Merry meet friends,
This week's question is, your take on the wheel of the year. So the wheel of the year is the basically the main points of the year that we as pagans/wiccas/witches celebrate as holidays. Its the main holidays we all celebrated before Christianity took over. Its why some dates and holidays are similar. For me I love following the wheel of the year, it helps me focus on the seasons and what mother earth does for us each year. Its also a great way to reconnect with your path if for any chance you were really busy that month and didn't get a chance to connect with your path much. I do have some holidays I celebrate more than others because they mean more to me than others. Yule is the winter solstice and is in December between 19th and the 22nd. This is the right date for people who live in the UK. In Australia their yule is June between 19th and the 22nd. This just depends on which side of the earth you live on. Yule is also the christmas of pagans. We celebrate the shortest day on earth and honour our horn god in thanking him for his duties being completed. For me I love yule, It was always a time for me to spend at my altar with all the candles lit warming my room up in the cold night of winter. Drinking hot chocolate and thanking the horn god for his job well done. I celebrate both Yule for myself and christmas for my family. I am the only active pagan in my close nit family. Which I don't mind because I prefer to celebrate alone anyway. The next holiday is Imbnolc which is February 1st. Now this one I still dont really understand, I know its important to the wheel of year but for me I never really celebrate it as much. I either forget to celebrate it but still dress my altar for it or I am just too busy within my work life to get around to it. I think next year I will try to make a more important celebration for this and try to stick with it. Then its Ostara which is the spring equinox and thats between march 19th and the 22nd. This is to celebrate to spring coming back to life and honouring our mother for awaking the earth once more. I love this holiday because its always about nature and mother earth waking up. Or thats how it is for me. I dress my altar with fresh flowers and bright colours to celebrate the waking up of earth. I just love this holiday. For Christians this holiday is Easter. The next holiday after that is Beltane or may day which is the 1st of may. Again I dont really celebrate this holiday as much because for me I dont see the importance. I will try to make it more important to me next year and that will hopefully be done by me reading more about the holiday. The next holiday is Litha which is the summer solstice and we celebrate this between 19th and the 22nd of June. This is a great holiday for me because we are celebrating the summer season thats coming awake. The longest day of the year with the sun shining bright above us. For this holiday I dress my altar with bright warm colours of reds and yellows. This is normally in the form of fresh flowers or candles. The next holiday is Lammas, which is the august 1st. This is celebrated for harvest I believe or the start of the harvest season. This for me isn't that important to me anymore because with the world we live in we can get food all year round from all over the world so when we cant grow things here we can import them from across the water. I will make more of an effect to celebrate this next year but for now its just not that important for me. The next holiday is the autumn equinox called Mabon. We celebrate this between 19th and the 22nd of September. Now I love this holiday because autumn is my favourite season, the change of the leaves and the colours of reds and browns. The world getting ready for the colder season that follows. Hot chocolate on the way to work and wrapping up warm. Long knee high boots and the crunch of dried leaves under your feet. Its the best holiday ever haha. I dress my altar with all things autumn, I collect bits and bobs from nature on my walks and dress my altar with items from mother earth herself. The last holiday is samhain which is October 31st. This is a special hoilday for me because its our new year. Its where our world renews with the winter season following. Its where you connect with the other side and celebrate the family members that have fallen. Its where I feel the most powerful. Its like there is something in the air that day that makes me feel good. Makes me feel like I could take over the world if I wanted to. I just love this holiday and I always have. My feelings about the wheel of the year is this, some parts of it is dated but thats not a bad thing. Its shows that we continue to move forward no matter what happens. The earth is always turning. I hopefully will spend more time next year to celebrate all the holidays because they are important to me, I just need to remind myself of that. I hope you enjoyed todays post and I will see you in nexts weeks one. Blessed be x MissDoomie x Merry meet everyone. So todays post I will be talking about different language we use within our craft. This doesn't matter what language you speak but the terminology we use and also why we use it. For one the first thing that comes to mind when I see others share their craft within the community they use runes within their craft and thats a language all on its own. If you understand what each one means and the focus of each rune than you can use that within your craft to help focus that intent you wanted for that spell. Same with signals I have seen many witches create their own signals that mean something to that spell, like they will create one for money or family and they will have that carved into the candle they use in the spell. Theres also the witches alphabet which I personally am getting into using. I got into this because of a pagan parcel box I got a couple of months ago and I thought what cool idea to use within my craft. Unless others know what I am writing its personal to me and I can put it in wish bottles or burn it as a blessing. Language is such a BIG part of our lives, so why wouldn't be a big part of our craft also? I was wondering what else people could use within their craft in the form of language? because I bet I haven't even touched the surface of what is out there. I hope you were inspired with this post and I will see you in the next one. Blessed be x MissDoomie x Merry meet everyone,
