Mercury Madness. Sept 14, 2016

Hello Everyone and Bright Blessings, I apologize for not being in here sooner, I have been literally up to my nose in college class work, writing assignments, and Avon business arrangements to the point where I may as well call my laptop a extension of my physical body. As we all have noticed Mercury is in Retrograde for most of this month, and I have had my share of snafus and issues with that. We also had a New Moon solar eclipse on the second of this month and we are due to see a corresponding Full Moon eclipse this Friday the 16th. With mercury Retrograde being smack in the middle of the eclipses things have gone into a tilt a whirl of madness.
As for what I have been doing? In the last two weeks I have finished my semester coursework for my Business Management classes, making "A's" in all three classes by the end of term. I finally published my book " Hearts On Fire" this past Sunday on Sept 11,2016.  Today I went Avon recruiting and customer prospecting, saw 10 people and maybe have myself a new recruit, I will know about that by tomorrow, then when I came home later on today, I finished four 500 word articles for my Crowd Content worker site, and added four more to do tomorrow. Crowd Content has opened up the floodgates to "Team Assignments" of which I am a part of. Which was part of what I asked for when I done the last money spell on Sept 9th. The spell worked like I asked it to, and now I am up to my eyes in work. Ask and ye shall receive!! And again later on this evening, I received a email, and a phone call from The Darkened Path website contact form, I have a clairvoyant meeting with two clients to schedule, so there is some more money coming my way. Yes, I charge a small fee for my services, products, and time spent doing serious magic and ritual workings, there is no wrong or shame in asking for compensation for services rendered. I consider myself a "working witch" and that means that this witch works and earns her way however she can! A skill not used or acted upon in a productive manner is a skill that is worthless. Some pagans and magic workers say this is wrong or against the Rede, however I do not subscribe or follow that path, so therefore I am free to do as I will as long as it harms none.
My relationship status has progressed to "Domestic Partnership" as my partner likes to call it.  My partner is here for a week or so and then goes back to his apartment, as for now we cannot live together, that might change in the coming months, depending on how situations and circumstances turn out. He is in fact on his way here now, and his dinner is waiting in the microwave. He gets to dishes and help me clean the rest of the unfinished chores the rest of the week. I am supposed to be on semester break until October 5th and I seriously want to kick back and enjoy at least a few days of it.
This full moon eclipse we are about to have, is a whopper. Already the energy is speeding up and we still have a week of Retrograde left. I had a few days where my internet was down and not working right, and my phone was acting up for a few days, but aside from that things seem to be going rather smooth. I am going to have to go for now, the Domestic Partner is pulling into the parking lot, and I have to warm up that plate of food, made with love from this witch's hand. You have to feed love, and sometimes that is a plate of actual food. Have a great week everyone and I will return soon!    

What happens when you don't do a time sensitive spell... 7/26/2016.

Hello everyone and Bright Blessings! I hope everyone has had a good start to their week? I just finished week 4 of classwork, and my brain feels somewhat fried! I wanted to come in and share a witch's experience with you all, based on a personal life pattern I have noticed happening in my life for the last little while.
Ok so you all remember that I usually do a particular money spell on the Friday before a full moon right? I had been having great success with this spell and there had been no issues with finding, obtaining, and making bits of money here and there, life was going fairly decent on the financial spectrum of things. Well, for the last couple of months, I have not had the time to do this spell, and when I had time, well I was too busy with other things to get it finished on the right day and time, and I thought to myself,  "Well maybe next time... we will be fine ..."
The result of me just not doing this spell on the right day and time, and failing to keep up with it like I should have? Oh the results are horrid... I started being in debt, I have had my lights shut off twice already, the bills started going behind, I have barely done Avon orders or gotten any customers, a check that was supposed to had come in for July never appeared,and I am having to wait until August to have that reimbursed. My credit card payment for July bounced, and I had to have a late charge applied to my account, and I then had to find a way to pay that. My state assistance benefits were cut in half, when I reapplied, and I lost what was supposed to had been my portion of said benefits, and now my bank account has went into the overdraft hole and the account has been closed out. What was once a steady stream of work for writing assignments, has dried up to near nothing, and we are struggling very hard right now to make everything we have stretch for another two weeks. Right at this current minute I might have a couple of dollars in my wallet, yes my dears the results are a disaster, and I am very stressed over it.
Am I going to be doing this spell come August? Yes you bet your broom I am doing this spell again, and never ever again allowing myself to just not do it or make the time for it. I have learned fully my lesson about what does and does not happen, when you forgo doing what is supposed to be a time sensitive ritual working.  Apparently I seriously made a spirit or a higher power that is connected to that particular spell, very upset with me, and they decided to smack me hard with a string of bad luck and financial crises left and right, until I decide to formally apologize, and make a peace offering.
The next time frame to do the money spell, is August 15th, this date is the "Friday before the full moon" as is indicated on the instructions. I will be clearing my calendar of all activities and doing absolutely nothing, except focusing on clearing up my disastrous financial issues. Maybe the spirits connected to the ritual will be favorable, and show me some forgiveness, and let me have my money mojo back.
I am also going to do a bit of a working after the new moon, that is coming on August 2nd, as I have decided it is in my better interest on a lot of mundane and spiritual levels, to raise some energy and get back on the magic making schedules again. I have not made any oils, done any crafts, or any type of witchy inspired endeavors since about May and well my life seems to be suffering from that. School starts back here on August 1st, so my life will revert back to that academic time frame, and clear up some scheduling snafus that come when you have kids at home and no babysitter. I am going to go for now, and I shall return after the new moon, to update y'all about what is going on. Have a great week and weekend until I see y'all again!

July 17,2016 Capricorn Full Moon Is Coming.

Hello everyone and Bright Blessings, I hope everyone has had a good week? Mine has been busy yet again with college work, as obtaining that AS in Business Management has now become a top priority.  I'm currently on Week 3, and this week I made straight A grades on every assignment, quiz and discussion. Since the last time I was here,  my kittens and even momma kitty are gone, they have found new homes thanks to my D.M. stepping in to help save them from going to the shelter. I have had to recently invest into a carpet shampooer and a new mop, as my mop finally broke after 4 years of use. I have been writing on "Hearts On Fire " a bit, and writing on other work related sites. I recently ordered a Dirt Devil steam mop and a Bisell carpet cleaner, both are well made brands and I spent a good chunk of money, but it will be a worthy investment over time. It should be arriving in the mail in a few days time.For the last couple of weeks, the steamy and stormy July weather has made my sinuses miserable, and I have had to take OTC medicine to ease the tension headaches and swollen sinus membranes under my eyes and around my nose. The lowering of Barometric pressure and the torturous humid weather wrecks my ability to breathe and concentrate. Tennessee is ridiculously humid  nine months of the year, and summertime here is no picnic.
Now onto more interesting matters, Last night we had a Capricorn Full Moon, (Yay for me!) Whatever romantic and business oriented endeavors we started on the Cancer New Moon of this month, will see a culmination on the 19th. Hopefully that will become on a positive note for most of us. Venus has entered the flashy and flamboyant sign of Leo, and we will see fabulous and fantastical displays of love and money being spent on all kinds of lavish and expensive gifts and frivolousness, until August 22nd. Be careful of taking those flashy displays too far, as sometimes there is a dark side to Leo, when their tempers and negative traits decide to come to the surface. Instead of flashy displays of love and admiration, we might see roaring matches and outrageously over the top temper tantrums, if by chance someone is not getting the attention or time they feel they deserve, or if feelings get hurt or trampled on. I personally am not too good with Leo energy, as it grates on my serious and stoic Capricorn nature, and the idea of being lavished with attention and spending too much money sometimes just turns me off, especially if it is presented in a way that makes me feel as if someone " has to" do these things for me, or makes it come across as a pity act. Me spending that money on items for the house, and then the bills being paid with money that  I wished I could have held onto a bit longer, was enough to cause me a slight fit of discomfort, and I probably won't be spending too much more before next month.
I am going to go for the moment, as there is yet another week of classwork waiting on me to get cracking on. I shall return soon, and until then everyone have a great week!

