Kym's House o' Paganism

[Kymbierlee]

I had to come back over here- the think tank is giving me acid indigestion.

In light of what is going on in Iraq currently, and what is probably going to happen when the newly elected government aligns itself with Iran, I am going to post a peace blessing..... This world needs it.

Cast the circle, and call the Goddess/God and Guardians as before.


PEACE RITUAL
Design this ritual to suit your needs.
Choose candle colors that represent the things you seek peace for
(e.g., maybe green and brown for peace on earth).

"From out of the dark and into the light
A circular mark, a candle burns bright.
I look towards the sky...my song do I sing.
Spirits soar high and gifts do I bring.
I offer my all! My mind, I then clear
Hearken my call! I feel you are near!
Candle burns higher; my spirits set free!
Hotter than fire, this magic will be!
Let magic come 'round, from under the ground,
To form with my sound and then, to be bound!
Around me I feel the magic so real,
Before you I kneel.. the spell I now seal!
Let all hatred CEASE! And let there be PEACE!
These words that I say, with magick AWAY!
This spell that I send is now at an end.
Let the magick I've laid, go forth and not fade!
SO MOTE IT BE!"

Above spell courtesy of

www.fortunecity.com/roswell/chaney/191/id89.htm

[Avatar]

A noble sentiment. Lets hope...

--A

[Iryssa]

I need to go to bed pretty quick (1am and I have to be up at 7:30 )...but I wanted to say briefly that I find this thread fascinating...I don't do magick, but I've been enjoying this glimpse into what it's all about *smile* I'll stop in again sometime soon!

Be well, be blessed, "be true."
~Iryssa

[Kymbierlee]

I hope you do Iryssa! I am just back from D.C> tonight, so I haven't put anything new on for a while- but I will be back on over the weekend! I'll keep posting and hoping the spells, information etc helps all of us. Bright Blessing everyone.

[Fist and Faith]

Kym, I'm truly enjoying this thread! Despite different beliefs, your attitudes about so much are the same as mine. Which, obviously, shows just how brilliant you are!

[Avatar]

Truly, The Watch brims over with brilliance.

--A

[Kymbierlee]

Kym, I'm truly enjoying this thread! Despite different beliefs, your attitudes about so much are the same as mine. Which, obviously, shows just how brilliant you are!

Truly, The Watch brims over with brilliance.

--A

Thanks, Fist and Av- I am flattered to be included in such high company!

[Kymbierlee]

Well, I promised Jem that I would try to find a spell to relieve boredom at work, but so far, I can't come up with anything. I thought I'd post this one (courtesy of Eldritch's Crypt), which is a sort of general Have a Good Day Spell. I assume a good day won't be too boring or too busy, so I hope this achieves my intent!

Have a Good Day Spell

You Will Need:
Glass Of Water
A Mirror (wall mirror is ok)
The Spell:
Cast this spell first thing in the morning for best results. The bathroom is probably the best place to work this spell, so lock the door behind you and fill a glass with cold water. To make the spell more powerful, use you magickal chalice.

Stand before the mirror and say quietly to yourself:

"I'm going to have a really good day.
Today everything will go well.
Today is going to be great!"

Place your projective hand (the one you write with) over the glass of water and imagine that you are sending magickal white light into it. This is known as 'charging' a potion.

Now look yourself in the eye in the mirror. Smile and say:

"I take into myself the power of a truly magickal day"

Drink all the water and finish the spell with the words:

"Blessed Be"

Now wash and dress and generally go about preparing for the good day ahead.

[Rowan]

Its such a wonderful surprise to find this thread. Thank you so much Avatar for pointing me here! I almost feel like I have found a group of long lost friends.

I am pagan and have been all my life, but didn't really know it until I was about 30. That is when I discovered Wicca and realized that there were other people who thought the same way I did. My beliefs run more in the Celtic Wiccan path but I love learning and hearing about everyone's spiritual path.