So todays question is do I have an altar or shine/sacred space? The answer to that is yes haha. My office in my home is my sacred space because I spend most of my time in there. I have made my altar there also which is always changing. At the moment I have the floral cloth as a background but I may change that soon for the autumn colours. I have all my main items and tools on my altar as I always do. I have also moved items on the shelves above my altar so I have used the space I have to the best possible way. My advice on having an altar is if you have cats then dont keep feathers on there because my cats like pinching mine. Also If you use incense as much as I do keep baby wipes near by because ask goes everywhere. I think thats why I dont have an altar cloth on my long unit where my main altar is because I dont want to ruin my altar cloths. My silver chest has one of my altar cloths on because I do most of my craft work on there because I have the space. Even though at the moment I have my record player on there playing haha. I hope you enjoyed todays post and I will see you in the next post like this on sunday. Blessed be x MissDoomie x Merry meet everyone, So yesterday I said I will be doing this review on the august pagan parcel box. As you should all know this box is late, there has been many difficult moments the past couple of weeks wondering where this box has been or gone. If you have read through the last two posts about my views about whats happened than you know where I stand. If not then I will state it here. This will be the second to last pagan parcel box I will review. I haven't done this lightly but with christmas coming up and my boyfriends birthday I think its best to have a break away from this subscription box. I haven't found one to replace it, but that may be the case for the next couple of months. I love terry and his boxes I just feel like I need to try something new compare the boxes or even find that none of them are as good as his and go back to his next year. I will still buy items from his shop and speak with him, I just feel like a break is needed so I can get inspired again and without all this anger I had with it being late. Anyway lets get to the fun bit that we all love doing each month.
Overall, I enjoyed this months box like I do with the last boxes. I wish it didn't bring such sorrow with what happened to get it in the first place but thats life. I love terry's boxes and they are worth the money. So much thought and love goes into these boxes. I believe thats why I am full of sorrow that the next box will be my last this year. Anyway to happier and joyful days to come. I hope you enjoyed todays post and I will see you in the next post.
Blessed be x MissDoomie x Merry meet, So I finally got a reply from terry and I do understand why they have been late with the august box. I received this box on Monday which I will do a review on when I have some time free as this week has been very busy for me and work. As of at the moment I will be standing by what I said before in the last post and Septembers box will be my last box from pagan parcel and terry for now. I have great respect for him as a fellow witch but what has put me to make September my last box was the fact that there was no word from either terry or his wife until a lot of people reported them to papal or threatened to leave and chancel their subscription with them. For me my business head is shouting WHAT THE HELL! I understand that their in a place thats hard at the moment which will take up a lot of their time. My argument is that if I can spend 5 minutes on Facebook in the morning before my day gets busy thats even while brushing my teeth to keep updated and what not, than why couldn't they? As someone who understands how life can get complicated I understand they may of thought they were overloaded, but as a businesses they should of addressed us sooner. I do have great respect for terry and what hes done for fellow witches, I think I just need to for a time go else where while they are sorting their personal aspects and It would mean I could try other boxes to see and compare how they all work. I will go back to terry's pagan parcel boxes because he has great wisdom and they do some out in these boxes but I dont want to be worried each month when boxes are late or we haven't been updated. For now Septembers box will be my last for this year. That may change in the weeks to come but I need to think with my head and not my heart and my head is telling me it will be more hassle than its worth knowing what I went through just to get my august box. Tomorrow is mabon and I have been looking forward to celebrating it. I will put time aside to do my august pagan parcel review and also to relax. I would also like to do a post about the sky tv show A discovery of witches because the first episode was last Friday and It got me to buy all three boxes and I am half way through my second book and its beautifully written and has me longing for a world like that which when I read a good book, it normally does have that effect. The second episode of the sky tv show is on Friday which is tomorrow. I will see you in the next post my fellow friends and I hopefully will have better news to come. Until next time, Blessed be x MissDoomie x Merry meet everyone, So todays post is about music. We listen to it all the time but has it effected your craft? Now for me personally I love listening to Celtic music while I do my craft. It helps me become calm and focused and the nature sounds just inspires me to connect with mother earth more. It always puts me at ease like mother earth is with me while I focus on my craft. I know many different people who use music within their craft differently and I wanted you all to think about it because without someone saying I