Week 3 is for Gods/the Divine. This sorta fits. 😉
An audio blog post in a Dropbox link:
Month: May 2015
Elements of Magic Worksop, June 13-14
By Art, we deepen our vision, focus our will, and empower ourselves to act in the world. In this class we begin the practice of Magic, Witchcraft, and goddess/god/mysterious ones spirituality by working with the Elements: Earth, Air, Fire, Water, and Spirit. Techniques include: visualization, sensing and projecting energy, chanting, trance, creating magical space, spellcraft, and structuring rituals. Group experience follows feminist consensus process. This class is the first of the core Reclaiming classes.
PREREQUISITE: Read the first six chapters of The Spiral Dance by Starhawk
WHERE: Pittsburgh area
WHEN: Saturday June 13 and Sunday June 14
COST: $150-$90, sliding scale.
A Bone and Briar Mystery School Offering
Send REGISTRATION information (preferred name, preferred email address) to thewitches@boneandbriar.com
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Event sponsored by Reclaiming Pittsburgh.https://www.facebook.com/groups/649379201830219/
Our Bodies Will Not Be Machines: My Resistance Will Be Bloody
REBLOG: “In each of these moments what isn’t mentioned is that these moments aren’t mentioned. Women are supposed to be quiet about something that our bodies do every single month for thirty or forty years. Don’t make a big deal of your experience. Don’t gross anyone out. This is shameful and people will mock you. Or they willfully ignore it.
Don’t smell of flesh and blood. Don’t leak or leave a bloody stain. Stuff your cunt up. Eat ungodly amounts of pain-killers. Alter your hormones with birth control pills, regardless of the sex you may or may not be having. Don’t let cramps get you down; girl, let’s see that smile! Don’t rest; taking a day off work just proves women are weak and unreliable.”
I am thirteen and bleeding all over the floor of Renee’s bathroom. It is the middle of the night. I thought I had to pee, but it’s just that my period has started. I can’t predict these unpredictable occurrences. My stomach hurts. I feel queasy. But my flow is so heavy it’s running down my leg and making a mess on the floor. I mop up what I can. I swallow my pride and wake my friend to wake her mother. We need assistance. Thankfully, in an act of female teenage solidarity, no one ever hears of this story. Until now.
I am fifteen, crawling on my hands and knees through the halls of my high school. I have cramps so severe I cannot walk. I am pale and my English teacher is concerned that I might be passing out at my desk. Thankfully, most everyone is in class, so…
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Reclaiming Pittsburgh – an open group of the religious witchcraft tradition
An open group in Pittsburgh area practicing in the Reclaiming and Feri traditions of witchcraft.
From the http://www.reclaiming.org website:
“Our vision is rooted in the religion and magic of the Goddess, the Immanent Life Force. We see our work as teaching and making magic; the art of empowering ourselves and each other. In our classes, workshops, and public rituals, we train our voices, bodies, energy, intuition, and minds. We use the skills we learn to deepen our strength, both as individuals and as community, to voice our concerns about the world in which we live, and bring to birth a vision of a new culture.”
Elements of Magic Workshop
By Art, we deepen our vision, focus our will, and empower ourselves to act in the world. In this class we begin the practice of Magic, Witchcraft, and goddess/god/mysterious ones spirituality by working with the Elements: Earth, Air, Fire, Water, and Spirit. Techniques include: visualization, sensing and projecting energy, chanting, trance, creating magical space, spellcraft, and structuring rituals. Group experience follows feminist consensus process. This class is the first of the core Reclaiming classes.
PREREQUISITE: Read the first six chapters of The Spiral Dance by Starhawk
WHERE: Pittsburgh area, PA
WHEN: Saturday June 13 and Sunday June 14
COST: $150-$90, sliding scale.
The Great God Pan in the Bone Yard of Trees
REBLOG – I swoon with Great Love at this post.
We arrived at our second favorite beach on the Olympic coast on Thursday afternoon around four o’clock. It was a glorious day, sunny and clear and not too warm…as a few cooling evening clouds began to wisp in just in time to make the sunset a glory. We started to walk to the pathway down to the beach, and then realized we had only four hours till sunset. Clearly not enough time to enjoy Kalaloch Beach adequately and still get to Ruby Beach before sunset. Also, the tide was clearly in, and I feared I could not get to my favorite seastack at Ruby if it was surrounded with incoming waves. The tide would not be out till late in the night. We turned on our heels and went back to the Lodge to inquire about vacancies in the cabins. We got one at half the normal price! We went…
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I’ve added deity oil blends to my Etsy shop
I didn’t post about The Poseidon/Olokun Under-the-sea blend, nor the Yemaya/Poseidon Over-the-sea blend that went into my shop a couple of weeks ago. Hhhmmmm, I don’t thinkI even posted about the thee-as-deity focused blend, Godself. Odin, Hel, Kuan Yin, and Freya blends are coming soon with more after that.
I really should do one post a week about my shop because I don’t now and how are folks to remember it exists? Anyway, I am so excited to be adding these blends, created here in my home. Meditation and deep listening inform me as to which ingredients go in each. I adore creating oil blends. **squee**
So, today’s creation had the assistance of Magnolia’s nose because I am easily converting her to loving the blending as much as I do. *grin* The two newest blends:
Star Goddess
Peacock God
The Pagan Experience blog project; May wk 2; Time
Wk 2- May 11 – Time – How do you measure time? How do you make use of linear time in sacred space?
I will toss in the all space is sacred space, so what I do is treat Time as sacred, also, and as friend, not enemy. As I was falling asleep last week I had a thought about “Live today as if it were last!” So I wrote a post. Then I saw it fit the prompt about time. So I saved it for today.
The saying is to live each day as if it were your last, but I disagree. I say live each day as if yesterday had been your last.
If today is your last day you try to fit in All The Things™ that a last day would want. Sure, the saying is meant to help you not live with regrets, and add a sense of urgency to what you deem important so that you will do the things, but it invites a “what if I miss out!?!” aspect that I find mood dampening and ultimately counter-productive to living in the moment. Instead I end up looking at a list of got-to-do’s.
What if yesterday was your last day?
If that were true then today the pressure is off. There is nothing left to do. No new loves to find, no new jobs to hunt down, no new skills to perfect. Sound awful? I don’t think so. I see it as opportunity for joy in what is.
Love the person standing in front of you as if they are your soul mate.
Sing, dance, paint, and run as if there is no room for improvement.
Work with the abandon as if the job you are doing right this minute is your calling.
View your friends as if they are your final allies.
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Aahhhhh …. this, this day after my last day – this is freedom.
The Pagan Experience blog project; May wk 1; Fire
WK 1- May 4 – Fire – What ignites your passionate fires? What fuels your spiritual fires? What rages in fire’s destructive wake within you? And, what has healed from the cauterizing flames? How do you honor fire? How will you embrace its transformative powers?
I won’t be answering all of those today. Today I want to speak of the passionate fires that are part of my calling, part of my Work in the world. Weaving. Weaving between the Here and There, this world and the otherworld, and weaving the transition energy on the space in-between. Carrying of souls, cleansing, and supporting the prep for what is next. It is part of my spiritual midwife package. And part of the “why” behind my name, Boneweaver.
It is a thing that fuels that fire within me, this Work. On days like today when I engage in this work – gently guiding a tender soul, supporting the loved one still incarnate – is when I am filled with purpose, certain of my place and usefulness in this world. I am humbled. I am grateful. I am Me in my purest form.
Hail All That Is. I get to be a part of it.
LEAN IN TO JOY with BONEWEAVER 