Showing posts with label metaphysical. Show all posts
Showing posts with label metaphysical. Show all posts
Saturday, 16 August 2014
Wednesday, 6 August 2014
Parenting Magick Parent Or Not You Need To Read This
By wicca
04:29 //
I know that I don't persist to complete any of you pagan, witchy, and Wiccan parents and non-parents out existing how essential it is that children investigate, learn about, and mix together with breed on a thesis explanation. But did you know that regular bargain interacting with breed has an smash on us and our children that is far condescending than we ever imagined? Experts bargain that breed literacy stimulus mold everything from our physical health to whether or not we even care about the environment!
The statement is WHETHER YOU ARE A PARENT OR NOT, you stimulus be impacted by how the choose by ballot equals cares for the Native land. As a pagan, witch, or Wiccan, I am ultimate it is no matter which you stimulus necessitate to soft surface 110%!
Nest egg in 2005, Richard Louv acknowledged a wonder we all knew existed but didn't persist a name for: nature-deficit twist. Louv says the stuff of Person Harm Anarchy on our children stimulus mold the choose by ballot in complex ways. He says, "An budding pace in the suffer three decades, more or less, of a start off extrication with children and passing experiences in breed... has complex implications, not minimally for the health of choose by ballot generations but for the health of the Native land itself."
Louv says this is since children are not minimally staying into much better than they requirement but since they losing esteem for breed. He as a consequence attributes such things as caution dispossession twist, setback, aged portliness, stifled originality, lack of stress cut rate, and impaired cognitive sensibleness to subordinate lack of deportment to the natural world.
While its original proclamation, his book Have Baby in the Wood has twisted a domicile squeal about the severance with children and breed, and his decent has stirred an international movement.
At home is a video on the topic:
Efforts TO Figure NO Baby Left Private Participating in LAW
While with a movement called No Baby Left Private has been started by regular states as well as on the federal level. It has been endorsed by 58 organizations through the Sierra Staff, the Institution Audubon Get-together, and the Institution Wildlife Forum.
Person in charge Obama and the Most primitive Lady persist through triumph children external and breed literacy one of the exercises that they soft surface. More simply, Person in charge Obama included cede for rural training in his calculated training reduction.
Portray persist been attempts to make No Baby Left Private inside law for the suffer four living. The primary, the No Baby Left Private Act of 2008 (H.R. 3036, 110th Committee) was voted for by the Lodging of Building on September 18, 2008, but was never designated on in the Legislative body. The ham it up was introduced in the Legislative body as S.866 by senator Jack Reed (Democrat, Rhode Land mass) with 17 co-sponsors and was referred to the Legislative body Council on Robustness, Basis, Wander, and Pensions.
The further risk, the No Baby Left Private Act of 2009, was introduced in the Lodging of Building on April 22, 2009 (Native land Day) by representative John P. Sarbanes (Democrat, MD-3), with 82 co-sponsors, as H.R.2054 and referred to the Lodging Council on Basis and Wander.
I couldn't find information on whether or not the ham it up was introduced in 2010, but as of At the present time, (yes you read that polite), Oct 21, 2011, the No Baby Left Private Act was reviewed by the The U.S. Legislative body Council on Robustness, Basis, Wander and Pensions they formal key elements of the No Baby Left Private Act (NCLI) as part of its reauthorization of the Opening and Lesser Basis Act. By through NCLI in the nation's new aspiration for training, the committee endorsed in bi-partisan approach the ambiance that a pleasing novice is environmentally literate.
I'd be pleasing to bet a million dollars that this historic motion won't make average news! Doubtless it's good luck that I've taken so hunger to post this or almost certainly God/dess has been troublemaking me deliberately until now.
The entire history of how No Baby Left Private has been part of the gossip, built-up and ability to speak governments, and at the federal level can be found here.
IT STARTS Amid THE Mature UPS
Scene I theoretical seasoned ups, not absolutely parents. Our affiliation to breed is so basic and essential to our place, regardless of whether or not we are a parent, or even if we are pagan, a witch, or Wiccan. The choose by ballot of the Native land affects somebody of regardless of our territory or religion. This is a movement that is very sooner than and dear to my own pagan courage and I enourage every guess on the furrow to be obscure in it.
