Pagan/Wiccan Revival 2016

[KatzWh1skers]

That's interesting about your manager. It's only wisdom to use caution when approaching someone on the subject of witchcraft, as so many misunderstand and fear it. They don't understand it as the loving, healing, unifying belief that unites Spirit with the elements, an ancient tradition. But rather are frightened by the lies and years of defamation from a corrupt, evil, greedy and malicious church order beginning from the renaissance thru to today...

Okay, I'll stop here on that subject. It always set a fire in my soul, that puts my emotions to doing a war dance... {and I haven't had my second cup yet... }
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...It isn't easy to find others to discuss and share with, she may be open to friendly interest. I've found it particularly important to utilize all protections when approaching anyone who deals in the Old Arts, though. You never know by looking if they are actually someone with whom you'd want to affiliate. Just a note that I'm sure you are well aware. Blessings

I might add that "symbol" ...comes to mind..it is a symbol..understood by those who understand...meant that way in some circles....as an unspoken understanding...tho the pentagram is a popular "symbol" these days....misunderstandings arise when say ..the wearer just likes the art...perhaps knowing nothing about the more.
yes..tread lightly

 

[liblue1]

That's interesting about your manager. It's only wisdom to use caution when approaching someone on the subject of witchcraft, as so many misunderstand and fear it. They don't understand it as the loving, healing, unifying belief that unites Spirit with the elements, an ancient tradition. But rather are frightened by the lies and years of defamation from a corrupt, evil, greedy and malicious church order beginning from the renaissance thru to today...

Okay, I'll stop here on that subject. It always set a fire in my soul, that puts my emotions to doing a war dance... {and I haven't had my second cup yet... }
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...It isn't easy to find others to discuss and share with, she may be open to friendly interest. I've found it particularly important to utilize all protections when approaching anyone who deals in the Old Arts, though. You never know by looking if they are actually someone with whom you'd want to affiliate. Just a note that I'm sure you are well aware. Blessings

Thanks you for the reminder warning....sometimes I also play the fool and jump in where angels fear to tread....

Soo, interesting...! Are any of you in physical contact, close proximity, with each other?

No not really...I am in the PNW...Tiggs is in Texas and Katz is somewhere in between.....LOL...
Where area you located (if you don't mind sharing?)....

 

[KatzWh1skers]

that's me!!..Somewhere InBetweeñ!!
High Desert Nevada..tho I am from many places before this...

 

[CronesCauldron]

either of you two wanna field that one?! not so much physical...no....each of us brings something different to the table....how we perceive the world...the way we interact with and experience energy...our outward projecting of that..we are still learning....each of us...all of us..have our unique talents....we are still learning...

It's fun when you link with someone that isn't in physical proximity... You know for sure then that the connection is spiritual/metaphysical. As women, we're all aware of the phenomena of, when working or being around a group of other women on a regular basis, our bodies begin to 'sync' with each other. It happens . When we're not physically, biologically, close to each other and there forms a connection, as in drawing the same cards, having the same dreams, seeing the same visions, it's just even more intriguing

 

[CronesCauldron]

Thanks you for the reminder warning....sometimes I also play the fool and jump in where angels fear to tread....

No not really...I am in the PNW...Tiggs is in Texas and Katz is somewhere in between.....LOL...
Where area you located (if you don't mind sharing?)....

I'm sitting in the center of Oklahoma... When I travel, I love to visit Washington and Oregon and was there for a couple of months in my RV last year.

 

[CronesCauldron]

Circles are central to my life and describes best how 'things' in my life move. After realizing this, I stopped having a feeling of loss when a passion that was, only recently, burning brightly seems to slip away and I'd feel a loss.

I know now that the things that are truly important don't go away, they simply slip securely into orbit to dawn on a new day, most often more seasoned or 'steeped' and much richer when picked up again.

