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[ExistentialLuv]

Ahhh.... Running naked, howling through the woods!!!! I am so looking forward to it

People say X-Mas is the most wonderful time of the year.

Obviously they have not ran naked howling under the moon on halloween

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You have not truelly endured life or felt such natural night thrills
Till you feel the brisk autum air on your bare milky tone breasts
Wind tickling your soft silky pale flesh
Misty fog swirling between your fleshy thighs
Mosisture forming on your pleasure spot
As you dance gleeful howling under the October Blood Moon


To PollyJean

Another original work of The Ex

 

[pollyjean]

People say X-Mas is the most wonderful time of the year.

Obviously they have not ran naked howling under the moon on halloween

http://www.lilith.it/images/legend1.jpg



You have not truelly endured life or felt such natural night thrills
Till you feel the brisk autum air on your bare milky tone breasts
Wind tickling your soft silky pale flesh
Misty fog swirling between your fleshy thighs
Mosisture forming on your pleasure spot
As you dance gleeful howling under the October Blood Moon


To PollyJean

Another original work of The Ex

You are so wonderful.... I love when you write things for me....
Makes my heart flutter lol

 

[ExistentialLuv]

You are so wonderful.... I love when you write things for me....
Makes my heart flutter lol

LOL

Thats not all I make flutter!!!

 

[pollyjean]

LOL

Thats not all I make flutter!!!

http://www.gameport.ws/greetingcardpro/cardimages/halloween/bats04s.gif


That is so true.. now stop hijacking this thread...

 

[ExistentialLuv]

http://www.gameport.ws/greetingcardpro/cardimages/halloween/bats04s.gif


That is so true.. now stop hijacking this thread...

Who me?

I'm innocent



Off to create havoc elsewhere

 

[curious2c]

Went to moonlight madness at the local mall last night. Found a lady that had a booth selling different candles. Turns out she made them herself. I asked her is she had any gray one's...she gave me a funny look then said she could make some for me if I wanted them...what size's and shapes did I want? I told her and she gave me another funny look.

"Why gray? I mean, I have been making candles for quite some time and nobody has ever asked for gray."

"I have a need for that specific color of candle. Kind of a religious reason."

"What scent do you want it to have?"

"Heh...um...how about none...can you do that?"

By now there are about ten women standing around listening to our conversation. I am just wanting to get her to make them for me and tell me how much it will cost. The women are all looking at me kinda funny like too. I am wearing my duster (over knee length and dark brown, cowboy boots, and a baseball cap)

This lady keeps asking me questions until I finally have to tell her that I need them for religious ritual reasons. No scent, about ten or so since I have not been able to find them anywhere else.

Red, green, blue, black, brown, yellow, white, all these colors are easy to find...gray...rare and difficult to locate for sure.

The women are looking at me real differently now. I am a bit uncomfortable and just want to catch up with my wife who has gone to the other end of the mall.

She finally tells me how much and that I don't have to pay her until I pick them up next week at such and such place around five in the afternoon. I buy a dragon candle for my grandson (I had him earlier and he had been quite interested in it.)

As I walk through the mall for the rest of the evening I see these women looking at me and talking to whom ever is close by...I am getting a real complex at this point.

My wife tells me that she is going to this one place and I say I will wait for her by the entrance to the mall. While I am waiting, three women come up to me and start to ask about my religion. I am a bit...taken back since I am not sure what to expect. Then one of them comes out and asks me if I am Pagan.
I bravely say yes.
They all smiled and said goodbye and left me standing wondering what the heck that was all about. I am still a bit befuddled by the whole thing. I am not aware of other Pagan's in our community, so it's kind of like I am or have been waiting for the other shoe to drop.

Things that make one go...hmmmm. Or perhaps a better way to put it...what the fuck?

The lady with the candles seemed to be quite interested in my reasons for gray candles too. Sheesh...maybe I am not so alone in my Paganist beliefs as I thought. Or, perhaps I am about to be a target of someone who needs to be saved..***** in the small town I live in...oh well.

I am just happy that I have been able to locate a supply of gray candles. With no scent on top of that.

 

[PoliteSuccubus]

I'm prob going to get banned for what I just posted, and wanted to wish you all many,many blessings.

 

[hurtme]

Samhain is and has always been my favorite holiday, I thrive on the chaotic energy in the wind, it gives me a charge that lasts me through most of the oft dreary winter months.