Kymbierlee you have described and explained things just beautifully. You seem to me a gentle and caring spirit and I'm glad to meet you here. I also agree with your assessment of The Shrub. I dislike him as well. He is a Shrub and will always be a Shrub in my mind. Since I am a native Texan, I take the liberty of giving him that moniker as I have seen the legacy of his 'works' here. I hope that doesn't offend anyone. I am just a very outspoken person and sometimes my opinions can be a little strong for some folks.

I have thoroughly enjoyed reading everyone's posts here and I'm looking forward to throwing in my 2 cents worth from time to time. Its always a treat to meet open minded and thoughtful folks. It doesn't happen nearly often enough!

There is a beautiful essay by Selena Fox that I always send people to when they ask me about paganism. It describes our religion/beliefs better than I have seen it described almost anywhere. Its located here.


I am currently working on a web site to display and sell some of my cross stitch designs. Cross stitch is one of my favorite hobbies and it mixes quite well with a computer when you have a good design program. Most of my designs are celtic or pagan. If anyone is interested I'll be happy to post the link here when the site is up and running. Anyone else do needlework or crafts here?

Good to meet you all and looking forward to many good conversations!

[Avatar]

Only a pleasure, I'm glad you found us all right. As you'll have realised, this forum is the place to go if you want to discuss matters spiritual, human or divine. The Think-Tank, which I like to think of as a "sister" forum to The Close, is also here in The Collective, and it's the place to go if you have strongly held political, social, etc. opinions.

We don't often manage to agree with each other on the details, but I think we do pretty well on the principles, and there can't be many places on the Net where people of such diverse opinions can air, share, and defend them in an atmosphere (almost always) calm, and respectful of the differences between us. I hope we'll be seeing you in the Think-Tank as well.

Have fun,

--Avatar

[Kymbierlee]

Rowan- Merry Meet! I am so excited to have another Pagan on The Watch! I saw your name and avatar on another thread a couple of days ago and wondered if there was another Witch amongst us! I followed you link to your web site, but I wasn't sure what it was all about, and was on a work computer, so I didn't stay on the site long. Please feel free to add anything to this thread you would like. I am a solitary eclectic, so I don't offer information about a lot of more traditional paths like Gardnerian, Alexandrian etc. If there's any information you want to throw out there, we'd all be glad to have it. Welcome to the Watch, Sister! Like Avatar said, we have an ongoing and sometimes brutal (not really, but definintely intense) political discussion going in the Think Tank. Hope to see you over there soon- you can join the rest of the Lefties (Wayfreind, Plisskin, ChoChiYo and me, among others.) We need all the help we can get, because the Shrub has several hard core supporters on the Watch! Actually Cail and Brinn are both very intelligent and seem like good guys, but they just don't see Bushco the way we do. Well, MM again and BB! SO glad to have you here.

[SoulQuest1970]

I am thrilled to see this thread! I am a kinda sorta Pagan/Catholic hybrid. I tend to swing toward Shamanism more than Wicca. I was a die hard Catholic most of my life I guess because I had to be thanks to my parents. What started changing things for me was first looking into midwives instead of hospital births after the horror I had with Alex. Then we started going to a UU church in FL. When I had a miscarriage it was the Pagans (mostly Wiccans) that were there for me! I tried the Catholic church (and have still tried at my parents bequest) and have NEVER gotten any support emotional or otherwise. Wiccans brought meals. Wiccans helped prepare the memorial service for my baby. When I got pregnant again, it was Wiccans that celebrated with me. When Sias left us, it was Wiccans that came to my side and helped me around the house and with the kids as well as lent emotional support. I found that very interesting. The most "Christian" people I have ever been blessed to encounter have been Pagans. My sis-in-law is a Catholic shaman. Honestly, her beleifs really aren't very "Catholic", but she is in it for the tradition. I look up to her a lot. I am learning to use totem cards and have had my totem done by sis-in-law. Funny... what came up in my totem was that I am a witch... among other things regarding magic, etc. I wear hematite and rose quartz... in fact my rose quartz I wear is a rune. I use runes and smudgesticks. I have a cauldron, charchoal, herbs, dragonsblood, etc. I burn candles. I have many books like "Drawing Down the Moon." I think that is the name. I would love to learn more. I have some spell books too that were gifts from Pagan friends. I attribute much of my growth and healing of my soul with Paganism and the people I've met in those circles. I think this is going to be a wonderful place to learn more.