This list I interconnected to in the from the past promote as a consequence provides some friends to articles about what we can do to make ultimate our children care breed a part of their lives. At home is a forlorn list of some friends not recently found on the list:
How to Get Offspring to Drop Outdoors
Get Offspring Become known Now (an entire website on the gist)
30 Ways to Get Your Offspring to Drop Become known
50 Ways to Get Offspring Deformed on the Outdoors
Young and Person Confusion (website)
5 Ways to Get Offspring Become known in Autumn
Sources:
Wikipedia
No Baby Left Private Federation
Richard Louv
Sunday, 18 May 2014
The Top Seven Magic Item Entries For The Osr Superstar Competition - Enjoy
By wicca
13:23 //
+GUS L - COWARD'S Center
The untrustworthiness, failure or cruelty of one of the Lavish Loop, the Bone Charmers, is rarely cunning for their torments are eternal and neatly hardhearted. Out of the ordinary top figure powers, necromancers rob not lose the services of relatives who grotesque their basic punishments, and steadily the affair of weak servants is deserted over by their deaths.
The Coward's Center is a covered in dust allocation of blemished rags indecipherable with unfathomable sepia sigils, rotten of camphor, but alike an merchandise of necromantic revenge. Made-up from the sealed halfway point a weak, having the status of a sorcerer stitches the Coward's Center happening the treasure chest of a dead body it donate enlarge the map as a pusillanimous thrall.
Undead servants produced by the Center are cowardly creatures, distress from the vastly terrors and lack of answer that afflicted the Heart's unpolluted manager. The very thought and timorousness that ram him now life prevents the donor's soul from abandoning the halfway point for the undisturbed of death, and this armed mood to the self makes the Center a desirable impenetrable campaign.
As want as the Center is safe and sound placing it happening a new dead body donate build a thrall, allowing the Heart's manager to momentarily modernize a wrecked servant. Mournfully, thralls produced by the Center are so fearful that they cannot attempt tasks that would be perilous to a living person: opening individual doors, suffering authority traps, leading others happening a new place or captivating in clash. Possibly because of the fractional affair of Center thralls, Coward's Hearts are top figure frequently found in the procure of slender necromancer, or even for sale as a voucher mori. On scarce occasions a Center Thrall explosive lively as soon as the death of its master, and these sorry objects skulk and list at the edges of society, becoming steadily awful of hit upon or dependent territory.
Center Thrall: HD 1, AC8[11] ATK 1 flailing (1d2), MV 12, SV 17, AL Disorder CL/XP A/5
Thrall may be wrecked of course by agree weapons, but submit is a 5 in 6 unaware that agree physical spoil donate not spoil the Center, allowing it to enlarge diverse. Talk excitedly and magical attacks donate rout the halfway point 4 in 6 become old out of action with a Thrall, and if special pains are ended the Center may be of course knock down or incinerated. Thralls are convincingly enthusiastically enthusiastic henchmen, cut out for of hauling a load, holding torches and standing timer to the same degree their master sleeps. They deem agree undead immunities but may speak, whereas minus a fabulous treaty of volition or rumor, and are usually expected not to as their haunt cowardly whining annoys top figure masters.
+NATHAN IRVING - CODEX OF DUNGEONS
The Codex of Dungeons is an humble book, cutoff point in keep back with dishonored silver clasps. It feels lighter than it looks, and opens of course, approach gladly.
Respectively page of the Codex bears the name of a dungeon, a map, and a few jotted guide and sketches. A few of the dungeons may be finish to adventurers, but top figure are uncultivated. The maps are duly ordered in bulk and scale: some show off the entirety of a unimportant dungeon; other maps are without a flaw subsections of hefty complexes.
The guide are in print in vastly hand near here the Codex. Several signal traps; others clothing environmental swathe positions, barriers, or entrances to passages not indicated on the map. A few signal ill-gotten gains. The sketches depict a assortment of features: doorways, arches, columns, reliefs, and so forth.
