Several years ago I went through this class and initiated into Ecclasia (look for their new website soon), a wonderful Wiccan group that I love so much.  My student teacher also lives out here in Vegas and she contacted me recently to see if I wanted to student teach in her class.  Well of course I said YES!!

It’s been a while since I’ve done any rituals or spell work, mostly because the physical world has totally overwhelmed my spiritual world.  I’m really wanting to get back involved in the craft and I’m about to start doing my 2nd degree work in Ecclasia as well.  So this is great for me!

When I have more details I will be posting them for those who are interested in learning more about the class.  I will also be relating some of the things that we’re doing and blogging about some of the fun things going on.  I’m very excited about this!  So stay tuned!

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!

Now for Other Witchy Things:

My two sons are going to be brown cording on Monday.  I’m actually very excited about this.  They are taking a very important step in their spiritual journy and I’m very proud of them.  They are growing up and becoming wonderful young men in the craft.  And much like the rest of their schooling, I am teaching them and guiding them through it!  It almost brings tears to my eyes!

I am also starting another Beginning Wicca class.  This one will start on Nov. 6th and continue through the new year.  It will be on Fridays at 6pm.  If anyone is interested and in the Las Vegas area, please email me for more information.

This Samhain is going to be BUSY for me.  Saturday I need to get my garage cleaned up for the ritual on Monday.  Then the boys are going out to the movies with friends.  Sunday, Kelly, Robi and I are going to be driving out to San Bernardino for the Samhain ritual at Ecclasia and then driving back to Las Vegas right after the ritual.  Then Monday after work is the brown cording ritual.  Then Friday I start my second Beginning Wicca class.  Saturday is the Las Vegas Pagan Pride day AND the Samhain ritual with PWCC!  LOL!  I don’t know when I’m supposed to breath or sleep.  LOL!  But it sounds like fun!

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!

The entire peice stands about 18 inches to the top of the hilt of the dagger.  The dagger comes out of the dragons hand, which makes for a very impressive flare during a ritual.  The blade is dull and is actually a letter opener, but it’s heavy and feels good.  It’s made of stainless steel as well.  The dragon base is, I think, pewter or maybe ceramic.. I don’t know what it is, but it’s cool.  So there it sits on my hearth.  Since the new moon is coming up on Monday, I am doing a cleansing and consecrating ritual this weekend to bless and consecrate my new athame.  Then the next class that has a full moon, we’ll be doing a ritual and I’ll use my new athame in the ritual.  I can’t wait!

I’ve been looking through all my books and online to find a good athame consecration ritual.  There’s alot around, but nothing that really struck me as the right words/actions.  So I’m going to come up with my own.  I know that’s what I should do anyway, but I didn’t want to reinvent the wheel if I didn’t have to.  I’m lazy and pressed for time, so I didn’t want to try to come up with stuff.  But the Goddess wants me to and isn’t letting me get away with being lazy, so fine!  I’ll write my own damn words!  LOL!

Which reminds me of one of my favorite pagan poems ever!

Butt Prints In the Sand ~ Anonymous

One night I had a wondrous dream,
One set of footprints there was seen,
The footprints of the Goddess they were,
But mine were not along the shore.

But then some stranger prints appeared,
and I asked Her, “What have we here?
These prints are large and round and neat,
But much too big to be from feet.”

“My child,” She said in somber tones,
“For miles I carried you alone.
I challenged you to walk in faith,
But you refused and made me wait.”

“You would not learn, you would not grow,
The walk of faith, you would not know,
So I got tired, I got fed up,
And there I dropped you on your butt.

“Because in life, there comes a time
When one must fight, and one must climb,
When one must rise and take a stand,
Or leave their butt prints in the sand.”

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