This has been the case with my cards... and, I believe, part of why I've happened onto this small group of insightful, charming, magick-workers and readers. I have a deck of Tarot or Lenormand cards close to me most of the time. But when other things demand attention, the cards become more of a comfort, I'm not actually 'working' with them. Two completely different things...

Renewing my relationship with all of my decks today. First, they'll be cleansed and recharged, then, it'll be time to get re-aquainted . I can't wait!

 

[liblue1]

It's fun when you link with someone that isn't in physical proximity... You know for sure then that the connection is spiritual/metaphysical. As women, we're all aware of the phenomena of, when working or being around a group of other women on a regular basis, our bodies begin to 'sync' with each other. It happens . When we're not physically, biologically, close to each other and there forms a connection, as in drawing the same cards, having the same dreams, seeing the same visions, it's just even more intriguing

I also believe that there is a connection between the three of us.I believe we are part of the same "soul cluster".....that means that at some point in time we were related in some way or another.....

 

[liblue1]

I'm sitting in the center of Oklahoma... When I travel, I love to visit Washington and Oregon and was there for a couple of months in my RV last year.

Yes it is very beautiful in these parts...There seems to be a huge "occult" population in these parts, maybe because of it being so close to the rich nature around and lots of privacy in the outlying areas....I only know this because of the amount of "woo woo" shops I find..I haven't been in many of them as I order what I need online and usually keep to myself....
My friends here asked that I start a new place/thread to help them learn more of the "old ways" . So that is why I am here on this thread talking about everything that interests me...I love nature and all things having to do with it. We have shared some spells and we do all participate in rituals...we can chat about everything & anything of interest and many times it helps to get someone with the same views to help with everyday problems...

I am finding more & more that some of the new people I have met IRL do so many of the things I do (even in my spell work..ie: lighting candles or holding stones) but they just don't think or say that they are doing magick....it's just their family tradition...they are Christians and believe that is all they are...but I feel if you are doing things to heal Mother Earth or with nature then you are doing magick....

BTW I am a very eclectic sole practitioner(my partner just passed away last year), so what I do is kind of a combination of Green & White Witch (also lots of kitchen witch thrown in, as I love to cook & create).....I have been told I have great healing powers/energy and my best work comes from candle magic...Yes I prefer the tarot to any other form of divination, but I am comfortable with the runes. I will pick & choose spells from anywhere and make them my own...it seems to come naturally to me, as I can make up a spell on a moments notice...(oh and sometimes I ramble...lol)....

 

[tiggerrts]

It's fun when you link with someone that isn't in physical proximity... You know for sure then that the connection is spiritual/metaphysical. As women, we're all aware of the phenomena of, when working or being around a group of other women on a regular basis, our bodies begin to 'sync' with each other. It happens . When we're not physically, biologically, close to each other and there forms a connection, as in drawing the same cards, having the same dreams, seeing the same visions, it's just even more intriguing

Interesting conversation going on today and I will have to go back I am sure to remember some. What I do is talk to the deck when it is Katz or Blue's. I tell them what I know of them and make sure the deck understands who it is being channeled for information. Interesting enough I never do a shuffle the same way.

I always start by not shuffling, but letting the cards slide over each other in my left hand back and forth to cut it many times. Then I may shuffle once, twice or more depending on how it feels, the cards will feel light, but if they get heavy I go back to the side shuffle until it feels right. I shuffle again and repeat this process one more time, or twice, or more until I feel this air in between two cards, or like the same magnet pushing two cards apart and stop.

I do not look at the cards during the shuffle or when that feeling is met, and let my right hand cut it at the air point, then I get a card. So you know though I am a dude. But have had a discussion about syncing elsewhere, though not quite the same.

So you and I LadyV live closer than any of us other three. But yeah I have a lot of dreams and visions... though I do not actually share many of them... um well I will put it out there, but if there is an objection I will edit. We three know we have lived past lives. I was Egyptian once as Fuzzy who was mentioned before, but Fuzzy went even further back. Whether Fuzzy or Blue is the oldest I do not think we ever clarified, but Katz is even older than I in that regard, as far as my memory goes back.

