Dear Neophyte,
I LOAD incantations up when I clean the kitty box. I got into it, praying for the eradication of bacteria that is found in most fecal mater. I chanted it for lowered amounts of dust. I prayed for the litter to not cause any adverse health effects to my cats. I blessed it to keep bad odors at bay between scooping.
"Dear Bast,
Bless me with a clean kitty box
Against all odors this litter shall block.
Absorbing the poo smells
And urine that reaks
Level all dust clouds
And giving kitties clean feets.
Kill all the microbes
Leave not a one
Ward my felines from danger
Screw 'harm none"!
I invoke the right to care for my pets
Against kidney stones
And lung disease
And costly trips to the vets.
I ask forgiveness of Mother Earth
For taking her clay
And shrinking Her girth.
I detest the strip mining
That brings me this treat
I love inside kitties
That stay safe with me.
Goddess of Joy
And playfull mirth
Grant us your blessings
As I pour forth this earth.
By our grace
As I will
So shall it be."
~ Sesh Au-Set
Blessings,
Sesh
Thursday, November 18, 2010
Magic Rings
Dear Neophyte,
I've always liked the idea of promise rings and engraved wedding rings. I'll skip what is in the LJ post about wedding rings and their quotes and go strait to the magical use:
The engraving idea got me to thinking that if you used Theban you could write a very, very pretty phrase around the outside of a smooth wedding ring. This is one way of having an inexpensive $20 gold ring from walmart and not have to have a diamond in it. You can also engrave the exact promise into a $20 gold ring (cause that is't allot of money when faced with keeping a promise you had to buy a RING for) and if it were in theban and on the outside of the band, you could read it and no one else would know your promise / vice.
Oh, just though that this could be a whole field of magic if you like. Engraving bands of certain metals with sigils and then wearing it for specific purposes. See... magic and life go hand in hand!
I've always liked the idea of promise rings and engraved wedding rings. I'll skip what is in the LJ post about wedding rings and their quotes and go strait to the magical use:
Oh, just though that this could be a whole field of magic if you like. Engraving bands of certain metals with sigils and then wearing it for specific purposes. See... magic and life go hand in hand!
Also, as I am a Witch, I will probably like to engrave mine with sigils. Included would be keeping the wearer safe, fidelity, tenderness, and health. Last would be for a love that burned consistently like a coal, not a flame that constantly has to be fed and threatens to leave every time a breeze blows into the marriage.
Just an idea :)
Blessings,
Sesh
An Offering of Beauty
Dear Neophyte,
I love the way I look. That being said, I dont wear anything that doesnt flatter me. My clothing is meant to make me look good, my job is not to make the clothing look good. Therefor I give away the items that dont look good on my anymore and only keep the items that do.
Dress up for yourself. Even if you dont think your worth your good china and expensive perfume, then the bank teller does and so does the image of the Gods you stand before. Everyone is a child of the Gods and they are worth your beauty.
You cant be fixated on either inner or outer beauty. By doing so you become devided and cannot be a whole person. You have to love your whole self. We can only ever be happy when we quit giving a damn what others think make us look good and trust ourselves to know what makes us look good. Feeling good on the inside IS looking good on the outside!
"I dont dress up to impress other people. I dress up because it makes me feel good. And dont I look damn good?" ~ Starla
Create a 'secret closet' of sexy clothing that makes you look damn good. Even if you dont wear them except to do the house work when no one is around, you will look every inch a Domestic Goddess. I happen to look good in a black silk brocade mini skirt, toeless pantyhose, strappy stilletos and a butterfly top with flowing wings for sleeves.
This secret closet will only get worn for my Arden. My mate. My all.
Make a list of everything you love about yourself. Every inch of you that is a Goddess. Lavish on the details! Dont leave anything out, right down to skin tone if you like that too! Praise yourself; worship yourself; see yourself, just for a moment, as that spark inside you that is the Goddess. Every day for a week look at this list and look at yourself and add something to it. Just one tiny detail if that's all you can come up with.
When you love yourself so much it spills out then and only then can you offer your truly offer your love to someone else. Only when you are whole and know how to attain that can you hope to help someone else achieve wholeness.
Love yourself. Offer the world your beauty.
Blessings on your Journey to Wholeness,
Sesh
I love the way I look. That being said, I dont wear anything that doesnt flatter me. My clothing is meant to make me look good, my job is not to make the clothing look good. Therefor I give away the items that dont look good on my anymore and only keep the items that do.