I have actually found that i enjoy it when ppl come up and ask about my religion, i don't particualrly flaunt it, but i do wear a medium sized pentacle on a chain around my neck, and I also usually only wear one ring, a silver pentacle, and I have never, ever had a problem being out of the broom closet...I love it, I enjoy having ppl approach me with actual curiousity, and being enlightened when they leave. the way I see it, if they are interested enough to come up to me, and they learn something positive, even if its just that witches are not evil, or that a pentacle is actually a symbol of protection and not the devil, they may treat the next wiccan/pagan better for it, and they might tell someone, who might tell someone...and so on...makes me feel all warm and fuzzy...lol

 

[blueeyedangel]

Just a quick hey from me to all my fellow god/goddess worshippers. I am on my way out the door to have some fun with the kidlettes but will be back later to read up all the posts on this thread and post a more fitting introduction.

Blessings to you all

 

[curious2c]

Samhian approachs and I am pretty wound up it seems. Heh...first big one for me...

Glad to see hurtme and blueeyedangel here posting too. The more the merrier.

 

[hurtme]

well, you know, it seems as I progress and grow, each holiday seems to mean more than it did the year before, and this samhain is no exception. There is some...drama going on in my life (as always...*sigh*) and I am so looking forward to samhain so that I can finally really feel like I am putting some of it to rest, and moving beyond it to start fresh in a new turn of the wheel...plus, come on, I mean, it is the most fun night of the year...

 

[curious2c]

Hmmm...After some more research and soul searching...I have decided that I am going to wait to self-initiate. The moon is only four days old now, won't be full (by my reckoning) on Halloween. I am torn on this...I had planned on initiating on Samhain. Perhaps I still will since it is a growing moon...but everything I have read points to a full moon for initiations. Anybody have ideas on this? Just...heh...curious.

I have no doubts on my direction...just my timing.

 

[Image]

Hmmm...After some more research and soul searching...I have decided that I am going to wait to self-initiate. The moon is only four days old now, won't be full (by my reckoning) on Halloween. I am torn on this...I had planned on initiating on Samhain. Perhaps I still will since it is a growing moon...but everything I have read points to a full moon for initiations. Anybody have ideas on this? Just...heh...curious.

I have no doubts on my direction...just my timing.

Oh, my sweet love.... don't wait because the moon isn't right. If the time isn't right for you, and in your heart you're hesitant, OK...

But a true magician can always use the moon's phase to everyone's benefit...

It's up to you... if it feels right

IMO, Samhain is the correct time... It was Samhain 1994 that I (officially ) dedicated

 

[curious2c]

Oh, my sweet love.... don't wait because the moon isn't right. If the time isn't right for you, and in your heart you're hesitant, OK...

But a true magician can always use the moon's phase to everyone's benefit...

It's up to you... if it feels right

IMO, Samhain is the correct time... It was Samhain 1994 that I (officially ) dedicated

Well, my thoughts on initiating on Samhain origonally were because of the closeness of the others at that particular time and also because it signals the begining of the new year. I have always felt that too for some strange reason. Hmmmm...

I guess that I got caught up in the different books and how thye placed the significance on a full moon. Looking back now...yeah...I will keep to my first plan and go for it on Samhain for sure. Besides...I have everything ready now.

Thank you my Goddess. You have shown me that I am not too far off track. Maybe I need to relax a tad bit and take a deep breath. I have felt a bit...wound up. This is a very big deal for me, especially at this time in my life. Seems like I have been waiting forever...perhaps I have too. I just know deep in my heart...I am heading in the right pathway now.

 

[Image]

You are welcome, my God...

And that's where it really counts, in your heart...
And in truth, and in Light, and in Love...

Curious, I wish I knew you in real life.

Peace, my friend

 

[curious2c]

So many times lately I have wanted the same thing...to be able to know you in real life...someone who can show me those things that I have been struggling with for the last months. Being solitary is...difficult at best. I will say that just our little interaction here has been tremendously helpful to me.

Perhaps is not someday in this life...we will meet in the next.

 

[Image]

For Curious

For Curious


You are at the center of all things…
Born of the most high
You stand of your own free will, before the God & Goddess and the blessed realms of the Earth, Air, Fire and Water and speak the truth to your own soul…

May you always know that you are a part of the whole of nature and always walk in balance with Her…

May you always seek for inner wisdom with grace, integrity, honor and respect for all living creatures, seen and unseen…

May you always know the gifts of song rising from the heart, the joy of an Autumn sunset, the cool touch of the renewing waters, and the compelling call of the drum in the dance…

Many blessings to you on your dedication. The Olde Ones will always guide you on your chosen path…

Namaste,
Image

 

[Rhys]

For many witches throughout the world, Halloween is an ideal time to magically do away with weaknesses. The Celts of old, for instance, on Samhain slaughtered all livestock that were too weak to live through the coming winter. Using a quill pen and dragon’s blood ink, write upon a piece of parchment the weaknesses you wish to be rid of. As you concentrate on your intent, crumple up the paper in your “power hand” and toss it into a fire or set it ablaze by holding it above the flame of a black candle. Place it into a fireproof container such as a cast iron cauldron, and as the parchment burns away into ashes, so too shall your weaknesses be consumed by the flames of magic.