July New Moon 7-4-2016

Hello everyone and Bright Blessings, and Happy Independence Day to those who are celebrating. While I am not allowed to do fireworks where we live at (rules state on the lease), I am sure we will see our share of a good show from the people that live around us. Tonight is a New Moon in Cancer, and areas of relationships of all sorts will be highlighted. This can be either a business or a love relationship that begins, or begins anew, and the 14 days from tonight's New moon will bring us deep into the "all or nothing" relationship zone. We will officially recognize and cement serious relationships, from business mergers to even marriage proposals under the Cancer moon's influence.
I have not had the time to do any spells or any serious ritual work in what is now going on two whole months now...and that has become a huge mistake.  I just recently enrolled into the AS of Business Management course at Virginia College, and this week has been non stop work on the first week of class. I also have not really had any major motivation or a real pull towards getting out the altar supplies or the spell casting materials. I have been going through a magical slump if you'd call it that. I haven't touched my spell bags in over a month, and I even put away all of my spell jars, they are all sitting in a drawer, waiting on me to remember and maybe renew my work with them, and come back to them. I started to feel like nothing I was working on or trying to achieve was gaining me the result or the manifestation that I was aiming for and I became somewhat turned off from trying. So one day in a fit of frustrated annoyance and the feeling of being totally dejected  and "Why do I bother?" and " where is the point?" spurred me into striding  to my room, and I started just taking down all of my jars from the tables, all of my bags from their usual spots, and in a dark drawer they all went.
I am a strong and realistic minded Capricorn, and if for any reason I feel like somehow that I failed, or something isn't giving me the result I am working towards, or I am seriously unsatisfied with something, it usually gets dumped and forgotten about in a fit of angry disgust. I personally cannot stand to feel like something I am working on is not working or is not happening in the way that I intended, especially after I have already put forth a lot of time and effort into it, and especially if it was something that I once felt had a purpose or a meaning to it, that will make me feel like I failed, or that I wasted my time in trying, and the feeling of failure and wasted time and effort, makes me feel despondent and sometimes will make me angry and I will say screw it and chuck it and abandon all interest in it for awhile.
That of course doesn't mean I actually failed, even I know that sometimes spells and magical workings just are not meant to happen, or the timing or the situations surround it, is not ideal for it to manifest, or even that there might be something totally different and perhaps better waiting on me to take notice of that Goddess and God has planned for me. But for right now, well those spell jars and the bags are going to stay in the drawer, until I regain my spark, and go back to being my usual witchy self. Tonight's post probably wasn't so cheerful or full of spark , and I apologize for that, but I really have to go for now. There's another week of college to attend, more work to do, and a witch's work is never done...

Wednesday June 29,2016 Healing the Broken.

Hello everyone and Bright Blessings. Today I am going to start this post with a prayer and Blessing request to the Goddess, in hopes that all who read it will get to have the experience they really and truly need. I have very recently had a not so great experience with a very emotionally and spiritually damaged and hurting person. This person has been through alot of pain, trauma, heartache, and if there is one thing I cannot do, is take back that pain for them or heal their misery, which seems to be both within and without. But the Goddess and God and all Higher Powers can, and this one time I am going to ask that someone upstairs will intervene on this person's behalf, before something worse happens and they find themselves on a path they should well avoid, before it may be too late.... What bothers me the most about the person and situation, is that I saw immediately how it is that they want to keep using their past and everyone and everything around them in their current life as a excuse and a crutch to keep playing the poor victim card to their advantage, in a mad and dangerous ploy to gain power and dominance over themselves and others, which is extremely foolish and just 10 kinds of wrong on all kinds of spiritual and moral levels. I don't know if really there is anything I can do or say to change or redirect them or their situation, and even though God and Goddess brought them into my life, I do not feel it is within my own personal power or will to be anything and anyone they really need me to be, or that I really have what it takes inside myself to bring about what is obviously a much needed change in their perspective and attitude towards themselves and others, and their viewpoints on life in general. I humbly and with reverence, give this situation over to Higher Powers, and ask that they do what I feel I cannot.  

Goddess, please grant those ignorant fools your wisdom and clarity, for they know not of the world in which they live, or the situations they have not yet been through. Grant the deliberately uneducated and the willfully dense, the knowledge and the truth they need to learn, and show them the way, and lead them through a divine experience, that will teach them correctly how to open their eyes, mind and heart, and allow healing, transformation and rebirth to start. Bring them through their horrible darkness and unbearable pain, show them what beauty and grace that lays in your sparkling light, and let them feel and know love, peace, and harmony once again. Banish their anger and bitterness, spite, and jealousy that poisons and sickens their mind , heart, soul and body, and show them the value and worth of themselves and that of the ones they seek to destroy, show them that they cannot hurt anyone or anything but themselves, and it is their own hearts they seek to bury, and they cannot hurt or destroy those that are Blessed by your power and strength, from this day unto eternity, As I have asked so will it be, and I ask that Goddess will favor me and all who come to me.

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June Full Moon 6-20-2016, Modern Day Werewolfism.

Hello everyone and Bright Blessings! It's a full moon again and I strangely felt a need to touch on a topic that I haven't delved into for a good while. What you believe or feel is real or exists in the world is entirely up to you, however I personally have come to the conclusion that just maybe the creature I am about to describe is perhaps not just all myth and fairytales meant to keep keep our children safe and out of the woods.  Are werewolves and similar shape shifting creatures real ? Legends and lore have come from civilizations the world over, spanning thousands of years, about a creature that can voluntary and involuntarily shift from human to animal form, the most popular of the shape shifting species being the much speculated and widely feared and sensationalized werewolf.
I want to get into a modern day perspective and description of shape shifters and the signs and symptoms that accompany said "affliction", seeing as medical science now has decided to term Lycanthropy as supposed mental illness, where one thinks, feels, and believes themselves to be a non human creature that can change it's form and shape.
Anyways.. Here are some signs, symptoms and traits that I personally have spotted among people that exhibit some rather interesting characteristics that symbolize and characterize the classic and modern version of what we all know and have been told is a true werewolf, or shapeshifter. In modern times it is now speculated that there are more animal type shifters than just the werewolf. I will list each trait and symptom in order from classic to perhaps not so recognizable.
Physical traits in modern day werewolves and shapeshifters include: Excess body hair, on the arms, back, face, legs and pubic areas, of which modern day shifters and werewolves strive to keep to a minimum by shaving, waxing, and depilatories.  In men, beards and body hair may grow thickly and shaving, hair cuts, and "landscaping" is a must regularly. In women, well you get the idea, we ladies have to tweeze that extra facial hair, and getting rid of the extra body hair can become a daily chore that must be kept up on or else we look like a cave woman. Hair colors in shapeshifters and werewolves often take a tawny, dark blonde, brown, black and mixed shades of those colors, with eyes coordinating to "coat color" hazel, light shades of blues, and deep brown eyes are common, mixed shades of hazel eye color is usually found in those with sandy blonde or tawny brown hair.Vibrant green or gold eyes and brown or black hair is also not a really common color pattern in modern human genetics.  "Dirty Blonde" and multi shaded hair is also common to see, as wolf coat colors often have mixed shading in the fur. Albinism, red hair, or other odd coat and eye colors are occasionally found but these are considered a rare genetic fluke and in old times, such children were abandoned or worse, disposed of by their parents, as said children were considered a serious genetic and social defect.
Nails and hair may grow rather long very quickly needing regular trimming in males, with females having the ability to grow and maintain luxurious hair and pretty manicures without much issues. Thickness of hair is not a indicator however most do seem to have thicker hair.
Facial features may take on a wolfish appearance, with high cheekbones, straight, slightly slanted brows, a larger and often long shaped nose, a sharp and penetrating gaze,which is hard to look away from, or to keep eye contact with for too long, prominent canine teeth and a strongly set jaw are more pronounced in males than in women. Body types range between tall and sinewy or shorter and slender, with females being on the smaller and more slender side. Most werewolves are not huge, hulking masses of height and flesh. Heavier weight and taller height impedes the quick reflexes and agility of movement and speed associated with lycan movement. Most of them can run, climb, jump and propel their bodies with a natural and fluid grace and agility not usually seen in your average human. A walking werewolf is noted to have a ground eating loping pace, and light on the feet, footfalls are naturally shifted to the balls of the feet, with heels mostly used to propel the body forward, with little to no sound being made with footfalls. Agitated, worked up, or nervous werewolves are prone to pacing if confined or shut up in the house or in a crowded space too long, you will see the occasional twitch or fidgety movements, signalling a strong itch to get up and move about. Being cooped up or having space restricted is not good for their mentality and if not given enough space to move about, a werewolf can get very moody and snappish.
Behavior characteristics in werewolves and shifters are sketchy to define, they can be loud and boisterous or very quiet, reserved, and shy, this is usually determined by astrological birth sign, a high number of werewolves and shifters are born during  fall, winter and late spring months, especially  September, January, February, and then April, May, and occasionally June, this mostly is depending on the time of conception of the child. If you will remember, real life wolf packs, the female goes into estrus during late fall to early winter, and then has the cubs in late spring. This estrus, pregnancy and birth pattern is seen in female werewolves and shifters too. There seems to be a higher number of Alpha type werewolves born than Beta and Omega types.  Nature seems to be a determining factor in this, as if there are alot more Alphas in a smaller territory, there will suddenly be a boom in "cubs" born with less dominant traits to make the balance more equal. The ideal balance is one alpha or a male/female alpha pair to at least ten lower ranking werewolves, this keeps social dynamics amicable and reduces the chances of conflict between packs and loners. Populations of werewolves and shifters are not as huge nowadays, as modern society eschews having children until later in life, and we don't have large families anymore, so therefore most werewolves and shifters you come across now are of the older generations. Seeing a younger "millenial" werewolf is not a common a sight anymore, and most of those are born into families already possessing the werewolf or shifter gene. Populations and groups of werewolves and shifters usually have some type of familial link, and you will see a Alpha pair and their children, and relatives, or a Alpha couple by themselves, sometimes followed by members that have been accepted into a pack or group, and usually even then there is at least one familial tie, however distantly and ancestrally related, as all Werewolves and shifters share common ancestry to begin with.  Genetic research and categorizing is essential in werewolf and shifter packs, as inbreeding is a serious taboo and couples wishing to be together are asked extensively about their families to ensure there is no direct relation anywhere that would be considered a form of incest or inbreeding.
Biological and social makeup of werewolves and shifters is not what it once was, as during the witch hunting crazes many of the original and old bloodlines were decimated. There are non traditional and controversial methods to create shifters and werewolves, and this practice is not usually well tolerated, as forcing a individual to become a werewolf or a shifter via magical or deliberate means is frowned upon. A werewolf can be created via the transfer of saliva through biting, blood tranfer or contact during fights, by unintentional and accidental blood transfusions, or by means of magical transmutation of which the victim is essentially bewitched into the werewolf or shifter state. It is unlikely that werewolfism can be transmitted like a STD via sexual fluids, as werewolfism is not classified as virus or a disease. Wars have broken out and packs have been decimated over the centuries, due to  a few bad apple pure blood radicals trying to eradicate what they consider "impure" or "tainted" werewolves and shifters that are not true biological carriers of the gene, but were unfortunately created by other means. I say "unfortunate" as most werewolves and shifters that were purposely created or deliberately caused to have the condition are usually not willing or knowing participants. It is seen as a curse and a burden to not have a will or say over your own body and to be forced into a shape and form that was never meant to be yours to begin with. Some cannot adjust or handle the extremity of the changes in their mind and body, and occasionally you see a wild card werewolf or shifter that has essentially become a feral monster that cannot control themselves and that is a danger to any society. Their minds have snapped and broken down and the beast inside has total control, this is where extreme violent murders, twisted sadistic/masochistic actions and psychopathic tendencies crop up in society. In a realistic idealism, these rouge and feral werewolves and shifters are a danger to themselves and others and measures really must be taken to either keep them in line, or worse case scenario, dispose of them entirely. A wild and totally feral werewolf or shifter is a ticking time bomb that has a extremely short fuse,and little self control, that can be provoked at the slightest prodding.
Forcefully created and deliberately changed shifters and werewolves have a harsh and cruel stigma attached to them as being outcasts, impure, unclean, tainted, and what have you, and many of them are loners and social outcasts even among their own kind. This may seem to be prejudiced and perhaps a bit racist if you wanted to view it that way, and it can be made into that type of mentality among the few old bloodlines that carry true genetics and authentic bloodlines. There are a few of these elitist fools that still live and exist in modern society, and they make no bones about expressing their displeasure and anger against those that are not "Pureblood," and occasionally you see and hear about violent and bloody civil war like skirmishes among werewolves and shifters, about whose pack is superior or more dominant by either blood lines, social status or rank. It is the nature of Alpha run societies and groups to have dominion and control over their packs, territories and other rivals. Werewolf and Shifter social dynamics run on the basic principle of survival of the strongest and the fittest. This ensures that strong bloodlines and strong genetics, and even the few that have proven they are worthy of the title werewolf or shifter, to survive and thrive.  There is little room for weaknesses of any kind in werewolf or shifter packs and if you are not pulling your weight or if you constantly cause drama, upsets, and issues then you will find yourself ousted and branded a outcast, traitor, or worse, marked for death.
Dynamics inside the pack or group of werewolves and shifters is a organized and strictly enforced code of conduct, ethics and morals that are enforced regularly. There is one dominant male, female, or male/female Alpha pair, followed by a Beta male, female, or pair, and a few or several Omegas that range from third in line to the bottom ranks. There is no break or leniency in this chain of dominance and command unless stated by Alpha(s). The Alpha and Betas are the pairs that are allowed to have children first, and to form mated bonds, Omegas may do so with permission. You will never see a Alpha male or female pick a Omega as a mate or parent to children unless it is seen or observed that said Omega has leadership or other approved qualities that will benefit the pack if he/she were to step up in ranks. Leadership qualifications and personality traits are essential traits needed to lead a pack and both partners must possess  very similar traits to form a successful and equally matched pair.  Loners and mated pairs of werewolves and shifters sometimes break away from the pack and join other packs or go off alone, this is acceptable so long as they have permission from their Alpha(s) and they are not causing trouble or problems for themselves or others. All loners and mated pairs are documented and how many children they have is carefully observed from afar, to ensure there is no risks of inbreeding, seeing as there are so few actual Pureblood werewolves left, it would be a disaster if a child was born to parents that were related and came from different packs and it was not noted or paid any mind to.
I will continue this post when I have more time and when I have my notes and information gathered. At th moment we are suffering a slight crises in home related affairs and I am borrowing a neighbor's wifi and computer. Blessed Be to all and I shall return very soon.

