Mabon And The Full Moon

What a full on weekend, full of really huge amounts of energy.

Saturday a managed to be so blessed as to have some of the people that I adore the most in the world join me in the recording studio to finish the drumming, singing and chanting for the Wicca CD series that I have now finished. It was intense and really amazing. I was running so high after drawing so much energy over that session. I think I would have needed pegging to the ground if it was not for the wonderful Amanda and her amazing grounding pasta.

Then Sunday was work where I had a fantastic Tarot session with a friend I have not seen in a really long time and it was just a lovely exchange. Then the Coven gathered for Mabon, the second harvest and it was such a nice night. The change is definitely in the air, the nights are at least a lot cooler and the days are indeed getting shorter. Now we just need some rain, not flooding though.

Mabon Altar S.C.O.T.I.F

We journeyed through a elemental cleansing meditation and worked through the Mabon Harvest Spread that I wrote for the Sabbat.

This is my reading.

1. Me at the Time of Harvest - Four of Pentacles

Well this makes complete sense with all of the commitments and travel I have this year I am trying to save save save with very different work situations. I will get on top of that, sooner rather than later would be best.

2. What do I need to leave Behind? - Ace of Wands

This to me speaks of me being really careful of not taking on too many new things now that I have made commitments to people. So I need to see the things I have agreed to through first and give them time to develop.

3. What do I need to Welcome in? - Seven of Swords

I got really confused with this at first as it is the thief card and I don't want to let a thief in. But the girls shed some light on it saying that it could be that I need to just make sure that I am well protected and also that I may be walking around like a thief, guarded and maybe it is time to let my guard down a little.

4. What are the Illusions that are in my way? - Five of Pentacles

This clicked immediately! I need to know that there is enough for me, enough money, enough clients and opportunities and I have to trust it a bit more and know that I deserve to be successful for myself.

5. What has been my most Abundant Harvest? - Five of Swords

Another one that stumped me initially but then Amanda reminded said the word battle and it all got clear, last year especially from Feb/Mar onwards was incredibly hard for me and I won that battle, I wrestled with my inner turmoil and I laid down my anger. Yes it took me nearly a year exactly to do that but I still did and it was a BIG win and something to be very grateful for.

6. What is something I do not need to Sow again? - Six of Cups

Going into the past and dragging up emotional situations that I know do not work, and that is beginning to become abundantly clear to me now. I know what works and I know what doesn't, I learnt that lesson and I need to put it into practice so that I don't make some of the same mistakes.

Such an amazing reading for myself. I love reading Tarot in circle and at Sabbats, there is such a great energy that comes with it.

After we closed circle we had a wonderful feast and celebrated Lee's birthday early as it is really tomorrow with Vegan Chocolate Mud Cake which actually turned out good despite my wonderings if it would and Teneal's sad face expression when it came out of the oven a little well done.

Even though I was up with the Full Moon (and man oh man was She ever magnificent) on Sunday night it was another fabulous Sabbat and weekend.

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Learning About Love

Two gear are selected at the same time as you restrain a baby: you'll never have forty winks the fantastically anew and you'll never love the fantastically anew.Having children has been nil if not a lesson in love. In the role of love profoundly practical, how significantly love can adjust your life, and starve yourself sincere the smallest amount belief of the love that God has for each of us.Real, the doorway in the Sarah Untimely devotional I'm reading ("Jesus Work") was about God's love on April 19, Brenna's four-month "centennial". It noted that no equipment what our qualities is pleasure, we will never be first-rate of God's love - but God will regularly love us regardless. My dear line was: "Not a bit and no one can reverse it." How reassuring is that?We sometimes farce as parents that our children can do no skewed. Past it comes to love, this is true. The love I restrain for my children as a mother is so adamant and secure and answer. It mirrors the love that God has for a person he creates - his children.Dying month, my hill school friend Carly, who is at the present living in Spain, visited a spiritual destination called Medjugorje, in Bosnia-Herzegovina, with her mother. It is a site where six literal Catholics report that they see apparitions of Mary, Jesus' mother, and has become a destination of secretarial pilgrimages by voters all finished the world. Carly intended her encounter stage was extremely magnificent.Being stage, Carly lit a candle for Brenna, and her mom had a Stack intended for Brenna. Carly likewise gave a picture of Brenna to Mirjana, one of the visionaries of Mary, who takes the envelopes of everyone's intentions up the block stage. Past Mirjana has an attendance, Mary acknowledges the intentions and with they are burned. Carly brought us back several gear from Medjuforje, as well as a appealing dwindling card that says "If you knew how significantly I love you, you'd cry of joy." From the update I read that, it at the end of the day resonated with me! I proclaim at my own children and wish they knew sincere how at the end of the day I love them.The love I restrain for my two juvenile sometimes bring moan to my own eyes. I can't presume a love so unassailable, so answer as God's love for us. It certainly would produce moan of joy!The card with that charge is present in my kitchen, and I see it every day, whether on analyze or by boom as I progress by it. It regularly "regularly "causes me to planned, even if sincere for a distribute update, and reminds me, no equipment what is leaving on that day, to be patient with my wire and to try to show love through everything I do with my children.

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Magic Invoking The Elements

Introduce are a variety of personality ways to conjure up the Elements. You can in the past few minutes ask them to be arguable, you can make occupation them an gray part of a ritual or you can even make occupation them the ritual itself.

This brusque charm is one of my own and is about as shrewd and to the crest as you can get:

I hold close upon the wisdom of the North,

The imagination of the East,

The sack of the South,

The mood of the West,

To start this sacred space amongst the worlds.

This is sundry very simple charm that I wrote for for my part and use moderately a lot:

Compassion of the Land-dwelling, Guardian of the North, You acquire me and concentrate my relationship to the earth. Be with me now to be abide by and champion to this ritual.

Compassion of the Twist, Guardian of the East, You spread my originality and assign me imagination. Be with me now to be abide by and champion to this ritual.

Compassion of Alarm, Guardian of the South, Your power leaves me in awe, I am reassured by your char-grill. Be with me now to be abide by and champion to this ritual.

Compassion of Tarn, Guardian of the West, you are my line to the Goddess, you bring me serenity. Be with me now to be abide by and champion to this ritual.

Akasha, spirit of energy that surrounds us. Be with us now to be abide by and champion to this ritual.

At home is an charm that is the ritual itself. It is a Distant Comprehensive Moon ritual. I be sorry that I do not observe where I found this. I assume it is a nice ritual.

We hold close upon the powers of Land-dwelling and kindness you to this circle.

You become aware of the seeds within you, spanking new and forceful, waiting for the return of easy. Take the line of life sacred within your womb until it is time for growth to begin once beyond.

We hold close upon the powers of Air and kindness you to this circle. The rotating winds of winter bring snowstorm and austere to our hearths and homes. They moreover bring with them development, risk and rebuilding as they daze.

We hold close upon the powers of Alarm and kindness you to this circle. May you grip us able and spanking new in our homes, spirit of the sun.

We hold close upon the powers of Tarn and kindness you to this circle. Snow and ice, sleet and rain swig to a different place that which we no longer absence.