By: Gerina Dunwich

 

[Image]

Halloween Witch

Each year they parade her about,
the traditional Halloween Witch.
Misshapen green face, stringy scraps of hair,
a toothless mouth beneath her deformed nose.
Gnarled, knobby fingers twisted into a claw
protruding from a bent and twisted torso
that lurches about on wobbly legs.

Most think this abject image
to be the creation of a prejudiced mind
or merely a Halloween caricature
I disagree,
I believe this to be how Witches really were seen.

Consider that most Witches:
were women,
were abducted in the night,
and smuggled into dungeons or prisons under the secrecy of
darkness
to be presented by light of day
as a confessed Witch.

Few, if any, saw a frightened normal looking woman
being dragged into a secret room filled with instruments of torture,
to be questioned until she confessed to anything suggested to her
and to give names or what ever would stop the questions
Crowds saw the aberration denounced to the world
as a self-proclaimed Witch

As the Witch was paraded through town
en route to be burned, hanged, drowned, stoned
or disposed of in various other forms of Christian love
all created to free and save her soul from her depraved body
the jeering crowds viewed the results of hours of torture.

The face bruised and broken by countless blows
bore a hue of sickly green.
The once loving and warm smile gone
replaced by a grimace of broken teeth and torn gums
that leers beneath a battered disfigured nose.
The disheveled hair conceals
bleeding gaps of torn scalp from whence
cruel hands had torn away the lovely tresses.
Broken twisted hands clutched the wagon for support,
fractured fingers with nails torn away
locked like groping claws to steady her broken body.

All semblence of humanity gone
this was truly a demon,
a bride of Satan,
a Witch.

I revere this Halloween Crone
and hold her sacred above all.
I honor her courage and listen to her warnings of the dark side of man.
Each year I shed tears of respect when the mundane exhibit their symbol of Christian love.

~angel (copyrighted) 6/26/99~

 

[curious2c]

Greetings all!

Thank you Image for the blessing. You have again touched my heart in ways that most can't. I appreciate your interest and help in my formations as a Pagan. I hope that some day when we do meet that I will be able to convey my gratitude far greater than I seem to be able to do here.

Rhys, I like that ritual of getting rid of weakness's. I believe I will incorporate that in my ritual tomorrow night...um...should time allow. I have quite a list already.



The witch...much maligned, burned, stoned, murdered, drug, beaten, and many times, not even a witch to begin with. I too honor the Crone at this time. The pain and turmoil they went through was unneeded and unnecessary, just plain cruelty inflicted for no other reason than they could.

 

[hurtme]

Image,that was haunting...

 

[Guest]

Wishing everyone a Happy Halloween!!!

 

[Image]

Image,that was haunting...

It is, isn't it? Thanks hurtme... I find it extremely powerful... I've had it for years now and every time I read it, especially aloud, it never fails to invoke such a passion that it drives me to tears.

 

[curious2c]

Bright blessings one and all. My Samhain has been the best one I have ever had.

I feel that everything overall, went pretty well in my ritual tonight.

I have a new name...a different outlook on many things, fire burning in my soul, water quenching my thirst, Frankensince wafting in my lungs and earth in my toes. I am whole. My path defined. My way chosen. I feel as one with the Goddess and God, yet seperate too.


Merry meet and merry part and merry meet again one and all.




A very special thankyou to Image. Your help and advice was taken to heart. Thank you.

 

[hurtme]

yes, despite a few snags, my samhain went very beautifully...I am a little energy drains, cause I took part in three different rituals, but still, I fell pretty damn good. Not to mention, the enrgy outside was amazing last night, at one point the moon was blood red, the wind was howling. When we were doing the outside ritual, the bonfire was blazing, twisting and turning with the wind in ways I have never seen before. As we were in ritual, a bobcat stood on the edge of the woods and screamed to us...we took it as a good sign. but, being that Bast is my patron godess, cats are always a good sign for me...it seems every year my/our rituals get better and better, I can't wait till next year...