June Full Moon, coming 6-20-2016

Hey everyone and Bright Blessings. I finally got a minute to get back in here and update on what's been happening at chateau Capricorn. My daughter is here for vacation, she came in on the 10th, I have been mad busy with Avon and my writing work, and most recently, I have met a new guy friend. I say " Friend" for the moment, as we are not "officially" dating or in any serious relationship yet. It's all in the developmental stages, and I only just met him a couple of weeks ago. We both have very different lives and are at different developmental stages of our lives in general. I'm a single, working, head of household, parent, he don't have kids and just has himself and his own life to worry about, I'm older, he is younger... as I said..we are at different social, economic, and personal stages in our lives, and  we are both testing the dating waters to see just how well that we will be able to get along and be able to co-exist, or not...how deep will those waters really get..? Can two very similar Capricorns make it or break it? Well time will tell...
My kittens are now a month old, and now there is Ranger, Caramel, Oreo, and Buffy. they have graduated from the nursing box and have taken over my bedroom, and they are fat, happy, and very precious. It's going to hurt when I have to give them up, seeing as I have committed and invested a lot of time and resources in making sure they have been well taken care of and loved. Two weeks from now I will be scouting for suitable homes, as they definitely are not going to just any home and to just anyone.    
I haven't had the time to do any spell or ritual work aside from the last money spell I mentioned in the last post. Life has taken a interesting and quite busy turn and it shows no signs of slowing down. Two Gemini kids,a new romantic interest , 6 cats, work, household stuff, and a new 2 year college application process, and taking on the rest of the world, is not a easy venture..but we Capricorns will succeed and we shall conquer! I applied to Virginia College in Knoxville recently, for their Business Management course, and that is still in the approval process, I need financial aide to the max, and the flexibility of online courses. There are several job opportunities in my area for management and assistant management, however they mostly require a degree of some kind, or else they will not hire me. Owning and operating a Avon business actually gives me a slight edge, as we are responsible for the entire management of everything in our business venture, down to the nitty gritty, except for the details that require that the current District Manager to handle or perhaps even Corporate Operations.

We have a Full Moon in Sagittarius coming on June 20,2016. some of us will perhaps struggle with seeing a situation for what it really is, rather than what we want to fantasize it could be. Neptune and Saturn will square off a bit, with Saturn bringing us down to a realistic and earthy mind set, so Neptune doesn't distract us or carry us away with fantastical fantasies and unrealistic dreams and goals. Dreams and fantasies are important, but how much work and effort you put into making those dream and fantasies a actual concrete reality, and maintaining a realistic goal that is achievable during this time is what is more important. Saturn is the taskmaster and the workaholic, that will drive us to make those Neptune inspired dreams a reality, and will provide us with some very stern Capricorn energy to work with, and show us where our dreams need to get real or perhaps even be discarded in favor of a more grounded and realistic approach. Don't get so caught up in some fuzzy dream state that you push aside the facts and get lost in dreamland when you should be working. Launch yourself in the stratosphere, but make sure to keep contact with ground control, so nothing is lost in transition and translation.  These planetary aspects apply to all matters of work, love, and home life relations.     Don't get caught up in some rose colored scenario of love, only to find that Mr. or Ms. Dreamy and Perfect, is perhaps not exactly what you hoped they would be, or get mired up in a huge head in the clouds work project that you just cannot pull off. People are often not as they appear to be, and everyone has a side to themselves that they don't show to the world. Life is not a bed of sweet smelling rose petals, there also will be thorns on those roses sometimes. I am going to teleport out of here for a bit, there's work to do and the Witch's work is never done! Have  great week everyone, and I shall return soon!        

