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Merry Meet Readers!!!
Well Met!! We welcome in the summer with a brand new issue of PaganPages!! This issue is a big one!! We have some new columns for you: The Tarot with Marisol Velasco Questions for the Shaman with Pegasus You wanted it and we did it….spells spells and more spells…. You asked for more spells for your BOS’s and we listened. This issue has quite a few helpful spells in it and the beginning of a new spells column Spell-Struck We are looking for the following writers: Runes Oils Incense Faeries Rituals and we are looking or any spells you would like to share. We hope you have a great month…
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Me,Myself and I, Notes from a Solitary Practitioner
While going through my teenage years I found myself in spiritual strife Which religion should I join and dedicate my life? First came the Baptist preacher who promised soulful rest Then shortly after stating this his hand was on my breast Then I went to a revival that promised “Welcome one and all” Then the threats began to change our ways or into the pit of hell we’d fall I wondered if I was Baptised would I find that divine peace But every church I asked for this needed what was damn near a lease Then one day through happenstance I read the Wiccan Rede Do what you will and…
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June Correspondences
The sixth month of the Gregorian Calender, June is the first month of summer. June derives it’s name from the Roman Goddess Juno. Her Greek counterpart is Hera. The traditional birthstone amulets of June are alexandrite, moonstone, and pearl; and the rose is the month’s traditional flower. June is shared by the astrological signs of Gemini the Twins and Cancer the Crab, and is sacred to the following Pagan deities: Juno, and all gods and goddesses who preside over love, passion, and beauty. During the month of June, the Great Solar Wheel of the Year is turned to the Summer Solstice, one of the four Lesser Sabbats celebrated each year…
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Pellar Song
The new-age circus has come to town and all wise women go to ground. The sacred glade where once we stood, has been cut down for firewood. From deer park to nesting ground, now concrete jungle all around. The herbs we gathered and dried with care, through sprays and poisons, found no-where. The shells and stones from coast and brook, all hid by rubbish – take a look! The haunting song of the nightingale a whisper ‘gainst the sirens wail. The village green where children played, is where the drunks and junkies sway. And in the lanes we used to ride, now souped-up engines, past us, fly. So what has…
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The Days of June
June 1 Festival of the Oak Nymph. This Pagan celebration honors all hamadryads (female nature spirits who are believed to inhabit oak trees). Decorate a Pagan altar with acorns and war some oak leaves in your hair. Kiss an oak tree or place a small offering of some kind before it, and the tree nymphs who dwell within it will surely bestow a blessing upon you. June 2 Shapatu of Ishtar. A Pagan festival dedicated to the goddess Ishtar is celebrated every year on this date. She is the ancient Assyrian and Babylonian deity who presides over love and fertility as well as war. The birth of the god Apollo…
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Musings of a Massachusetts Witch
Raising Wiccans It is my belief that children need to be taught spirituality and which path is taught is generally the path that the parents follow. If you follow a Wiccan path then teaching Wicca to your children is appropriate, if you follow a Christian path then teaching your children Christianity is appropriate. Does this mean that other religions or spiritual paths should be ignored? No. What it means is – you raise your children with the idea that there is a Divine Source from which all things flow; that there is something that connects all living beings. As that child matures you may then open the door to other…
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Avondale, New RPG
Part of a new begining… at AVONDALE! http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/AvondaleTheRPG/ Avondale is a completely new and innovative concept in original Historically Based Role Playing Games. Age Range: Adult (17+) It’s 1901 and the world is entering a new century. It’s a time of rapid growth and expansion; a time of industrialization and commerce — of waves of immigration to the land where “the streets are paved with gold”. The United States has just engaged in it’s first “foreign war” and has suddenly found itself with an unwanted and unwelcome “colonial empire” and comittments to far-away places and peoples. It is a time of transition in which old meets new. TR is in…
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Gems of the Goddess
LILLITH THE TEMPTRESS Some may think of her as a daemon, and even a fallen angel, but Lilith is far beyond what she is perceived as. Legend says that Lilith was the first women created, not Eve. Lilith and Adam were put on earth to reproduce, and when Adam started to take the dominant position during intercourse by being on top, Lilith just wouldn’t have it. She asked him why he insisted this, and he replied by saying that she was a women. Lilith became enraged, and argued that since they were created by the same creator, that they were both equals. When Adam still refused Lilith left the Garden…
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Astral Travel, Lesson 12
Space Ship There are several different variations of this same traveling method. Most involve creating your own room/work space/ laboratory. I created this variation because it was easier for me to travel to and work with. With your eye mask on, get into a meditative state using your preferred method. I think that this one will be easier if you lay down, but of course be in the position that works best for you. Once you are in your meditative state, and you are calm, quiet, and still, a bright light beams down upon you from above. This light is white with blue, red, orange hues. It is warm. You…
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Meditation Moment
The Skill of Forgetting We often think of forgetting as a problem, something that only happens by accident, something that we want to fight against. Our memories are vital to who we are and how we live; loss of memory is one of the most feared aspects of aging for some people. But memory isn’t always a good thing. The traumatic, intrusive memories of PTSD are just one example of memory run amok. Think about what your mind would feel like if you could never forget anything, even the most trivial details, like the thousands of license plates you see on the road in the course of your life. Having…