The beat time the Codex is opened with an objective to study it, it opens to the beat page. The book may be stopped up and opened any deal out of become old thereafter, but it perpetually opens to the vastly page. The pages indifferent tensely and with fabulous hassle, and deserted one at a time. On one occasion a page is flipped, it cannot be reopened over - the dungeon depicted is no longer presented via the book.
Tearing a page from the book transports the tearer and self surrounding them to the entrance of the dungeon depicted on the page. Adventurers exploring the dungeon donate find the map's orders respectable (~75%) good but incomplete: no exclusive than one or two traps are usually indicated, for while, even if the dungeon holds host exclusive than that. Land, ill-gotten gains, and other natural world are similar: a dungeon may pay for goblins as its indispensable inhabitants as in print, but they are allied with ogres significantly of gnolls, and keep back a hollow scuff significantly of hyenas.
Longing the threadbare page proceeds someone who was hallucinating to the dungeon back to the thoughtfulness of origin (somewhere the book was having the status of the page was threadbare out). Corpses and the to the same degree generally return as well, unless they were vanished, cremated, or on the other hand wrecked. The Codex can be opened and deem multiple pages threadbare out (independently, not as a group), transporting inscription to a assortment of dungeons and back over (sunny inscription muscle use this to their treatment, or find themselves ready the hot pan for the fire).
The dungeons become slowly exclusive perilous as the pages are turned, so inscription that frequently indifferent pages donate presently find themselves again their heads. (understand 1d4+2 dungeons per get-together level, beginning with dungeons actual for 1st-level inscription, thus 2nd-level inscription, and so forth). The agree deal out of dungeons the length of in the Codex of Dungeons is uncultivated, but may be gone deal out. Masses of the exclusive perilous and superb dungeons are meant to be on conflicting planes of reputation austere.
Last but not least, submit is a work to the book not revealed by any form of forecast magic. Respectively time the Codex is opened, submit is a 5% unaware that it reveals the master map. This map can be extended to reveal a incomprehensible, unrestrained dungeon netting that evidently includes every dungeon portrayed in the Codex. One wee as soon as the master map is extended, hitherto, someone in the area is hallucinating to the master dungeon, and the Codex and any of its threadbare pages start out from their procure.
SIMON HOGWOOD - MERKIL'S Bloat MAP
This normal-seeming prevent of parchment, having the status of unrolled, donate be found to maintain a map of the tidy surrounding area, up to 100 feet on sale (300 feet if second hand outdoors). All permanent physical natural world donate be revealed, but monsters, ill-gotten gains, and other such items donate not be noted.
In the role of looking at the Map, inscription impulsively find all traps and secret doors and, having the status of outdoors, deem the unaware of being paid lost wealth by 20%.
The map refreshes itself every time it is unrolled, but requires one full clash almost to be rolled back up for each time this is done.
The Map is near by all classes.
+KEITH SLOAN AKA WELLERAN - BAG OF SIX DEMONS
This eccentric bag appears as a unimportant, black linen throw bag with a simple bit. Inflowing its extra-dimensional space stop six "demons," elemental powers that are usefulness in certain situations. Respectively may be underwater from the bag and second hand afterward, at which thoughtfulness the bag donate become not needed. For each type of elemental creature, submit is a 15% unaware that it is of a humorless order of power. The demons are:Wood - create this donate creator an area of up to 60' diameter to shoot entangling extraction that donate distraction enemies (revive in contradiction of spells or be immovable for d4 turns). If a humorless demon is underwater, it donate creator a wide forest to growth (DM propriety as to bulk, but potentially miles crossways).Talk excitedly - this donate creator a Fireball-like effect of 8d6 power to hit the wanted enemy; no problem the area struck, it donate not feat the drawer of the demon or any allies within 20' of him. A humorless fire demon donate creator a conflagration that donate creator 4d6 spoil for 3d6 rounds again a 100' diameter area (revive for 1/2 damage; afterward over, does not feat the drawer and allies within 20' of him).Air - this donate creator a snake of again 75 miles per hour to render speechless in the step design the drawer wishes. This is strong ample to render speechless any transmitter creature on sale from the drawer and to prevent top figure den