Update on May Full Moon, Saturday 5-21-2016

Hello everyone and Bright Blessings. How was everyone's Full Moon? Mine went pretty well, I done my monthly money spell on Friday, as per instructions, and I have already seen a few blips of good things to do with parts of the request I made. Last night I finally got a writing break on a work site that I had been not getting a lot of good leads on, and now I am looking forward to seeing a extra deposit in the bank come this Friday! I have seen a few other signs that my finances will be looking brighter soon, so let's hope that follows through as well. I'm gonna burn that "Rain Money and Luck" 7 day candle, for several hours a day,and burn one " Money Blessing" incense everyday until Friday!
My smaller and more wearable green money bag, is sitting on my computer desk, and I will say that seems to be having a influence on my sudden spurt of work that I have been doing online. On Sunday the 29th, I am supposed to be going to a music outing, and you can just bet I am gonna be carrying that bag, and wearing my Avon Representative name tag, who says you can't mingle and promote yourself at the same time?  
My kittens are two weeks old now,their eyes are open a bit, and they are fat, toddling, and melt- your- heart adorable. The orange one seems to have the loudest mouth and he /she is not afraid to fuss and carry on at the slightest disturbance. I have been trying to not really name them because they are not staying with me, but I tend to call the orange and white one " Carmel" because it reminds me of those 50 cent bags cream filled caramel candies. The black and white one got called "Oreo" because he /she is almost all black except for his/her belly and feet. Tabby and white and the solid orange don't yet have names but I am sure I'll think of something. I am not 100% positive yet but, two of kittens just might be long haired, or slightly fluffy. Sugar Momma is a excellent mother and never strays far from the closet, except to get a food break and a nap. I go check on them twice a day and hold them a minute and talk to them, and then Momma wants them back and says"OK that's enough for now." I plan to have her spayed, or let the ASPCA do it because she is still thin and needs to just not have anymore babies. One litter was enough to seriously impact her weight and health, and she seriously needs to gain extra weight. I was feeding the babies she was carrying and none of that went to her at all. This is going to be a bit short of a post, I still have articles to write, and they have a deadline on them. I will return soon and update on anything else that transpires. Have a great rest of the week!

Tiny Blessings

Hello everyone and Bright Blessings! Remember awhile back I mentioned I found a stray female cat? Her name is Sugar Momma and she has now been with us for a month, As of midnight on Wednesday May 11,2016 she is now the proud mother to four sweet little bundles of love. She done a fantastic job during labor and the babies are healthy and there is one black and white tuxedo, one brown tabby, one orange and white, and one solid orange, and they were born in that color order. Momma is quite comfortable with me coming in there to check on her, and does not seem too bothered with allowing me to examine and touch the babies. Of course I will not be handling them too much yet as they are only 3 days old, but I have to occasionally do my own checking to see if they are in fact healthy and thriving, and to see that my first time mother is really holding up well. Smokey is the anxious and curious new step dad, awaiting that bedroom door to open so he can finally go see what is really happening in the closet. He isn't the father to the babies, but he has literally been haunting that closed door all week now begging me to open it so he can go in. He is not allowed in there while Momma isn't around until the babies are older, I do not yet know what his reaction would be to small kittens. I have seen and heard of my share of unpleasant and horrid male cat encounters with newborns. To we humans, the idea that a male would purposely dispose of newborns in such a way is disturbing and gruesome, but to a animal sometimes that is survival of a species and a means to carry on genetic material. I really don't believe Smokey would harm the babies but for all I know I could be very wrong.
There has not been much else too exciting happen in the last couple of weeks, seeing as so many planets are still in retrograde, life has slowed down to a near crawl. I have not received any Avon orders, communications and things to do with that have become about dead.The programmers for the representative site picked a really bad time to update the entire system, because it resulted in a huge snafu with how the site works and of course they picked the worst time to do a overhaul of the website we need to do business and process orders with! Never ever do any tech stuff or mess with electronic anything during a Mercury Retrograde! That includes launching a new and updated website!
I have had some interesting dreams lately about people from my immediate past, whether or not they foretell anything that is to happen or what messages and information I will end up hearing or finding out about later, well we shall see. I plan to be doing some working for the Full Moon that's coming on the 21st. I am hoping I can get a bit of magical favor,as I do my usual money spells, and get myself out of the sales and communication rut I have been in for awhile now. I have already gone two sales campaigns with no orders and no sales and that is bad for my business! If four campaigns go by with no activity on my account it will be closed and I will end up having to reinstate myself and that is not something I want!  I cannot allow my success to go down the drain and my business to  crash and burn, especially when I was recently doing very well. This is going to be a shorter post, and I apologize for the lack of interesting reading material. Life and business will pick up by a good pace after the Full Moon, and I will definitley have something for you all to read about by then! Have a Blessed week everyone!

Philosophical Musings; May 10, 2016

Hello Everyone and Bright Blessings I'm in the mood to be philosophical there are things on my mind I need to express...Now.. when you do someone wrong, or have caused a situation that deliberately brings them harm or grief in any way, it will come back to you repeatedly and bite you hard on the behind, in all kinds of ways, until you go back to said person and fix it and make it right. Sometimes "I'm sorry" just isn't enough.You have to go back and actually make a effort to amend the wrong in what is considered a amendable and acceptable way so that peace and balance will be restored to yourself and others. Goddess and God and Higher Powers will rain all manner of pains, heartaches, problems, and issues on your life until you go back to that one person  or situation and make the wrongs you did right, and nothing in your life will go well until you do. Everyone wonders when how and why,that it is they have strings of bad luck, they lose people that mean something to them, or that their life and everything in it has been going to Hades in a cracker box? Well when you treat people like crap, hurt and abuse what and who that loves you for your own selfish and self centered ideas and motives, lie, cheat, steal, or what have you, well expect to have the same happen to you over and over until you decide that just maybe you need to find out when that started happening to you, and what you need to be doing to rectify that... 
When you speak the truth that you know it to be, and you know in your heart that you're right, there's gonna be people that hate you, get angry, refuse to speak to you, or even leave you and not come back. Why? Because the truth they don't want to see, hear, acknowledge or face, about themselves or about you and them, is too hard. They are scared to face facts, and even if they know what you said or shown to them was the truth and you were right, well they don't like that or want to accept that from another person. It doesn't matter what nail of theirs it was you happened to hit on the head, if they are not secure enough in themselves to accept that you were right, well you're gonna see and hear resistance, they will fight with you to their last breath, they will shut you out, refuse to speak, not come and see you, and a lot worse. But at the end of the day, they are the ones that have to look at themselves in the mirror, and see their reality for what it is. The truth is gonna eventually mule kick them straight in the face and they wont be able to hide from it anymore, and what they decide to eventually do about that is on them. The sad part is that usually their lives have to be falling apart around their head and all kinds of hell has to be going on before they even see anything, but again if that is what it takes for them to wake up then that is what will have to be....
Just when you start to believe you will never hear from or see a special someone again, look for signs that reveal they are still with you, and they will appear, sometimes when you very least expect it or just when you're about to give up hoping. Often things will happen in a sequence of events over a given time frame, you'll see or hear their name, or some another sign will present itself, often from a source that you'd last expect, or something that strongly reminds you of them will just materialize from nowhere, you might even find yourself following a path that leads you right to them. This is not some random happenstance, it is meant to be that way. What is shall be and what is meant to be shall be, and what will be done, shall be done. If you question or deny it then proof will present itself and sometimes it will mule kick you right in the face and flip your life on its head but if that is what it takes then so be it.

