Showing posts with label Wicca. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wicca. Show all posts

Friday, February 13, 2009

FRIDAY THE 13TH


I have a close family member who is inconsolable with an unidentified depression and sickness. I'm very concerned. A white candle with a piece of white paper under it is a great staple item remedy. I positioned reflective items around the candle to magnify more light into the area.


Leave candles untouched and don't move spells. That is what they say. Many great things have been learned by people over the years, but you don't have to stick to these things. I moved the whole display into the sun this afternoon to better suit my needs. Your dabbling is your creation, make up your own rules and even language if you like. For example, I was raised Christian Scientist (which is a dwindling religion based on eastern mysticism in a Christ like format founded by a rather psychic aristocrat from the Victorian era into Spiritualism named Mary Baker Eddy) and on the seal of the religion it says "Heal the sick / Raise the dead / Cleanse the lepers / Cast out demons". I'm not a big fan of Christ based anything, but I read some Mary Baker Eddy. I've changed "Cast out demons" to "Cast UP demons". Everything should have a chance to improve itself and giving something wicked an opportunity at some light is often all it needs to get get out!


When I was a child I had to have a crystal ball so my dad took me to a magic shop on madison avenue to get one. I spent hours in the sun and by candlelight glaring at it waiting to see something. Before 12 years old I was allowed to buy whatever occult literature I wanted as it was clearly a passion of mine and my parents thought it was very amusing. Years later as an adult some guy I was fooling around with somehow got a hold of my dad's crystal ball and was about to... do something with it, to my horror. I was put off quickly and let's just say we had to wrap it up. Sheesh. By the way, I can't wait to get magical inscriptions on my hands!


When locked away in a Judeo-Christian wasp athletics based boarding school from 12 years old on my occult mail order book purchases and correspondence with practicing people across the nation and in England skyrocketed. Fearful of exposure I kept what I needed in a trunk and transcribed what I wanted into a Book of Shadows with a quill pen and India ink. I would then get rid of the books and correspondence. I still have the book and dusted it off and it's an amazing piece of work I must say. Every letter is miniscule and written with a calligraphic or artistic flourish. It goes on for pages, I don't know how I did it. I had the copper pentacle above made by some Witches in Salem through Laurie Cabot at the time I was in this awful school. The artists, Gypsy & Pendragon, etched the pentacle with a laser, which was very high tech and expensive at the time.
I haven't used it in a while. It's very beautiful.

Friday, June 6, 2008

LAURIE CABOT WEBSITE

I have been a huge fan of Laurie Cabot, "The Official Witch of Salem Massachusetts", since I was maybe thirteen. I wrote her a letter in the mid-late 1980's (from a boarding school in New England) telling her of my interest in Wicca (and other forms of basket weaving). My letter was responed to by a Ms. 'Becky Nurse' (one of the names of the women in the Salem Witch trial) and then Gypsy and Pendragon (if my memory serves me correct). After getting parental permission to correspond with them, they were extremely helpful with all my curiosities, and later, deeper interest in the field.
New England is very Witchy in it's own way and the very thorough solitary study I pursued on Witchcraft at my puritanical Judeo-Christian school was the one thing that kept me intact. I sent away for every possible book on the subject, which I kept in my dorm room in a very large trunk with every imaginable herb necessary. I created a Book of Shadows over a series of years, each entry was done with india ink and a quill pen in very small detailed and elaborate styles of handwriting with illustrations. I still have the book and I must say the amount of perfectionistic artistry that went into it draws me in every time I look at it.
I've enjoyed looking into different religious paths, but I'm always touched and feel quite at home with the simple yet profound practices of folk magic.
Upon finding her site, I was comforted and delighted to see her still glowing and emanating that undeniable energy force that is Laurie Cabot.
What I did not expect to see was pictures of her going back to her childhood. The pictures of her in the 1950-1960's (I assume as they aren't dated) blew me away. The second one down is called 'Latin Quarter Dancin'. If Fellini or Avedon only knew!
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Laurie's Daughters Jody and Penny