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This is a handmade decoupage talisman made of baked gold clay. From the gorgeous art of Sharon George (Goddess Guidance Oracle Cards), Im able to share with you her amazing art exclusively!
This piece is titled: Isis ~ Bast - Egyptian Cat Goddess
Measures roughly 2 1/4 " in diameter. Weight roughly 1/2 ounce. Great for many uses such as an altar tile, good luck token, meditation charm or decoration.
Here are just a few ideas: Use them in spells for Protection, Healing, Health, Love, Money, Success, Inspiration, etc. Place them over doorways, in homes, offices, cars, WHEREVER you need them, or WHOEVER needs them. Attach a magnet to the back and Put them on your fridge, washer, dryer, filing cabinet, locker, etc. Give them as added gifts for Sabbats, Birthday's, Handfastings, etc. Display them on your coffee table or nightstand. Use them as tea light bases, power stone coasters. Add them to your gardens, gates, and fences, out door altars, mailboxes. Indoor or Outdoor use! The possibilities are endless!
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I was talking to a dear friend of mine today, when she told me about a girl she worked with that everyone referred to as "easy." We all know what this means. The girl has a reputation, at least, for having sex with a lot of guys. While she may or may not actually do this, I would like to address the idea of what it means to be easy.
If you look at Urban Dictionary online's definition, it would seem that one who is easy is someone who will pretty much sleep with anyone that makes them an offer; for free, or through being charged. I would like to object to the common idea of someone that is easy. Most people find it sweet or romantic to kiss on the first date before departing. There is a beauty to slowly grasping your date's hand and walking with them in innocent comfort. These are seen as natural parts of dating. However, sex is so taboo as to make someone a harlot or a whore when it is enjoyed in the same sense of romance and comfort as any other part of dating.
There was a time, though it was rather long ago, when sex was done for the glory of God and the blessing of the Goddess. Though modern Christianity has done a good job of demonizing such acts, the ancient temples of Aphrodite, Adonis, Bacchus, Dionysus, and more were places where the priestesses and priests communed with the Divine through what is now called The Great Rite. Celtic traditions have held for thousands of years the great fertility rites to keep crops growing and households prosperous.
Until quite recently in human history, men and women allowed the pushes and pulls of the God and Goddess, as well as their own bodily desires, to be fulfilled. However, this concept of easiness, of not being allowed to sexually enjoy yourself with a willing partner, seems to stem from recently created Christian morality. While morals and values are excellent things to have, I think that we shouldn't look down our noses at those of us who indulge in consensual acts with a willing partner. If it's not rape, and it's completely desired by both parties, then go ahead...live it up. However, there comes a point where you're not fulfilling a divine, romantic interest and you're just being greedy. Learn where that line is.
What do you think? Am I wrong? What is your definition of being easy, or do you not have one? Let me know!
Love and Lyte,
Fire Lyte
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Look what I made!
Oh, it's Friday and I'm feeling very celebratory! Good things are on the horizon, so what's a gal to do, but make cake! Not just any cake, but Fairy Cakes, which is just another word for Cupcakes but kinda fancier! I decided to have some fun without busting my eating for the day, so I did the old trick I learned in Weight Watchers, the diet soda cake. Garnishing using flowers is back in vogue in culinary circles, so I revisited this old technique just for fun!
LOW FAT FAIRY CAKES (3 points Weight Watchers Points Plus)
Here's how you make Weight Watchers diet soda cake:
1 cake mix of your choice, not a pudding in the mix cake
1 12 oz can of diet soda of your choice
Pour the cake mix into a large bowl, pour the diet soda in gingerly, and mix it carefully with a spoon, don't beat it like you normally would when you make a cake, just get the mix moist, some lumps will remain. Bake according to instructions on the box. Easy peasy and very low fat!
Here are some ideas for flavor combinations:
Chocolate cake with diet cola or diet cherry cola
carrot cake or spice cake and diet ginger ale
white cake and diet orange (tastes like a dream sickle)
yellow cake and lemon lime soda
red velvet cake and Dr. Pepper
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Would you like one?