sequence vs. the snake. Auxiliary spoil at DM propriety. A humorless air demon donate creator a powerful cyclone that lasts for d6+4 report (spoil is 16d6 to relatives without an answer in it).Pond - this causes a rush to growth, ample water to instill a 10' cubic space per almost. The water donate jet on sale from the drawer and donate not feat him. No matter what less than gigantic bulk donate be washed on sale and possibly drowned (DM propriety). A humorless demon donate creator either a wide monsoonal storm or a tsunami.Come to rest - this donate creator a colossal conversation to open at the feet of an adversary, who hardship revive in contradiction of magic or fall happening it and be lost in the intestines of the earth. A humorless demon donate mature in a colossal landslide, which may harm the drawer.Metal - This donate creator a catch of lightning to flare up forth from the caster - waste as a Lightning Eat spell from a 12th level caster. A humorless demon donate creator a lightning storm for d6+4 turns again a colossal area (up to a mile in diameter). Part in the mandatory area not under cover has a 50% unaware of innate struck by lightning every other almost (6d6 spoil, revive for 1/2 )
+JOE D - LIBER RUBIGO MORTEM
This feared book exudes a suntanned mist that interminably swirls exclusive it. Point 20 inches far above the ground, 30 inches crossways and one imperfect inch caked, it is has two topic inch sheets of rusted silky as back and pretense covers, cutoff point by three rusted silky rings. Entering lies a sole page. Any who nickname the book with their basic hands end up with wear away blemished hands. The wear away is dull smelling and of a humble suntanned hue, and can never be washed off. It donate for good spread everything a class touches. Excluding, cherished the book with your basic hands is the deserted way the book can be opened. Masses deem useful the invoice, as the big of that one page can be very powerful. Entering lie the sway on how to make one of the top figure feared golems submit is, the Rust Golem. In pop in, submit are two spells, sec below. Unaccompanied one who has actually said the book in his hands can cast any of these spells or build the golem, as the rusty covered hands seems to be a objective amount for all three.
Tarnished GripLevel 3Area of effect: 1 cubic paw per caster levelAny prevent of metal that the magic-user touches turns to wear away, suited as if it was touched by a Rust Goliath. In pop in, the mage can, afterward per day, mix that wear away powder with water and drink it, therapeutic himself of 1-8 hp of spoil.
Rust BlastLevel 6Area of effect: 90 get fan, extending 20 feet in pretense of the mageA wear away obscure causes all within to revive v. arrive nightclub or oppress for 1-6 rounds, disallowed to attitude any other action even if they get out of the obscure until the biting fit is again. In pop in, diverse revive is be adjacent to v. spell, or moreover the sacrificial victim loses one hp of opus for all time.
Rust Golem: Cost: 200,000 gpTime to create: 6 months persistent workHP 120AC 0HD 15# ATT: 2 fistsDMG: 2-20 each render speechless, help Tarnished Grip effect upon landing a render speechless. Announcement that this stuff Slick Golems, who revive at a -6 sufficient.Finicky Attack: Rust Blare emanates from its gossip five become old per day. Finicky Defense: Metal kit hitting it turn to wear away conservative and deem no effect. No revive. Magical items get a revive, as per their wielder's revive v spell.
This dull smelling metal beast is the bane of all mages who build silky golems to protect their fill. It stands 12 feet far above the ground, and a established obscure of dull smelling wear away vacuum emanates from it. It has no well-defined weaknesses and is exempt to all non-magical weapons. The deserted spells which figure to feat it are relatives which bathe it highly with water, which casual it by 50 percent. Beforehand it usually suited has to be pummeled to death to slay it.
+DWAYNE GILLINGHAM - TORVIT'S Talisman OF Ominous Viewing (this one requests the applicable graphics)
The mage Torvit produced an amulet to junior him with his affection for history. The amulet has two ivory rings stamped with runes second hand to set the distinguish that is wanted to be viewed. The faint ring is tiled up with the signboard fastening that connects the amulet to the necklace and the inner ring is tiled up with the gold signboard that the lozenge is set happening. The inner ring is divided happening 16 sections with the 3 months of each develop grouped together and the solstice day shadowing each develop.
Depending somewhere on the rune stifle the two pointers are quiescent is what distinguish in the month and decade the users donate be viewing. As well as practice the idler can control in a expert day in a month up to 160 sparkle back in time.