I on the other hand have been in contact with spirits, and at least one not nice, and some others I know close and especially if they are near me as within a few miles have seen and even felt at least one. And never told you Katz but think I have been abducted, if not more than once.

 

[tiggerrts]

..as I was reading your ..well..reading.....the analogy of ripping off a band-aid came to mind.Tiggs..I dunno ..it just did...
..I actually feel there is benefit to a security blanket...we all have one in some form or another....take it away and we are left with a sense of unsteadiness...a loss of ...security...
yes..Im sure my brothers security blanket was fulfilling a need...but so what..I don't think he would have held on to it till he was 16 lol...and yet....what "security blankets" do we cling to now?..whether a belief that no longer serves us....or material things we no longer use but hang on to....I like the part about warning....a dog growls as a warning...snakes hiss..as a warning...ignore it and you will get worse...

Ah yes and so had to go back and think of what I was thinking at lunch, I too need to get rid of some security blanket items that I cling to or just have procrastinated with.... So hoping come this Saturday, a lot of those items will be sold off....

yep...speaking only for myself...responsible follows knowledge..I can't claim "I didn't know " ..what I really didn't know or understand before. I always had a Patron Saint of Fool's for that..lol....now I need to be more self responsible when I choose to put myself in situations....being sensitive as I always have been...

And there is the other "sensitive." not the emotion, but we three are all sensatives as in we three can feel the other world, or entities out there. We all three have scored very high on a test of the subject. Some do not believe, or are afraid to believe; perhaps their schooling keeps them from believing, but again I have encountered I believe three spirits, my ex drove through him in a car, my sister thrown to a wall; I well maybe another day.

So yes it is interesting how we are linked, guess it is time to get all three decks rolling again.....

 

[tiggerrts]

My card today, Three of Cups:

Rather than simply two forces working together towards the purposes of love and harmony, the Three of Cups represents all kinds of people or groups who work as one. The figures pictured on the Three of Cups are always joyful, celebrating some success together, and thus the card shows us that happy times spent in the company of our friends and loved one become even happier, while sad times become a little less sad. This is one of the many powers of the group, and the community as a whole, that are explored through the card called the Three of Cups.

The influence of the community is very powerful in this card; and though each member of this community is different they can and will often work together in harmony. This card is often a sign of the true power of the group: to bring people of all ages and ways of life together, to achieve a common goal. It is a sign that you should seek out other people to celebrate your success along with you. But bear this in mind: in such groups, it is essential that everyone has common ground, but it is also important that not everyone is the same. It is similarities which bring people together; but it is differences which make them strong.

Sounds about right considering...

 

[tiggerrts]

@KatzWh1skers your card, Seven of Cups:
The Seven of Cups often appears when a difficult choice must be made, and the image on most versions of the card reflects that. The seven cups are filled with strange and wonderful gifts... but there is always danger hidden within one or two of them to sting anyone who ventures near. Lying amidst the gems and the wreath of victory are a snake and a dragon. Sometimes you have to choose between many options, all of which may be tempting but only one of which is the best choice. At others times not all of those choices are real options at all; they are delusions of the imagination.

This card generally shows choices and plans that have little or no basis in reality. Such things are typical of the developed imagination, and fine if they stay in the imagination. But when you try to implement those ideas in the real world you are leaving yourself open to inevitable disappointment when you realize that your vision simply does not work. The fortress has no foundation and it will fall with the first enemy attack. Some attainment is indeed possible, but like the sword of Damocles, the inevitability of defeat lingers over your head, waiting to drop and shatter all those castles you have built in the clouds.
Temptation is another theme of this card, and with so many choices presented it would be easy to be swayed to that cup containing the snake of jealously and cunning. Since this card is of the Cups suit we get all the se.ual and emotional connotations of temptation; the one-night stand, the extramarital affair, and all those other things that seem innocent and pleasurable at the time they are undertaken. But in the vast majority of cases, the pleasure gained temporarily is far outweighed by the consequences that last, in most cases, for an entire lifetime.