Well, you get the idea, it's really good. I love to either eat them plain, or top with fat free whipped cream! Mmm. This batch I used devils food cake mix and diet cola and topped with whipped cream and sugared flowers, petals and leaves just for fun. My childhood friend Lisa taught me how to do that years ago, it's really easy. You simply brush on a very thin" coating of egg white and then pour sugar over them. Place them on a sheet of waxed paper to dry, it only takes about an hour or so. Here is a resource for what flowers are edible. Click Here
Sugared flowers and petals and leaves drying on waxed paper, thanks Lisa, I remember the rose petals you used to make! Yum!
GREENMAN AND THE MUSE
The Greenman is very much a spirit of the forest, and a kindred of the Fae.
I was contacted recently do do a commission piece for the musicians Greenman and the Muse. They are very dear people from Indianapolis and very talented too, and they have a new CD that they are working on. Cernowain Greenman has been using my Greenman piece for quite some time for his profile pic and they wanted me to incorporate it with an image of the earth surrounded by space and shimmering magic. It was a really fun project, and I'm very happy with how it turned out, I can't wait to see the CD when it's done. In the meantime, check out their music here!
A LITTLE FAIRY SKETCH
Here is a little sketch that poured off the tip of my pencil this morning. I think she's full of joy, I really like her energy. Perhaps I'll scrapbook her and turn her into an ACEO card and offer it up for sale in our Etsy shop.
Have a wonderful and safe weekend, and happy Fairy Friday!
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The beginning of an interesting summer.
Beltane happened this week. And, here in Chicagoland's south suburbs, it was a phenomenally beautiful day. The weather hit the low 80s; there was not a cloud in the sky, and I could not fathom any reason whatsoever to stay indoors. Funny, when I was a kid, I would stay inside on bright, sunny days in Texas - as bright, sunny days seem to plague Texas, which sounds nice, except for that whole lack of rain and 6 months of 100+ degree weather. No, here in Chicago, a beautiful day of sunshine is to be celebrated with being outdoors. So, what did I do? I dug in the dirt.
Admittedly, while I attempt a garden every year in my backyard, it is a pretty half-assed attempt. I've done container gardens since we arrived in 2009, which is fine, but they're not really ideal for herbs and veggies, the things I prefer to grow. Flowers are nice and all, but I like to stock up on both culinary and witchy plants, and the idea of making them myself has always appealed to me. Most herbs that I want to keep around - basil, rosemary, lavender - do quite well in Texas. The dirt is fertile, but the temperatures are warm with lots of sun. If I keep them well-watered and provide enough shade so that they don't wither in mid-July, I can keep most herbs all year.
But, I'm not in Texas anymore, and I've never really mastered the Illinois growing season. Just when I think I've got it down and I decide something crazy like planting rosemary and basil in a pot outside in, oh, mid-April, here comes the blizzard of the century. So, finally, I waited. I was told to wait until around Mother's Day to plant. Mother's Day. I ask you. That's mid-May! That gives me maybe 2-3 months to "be a gardener".
Instead, I bucked the system and said "Wait til Beltane!" It paid off. Did I mention the gorgeous day? So, I went to Home Depot, using a lovely gift card from my mother - a Valentine's Day present - and went a little crazy. I got a raspberry vine that is supposedly self-pollinating, a hanging basket with strawberries, a habanero pepper, jalape~no pepper, 2 Roma tomato plants, 2 rosemary, 2 basil, and 2 sage. I already plan to add some cilantro plants and probably another of each of the peppers so that I can make salsa directly out of my garden.
My garden.
But, here's the kicker: I actually put it all IN THE GROUND! I weeded a section of my back yard, which looked a whole lot like this before I started:
Overgrown with various flora that were not bad plants, mind you, but plants getting in the way of me feeling all gardeny. So, they had to go. Before you ask, yes, the daffodils and other bulb plants were saved. They were each dug up and transplanted to an equally overgrown area behind my shed. So, there's that. A little over an hour after I'd begun, my little patch looked something like this:
Dirt. Fertile, black, Illinois dirt. Rich and pretty odorous. Smelled like things would grow in it, as evidenced by the amount of plants I had to remove to get to said dirt. After I accomplished this, and drank a nice cold glass of water, I set about putting the plants in the actual ground. Now, I must say, I had no plan, and this was my first time...so you can't laugh about how haphazardly they're planted. Seriously, don't laugh. Ok...you can laugh a little.