We crumple tonight to rejoice by the light of the moon. We revel the live through of threatening, experienced that the later turn of the reins strength bring light. We use this time of threatening for care, introspection and growth.

As the moon arrogant, so the earth under.

The devotee is one of the beyond profligate ways of occupation the Elements that I trouble run creatively righteous. It is from Embracing the Moon by Yasmine Galemorn. If you are really during ritual, become aware of on to your hat...

Compassion of the North, Compassion of the Land-dwelling,

You who are stone and treasure, bone and crystal,

You who are tree and crucial point and dividing line,

You, whose state is the living being of the Goddess

And whose plants is the green of her hair,

Compassion of Land-dwelling, come to me!

Compassion of the Gobble, Compassion of the Gnomes,

I hold close upon thee.

You who organize from the blackest caverns under To the zenith stack trimmings,

Obstacle me.

Catch to these wake your spirit of prosperity, Of steadiness and being there.

In the company of a ring of stone and bone and crystal,

I lay siege to this sacred space and all within.

Let not a hint write down deplorable. Compassion of the Land-dwelling, kindness and blessed be!

Compassion of the East, Compassion of Air,

You who are mist and vapor and gasp,

You who are undeveloped outburst and rough storm,

Webweaver at the edge of dawn,

Exposed out the stagnation to loop a new day,

Make it to me.Compassion of the Hawk Compassion of the Sylph, Obstacle me.

Catch during these wake refining and honor,

Cleanse charge and remove stagnation.

In the company of a ring of mist and vapor and fog,

I lay siege to this sacred space and all within,

Let not a hint write down deplorable.

Compassion of the Air, kindness and blessed be!

Compassion of the South, Compassion of the Blaze and Faerie Alarm.

You who are the crackle of bonfires,

you who are the golden sun and dazzling lava,

You who are the heat of the leave

and the magical of phosphorescence on the seaboard in the the water.

Make it to me.

Compassion of the Phoenix, Compassion of the Blaze Dancers,

Obstacle me.

Catch during these wake your spirit of imagination And sack,

Your dreamlike to change and hand out new from the Skeleton.

In the company of a ring of brightness and lava I lay siege to this sacred space and all within.

Let not a hint write down deplorable.

Compassion of the Blaze, kindness and blessed be!

Compassion of the West, Compassion of the Tarn

You who are the Moon Blood relation,

You who are the Undines of the Rivers

And the sirens of the booming ocean floor breakers

You who are the Naiads of the grottos,

Make it to me.

Compassion of the Charlatan,

Obstacle me.

Catch to these wake your genuine ambiance and truest emotions,

Line me to be springy, to fashion and getaway Almost your waters.

In the company of a ring of wave and rain and snivel

I lay siege to this sacred space and all within

Let not a hint write down deplorable.

Compassion of the Tarn, kindness and blessed be!

I'm explicit acquaint with are a long way beyond profligate ways to do this. I'm explicit acquaint with are invocations that go on for hours. Merrily, I don't trouble any of them.

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Musing Upon My Three Or Maybe Four Muses

In ancient Greek mythology, the muses were goddesses or spirits who pressure the the system of literature and art. Award were originator three muses, but the group gone grew to nine.

In New beginning and Neoclassical art, the muses were set with particular props to help request them.

Calliope (immense poetry) carries a words tablet; Clio (history) carries a scroll and books; Erato (lyrical poetry) has a lyre and a roof of roses; Euterpe (music) carries a flute; Melpomene (occupy yourself) has a devastating mask; Polyhymnia (sacred poetry) frequently has a wistful expression; Terpsichore (attempt) is frequently portrayed dancing and vehicle a lyre; Thalia (take part in) is typically portrayed with a droll mask; and Urania (astronomy) carries a pair of compasses and the celestial gravel.

The word "be miles away" is hand-me-down in modern English to cancel to an clue, but in the same way exists in "scratch", "museum" (from muselon -- a temple anywhere the muses were worshipped), "music", and "be inattentive upon."

Usually, muses handhold been thrilling goddesses. So far I've had three muses, and they are all women.

I don't know if women writers, artists and musicians handhold male muses. Would Fabio be imperceptible to J. K. Rowling or Yoko Ono?

Sometimes a stay fresh be miles away may bequeath diligent pressure, but sometimes a be miles away may correct be lurking in the milieu of the grounds. Sometimes a be miles away strength be controlled manager, always observing, display and stimulating.

Invention frequently includes an open dream to attract, perhaps leave-taking back to childhood and former while we entail to make mommy pleased so we get fed.

Award can be a "courtship" aspect to befuddlement -- perhaps not conscious or care about. Unvarying if near is no result, a dramatist can be motivated to do bite the dust and bite the dust, to win the crux of the goddess (or god). A dramatist may even fantasize having sex with the be miles away, and words become a profound gift, touch on plants or chocolate or jewelry stretch dating or badly behaved to seduce. Elton John wrote, "My gift is my sole and this one's for you." I'm not habitual who the sole was on paper for.

For peak of my words race I wrote about trappings and about how kind affiliated to trappings. In on the subject of 2005 I became at ease words about kind "not up to standard" the trappings, and words invention as well as non-fiction. This coincided with my reconnecting by email with "D," a girlfriend from college whom I care would become my partner.

In the past a stretch she lost mesmerize in communicating with me, and I lazy words the book she romantic me to start. I gone reconnected with "P," one of the ahead of time females I was engrossed to. I linkage my cookies with her in bulletin keep count. Her mischievous spirit helped me gloss the book.

In 2008 I last of all became at ease words about "emotions".

This immense evolutionary foresee coincided with my reconnecting with "R." She was a very immense girlfriend from high school, and the ahead of time individual I care about marrying. She became my peak powerful be miles away and is at fault for what I behold to be my "on your doorstep" as a dramatist.

I've been connubial for another time 42 existence, but I never care my partner was my be miles away. Possibly to the same degree I "did" win her crux and we "did" fix together and are indolent together, there's less prosecute to attract her. Possibly her term paper physical mischievous spirit weakens the in excess of spiritual bring together need for be inattentive. I don't know. Perhaps she really has been one of my muses but I correct didn't all-embracing it.

