Blessed Samhain

[OnyxCougar]

I am continually reminded by Els that I miss practicing with others. My cermonies are very small and quiet, most especially because all my tools are gone, but also because I have no one to fellowship with. Steve is distinctly Christian, and although he doesn't mind me exercising my spirituality, he prefers not to join me.

Blessed Samhain and Happy All Souls Day to you all.

[Whit]

From Wolf:
and turn you into a newt,

      "She turned me into a newt! I got better..."

[Elspode]

Originally posted by Uryoces
I didn't see the aurorae tonight, but I did see them Wednesday night. The entire northern sky was green; very pretty. I know it's end of October because the Pleiades, Subaru, the Seven Sisters were directly overhead. Someone was trying to place some ominous significance to that conjunction a few years ago, but I growled at them that the Pleiades is always at the zenith on Halloween night at midnight. Is there any special significance placed on them in your Samhain celebrations, Elspode?

None of which I am aware. The eight Sabbats we observe are solar celebrations. There are also Esbats, or lunar celebrations, held on each New Moon and Full Moon. These, we celebrate only within our coven, as opposed to the mega Sabbat frolics, where we have had as many as 75 people. We seldom have fewer than 30.

When planning spellwork, astrological considerations can come into play (and often do), and constellations are involved there, but only those of the Zodiac (the major constellations which lie in the plane of the ecliptic, and thus those through which the Sun passes over the course of Earth's annual rotation around it...so, even then, it is solar based).

[Elspode]

Originally posted by wolf


No, I'M the heathen ...

Me and El will get together and turn you into a toad ... or we might let you have a choice and turn you into a newt, or a wombat or something. But NOTHING cool, got that? No wolves, monkeys, or horse-forms for you, young man!

What the hell? He's already a tree...

[Elspode]

Originally posted by OnyxCougar
I am continually reminded by Els that I miss practicing with others. My cermonies are very small and quiet, most especially because all my tools are gone, but also because I have no one to fellowship with. Steve is distinctly Christian, and although he doesn't mind me exercising my spirituality, he prefers not to join me.

Might it be getting time for you to seek out other like-minded souls in your new vicinity? I'm sure you know about this site, but go check out www.witchvox.com . There's a place to search for local groups and activities for anywhere you might happen to be.

Wren and Fritz do a great job on this site...best witch site on the Internet, no contest...plus, they are extremely groovy people.

[wolf]

Originally posted by Elspode


What the hell? He's already a tree...

Good point. But he's a neat tree. Mebbe we could trade it in on a dogwood if he really ires us?

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally posted by wolf


Good point. But he's a neat tree. Mebbe we could trade it in on a dogwood if he really ires us?

I must take issue with that. Sycamores are dirty, nasty, messy and dangerous to humans. Really not befitting a man of his stature.

[OnyxCougar]

Originally posted by Elspode
Might it be getting time for you to seek out other like-minded souls in your new vicinity? I'm sure you know about this site, but go check out www.witchvox.com . There's a place to search for local groups and activities for anywhere you might happen to be.

Unfortunetly there is nothing within what I consider to be close (within an hour's drive). I was considering going down to New Bern occasionally, but the coven that looks most interesting there has a degree program and requires meetings twice a month plus class twice a month, and I don't want to commit to that kind of travel. I've only got one car, the one I drove across country, and until we can get another car for Steve, we're not travelling, just to be safe.

[lumberjim]

Originally posted by Uryoces
Wait! You don't know, do you? This is kind of neat! Look at a Subaru's hood ornament/symbol. Looks familiar doesn't it? The Japanese call the grouping of stars "Subaru".

We've got a few uncompleted overpasses here, so Subarus overhead might not be an impossibility.

that is actually the strike pattern from pearl harbor...how fucked up is that?

[OnyxCougar]

I was wondering where you'd gone to.

[lumberjim]

COUGAR,
just busy at work....ive been lurking a bit, but been to busy pining over you to take the time to reply to your posts...it just hurts too much to know that I can't have you

[OnyxCougar]

oh dear. It's getting deep.