But first... A bit of the spirituality of gardening, and the big impetus for why I finally decided to put plants in the ground where they belong.
At Ostara every year we decorate eggs with images and words describing our wishes for the coming year. Prosperity, joy, love, etc. These are typically the wishes of most people when making wishes. And, they're typically ours. Except for this year. This was the year where Partner and I decided that we were going to get all specific on the Universe's butt. (Yeah, that didn't come out the way I'd hoped either, but it's there in black and white and I'm not deleting it.)
This year Partner wished for some pretty specific things in his career, literally writing out the words on the egg rather than drawing a pretty pretty picture. I did the same. I wished for a closer connection to deity. To fall back in love with my spirituality and to truly find a way to believe wholeheartedly and fully of spirit in the Divine, in magic, in the realm of spirits and Other Beings. To hear the flap of faery wings. To smell the perfume of a spirit as she wanders. To see God/dess/SUPERIOR BEING's hand in creation and to stop doubting. I felt that this merited action.
And, yes, typically these egg wishes get buried in the back yard...in a pretty unceremonial hole in the ground. But, something urged me this year to let the wishes grow something, to literally let them feed the earth, to be the food for my magic and my belly, and to ingest that fertile, verdant spell.
So... I did.
All the plants and Ostara eggs in one place.
I used my pestle to mush the eggs up and put a bit in each of the holes. So, a bit of each wish will become food for each plant, which will, in turn, become food and magic for me - with the exception o the strawberries, as they were already in a hanging basket and didn't need my assistance. After all was said and done, here was my garden!
I'm all proud and stuff. Annnnnd now a different angle:
It felt good, too, the digging. It didn't take long for me to ditch the spade all together and use my fingers to dig out the holes and fill in the holes. That tiny bit of connection brought me a feeling of closeness with my surroundings. I've not felt as connected with nature here as I probably should. Spent time in it on nature trails for exercise, yes, but not so much getting to know it.
Baby steps and all that, but I'm excited to see what the summer will bring.
How was YOUR Beltane? Do you have any gardening plans or pictures? Feel free to share your thoughts, links, and pictures in the comments below!
Love and Lyte,
Fire Lyte
Origin: http://my-spiritual-path.blogspot.com
Hello, bookish world!
So we love giveaways at The Reading Nook. Especially book-
When fifteen year old Mio Yamato furtively sneaks the katana - an ancestral Japanese sword - out of its hiding place in her parent's attic to help liven up her Christmas party costume, she has no idea of the darkness she is about to unleash on modern day London, or the family secrets that she is going to uncover.
The paralysing paranoia that descends on her before she gets to her friend's party is her first clue. The vivid and terrifying visions that nearly get her killed are a pretty good warning too.
The giant nine-tailed cat demon that comes after the sword and tries to rip her throat out? Overkill.
Seconds away from becoming kitty-food, Mio is saved by Shinobu, a mysterious warrior boy. But it's already too late. Mio has ruptured the veil between the mortal realm and the Underworld, and now the gods and monsters of ancient Japan stalk the streets of London, searching for her and the sword.
With the help of her best friend Jack, a fox spirit named Hikaru - and the devoted protection of the betwitchingly familiar Shinobu - Mio attempts to discover the true nature of the sword and its connection to the Yamato family. Because if she doesn't learn how to control the katana's incredible powers, she's in danger of being overwhelmed by them. And if she can't keep the sword safe from the terrible creatures who want it for their own, she'll lose not only her own life... but the love of a lifetime.
Katanas? Demons? (And kitty-shaped demons, who are determined to turn you into kibble, at that?) AWESOME.
Here's the link to Zoe's blog, detailing information about the giveaway. You can also catch up with Zoe on her twitter account @zmarriot.
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