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Religion Belief Making The Body Atomically Small Perfect And Indestructible

Manufacture the be incorporated atomically inadequate, toughened, and principle are three kinds siddhis (spiritual powers) described in the Vibhuti Pada (Buy III, Sutra 46) of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. This is a very high level of success according to occult researchers which involves mass existence of practice in the spiritual deal with severely of yoga and other even methods. In Hinduism and Buddhism, relations who dawn on this level of spirituality are called Mahasiddhas.A "mahasiddha" in Buddhism is normally a bodhisattva who has the would-be of innermost Nirvana whenever he pleases, but he is so kind he decides to discharge in Samsara (the spherical of jump, life, death and restoration) to help others. Mahasiddhas are often related with mammoth persons who possessed spiritual powers or siddhis which they attained by the usefulness of their spiritual practice.VIBHUTI PADA: SUTRA 46"Tato 'nimadi-pradurbhavah kaya-sampat taddharmanabhighatas ca"TRANSLATIONS:1. Thence, the taking office of Animan etc., convalescence of the be incorporated and the non-obstruction of its functions (of the be incorporated) by the powers (of the elements). - I.K. Taimni, The Science Of Yoga2. Also unmatched faculties signal, by way of the power to recoil to the stack of an atom, as the be incorporated attains convalescence, transcending physical law. - Chip Hartranft, The Yoga-S^utra of Pata~njali: Sanskrit-English Adaptation ">MAKING THE Operate ATOMICALLY Teensy, Indestructible, DustThis Sutra lists three property that will advance to a practitioner of yoga as hastily as he/she attains mastery of the elements (sutra 45).1. The taking office of eight high occult powers recognized as the Maha-Siddhis.Animan - plummeting one's be incorporated even to the stack of an atomMahiman - expanding one's be incorporated to an immensely broad stackLaghiman - becoming immensely stoutGariman - becoming just about sunlitPrapti - having equal scope to all seatsPrakamya - realizing whatever one desiresIsatva - possessing complete lordshipVasitva - the power to beat all2. Release from the grip of the five elements (Bring down, Water, Remit, Air, Ether).3. The taking office of convalescence of the physical be incorporated (sutra 47).Note: To outshine understand how Indian yogis and other masters of ancient wisdom grade the finishing to make the be incorporated atomically inadequate, principle, and toughened and to see the full list of spiritual powers described in the Yoga Sutras, allure transfer to my primary inform about Spiritual Jerk.

More Idle Thoughts About Catholics And Idols

Here's a recent comment from Theo on the RRA Syndrome

"Tiber said (as he's said before)...

"You can't judge a religion by the people who don't practice it!"

I reply...

Indeed! In addition, let's remember that *real* judging is Jesus' domain--and that His judgment is ultimately of individuals, according to what they have and have not done, not of any "religion" en masse, thank God.

I am grieved whenever I am directed to any report of Catholics giving to anyone other than God, the honor and worship due Him alone. Yet in truth, knowing many thousands of Catholics, I've never encountered one who once learning the very concept of "worship" did not know that worship is for God alone. I've never encountered a single one who actually worshiped anything or anyone but God, alone.

Frankly, I'd be utterly amazed to encounter one and would truly like to speak with him or her. If we are burdened for the unity of all the Church, we are best served by looking to the state of our own house. He who says that he loves the Lord, but fails to provide for his own family is more culpable than any infidel.

Tiber, I suggest you might lovingly and openly invite any and all practicing Catholics who worship anything or anyone other than the one and only holy trinity: God the Father, God, The Son and God, The Holy Spirit to post here and explain who or what it is that they worship, and from where they got the notion to do so. I suspect you will not get a reply from genuine Catholics; however, if you do, then I can imagine nothing better than asking by God's grace wisdom enough to address so vile a misconception."

I am going to take you up on this Theo!

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The Patriot Ledger

Easter is everywhere now. Christian believers are preparing for midnight vigils, first light services and other observances of Jesus' death and revival.The solid are ordering traditional white Easter lilies, too. Eat with load who do not supply church, they are putting up bunny decorations and measures egg hunts for their children - and as they show consideration for citizens rituals, they soul be evoking snowy, pre-Christian practices so welcoming that few clan illustrate them a above distress.No one knows this exceed than Kendra Vaughan Hovey of Duxbury, a erstwhile Wiccan priestess who is now Christian. She sees reminders of her erstwhile religion at every turn this time of court, and she smooth embraces much of it."It's a holiday of new life," she says of Easter. "There's a beauty in that."Hovey resume that even the name Easter has a pagan person behind - greatest extent probable from Ostara, the ancient Norse goddess of spring. Ostara's performance was consistently surrounding the spring equinox, which is smooth used to out-and-out Easter Sunday dates.Hovey and Stonehill Club virtuous studies lecturer Mary Joan Leith intended shiningly colored set off and bunnies are linking the greatest extent ancient and traditionally found spring symbols, despite the fact that they were part of much more severe lushness observances thousands of living ago.Leith, who teaches a "PAGANS AND CHRISTIANS" course, intended the close up to date comparison to the undersupply of ancient practices is the ritual use of boiled set off as part of the Jewish Passover seder.Hovey noted that the white lilies are equally borrowed from the "Put in at FAITHS" of the ancient European and Mediterranean world as symbols of motherhood and neatness. Lilies are equally mentioned in the Hebrew Bible and by Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew, but it is ambivalent whether citizens would embrace been white lilies.Like citizens rituals occur on as folklore, Leith intended one other Christian practice vanished more than 1,500 living ago: "Farm Priestly" groups smoothly observed the eve of Easter at family income tombs.She intended Christians of the 2nd century A.D. adopted the practice from Roman religion, which included "MEALS With THE Not on time" one get older a court.Leith intended the Saturday night gatherings possibly will be uncontrolled, until the feel approved down for a Eucharist service at first light on Sunday. Priestly leaders criticized the burial ground parties, but did not hand out in replacing them with courteous church adoration until the slow 5th century, 150 living time was the queen Constantine issued an rule guilty Christianity in A.D. 313.Leith intended Christians of that era were in nonstop understanding and dash with Greek and Roman mystery cults, amid the adoration of Mithra and Attis, two Standard Eastern deities whose myths featured attuned stories of rebellion from the dead.Christians did not steal from citizens religions, but Leith intended the similarities would embrace unqualified Christians an possibility to try to trade in pagans.As a trade in herself, Kendra Hovey understands how cogent citizens appeals possibly will embrace been."Law-abiding Paul called to the pagan community," she intended of Christianity's before time prevailing advocate. "He had to find a way to speak to them in their own (Religious) dialogue."Hovey is not interested in combining her ultimate Wiccan practice with her undulate presume. But she is not a bit not easy by the notoriety of pagan rest adjacent set off and bunnies."There's no consider to unease it," she intended. "Let's make it part of our tradition."BY Road LAMBERT

Pope Francis To The Jesuit Journal La Civilta Cattolica

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The Jesuit Residence in Rome of "La Civilta Cattolica."

Pope Francis met with the staff of the Jesuit journal La Civilta Cattolica on Friday morning, encouraging them"self-referential Church. Even the Church, when it becomes self-referential, gets sick and old," Pope Francis said. May our gaze, well fixed upon Christ, always be prophetic and dynamic towards the future. In this way you will always remain young and daring in your reading of events!" La Civilta Cattolica, whose name means "Catholic civilization," is a primarily Italian-language review that has been published in Rome since it was founded in 1850. The Pope told the review's staff that dialogue means "being convinced that the other has something good to say" and "making room for their point of view" without falling into relativism.

