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Gods & Goddesses

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On December 18, 2018

In Main, Pagan 101 Series

This is where things get a little tricky.. the subject of the great Divine is one every person has. Who or what is the divine? Is it male is it female? This next part of the series is all about the Gods and Goddesses who make up our world as we know it.

Many Pagans myself included come to our paths calling our Deities (Higher power) Lord and Lady. The Lady is mother Earth and the triple- faced moon. We see earth as a mother, a provider.  As a Moon Goddess she is the Maiden, waxing moon-she is the blushing bride, she is the warrior. She is Potential.

The Full Moon is a Mother aspect, the whole roundness of the moon represents a full term belly about to bring forth new life. This is the fulfillment aspect.  The Waning moon is the Crone, the wise old woman. She takes and diminishes.  She represents wisdom and death . 

The Dark moon is commonly left out but we should really take time and be thankful for its help to balance us. Many leave it out because of the “darkness” but without dark there is no light and vs versa. We all must have an equal balance. This particular one represents the destroyer. But isn’t part pf destruction new growth?

The God, The Lord, the Ladys other half, is usually forgotten in many of these.  As consort to the Earth, He is Father Sky, or the Sun.  But when Goddess leaves earth to become a moon Goddess, so the God leaves the sky to her and becomes an Earth God- The Green Man, God of Plants, The Horned one, and the Lord of the Underworld, Ruler of the Tomb/womb.

It is the God of Plants that we honor at Ostara, as the first green haze on the trees. And He is the one we honor with beer and bread at the Festival of Grain, Lughnassadh. The Horned One is the God of the Wild. He is the bear that attacks in the woods, He is our own homicidal rages, He is our most Passionate lusts. He is the one who gives us the empowerment that we act on to protect our loved ones. His spirit lives within each meat we eat, each cow, each chicken etc.. Look in their eyes and see him. 

And in the Underworld, The Green God, The Horned and Sun God merge into one aspect: The king of the dead. He gives renewed youth, rest, reunion with those who have gone before. 

Now the fun time : HomeWork

For this lesson we are on a look of who are deity(S) are. So ask your self this what characteristic do you feel most would represent a Goddess and God? An idea is to look through the Encyclopedia Mythica and look up pantheon of your chosen culture.  Look through them, listen to their stories..then we play match up. With the list of traits you wrote down ^^ do any of these match up the pantheons you read? 

The Element of Spirit

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On December 9, 2018

In Pagan 101 Series

Spirit-  Our soul, our light, our energy, our eternal selves.  Spirit is within all living,  it is the animating forces and everything abundant.

Spirit is the element that binds us all; from creatures, to plants, to the solar system, and to us humans.  This element within your blood is the strongest, most vigorous element of them all. Because spirit is strong and flows within our bodily blood, it is what makes blood magic so strong and delicate. It is literally taking spirit, the strongest element and putting soul into.

*History Fact-   Blood magic was originally the domain of women. Women used their menstrual blood. This was to show no harm to anyone and none unwilling.

Spirit is in the center of the circle and alters.

HOMEWORK TIME :

  1. How can you use this element?
  2. Three things you can use to represent Spirit on your alter.
  3. What colors do you think of spirit?
  4. Why would you call upon this element?

 

Till next time, much love and light.  Many blessings be upon you. If you havn’t yet, subscribe with your email, send me a message, and share with your friends, <3

Flow With The Water

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On November 8, 2018

In Pagan 101 Series

Every time I think of water I don’t see oceans, rain, or  showers; I see emotions. The element of water is associated with emotions; how we feel.  However, this element goes deeper then just our emotions but it is connected with memories.

Water is easy to see as an essential to living things to survive. Water is just like a cycle. We take in water, it cleans us and then we release the most precious components of it, our tears.

Our next to last element turns to the west.  Our ancestors pointed out that the biggest body of water ( more then likely the Atlantic Ocean) was on their west side.

 

Exercises:

  1. Name three things you could use to represent water on your altar.
  2. Which direction to you feels that the element of water belongs?
  3. What colors would you associate water with?
  4. If you had to call upon water magically, what reasons would you have to lean on water for?
  5. Write your quarter call for water.

 

 

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Keep an eye out for our last element- Spirit

The Whispering Element-Air

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On October 5, 2018

In Pagan 101 Series

What is air? Air is the element of all things. We all need oxygen including plants, animals, and ourselves. It is with us when begin life as a seed to death itself.  How does air work in magic? Air is the part of telepathy and divination-ALL PSYCHIC ABILITIES.

