Moving House (Blogs) Again!

So... new year, new blog.  Actually TWO new blogs.  This one is being re-located to Wintermagick Musings, to log my regular mundane life with the magickal threaded within.  And my new baby project, Love Spirals Inwards, my inspired place of my journey of loving the soul I'm in and tapping into (and having a relationship with) the Spirit/The Divine.

For the first time I am doing that whole "word of the year" thing.  My word for 2013 was inspired by the Obama campaign slogan: "Forward".  Let's just get this out of the way right now, I have a bit of a crush on Barack Obama. ;-)

So on forward I journey.  I would love it if you join me!

Post Election Highs and Lows

I think this post-election is a bit different than those past because social media is now such a daily (sometimes hourly) ritual in most everyone's life.  I posted a couple of cute-sy/fun type "four more years" celebration memes on my Facebook and was immediately "un-friended" by someone I never really knew anyway. My news feed had a few very hateful comments about this being the era of the anit-Christ and yadayadayada.

For the most part I refrained from discussing anything in depth but I did make one comment about acceptance and moving on and someone (not a friend of mine, a friend of a friend) hit me with this: "I will stand up for my beliefs and will not conform to the worldly ways. As it talks about in James, evil does not come from God, so I do not believe that it is Gods will for Obama to get re-elected, we have free will and will have to live with the consequence".

Okaaaay... well, I really could have come back with this: "There is a Bible verse (Romans 13: 1-2) that says, 'There is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God.' Or to put it in another way, what will be will be. So in a way (depending on one's spiritual beliefs) we are commanded to respect our leaders whether or not we chose them.  I REALLY wanted to get that little jab in there (because while I have no seminary degree or anything I consider myself partly Christian, have spent years studying the Bible, and do know it at least as well as any Evangelical).  But I just dropped it and let it go.  It's just not worth it.

I've said before I didn't vote for Obama the last time.  He didn't really impress me at first as being someone who could fix the mess we were in.  Actually, for the first time since being a "politically aware" adult I didn't vote at all in 2008, but then again I was going through quite a bit of personal shifts right during that election era (a divorce, a move, an unexpected pregnancy).  But through the years Obama has grown on me.  So needless to say the results of Tuesday night elections left a smile on my face and a hope in my heart that I carried with me on Wednesday.  But I live in the great state of Texas (and I do love my state) but it is, and always will be, a very RED state.  So yesterday when I was out or at work what I saw and felt everywhere was a huge shift in energy in that most everyone was walking around with long faces and speaking in subdued tones or grunts.  I got a glimpse of what I felt like and how I must have looked to others after the Bush/Gore election of 2000.

We're In!

This is one less weight of worry I can unload off my shoulders.  By the way, this cute little meme got me unfriended by someone on Facebook.  Ah well, C'est la vie.

Still Here, Just Laying Low

I put most of my past posts in private posting for now just because they were getting more personal than I meant for them to be.  I am still dropping in and reading my friends though.  Much Love. :-)

Friday the 13th Lore

I have this thing about Friday the 13th.... I love it!  For some reason its always a lucky day for me.  First off I was born on a Friday 13th (and then came home to live on Elm Street... I can't make this schiznat up).  If I had tests in school on Friday 13s I always made a good grade.  That Guy I Liked So Much In High School finally seemed to notice me and asked for my phone number on a Friday the 13th.  As an adult I always seemed to get good employee performance reviews or free lunches on Fridays 13s.

Usually when a new year approaches I will actually look ahead to see how many Friday 13s I can look forward to.  With as scatterbrained as I've been lately I failed to do so this year but in reading a random article just now I was informed that we have three this year, the maximum we can have in one year.

But unlike me, most people don't view Friday the 13th as lucky at all.  Some other tidbits:

* There are different theories on how Friday the 13th came to be, but the prevailing one is linked to The Last Supper. Judas, the apostle who betrayed Jesus, was the 13th person to arrive at dinner, making 13 an unlucky number on any day of the week. Add to that the fact that Jesus died on a Friday, and Friday the 13th gets its bad rap.

*Although people are far less superstitious now than they were in the past, the Stress Management Center and Phobia Institute in North Carolina estimates that 17 to 21 million people in the U.S. have a diagnosable phobia of Friday the 13th. The illness Is called friggatriskaidekaphobia. (We couldn’t make that up.)

*Part of the reason the number 13 is considered so treacherous, is simply because it’s right after 12. Numerologists consider 12 a “complete” number: 12 months complete a year, 12 signs complete the zodiac and 12 inches complete a foot.

*You may have noticed that most buildings leave out the 13th floor, but did you know that planes often lack a 13th row and some hotels eliminate a Room 13? In Florence, the house between 12 and 14 is actually addressed as 12 and a half.