[SoulQuest1970]

This is the rune I wear in rose quartz.

Nauthiz: (N: Need.) Delays, restriction. Resistance leading to strength, innovation, need-fire (self-reliance). Distress, confusion, conflict, and the power of will to overcome them. Endurance, survival, determination. A time to exercise patience. Recognition of one's fate. Major self-initiated change. Face your fears. Nauthiz Reversed or Merkstave: Constraint of freedom, distress, toil, drudgery, laxity. Necessity, extremity, want, deprivation, starvation, need, poverty, emotional hunger.

[Rowan]

SoulQuest, you sound like a searcher too. In that we are sisters. I was raised as a Methodist and I loved hearing about God and Jesus, but somehow I just knew it wasn't for me. It just didn't quite fit me. I can remember telling my grandmother when I was ten that I didn't believe in God. I vividly remember her reaction. She was completely shocked and appalled. But I wasn't saying it to be mean or defiant, it was just my 10 year old soul saying that I hadn't found what I was looking for yet.

I tell people now who ask me about Wicca and witchcraft that I didn't find it, it found me. I wonder sometimes how much longer I would have been searching if I hadn't happened to see that book in Hastings of San Angelo, TX so many years ago.

Kym, I too am a solitary eclectic. I use mostly celtic myths and ideals, but there's a lot of other cultures mixed in there. Its always been interesting to me how similar most really ancient religions were, with dieties for similar things such as feminity and childbirth, war, death, and so many other parts of the human experience. For so many people, religion and spirituality seems to separate them from each other, but for me it just seems to show how similar we all are and how much we all search for the same things.

I am feeling a little sad and blue today for some reason that I haven't quite figured out yet. I think I'm a little lonesome. I live alone with my 6 cats inside the house with me and numerous others that I feed on my porch. Typical witch?! My daughter who is 25 who lives nearby with her boyfriend. I have a lot of family in the area, but rarely see them. Working nights puts a bit of a damper on any kind of social life.

I just today finished WGW and started on the new Runes book. I can't read it fast enough, but I don't want it to be over. Its going to be a struggle having to wait for the next book, I can already feel the impatience and anticipation! Go, go, go SRD!

I just got a lot of my books onto some new bookshelves and found a ton of my wicca/paganism books that I had packed away. If ya'll have a particular question or topic, just let me know and I'll do some research and post what info I can find in my books. I have collected quite a library in the last 20 years.

Bright blessings to you all and thank you for making me feel so welcome here. I'm looking forward to lots of good conversations with you.

[Avatar]

A great post Rowan, and remember, you're never completely alone, especially on the Watch.

--A

[[Syl]]

I wonder sometimes how much longer I would have been searching if I hadn't happened to see that book in Hastings of San Angelo, TX so many years ago.

Holy smokes! I've been there. Frequently, even (stationed at Goodfellow AFB for six months). I still have several books that I bought there, like a giant text on shamanism and a book on Socrates, Buddha, and Confucious.

Although I'm not Wiccan, my thoughts mirror a lot of your post.

Was going to go into a spiel about synchronicity, but I have to get back to work. Maybe later.

[Fist and Faith]

Syl, which shamanism book is it? I have several, but none are giant.

Great post, Rowan! What you say about ancient religions makes a lot of sense. I find that taoism is also in most religions. Same reason, I guess - different people/peoples are looking for answers to the same basic questions; questions that all humans have. I guess it's these questions, more than any answers, that make us human.

[Gadget nee Jemcheeta]

Syl, I would like to hear some about synchronicity... it gets mentioned sometimes. Does it have anything to do with coincidence?
I am a big fan of coincidence...

[Kymbierlee]

I, as usual, have very little spare time tonight, but I just wanted to pop in and say Hi to everyone. It is such a delight to see all the activity on this thread! Rowan, SoulQuest, everyone, please feel free to share anything you want here! I am thrilled to be in such company. Will post more tomorrow.
Bright Blessings!
Kym

[Fist and Faith]

I thought you'd be happy, Kym.