May New Noon, 5-5-2016

Hello everyone and Bright Blessings. I hope everyone is doing well, and this Mercury retrograde is not adversely affecting your lives too much? The New Moon is tomorrow night, and I personally hope it brings some much needed changes for all of us. I have to say that the retrogrades of what is now 5 planets are strongly affecting my life in some pretty heavy ways both emotionally and otherwise. This Mercury retrograde has been intense and rattling for me in ways that make me feel very emotionally and spiritually frazzled. I have found myself looking back at past things regarding the relationships of others that were once in my life, and wondering if those things do or do not somehow apply to the here and now, as it very much seems as if certain people and situations that are currently in my life, resonate and mirror the past in ways that have come across as painfully uncomfortable and yet very intriguing to me. It is like watching some kind of warped replay of history repeat itself, except with different people and it's a different lifetime. This has it's purpose, as you are looking back at certain things, and asking yourself "Do I want to go through this again, or be in a situation like that, or do the same things as they once did?" and " Is this really why things are happening like they are now, and what do I need to understand and learn exactly, so I and others do not repeat the same scenario and pattern?"  Then you have to make a choice, to either change the situation in a permanent way so that you and others do no repeat that warped history, or you just walk away entirely and go on with yourself and just leave it all behind, and close that book forever. The question being is which is the right choice? Do you walk away before it's too late or do you step up and try to to alter or change what appears to be a predestined or predetermined future? How would the changes you make ultimately affect the future between you and another person? Have I made some choices that were really right and for the betterment of myself and others?
Right now those questions do not have very clear answers at the moment, and that is what I have been trying to find out. I have made some recent choices and actions, and I was made to believe then that those actions and decisions would eventually be good for myself and for another person, and now I am looking back, and seriously questioning myself about what if I was wrong, and why suddenly do I feel remorse and guilt over it now? Logical reason says that I know that I did make what was a right or better choice, however what my heart says speaks of remorse, regret,and guilt, and just maybe I did not make the right choice or decision, and now I am struggling with the concept of what must I now do to either rectify or change it, or can I even change it at all? The only reason you are really supposed to go back to the past, is to learn something, and to reflect on what you must do in the here and now, to avoid mistakes and disasters that you saw from others in their past lives, and do not allow those situations to impact what you do in the future. but what if the past will never be just the past, and you will never fully get to just let it go or leave it behind and what if a person or a situation from the past is also meant to be part of your life forever, and no matter what choices you decide to make, that this is what it will be and how it was meant to happen regardless?
I know you are asking what spurred this wave of thought from me. Well some time ago, a person from the immediate past once said in regards to my friendship with another..." It doesn't matter what kind of good she does or what kind of good person she is, it will always lead her and you to a bad end." I wonder if perhaps this person was talking more about themselves and their own lives, rather than anything to really do between myself and another person. It is easier to project oneself on others so we don't have to look at our own problems and mistakes, and there are people that choose to be deliberately blind, ignorant and in total denial about people and situations and they refuse to really see things for what it really is and instead they want to go around and ruin other's happiness when what they should be doing is looking in the mirror and seeing the truths about their own problems and fixing things on their end.
Did I walk away from someone because I wanted to? No I didn't, I wasn't exactly given a say or a choice or any way around it. every part of my heart and soul was begging me and screeching at me that walking away was ten kinds of wrong, and it was not something I needed to do or that I should be doing, and it was really going to hurt me and them too, and possibly cause non repairable damage. At the time it really did seem to be that people, situations, and circumstances all around us were seriously conspiring and doing everything in their power to just drive me and the other person apart, and keeping us miserable and unhappy, by any means possible, and the situation was not ever going to be any different until I finally gave in and just left for good. It seemed that it was more about others' selfish and self centered immature, childish and ill intentions, their personal needs and wants and malicious and destructive agendas than it was about what was really best for me and someone else.
Whether that is really the truth or not, I may never know for sure, but I do know this much, it is not within any human's power to force two consenting adult people that have any form of love for each other to separate, or to be apart, or to cause constant stress, drama, and heartache between them until they split apart. You are not a form of God or Goddess or Higher Power and it was never your right or privilege to destroy or undermine something that had every right and reason to exist, and did it ever occur to you at all that myself and the other person were actually meant to be in each other's lives? The why and how and the reasons of that is not for you to understand or to know the reason for and it does not have to make logical or clear sense, and it surely was never your right or place to judge, or have any say over. Whatsoever it is that God and Goddess wills to be, shall be done, and there will be nothing that you as a human will ever be able to say or do will change that. What is meant to be, shall be, and what is meant to be done, will be done. that is the Will of God, Goddess and Higher Powers. Two people that are meant to be on the same path together, will always find some way to be on that path, regardless of what you or anyone else has to say, what you attempt to do, or how you choose to try and destroy that, it will be the same result in the end, and things will ultimately be as they are meant to be, and nothing you as a human will ever do or say will change that. The only thing you are going to do by trying to go against Divine Will is to hurt yourself worse in the end. So when your life and everything in it falls apart, and you are constantly hurting and miserable and having a hundred things going wrong at once and nothing goes right for you, remember that you brought that Karma and Retribution on yourself because you went and tried to have power, control, and dominance, and place and a will and say over something you never should have stuck your nose in to begin with. As God And Goddess Wills It, So Mote It Be!

April Full Moon Update 4-30-2016

Hello Everyone and Bright Blessings! I wanted to update on what has happened since the Full Moon, Wednesday I went out customer hunting and recruiting for Representative for my Avon business,and I had a huge success. So far I have 16 potential new customer contacts, a new Representative sign up, and a couple more that may be interested in becoming Representatives. I'm gonna spend the rest of the week on the phone! I am positive that part of my success was because I took my Money Drawing charm bags with me, and dabbed myself in some of my handmade oil before I left the house! A little magic and some good sales and recruiting tactics made for a great day on the job!

However I am feeling the effects of the retrograde that just started a couple of days ago, already I am seeing communication breakdowns, with friends, customers, and the last three jobs I have applied to haven't yielded positive results either, so it's sit and wait it out until May 22nd when the retrograde ends. I have had to reschedule my two known Representative meetings until this coming Tuesday, that does not do my business any good! Recently I guess I broke things off with a guy I was somewhat trying to establish some kind of relationship with. He ended things with a cruel and painful " We aren't friends and we never were. It's best we go back to not speaking, delete my number and I'll do the same" Instead of being a bigger man and accepting that I wasn't attracted to him that way, he got really angry and lashed out at me instead, which got him his head bit off and spat back at him in return. What started this whole downward spiral with him? Well we aren't physically compatible, and instead of him acknowledging or even trying to accept that fact, and being a bigger man about it, he just kept pushing, and honestly acting like a total ass because I turned him down. If I don't feel any spark of anything with you, well pushing me into it isn't going to get you anywhere either except to really make me mad depending on how shitty it is you keep acting. Something about what he said to me sparked a huge surge of doubt and insecurity within myself, about how many real friends do I really have, and how many people do I really have in my life that actually and honestly care about me as much as they say they do?
I keep having dreams of people from the past, and about a couple of ones in particular, trying to decipher the real meanings behind the why of that, and what it all means has my mind and insides upside down too. I am personally hoping the rest of the retrograde isn't like this because I am personally in for a hard ride if it continues to be so. Right now I really do feel like the world and everything in it is having a great time trying to kick me where it hurts the most.
Earlier I chewed a bit of white sage and mugwort, while asking Higher Powers for cleansing and clarity from the inside out. It gives a pleasant and relaxed sensation, and I at least feel lighter inside. It is good to try an clear emotional heaviness from yourself so you can think and feel things like you should instead of what everyone else wants you to think and feel.Us Empaths have to be very careful about picking up and carrying other's emotional baggage, and having others projecting their own crap on us so they don't have to deal with it themselves. As we all know, Beltane is tomorrow, and everyone that I know is celebrating the long awaited holiday. I am not sure yet if I want to celebrate, maybe tomorrow I will feel better inside and I will endeavor to get back to my usual witchy self. for now my lovelies I am going to call it a night, and go write in my journals about the things I have seen and dealt with this week. Writing is both my passion and my form of therapy, I can process and let out emotions, thoughts and feelings on paper that I could never say out loud  or express to others. Everyon have a Blessed Bealtane, and I will return witht he New Moon, coming May 6th....

April 22, 2016 Full Moon.

Hello everyone and Bright Blessings. How is everyone's Full moon in Scorpio going so far? Feeling some deep emotions and processing some deep inner workings aren't we? The theme for this Full Moon period, until the New Moon, is reconciling and forgiving old hurts, and doing some strong processing and purging of things that no longer serve our lives, mentally, physically, and spiritually. Pining away for that lover that is long gone or the one that got away? Perhaps either attempt a reconciliation with this person, to see if there anything left to rekindle or build back up, or resolve to let them go, go and talk to or go and see them even if it is just to gain acceptance that you and them need to move on and go with the flow of life. If couples have recently split, now is the time to process that let down or disappointment, and move on to better and brighter things. Nursing a old grudge or still brooding over a burned trust issue from ages ago? This will be time to clear it away and release it from your life and be free of it. Keeping that stiff upper lip, giving the silent treatment, or refusing to acknowledge that things are not going too great,will solve nothing, except to only bury those deep and dark feelings deeper where they will fester. This Full Moon, our emotions are a wildly careening roller coaster ride through high and low, and we are anything but grounded. We might encounter serious volcanic eruptions of emotions, or just break down in floods of a much needed crying jag, which ends up becoming like a dam with a crack that bursts free and floods out, providing that much needed release that we have been needing for awhile now. There are a whopping 4 planets in retrograde, and Mercury is about to be number 5 to go retrograde really soon, from April 28th until May 22nd, so we will go from eruptions of emotional release and some deep processing, to possibly not speaking or communicating very well. On top of what is already slowed down, Mercury will slow it down even further, this is the time that we reassess our lives and everything in it, to examine what needs to go and who needs to stay, and go back and fix sloppy work, mend previously broken or suffering relationships, and go redo projects of all kinds that were left half finished.
Even I have felt some let downs frustrations, and have been examining some things from the past, and I have seen several people that I have had past issues and problems with, just suddenly enter my life again, and even though I am somewhat not too thrilled about that, well obviously there is a reason for that. The last couple of days have been hard, I discovered my light bill  had not been paid, and then my power was shut off just recently. I will get into that later, it's a complicated story best saved for another time. I got my power back on yesterday. I missed going out to do my Avon work that day too, because I was too busy trying to fix my home related disaster. Today I missed a chance to go out and do something else, because well my worn out body decided it needed sleep a lot more and I turned off the phone! I have not gotten the two jobs that I recently applied for, and that maybe just as well too. I had a appointment set up to go to a college and talk to admissions, and well I guess I am not going to that either, as no one is available for a ride there, even with the offer of gas being paid! My life lately has become a complicated story of " two steps forward and ten back",and I have to say it is becoming quite aggravating!
This weekend we will see some interesting synchronicity being played out between people, events and situations that correlates to the Full Moon, you might be thinking about a special someone and receive a call from them, or have a dream that comes true, or hear several people mention a particular phrase over the course of a day's time. Pay attention and look where that leads you, for repeating signs often point to something we need to understand and learn, or a situation we need to investigate further. Last night I did my usual spell work, but his time I added in some "reconciliation" petitions and a unblocking element to the working. My St Martha petition and my Money Drawing petition seemed to be most favored, as those candles burnt brightly and quickly. the St Holy Death candle was slow and that was probably mostly because of that candle being bigger, and requiring more time to burn. We will see what happens I suppose, and how things go over the next two weeks,  I'm gonna go for now, like always there is work to be done, an the Witch's work is never done! Have a Blessed day and I will return soon!  

