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A is for Abraxas

This is another one of those blogs I wonder if I am smart enough to write.  Or at least write well.  Maybe I will stick to the biography of it all, and worry about the psychology and theology of it...

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Abraxas Part II

 I find the idea of a divine being incorporating all that we humans deem good and evil very satisfying.  Rather than separating the divine into God/Satan, Jesus/Judas, Yahweh/Sophia the combination of...

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The Power to Name

Naming is a power.  Frequently when a person begins a new spiritual path, they take a new name.  Their ability to chose the new name is an emblem of their ability to stand in their own power.  In the...

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Animal Guides and Totems

As I understand it, we all have animal guides who have been with us from before birth.  If that were not so we would never have survived childhood.  Having said that, I acknowledge that guides can come...

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B is for Brigid: A Post for the Pagan Blog Project

The Goddess Brigid is so popular, several of us are writing about her this week.   Here is a snippet of what I have learned. Brigid is a Triple Goddess of the healing wells, poetry and the forge fires...

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Free copies of the Yule Anthology

Pagan Writer's Community is giving away free copies of the Yule Anthology in a drawing Sunday 1/22/12,  Follow this link  to PWC and see how to enter.  I have 2 pieces in this anthology:  an essay...

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Calling on Bast

This week I thought I would share a quick story about Bast, Cat Goddess of Egypt.  Understand that my partner Merlin and I are the crazy cat couple in Wayne County.  We regularly rescue abandoned cats...

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We Are Our Brothers'& Sisters' Keepers

The 2012 US Presidential Election is 80 days away.  The rhetoric is heating up and the meanness comes out.  Much of that we can disregard.  What we cannot look away from is the shallowness of people's...

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Catch the Magic in the Corner of Your Mind

Friday we were baking Yule cookies for an exchange at the Web PATH Center.  Merlin is justifiably famous for his shortbread cookies, the English recipe his family makes every year.  They are...

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Magic and Messages from the Body-Mind

For the past six weeks I have been receiving cranio-sacral therapy (CST) from my massage therapist Shawn Marie Jones.  She is quite good in both modalities. CST works with the fluid flow/cycle or...

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Oh! Hello, Reiki Guides!

Monday 12-10 I had the privilege of being witness to a Reiki II attunement.  Reiki is a hands on healing system which enables the healer to channel energy from the Reiki Guides (read spirits) to the...

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Mad Sad Glad Scared

On December 14th a mentally ill man shot up a Connecticut elementary school killing 20 children, 6 staff after knifing his mother to death at home.  The nation mourns.  The media repeats and repeats...

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Wiccans or Witches?

What is the difference between Wiccans and Witches?  In the US not much.  Wiccan is often a name taken by pagans who find it a softer term than Witch.  They use it with friends and family to ease them...

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March Full Moon Meditation: Blue Boy

Our Wicca I Class lead the full moon rite in March 2013.  Each of them had to write their own calling for the elementals, ancestors or Lord and Lady--that or grab one from a book.  One of the students...

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Past Lives/Future Lives

The Web PATH Center presented a class on reincarnation Saturday 4/13/13. Merlin and I were the teachers.  We hadn't done an experiential class on past life regression in a long time.  AND we were both...

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Sacred Waters

Eric and I have a lovely hot tub.  We indulge every morning sipping our first cup of freshly ground coffee.  Ahhhhhh I am so grateful. Once the coffee is done, we do healing in the hot tub.  First I do...

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A Review of Drinking the 4 Winds by Ross Heaven

Working Under the Influence of Spirit A Review by Dorothy L. Abrams of Drinking the Four Winds: A Shamanic Love Story by Ross HeavenPublished by Moon Books July 2013 I read through this volume...

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Money Money Money!

Is giving money to your pagan group controversial? The Web PATH Center is embarking on a fund raising cycle to pay our bills. We have rented a store front, have utility bills for heat and light, and...

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Free e-book contest

My novella Cawing Crows and Baying Hounds is in a Give Away from Pagan Writer's Press. Go to their blog to enter.  This is a pagan love story that tangles the Gods in the sheets along with the humans....

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Wicca I Registrations

Wicca I 2014 is scheduled. Sign up now!!Registration form: The Web PATH Center classes Wicca I: To Know the Magick Beginning April 12-13 2014 and following April 26-27 Classes run from 9:00 am to...

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I Am You and You are Me

"For most people, the separation between and among Self and Other seems real in this dimension, so real that transcendence beyond the duality of “them and us”  boggles the mind.  Such thoughts draw us...

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My Sainted Grandmother

by Edward Byrne JonesMargaret of EnglandMy 33rd great grandmother was Margaget of the English royal line prior to the Norman invasion of the British Isles. She was born in 1045 in Hungary. Her father...

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Wicca II Registration information from the Web PATH Center

Registration form: The Web PATH Center classes Wicca II: To Will the Magick September 13-14; October 11-12; 25-26.Classes run from 9:00 am to around 5 pm.Wicca II is the Web’s offering to the magical...

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Wicca I at the Web PATH Center 2016

It is that time again. Wicca I is offered at the Web PATH Center Thursday evenings in May and June. You must pre-register. Send your form to The Web PATH Center PO BX 364 Lyons NY 14489 or email them...

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White Light Meditation 2

White Light Healing Meditation 2 You may remember white light meditation 1 took the celestial white light through each body system moving from one to the next nearby, Cardio-vascular system to the...

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