Throwback Thursday

 Well my friends, it has been a while since I shared a 'Throwback Thursday' post with everyone so here goes ...  :)

 An old pic of me officiating for Lady Sabrina Rhiannon in 2003. She is a Wiccan High Priestess who married a Christian and so she decided to have an inter-faith ceremony. Ironically, it was held at the little Sunday School which I grew up in.

Me hanging out with friends in 1992 ...

in 2002 ...

and in 2009!

Posing for a pic in my first apartment in Shillington, PA (a suburb right outside of Reading, PA) while having lunch with a very dear friend of mine in 1991.

Until next time, Brightest Blessings!

Drawing Down The Moon

Blessed be thy feet, that have brought thee in these ways.
Blessed be thy knees, that shall kneel at the sacred altar.
Blessed be thy womb, without which we would not be.
Blessed be thy breasts, formed in beauty.
Blessed be thy lips that shall utter the Sacred Names.

We invoke thee and call upon thee, Mighty Mother of us all,
Bringer of all fruitfulness: by seed and root, by bud and stem,
By leaf and flower and fruit, by life and love do we invoke thee
To descend upon the body of this thy servant and Priestess.

Hail Diana! From the Amalthean Horn
Pour forth thy store of love; we lowly bend
Before thee, we adore thee to the end,
With loving sacrifice thy shrine adorn.

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Of the Mother darksome and divine
Mine the scourge, and mine the kiss;
The five-point star of love and bliss-
Here I charge you, in this sign.


All ye assembled in my sight,
Bow before my spirit bright
Aphrodite, Arionhod.
Lover of the Horned God,

Mighty Queen of Witchery and night,
Morgan, Etoine, Nisene,
Diana, Bridgid, Melusine,
Am I named of old by men,

Artemis and Cerridwen,
Hell’s dark mistress, Heaven’s queen.
Ye who would ask of me a rune,
Or who would ask of me a boon,

Meet in some secret glade,
Dance in my round in green wood shade,
By the light of the Full Moon.
In a place, wild and lone

Dance about mine altar stone;
Work my holy mystery.
Ye who are feign to sorcery,
I bring ye secrets yet unknown.

No more shall ye know slavery,
Who give true worship unto me.
Ye who tread my round on Sabbat night,
Come ye all naked to the rite,

In token that ye be really free.
I teach ye the mystery of rebirth,
Work ye my mysteries in mirth.

Heart joined to heart and lip to lip,
Five are the points of fellowship,
That bring ye ecstasy on earth,
For I am the circle of rebirth.

I ask no sacrifice, but do bow,
No other Law but love I know,
By naught but love may I be known.
All things living are mine own,

From me they come, to me they go.
I invoke Thee and call upon Thee
Mighty Mother of us all.
Bringer of Fruitfulness by seed and by root.

I invoke Thee by stem and bud.
I invoke Thee by life and love
And call upon thee to descent into the body

Of this Thy Priestess and Servant.

Hear with her ears, speak with her tongue,
Touch with her hands, kiss with her lips,
That thy servants may be fulfilled.

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http://sacredwicca.jigsy.com/drawing-down-the-moon

About judging others ...

Social media. At times, it can be quite the insane circus between people who like to air both their private lives and their opinions for better or worse. I see it all of the time on Facebook and here in blogland as well. 

I am (and always have been) of the opinion that if you do not like what you read, then MOVE ON. If you disagree so strongly with what someone has to say that it irritates you to the point where feel the need to get nasty and/or confrontational, then just leave and get over it. Forget it and, again, move on! We all know what they say about opinions and what exactly is the point of arguing with people? After all, what good can ever truly come of insults and accusations except breeding more negativity and nastiness?

Why am I writing about this subject, you may ask? Well, very recently, a good blogger friend of mine was so badly verbally attacked for his opinions (in this case, by a fanatical Christian) that I feel it is a subject worth talking about. The way I feel about it is that NO ONE is in the position to judge others, most especially people whom they have never met except through social media. Someone who they do not know personally and have no idea about that person's personal life. 

For example, my friend Mohave Rat has a blog named, "Mohave Rats' Two Cents Worth."  Besides the fact that he has always been nothing BUT polite and respectful of me, my religion and my opinions regardless of our individual personal beliefs, I like reading his blog mainly because I rather enjoy his posts about his own opinions about life, etc. He is forthright and honest in his personal opinions as well as a very intelligent man. I have always enjoyed a good conversation backed with facts about history and such so his blog very much appeals to me personally speaking. 