Dress up for yourself. Even if you dont think your worth your good china and expensive perfume, then the bank teller does and so does the image of the Gods you stand before. Everyone is a child of the Gods and they are worth your beauty.
"I dont dress up to impress other people. I dress up because it makes me feel good. And dont I look damn good?" ~ Starla
Create a 'secret closet' of sexy clothing that makes you look damn good. Even if you dont wear them except to do the house work when no one is around, you will look every inch a Domestic Goddess. I happen to look good in a black silk brocade mini skirt, toeless pantyhose, strappy stilletos and a butterfly top with flowing wings for sleeves.
This secret closet will only get worn for my Arden. My mate. My all.
Make a list of everything you love about yourself. Every inch of you that is a Goddess. Lavish on the details! Dont leave anything out, right down to skin tone if you like that too! Praise yourself; worship yourself; see yourself, just for a moment, as that spark inside you that is the Goddess. Every day for a week look at this list and look at yourself and add something to it. Just one tiny detail if that's all you can come up with.
When you love yourself so much it spills out then and only then can you offer your truly offer your love to someone else. Only when you are whole and know how to attain that can you hope to help someone else achieve wholeness.
Love yourself. Offer the world your beauty.
Blessings on your Journey to Wholeness,
Sesh
Samhain 2010
Dear Neophyte,
This post is a little late in the making but ah-well :)
This year for Samhain I went to Aarons house. We had two roasts, cornbread, sweet potatoes, deviled eggs and banana bread. Aaron isnt into the whole celebratory thing so we just had a feast and left it at that.
We did go up to Natches trace again. Not leaves this time, but I did gather acorns, black walnuts and hickory nuts! This was such a good thing for me, I felt SO connected to the land and my ancestors.
So what if we didnt dance nekked around a fire? (it threatened to rain the whole time) I had harvested on a harvest festival. How many others can say they did that?? One suggestion though: give each person a bag so they can each go to separate sides of the tree to forage. Otherwise you lose your progress in hunting down who has the bag when your hands and pockets get full.
We spent an hour or two on the portch cracking them open and learned the ins and outs of harvesting the meat of wild nuts. Such as with acorns - crack them *right* before you plan to eat them, otherwise they spoil very quickly! I think this is why they arnt grown commercially.
I enjoyed the hickory nuts though and am letting the walnuts dry more before I crack them. Anyway, had a ton of fun and am officially adding "nut savaging" to my yearly pre-Samhain activities! The resulting fruit will be baked into our Samhain feast like it's suppose to. This makes me feel so good about getting back to the roots of a harvest festival: I harvested this stuff and *that* is why it's on my table.
Next year I should see what I can do about self-harvesting more of what goes onto my table...
Here are some pictures of the nuts we gathered so other peeps know what they look like:
Hickory nuts, on the tree while green and what they look like dried. Hickory wood is popular to cook meat over so if you got a big enough bag you could potentially gather some wood to smoke your feast over or add to the ritual fire.
Black Walnut: This is what it looks like on the ground, or this may have turned solid black and be drying out by the time you find it. Just scrape this part off and the second picture is what is inside. Break this open for the meat.
Acorn: Comes from the Oak tree, which is sacred to just about every sect of Pagan. Defiantly gather some of this wood for your ritual fire or for you workings in the next year! These are so soft they can be cracked by hand if you really wanted to. The ones that are sprouting actually tastes better than the ones that arnt so get the sprouted ones if you can!
Blessings,
Sesh
This post is a little late in the making but ah-well :)
This year for Samhain I went to Aarons house. We had two roasts, cornbread, sweet potatoes, deviled eggs and banana bread. Aaron isnt into the whole celebratory thing so we just had a feast and left it at that.
We did go up to Natches trace again. Not leaves this time, but I did gather acorns, black walnuts and hickory nuts! This was such a good thing for me, I felt SO connected to the land and my ancestors.
So what if we didnt dance nekked around a fire? (it threatened to rain the whole time) I had harvested on a harvest festival. How many others can say they did that?? One suggestion though: give each person a bag so they can each go to separate sides of the tree to forage. Otherwise you lose your progress in hunting down who has the bag when your hands and pockets get full.
We spent an hour or two on the portch cracking them open and learned the ins and outs of harvesting the meat of wild nuts. Such as with acorns - crack them *right* before you plan to eat them, otherwise they spoil very quickly! I think this is why they arnt grown commercially.