Air is the wind the in the meadow we feel rolling through our hair, the breeze during summer nights, and the shiver we feel in winter. It is the weather that destroys home, it is the weather that builds nests for all living creatures.

“Earth is an Air purifier, clean air supports life. We begin to see the interconnections of things.” -Fran

Homework time! 

  1. What are three things you could use to represent air on your alter?
    1. When you think about air, what do you think of first?
  2. Which direction do you think or feel air is in?
  3. Do you know what colors represent air?
  4. How will you invoke the aspects of air?
  5. Write you quarter call for air.

 

If you are new click through the beginning of this series, you don’t want to miss out on any of it!  For my followers, keep an eye out for the next element in this series FIRE!

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Welcome to the element EARTH

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On September 20, 2018

In Pagan 101 Series

Earth Pt. 1

In history and some present day times, the Greeks considered earth to be a symbol of the solid state or “physical”.  We as pagans take the elements pretty serious so earth to us is the handful of soil from our garden, it is the entire planet.  It doesn’t always represent the soil but a solid, dependable part of our lives. Our foundation, the beginning.

Earth is the realm of abundance, prosperity, and wealth. It is the most physical part of our elements. Without earth itself we would could not exist.  Earth is the calm, the understanding, it holds wisdom, whenever you need to find an answer earth will be able to help.

!!!HOMEWORK TIME!!!   I know, I know but I assure you its well worth it.

  1. Standing at your alter what can you use to represent earth?
  2. Which direction belongs to the element of earth and why do you feel this way? (subjective)
  3. What are the colors of earth?
  4. Magically speaking, why would you invoke the earth element?
  5. Write a short spell using EARTH power. (Or what you think a spell would be. Include details such as color of candles, if any, all things used, like seeds or something written on paper)
  6. Write a quarter call for earth. (Invite the power of this element to be with you /guard/help you)
  7. What would an earth element look like? Where would it live?
  8. Make a representation of an earth element, tell me what you used, how you put it together?  Now bless this being at night, ask it to be your guide into the realm of earth, and bury it in your yard or a sacred space in the direction you feel right.

***Midnight is between sunset and sunrise*** <Your clock isn’t always on point, most newspapers show the time of midnight.

9. Write down your correspondences for the earth:    *Direction, color, etc*

10. In preparation for the next weeks lesson, write down some questions you’d like to ask an earth elemental.

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I know homework this week is long, but I assure you it’s worth it in the long run. Don’t forget share! Send to your friends, if you haven’t yet like, subscribe! Keep a look out for PART 2 OF EARTH!

Pagan 101- Welcome to the Elements

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On September 11, 2018

In Pagan 101 Series

Elements

What are the elements? Why are they so important?

The elements are our legos for our foundation in the psychical realm. Each element has its own purpose, direction, and other dealings. Each element can not work without the other. Fire needs fuel (earth) and oxygen(air) to burn. There is air within water, otherwise the seaweed and fish would die, the earth is filled with air and water.  

The elements being  working so close to one another shows that interconnections of all things for above or below.

There is a fifth element, most forget. -Spirit- This element connects the conscious, or soul.  As an example, the healing properties of amethyst stone is spirit of the earth. (its made from the earth but connects to our soul )

Finding your connection and just knowing your elements will be an important step in knowing your environment and in your magical work. Google has a billion associations to each element, but a way to dig into them is creating your own. What do they mean to you? How do they work around you?                                                                                                                                                        These elements are in you!

The earth is my foundation

The air is my body

Fire is my soul

Water is my energy

Since the elements are so precious to us we will be taking each element starting with earth. Each element we go over with be two parts.

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Pagan 101- Face of Nature L. 2

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On August 23, 2018

In Pagan 101 Series

Since we now have a general understanding of who we are, if we are going to be nature followers, the first step is what is front of our eyes.  I won’t go on into the gods, goddess ,yet, of the seasons but to nature itself.   Knowledge, wisdom is power.   We are one with nature.

I’m going to skip and ahead to our weeks assignments, I feel from my studies the questions next starts out any witch in their journey.