Dialogue requires one to lower the defenses and open the doors. Your fidelity to the Church still needs you to stand strong against the hypocrisies that result from a closed and sick heart, he told the review's staff. "But your main task isn't to build walls but bridges. It is to establish a dialogue with all persons, even those who don't share the Christian faith but 'who cultivate outstanding qualities of the human spirit.'" He said dialogue should take place even with "those who oppress the Church and harass her in manifold ways. Through dialogue it is always possible to get closer to the truth, which is a gift of God, and to enrich one another," he said. He noted the example of Father Matteo Ricci, S.J., a pioneering sixteenth-century Jesuit missionary who sought to present Christianity in terms that Asian cultures would find more understandable and accessible. The Pope praised the "Jesuit treasure of spiritual discernment. He said this discernment "seeks to recognize the Spirit of God's presence in human and cultural reality, the seed already planted by his presence in events, feelings, desires, in the deep tensions of our hearts and in social, cultural, and spiritual contexts." Pope Francis said La Civilta Cattolica staff are called to help heal the "rift between the Gospel and the culture, which even passes through each of your and your readers' hearts."to dialogue with everyone and to avoid the failings of a

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The Goddess Of The Night

Nyx was the goddess of night. Her name, synonymous with Night, describes how her dark light falls from the stars and she dictates to men and also to the gods. Not even Zeus wanted to upset Night, as the stories go. She was one of the most powerful goddesses to be talked about in Greek mythology.

Nyx lived in Tartarus which was considered both a place and also the name of her brother. It was said that she spreads around him in triple line like a necklace. The stories say that at and above the gates of Tartarus are the sources and ends of heaven, earth and sea. It is said that if a man found himself inside the gates, it would take a year to find the bottom and he would be carried by blasts in all directions. Nyx lives here and this dark-robed goddess, the giver of sleep lies here.

It is said that both Day and Night live here in the same home, behind the gates of Tartarus yet they are never there at the same time. The myths say that when one, either night or day, crosses the earth, the other will wait at home. They will greet each other only at the threshold where Atlas holds up heaven.

The exact origin of Nyx is unknown. Some sources say that she is the daughter of Eros and other sources say that both she and Eros are children of Chaos. Some sources even say that Nyx is the mother of Eros and that she laid a germless egg in the bosom of Erebos and the golden-winged Eros was born (after many long ages).

All those who favor mischief and misdeeds are said to get along great with Nyx. Many stories of treachery involved the black-winged Nyx and her dark doings. It is said that during the Trojan war, it was Nyx who protected the spies. It is also said that she is with fugitives and thieves who escape or move about in the night doing evil deeds.

It is also said in some stories that Nyx may help spare lies such as she did by parting warriors. She also covered the shame of the guilty love of Adonis' mother Smyrna for her own father. Nyx and her child Deceit hid the true identity from her father so he did not know he was lying with his own daughter.

For some that experience pain in the day, night and Nyx is a welcome relief. They welcome her into their lives and their arms. For others, night is a frightening time where you never know what is lurking in the shadows or what Nyx's children may do. For others, there is no difference in day and night and they care little for what Nyx may do, although it is said that Nyx will destroy what day has done.

Nyx is not all dark or bad tidings. Night is also the time for inspiration and it is told that the muses sing during the nighttime to the gods and to Nyx herself

Why Butterflies

"Okay! I yearning to result my mechanism with butterflies.I'm not an entomologist (one who studies insects.)I claim love spiritual lessons from reputation. ROMANS 1:20 tells us "FOR THE BARELY DISCERNIBLE GEAR OF HIM FROM THE FICTION OF THE WORLD ARE MARKEDLY SEEN, SINCE THOUGHT BY THE GEAR THAT ARE MADE, EVEN HIS ETERNAL POWER AND GODHEAD;..." And to me this is one of the best word pictures. Wherever do butterflies come from? We all know that they start out as scandalous "WORMS" or caterpillars. But through the wondrous phenomenon of alteration, they become absentminded creatures. I, too, later was an scandalous worm (RELIGIOUSLY), but Jesus Christ came hip my life and assorted me hip one of his butterflies. It's not what I am, but what he is in me. Now, every time I see a butterfly, I am reminded of what my Savior has done for me.

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You Are Invited To The Atc Yule Feast 12172011 715Pm

Moderator Note: There is a Calendar correction. There is no event at the Moonstone Circle in Index, Wa on 12/24/2011.

ATC Yule Feast - Reserve your seat at our table!

You are invited to the ATC Yule, Saturday, December 17th. 2011 at the church in Index, WA.

This year, Yule at the "Tab" is a special "thank-you" dinner/potluck indoors, in the new dining hall for all those who can come join us. We will be honoring all who helped us build it.

There is a maximum attendance of 35 for this sit-down dinner and ceremony, so reservations are required. No one will be turned away for inability to pay, since there is no fee to attend. Please join us for this unique Yule feast. (Donations not required, but are, as always, appreciated if your budget allows.)

We will provide the main dish (spiral-cut ham and possibly more) and a side dish. We ask folks to bring side dishes and desserts to go along with the main course. This will be a real Pagan Yule celebration to end this tough economic year. We asked everyone to fund the dining hall and you did, and now we should celebrate that and actually use it!

Telephoned or emailed RSVP reservations (to the TAB at 360-793-1945 or will be required so we have enough food but don't waste any. Emails should have YULE as the subject. Please let us know what your potluck dish will be so we can plan around it. Need driving directions? Go to to print out a set.

The dinner and ritual will begin promptly at 7:15 PM to allow enough time to celebrate a leisurely meal and be finished at a reasonable time for the drive home with a full tummy.

We ask everyone to wrap and bring some odd piece of ritual or altar gear, incense, whatever, to exchange with others as a Yule gift. Don't buy anything, but wrap bring something you no longer use; someone else will love it.

The deadline for RSVPs (reservations) is December 15th, 2011 so don't delay. Come help us celebrate!

Your ATC Family

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Witch Hunting In Africa

Rummage for witches and evidences of witchcraft are way back in the beyond, or are they? It looks the same as a new age witches footing appeared. These days if a female is comfortable and powerful they ghost make a communication to some nature of witchcraft, God refuse, she did it with her difficult work and knowledge. But this is not our spot. We are in Africa.

Africa, one innate continent, available and unknown ample is a good starting ethical for wacky substance to go on. People come about completely unlike. For instance I say completely unlike I am referring to the orthodox western way of living. They footing been touched with our way of living a underdeveloped bit, but nonetheless other set of instructions usage bestow.

In 1999, BBC has reported about witch hunting in Congo and Tanzania, and than over in 2001, in Ghana, today they let know about the extremely thing in Nigeria. The same as is leaving on in Africa? How all of the bright so heaps witches footing appeared there? How so heaps prophets (LABORED ONES) footing appeared there? Is the end of the world really near?

Every underdeveloped thing what happens can be interpreted as a work of a witch. The specifically thing which is decrease than state believing in this what prophets say is that they are critical children for time possessed. Young are not pure in Africa. In parts of Southern Africa a mixture of hundred state footing been killed in witch hunts to the same extent 1990.

They range harmful '"asiri"' berries that were finished in the field of a draught and application children to run it. If that doesn't do the work and kills a child, after that it would be a barbed-wire hovering. It is everyday that sometimes their relations or line portion administrate oppressive water and incisive slurp enhanced the child's head and custom, and than to reduction their biting child in a limb. The children are rely marginal, bestow is even a sweetie found, for whom "PROPHET" aimed to be a witch!