In short, the Seven of Cups is a sign to be vigilant in everyday life. Be on guard against temptation, and before taking any offers be aware of all the potential ramifications. Keep a close eye on your dreams so that they do not get too farfetched and fantastic. When faced with many choices, all of which seem equally attractive, turn to your intuition for guidance. If you still don't know which to take, it might be safer to not take any of them at all! Better to leave the gems than plunge one's hand into a cup full of snakes. If your ethics are questioned, do not go against them, but stand true to your beliefs. Keep your feet on the ground, and your head out of the clouds.

 

[tiggerrts]

@liblue1 your card, Ten of Pentacles:

One of the great problems with having wealth is what exactly to do with it, and this is the central concept of the Ten of Pentacles. All of the positive traits of the Pentacles suit are embodied here; security, happiness, and the spiritual wisdom that comes with experience in the real world. Like the rest of the Tens, the Ten of Pentacles reminds us that we have learned important lessons through the other suit cards, and now we are challenged to apply them to the problem at hand. So now that you have all the wealth you need and all the happiness you want... what do you do?

Trying to amass more wealth, one of the choices shown on the Seven, is a bad idea at this point. Obviously you cannot simply hold onto it, for the lesson on the Four was that such attempts at security always fail. Trying to hold onto wealth in case you need it later is often like trying to capture love in a bottle. By trying to hold onto these things you often end up crushing them in your fingers, rather than preserving them for the future. So holding on tightly is not an option. The Six of Pentacles, however, showed that you cannot simply give it all away, because you must benefit from wealth too.
The solution given by the Ten of Pentacles is to pass on your wealth - both spiritual and material - to the next generation, so they might gain as much success as you have. Even if your physical riches are limited, the advice that can be given by a father to his son, or a grandparent to grandchildren, is no less valuable. This is the purpose of inheritance and legacy; to pass on something to your successors so they will remember you. This can be in the form of money, and it often is, though the best form of inheritance is often the intangible. A monument or a spoken word has much more effect on the world than a pile of cash.

 

[KatzWh1skers]

@KatzWh1skers your card, Seven of Cups:
The Seven of Cups often appears when a difficult choice must be made, and the image on most versions of the card reflects that. The seven cups are filled with strange and wonderful gifts... but there is always danger hidden within one or two of them to sting anyone who ventures near. Lying amidst the gems and the wreath of victory are a snake and a dragon. Sometimes you have to choose between many options, all of which may be tempting but only one of which is the best choice. At others times not all of those choices are real options at all; they are delusions of the imagination.

This card generally shows choices and plans that have little or no basis in reality. Such things are typical of the developed imagination, and fine if they stay in the imagination. But when you try to implement those ideas in the real world you are leaving yourself open to inevitable disappointment when you realize that your vision simply does not work. The fortress has no foundation and it will fall with the first enemy attack. Some attainment is indeed possible, but like the sword of Damocles, the inevitability of defeat lingers over your head, waiting to drop and shatter all those castles you have built in the clouds.
Temptation is another theme of this card, and with so many choices presented it would be easy to be swayed to that cup containing the snake of jealously and cunning. Since this card is of the Cups suit we get all the se.ual and emotional connotations of temptation; the one-night stand, the extramarital affair, and all those other things that seem innocent and pleasurable at the time they are undertaken. But in the vast majority of cases, the pleasure gained temporarily is far outweighed by the consequences that last, in most cases, for an entire lifetime.

