tale for my son, for Christmas. we also cleared out the storage room on empty glass jars, to make room for all the full jars of jams, salsa and pickles that my mom brought from the farm. There were lots of dead spiders, the ruler ran around "buggie! buggie!" most of the day. Alarm Clocks kill dreams the movie was fantastic. I laughed, I cried, I'm going to buy the DVD. It was great to see Ben's hard work pay off. The theatre was packed! Full, the manager said, "the last time this theatre was full was when the matrix played here." lol The movie follows Ben as he runs in the provincial election for the workless party, the movie talks about the goals and ideology of that party and also shows a number of their political "stunts" that have been pulled in and around Vancouver. I'll write more later. the interviews were great, my sister is in it talking about ecology and economics, our cat penny makes a cameo, her interviews were filmed in our backyard. and the whole movie was a success. Congrats BEN!!! unfortunately all the pics I took turned out really fuzzy. but here’s a stock photo of penny.  here’s a cute pic of a squirrel that I took this morning.  I have completed my revision of the novel and will be reposting the revisions today, ordering another proof, to double check, then go from there. I downloaded this awesome PDF converter program, free!, and now I can keep the funky font I used for my title, chapter headings and headers. Lulu, couldn’t handle them and converted them to boring old Garamond. This is much better and keeps the look I wanted. I talked with my friend, who's in a jazz band and there’s a good possibility that he and the band will play at my supposed 'book launch' in jan/feb, so now I have to figure that out. Yesterday evening the hubbie installed a 51/4 inch floppy drive into the computer! Why? Because he could, and because all my old writing, really old writing from ten years ago is on a bunch of those disks. Do you remember those things? I had totally forgotten about them, but in all the reorganizing that we’re doing I found them and wanted to try getting the writing off of them. The writing is pretty good for a teenager, but pretty bad overall, maybe if ya’ll are really really nice to me I’ll post some for you to have a laugh over. :D i tired to find a pick on the web, you'd think typing in 5 1/4 inch floppy, would bring up lots of porn, but it didn't. Didn't bring up any decent pics either. there was some other stuff I was going to mention this morning, but I can't remembouer what there are. :D oh well, I'll post later. |
| One red tent please |
| 11.11.05 (8:59 am) [edit] |
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today, I would really like to have a red tent. this was oringally posted Thursday 05.19.05 http://www.tblog.com/templates/index.php?bid=Fairmoon&static=4 65664&search=fairmoon" title="http://www.tblog.com/templates/index.php?bid=Fairmoon&static=4 65664&search=fairmoon" target="_blank"http://www.tblog.com/template... (bit of a rant, you’ve been forewarned) I discovered the wonderful world of Playtex’s “heat therapy” pads today. I try not to take a lot of pills during my moon time, but usually the cramps get pretty bad and my herbal treatment just isn’t enough. Today with the help of this sticky little pad that’s all so very warm and with my herbs I’ll make it though the day. But I would really like a red tent. Certain cultures in the world have a tradition of “exiling” a woman on the rag. They separate them from the men and ostracize them from regular society. This was very common in pre industrial society and even in Victorian times, well-to-do women were ‘indisposed” at certain times of the month. When I first became a ware of these practices, the feminist in me was outraged. How could women let that happen to then? What sort of barbaric societies where these? HOW DARE THEY? Modern day women are so much better off. We can still go to work, school, out with friends. We can still cook, clean, and manage the houses of our husbands and kids. Just pop a few pills if you have cramps, drink more coffee if you’re tired. And if you’re cranky Cuz your hormones are a mess, don’t let them out Cuz then you’ll be labelled the “PMS Monster”. There’s herbal treatments, heating pads that stick to your panties, all manner of feminine hygiene products that will ease our way in society, all the while keeping our blood secret. Lucky us! A few years ago, I read the Red Tent [link] for the first time. I have since read it probably a dozen more times. It’s a great book and tells the story of Dinah, the only daughter of Jacob, who married Rachel and Leah. These characters are found in the Biblical book of Genesis, Chapter 34. Told in the first person as Dinah, this historical fiction is wonderful, especially because it details the private lives of women when during their moon time when they are sequestered to the confines of the Red Tent. The moon time is seen as an opportunity to relax and rest after working hard caring for ones family, flocks, and servants. It is a time of rejuvenation and cleansing with all