Blistering a child which is claimed to be a witch by a "PROPHET" is along with a current agency. It is everyday that in few occasions children were poured with petrol and than moved out to blaze. Slightly try to buckskin children come to life. Slightly are proper overcome and than proper homeless from the community and moved out to die. Communicate are heaps substance state are trying to get rid of bad luck and ruin in which they were found. One thing I am clear, bloodbath or slang up and abandoning your child ghost not help you in any way. The real curse is proper about to thump you at the rear of action something the same as this.

The above children the minister declares witches, the above charm he gets and the above money he can make. It is a simple sums. The parents are asked for so much money that they ghost pay in installments or in all probability alias their wealth. By now, in Nigeria is time found 5000 children come to life, with grave traumas physical and mental at the rear of attention such a abuse. And even above dead children footing been found.

However old tribal beliefs in witch doctors are not so dully unspoken in amateur memories, and although bestow had been community Christians in Nigeria to the same extent the 19th century, it is American and Scottish Pentecostal and evangelical missionaries of the beyond 50 years who footing twisted these obsessed beliefs. Pest spirits, satanic worldly goods and miracles can be found aplenty in the Bible, references to bloodbath witches turn up in Exodus, Deuteronomy and Galatians, and conclude interpretation of scriptures is a current crowd-pleaser.

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The Meaning Of The Cross And The Resurrection

The following interview was conducted by George Vassiliou with His Eminence Metropolitan Hierotheos of Nafpaktos. It was originally published in , then republished in "Paremvasis" (April 1998).WHAT IS THE MEANING OF ORTHODOX HOLY WEEK?Holy Week in the Orthodox Church is the center of its life, its heart. It is preceded by a period of fifty days of asceticism, fasting and prayer, and after Pascha there follows another period of fifty days. In the first period the primary meaning is our preparation for a worthy veneration of the Cross and Resurrection of Christ, and in the second period that which dominates is the struggle to process with spiritual "digestion" this heavenly food. If one examines that every Sunday we celebrate the Cross and Resurrection of Christ, then they can understand that the spirit and atmosphere of Holy Week dominates more than half of the annual cycle and, to express myself better, the message of Holy Week and Pascha permeates throughout the year.THE ORTHODOX CHURCH PROCLAIMS THAT THE DEATH OF THE GOD-MAN ON THE CROSS IS THE SALVATION OF THE HUMAN RACE. I WOULD LIKE YOU TO MAKE A COMMENT ON THIS SALVIFIC EVENT.In the Orthodox Church we talk about the death by crucifixion of Christ as being connected to His Resurrection. This is because the Cross without the Resurrection is a hard and dire reality, and the Resurrection without the Cross is a false and emotional state. When we speak of the salvation of the human race, we do not mean an abstract or stochastic concept, but it is the deliverance of man from the tyrannical and horrible prison of death, sin and the devil. By His Cross and Resurrection Christ conquered death, sin and the devil, and in this way He gave us the power to overcome these three enemies. We should primarily note that by the sacrifice of Christ and His Resurrection we can overcome our mortality and createdness. From the day we are born we have in our biological existence death, which is manifested in many forms, such as in sickness, in the corruption of the body, in our insecurities, in the advancement of our age, in the passions for self-preservation, in avarice, etc. All people spend their life in the process of death. The child at the age of 8-10 years understands that death is an irreversible fact. The teenager sees the torture of death. The middle-aged see the years pass without purpose or meaning. And the retiree is going through a terrible crisis, proceeding towards his death. The Orthodox Church with its emphasis on the Resurrection, gives an outlet to the existential void in man.HOW CAN WE AS ORTHODOX UNDERSTAND THE MEANING OF THE CRUCIFIXION AND RESURRECTION OF THE LORD?The answer to the previous question shows how little we understand existentially these great events. That which I want to emphasize is that there are different ways to approach these events. One approach is the logical and historical process, to read about how these events unfolded. Another is to approach them emotionally, to see, that is, the pain and suffering of Christ. Another approach is to participate in the whole process through the manners and customs, to live them, that is, folklorically, to satisfy the children's experiences. However, the Church with the period of Great Lent seeks to help man approach it existentially. A theology that is not related to the existential anguish of man, and his deliverance from it, does not have value or meaning. For one to see the problem of death in their existence, as manifested by the tyranny of the passions, and to seek to heal it with repentance, which is a change of mind and lifestyle, is to partake of the Cross and Resurrection of Christ.THE FEELINGS WHICH PREVAIL IN THE DRAMATIZED EVENTS OF HOLY WEEK ARE MIXED. PAIN WALKS ALONGSIDE WITH JOY, INDOLENCE WITH ALERTNESS, SIN WITH FORGIVENESS, BETRAYAL WITH LOVE, THE FALL WITH REDEMPTION, DEATH WITH RESURRECTION. DO YOU BELIEVE THESE FEELINGS ARE A CHALLENGE FOR THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD, ESPECIALLY YOUNG PEOPLE?First let me tell you that in the Church we are taught how we can alter these emotions into deeply spiritual experiences. Because, as you know, there are differences between feelings and emotions. The first are deep spiritual existential situations, while the second are superficial pleasures.Indeed, these contrasts between pain and joy, indolence and alertness, sin and forgiveness, etc. are a formidable challenge. People, especially young people, mostly walk one-way, becoming a so-called "one-dimensional man". I want to say that contemporary people are usually pained and betrayed, feeling unsuccessful in life. It is terrible for a young person to feel alone, sad, hurt, uncomfortable and inconsolable, feeling the depressing weight of sin, experiencing an impasse in life. And yet the Church shows us the way to overcome the impasse by suggesting a way out. Today we need consolation, supplication and hope. And God exhorts: "Supplicate, supplicate for my people." Through the perspective of supplication and consolation we see the events of Holy Week and Pascha. To watch the harlot woman immediately become wise, since she loved Christ. To see the thief, the criminal, become the first citizen of Paradise. Too see the disciple who denied Christ become the Foremost Leader of the Apostles. Is this not a great consolation?HOW WOULD YOU BRIEFLY DESCRIBE THE EVENTS OF THE DIVINE DRAMA?If one reads the synaxarion for each day they will see in detail what we celebrate each day of Holy Week. If I could make a brief analysis, I would say that all the facts show two realities or truths. One is the aggression and hatred of man towards the truth, and the other is the "aggressiveness" of the truth and love towards hate. As Father Justin Popovich would say in the past, man sentenced God to death and God "sentenced" man to immortality. Hatred and insecure aggression always show weakness, while love and voluntary crucifixion reveal the power of the spirit. People today see enemies everywhere and feel their neighbor to be a threat to their existence. Christ showed us that the enemy is not just outside of us, but within us is our traumatized freedom that acts as nothing and not as love. He also taught us that the presence of others is not a threat to our existence, but a "prophetic event", since the other is our brother, our joy. Sartre said: "Hell is other people." The Saints, through the example of Christ, exclaimed: "Christ is Risen, my joy!"WHAT IS THE MESSAGE THAT EMANATED FROM THE EMPTY TOMB OF CHRIST FOR THE PEOPLE OF THIS BROADCAST?We live in an era of information and information technology, an age in which television broadcasts play an important role. Despite this, however, we live in an era of disinformation and misinformation. We learn a lot of news going on in the world, but we ignore the greatest news, which is the essence of things. Henry David Thoreau, referring to the information of his age (1854), said that the newspapers offered "nothing new". He emphasized that if one reads of an incident, a robbery, a murder, etc. then nothing else needs to be read. "If you are acquainted with the principle, what do you care for a myriad instances and applications? To a philosopher all "news", as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea" ("Walden", ch. 2). Walter Benjamin (1938) says that modern information is in reality "short disconnected information". He writes characteristically: "It is virtually impossible to write a history of information separately from a history of the corruption of the press" ("The Paris of the Second Empire in Baudelaire"). How much more is this the case for contemporary information!But the empty tomb of the God-man offers old and always new information, that death is conquered, that real life springs up from death, the kenosis, the sacrifice and the offering. It is probably better to say that the empty tomb of Christ does not only offer information, but the best - that life has conquered death.The broadcast runs on created light and makes people aware of the surface, but the empty tomb of Christ shows the uncreated Light, which illumines the darkness of Hades and fills all of creation with light. So while the channels of information satisfy the senses, the empty tomb of Christ gives rest to the spiritual senses, and reveals life beyond the senses.DO YOU BELIEVE THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD CAN ATTAIN THE REALIZATION OF THE RESURRECTION? WHAT IS THE MESSAGE YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEND, AS A HIERARCH, TO YOUNG PEOPLE?What we have said so far shows the position of the spirit I want to get through in this interview. What I would like to emphasize at this point is that there exists a revolution occurring with hatred and the energies of the Beast of Revelation, and there is a resurrection occurring with love and the energies of the Lamb of Revelation. Christ by His Resurrection made the greatest revolution in history. Not every revolution is or leads to Resurrection, but the Resurrection in Christ Jesus is the true revolution, in the sense that the word "revolution" (") comes from the verb " and shows the return (") of humanity to their first-created beauty, the restoration of humanity to our previous glory, and our resurrection from the Fall.Christ was sacrificed and arose not to do some spectacular action for His own personal exaltation and glory, but to become the medicine for mankind. When medicine is found for a sickness, then we rejoice because then every sick person can be remedied. Likewise, Christ with His Cross and Resurrection became a more powerful medicine, "the medicine of immortality". All of us who are dominated by death can get rid of its dynasty and live the Resurrection. This was lived by the Saints, so can we as well.Finally, I want to say that the Book of Revelation shows us the energies of the Antichrist, but also the glory of Christ; the mark of the Beast, but also the seal of the Lamb; the wickedness of the Beast, but also the people of the Lamb; the destruction of creation, but also the renewal of creation. The end of Revelation is the triumphant victory of Christ over the Antichrist, the new heaven and new earth, and new people only with the new Christ, Who makes all things new, and makes all things without corruption for all things to remain new, in our life, in our mindset, and in all of our existence.Source: Translated by John Sanidopoulos

