It was probably learning to fly, but I have read that ravens can be grounded for a couple of days while learning to fly. My cat wanted to have a bit of it and either she would have or the swooping adults would have had some of her. All negatives, so I took the fledgling away from the situation, in a nice calm environment (wrapped in a towel in a box in the cool shed) while I prepared a resting station in some trees which cats cannot navigate.

The fledgling crow was in the resting station for about an hour before calling out and its family came back around, about an hour later it left the station and settled on a branch nearby. It was on the branch until dark, hopefully its next ventures into the air are successful and it doesn’t have to worry about Kitty.

Using this opportunity to divine, the raven represents my recent attempts to travel to the other side of the line, which has been met with mundane distraction or just plain old sleep. Perhaps there has been a threat or distraction which I have been unaware of, do I need to ask for some assistance other than the protection currently provided, to put me in a different position from which to stretch my wings?

wyrdmorrish:

“A friend of mine dreamed of the XX rune stone, which means the Goddess or the womb, and is the secret sign for a covenstead and the home of a Witch.”

Phyllis Curott, Witch Crafting

Phyllis, darling. I love you. But you’re busting my balls here.

Does any qualified person know what on earth she is talking about?

X is Gebo, and XX, as far as I understand, can be Ing, which is NOT a goddess rune (even though Freyr is kind of agricultural and earth related, but that’s not the same as being a goddess/womb!)

What.

I would expect a created rune to not simply be a current rune inverted, duplicated or reversed. Each rune already has significance in every position dependant on the context.

Since runes are created from a key (apart from those which were given) people should have confidence in mving away from the same tired old symbols. This xx thing seems a little like calling ‘pp’ a ‘w’ in the theban alphabet. 

Question on runes, why was Odin given a key to create runes and then given a batch to start off with! Were they just a guide; a rule book for him to learn to create more from or is there some other reason?

I was visiting a Thai friend the other day. In her living room is a picture of one the previous Kings, and a few things to make it a shrine of sorts. I asked some general questions about  how she pays respects and other things.

So guess what is a suitable offering for Thai house, family or guardian spirit? Whisky and Cigars. That’s right. Totally voodoo.

When offering liquids do you

a) drink them

b) have a drink the pour it (into what?)

c) pour it (into what?)

d) Take a mouthful and spit (into what?)

e) leave it nearby in a glass then later dispose of it.

Is it just me or is cigars and whissky the best offering for spirits ever?

Trees for example. I have never asked a tree for what I took, nor thanked it. I never will, its a tree. I have hugged trees and leaned against them and enjoyed the feeling. It felt spiritual sometimes, it even felt like I shared the way of thinking of a tree I meditated against. However not every tree belongs to a dryad, not every tree is home to a spirit. If there was a tree which belonged to a spirit I would may ask (or simply advise) the spirit should I want something from it’s tree. It may make a gift, but if a thing falls from a tree that is not home to a spirit is it still a gift? No, its a thing like the tree.

In particularly I have an affinity for rocks, I love to stand and sit on the biggest ones I can find… or just the nearest ones. I fancy I can feel a rock, its insides and its past and future. I would  know if there is a spirit attached to a rock and there often isn’t. Many rocks are just rocks… they can still have magikal correspondence, energy or whatever. They can still change the way you feel and change the real world on a magikal level, but you don’t need their permission and you don’t need to be thankful.

What if the results of spells did not manifest in the mundane world, what if a witch could only change things in the unseen world on the other side of the line. Would you choose to be a witch, being able to commune with spirits but only in matters unrelated to the standard persons life? Making offerings and helping spirits out of jams, perhaps angering them or not, if it made no difference to what your friends and family consider the real world would you still do it?

I would. Sometimes the other side of the line feels like a land of wind, in other experiences it has seemed a timeless void, but it has always been as real as this one. There are moments when I look out on the mundane world and find it completely incomprehensible. It seems like nonsense because I am thinking from the other side of the line.

Is it my spirit, my ego or the awareness who drives me that moves ine the realm of the dead? Astra; travel is no reflection of the awareness to whom I belong, it is just another vessel that it uses. But what about those moments of transcendence, connection to the other? Who is the other?

My partner felt and saw an entity which is called the Wortley Arms Ghost. The feeling came first, it was heavy and felt like being layed or leaned upon very heavily. Looking up the figure was cloaked in black, at that point my partner pooped and ran.

I don’t believe in ghosts. Its not that I don’t believe people see what they claim to have, its more what is being defined as a ghost. The controlling awareness does not become trapped or earthbound and the ego or programming of the vessel ceases in much the same way a machines programming ceases when the machine has no power left.

However there are more vessels available to an awareness than the human form. Some of these are non-corporeal and some can have their image adjusted to suit the needs of the kitten.

My mum says ” I would agree with that. The spiritual energy that I used to have to walk through in our house in Carter Street before we expelled it was like a really heavy feeling, it was hard to push through the doorway. Once through, the feeling vanished (just for that time, it always came back).”

I have two kinds of red brick dust. One is from very red fire weathered old red bricks dug up from my garden, the other one from a brick -in an attached storage room- which simply disintegrated.

We had a guest staying for a  couple of nights. Whenever this guest stays various events occur which prevent everyone from having a whole nights sleep, leading to tiredness the next day. There are other negative patterns of behaviour which lead to this persons regular bedroom companions from losing sleep. Because there were always events around the tiredness it took a while before the witches of my household clued in.

On the second night we resolved to prevent further energy draining activity, awareness of it is usually the first step and often effective.  I am not sure what measures my friend took, I kept it simple and drew protection and blocking symbols around my door frame with a solution of red brick dust and dragons blood oil, with water.

None of the usual events occurred, nor any unusual events and I had an undisturbed nights sleep. Even the cat did not come in meowing at 5:30 am as is its usual habit.

Normally I put this image down to a cute bit of symbolism which is intended to represent the work or image of it’s creator. Only a day or two ago I was pondering symbolism in talismans and ended up using this kind of design, thinking specifically of this image, so its strange to see it on my dashboard so soon afterwards.

If this was a spell I would say that its purpose is to stop the creators transcended self from interfering with his magik (“I know its not  what you asked for but its what you need, even though you may never know it”) and/or his base self from interfering with his magik (“That won’t work, you don’t believe and have done something wrong, what if things don’t work out, don’t bother totes CBA”) That’s because of the placing of the maltese cross, which acts as iron or a plug, bang in the middle.

What do you think and why?

(via thephysicalisanillusion)

that while reading; the voice narrating inside my head was not I but another. Perhaps I am a monkey incapable of reading but share my time with a being who has the power of words, and describes the words to me when they are in my line of sight, like I am a child. This explains why it is impossible for me to view a word without reading it.

It’s also nonsense.