April 7th New Moon Update

Hello Everyone and Bright Blessings. How was everyone's New Moon?  I apologize for not bieng back sooner, I have been up to my eyes in Avon work, and just today I published a new book. " The Darkened Path: Beyond The Veil"  is my newest work in The Darkened Path Series, it is currently available in printed and Kindle versions. My New Moon period went ok. I did my usual spell work and charged up my bags. The night was windy so I had to be careful of the burning candles. It has been made aware to me that a particular pattern between myself and a lot of other people keeps coming back around and the situations at their essential cores are still the same, however there are some challenging and potentially problematic aspects that have now come into the picture. When people and their situations keep returning to your life in some form or another, you have to look at the patterns and the situations that come from those patterns and figure out what you are either  meant to see and learn from them, or how it is that the situations and the people involved need to change, be reconciled, a resolution needs to come about, or it may be that the entire situation and the people involved need to be just gotten rid of entirely so that new things can come along. In my experience, when people and situations from the past keep coming up or making themselves known, there is always something to be learned or something that needs to be changed about it so that there is a final resolution, a reconciliation, or a end needs to be put to it all for good.
Of course when you think something has ended, there always seems to be someone or something has to come along and attempt to revive it again, that agitator seems to always be the catalyst that shakes up a lot of unresolved issues in their wake. In my personal case, there is a narcissistic monster that just refuses to give up  and just will not shut up. I now get a weekly letter filled with all sorts of sneering, passive aggressive, acidic put downs and laughable sugarcoated threats about what will or will not happen to me if I do not respond and the constant "Where would you be without me?" types of ideas is getting to the point to where it is quite obsessive and nearly a form of stalking.
What will happen to me? Absolutely nothing. Because they have no say, will, or power over me or anything or anyone to do with  my life in any way, shape, or form. That idea is quite literally eating a hole into their insane twisted little mind and it is driving them to the point of having a mental stroke because they cannot call, text, or come over here to force themselves onto our lives. I could fire back a letter of my own, loaded with enough verbal TNT to make a nuclear blast look like a sparkler, but that is above me, and I don't feel like wasting paper and printer ink just to type it out and then waste a perfectly good stamp and envelope just to send it to someone that doesn't deserve my words, a second of my time, or even a speck of my acknowledgement. I know what kind of person I am and where I am now, and it is because of what I myself have done to get me there,I am going to have to go for now, I will update again soon, and not take as long this next time, Blessed Be to All!

Eclipse Update 4-2-2016

Hello everyone and Bright blessings. How has everyone been doing since I was here last? I have to say that events have been up and down and inside out this past week. First I went to that meeting with the Avon client I mentioned, and she never showed up, after I had spent all morning getting ready and I almost didn't even get get a ride there to meet her, she bailed and never has called me back. Being let down and disappointed in front of my District Manager, who was good enough to come and get me,was extremely embarrassing and awkward.That event seemed to set off a avalanche of ill luck... most of customers have not placed orders, the newer customer leads don't answer the phone, a couple of days ago I am 100% positive that I was lost a customer, because of someone else running their mouth about what kind of person I supposedly am, and I all but caught them in the act, even though I didn't hear the words, well I had a strong suspicion that I was the subject of conversation if body language and general gut feelings were correct. You know how that is, you walk past someone and you just KNOW they were just talking about you? I do not appreciate the other person sabotaging my business or trying to undermine my reputation that way because they cant take "NO" for an answer and they decide to be a spiteful person and retaliate in such a immature and childish way just because they didn't get what they wanted from me.. I felt it was rather obvious about why it was that my customer decided to suddenly not place a order the next day when I called her. Just today I discovered my bank account is overdrawn by nearly $50.00 because of a bill that was automatically paid. so the customers that have placed orders have to wait until they can pay me, so I can put money in the bank, and pay for their orders. Nope this has not been my week. A uncrossing and road opening spell sounds like a very good idea right now!
There' a bright spot in my troubles, I have payments coming in for previous orders very soon, so that might salvage my recent bout of seemingly bad luck. I have finally as of today, gotten all of my exams done and I can finally receive my Natural Health Consultation certificate. I currently have a 96% grade average which qualifies me to receive a Highest Honors certificate. On Friday April 1st I had a job interview in Jefferson City. and if I am really lucky I will have a new job soon, when I called the place they asked me for a interview right then, so I went over here, filed out my application, and answered a few questions, and the lady at the staffing office told me to come back on Monday to do further testing and then I guess we will see what happens.
Yesterday I took in a stray orange, grey mixed tabby and white calico female cat, she's about a year old if I were to guess, she's not very big , a bit on the skinny side, but that might be because she hasn't seen a dish of real food in days, she is litter trained and has fantastic manners, so someone has either set her out or she is someone's once loved kitten that no one wants. According to one of my neighbors she has been  hanging around for about three days before I found her, It's a possibility she belongs to one of the neighbors but no one has yet reported her missing, so for now she is with me, getting good food, love, and a taste of life with a witch. She had been fighting with something,with missing patches of fur and some older wounds that are healed over and fur growing back over them. My guess is that she has been a stray longer than a week , even maybe a month. I am also hoping she is not actually pregnant, as the recent signs of heat were probably why she has been out wandering or cast out of her house. while I would personally love to see cute bundles of fluffy joy, my housing manager would not be too keen on that idea. My other male cat Smoky, has taken to hiding in my son's room, he's very skittish of her and hisses and yowls at the sight of her. I thought surely he would be a aggressive bullying ass and go on the warpath but oddly he has become the extreme opposite when faced with a female that isn't even half his size. so I guess until he gets over his bruised ego and stops acting like a nervous wreck he will be camping out in my son's room with a separate bowl of food and continue to hide and sulk. He is neutered so he is not going to be a father anytime soon. One growl and a hard stare from his new housemate has him running back through the house upset, it's somewhat comical but I still have to go baby the poor boy, he's always been the spoiled one and he's never seen or been around another cat before. He doesn't understand how and why something that ain't even half his weight and size is still tougher than him, and just comes in his house and acts like she has always been living here. I just hope he will adjust soon, and at least try to accept her, if not I will have to find her another home, which pains me to think about because Adam has already gave her a name which is "Sugar Momma".
Sugar Momma, which suits her sweet personality, is currently laying under my feet as I type this,  is quite content, full of milk and Meow Mix, and has had more attention than probably her whole life thus far, pet her and she warms up and soaks it up like a needy sponge. I have to wonder who once had her, and how she came to be with me, but I am glad that she is here, for in a wandering stray, I see something of myself  in her. For once upon a time I was a wandering stray too, with no home, cast away from everything that I knew was my life, going through  major life crises, and fighting for everything I had left. Unlike me, she gets a chance for someone to take her in, love her for what she is, with all of her beat up scars and skinniness and everything else, feed her, and provide her some measure of comfort and stability, in a world where people are just as soon to kick you out like you are nothing and no one, and let you starve, and tell you to survive on your own however which way you can. If by chance she happens to be pregnant, well all the more reasons to give her what she needs now. How many of us mothers have also been in her place? Sadly and too often that has also been too many of us. It might be just as well she is here, if the humans that had her before really don't want her or she has been a stray for months, well now she has her chance to have what she deserves. Life with a witch is a blessed life. So mote it be.      

Preparing for the First Eclipse 3-23-2016

Hello everyone and Bright Blessings. How has everyone been since I was here last? I got my lease to my apartment renewed last Friday, and I am sure part of that was because I hurried and did that money spell of mine before I went down there. I specifically asked for my lease to be renewed, and for a couple other financial favors. During this past week I also went out doing stuff or my Avon side job, I now have 2 more customers and am busy trying to get ahold of more that I got contact information from..The Eclipse is tonight, and I have definitely felt the high and low energy from it falling in the sign of Libra. Libra sometimes cannot make it's mind about what it wants to feel, think, and do, and finding balance is often a struggle. Libra is also the astrological sign that rules relationship matters, and how well those balance and play out. I have also gravitated between being wide awake and trying to work and then feeling like I am going to pass out asleep any second.  So yes the Libra energy emanating from this coming eclipse is really throwing itself out there. We will see events that begin on this full Moon Eclipse, manifest and last up to September, when the next corresponding eclipse occurs. Anything we do in magic and in our normal daily lives, and whatever other happenings that transpire in our lives after tomorrow night, well you have this Eclipse to potentially thank or lay blame on.
I am going to continue my money spell work, I have that check spell to finish, and I have to finish that love spell that I worked on at the New Moon Solar Eclipse. What you begin,you have to finish. I started spell work during a solar Eclipse, so now I have to finish it, on this coming Full Moon Eclipse, and if I don't well I don't want to think about what kind of disasters could result if I leave it all hanging, or somehow don't get the time to finish it all. while working with my pendulum recently, I had a temporary answer sheet written up, to help with more accurate questions, and the pendulum kept circling around the word " Reconciliation" and then going to someone's name that I had written on the paper. I had not posed a question to my pendulum about that answer, it just kept circling on its own  and answering for me. When I actually asked if I should attempt a reconciliation between myself and the other person the answer was a very strong "Yes" so I suppose I will also make a request for that and see what happens.  Just yesterday I got another Avon sign up so now I have two people selling under me, that bumps me up a bit in Leadership. That also tells me that Higher Powers are favoring my previous request that I made this past Friday. I am going to use one of my new Adam and Eve Roots in my love spell tonight and add it to my bag, I am sure that will add some kick to the spell already in progress!   I am going to have to go, I have things to prepare for later tonight, and i will update soon as to what happens!

