What to make of January?

This picture, dear ones, is of a rutabaga plant, not ours grant you, because we cannot seem to get our seeds to germinate. We have tried twice now in lots of 18, not one dang seed germinated. Thirty six "tries" and no plant. Even paid dearly for some seeds from some fancy nursery up north, not-ta, zilch, nothing. We bought some earlier in the spring but they were already germinated and a few inches tall and grew up deliciously, but that ain't the point.

While Lady A has way more patience than i do, my pride and ego were bruised more than anything and dang it, i wanted them seeds to work <kinda like a spell we weave>.

Rutabagas love the month of January, thrive in it actually. They will sit in the earth and get fat and become ready for harvest by late spring, yum yum...

January is kinda one of them pause moments in Wicca, we have had our Esbat already and now the rest of this cold and still month lies ahead, time to water our seeds and hope for germination and harvesting in the spring months ahead. Hopefully we all have ideas and dreams that we are planning for, and a lil magick won't hurt either.
 Change is always in the air, all things change, and soon these cold months will pass and we will all reap our harvest soon enough. Patience is a virtue, all good things take time, like rutabagas for example...and my witchcraft.

Plan now while we rest this month, you see that rutabaga coming outta the ground, its almost time, least it is in south Georgia...

Sacred Prostitute? Sacred Sex

You hear this a lot, maybe have read some on this topic, but is this concept actually sacred or dare I say holy?

We know that this existed in ancient times and even survives a little today, but what exactly was it, exactly? Being wiccan, I understand and believe in sacred sex/sex magick/great rite, but how is prostitution sacred. Honestly I don't feel it is. In my readings/studies, I feel it was more along the lines of profit, probably lining corrupt priests/ess pockets or for the payment of taxes. We know that Roman Caesars would use this idea for their own benefits...

Just because a practice is ancient does not mean it is correct or even remotely sacred...

Most of these women and even men were slaves who may have had no choice anyway, or were prostitutes by profession. We find this topic a lot in the spring rituals of old, kinda like our modern ostara/beltane rites.

Regardless of what it is written today by many pagan authors, women had even less rights back then than they do now, don't be fooled. The religion of Wicca is far more advanced in the ideas of equality than our ancestors, and thankfully so.

Sacred sex though, is another topic altogether and one witch at least traditional wicca embraces because we are a fertility religion, a mystery religion. Call it a nature religion if you want but that smells fluffy to me and always has. The Great Rite is a beautiful ceremony when done in actual with a dedicated/loving/trusting partner. The idea of anything but is not, thats just sex...

Finally we got this beautiful statue of Brigid, just in time for Imbolc... We hope all had a wonderful and safe "New Year" and we pray that we all have a great and witchy 2015!!!!

See ya'll Saturday. BB

January's Esbat

We will meet at the covenstead on Saturday, January 3, for our monthly meeting. We will plan our 2015 meeting dates and tie in a New Years circle/party as well. Plan on being here by 7 please. Any questions, please call. We hope ya'lls holidays were simply the best and we look forward to seeing everyone..We miss ya'll...Brightest Blessings as always...