Stepping Aside

Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions.   I love Esbat rituals more than anything else in the world. Well, not more than the month of October, and definitely not more than Samhain, but other than that, I love Esbat rituals because I love being outside at…

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Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. My sisters..we need to talk. A nine year old girl, with her family on vacation, went to a gun range in Arizona for some family fun. Or so they thought. Evidently, this gun range allows children her age to shoot…

Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. On this day, in 1980, I became a mother. I was twenty-two, a college graduate, and I had been married for over a year. We went to a midnight showing of Close Encounters and afterward, over a Fudge-ana (like a…

Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. I was glad to see that Missouri State Highway Patrol Capt. Ron Johnson was put in charge in Ferguson to quell the anger. He did exactly the right thing. Marching with protesters, hugging people..it was such a blessing to see after…

Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. A couple of weeks ago, I published a post entitled When the Unthinkable Becomes the Norm. In it, I discussed gun control. Now we have a town in Missouri that has turned into a war zone. The First Amendment reads: AMENDMENT…

Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. Energy vampires..we all know them whether we realize it or not. I’ve been dealing with one lately and it’s stressful because this person is not your typical energy vamp. Typically, they’re just needy and want someone to talk to. Referring…

Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. So I had to pause a bit after reading the article, Right-wing professor: Raping Arab women is ‘the only thing that deters suicide bombers’ By David Edwards in The Raw Story . Mordechai Kedar is the fool who believes this nonsense. Of course he…

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Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. Margot Adler died yesterday. She was a sociologist, a journalist for NPR and a Wiccan Priestess. She wrote a wonderful book called Drawing Down the Moon, which I love. It discusses Paganism, Witchcraft, Druidism and the like and the varied approaches…

Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. I’ve been thinking about manipulation lately. Mostly because I’ve been experiencing it for over a year now. I’m not cooperating with what someone wants because through years of experience with him, I know better than to have anything to do…

Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. Drama is interesting.  It’s the ego’s expression of “self”.  It has to be entertaining or it won’t draw us in the way it does. It’s what keeps us tied to the physical world..almost like the glue that holds everything together….

Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. Today is the first anniversary of my father’s death.  It’s been an interesting year.  His wife sent me the bills associated with his death for probably four months or so.  I didn’t pay them.  I don’t know her.  I’ve never…

Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. I’ve been working with the Western Tattva Tarot.  It’s interesting, because it uses the triangular alchemical symbols representing Air, Water, Earth, Fire, and Spirit instead of the Eastern Tattva symbols which use a square, circle, crescent, triangle and oval to…