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The Earth Child’s Handbook – Yule Volume by Brigid Ashwood

I was lucky enough to receive a review copy of this amazing little book, The Earth Child’s Handbook – Yule Volume by Brigid Ashwood.  This is a little book that she has available on her website for download, and at only $3 it’s a steal!  There are a handfull of good pagan parenting books out there, and this is one book that I would suggest for any pagan parent, especially with smaller children. Read the rest of this entry »

I know I’ve talked about some of the items that my altar still needs… the main thing is the Pentacle tile for blessings.  I’ve been trying to find one to buy, but none have really called out to me.  So my sweetheart suggested I make my own out of tile samples from Lowes or Home Depot.  Well, we didn’t get around to getting any, but one of my students said she had some tiles from her house laying around and would let me have some.  She brought me five!  That would be plenty!  I could make one for the class to use, which would be a simple pentacle with the elements listed at the correct points of the star, and then the others I could make for my personal altar, the boys, and even have one left over to make to give away at the Yule raffle!  So this weekend, that is exactly what I did.  These are the pictures of how they turned out, except for the class one, which is just a basic one, no need to show that one off.  LOL!

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While I was on my “quick trip” to Southern California for Samhain, I picked up my new athame.  I went to The Enchanted Crystal, which is up in Running Springs, CA. and was looking around, mostly for an athame, but well… it’s a New Age store, I”m a pagan, do I really  need to explain why I was in the store?  LOL!  Anyway, I saw this really great “hidden” athame, which looked like a tree but the top branch came out and was an athame.  I looked at the price and it was well within my budget.  AFter about 5 minutes of me staring at the athame, Zenah, the owner of the store, came up and started talking to me about the athame.  She asked me about what other things I had on my altar, and then suggested I look at other athames in the store for comparison.  That’s when she showed me this one!

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Sunday I went a little crazy with a couple of friends of mine.  We drove from Las Vegas to Big Bear to San Bernardino AND RETURNED the same day all to go to a Samhain Ritual by Ecclasia.  We started out from Vegas at about  10:30 am, got to big bear at almost 3pm and then had dinner at 5pm, got to the ritual at 6pm.  Left there and started back up to Big Bear around 9pm.  Finally arrived at home at 2:30 am.  I was exhausted!  But I was also glad we did it.  It’d be a long time since I had gone to a ritual with Ecclasia, so I go to see my High Priestess and Priest and several other friends that I’ve missed.  So that was wonderful!

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Most people consider tomorrow, October 31st, or Sunday November 1st, Samhain.  However, the reality of it is that Samhain doesn’t fall on a specific date.  It falls on an astrological occurance, which is 15 degrees Scorpio.  Which isn’t until November 7th this year.  This is an interesting fact, which I wasn’t aware of until recently.

Samhain (sow’ en) – Major Sabbat, 15 degrees of Scorpio
So, if you’re like me, instead of waiting till next week to celebrate, you’ll be celebrating from tomorrow until next Saturday.  LOL!  I think it’s only proper to have a week long celebration.  I for one will be going to two public Samhain celebrations, the brown cording ritual (which will be on the Full moon on Monday) and I will also be doing a little family celebration as well.  whoohoo!  I love it when I can have continuous celebrations for the holidays, especially my favorite holidays.So what are you going to be doing for Samhain?  Will you be celebrating only on Oct. 31, only Nov 7th, or the entire week?  Let me know what you’ll be doing for Samhain.  Whatever it is, may you have a wonderful, blessed and safe Samhain!

I was going to talk about cords in my last post because I mentioned the boys going through their Brown Cording next week.  Then I realized that if I talked about cords, that post would end up much longer than I really wanted it to be.  So, I figured the best thing to do was dedicate a whole post just to cords.  This is that post.

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So, as you may have noticed (and I do hope someone has, because I’d hate to think I”m the only one coming to my blog.  LOL) the site has been going through some changes.  My wonderful boyfriend bought me Artisteer for my birthday and I’ve been playing with it ever since.  I’ve created several different Wordpress Blog Themes for pagans with it, and will be giving them away for free soon.  In the meantime I’m testing them out here on my blog to see how they look and work and I’ll probably pick one to be “My theme”, which will be the one that won’t be given out to other people.  That’s why I don’t have the themes up for grabs just yet.  If you have a theme idea you’d like to see, leave me a comment and I’ll try to work it out! Read the rest of this entry »

I”m sure you’ve seen it around the other Pagan Blogs, so this shouldn’t be something new to you.  Mrs. B of Confesssions of a Pagan Soccer Mom is having a wonderful giveaway… every day through Halloween!  This is just one of the fabulous giveaways that I’m entering.

This giveaway comes from Spelled with a W! A darling Tarot Card Bag from Spelled with a W made in their workshops by the invisible witch. The bag is made of black linen, fully lined with black silk dupioni & is trimmed with a cotton ribbon that is printed with details of how to draw a maze. Also included are other goodies including herb samples, oil samples, small tins of resin incense and a pair of lodestones and their food.

This is only one of many giveaways that are going on at Mrs. B’s, so head on over there and take a look and enter!

Good Luck!

I was awarded the Triple Awards from Jasmina Radosavac @ MeaCulpa BathandBody.  I just love these awards because it means that people are actually reading my blog and like what they have to see and read here.  So thank you Jasmina, from the bottom of my heart!

Now for the rules and my nominations!

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So Saturday was the full moon and since the boys have been taking the Wicca class that I’m co-teaching, I wanted to do a ritual with them.  But honestly, I’m lazy, and I didn’t give myself very much time to write my own ritual, so I bought one.  Yes, that’s right… I purchased a ritual.    I know, I know, I know…. you’re saying  to yourself, WTF?  You’re not supposed to BUY rituals, you’re supposed to make your own, put your own energy into them, etc.  Yea, well.. sometimes I just like eating Mcdonalds instead of cooking dinner, and this is sorta the same thing.  Although, I wouldn’t compare this ritual to McDonald’s food!  It was much better than that! Read the rest of this entry »