the women together, sharing stories and bonding outside of the prying eyes of the men. It makes me want a Red Tent of my own. Today was a shitty day. And I mean Shitty. I’m tired and yes cranky. I have cramps, sore everything and yet again, we arrived home from playgroup to discover that my sister’s dog had spread The Rulers Dirty Diapers around the house. I capitalize the Dirty Diapers so you truly understand the mess and smell we walked into. The ruler decided not to nap, and I need one terribly, spill food everywhere, when I just want to rest. He is almost two and his latest trick is to throw everything. Timeouts happen five or six times a day. Yes, I’m in a bad mood. I have never wanted to go out back and pitch our little pup tent more than I do right now. I’ll find the last of the red paint from our kitchen and paint it red. Then with enough food, pads and magazines to last until the weekend I’ll zip it up and stay there until Sunday. It would be a wonderful thing is women could take time off during their moon times. Rest and relax just like the olden days. I like the idyllic view I’ve created of what it was like then and I want it. I want to be able to say “I’m indisposed, GO AWAY!” without it seeming weak, or lazy. I want women to be able to say, “I’m on the rag, fuck off” with being called a bitch with PMS. And I want them to stop using window washer fluid in tampon ads, it’s icky. It’s red, get it right. I would love to say “see you later” to my family, my sister’s idiot dog and not do a damn thing for a few days. But, we all know that’s just not possible, My hubbie can’t take time off work because of my uterus. The Ruler wants to play despite my cramps and my red tent remains packed in the garage. My sister’s dog however is locked downstairs until she gets back from her holidays on Saturday. I told you it was a rant. I’ll regret posting this in a few days when my hormones are balanced again. |
| Alarm clocks kill dreams, the movie |
| 11.10.05 (11:23 am) [edit] |
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Hey all, I was feeling rather underthe weather for the last couple days, so been laying low. Tonight is the first showing "Alarm clocks kill dreams", my friend Ben's movie. So if you're in the vancouver area come on out to 2290 commercial drive for the 8pm showing. if you're not in vancouver, then at least check out the site for the Workless party, http://www.worklessparty.org  |
| Look what came in the mail today!!! |
| 11.08.05 (12:53 pm) [edit] |
Check it out!!! I'm so very excited!! IT CAME IT CAME!!! yuppers, there's lots of fixing up to do inside, but I've got it all under control and EVEN learned fomr new tricks this afternoon with PDF files. yup little ole computer illiterate me has learned more computer junk. My sisters phone number has offical been squeezed out of my head as a result.  look how pretty it is!! lovely isn't it. I'm so glad that it's Sushi night, tonight because now we have something to celebrate!! Yippee!!  don't forget to visit Bitter Waters Blog site to read excerpts and next week read the first chapter. Also JOIN THE MAILING LIST!!! bitterwatersthenovel@hotm ail.com so that you'll be updated when it's finally released and all that great stuff! YIPPEEE!!!  A special thanks needs to go to the humble Surrogate, who will hate that i brought this up, but he did help me write the back of the book blurb and he deserves to be honoured. so... THANKS!!! BIG SMOOCHES!! :D FM |
| November Rose |
| 11.08.05 (5:31 am) [edit] |
OUr weather in Vancouver has been on again and off again. It gets really cold for a few days, then warms up. It's been raining for days and days and days. Yesterday was teh first day with actual sunshine in about two weeks. because of this weird wether i think the plants are confused. My crocus's have sprouted along with other spring flowers and my rose has bloomed in Novemember. Although not completly odd of Vancouver in the Autumn, it's always remarkable when it occurs. Here's a pic.  Yes, this is a pic of my son. I don't put a lot of personal photos up here, i like my privacy, but this is a better shot of the rose and my son looks pretty cute in this photo, so i'm sharing.  FM |
| WOOHOOO!!!!! |
| 11.08.05 (4:23 am) [edit] |
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My first copy of my book has been shipped!! in a couple of days i'll get it, be able to proof it, show it off to all my firends, then get ready to sell it and myself to the rest of the world!! We're hoping to do a launch party in jan or feb, and my friends Jazz band may play at it (they have their own CD's to sell.) it's SOOOOO very exciting. YIPPPEEEE!!!!! |
| What a beautiful sight! |
| 11.04.05 (2:09 pm) [edit] |
I sat down to answer my comments from my posts, and I turned around, looked out my window and look what i saw: Then after I'd put that image into the computer I turned again, and look how it changed:  I love this world. FM |
| Pumpkins |
| 11.04.05 (2:05 pm) [edit] |