use music as a tool for my craft you wouldn't think it would be possible. I know someone who uses music to calm the room while she cleanses her home. She also uses music to meditate and depending on the craft she is going to do that day depends on what style of music she will listen to before and after the spell she had created. For me listening to music is a everyday thing, I listen to it while walking to work, while getting ready so why cant we think about using music within our craft? I do listen to music while I meditate it helps tell my partner that I am in the zone and if he interrupts me she will be given the death stare of a angry girlfriend. I do meditate a lot because it helps me de-stress and also calm my nerves from that day. I do like to meditate before I got to bed as well because that helps me detach from all the negative thoughts and calms my mind ready for the realm of sleep. I think if more people used music within their craft it may uplift their emotions and help them focus more. I would love to hear what you all think about this though as its a good subject to talk about. I hope you find this post interesting and I will see you in the next post. Blessed be x MissDoomie x Merry meet everyone,
So today question is am I in or out of the closet as a witch? Everyone that matters in my life knows who I am. They know what path I am on and what I do. They stand by me with every step I take. I walk this world not giving a shit about what people think anymore. I have gone through the beginning of my life worried about what my friends and peers thought about me. Through high school I was judged for being myself and you know what it made me stronger. I know many witches that are still hiding themselves from the world. Hiding their craft because they know their family and friends wont accept them. Is it right you have to hide who you are to make others happy? No! I may be lucky that I have a family that accepts me for me and I have true friends who dont care if I was a witch or a nudest. To them I haven't changed and it doesn't effect them who I am or not. To all the closet witches out there I want you to ask yourself are you happy? Are you happy hiding a part of yourself because of what others may think? I know its a hard question, I know some of you can't do anything until your older which is fine but I just want you all to look into yourselves and think about what your doing to yourself before you think about what others may think. I hope you enjoyed todays post and I will see you next sunday for #3 of this challenge. Blessed be x MissDoomie x Merry meet everyone,
So as you all should know, by now there would of been a pagan parcel update or review of the august box. Well the big question is where is this months box? I have messaged them privately and also commented on posts on their page and looking at the other comments I am not the only one who's now worrying that we have paid for a box that isn't coming. It's a shame that it has came to this because I have done nothing but sing their praise about how great they were as a small company but they normally give us a update by the end of the month and its now while I am writing this the 12th of September. I have had to go to pay-pal and but a claim in saying that no item was received for the payment and I have also claimed the September box because I have lost faith in them as a company. As a company they have messed up big time because from the looks of the comments on their page they will be losing a load of custom because of this. I feel saddened by all this because I did enjoy the subscription box and also enjoyed talking to terry the owner of the box. I have been getting this box since January and I also got the December sabbat box which got me hooked onto this subscription box. As a customer I look for a company that will send me the box each month and give us updates. I don't have the money to waste it on boxes I wont get. I dont get enough money each month to afford to miss £24 on air basically. I make a point each month to cut back on other aspects so I could get this box and thats whats pissed me off the most is because we havent gotten the box, theres no communication from pagan parcel or terry and I am down in pocket for not one box but two because the chances are I wont get Septembers box either by the looks of things. So yes thats where I stand at the moment. I will keep you all updated on the progress and hopefully by the end of this month I will have my money back and will be looking for a different subscription box that is more reliable. I hope you guys understand why I am so upset about this and Bare with me while I transfer to another box. I know a lot of people love the subscription box reviews which I love doing them. Blessed be x MissDoomie x Merry meet everyone, So today I thought I would do my last #Paganborn post that I did on another community. The theme for this post was Greek gods and goddesses which is what inspired me to do this post. As many of you will know I am a follower of mother earth and in each religion she is known as something different. This weeks post will be about Gaia the Greek version of mother earth and the most common version of her as well. Gaia is well known as the first Greek goddess, which makes sense as shes mother earth. She created herself out of primordial chaos. From Gaia's fertile womb all life came to be. All living things return to mother earth after their life span to be reconnected with our mother creator. As mother earth, Gaia controls the weather and the ecosystem, shes basically the boss off our world we call earth. She's always trying to keep balance and harmony within earth. She heals the environment, nurturing and supporting all life within her world, our earth. Without mother earth we wouldn't have our homes, we wouldn't have the food we eat or the water we drink, we wouldn't have the air we breath. We can't live without her care. It's why I get so upset when people don't respect her, when people mistreat our earth. I always think that the bad weather is mother earth fighting back, showing us that shes displeased by our behaviour to our home, after all she will never turn her backs on us no matter how upset she gets but I see many turn their backs on her. Overall, mother earth is amazing. She created the world we live on and controls the way we live. She makes sure the birds sing in the morning and the earth regrow each spring. She controls the weather and makes sure that we live in harmony. Lately though she has had to work a lot harder because of what we as humans have done to her. She can't rest because without her we wouldn't be able to continue to live the way we do on earth. Shes an amazing goddess and one that should have the respect from all. Shes our mother and we need to help look after her as she looks after us. I hope you enjoyed today's post and I will see you in the next post. Blessed be x MissDoomie x Merry meet :)
