Good Advice for us All...

Beltane Thoughts

Beltane is upon us soon, once more the veil between the worlds spread thin as in Samhain, we light the bonfires, jump the burning embers, cast our witchy magick and thrill in the erotic sacred sex. The union of god and goddess which brings forth the promised child at yuletime. We all have our own beliefs and ways in celebrating may day, Walpurgisnacht, and maybe we all should remember what i feel is an essential part of this bewitching time...love. One only has to look upon the world today and see the evil that exists, the damn hypocrisy and narcissism that rule everywhere. Our beltane sabbat will be about love, love of the gods for us, love for each other, and the hope for brighter days in a world gone completely bat-shit crazy.

I use to watch fox news, i just don't anymore, the media seems to thrive on evil and a public that seems addicted to the drug they sell. So few good stories, so little love displayed to the world. Our country is completely obsessed with our own lil lives and oblivious to the hurts or cares of their neighbor. Truly, where is the love?

Rambling, but i feel every female witch should realize that they are the may queen, they are the beauty of everything that is the goddess, everything that is love, the true power of the female witch lies in their femininity...don't look down woman, look up and extend your magick and your love, the gods will bless thee.

Beltane magick is about love, the beauty of the spring, regeneration of the earth, fertility of all. We as witches have plenty to do in the coming days before this most festive of sabbats, I pray fertility and love in your undertakings...blessed be.

Rocket Man Jack Parsons

So for about the past year now I have been researching Jack Parsons, the rocket man of occult fame. These are a few of the books I have been using over the past year. The man fascinates me, he was a student of Crowley, led an OTO group out in Califiornia, and yet also helped to found the JPL, jet propulsion lab, or jack parsons lab of NASA. He even has a crater on the moon named after him in his honor. And yet, lol, all the while performing serious magick along with rocket technology..

I will not go into his life story or tragic and mysterious death, etc etc. What interests me is his later work in witch he talks about a new witchcraft and forming the old covens, all this before Gardner wrote HMA in '49.

This is another book I have been reading witch discusses in great detail some of what I'm talking about. He was a good looking fellow for sure, kinda like the Tom Cruise of magick, lol He was brilliant and his own writings are magick enough of itself. I have read somewhere that he and Gardner corresponded but I have found no proven record of this. Ideas mingle together and form even more new ideas. Parsons saw Babylon as the arrival of the Goddess back to earth. I recommend his work, its been a very interesting study and I have opened my own witchcraft to new ideas because of the rocket man...

"and i think its gonna be a long long time,

till touch down brings me around again to find,

i'm not the man they think i am at home,

o no no no

i'm a rocket man,

rocket man, burning out his fuse up here alone..."

Gilded Reverie Lenormand by Ciro Marchetti - review

Beginner Lenormand Class: Basic One-Card Meanings

By the Gods...

I swear some days it just seems like the magick is more powerful and flows thru you like water. Prolly always there but it just seems some days you are more attuned to notice it, manifestations of such appear constantly and you feel like there's nothing you can't do if your WILL so desire. Wasn't it Jesus who said if thou had the faith of a mustard seed, etc etc...Is it not the same thing?

We have faith in our gods and our beliefs, we have faith in our magick because we know there is no magick without belief or faith, does not the witches pyramid teach that thou must believe in ur magick for it to work? I believe so myself. No doubt, no fear, no guilt, only true will...

"show me how you do that trick,

the one that makes me scream she said,

the one that makes me laugh she said,

threw her arms around my head,

show me how you do it,

and i promise you, i promise

that i'll run away with you,

i'll run away with you..."

It's a Beautiful Day, right?

Well, at least Saturday was, lol. Our Ostara Sabbat could have not been more perfect! The sun was shining and the entire world seemed afresh with a new day. We finished our new garden bed and planted for the coming harvest. Our sabbat was magickal and sexual, as Ostara should be. For me, Ostara is more like Beltane for south Georgia where we live and wicca is a fertility religion soooo fertile we must be, right..lol

But Sunday and today is overcast, wet, colder, you name it. I am reminded of an oracle deck I have where the sabbat card for Ostara still has a lil snow left on the ground, seems bout right except for the cold snow part, spring is here no doubt but still early and the dregs of winter are still around.

Magickal items that are made by yourself do seem more powerful, I had told of my witch runes that I had finished recently, and dam if the readings I'm getting off my casts are not accurate and foretelling, in a powerful way. One could prolly make something like that from their own imagination and will them into fruition, but I chose to keep with the traditional set because its what I know and am comfortable with, but the castings are dead on, blessed be...

I made the mistake of ordering that bloodstone pendulum point from a non-witch shop and its not set right on the little latch thingie. It's what I get but will not make that mistake again! We should buy from our own anyway and not somewhere else...stupid.

I highly recommend including the Lenormand deck into anyones practice who also use the tarot. I have had a few of these decks for a number of years now but just recently began to study and actually use them. I didn't think that i would really be able to connect with these cards for some reason, maybe my fondness for the tarot, i don't know but i am glad now that i have started. They are an easy enough deck to learn and use and can be very useful in your practice. I have a new book witch includes the Lenormand and the Tarot and its a really enjoyable read...

I also read where Janet Farrar has a couple of new books coming out soon, one witch deals with traditional witchcraft and not wicca per say...can't wait. I do love her works...