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I cooked my jack o lanterns and blended them up today. I felt kinda bad about it, but now I have enough pumpkin puree to make about a dozen pies. YIPPEEE. here are pics of them, before the butchering. Click on them to make them bigger.   |
| sometimes it helps to have a hard copy |
| 11.03.05 (12:31 pm) [edit] |
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This may seem self-evident but after staring a computer screen for the last four days ones brain becomes a little wonky. I printed on a hard copy of my novel and discovered a few little problems, which thankfully, I was able to fix and not version 3 has been submitted and I bit the big bullet, bought an ISBN (the basic version) and have ordered my first copy of my book! WOOHOOO!!!!! It’s not available to the public yet-- once I get the copy I can check it for mistakes and the fix it up. THEN WE"LL HAVE A PARTY!!!! YEEHAH!!!! I love this number ISBN: 1-4116-5752-7 It’s all mine!! my very own ISBN NUMBER!!!! if anyone deserves a free dinner at a swanky French restaurant, it would be ME!! My hubbie was given a big fat gift certificate to a Fancy French Restaurant in West Vancouver, it's called "La Regalade" http://www.laregalade.com and we're going there TONIGHT!! my parents are babysitting! I guess I should go shave my legs or something. no wait it's French-- they don't shave. :D My little post key code is naughty this time: BITHCzbm-- geez tblog! |
| how many times a day can i say ARGH!!!!!....... |
| 11.03.05 (7:54 am) [edit] |
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...so far the count is 10, 345 and it just keeps going up.... maybe it's the endless days of rain (yes it's been raining without stop for about 5 days), maybe it's the ruler of the universe pressing on the bruise on my thigh i got from whacking into the chair this morning, or maybe it's the ultra slow computer day the world appears to be having. For once it's not tblog, but LULU, by publishing site that is acting up. I am so close to having this book thing figured out, but then with the ISBN it all gets confusing again and lulu, little chat box doesn't work AND to top it off when i turn it one to see if it is working my entire computer freezes and i have to restart. I have now restarted my computer four times in the last hour for various reasons. Yesterday we upgraded xp, and ever since then crappy things have been occurring.... hhhhmmmmm..... So anyway, I decided, we- my hubbie and I decided- to go with th Global option for ISBN, so i went to lulu to buy it, get a copy of my book and proof it. As I’m going though the checkout procedure, getting ready to plunk down 160.00 (after taxes) which we really don't have, but are scrapping together cuz as my hubbie says "you've worked so bloody hard, why be chintzy now?" I read this little note that if after buying this and I get a copy of my book, if for some reason its not absolutely perfect and you want to make changes you have to PAY more money to redo it. BUT if i go with basic any changes that need to be made are done for free. So i pay more money to be in a tighter spot, but the cheaper one has way more leeway. Now, i understand this once you pay for global all sorts of stuff gets set in motion and books titles and numbers and all sorts of stuff gets spread all over the internet. To track it all down to make changes costs time and money. I get that, i agree with it. Here's my ARGH, the guidelines of how your book needs to be are explained, but what it doesn't state clearly, at least not to me, is whether these standards your book needs to adhere to will be created on the lulu end of things, or if i have to do it on my end. Hence my desire to talk to someone in the chat box that breaks my computer. An example: A Global Dis. book must have a ISBN page, a title page, and a blank page at the end of the book. SO? does that mean the ISDBN goes first? which side of the paper odd or even? same questions with the title page- a facing page or a back page of the paper? If I don't have a blank page in the file I upload will lulu just add that? Another Example: a book to be 'perfect bound' just for lulu needed to be between 48 and 700 pages. (Perfect bound is the binding that all paperback books have.) Yet for Global Dis. the book needs to be at least 80 pages (probably so a code can go on a binding [but that's just a guess, they don't say why]) so if your book isn't 80 pages there needs to be blank pages to bring your page count up to 80. SO? will lulu automatically add in those pages? (my book isn't 80 pages) or to i have to put a bunch of blank pages into my document before i upload it? Again a question for someone at lulu.... And all of this is leaving me with a very argh-ie feeling. And no answers. |
| to ISBN or not ISBN... |
| 11.02.05 (1:24 pm) [edit] |