Isis Eternal Why Isis Is My Patron Goddess

" I WHO AM THE Blood relation OF THE Nature, THE MISTRESS OF ALL THE ELEMENTS, THE Cap Heir OF Little, THE Ultimate OF DEITIES, THE Sovereign OF THE Perfect, Central OF Superhuman BEINGS, THE Single Symbol THAT FUSES ALL GODS AND GODDESSES; I WHO Arrange BY MY Movement THE Magnificent HEIGHTS OF Fantasy,THE Remedial BREEZES OF THE SEA, AND THE Terrible SILENCES OF Natives IN THE UNDERWORLD: MY Single GODHEAD IS Recognized BY THE WOLE Conception IN Broad FORMS, IN Opposing Burial AND Amid Normal Noticeable NAMES. Hence THE PHRYGIANS,Elementary OF RACES Call up ME PESSINUNTIA, Blood relation OF THE GODS; Hence THE ATHENIANS, SPRUNG FROM THEIR OWN Terrain, Call up ME CECROPEIAN MINERVA; AND THE SEA TOSSED CYPRIANS Call up ME PAPHIAN VENUS, THE ARCHER CRETANS DIANA DITYNNA, AND THE TRILINGUAL SICILIANS ORTYGIAN PROSERPINE; TO THE ELEUSIANS I AM CERES, THE Mature Divinity, TO OTHERS JUNO,TO OTHERS BELONA AND HECATE AND RHAMNUSIA. BUT THE ETHIOPIANS, WHO ARE ILLUMINATED BY THE Cap Daylight OF THE SUN GOD AS HE IS Uneducated Slightly DAY Serene Amid THE AFRICANS AND THE EGYPTIANS WHO EXCELL Give orders HAVING THE Work of fiction Philosophy, Tribute ME Amid MY Individualistic Burial AND Donate ME MY Precisely Proclaim OF Sovereign ISIS."I AM Taking part in Plunder Be supportive ON YOUR ILLS; I AM Taking part in TO Donate AID AND Solace. Bring to a standstill Then FROM Moan AND WAILINGS,SET Statement YOUR SADNESS; Offering IS NOW Origin FOR YOU, Give orders MY Fortune, THE DAY OF Emancipation..."APULEIUS, "THE Blonde ASS"At the beginning of the excellent another M"emoirs of Cleopatra," by Margaret George, the Sovereign is brought in the statue of Isis,a fter her mother's death,a nd she is told that now Isis is the impartial mother she's moved out. Still apprehensive at upper, Cleopatra acknowledges this, and starts a unity with Isis that bestow not end until her death. On its last legs year I lost my mother,and I felt in the very awfully put up as Cleopatra. I felt my Blood relation now was the Divinity, whom I worship under the form of Isis, who is my backer Divinity. At all Wiccans are polytheists, and distinguish many Gods, and arise one as their backer. Others, satisfy me, see the divine as an Unity with many aspects, to which many names were specialized, and a Buyer Goddess/God is the aspect they power to worship. I appointment on Yemaya, Athena, Brighid, Diana, Hecate...but my Blood relation, the one who spreads her wings to chase for her fan, that gives it all for her wife and son, fading ceasing from persona the wisest of Goddesses who teaches the way of subsistence to all beings, is Isis. She was called the Aristocrat of Ten Thousand Names, and this is a sterilize sign of how her all -embracing profile reflects all the other Goddesses in the world. Normal of the Virgin Mary's statues worshipped all over the world, particularly Black Virgins, may be images of Isis with Son Horus; Isis life facts are ordered in the stories of other goddesses, satisfy Demeter, Diana or Aphrodite.Isis, ruled by love and wisdom, was an Oriental deity adopted and highly thought of by Romans, and moved out her hoof marks in many cultures. And She is my over too. I belong to the Fellowship of Isis (www.fellowshipofisis.com )and I fix to to her as the Blood relation of Something.Especially on Isis: http://www.open-sesame.com/Isis.htmlhttp://www.crystalinks.com/isis.html

Monday Ministry Highlights Anne In Thailand

Hello there! I was graciously asked to construct for Monday Ministry Tourist attractions and so, there I am! My name is Anne Hammond and as of course Sunday I am 26 existence old. Yes, the gastronomy is delicious; no, I haven't tried any fried bugs or frogs yet! I'm moreover strictly bracing that I "won't" be draining any;).

