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Block Anxiety

isisinanna — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 05:23:50 +0000

Forget It! A Biochemical Pathway For Blocking Your Worst Fears?

A receptor for glutamate, the most prominent neurotransmitter in the brain, plays a key role in the process of “unlearning,” … > full story

The Hag

isisinanna — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:03:01 +0000

The Hag

Robert Herrick (1648)

The Hag is astride, This night for to ride; The Devill and shee together: Through thick, and through thin, Now out, and then in, Though ne’r so foule be the weather. A Thorn or a Burr She takes for a Spurre: With a lash of a Bramble she rides now, Through Brakes and through Bryars, O’re Ditches, and Mires, She followes the Spirit that guides now. No Beast, for his food, Dares now range the wood; But husht in his laire he lies lurking: While mischiefs, by these, On Land and on Seas, At noone of Night are working, The storme will arise, And trouble the skies; This night, and more for the wonder, The ghost from the Tomb Affrighted shall come, Cal’d out by the clap of the Thunder.

To _ ___. Ulalume: A Ballad

isisinanna — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:01:19 +0000

To _____ _______. Ulalume: A Ballad

Edgar Allan Poe (1847)

The skies they were ashen and sober;
The leaves they were crispéd and sere —
The leaves they were withering and sere;
It was night in the lonesome October
Of my most immemorial year;
It was hard by the dim lake of Auber,
In the misty mid region of Weir —
It was down by the dank tarn of Auber,
In the ghoul-haunted woodland of Weir.

Here once, through an alley Titanic,
Of cypress, I roamed with my Soul —
Of cypress, with Psyche, my Soul.
There were days when my heart was volcanic
As the scoriac rivers that roll —
As the lavas that restlessly roll
Their sulphurous currents down Yaanek
In the ultimate climes of the pole —
That groan as they roll down Mount Yaanek
In the realms of the boreal pole.

Our talk had been serious and sober,
But our thoughts they were palsied and sere —
Our memories were treacherous and sere —
For we knew not the month was October,
And we marked not the night of the year —
(Ah, night of all nights in the year!)
We noted not the dim lake of Auber —
(Though once we had journeyed down here) —
We remembered not the dank tarn of Auber,
Nor the ghoul-haunted woodland of Weir.

And now, as the night was senescent
And star-dials pointed to morn —
As the star-dials hinted of morn —
At the end of our path a liquescent
And nebulous lustre was born,
Out of which a miraculous crescent
Arose with a duplicate horn —
Astarte’s bediamonded crescent
Distinct with its duplicate horn.

And I said — “She is warmer than Dian:
She rolls through an ether of sighs —
She has seen that the tears are not dry on
These cheeks, where the worm never dies,
And has come past the stars of the Lion
To point us the path to the skies —
To the Lethean peace of the skies —
Come up, in despite of the Lion,
To shine on us with her bright eyes —
Come up through the lair of the Lion
With Love in her luminous eyes.”

But Psyche, uplifting her finger,
Said — “Sadly this star I mistrust —
Her pallor I strangely mistrust: —
Oh, hasten! — oh, let us not linger!
Oh, fly! — let us fly! — for we must.”
In terror she spoke; letting sink her
Wings till they trailed in the dust —
In agony sobbed, letting sink her
Plumes till they trailed in the dust —
Till they sorrowfully trailed in the dust.

I replied — “This is nothing but dreaming:
Let us on by this tremulous light!
Let us bathe in this crystalline light!
Its Sybillic splendor is beaming
With Hope and in Beauty to-night: —
See! — it flickers up the sky through the night!
Ah, we safely may trust to its gleaming,
And be sure it will lead us aright —
We safely may trust to a gleaming
That cannot but guide us aright,
Since it flickers up to Heaven through the night.”