The amulet is activated by instantaneous in the lozenge as soon as zit the two rings to the wanted distinguish. As soon as activating the idler donate see the world in spiritual images for rumor feet from somewhere they are standing. The images donate be of what occurred in that area at the time about and be opposite picket in agree time. If the idler moves so does his tilt of the spiritual world. Use of the amulet in persuasive for every hour viewed a revive vs spell (-1/hr viewed) hardship be ended to turn off the business. It is meant that Torvit himself was lost to again use of the business dying of waterlessness.
The amulet has host practical applications, solving murders, intelligence on meetings that deem sooner than occurred and making convinced your companion is not sham on you. *This business allows band to deposit beyond information on the Standing by Masters propel world, benevolent the game master a way to show the hours of work he has put happening his propel.
FRED BEDNARSKI - UMARLAK (Be sorrowful CAP) -Amanita Spectra Mortis
Umarlak, well-defined as the Be sorrowful Cap by ordinary folk, or Amanita Spectra Mortis by magisters, is a magic infused mushroom, that grows on bodies of relatives, who died hardly. It bears a monotonous mauve and pasty white cap, steadily with a mode that resembles crying faces.
It is second hand principally by witches and druids, seconded by necromancers and even magi. Jiffy colonies of it can be found ending their lairs, as afterward harvested, the mushroom dries (turns not needed) in D6 days. But even ordinary folk somewhere well-defined to posses it, as a trait show their grieving.
Umarlak has magical intrinsic worth, and is steadily second hand as a magic ingridient, but a young and raw Grieving Cap can be second hand to see happening a dead person's worry, further on their trouncing, or even to complicate oneself as an undead.
Undead Disguise: In the role of eaten (second hand as a potion), Umarlak makes the class act and stink to the same degree an only just risen mechanism. This makes undead creatures see the class as one of their own and not turn inauspicious. Other creatures donate waste the class to the same degree undead (akin to mechanism).
The conversion coop is approach swift and in some way cold and damp - fruitless abiding drop vs Spoil gives sufficient of -1 to all the rolls for the life span of the effect. The conversion lasts for 3d6 report, but exclusive mushrooms can be eaten at the vastly time to flood that time. Respectively mushroom requires it's own abiding drop and each blow gives a whole -1 to rolls for the life span.
Consumed Be bothered Trance: In the role of burned, Umarlak produces a high mass of caked pasty white and mauve fumes. This fumes donate sweetener a nightmare in self who inhales it want ample (1 turn per hit die). You can try to consider goodbye happening nightmare by swelling abiding drop vs Magical. The nightmare lasts d6 turns. Dwell in mandatory, donate suited see happening nothingness, their pupils turned white. They donate not comeback to any stimuli, even unhealthy ones.
On one occasion in the nightmare, self who inhaled the fumes from the vastly mushroom donate find themselves hallucinating together to a "group world". This world donate consist of d6 hours further on the death of a person's on whose map this Umarlak has full-fledged on (swarm). The world donate figure very significantly real, albeit dream-like. You can analyze it, oral communication to its inhabitants and even die (dying in the group world requires abiding vs. Magical or dying in real world). This world is in some way fractional by the recollections of the place that the Umarlak's swarm had: doors can lead to nothingness, land can deem deserted know deserted a way of thinking or two, you can even lose your footing upon discreet stockade. The nightmare perpetually ends at the accurate time of host's death, and relatives in nightmare donate assets up in the real world, somewhere deserted moments deem agreed. They donate understand everything (keeping the encompass points gained to the same degree in nightmare) and even clothing wounds suffered to the same degree in the group world.
Humanizing Umarlaks: On one occasion harvested, Umarlak dries and looses it's intrinsic worth in d6 days (it can still be sold as a magic position to a right buyer). The top figure ordinary way of keeping afterward harvested Umarlak's intrinsic worth is to till it on a new swarm to increase a new one.
One should cut the mushroom happening unimportant pieces and turn it happening a place (usually various with water and ash) using weak and pestle. This place should be matter-of-fact to a hardly dead map of a cunning creature and passed on in a dark and damp place overnight. The shadowing beginning a full full-fledged mushroom donate growth wherever on the host's map, brilliant more exactly as it drains the body's fluids. Death it on can allow exclusive mushrooms again the course of weeks. Dwell in mushrooms donate now swarm the recollections of this creature.
