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The Religious Cul-de-sac

So, I’ve been slowly backing myself into a religious corner by ignoring (I know, smart me!) the hints that I need to do some specific religious work. Over the weekend, I got “shoved” in the direction of Nut and basically told to do the work I’m meant to do with Her before I do anything else.

I’m now stuck in what …

How Do You Recognize the Presense of Deities?

How do you recognize, or rather experience, the presence or attention of deities and their likes?

Now, I know this is a rather tricky question and that if I were to ask ten people, I’d get eleven different answers but I still found it worth asking. T’is something I’ve been trying to get my mind around. As it stands, I probably …

Litha / Midsummer – How to do You Honor/Celebrate the Day?

Litha/Midsummer is coming up at the end of this week. Last year was my first year acknowledging and working within the wheel of the year, so once again, this is a new one for me.

What special (big or little) rituals or ceremonies do you do to acknowledge the day?

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Combining Celtic Recon and Druidry?

How many of y’all do this? For me I have gone down both paths but never felt right about it wholly. When I started to combine Celtic Recon and parts of Druidry. I feel I have found my way. Just wanted to see if anyone else had a similar experience!

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Creating Your Own Divination Deck

I’m actually working on my second divination deck and I was wondering if anybody else has experience doing this sort of thing and wants to weigh in with thoughts or advice.

My first deck was what I called a Calvincard deck – it’s made up of a variety of cards from various collectible card games (I was working in a games …

Which Goddess Has Strong Moon Connections?

And is connected to Cats, Magic, Witches, herbal healing, altered states through herb or plant use, the colors purple and green, water especially waterfalls, small creeks and springs, long hair, sexuality, and whose presence is comforting and even motherly, also has associations with dragons and fairies, Spring especially the time around Ostara and I am probably forgetting some other things …

This Thing, is it Right? How do I Tell?

We’ve had several threads around here recently that got me thinking about a subject near and dear my heart: how we evaluate information. Especially information about Pagan ‘stuff’, where we’re talking about a mix of personal experience, academic research, shared knowledge (and sometimes all three in the same sentence.)

So. How do you sort the useful from the problematic?

Do you do …

Being Pagan and Dating

I’m curious about those who have made relationships work while practicing a small minority religion that the general public thinks is strange and doesn’t take very seriously. I don’t have much experience with this myself, though the person I dated the longest practiced neo-Wicca with some friends in high school, followed Egyptian gods, but by the time I knew him, …

Black Magic: Such Dedication?

I was reading through the Black Magic section on another forum (I am not subscribed there). Some of the people doing this kind of stuff seem to spend years going after ‘difficult’ targets or building up a focus of malice for years before releasing it at the intended target.

Whilst there are some situations were I suppose this degree of effort …

Athena – A Goddess for Men?

I’ve recently begin researching the goddess Athena, and came across this article:

http://ancienthistory.about.com/cs/grecoromanmyth1/a/aa062599.htm

There are several short pages that discuss the mythology of Athena punishing women- Arachne and Iodama, and of the death of Medusa and Pallas. Although the author never really states his central thesis within the text, the headline is to my mind inflammatory.

Granted, it’s from About.com, (I found it …

How to Feng Shui Your Bedroom: Five Basic Feng Shui Bedroom Tips

When someone starts to feng shui their home, there are some areas that you might need help in figuring out where to start. The process that I underwent to feng shui my home would have been a lost cause had I not had some wonderful assistance. But my favorite room to feng shui was my bedroom. My bedroom is a comfortable place that I love. I love my bed and the way it looks in my room and I truly love the peace I get when I go into my room to sleep. There are some feng shui bedroom tips that I will share with [...]

Two Most Important Feng Shui Tips for Better Sleep

Sleep is very important for the overall health of a person; so if you have difficulty sleeping, it is always better to follow these feng shui tips for better sleep and health. A very important feng shui tip is to avoid sleeping with the head towards the door. This is because according to feng shui, the best place to position the bed and to sleep is a position where you can see the door, without actually being across from it. This is why you should also avoid sleeping with your f[...]

How to Use Feng Shui Tips for Better Love Life

The concept of feng shui lies in creating a positive environment in your home so that chi can move freely through the home. If the path of chi is blocked, then energy in the home becomes stagnant and this is when you start feeling blocked in life where your interest in your love life may tend to reduce.

So it is by learning to balance and make corrections in chi in your bedroom that you will be able to bring some love and romance into your life. And this is don[...]

Three Important Feng Shui Tips to Bring in More Money

Money is something everyone needs and wants. Besides using hard work, here are some feng shui tips to remember to generate more money. The first thing to remember is that there are financial power spots in your office, living room, bedroom and kitchen. These spots are found in the corner of the back left[...]

Using Feng Shui to Attract Wealth and Prosperity

The Chinese has been using feng shui to attract good luck and good fortune for the thousands of years. In the Orient, no businessmen would start a business without first consulting a feng shui expert. Feng shui can help you maximize your chances of success in your career or in the business that you are running.

One of the easiest feng shui techniques that you can use to activate your wealth luck i[...]

Is Your Teen Safe on the Road?

If your teenager just got their license and is enthusiastically asking you to borrow your Ford to drive to a friend’s house, you may want to think twice before handing over the Ford’s keys. Recent research has shown just how dangerous driving really is for green teenage drivers. In fact, motor vehicle crashes remain the number one cause of death for adolescence. Whether your teen is borrowing the keys to your Ford truck or your tiny Honda, the numbers remain the same; between 5,000 and 6,000 teens are killed every year in America from motor vehicle crashes. No other kind of hazard comes close [...]

What You Need to Know About How To Clean Dog Ears

Our dogs depending on which breed they are may have long or short ears, those that hang to the ground, or stand straight up. Then of course there is the long hair or short hair to deal with. All of these contribute to what kind of potential dog ear problems they could end up with. They[...]

Canine Hot Spots (Moist Dermatitis/Eczema)

Also known as Acute Moist Dermatitis or Moist Eczema, Hot Spots can seemingly appear spontaneously anywhere on a dogs body and the area involved can rapidly spread. This raw, unsightly skin disorder has a variety of causes but the most consistent factor is a bacterial infection. There are a number of kinds of bacteria that can be cultured from a hot spot and fortunately most respond to oral and topical antibiotics. Anything that irritates or breaks the skin can create the right environment for bacterial contamination if the skin surface is wet. The bodys response is either to itch or become in[...]

Health Benefits of Habanero Chiles

All chilli peppers contain phytochemicals substances called capsaicinoids that produce capsicum. The capsicum is the ingredient that gives heat intensity when habanero chili peppers are ingested or applied topically.
When habanero chile is consumed, it binds with the mouth and throat which are the pain receptors of the heat. Once it is transmitted to the brain, it responds to this burning sensation by increasing heart rate pers[...]

Image Upsizing: Best Methods Compared

I will begin by explaining various aspects about image resizing: how it works, what the important problems are, who would be interested in this. I’ll continue by comparing several existing methods. Finally I’ll conclude with the best method to use.
How does enlarging work?
Upsizing an image increases its resolution (size in pixels/points). To do this, information from the original image is used to create the enlarged version. Imagine a grid of pixels in a plane. In the original image they are all side by side. Enlarging the image means enlarging the grid. The more you stretch it, the more s[...]

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