 

  1. Watch the sunrise, periodically check through the day of the sun–make notes.
    • Are you more aware of the four directions?
    • Was there a difference energy at different times of the day?- why do you think so?
  2. Do the same of the above^^^^ on an overcast day.
    • Do you see or feel the difference?
  3. Make a windstock ( Bag)
    • Note down the way the winds blow and from which direction?
    • Is there a direction it blows more frequently?
    • Do warm and cold winds come from the same way?
  4. Weather is predicatable
    • Can you tell when its going to rain or snow
      • Jot down these^
  5. What lands around you can affect the weather?
    • Water
    • mountains etc
  6. Take a walk near you and note the plants that are around you
  7. Do you have plants or garden? Is it native?
  8. In your area, do you have deities or myths?

Now the funnest part of this weeks lesson.. Creating a moon phase journal.  Sure you can get the app or just goggle it. But to start your foundation and knowledge starting on your own is better. Get a notebook and capture the phases of the moon. Note the rise, the fall, the times, and directions.  This will help later.

 

This week is a little longer, so it wont be till the week after till the next lesson is posted. I know..I know..this lesson was boring BUT I assure you its worth every question. Don’t forget to subscribe to your email or follow!

Part 2 To Finding You To Finding The Way

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On August 12, 2018

In Pagan 101 Series

Welcome back to Pagan 101 with Sylph Moon.  This week is lesson 1 pt 2, it will be digging deeper into finding yourself.

We talked last week about our goods, our bad and how they come to be affecting our lives.  Today we dig that shovel into the deep roots of you, your morals, your ethics, and beliefs.

We need to know and understand why we believe or don’t believe in certain topics. For an example: Deforestation, meat eating, abortion, genetic engineering, separation of state and church. Anybody can have an opinion but to walk the pagan path requires us to think deep.    “It’s all well and good to say ” I don’t eat meat because it violates the Rede, which says Harm None.” But a thinking pagan will realize that vegetables are no less alive than animals. A thinking Pagan might come to the conclusion that perhaps the Rede is meant for the human social interaction, and means “harm no Humans.” Or a thinking pagan might consider that perhaps the Rede is not meant to be taken as a literally, since eating harms SOMETHING and not eating harms self. How it is viewed is determined by personal ethics and morals.” -Celeste Moondancer

Celeste put those words so perfect I couldn’t write anything better.

To really understand this lesson first step is to research the following words TRUE definition : Ethics, Moral

The Wiccan Rede is an ethical/moral guideline for living well. (The full Rede will be posted separate)   “An it harm none, do as you will.” or from those from a christian background Gods rule: “Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.”

Read Scott Cunninghams “The Law” for some pagan morals and ethics.

Assignment

  • What do you like about yourself/ why?
  • What do you dislike about yourself/why?
  • Using the terms above, are you ethical, and moral? why?
  • Scott Cunningham says,” Harm None. This, the oldest law is not open for interpretation pr change”  Do you agree or disagree> why?  How is this an impossibility?
  • Are there any of his Laws that you disagree with,why?
  • What is your favorite law?
  • Does the Rede, the rule, and laws fit your morals/ethics? Help shape them?

 

Figuring Out Your Boundaries

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On August 10, 2018

In Pagan 101 Series

To begin any new journey we have to begin at our roots. So what does that mean our roots?

Finding are roots are simple by looking at who you are what you stand for. We started last week with the first lesson, what we want.

This week we are going to dig a little deeper by finding our morals, standards, and lastly our own boundaries.

Watch out for Lesson #2 in the Pagan 101 series.

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The Charge Of The Goddess

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On August 6, 2018

In Pagan 101 Series

 

The Charge of The Goddess

Doreen Valiente

 

Hear ye the words of the Star Goddess
The dust of whose feet are the hosts of heaven
She whose body encircles the universe.
I am the beauty of the green earth
And the white moon amongst the stars
And the mystery of the waters
And the desire in human hearts
Call unto your soul
Arise and come unto me
For I am the soul of nature
Who gives life to the universe
From me all things proceed
And unto me all things must return
Before my face, beloved of all
Let your divine innermost self be enfolded
In the rapture of the infinite
Let my worship be in the heart that rejoices
For behold, all acts of love and pleasure
Are my rituals
And therefore, let there be beauty
And strength and power
And compassion
Honor and pride
Mirth and reverence
Within you
And you who think to seek for me
Know your seeking and yearning
Shall avail you not, lest you know the mystery
That if you seek me and find me not within you
You will never find me without
For behold, I have been with you from the beginning
And I am with you endlessly …

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