Thus I pacified Psyche and kissed her,
And tempted her out of her gloom —
And conquered her scruples and gloom:
And we passed to the end of the vista,
And were stopped by the door of a tomb;
By the door of a legended tomb: —
And I said — “What is written, sweet sister,
On the door of this legended tomb?”
She replied — “Ulalume — Ulalume —
’Tis the vault of thy lost Ulalume!”

Then my heart it grew ashen and sober
As the leaves that were crispéd and sere —
As the leaves that were withering and sere,
And I cried — “It was surely October
On this very night of last year
That I journeyed — I journeyed down here —
That I brought a dread burden down here —
On this night of all nights in the year,
Oh, what demon has tempted me here?
Well I know, now, this dim lake of Auber —
This misty mid region of Weir —
Well I know, now, this dank tarn of Auber,
In the ghoul-haunted woodland of Weir.”

Said we, then — the two, then — “Ah, can it
Have been that the woodlandish ghouls —
The pitiful, the merciful ghouls —
To bar up our way and to ban it
From the secret that lies in these wolds —
From the thing that lies hidden in these wolds —
Had drawn up the spectre of a planet
From the limbo of lunary souls —
This sinfully scintillant planet
From the Hell of the planetary souls?”

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isisinanna — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:17:29 +0000

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Our Art

isisinanna — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:54:04 +0000

Will You Be Ready: Deep Forest

New Age Theology

isisinanna — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:39:21 +0000

New Age Theology

Eclectic Wicca has many “new age” concepts within its canon that simply have no place in the historical or cultural context of European Old Craft. Some of these are listed below:

KARMA: this hindu/buddhist concept was carried into Wicca by Gardner, probably from a theosophical source. In traditional Craft, “Fate” is an important concept…but “karma” is unheard of. There is no belief in Traditional Craft of “karmic debt” or of “karmic weight” to actions. The actual Traditional Craft belief on these matters was and is very different than the eastern concept of “karma”.

THREE-FOLD LAW: This strange notion has no basis in history, nor does it hold up to sober reality well. While many peoples in many times and places have poetically threatened people with ideas of their actions returning to visit them “many times over”, Wicca accepts this as an immutable, physical law. The truth is, while most wiccans have given up the belief in “hellfire and damnation” as a deterrent to their negative actions, they have replaced it with this “three fold law”, which threatens three-times retribution for negativity. No belief such as this exists in historical Traditional Craft, or in any surviving native European metaphysical system.

DUOTHEISM: The Wiccan belief system states that there are only two divine beings, A “god” and a “goddess”. The many different gods and goddesses worshipped by our European ancestors, or anyone else on earth for that matter, are thought to be “aspects” or “manifestations” of these two beings. Thus “All Gods are one God, and All Goddessses one Goddess”. This divine reductionism is referred to as “Duotheism”, and it is not a Traditional Witch Belief. It is, in fact, a very modern belief. Furthermore, many Wiccans believe this “God” and “Goddess” to be themselves aspects of an unknowable divine unity, or a great being sometimes called “The One”… leading us essentially straight to a new version of Monotheism, well suited to ease the consciences of the usually ex–christian converts to Wicca.

Our European ancestors were Polytheists. They believed in many Gods, or in local Gods. This is true for most Traditional Witches. There are some beliefs now (and in ancient times as well) of some divinties being “greater” than others, almost to the philosophical point of transcendence, and universal power. This sometimes appears in Traditional Craft as well, but in the form of mysteries, and not everyday devotion, or new-agey monotheism.

BOOK OF SHADOWS: In Wicca, maybe the “BOS” is a real thing, but in the Old Days, amongst Traditional practicioners of the Secret Craft, to have written evidence of what you were doing was a death sentence if you were caught. Also, most people back then were quite illiterate. The Old Craft was mostly passed down orally, and if it was written down, it would have been written down sparingly.

Ancient Alphabet Correspondences

isisinanna — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:38:16 +0000

ENOCHIAN ALPHABET

GOTHIC ALPHABET

RUNIC ALPHABET

Daily Correspondences

isisinanna — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:33:53 +0000

Each day of the week has a specific meaning and purpose, when speaking of occult/ritual uses.