So today I will be answering the question how did I find my path? Now thats going to be a long story which I am happy to talk about because after all its part of who I am and what makes me me. Started when I was younger growing up. My mother was a pagan and her room was full of aspects of the craft. It was never hidden away from me but wasn't taught to me until I was 7-8 years old. I remember my mother having an altar on her shelving unit. It was the top shelve and I could see it when I sat on her bed. It was full of beautiful statues and items that made no sense to me at the time. Now I know what it was and what the items where on her altar which makes sense to me now. I remember her sitting me down when I asked her what her faith was because it was a topic in school and I wanted to understand what faith I had. She sat me down and told me she was a pagan, a bit like a witch in the stories she told me growing up. She was a white witch, which meant a good witch and she respects mother earth and using her craft to better the world. She then handed me a deck of tarot cards and told me if I want to learn more about her faith you can do so, She then said that these cards helps give you advice when your stuck and that if you use them right they will help you along your path. Now I never really understood what she meant back then but I taught myself how to read the cards and I did more research on the path. In a way it brought me and my mother closer together. She gave me crystals and told me things that were magical and wonderful. I remember her asking me if I wanted to help her contact the spirits with her board and I jumped to the task. I wanted to see how it all worked and who would speak to us if it did work. She told me to come out into the garden with her. It was night at the time so we had candles burning . She sat her board on the grass and told me to sit next to it and she created a protection circle around us. She then said dont leave the circle without her opening it and if you get scared focus on the thought I am with you. We then spoke to someone called mark. It was weird because we weren't moving the arrow thingy but this spirit was. I was like how is there spirits near my home. Why haven't I known this! It opened my mind completely. I then spend my time learning as much as I can from my mother, I did my own research too but it wasn't as fun. I then got to the teenager stage where I wanted to focus on my mates more and lost the path slightly. I still called myself a pagan, but no one knew. It actually got out in high school that I thought of myself as a witch and I got bullied because of it. It never really bothered me much though because at the same time my relationship with my mother had turned dark. At that point I stopped learning about my faith and just put it in a box. When my mother attacked me a couple of years ago I was in a dark place I had nothing to look forward to and my future was bleak. I danced around taking my own life because I didn't want to be in a world where my mother hated me. It got to a really bad point where a family member made me get help. I went on to medication, which helped slightly and then went to therapy. It was the best thing I did personally for myself. I learned many things that made sense. I remembered parts of my past that I didn't want to remember that my mind locked away. My perfect relationship with my mother growing up wasn't so perfect. I made it so in my head which made the event even more painful but it wasn't. I learned that my life was important and it also reconnected me with my faith. That was last year. Once I reconnected with my craft, I became more positive and my life looked up. I got a job which I love and I feel more happy within myself. I dont even take tablets anymore to help me keep positive. Thats all down to my faith. Now my faith isn't connected to my mother anymore its my own and I feel better because of it. It may of started with her but it ends with me and hopefully when I have a family it will be passed on to them. People have said I have been lucky to have a mother pass down her faith and all she knows to me. Yes in a way I was but not always. She taught me aspects of the craft that I didn't agree with, the darker side of the craft. Like she turned her back on her self. She told me when I was younger she was good and used her craft to help the world but she turned dark and turned her craft to hurt people instead. The last craft I saw her preping for was a hex spell. She was going to get her own back on the people who wronged her. The good spark gone from her eyes. She lost her path. Its why I ruse to entertain the idea of curses and hex's, I would rather focus on the positive because its not worth going down that dark path because you lose yourself and your soul. So thats how I found my path, I know I got personal on this post and to be honest I will most likely become more personal within this challenge. Its what makes me who I am, The events that shaped me as a pagan, a witch, a women. Its all building blocks that helped create the person I am today. I hope you enjoyed today's post and you learned something new about me. I will continue this challenge next week. Blessed be x MissDoomie x |
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