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... or maybe ISBN just a little... as I get closer and closer to publishing my first novel the decision must be made as to whether I ISBN my book or not. in case you don't know, ISBN stands for International Standard Book Numbers and all regularly printed books have them. I mean books that are printed in the common regular way. When you self publish, you have the option of attaching an ISBN to your book or not. And there are two choices... I know that I’ll choose one of them it's just a matter of which one... Basic Distribution Service Basic Distribution Service includes a scannable bar code on the back cover, and your book listed in Books in Print. This gives you the ability to provide books to your local bookstore for resale. It also includes one year of placement in the Amazon Marketplace. Price: $34.95 OR Global Distribution Service Get your book in prominent online bookstores. Open the doors to leading distribution channels; make your book accessible to large chain and independent booksellers. Includes an optional placement in Google Print. Price: $149.95 hhhhhmmmmmm choices choices... pay the big bucks for a possible bigger reward... save the cash just in case the book bombs... hhhhhmmmmmm |
| US Army Chaplains Handbook: excerpt on wicca |
| 11.01.05 (1:24 pm) [edit] |
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Go read it: http://www.religioustolerance.org/wic_usbk.htm" title="http://www.religioustolerance.org/wic_usbk.htm" target="_blank"http://www.religioustolerance... It's well written and basically accurate. |
| Graceshaker and the Moon |
| 11.01.05 (1:10 pm) [edit] |
Graceshaker http://graceshaker.tblog.com is always one to ask questions that make me think. Here are two he asked about the Drawing down the Moon rituals I posted a couple weeks ago.
These questions have giving me a lot to think about, because I never thought about it before. I hope you weren’t expecting a yes or no answer, cuz you’re not going to get one here. We’ve talked before, or at least I’ve written before that I believe in a Universal Power, Universal Divine. To me, and many Wiccan’s this Universal power is shapeless formless and is too immense to comprehend, it is a Universal Energy. As humans, we desire to understand this formless energy and so we have personified aspects of it in to Gods and Goddess. These Gods or single God represents the needs of the society who created it, change, and ‘morph’ as that society changes. So no, I do not believe there is some Goddess sitting in a castle or mountain in the moon. But then again, yes, I believe in a personified deity that is the moon. She is a woman, and represents all the feminine qualities that make up humankind. She is nurturing, loving and compassionate. I tend to visualize her in the Native American aspect of Grandmother Moon, a crone Goddess. Earth, is Mother Earth, and contains the qualities one would think of for that personification. (the father God is the Sun) As for why I do, well, I find it comforting. When I see the moon in the sky I feel safe, why to that I really cannot say, but nevertheless I do. When I see the moon, I say hi to a darling, comforting friend. I kiss the back of my hand as if I was kissing the hand of my friend. Not all Wiccan’s feel an affinity to the moon, I would hazard a guess and say MOST do, but not all of them and each person would describe their relationship differently. As for your second question, yes I do believe in an energy from the moon. Science has proven that all matter also contains energy. Those energy waves or particles can be measured in different ways and we know that the energy pattern of different types of matter is, well, different. So, yes I do believe that the moon has its own energy field, just like all other matter in the universe. I have done extensive training in Reiki and other Energy Work classes. (laying on of hands in the Christian church, yes my church practices this they call it Healing Pathways. link http://www.naramatacentre.net...) I know that the energy of my own body and the energy of others flows and moves just like our circulatory and lymphatic systems. And like our physical bodies our energetic bodies can get blockages, build-ups of energetic plaques and the like. Though this work one can relieve those blocks and heal. As I believe that this is also true of our planet and universe, I must add the moon to this list. (I can post a TON of stuff about Energy Healing if you’d like.) I believe that I can connect to the energy of the moon and have it flow through me and my chakras, to the earth. This simple process of creating flow is empowering (I really hate that word, but can think of no other) and cleansing. Why would I do this? Again as a way of invigoration my spirit and my soul. I believe that through our energy field (or aura) everything is connected. My energy field is meshing with the energy of the wooden chair I am sitting in, it to the floor and then to the Earth. Because of this we are all connected. Really, when you get in the Quantum Physics of it all, all the matter that makes up ME is vibrating so fast it isn’t actually a solid, nor in the chair I’m sitting on. At a Quantum level my electrons don’t know where I end and the chair begins, and the flow of energy between me, it, and the rest of the universe is perpetual, so when I draw down the moons energy I’m drawing down my own. From a Quantum point of view, no I don’t believe the moon emits its own energy, it emits mine. |