I enjoyed the hickory nuts though and am letting the walnuts dry more before I crack them. Anyway, had a ton of fun and am officially adding "nut savaging" to my yearly pre-Samhain activities! The resulting fruit will be baked into our Samhain feast like it's suppose to. This makes me feel so good about getting back to the roots of a harvest festival: I harvested this stuff and *that* is why it's on my table.
Next year I should see what I can do about self-harvesting more of what goes onto my table...
Here are some pictures of the nuts we gathered so other peeps know what they look like:
Hickory nuts, on the tree while green and what they look like dried. Hickory wood is popular to cook meat over so if you got a big enough bag you could potentially gather some wood to smoke your feast over or add to the ritual fire.
Black Walnut: This is what it looks like on the ground, or this may have turned solid black and be drying out by the time you find it. Just scrape this part off and the second picture is what is inside. Break this open for the meat.
Acorn: Comes from the Oak tree, which is sacred to just about every sect of Pagan. Defiantly gather some of this wood for your ritual fire or for you workings in the next year! These are so soft they can be cracked by hand if you really wanted to. The ones that are sprouting actually tastes better than the ones that arnt so get the sprouted ones if you can!
Blessings,
Sesh
Magic Cooking Basics
Dear Neophyte,
Magical cooking takes a few steps to integrate into your routine and habits. Here is a list of ways in which you can get used to seeing the mundane in a magical way.
Bless the water before you cook.
Bless the salt before you add it to your food.
Charge one or two of the herbs you use - but not too many as this will could end badly!
Be aware of what materials your dishes are made out of. Metals have magic properties.
Know what your wooden spoons are made of. Wood has magic properties.
Be mindful of where your food comes from.
Give thanks for your food, taking a moment to visualize blessing all the people who helped get your food to you.
Give thanks to the spirit of the animal who was butchered so you could eat it.
Bless your beverage if it's some kind of tea or juice.
Have the Gods bless your meal and always immediately cut a nice slice of everything and offer it up. I take mine outside and dispose of it in the compost pile.
Be aware of the four elements and how the affect your cooking and even your ability to cook.
Draw symbols and signs over and into your food to bless it.
Make a Kitchen Witch doll to charge and hang into your kitchen.
Use magical herbs you grow in your cooking.
Design an apron with a magical theme to use while cooking.
When blessing meat for consumption, I first ask for forgiveness of the animal that died to bring it to me. I then ask for it’s soul to journey happily to the Spiral and takes it’s place there. I assure the animal that its body is not going to waste and thank it for it’s sacrifice to feed me. If it’s a specific Purpose I have in mind, as I did with the fish mean, I may charge the meat with a purpose. If not, then I continue to the general blessing used for the veggies and every meal.
Remember, if you cook something, bless it and charge it for anything specific, always be thankful that your prayers are answered. Even if it's not the method of answer you expected.
There are more ways to bring magic into your cooking and I'll add them latter as I discover them :)
Blessings,
Sesh
Magical cooking takes a few steps to integrate into your routine and habits. Here is a list of ways in which you can get used to seeing the mundane in a magical way.
Bless the water before you cook.Bless the salt before you add it to your food.
Charge one or two of the herbs you use - but not too many as this will could end badly!
Be aware of what materials your dishes are made out of. Metals have magic properties.
Know what your wooden spoons are made of. Wood has magic properties.
Be mindful of where your food comes from.
Give thanks for your food, taking a moment to visualize blessing all the people who helped get your food to you.
Give thanks to the spirit of the animal who was butchered so you could eat it.
Bless your beverage if it's some kind of tea or juice.
Have the Gods bless your meal and always immediately cut a nice slice of everything and offer it up. I take mine outside and dispose of it in the compost pile.
Be aware of the four elements and how the affect your cooking and even your ability to cook.
Draw symbols and signs over and into your food to bless it.
Make a Kitchen Witch doll to charge and hang into your kitchen.
Use magical herbs you grow in your cooking.
Design an apron with a magical theme to use while cooking.
When blessing meat for consumption, I first ask for forgiveness of the animal that died to bring it to me. I then ask for it’s soul to journey happily to the Spiral and takes it’s place there. I assure the animal that its body is not going to waste and thank it for it’s sacrifice to feed me. If it’s a specific Purpose I have in mind, as I did with the fish mean, I may charge the meat with a purpose. If not, then I continue to the general blessing used for the veggies and every meal.
Remember, if you cook something, bless it and charge it for anything specific, always be thankful that your prayers are answered. Even if it's not the method of answer you expected.
There are more ways to bring magic into your cooking and I'll add them latter as I discover them :)
Blessings,
Sesh
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