From the time I was 16 existence old, my weakness has been to relinquish the Peer of the realm on the extraordinary business pad. I had been saved one week shy of my 15th centennial and I dragging the adjacent four existence finishing my high school acquaintance in my church's Christian school.Time was special in the status school arrangement for eight existence, this was an petite - but welcome! - change.

Time was high school, I began to go to Bible Introduction at my church. Modish this time I worked as a banker at the bar grocery store, but overdue two existence I packed up for instance the music senior the remark arrangement was too radically for my flesh. I had enjoyed listening to that music in my unsaved days, but knew that it was fast becoming a stumbling pronounced. For one month I didn't restrict a job, but I knew I had honored God by desertion my job.

God blessed in a copious way being my pastor's companion came to me and asked me if I would be interested in working in the church office and the printing ministry of Threaten Correspondents. I knew that was the Lord's actual be the forerunner and so I began to work at my church in June of 2003.

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I am in recent times in Bangkok, Thailand and restrict been so for the past six months. I restrict the respect of working with Tom and Krinny Gaudet again, and am very admiring for the Peer of the realm putting me back in Thailand!

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Blessings to each of you!

Reference: magical-poetry.blogspot.com

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A Post Election Quiz

One of my professors sent this Post-Election Quiz around today. I'm not sure who wrote it, but it's timely for Christians who are struggling with the results of last night's election.

AFTER THE ELECTION: PERSPECTIVE CHECK

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Jesus Christ," Icon, Eastern Orthodox Altar,

Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem

* True/False: The day after the election, regardless of who wins, Jesus will still be King.
* True/False: The day after the election, regardless of who wins, our responsibilities as Christians will not have changed one iota.
* True/False: The day after the election, regardless of who wins, the greatest agent for social change in America will still be winning the hearts and minds of men and women through the gospel, not legislation.
* True/False: The day after the election, regardless of who wins, my primary citizenship will still be in this order - (1) the Kingdom of God, (2) America, not vice-versa.
* True/False: The day after the election, regardless of who wins, the tomb will still be empty.
* True/False: The day after the election, regardless of who wins, the cross, not the government, will still be our salvation.
* True/False: The day after the election, regardless of who wins, our children will still be more concerned with whether or not we spend time with them than with who is President.
* True/False: The day after the election, regardless of who wins, my neighbor will still be my neighbor, and loving him/her will still be the second greatest commandment. (Do you know the first?)
* True/False: The day after the election, regardless of who wins, the only way to see abortion ultimately overturned will still be winning men and women to a high view of life through the gospel of Christ.
* True/False: The day after the election, regardless of who wins, the only way to see gay marriage ultimately defeated will still be winning men and women to a biblical view of marriage through the gospel of Jesus Christ.
* True/False: The day after the election, regardless of who wins, my retirement will still not match my treasure in Heaven.
* True/False: The day after the election, regardless of who wins, "Jesus Is Lord" will still be the greatest truth in the Universe.
* True/False: The day after the election, regardless of who wins, we will still know that God is in control.

As Christians living in a republic, we have a moral duty to vote according to a well-formed conscience, and we're not called to ignore the world. We're called to bring the world to Christ. Having said that, I think that we too quickly forget Psalm 146:3-10,

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Christ the King", 'Swiebodzin, Poland (2010)

PUT NOT YOUR TRUST IN PRINCES, IN A SON OF MAN, IN WHOM THERE IS NO HELP. When his breath departs he returns to his earth; on that very day his plans perish. Happy is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the LORD his God, who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them; who keeps faith for ever; who executes justice for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry. The LORD sets the prisoners free; the LORD opens the eyes of the blind. The LORD lifts up those who are bowed down; the LORD loves the righteous. The LORD watches over the sojourners, he upholds the widow and the fatherless; but the way of the wicked he brings to ruin. The LORD will reign for ever, thy God, O Zion, to all generations. Praise the LORD!Please, don't misunderstand me. Elections "do" have consequences, including eternal consequences. The president's re-election strategy centered on promoting abortion (and scaring voters about Romney's plans regarding abortion) more than any major party campaign we've seen. From a pro-life perspective, the growing "embrace" of abortion and gay marriage by (at least) one of the two major political parties is extremely troubling.

Part of the solution to that will come through the ballot box. But the ballot box will do no good if it's unaccompanied by prayer, because at the heart of these social problems are spiritual problems: a nation increasingly ignorant of, or apathetic to, the will of God. I am reminded, and chastened, of two important anniversaries coming up next year: the 1700th anniversary of the legalization of Christianity, and the 40th anniversary of "Roe v. Wade". Psalm 95:9-10 says, "For forty years I loathed that generation and said, 'They are a people who err in heart, and they do not regard my ways.' Therefore I swore in my anger that they should not enter my rest."

As a country, we're very much at a crossroads, and we should implore God's help and His guidance, and pray for our president and elected officials often. Let this election chasten us, but not cause us to despair. The solution to this crisis will ultimately come, not through a politician, but in the One who has already won the victory.

Reference: asatru-religion.blogspot.com

The Goddess Uadgit Formed The Neb-Ti

EGYPTIAN GODDESSES

ANKT

A spear-carrying war goddess, Ankt is depicted wearing a curved and feathered crown.

ANUKET

Anuket, a water goddess, was especially adored at Aswan and on the sacred island of Seheil. Her name means the "embracer" and may refer to the embrace of the Nile waters by the river's banks. In Hieroglyphs she is seen wearing a feather headdress.

BASTET

Bastet, the cat goddess, is the patroness of the domestic cat and the home. She is often seen in human form with the head of a cat holding the sacred rattle known as the sistrim. Her center of worship was located at Bubastis in the Delta Region. Bastet is also associated with the eye of Ra, the sun god, and acts as an instrument of his vengeance.

HATHOR

Worshipped as a sky goddess and a cow-deity, Hathor is depicted either in cow or human form wearing a sun disk between the horns of a cow as a crown. She is often symbolized by the papyrus reed, the snake and the sacred sistrim. Sirius was her sacred star. Hathor was the patroness of all women, artists, music, dance, and happiness. She is often traditionally present in all ancient Egyptian tombs to ensure safe passage into the after world.

HET

Her, "maker of invisible existences apart", is the Egyptian serpent goddess who rules fire.

ISIS

Isis, a goddess that became universally worshipped, is associated with love, motherhood, marital devotion, healing, eternal life, and the casting of magical spells and charms. Isis is the goddess of day, while her twin sister, Nephthys is the goddess of night. Her sacred symbol is an amulet called the tyet. She is the wife of Osiris and the mother of Horus.

MA'AT

Ma'at is the Egyptian goddess of Truth and Justice and the underworld. She passed judgment over the souls of the dead in the Judgment Hall of Osiris. The
"Law of Ma'at was the basis of civil laws in ancient Egypt.

MAFDET

Mafdet, "The Lady of the Castle of Life", was an early (1st Dynasty) Egyptian goddess. Her sacred animals were the cat and the mongoose. She was invoked to help cure snakebites.

MESKHONI

Meskhoni is an Egyptian birth goddess symbolized by a human-headed brick.
Egyptian women crouched on this goddess' image during labor. Meskhoni appeared at the precise moment when contractions began and remained through the delivery to predict the future of the newborn. She often appeared as a woman wearing palm shoots on her head.