| Reflections on the Ritual |
| 11.01.05 (5:18 am) [edit] |
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The ritual went rather well, despite the rain. Rather than going outside to do the ritual, our preferred choice, we did the ritual in my basement (play, laundry, craft, workshop, room) oddly enough that space worked very well and we all felt comfortable and at easy in the room. And once the circle was cast it didn’t really matter what room we were in, because technically once the circle is cast you’re not really anywhere. Hhhmmmm, never totally understood or bought into that. The ritual itself you can read below, so I won’t rewrite those details. The funny thing about doing a ritual with a group is that sometimes if one person it’s totally into it, it can kinda throw things off. I’m not laying blame or anything like that, but in the end the energy that we did create was ‘scattered’ and we got too distracted to focus it before finishing the ritual. This may not make much sense to some of you, and my apologies for that, I’m not sure how to explain it better. When we do rituals a lot of energy gets stirred up. We work with this energy to transform it and ourselves or something in our lives. We believe that all things contain matter and energy and this energy can be worked, controlled, transformed, moved around whatever word you want to use. For this ritual we stirred up a lot of nasty stuff, within ourselves and outside in the world and then funnelled it back into the earth to be renewed. In the end I think more ‘stuff’ got stirred up than we expected and it didn’t all funnel away, right away. I know for myself that when I woke sat morning I felt horrible. Like I was full of icky dirt and I couldn’t get clean. My thoughts were all about my stresses, my annoyances, and all things the generally piss me off about life. I was tired, grumpy and not a happy camper. After thinking about it awhile, I realized that my problem was that the ritual had stirred up a lot of the dark stuff that I hide far far away within myself and the icky feeling I had was from it all bubbling up to the surface. Not necessarily a bad thing, it’s good to clean out the pipes now and then, even the spiritual ones. I knew what I had to do to feel better- redo the spell. I have since redone the spell everyday since then up to today which, is the new moon, a time of renewal and since it is the first new moon of our new year it is a very potent time for cleansing. Each time that I performed the ritual I felt better, cleaner and the feeling of ickyness has lessened. The things that are stressing me out, but didn’t realize it, are still around waiting for me to deal with them, but I know that I CAN deal with them and that also reduces the stress. Wicca, really, is a religion of self-motivation and pro-action. Samhain forces us to look at our ickyness and deal with it. We flow though the seasons changing as the planet does and when we stop flowing we get blocked and stagnant. Rituals such as this break the dams and bring cleansing energy, like a free flowing river, to our spirits. Halloween, last night was awesome. When I refer to to the trick or treat stuff I say Halloween, when I refer to ritual I say Samhain. The ruler of the universe went out trick or treating for the first time this year. The last two years he’s been sick. So this was his first experience “Shelling out”. I know my child well and so I didn’t get him a complicated costume. We borrowed a toy hard hat from a friend and but his orange fleece vest over his sweater and he was a “dump dump” driver (read dump truck). We met some of his littler friends down the road and went to the neighbours houses. It took him a couple of houses to understand that everyone was going to give him candy, and no he couldn’t go inside to play. He enjoyed himself immensely. We stayed out about a half hour, that’s all his little legs could handle, but visited all the houses where he has friends and we have friends. It was a little weird to have one kid with a pumpkin basket getting candy with six adults standing behind him. (it being his first Halloween my sister, and parents, hubbie and myself all joined him on his outing). But all in all it was a very enjoyable evening. I have pics up in the photo album on line- some of you has the link, if not PM me and I’ll share. FM |
Demystifying Misconceptions
This Blog chronicles the journey of one woman as she attempts to define her faith and place in the universe.
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*Finding God in Wicca
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*Magic, Witches and the Bible
*A brief History of Wicca
*Wicca 101 part 1
*Wicca 101 part 2
*Spells and the Modern Witch
*Do Witches Worship Satan?
*Religious View
*Interview with a Witch
*A Witch's Story of Creation
*One Definition of the Divine
*I am a Witch
* Original Sin, from a Witches point of View
*Why a Witch Could care less about Harry Potter
*Satan is not my Sidekick
*The other people: Or how I learned to stop worrying and love the Bible