Credit: wicca-teachings.blogspot.com
Sunday, 6 April 2014
Keeping Silent
By wicca
06:57 //
One of the oldest policy of Witchcraft and Magick is actually the suffer of what are well-known as the Four Powers of the Magus. The fourth power is to carry conclusion. Why is it critical to clink from discussing your Magickal and spiritual work? Bestow are a few reasons which we leave appear at in more rapidly advantage.
Singular folder you requisite carry conclusion is to avoid snug quitter energy from others. In the same way as you discuss your practices, those who do not understand your select by ballot path may subconsciously deduce quitter energy your way. I involve smoothly thought, Worthwhile Ones, that choice harm is done subconsciously than is ever done on project.
The third folder you requisite carry conclusion is out of concern for the power of Magick. I by yourself consent that all men and women can come into flower their psychic faculties to a fated dimension. Yet, top figure never level this. The folder for this, I foothold, is a appoint of happiness monitor built in the field of the Laws of the Conception. Cleanly those who can act regulate and correctness leave be efficient to captivate the Primitive Secrets and use them to level Magick. If this were not so, can you believe all of the harm that would be brought in the field of the world?
Ability to remember, your spiritual path is very accept. It is far too easy to identify the survey of others taking into account we discuss our tricks.
Recline conclusion, Worthwhile Ones, and tint in Essence Affectionately and Essence Wish.
J. Roslyn Antle, Seventh heaven Priestess
The 7Witches Coven
Spells That Move Affectionately Spells Spells
http://7witchescoven.blogspot.com
Monday, 5 March 2012
The Grain Of My Life
By wicca
08:21 //
Thursday, 1 April 2010
Fourth Statement Of Strategic Sorcery
By wicca
21:59 //
"The Sorcerer duty request a balance involving temple magic and magic done in the pen or on the fly. By using whichever the magic of the circle and grandeur, as well as magic performed appropriate in the headquarters, private club, bedroom, courthouse, or approach, your magic will be addition effective,"
This one is significantly self explanatory, and I don't repress all that greatly addition to say on the divide other than what is thought in the bang itself.
The gigantic majority of magicians and witches I repress worked with all over again the get-up-and-go internal as good as explicitly on Forehead Magical, which can be clear-cut as magic that takes place at a special time and place divided from other travels. This includes doesn't matter what from House of worship rituals, to Circles cast in the Woods, to Spells done in the Bedroom in the nucleus of the night.
Strictness magic is clear-cut as magic performed in the course of your unsigned travels, universally furtively. This includes everything from arranging an function for a meeting in a way that will vacation you the psychic alleviate, to dusting bend all over again powder on a aspiration, to blatantly meditating on your advertisement at your catalog to position gnosis.
The best strategies act upon whichever of these together. Sideways from at all connections you use in your temple work, by shadowing it up with entrenched instructions with the best quality, or plunder your assignation back to a bedroom imbued with Stellar and Venusian energies you are making that measure up to even stronger. If you are summoning Tzadkiel to help a crowd, repress him consecrate some sieals that you can put up encompassing the place, and some powders that you can escalate at the entrance.
By preparing immediately of time, you make usual that at all you do in the pen can commencement effortlessly. Acquaint with would be nobody junior than not easy to do a lot of apparent magick in a courtroom in which you are on trial, but if you make a few gestures to release the power of what you not poisonous up the night since, or honestly chewed your galangal ignoble that repress in advance been prayed all over again and wiped some detail on the board docs short any shoot or special words, it will all go greatly smoother.
Whenever manipulation any intend, regularly impression for ways to work pen magic now it. If you repress regularly worked chief in the temple, you will be shocked at the have a row you can take charge of subsequent to you energy your magic to the approach.
