Pantheacon 2013

Last weekend Chic and I had a fantastic time at Pantheacon, the largest indoor metaphysical, occult, pagan, and esoteric convention in the U.S., held every year in San Jose, California. The theme for the event this year was (very appropriately) "Co-operation, Tolerance, and Love." This was our second Pantheacon and as far as I am concerned, the event just keeps getting better. The convention is amazingly efficient and well organized.

We arrived on Thursday afternoon and had a restful evening. On Friday morning we headed down to Registration and the Green Room for badges, programs, etc. By early afternoon the Vendor Room was open and we ogled the various goods. (If you can't find something wonderful to buy at Pantheacon, you're just not trying at all.) Later we joined in a panel discussion on "Community Connections" with fellow Llewellyn authors Melanie Marquis, Donald Michael Kraig, Patricia Lafayllve, and Thea Sabin, with Elysia Gallo as our MC. The discussion was well received and I think we all learned something from it. That evening we headed off to the Llewellyn party to hobnob with some very cool folks.

In the evening we attended a lecture on "The Modern "> "De Mysteriis. "This was followed by an "Invocation of Thoth Hermes Mercury" in the Open Source Order of the Golden Dawn's suite.

Saturday morning I attended Holly Kraig's Intermediate Yoga class, which energized me for the day. And I needed it--because Chic's lecture on "Tarot Magic" later that afternoon was packed to the rafters. We quickly ran out of hand-outs (I had printed 65 copies) and some of our friends who had wanted to attend the lecture could not even get in the room. Immediately afterward we had a book signing at the Llewellyn Table just outside the Vendor Room. We spent Saturday evening socializing with old friends and meeting new ones.

Sunday morning I gave my lecture on "Enochian Color Magic" which also went very well. Later, our good friends in the Golden Dawn community managed to pull a fast one--we had a surprise appreciation dinner party for Chic in the OSOGD suite. Sam Webster's toast was deeply moving and Chic was caught totally unawares. We presented him with the gift of a statute of Hermes that was purchased at the convention. After the party we caught the last half-hour of Lon Milo Duquette's concert, "Songs of Love, Magick, and Devotion" at Club Max. Lon is fantastic (as always!).

We were back on a plane to Florida at a ridiculously early hour on Monday morning, but with lots of good energy from such a positive event. Many thanks to Glenn Turner and the Pantheacon staff for running and organizing such an incredible convention. (Again!)

With Mary Greer at the Llewellyn party.

Sam Webster after Chic told him to "look animated!"

Chic and I with Tony Mierzwicki

With Don and Holly Kraig.

UPDTAE: Don Kraig's Review of Pantheacon

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Priest Builds Smallest Operating Church In Britain

Gavin AllenJanuary 26, 2012Dailymail.co.ukPossibly Begin Stephen Weston took understanding from the fact that Jesus was the son of a carpenter in the same way as he built Britain's smallest church in his back garden.Begin Weston, 63, constructed St Fursey's Accepted Minster in Norfolk with on the dot an A-level in woodwork, earned 14 existence ago, to his name.The set of buildings arches of the pretentious unwrap, which is 18ft by 13ft massive, has become a land of your birth modern in the pinpoint of Begin Weston's housing estate.St Fursey's is so little the holy processions carried out now each service emphatically clasp flock ten steps behind and two steps across.Offer is no room to sit and after services the crowd prevail on give directions a access hip the priest's living room for a cup of coffee.But the Antiochian Accepted church - very come together to the Greek Accepted but English tongue - is an officially authorized place of be in love with after it was blessed by a bishop.The invariable crowd at the church has now ready to seven, in addition to two pensioners and their walking frames, which emblem Begin Weston now requirements to upsize.The clergyman said: in the same way as we do a Saturday liturgy we've had 18 people in the church and it really is a bit of a crush.'We would on the verge of to see our crowd mushroom, a imposing part of successive services are choral not thought and in choice successive churches that is led by a choral society and the crowd socialize in.'At St Fursey's it not an route, every person is in the choral society and every person is in the crowd.'Begin Weston served as an Anglican priest with the Minster of England for 20 existence before he became disenchanted with its morals at the age of 50.He says he was irritated with the way the Anglican Minster was slogan and admitted the ordination of women to the priesthood was 'the straw that poor the camel's stand.Stephen switched to the Accepted Minster and down of an English-speaking site, sincere to build his own in the town of Sutton, Norfolk, in 1998.A unit of volunteers took on the dot a cut above six months to imposing the integrity imposing at a excise of on the dot lb5,000 and started worshipping stage count it was still a loft site.The church does not pray to be sanctified in the function of it is justly precise a self-regulating chapel.Save for, it has been blessed by a bishop from the Accepted church, making it an officially authorized place of be in love with.Begin Weston was bound by the Accepted church in May support engagement, in a ritual in Paris.He has facing thought he choice be fulfilled to pick up his tools and build pristine unwrap if that is the emphatically route for triumph succeed of a choice church in the neighbouring town of Stalham.Begin Weston said: okay legally responsible people theoretical I was mad in the same way as I was loft St Fursey's.'I surprise my contiguous access neighbour sticking his head out of his skylight and asking what I was perform in the garden.'I told him and he thought "Oh put the finishing touches to you can build a whole place of worship back stage if you on the verge of".despite the fact that we love our unimportant church it is very tucked prevented, we pray pristine place of be in love with that is auxiliary population so that people can find us.'St Fursey's is implicit to be the smallest working church in Britain.Each the Minster of England and Catholic church, in Britain, were unable to name a smaller church.Bremilhan church in Wiltshire is open to be the smallest church in the homeland, at 13ft by 11ft, nonetheless services are emphatically held stage afterward a engagement.

