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http://www.witchvox.com/wotw/noticeg_detail.html?id=1243

Now, I dunno about this. I suppose it's okay to say contact your local triple deity on 3/3/03. But the connection seems weak to me. If it's slowing the war machine we're talking about, I'd want a waning moon (Monday the 3rd is just after the new moon), although with most things, it's relatively easy to reverse your intent to work with the other half of the cycle (i.e., rather than stopping war, you start peace). As 5 is the number of Mars you'd want May (and 2005, to continue the analogy), but understanding that this is not a thing to wait much on, at least 5th - which being Wednesday, could be an interesting dimension - communication, not war? heh - and that actually goes into the last thing, that it is in fact a Monday and not a Tuesday (or maybe Saturday as well). It just seems like the intent and the symbolism in the date don't quite match up.

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http://www.witchvox.com/wotw/noticeg_detail.html?id=1243

Now, I dunno about this. I suppose it's okay to say contact your local triple deity on 3/3/03. But the connection seems weak to me. If it's slowing the war machine we're talking about, I'd want a waning moon (Monday the 3rd is just after the new moon), although with most things, it's relatively easy to reverse your intent to work with the other half of the cycle (i.e., rather than stopping war, you start peace). As 5 is the number of Mars you'd want May (and 2005, to continue the analogy), but understanding that this is not a thing to wait much on, at least 5th - which being Wednesday, could be an interesting dimension - communication, not war? heh - and that actually goes into the last thing, that it is in fact a Monday and not a Tuesday (or maybe Saturday as well). It just seems like the intent and the symbolism in the date don't quite match up.

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Scary thing: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/By-His-Mercies

We Are A Group of Christian Women That Have Experienced The Heart Break of Sterilization. We Have Come To Believe That Our Bodies And Our Fertility Are Meant To Be Under The Control of God And That He Alone Should Determine Our Childbearing.

I mean, just, *shudder*...

Cool thing, from archive of list I'm on:

Some people do the same thing every day, endlessly (like some Buddhists I know) which ultimately offers little in the way of transformation - judging by their personalities - and only serves to fossilize belief well and truly; they end up feeling certain that their path is THE PATH and brook no argument about it. Other people love to do a big exciting knees-up ritual a few times a year, and don't pay much attention to their magic in between (there are plenty of Wiccans like this, I've met them too). So to answer the point you raise, in short: I believe that the belief that transformation only occurs within the context of ritual or sacred activity always leads to 'religion' - a terrible disease which sorcerers could usefully avoid! I think that [the Azoetia] puts the case very well for a total integration of ritual, dreaming by day and night, creative activity, inspired thinking, sexual activity, and so on - all the best things in life in fact! - and that the sorcerer should turn everything towards his or her Path. Transformation is happening at every moment, whether we want it or not - the point is to encourage changes to go in the directions we want them to go.

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Scary thing: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/By-His-Mercies

We Are A Group of Christian Women That Have Experienced The Heart Break of Sterilization. We Have Come To Believe That Our Bodies And Our Fertility Are Meant To Be Under The Control of God And That He Alone Should Determine Our Childbearing.

I mean, just, *shudder*...

Cool thing, from archive of list I'm on:

Some people do the same thing every day, endlessly (like some Buddhists I know) which ultimately offers little in the way of transformation - judging by their personalities - and only serves to fossilize belief well and truly; they end up feeling certain that their path is THE PATH and brook no argument about it. Other people love to do a big exciting knees-up ritual a few times a year, and don't pay much attention to their magic in between (there are plenty of Wiccans like this, I've met them too). So to answer the point you raise, in short: I believe that the belief that transformation only occurs within the context of ritual or sacred activity always leads to 'religion' - a terrible disease which sorcerers could usefully avoid! I think that [the Azoetia] puts the case very well for a total integration of ritual, dreaming by day and night, creative activity, inspired thinking, sexual activity, and so on - all the best things in life in fact! - and that the sorcerer should turn everything towards his or her Path. Transformation is happening at every moment, whether we want it or not - the point is to encourage changes to go in the directions we want them to go.

woot, weird lenses.