Here is a easy-to-read list of each day and it’s meaning/use:

SUNDAY: Yellow, the Sun and solar deities. It is associated with magic dealing with: authority, divine power, friendships, healing, learning, reason and world leaders.

MONDAY: White, the Moon and lunar deities. It is associated with magic dealing with: cooking, dreams, family, the home, intuition, medicine, spiritual growth and the ocean.

TUESDAY: Red, the planet Mars and the god Tiw. It is associated with magic dealing with: athletics, competitions, conflicts, courage, hunting, legality, logic, physical strength, politics, vitality and war.

WEDNESDAY: Purple, the planet Mercury and the god Woden. It is associated with magic dealing with: communication, divination, education, mystical insight, resourcefulness and self-improvement.

THURSDAY: Blue, the planet Jupiter and the god Thor. It is associated with magic dealing with: dedication, endurance, faithfulness, legal matters, loyalty, luck and money matters.

FRIDAY: Green, the planet Venus and the goddess Frigg. It is associated with magic dealing with: art, fertility, love, music and pleasure.

SATURDAY: Black, the planet and god Saturn. It is associated with magic dealing with: banishing, change, death, motivation, reincarnation, understanding and wills.

Great Music

isisinanna — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:32:13 +0000

Bohemian Ballet: DEEP FOREST

DEEP FOREST

Let me know if these don’t work. I’m working on perfectly this.

Color Magic

isisinanna — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:20:26 +0000

Colors hold sacred meaning and can affect changes in your life… wearing a certain color will affect your mood, as well as the mood of people around you!

Check it out! Try it, it REALLY works.. use this list for candle magick, pouch spells, etc.

RED: Fire Elemental, Strength, Power, Energy, Health, Vigor, Enthusiasm, Courage, Passion, Sexuality, Protection.

PINK: Honor, Mortality, Friendship, Emotional Love, Compassion and Relaxation.

ORANGE: The God, Strength, Healing, Pulling things to you, Adaptability, Luck, Vitality, Encouragement, Clearing the Mind, Dominance, Physical and Magickal Energy, Legal matters.

YELLOW: Air Elemental, Divination, Clairvoyance, Mental Alertness, Intellectual growth, Prosperity, Learning, Changes, Harmony, Creativity, Confidence, Communication, Study, Travel.

BROWN: Earth Elemental, Endurance, Animal health, Steadiness, Houses and Homes, Physical objects, Uncertainties.

GREEN: Lord and Lady, Earth Elemental, Herb Magick, Nature-type faerie magick, Luck, Fertility, Healing, Balance, Employment, Prosperity, Courage, Agriculture, Changing direction or attitudes, Growth.

BLUE: Health, Psychic awareness, Intuition, Opportunity, Understanding, Quests, Safe journey, Patience, Tranquility, Ward off depression. The Goddess, Water Elemental, Truth, Dreams, Protection, Change, Meditation, Impulse.

PURPLE: Power, Spiritual development, Intuition, Ambition, Healing, Progress, Business, Spiritual Communication, Protection, Occult Wisdom, Meditation.

BLACK Ward-off negativity, Remove hexes, Protection, Spirit contact, The Universe, Night, Truth, Remove discord or confusion.

GRAY: Non-nature-type faerie magick such as communication with the faerie realms, travel to the other side, Vision Quests, Veiling, Cancellation, Hesitation, Neutrality.

WHITE: The Lady and The Lord together, Full Moon Magick, Purity, Protection, Truth, Meditation, Peace, Sincerity, Justice, Warding off of doubts and fears.

SILVER: The Goddess, Lunar Magick, Meditation, Psychic development, Success, Balance, Wards off negativity. Variegated inner development through relaxation and introspection.

GOLD: The God, Solar Energy, Power, Physical Strength, Success, Achievement, Mental growth, Skill sought, Healing energy, Intuition, Divination, Fortune.