New Moon Solar Eclipse Update.

Hello Everyone and Bright Blessings! How has everyone's week gone? Mine has gone pretty well. I wanted to come in and update on how things have been turning out since the New Moon. I got my Adam and Eve Orchids yesterday, and I have to say they are definitely not the same as those packets I had been buying. I am now positive that whatever is sold in those pink packets is possibly not actual Adam and Eve Roots, maybe they are just dried out pieces of the root, or a knock off or a substitute, as the roots on the live plants are entirely different, as is seen in the picture below..

  As you will notice, there are two root balls , the  Adam root is the one with the leaf attached, and the Eve root is the one attached by a root stem to the lower bottom. One one of my plants, the Adam root has a longish spur like stem growing from it, perhaps that is another plant leaf or something, I haven't yet determined that, and well it's not hard to imagine why it is the Adam part of the root! I am going to morrow to get potting soil and some new containers to put them all into, as the ones I currently have are too small and the root balls are bigger than I was expecting. I will be harvesting my roots after the plants have flowered and he seed pods form, this will be sometime around Beltane or later. Supposedly the seed pods are hard to propagate and form new plants from, but I am definitely going to try it and see if I can do it.  
Now onto other magical matters. After doing my New Moon spell, thus far I have won $5.00 on a scratch ticket, I just sold my TV and speaker set for $100.00, and said buyer of the TV has offered to show me a new method for a side job that they do, so yeah there might just be a extra income stream open up for me from that too, and a customer placed a $36.00 Avon order last night. So yes abundance and a bit of wealth is coming my way! Also, a odd thing happened, I got two sets of Adam and Eve Orchids, now I have 6 plants in all, and somehow it came to be that the site that I ordered the plants from sent me a odd email stating that I did not complete my order, so I entered the order again, and then was charged again for the same order, and they sent me extra plants as a bonus for their ordering mistake..or was it a mistake? Perhaps that was a divine sign that I needed more than just 3 plants. I am not going to question how the Higher Powers do such things, I will accept what is apparently another form of abundance being gifted to me. I might have just paid $34.00 for these plants but in the end I might end up being rewarded a lot more than what I originally paid.

This coming Friday the 18th, I have to renew my lease..and I am nervous about that. They might look at my financial information and adjust my rent, and I am not in the financial position for that just yet! I am doing the usual Friday before the Full Moon  ritual work, and also there is that other Full Moon Eclipse coming so I am seriously going to be asking that things go in my favor next week as well.
Since I have these new plants, a little bit of magic can be done using a plant and a flower pot. you take a plant of your choice, be it a money drawing type plant, or a love drawing type plant, or any plant or seed that embodies your intention and you "plant" your intentions down into the earth of the plant, using the energy from the Earth and the plant itself, to manifest a intent. As the plant grows, so doesn't you intentions into manifestation. To activate plant magic you offer a wine libation or Lunar charged water, a stone or a coin or something that symbolizes your intention, and a biodegradable paper petition, as you water and care for the plant, the spell is absorbed into the plant, and the plant itself, along with the earth it is planted in, becomes a magnet for you desires. The plant grows and releases your magical intent from itself. A healthy thriving plant that has a spell worked on it is a good sign, and of course if it withers and dies, well perhaps your intent was not meant to be. They say money doesn't grow on trees? Technically speaking yes it will if you have a basil or other money drawing type plant, and you work a spell on it to grow you some money! Perhaps I might just plant myself a petition for a new lover in the ground with my new Adam and Eve plants, and watch to see if he springs from the ground in front of me one day. That would be interesting to see! I am going to go for now, and I shall return with more news soon. Have a great weekend everyone!

Spell for New Moon Solar Eclipse

Hello everyone and Bright Blessings! Who got to see any of the eclipse we just had? We didn't get to see it because we live in the states and there wasn't any visibility. I done the spellwork that I was talking about tonight, I won't get my coveted Adam and Eve Roots in time to do the spellwork on the right day and time, so I went ahead without them, I will add them to my bag later as a extra kick. Tonight I charged my psychic and dream bag, my money drawing bags, and my love drawing bag. I made a new jar spell called "Bring My Soulmate", the intent being that after 6 long years of me being hermetically single, well it's time that I got over some things and started trying to bring in the right kind of love into my life, instead of wishing and hoping for what and whom will not ever be. Sometimes you can love someone for all the great things they are and what kind of person they are, but well they just don't love you back the same way, and they are just not going to be the person that can or will give you the kind of love that you actually need or what is best for you. I don't need a "friend" or a plaything or a lover or just anything that comes along. I need "The One", that person who complete me down to the last molecule of my soul, that makes me feel and think I have found a patch of heaven on earth. I have not had the greatest luck in finding that person, despite there being lots of potential for it. Potential is not the same as concrete solid follow through however.  So inspiration struck me to make a new jar spell. There is a Full Moon Eclipse coming on March 23, and i hope to see some positive results by then. Here is apic of my altar table as it looked just awhile ago...

The red candle and bag and the jar on the left is the "Bring My Soulmate" spell in progress, notice how the candle was flaring pretty bright? That's a good sign of positive affirmation. The jar and bag and candle on the right is my money drawing and prosperity jars and bags. There is a "Money and Luck Rain" 7 day candle in the background. Yes that is a rather cheap looking pie plate that the jar and bag is sitting in, however tin is a good conductor of magical energy. I just happened to have the pie tin sitting on the table  before I started so I used it, magic goes with the flow. Ingredients for the jar spell are as follows,
1 spell paper written to specify your intent, 1 red 4" candle, 1 8 oz wide mouth jar.
2 Lodestones, 2 Garnets, 2 rose Quartz, 2 Rhodonites, 2 Emeralds, magnetic sand.
Spanish moss to wrap the paper in.
Recite the paper and wrap it around and round with Spanish moss to secure the paper, lay it in the bottom of the jar.

Lay the lodestones on the moss covered paper, sprinkle  them liberally with magnetic sand.
Now you will add  1 pinch each of Calamus Root, Licorice Root, Magnolia Flower, Hydrangea Root, Quassia Root, Myrtle Leaf, Lovage Root,  1 pair of Adam and Eve Root. 1 Mango Seed and 1 Apricot pit. 1 High John,  1 piece of Jezebel Root, 1 piece of Angelica, Devils shoestring, 2 whole Nutmegs, 2 pieces of Patchouli Root, and a pinch of Vertiver.
These specifically are for drawing in committed relationships and marriage minded partners. Mango seeds are hard to get into, you have to peel off the  fuzzy outer shell and get to the whole seed inside, that is the part you use. Make sure the Apricot pit and the mango seed are very dried out and there is no sticky residue on them, that will cause the entire jar to grow mold, which is the last thing we want! You can also take all of these herb and root ingredients and use them in a medium sized red flannel bag, I am using a jar because I already have a bag, so I just added more ingredients to my bag.

Sprinkle the roots and other herbs with a good dusting of Love Drawing Powder of your choice, I used my own recipes. Powdered Sugar would be great to use, to sweeten up the effects.
Add your stones on top of everything in the jar, and drop 9 drops each of Ylang Ylang , Orange, Ginger Grass, Apricot and Sesame oils. Add extra drops of any kind of Love Drawing oils you might have, just use drops of 9 each of those too. The named oils mentioned above are especially known to draw in committed relationships and marriage minded partners, and to unblock the way for it to happen. Seal up the jar, and stick your anointed red candle on top of the lid, and light it.  While the candle burns down, Visualize your soulmate coming to you, or that you will find them soon.
Very soon after I finished this spell, while I was sitting here typing this, the cat and I  found a Lady Bug that had 9 spots on it's back , well I am going to be counting 9 blessings soon, if the adage about counting your blessings from the lady bugs spots is true.  When I first spotted it, the cat was watching it go crawling on the wall next to my bed.  Lady bugs are a sign of abundance and many blessings. So I take it that she came along to give me a sign that my request is at least being considered. I am going to go for now it is getting late and I need sleep, and let us hope tomorrow brings me some great news to report.