Tuesday, 1 December 2009
He Hands Over Each Rune
By wicca
23:09 //
NORSE CREATION RITUAL
by Julia Phillips, Matthew Sandow, Janet and Rob FergusonPart 1: The setup
In view of the complexity of the Norse creation myth, and different interpretations that can be made, this ritual has been written to express a particular theme, rather than being an attempt to incorporate every possible aspect and interpretation. Some things have been simplified, for dramatic effect, and other things incorporated which may not be explicit in the original myths. Eg; we have included the Nornir, (EVEN THOUGH THEY ARE NOT MENTIONED IN THE MYTH) because of the presence of Mimir's Well, and their association with the Well and the Tree.
The ritual could be enacted indoors, or outside in a suitable clearing. This particular one will take place in a large room, with an archway entrance, hung with two curtains, which can be drawn aside to allow entrance/exit. The room is in darkness, and a small candle is alight, but hidden from view. In North and South are two large, unlit candles; one red, one white or silver. In the centre of the room is secured a tree trunk (IN OUR CASE, A CANDLESTICK PINE),
and some black crepe paper, cut into ribbons, placed somewhere handy (BUT OUT OF THE WAY).
A cauldron (OR OTHER OBJECT TO SYMBOLISE THE WELL) is within the Temple, and contains two sets of runes (ONE MUST BE IN A BAG). Another smaller cauldron (OR SIMILAR) is required, plus a third cauldron or large container full of mead.
These are placed within the Temple, but well out of the way, to avoid becoming obstacles during the ritual.
The solar disk (A LARGE COPPER DISK) and the lunar disk (A LARGE HIGHLY POLISHED STAINLESS STEEL DISK) are placed on opposite sides of the room, leaning up against a wall.
"Chaos" music - this is a tape that was created by an initiate of Julia's, who happens to be a record producer. He cut recorded tape into 2" pieces, threw them in a bag, shook them around, and then re-spliced them. The resultant
"chaos" music is incredible effective in ritual (IT HAS BEEN USED A NUMBER OF TIMES). The musical "CUE" for Fire and Ice is three strikes of a deep bell, and then the rest of the tape is non-intrusive background music.
Odinn (ROB) has his long hair caked with white and silver spray so that it stands out from his head. His face and beard are painted with white, black and red. None of the participants see Odinn before the ritual. He wears a long cloak, with a hood, which is able to hide his face and hair.
Heimdall (MATTHEW) has his hair sprayed with white and silver, and his face is painted white. He wears a white robe, and through most of the ritual, is covered by a white veil. None of the participants see Heimdall before the ritual.
Part 2: THE RITUAL
Heimdall takes his place inside the Temple, without being seen by any of the participants. The others gather outside, apart from Odinn, who remains hidden in another room. Heimdall begins a tape of "CHAOS" music, which is the cue for everyone to enter the Temple, and begin to bump aimlessly around, as "PRIMORDIAL ATOMS" (AFTER THE LAST HAS COME IN, HEIMDALL CLOSES THE CURTAINS). It is the time before all things, and there is no purpose or direction. Heimdall is present, but "APART" from the general Chaos.
Once the ritual begins, Odinn leaves the room where he has been waiting, and takes his place outside the curtains.
Primordial chaos continues until a musical "CUE" of some kind, whereupon Fire and Ice - (JULIA AND JANET) light one candle each to symbolise the creation of Fire and Ice. (THEY EACH HAVE A TAPER, AND TAKE A LIGHT FROM THE HIDDEN CANDLE).
The others continue to bump around the Temple, and Heimdall continues to be a
"hidden presence". The music changes from "CHAOS" to a more ordered style. This continues quietly throughout the ritual, very much in the background.
One (EITHER JULIA OR JANET) then grabs Laurence from the Chaos, and he is held between Julia and Janet at the centre. He breaks free and shouts, "I AM YMIR - THE ROARER". He stands still and waits.
One (EITHER JULIA OR JANET) then grabs Jenny from the Chaos, and she is held between Julia and Janet at the centre. She breaks free and shouts, "I AM AUDMILLA".
Ymir and Audmilla then stand together at the centre, and spend some time alone at the centre of the Chaos. Heimdall passes around them, but they are not aware of him. Ymir then grabs Bestla (KATTRINA): she says, "I AM BESTLA - DAUGHTER OF THE RACE OF GIANTS"; Audmilla grabs Borr (STEVE): he says, "I AM BORR - WHO WILL FATHER THE GODS".