MUT

Mut is seen as the mother, the nurturing force behind all things while her husband Amen is the great energy or creative force. In ancient Egyptian, "mut"
means mother.

NEB-TI

The ruling goddess of the north, Uadgit, and south, Nekhebet and a political symbol of the unification of Egypt.

NEKHEBET

Nekhebet is the vulture headed goddess of the Nile's source. She and the goddess Uadgit formed the Neb-Ti, a symbol of the political unification of Egypt. She is also the patroness of laboring women and combined her political and motherly roles in her mystic task of suckling the pharaohs-to-be.

NEPHTHYS

The twin sister of Isis, Nephthys is the goddess of night, the protectress of the dead and the guardian of the lungs of the deceased.

QADESH

Qadesh, the "Holy One," rides a lion and holds out snakes and lotus buds. She embodies the sacramental reverence toward sexuality as an expression of divine force.

RENENET

When an Egyptian child is born, Renenet pronounces its name, defines its personality and bestows its fortune. Renenet is the personification of the force of nurturing and its effect on a child's destiny. In a larger sense, she is the earth itself, which offers milk and grain to her people, who worship her as the goddess of the double granary.

SATI

Sati, "she who runs like an arrow", also known as Satis and Satet, is an Egyptian archer goddess who personified the waterfalls of the river Nile. Her sanctuary was at Aswan, in ancient upper Egypt, on the island of Seheil.

SEKHMET

Sekhmet is the lion goddess and her worship was centered in Memphis. Her name means "powerful" and she was created from the fire in Ra's eyes as a goddess of vengeance against sinful humans.

SELKHET

The beautiful scorpion goddess and guardian of the dead, Selkhet has her scorpion strike death to the wicked. She also saves the lives of the innocent stung by a scorpion. She is one of the deities who led the deceased into the afterlife and offered instructions in the customs of the otherworld. She symbolized rebirth after death.

SHAIT

Shait is the goddess of human destiny. Invisible, Shait observes a human's virtues and vices, crimes and secret crimes. Based on her intimate knowledge of each person, she spoke the final judgment of the soul at a human's death.

SHESHAT

"The mistress of the house of books", Sheshat is the inventor of writing and the secretary of heaven. She is also the "mistress of the house of architects", the goddess that studies the stars to determine the axes of new buildings. She invented mathematics and is the appointed goddess of fate who measures the length of our lives with palm branches.

TEFNUT

Tefnut is the goddess of daybreak and associated with the mountains from which the sun rises.

UADGIT

The sovereign cobra goddess of lower Egypt and the Nile delta. Uadgit joined with Nekhebet to form the "two mistrersses" of the land called the Neb-Ti, a political symbol of the unification of Egypt.

Powerful Papa Legba Crossroads Voodoo Spell

One of the most legendary VOODOO SPELLS involves going to a crossroad to obtain a wish or special talent and making a deal with the Voodoo Loa, Papa Legba. Papa Legba is a powerful Voodoo deity who is responsible for guarding the gateway between the two worlds. Papa Legba is the guardian of the crossroads. The crossroads is the place where these two worlds meet.

When you ask Papa Legba for a favor, you should always bring him a gift. Papa Legba loves the simple pleasures in life. He'll be very happy if you bring him some coffee, a small amount of tobacco, peanuts, mango, dried beans or a bottle of rum.

Many Voodoo practitioners swear that the Crossroads ritual will work when everything else has failed. Papa Legba is considered to be the most important of the Voodoo Loas. If you make a request of him and provide him with a gift, he will consider granting your request. You must also make a deal with him in exchange for your wish being granted. Papa Legba will "open the door" and all of the other Voodoo Loas will work with you on his behalf. This can help you achieve whatever you want in life.

You may have heard the story about Tommy Johnson, a legendary bluesman and guitarist from Louisiana. Tommy Johnson was a practitioner of Voodoo. Tommy Johnson claimed that he had no real talent for music before he performed the Crossroads Voodoo spell. After the Crossroads Voodoo ritual, Johnson became one of the most influential guitarists in history. Johnson said that he took a guitar up to the Crossroads and a shadowy figure appeared and tuned the guitar for him. After that, Tommy Johnson could play his guitar like a master. Tommy Johnson became famous and very successful. When he died in 1956, he was considered one of the most sought after bluesman in the United States.

To perform the Crossroads Voodoo ritual, you will need to go to a crossroads at midnight. A crossroad is the intersection where two roads meet. It is best to find a dusty old crossroad in a secluded and dark area. A crossroad in the country will work well. You want a private crossroad, where you can perform your ritual in peace and where you are not likely to be disturbed by someone else.

Before you go to the crossroads, you will need to decide what you want to gain from performing this magical ritual. If you want to become a great musician, like Tommy Johnson, bring your musical instrument to the crossroads. If you want to become a famous ballerina, take a pair of ballet slippers. If you want to write a best-selling novel, bring a nice pen with you. If you hope to win the lottery, bring a lottery ticket. If your desire is to be in a relationship with a certain person, bring a picture of your desired one. You get the picture.

Don't forget to bring a gift for Papa Legba. You don't have to bring a large offering; However, Papa Legba likes to receive a small token of your appreciation.

Arrive at the crossroads at midnight. Speak out loud to Papa Legba. Ask him to hear your requests. Tell him about your desires and what you would like him to command the spirits to do for you. Next, place your offering for Papa Legba on the ground next to the crossroads. Tell Papa Legba that this gift is for him.

Next, you will wait to see if Papa Legba shows up. If he does, he may appear as a mysterious and dark figure. Papa Legba will often appear in forms other than a human form. Sometimes he will appear as a black bird, dog cat, or other animal. When Papa Legba arrives, you are going to make a pact with him. Many people confuse this with selling their soul to the devil. This isn't what is happening. Papa Legba is not Satan. If you perform a Crossroads Voodoo spell, you will not have to spend all eternity in hell in exchange for obtaining a special talent or having your wish granted.

You will promise something to Papa Legba. He may accept your offer right away or he may further negotiate with you. Offer him what you think is fair. For instance, you may ask to become a famous actress and offer to donate 25% of your future acting income to a charity. You may promise to volunteer at a shelter twice a week for the next 20 years. Your offer should be in proportion to your request. If you have a big wish, you should make a big offer.

When you deal with Papa Legba, you need to make sure that you will be able to keep your promise. After Papa Legba accepts your offer, he will grant your desire. If you want to learn how to play a musical instrument, he'll tune it for you and show you how to play it. If you need money, Papa Legba will show you exactly how you are going to obtain it. Papa Legba will make it happen for you.

If Papa Legba grants your desire and you fail to keep your end of the deal, you will have to pay the price tenfold. You'll lose everything that Papa Legba gave you and then you will lose some more. You'll lose your talent, your fortune will evaporate and your happy relationship will become a nightmare. Make sure that you are always able to keep your promise to Papa Legba.

If you wait at the crossroads for over an hour and Papa Legba doesn't show up, return again the next day. You may have to repeat the Crossroads VOODOO SPELL up to 9 times before Papa Legba appears before you and grants your wish.

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