WildEyes - they're even prescription, and what's more, I wrote to ask if I can get a pair of a non-matching prescription (my eyes are -3.00 and -5.50 or something), and they said yes. I wonder if my base curve and diameter match. Something that occurs to me now which didn't before is that these are probably hard contact lenses, which is not something I've ever dealt with before! Anyways this is not something I'm likely to splurge on any time soon (especially since Black Out - the style I'd want - doesn't go up to a high enough prescription), it was just neat to know it was out there and not as deadly expensive as I'd thought. (Actually I kind of like Violet Hypnotic from the Wicked FX series, but those are all non-prescription, so I'd have to wear my glasses and then what's the point.)

woot, weird lenses.

WildEyes - they're even prescription, and what's more, I wrote to ask if I can get a pair of a non-matching prescription (my eyes are -3.00 and -5.50 or something), and they said yes. I wonder if my base curve and diameter match. Something that occurs to me now which didn't before is that these are probably hard contact lenses, which is not something I've ever dealt with before! Anyways this is not something I'm likely to splurge on any time soon (especially since Black Out - the style I'd want - doesn't go up to a high enough prescription), it was just neat to know it was out there and not as deadly expensive as I'd thought. (Actually I kind of like Violet Hypnotic from the Wicked FX series, but those are all non-prescription, so I'd have to wear my glasses and then what's the point.)

clubbin'

i'm thinking of going either to death guild on monday, or deviation on tuesday. i've been meaning to get to the new deviation for a verra long time now. (well, as long as they've been at the new location, anyway). anyone interested?

clubbin'

i'm thinking of going either to death guild on monday, or deviation on tuesday. i've been meaning to get to the new deviation for a verra long time now. (well, as long as they've been at the new location, anyway). anyone interested?

space time quiz fun 10000?

( Whee, this looks like fun. )

space time quiz fun 10000?

( Whee, this looks like fun. )

cthulhu cthulhu cthulhu cthulhu cthulhu cthulhu peru...

(no, you're not expected to understand the subject unless you went to high school with me. think that "countries of the world" song from Animaniacs.)

So, my ancient "why vote for the lesser of two evils" Cthulhu shirt that I designed, silkscreened and also tie-dyed in my 3D Design class in grade 10 or 11 (it would have been better named "Arts and Crafts" - we did little design, and a lot of making stuff) finally got too thrashed to keep as a shirt. The cotton was practically beginning to decompose from the years of laundering, and it had also seen service as a painting smock and a drop-cloth. I couldn't bear to part with the design, so I cut it out of the shirt...

...but now I don't know what to do with it! (the blue blob at the bottom is evidence of one of its adventures as a drop-cloth.)

There should actually still be one other such shirt in existence, which I believe I gave to gremliness, although that one was still white and not tie-dyed.

cthulhu cthulhu cthulhu cthulhu cthulhu cthulhu peru...

(no, you're not expected to understand the subject unless you went to high school with me. think that "countries of the world" song from Animaniacs.)

So, my ancient "why vote for the lesser of two evils" Cthulhu shirt that I designed, silkscreened and also tie-dyed in my 3D Design class in grade 10 or 11 (it would have been better named "Arts and Crafts" - we did little design, and a lot of making stuff) finally got too thrashed to keep as a shirt. The cotton was practically beginning to decompose from the years of laundering, and it had also seen service as a painting smock and a drop-cloth. I couldn't bear to part with the design, so I cut it out of the shirt...

...but now I don't know what to do with it! (the blue blob at the bottom is evidence of one of its adventures as a drop-cloth.)

There should actually still be one other such shirt in existence, which I believe I gave to gremliness, although that one was still white and not tie-dyed.