A Witch's Day

Underage learners
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Thu, 27/09/2012 - 10:48
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This week seems to have been one where I seem to have upset more people than I’ve pleased. This week I refused to teach a 15 year old about Wicca after she asked if she could be my “apprentice”. That was also after she asked me how to hex her ex-boyfriend! Er, nope, ain’t gonna happen on my watch!

In Oak and Mistletoe we have a policy of not teaching anyone under the age of 18 anyway and this is for a number of reasons. We don’t think that it’s appropriate to formally teach someone until they are mature enough to make an informed decision about their spirituality choices. That’s not to say that we don’t think youngsters shouldn’t be taught informally. I think one of the joys of parenthood in fact is to help young ones experience the activities associated with faith throughout the year but that’s the parent’s responsibility rather than a coven’s when that person is a minor in my opinion. I’d be keen to hear the views of others.

Smiles and blessings, Amethyst

I’m only human
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Thu, 20/09/2012 - 09:46
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I’m human and like many folks, when the proverbial hits the fan or I get emotionally hammered by someone or something, I feel like giving up on all the hard work I’ve put into so many things and walking away from it. Of course the rational part of me says “don’t make rash decisions until you’ve thought things over for a few days” so that’s the point I’m at now. Thinking things over. And over...

Having been hit with a emotional sledge hammer yesterday, I’m feeling rather battered and bruised and I must admit that my calm and rationally thinking brain hasn’t fully kicked in yet. I’m struggling not to over react in retaliation. So far so good on that one but I can’t guarantee that at some point the emotions won’t take over and say something I might later regret.

In the meantime though, I remain calm, as unflustered as I can, wait out my time and I’ll just see what happens over the next few weeks. Fingers crossed, toes crossed and hoping that the Goddess will pave the way to a positive outcome for me, whatever that may be.

Smiles and blessings, Amethyst

Candle light
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Tue, 18/09/2012 - 09:23
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I’m having my contact lenses fitted today (I have odd shaped eyeballs apparently so I need special ones) and it got me thinking about how our witchy ancestors and folk healers would have coped with deteriorating eyesight as they grew older. Not only am I blessed to live in a time when glasses and contact lenses are available to help my own aging eyesight, but I also have electricity to light my reading and tasks at night. My ancestors had a candle to light the way in the evening or just the light of the fire and that was it. No desk lamp, no overhead light bulb clothed in a brand new lampshade. No. They had the bare minimum that nature provides and so I wonder how they coped with all of that.

Doesn’t it make you grateful for what we do have living in the 21st century!

Smiles and blessings, Amethyst

Stress relief
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Sun, 16/09/2012 - 09:27
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I love the feeling I get after I’ve completed a long task of duties. That moment when I can cross the last thing off the list. Yesterday was a massive day going through my ‘to do’ list and getting things done which had been piling up waiting for me. This morning I look at my desk and know that I can rest easy knowing I’m on top of the workload. Woohoo!!! That’s stress relief!

Smiles and blessings, Amethyst

Catching up
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Sat, 15/09/2012 - 09:49
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Yes, it’s been two weeks since I’ve made any post to this blog which is a reflection of how little spare time there has been this month so far. I am so looking forward to this next week with no uni expectations so that I can catch up on the emails that are piling up and have a couple of hours free each day just for me. What bliss!!!

Smiles and blessings, Amethyst

Spring delight
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Sun, 02/09/2012 - 10:24
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Second day of Spring and thankfully that stinging cold wind seems to have abated. This is, without doubt, my favourite time of year when the bulbs are blossoming, when the lambs are being born, and finally when the cold weather relents. My arthritic joints and spine don’t handle cold and wet weather very well so Spring is a relief for me both physically and spiritually.

My garden is beginning to come alive again with the apple trees showing tiny buds peeping out from the new growth. The daffodils have flowered and my favourite flowers, the freesias, are bursting into bloom around the sacred circle space. The agapanthus are already sowing flower heads and the lawn is coming alive again. What a delight to se life and warmth once more!

Smiles and blessings, Amethyst

Blue Moon on the beach
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Sat, 01/09/2012 - 10:08
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It’s the first day of Spring today and it was a beautiful blue full moon last night. Our coven celebrated the event on the beach with a wonderful circle and some time connecting to the cycle and rhythm of our amazing planet and our ever present deities. The slight drizzle of rain as we set up meant candle lighting was a little more difficult than we had planned but otherwise, this was a peaceful, relaxing, rejuvenating circle that lifted us all and made us smile. How wonderful to celebrate it on the beach, such a magickal place!
Smiles and blessings Amethyst

Free naturopathic consults
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Tue, 28/08/2012 - 10:59
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As I head into the last few weeks of my 4 year degree and my full qualification as a naturopath in November, I’ve been working on the business launch plan and the idea of offering a couple of pro bono (free) consults each week to folks in need. Obviously I cant do the whole clinic as free because I have to pay expenses myself but I think I could manage a couple each week.
I think it’s important to provide access to decent health care to all sectors of people and this may be one more way I can give back to the community I love. I already run the Food Pantry charity for folks in need and so also offering some free health care advice might round my community contribution out a bit more. My task now is to work out the details. Thinking, thinking...

Smiles and blessings, Amethyst

Time and age
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Mon, 27/08/2012 - 09:56
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Time is a manmade construct to help us better understand and mark the passing of the days and seasons and in fact there is no such actual thing as time. So the comments like “time seems to go so quickly” “time is dragging today” or “where has all that time gone” are silly really yet we use them so often to describe those feelings we have of our experiences.
I cannot believe it is August already when it only seems a few weeks since last Christmas for example. I can’t believe I’m more than 50 years old! That seems to me to be absurd because I just cannot comprehend that my body has experienced 50+ years and yet I still feel so young. In truth, this astounds me and yet I know it to be true, my birth certificate confirms it.
Time may not be an actual construct we can hold but it continues to pass by at a regular and predictable rate. I wonder how old I will feel once I reach 70 or 80 or...
Smiles and blessings, Amethyst

Weather fairy
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Sun, 26/08/2012 - 14:29
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I often wonder why weather forecasters insist on giving us statistics with a natural phenomenon like the weather. “It’s been the coldest day since...” or “the wettest winter in x years”. Does it matter? Really? The weather is a natural force of her own making and we will always complain that the winter was colder this year or the summer was too hot or too short or too wet or too dry. The poor weather fairy has so many demands placed upon her with the wedding couple wanting a dry day while the farmer needs the rain. We don’t want too much heat because of bush fires but some trees need the fires in order to produce seeds. In all seriousness, yes the weather may be gradually changing over several years but she will always produce superlatives. So each day or season will always be wetter or dryer or hotter or colder (or whatever) than we remember it being last year or last week. Poor weather fairy can’t win! Smiles and blessings, Amethyst

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