Furthermore, I do not judge others BY the opinions of others. We were born with the freedom to think, act and deduct for ourselves. We may not have the ability to control how others treat us, but we certainly have the ability to control how we react to it.

This and That & A Happy New Year ALL!!

Well my friends, it looks like we have come to the end of yet another year. Now it is time to look forward to a new year (and hopefully, speaking for myself, a much better one).

However, I would like to share a couple of things with all of you from this past Yule. First of all, I had received the most beautiful mermaid light from my good friend and cat sitter, Judy ... :)

And, of course, I simply must share a couple of pics from the cats Yule as well ...

Also as most of you already know, this past April I asked my long time Pagan friend and wonderful acquaintance, Dark Elf, to help co-write this blog with me (to read more about Dark Elf, please click on this post link). Since he is currently living in Greece, I had decided to mail him his Yule gifts this year. Here are some pics I took while he was opening up his box of gifts. I sent him a Bastet statue along with some cool candles and candle holders ...

I must say that this has been a rather difficult year for me between family health issues and such. But, one of the best parts of my year was when Dark Elf agreed to join me. I am very grateful to have him in my life. He is an extraordinary individual and I am so very blessed to have him in my life for so many years. I have always believed that people are brought into our lives for a reason, although that reason is not always obvious to us at first. I am extremely thankful for ALL of you and from both Dark Elf and myself we sincerely wish everyone a wonderful and blessed New Year!

Science and Paganism

After a millennia of persecution by judeo-christians and some eons of mockery by atheists and materialists, physicists verify or are going to soon verify the tenets of paganism one by one.

First came Einstein with his well-known matter/energy equivalence and the electron/positron creation from a photon, then came Hawking with the quantum radiation of black holes that discovered that "nothingness" or vacuum can give energy with real evidence and not just theory and mathematics... Materialism died that very same moment.

Next came some quantum physicists that defined a soul as consciousness and stated that it consists of separate particles from matter particles and that our memory is registered in a separate dimension from material world.

Dr. Hans-Peter Dürr, former head of the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Munich, posits that, just as a particle "writes" all of its information on its wave function, the brain is the tangible "floppy disk" on which we save our data, and this data is then "uploaded" into the spiritual quantum field. Continuing with this analogy, when we die the body, or the physical disk, is gone, but our consciousness, or the data on the computer, lives on.

"What we consider the here and now, this world, it is actually just the material level that is comprehensible. The beyond is an infinite reality that is much bigger. Which this world is rooted in. In this way, our lives in this plane of existence are encompassed, surrounded, by the afterworld already... The body dies but the spiritual quantum field continues. In this way, I am immortal," says Dürr.

Dr. Christian Hellwig of the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, found evidence that information in our central nervous system is phase encoded, a type of coding that allows multiple pieces of data to occupy the same time. He said, "Our thoughts, our will, our consciousness and our feelings show properties that could be referred to as spiritual properties...No direct interaction with the known fundamental forces of natural science, such as gravitation, electromagnetic forces, etc. can be detected in the spiritual. On the other hand, however, these spiritual properties correspond exactly to the characteristics that distinguish the extremely puzzling and wondrous phenomena in the quantum world."

Physicist Professor Robert Jahn of Princeton University concluded that if consciousness can exchange information in both directions with the physical environment, then it can be attributed with the same "molecular binding potential" as physical objects, meaning that it must also follow the tenets of quantum mechanics.

Quantum physicist David Bohm, a student and friend of Albert Einstein, was of a similar opinion. He stated, "The results of modern natural sciences only make sense if we assume an inner, uniform, transcendent reality that is based on all external data and facts. The very depth of human consciousness is one of them."

http://www.outerplaces.com/science/item/4518-physicists-claim-that-consciousness-lives-in-quantum-state-after-death

So a soul exists in another-dimensional world than the material and it is detected as "consciousness".

The final blow came from Lovelock that has proven that the Biosphere on the whole planet Earth is a unified super-organism that thinks and reacts. So the Goddess of pagans or else Mother Nature finally exists and is officially discovered by the science while Yahweh god of patriarchal monotheism is still nowhere to be seen. Lovelock took the Nobel Prize for his Gaia Theory.

It ‘s good to see that we're justified.

Blessed Yule and Happy Holidays to Everyone!

Greetings all!  It has been such a busy year but I wanted to wish everyone the happiest of holidays, a very Blessed Yule, and a happy, healthy New Year to come!!

A Yule Prayer