*Some estimates suggest that the U.S. economy loses up to 900 million dollars every time there’s a Friday the 13th—many people avoid business deals, or even work altogether, on the allegedly doomed date.

*Fearing an increase in accidents, many Americans won’t hit the roads on Friday the 13th. While traffic crashes do peak on Fridays—probably due to alcohol intake—there’s no decisive data that Friday the 13th is more dangerous than other Fridays in the year.

*There’s no proof that natural disasters are more likely on Friday the 13th, but Australia’s biggest wildfire, Florida’s especially costly Hurricane Charley and Kansas’s “Great Flood of 1951” all occurred on a Friday the 13th.

*To prove Friday the 13th superstitions as nonsense, a group of affluent New Yorkers started a “Thirteen Club” in 1881. Thirteen people met every Friday the 13th and dined in Room 13. During the gathering, guests walked under ladders and through piles of spilled salt. Take that, superstitions.

*Some of our nation’s most famous 20th-century luminaries feared the day. Henry Ford declined to do any business, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt avoided travel. Rumor has it that FDR refused to roam not only on Friday the 13th, but also on the 13th day of every month.

Source: http://glo.msn.com/living/crazy-superstitions-for-friday-the-13th-6999.gallery

How do you feel about Friday the 13th?

My Place In This World!

 

When I was in high school this song came out and I absolutely loved it.  The ironic thing is that even though I (vaguely) considered myself a Christian I had never listened to Christian music in my life and this of course was a big anthem within the Christian music genre at that time.

I hadn't heard it in years and then suddenly thought to purchase it off iTunes a few weeks ago, and only just now got around to actually listening to it.  It gave me chills because it totally seemed to apply to my spiritual journey from my start on the Pagan path up to now.  Ironic, isn't it?  One of the top comments on YouTube on this song was "Even if you listen to it without a religious mindset, it's an inspiring song that reaches to all of us, equally." It also seemed to apply to me finding my way in life as a woman and a mother.

"A life of pages
Waiting to be filled
A heart that's hopeful
A head that's full of dreams
But this becoming
Is harder than it seems

Feels like I'm
Looking for a reason
Roaming through the night to find
My place in this world
My place in this world
Not a lot to lean on
I need Your light to help me find
My place in this world
My place in this world"


 And hey, he's sporting a mullet, right?  I'm dating myself here. ;-)

Mundane and Magickal in Bullets

This is a new thing I'm trying as I'm attempting to get things more organized not only here at Casa del SlytherinBurrow, but in my spiritual practices as well.  This is going to be even more of a challenge than I originally bargained for since I was just kind of forced to sign on for a few more extra hours a week at work.  I've been keeping an old fashioned pen n' paper mini notebook that I call A Goddess' Guide to Domestic Goddess-ry in which I simply bullet point some of my week's accomplishments.  I'm not gonna lie... the few readers I have here will not probably be interested in this at all, but this is solely for my own record keeping.

Sunday, 6/17/12
Mundane:

• Golden Corral for Father's Day family outing
• Arranged all the kitchen "pantry cabinets".  (We have no real pantry and our cabinet space is a joke, but I did get the spices and tea section organized in a way that feels much more "properly witchy").
• 5 loads of laundry folded
• Scrubbed bathroom floor
• Worked on what I simply call THE HOARD.  We are not literal HOARDERS, but our bedroom and master closet are much too small and I've been working on trying to make what we have to store in there "acceptably functional" for YEARS.

Magickal:

• 2 pages from old "Book of Shadows" transcribed into new and improved one.  Yup, I still like "Books of Shadows" (like I kept in my strictly Wiccan days) and I still like them in the old fashioned pen n' paper way.
• Wore a rose quartz stone necklace to promote stress relief (and I was stressed about home duties, lol).
• Started this form of record keeping!

Wednesday, 6/20/12
Mundane:

• Organized the "most important" drawer
• 2 loads of laundry folded 

Magickal:

• Happy Summer Solstice!  Written and thought manifestation on getting back onto the Health and Spiritual bandwagon.
• Transcribed 1 BOS page

Saturday, 6/23/12
Mundane:

• Got master bath sink and storage area functional again

 Magickal:

• Had found a new inspirational person via media the day before (Karen Huff Klein) and then she accepted my Facebook friend request, and yes, I was kinda squee about it.
• Blog post

Monday, 6/25/12
Mundane:

• 1 load of laundry
• Worked on my "Sheldon Spot" (beside my side of the bed and the purses and books and things that go there).

 Magickal:

• Saw a shooting star while walking the dog!  My wish was to keep delving deeper on my spiritual path and quest for self love.
• Transcribed 2 pages in BOS.