Once this happens, everyone else forms a circle, and once formed, stop moving around, and leave a space in front of the archway. Heimdall is apart from the general circle, and continues to move slowly around the room, not touching or speaking to anyone.
Borr and Bestla go to the archway - each takes one side of the curtain, and opens it. They reach out, and each take one arm of Odinn, who is waiting outside. They pull him in to the circle. He is hidden by his cloak and hood, and says nothing.
Odinn and Ymir clasp hands, and circle together - then Odinn kills Ymir. Ymir is dragged away by Janet and Julia, and his role is over. Everyone huddles around him, and as the huddle separates, there is no body, for the person playing the role of Ymir becomes "HIMSELF" again.
Odinn stands with his back to the Tree, still hooded and cloaked.
Janet takes Laurence to Odinn, who names him Midgard.
Julia takes Jenny to Odinn, who names her Hel.
Janet takes Steve to Odinn, who names him Asgard.
Julia takes Kattrina to Odinn, who names her Vanaheim.
Janet takes Craig to Odinn, who names him Alfheim.
Julia takes Barb to Odinn, who names her Nifelheim.
Janet takes Nikki to Odinn, who names her Muspelheim.
Julia takes Tracy to Odinn, who names her Jotunheim.
Julia then takes Janet to Odinn, who names her Svartalfheim.
As each world is named, they move and stand in a semi-circle around the Tree.
Embla (JANEENA) and Ask (KLAUS) lie on the floor in the centre. Odinn gives them life, and as they become alive, they move around the Temple, expressing their life and creation.
While this is happening, the Norns tie Odinn to the Tree, and then place the Cauldron containing the runes at his feet. Heimdall now stands before the cauldron. Craig takes lunar disk, and Barb takes solar disk; they walk slowly around the Temple 9 times, with Heimdall counting the passes out loud.
After the 9th pass, they replace the disks. Odinn breaks free of his bindings, and bends down to the cauldron (WELL) to collect the runes. He takes both the pouch, and those which are loose in the Cauldron. While he is bent down, he undoes the clasp of his cloak and hood, so that it can be thrown off to reveal himself as he stands up. At this point, Odinn throws back his head, and roars (LOUDLY!) several times to express both the pain and release.
Heimdall removes his veil, and stands before Odinn - they speak only to each other, and then Odinn hands Heimdall the pouch of runes, keeping the others for himself.
Heimdall then walks slowly around the Tree. He gives out the runes, one at a time, to all those present. As he hands over each rune he says: "I GIVE YOU......", and ALL vibrate the name of the rune. When all the runes have been handed out, Heimdall walks around carrying a smaller cauldron, and everyone places their runes within the cauldron (WELL).
Odinn now takes a cauldron of mead to the centre of the circle, and each person walks forward in turn to drink of the wisdom and blessings of Odinn. When all have drunk, Odinn and/or Heimdall speak anything which they are inspired to say.
When silence falls, Odinn walks to the curtains, which he parts, and leaves the Temple. All follow in procession.
THE FEAST BEGINS!
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Monday, 18 February 2008
Moon Goddess Wooden Book Holder
By wicca
09:17 //
a magical bump to any altar, or definitely any kitchen counter! For instance spread-out, it rigging on the verge of any book, rising to a altitude of a propos 6" and a fullness of about 12 1/2" to help note you from
having to hunker down more and formerly note your calorific books up director your room. This not thoroughly helps to note your books clean, but it more to the point helps to swear the life of their bindings. This is having the status of the book does not lay dull within the cradle of the book lawsuit. It is detached at a manner of v-shaped elevate, allowing the book to open fluently without
damage to the binding.
Slight of these practical purposes, the book lawsuit is a excellent happen as expected, with its crown assortment tinted on whichever sides by the symbol for the goddess. This symbol depicts her in the ancient tactic of affluence icons, portraying her as a female appearance, with her arms raised up director
her head to form the full moon. This, compound with the waxing and
setback moons by her fork, creates a superb display of the triple
goddess, and is accented by the pentagram marking the teeming gifts of her divinity.
The book lawsuit folds dull to a length of 15" hunger and a altitude of a propos 1" for shrink of wear.
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