In short, the Seven of Cups is a sign to be vigilant in everyday life. Be on guard against temptation, and before taking any offers be aware of all the potential ramifications. Keep a close eye on your dreams so that they do not get too farfetched and fantastic. When faced with many choices, all of which seem equally attractive, turn to your intuition for guidance. If you still don't know which to take, it might be safer to not take any of them at all! Better to leave the gems than plunge one's hand into a cup full of snakes. If your ethics are questioned, do not go against them, but stand true to your beliefs. Keep your feet on the ground, and your head out of the clouds.

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Thank you, Tiggs..I,ll try to keep this in mind. It is..after all...April...

 

[KatzWh1skers]

@liblue1 your card, Ten of Pentacles:

One of the great problems with having wealth is what exactly to do with it, and this is the central concept of the Ten of Pentacles. All of the positive traits of the Pentacles suit are embodied here; security, happiness, and the spiritual wisdom that comes with experience in the real world. Like the rest of the Tens, the Ten of Pentacles reminds us that we have learned important lessons through the other suit cards, and now we are challenged to apply them to the problem at hand. So now that you have all the wealth you need and all the happiness you want... what do you do?

Trying to amass more wealth, one of the choices shown on the Seven, is a bad idea at this point. Obviously you cannot simply hold onto it, for the lesson on the Four was that such attempts at security always fail. Trying to hold onto wealth in case you need it later is often like trying to capture love in a bottle. By trying to hold onto these things you often end up crushing them in your fingers, rather than preserving them for the future. So holding on tightly is not an option. The Six of Pentacles, however, showed that you cannot simply give it all away, because you must benefit from wealth too.
The solution given by the Ten of Pentacles is to pass on your wealth - both spiritual and material - to the next generation, so they might gain as much success as you have. Even if your physical riches are limited, the advice that can be given by a father to his son, or a grandparent to grandchildren, is no less valuable. This is the purpose of inheritance and legacy; to pass on something to your successors so they will remember you. This can be in the form of money, and it often is, though the best form of inheritance is often the intangible. A monument or a spoken word has much more effect on the world than a pile of cash.

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...and thus...I'm thinking... this thread...the passing on of knowledge and experience ......well done, Blue!

 

[KatzWh1skers]

When we're not physically, biologically, close to each other and there forms a connection, as in drawing the same cards, having the same dreams, seeing the same visions, it's just even more intriguing

Having not grown up with sisters..I personally have not experienced this "syncing".....nor have I experienced this dream sharing....tho others here have...Tell me more!...lol

 

[KatzWh1skers]

My card today, Three of Cups:

Rather than simply two forces working together towards the purposes of love and harmony, the Three of Cups represents all kinds of people or groups who work as one. The figures pictured on the Three of Cups are always joyful, celebrating some success together, and thus the card shows us that happy times spent in the company of our friends and loved one become even happier, while sad times become a little less sad. This is one of the many powers of the group, and the community as a whole, that are explored through the card called the Three of Cups.

The influence of the community is very powerful in this card; and though each member of this community is different they can and will often work together in harmony. This card is often a sign of the true power of the group: to bring people of all ages and ways of life together, to achieve a common goal. It is a sign that you should seek out other people to celebrate your success along with you. But bear this in mind: in such groups, it is essential that everyone has common ground, but it is also important that not everyone is the same. It is similarities which bring people together; but it is differences which make them strong.
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Sounds about right considering...

...niiiiice !!!...happiness..harmony ..balance....and 4 adds stability..it that correct (shout out to you, @CronesCauldron !)

 

[KatzWh1skers]

Thank you for sharing, LadyV....circles...I
like that. For me ...Life as a Fabric...a tapestry in more vivid terms....helps me to understand and cope with the changing seasons in my Life. Again ..thank you..there is much feeling there...

 

[KatzWh1skers]

Please do feel free to "ask away" LadyV....don't wish to overwhelm you...

 

[KatzWh1skers]

in lieu of this most inhumane attack by ississs...I want to reiterate what Tiggs posted...Our differences are our strengths....