New Moon Solar Eclipse Is Coming On March 8,2016.

Hello everyone and Bright Blessings! How has everyone been? Things around here have been exhausting, my son has had the flu since last Monday, He was feeling good enough to go back to school today. I have been keeping a vigil over him and I have to say I am worn out. Last night and today I mustered the energy to begin writing on one of my books some more,cleaned the house, and caught up the four loads of laundry.
On a brighter note, there is a New Moon Solar Eclipse in Pisces coming on March 8th. whatever we begin on this New Moon is going to be special indeed. I am going to charge my spell bags, write out one of those little abundance check spells, and maybe brew up a new spell jar, that is inspired by a interesting idea that just recently crossed my mind. I even ordered new spell supplies to use for this particular spell, I will post about that later and reveal my newest creation soon. I recall a spell that I done some time ago during a New Moon Eclipse, and it was very strong and results were very potent and long lasting, so my idea is to try a slightly tweaked version of the same kind of spell, and see if I have the same or a similarly strong result.  Today I was seized by the urge to clean and in particularly in my bedroom/altar room, I organized my herb box, which was becoming cluttered, from me grabbing ingredients and then just sticking them back in the box. In doing so I felt a strong sense of awareness and a good zap of energy, a spiritual presence was in the room with me and was definitely approving of what I was doing right then. It is not like me to neglect or slack when it comes to my altar room, but for the last week I have been too tired to even go in there to clean or tinker with anything. Whichever spiritual presence that is living in or temporarily visiting my altar space was at least waiting on me to come back and begin being my witchy self again.
Today I paid a somewhat pricey $17.00 for 3 real live Adam and Eve Orchid plants, these are the same plants that the potent spell roots come from. I seriously intend to be growing my own supply of these Orchids so that I can have those roots on a as needed basis. I have hunted for Adam and Eve root packets for ages now and no one has had them in stock. Well lo and behold, while googling the scientific name of plant species, I found a native wildflower nursery right here in Tennessee, (located HERE)  that sells the bare root plants year round!
Adam and Eve is somewhat hard to obtain because they are a odd growing plant that has a irregular growing season, and the roots grow at different stages during the plant's lifespan.The Adam root grows first during the winter months and produces the above ground leaf, while the Eve root grows later in the spring and produces the flower stem. Usually they are harvested after they have flowered, so you can get both roots. The hard thing about that is occasionally if weather conditions and other issues affect how the plant grows,then there is no Eve roots or flowers produced, and you have to wait to see if a plant will flower again the next year. this is also why those roots are so treasured to use in love spells and relationship spells, if you want that love bad enough then sometimes you have to wait a bit to get what you want, and then you have that time to really think about if what you want is worth waiting that long to obtain.  
Usually when I get Adam and Eve Roots they are dried root pieces that come in a pink packet, and those work well in most spells well I can only imagine that freshly dug and shipped live root clusters are much more potent! The effects of those live roots being used in a spell would be fantastic!  It is always when you truly need something then God and Goddess will always point you in the right direction, and I will say now that perhaps my next spell endeavor will be favored upon considering the fact I just happened to find those plants today, after weeks of fruitless searching.
I will still go down to Botanica La Paz next week, as the shop owner graciously promised me some Adam and Eve packets if I come by next week and that he will have them for me. It would be rude customer manners of me, if he went through the trouble to get those for me and then I did not go and get them, and I intend to buy a couple more things, just to be a gracious customer. I am sure that the extra money will  be appreciated, because he was nice enough to probably pay extra shipping and etc. just to get me a particular product delivered to his shop. That is also the same place where I found that very elaborate and well maintained Saint Holy Death altar space. Today when I went in there, the table itself had been moved and Her statues were even more decorated and surrounded with offerings.
I am going to hop off here for awhile, I have work to do, and it is my son's bedtime, I will be back soon to post about what happens after the New Moon Eclipse.      

Enhanced Dream and Astral Travel Jar Spell. 2-23-2016

Hello everyone and Bright Blessings. How was everyone's Full Moon?  Mine was busy with raising the energy towards my recent financial spell, and testing out my new obsidian scrying mirror. The mirror works well and is very pretty. The little glass one that I bought years ago, somehow didn't seem to fit me anymore, so I went out on a somewhat pricey $34.00 venture and bought a really nice 3" obsidian mirror. Results were interesting, I saw several swirling blur colored sparkles in the surface and a lot of shadows, however nothing yet has manifested into a more visual or abstract form so I couldn't tell you what or whom it was that I saw. The fact I got even a sparkle of a result on the first night of use is encouraging. Sometimes scrying into surfaces gives me a headache, or makes my nearsighted eyes feel strained so I don't do it often. My divination strength is more attuned to dreams, and empathetic and various types of other clairvoyant and receptive medium attributes. I also charged up my divination enhancement baggie, added more magnetic sand, fresh oils and a pinch of powders to it, and I decided to make a new spell jar, now called  the Enhanced Dream and Astral Travel Spell jar. I wanted a stationary form of my spell baggie,that can sit next to my bed, or anywhere else I might decide I want to experience some divine receptiveness.  Here is the instructions for those of you that want to make your own.

Materials you will need are:
1 wide mouth 8 oz jar.  1 written spell paper with your requests towards your desired divination goal. 1 piece of clear quartz, 1 piece of Amethyst, 1 piece of Lapis Lazuli, 1 piece of Onyx. 1 Eye of Shiva  Agate, and 2 medium sized Lodestones, dusted liberally with silver magnetic sand.
1 purple, black, or silver colored 4" candle.  Larger candles can be used if you want the wax to encompass around the jar and seal both ends of it. Traditionally just one candle is used on the top and allowed to drip down the sides of the jar.  

 Herbs , roots, and oils you will need:
1 piece of Angelica Root, 3 whole star Anise pods, 3 whole Bay leaves, a generous pinch of Basil, a few whole chunks of Copal Resin,a generous pinch of Chamonile Flower, A generous pinch of Cilantro, 3 Cardamom pods, or a generous pinch of ground spice, 1 whole Cinnamon stick, a generous pinch of Damiana, and Dittanty Of Crete, a piece of Licorice Root, or a pinch of the chopped root,1 teaspoon of Peppermint leaves, a generous pinch of Mugwort, 9 whole leaves of White Sage, a generous pinch of White Sandalwood powder, a generous pinch of Vervain, Wild Lettuce, and Vertiver Root. A optional ingredient is a generous dusting of plain, pure powdered sugar, to make dreams and divination experiences "sweet", powder sugar is your very basic drawing powder, it is added to a lot of "drawing" formulas in many types of spiritual practices.  
9 drops of some type of Astral Travel or  Divination attributed oils.

To me a "generous pinch" is about a teaspoon worth of each herb and root, if you want to be accurate and actually measure out each one of your herb portions. I'm notorious for not accurately measuring stuff and use just my own judgement and add what I feel is adequate. Add in what you feel is a "generous pinch", and what feels right to you. I realize I left out some ingredients such as Jasmin flower, Lavender, and a few other things that can be used if you have it, but the list above has proven effective for me, if you want to add more of your own then have at it!  

Now, we take our spell paper, and after calling quarters, guides, spirits and whom ever deity you worship or ask for aide, we read the spell paper aloud, and wrap a purple piece of stout string or a clump of Spanish Moss around the tightly folded paper, it goes into the very bottom of the jar. Take up the the Lodestones, and the other stones, and think or speak aloud of your intentions for them, and place them on top of the paper to secure it to the bottom, and add in your herbs and roots one at a time, focusing your intentions for them with each one. Lastly,drop the 9 drops of your chosen type of anointing oil on top of everything in the jar.  Cap the jar tightly, and affix your chosen colored candle to the lid. anoint the candle with a drop of oil, stroking downward to bring in the energy. and gently sprinkle the candle with magnetic sand. Place the jar onto a heat proof plate or inside a heat safe bowl, light the candle and allow it to burn completely down, and your new enhanced Dream and Astral Travel jar is sealed tightly and so isn't the spell within.

I used the opportunity while my candle was burning and sealing my jar to test my new mirror, this would be a good time to do scrying work, you have a Full Moon out, divination spell in progress, a candle for light, and several attributed herbs and stones and spell paper at hand to add a good charge of power flowing for divination work. Whatever and whomever you see and encounter right about now and for the two week time frame afterwards should be potent and powerful signs and manifestations. To keep your spell jar working, just light one charged candle on top of the jar every Full Moon and New Moon nights, this is the optimal time for divination workings.  A great suggestion is to keep your new jar in the Western or Eastern side of the room it is going to be staying in, to receive messages and inspirations from the elements and spirits of Water or Air.
another thing I use for my bag and wear on my person during divination and scrying is a 6 sided Hexagram pendant, a Hexagram, either drawn on paper to focus on, or worn on the body, is said to help open the portal between worlds and provide planetary influences to scrying and divination workings. Try it and see if it works for you. I am going to go for now, I am tired from last night, and a nap sounds good about now. everyone have a great day, and for those across the pond, enjoy the Full Moon in your side of the world!