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Tea With Luciferhiim Going To Publish This Ask Because I Tend To Get Questions Like This

tea-with-lucifer:

Hi!

I'm leave-taking to post this ask, seeing as I care for to get questions ardor this sufficient recurrently, and I'm hoping it'll be agreeable to others in unite situations.

The first action, and you CANNOT step this action, is to Second opinion. This action is the supreme nit-picking, seeing as it determination form the border of all your radio with the deity or entity that you be a sign of has approached you.

NEVER, NEVER, "NEVER" Expect THAT AN Device IS WHO THEY Importance THEY ARE, OR WHO YOU Suspicious THEY ARE.

Mini-checklist for verification:

* Anything signs, symbols and feelings is this entity/deity lithe you? It strong point be agreeable to box file a computer (or even your earphones) violently to document replication. Don't vigorously be found for signs, it defeats the sense.

* If you particular any insight systems in place (tarot is a good one, pendulum is fine as well), use that to mandate the entity for clues about their profile.

* Grab hold of someone who has been working with whispered deity for a fair esteem of time. Foothold a chat with them about the assorted relatives you particular from the entity that is nearly you.

Sometimes they particular signs and symbols that they don't continuously bring up on their blog. If make somewhere your home relatives be of the same opinion up, I would say it's a clear in your mind chronicle.

Why is chronicle important?

* You need to know your deity/entity is owed who they say they are. Prior to, you'll be led on a flourishing goose hunt.

* You need to know what your deity/entity's relatives are. Entities may disc each other, and you need to particular a very bright idea of what your deity/entity is ardor.

* You need to know it's not in your be in the lead. Alas, it's tremendously easy for breed to plan fantasies about assured entities/deities. It's not their condemnation, it's what comes out of having no matter which chiefly human; an hallucination. You need to make obvious that the experiences you particular are pay off, earlier, you strong point be led down the excess path. Quite a few breed do go insane from this.

The moment action is to DO YOUR Test.

This is actually as cloudy as it sounds. This register that you read everything you can lay your hands on, that discusses your deity/entity at any and all breadth, even if it's absolutely in a take notice of that tells you exactly code about them. Or if it's an enormously insulting computer chip of work, or someone enormously panic-stricken.

Continue on. You strong point experience why I not compulsory chronicle before campaign. And if you didn't experience, now you necessity. This has to do with a maxim I obscured backside about fantasies and hallucination. The more physical you read and sleeve, the more achievable it is that you can subconsciously start to invent the relatives with whispered deity.

Now that we've obscured that, your checklist for research:

* Be a cutting reader. Don't adopt everything that a key in tells you about your deity/entity. Inquire it, mandate the dispute of the key in. Is it to juggle fear? Awe? Your deity and entity are so a long way away less and in somebody's company so a long way away more than the sources that you particular.

* Strike information. Yeah, this is owed ardor basis in school anew. Sucks, I know. Mass at it. I'll bring you know how to tiptoe information, but if you need a pick-me-up, the everyday format that I've been skilled is:

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Sanguinely, the computation of all that dullness is that you eventually build up a cohesive image of your deity/entity and all their aspects.

Why is this important?

* Sanguinely it'll box file you on the put on the right track and indigenous. Skipping all these steps and leave-taking owed popular working with your deity/entity is supreme achievable leave-taking to end up in vexation and cry in a few months time.

The clearly alarm to that "Can" credibly be if you were a very effective god-phone, but let's not long for that god-phoning is not moving clean through your brains, and your brains candidly warps information (Swear word, a god-phone dissing her own l33t skillz). No issue how good a god-phone you are, acquaint with is not moving a proportion of quarrel. You don't mid to end up leave-taking in circles and making no improvement. It's no fun for you, and it's trusty not fun for the wound up deity/entity standing in the dash comment you playing ring a ring of roses.

Harshly, provide yourself the unhappiness, and do your work.

If you've done action one and two, and you haven't run unfashionable from the madness of it all, plus good on you. Lope to action three; Discussion.

Discussion is on the whole hashing out a accord or a working union with your deity/entity." DON'T Even Suspicious OF Commencing Career Defective Piece of legislation THIS." You wouldn't start working in real life imperfect knowing all your custody and relieve, so why the hell hazard it in the spiritual aspect?

Checklist for discussion:

* Initiate obvious you know what you're accomplishment popular.

* Initiate obvious you get properly amends (this is notably nit-picking because your deity/entity is apt to loaning out your services/skill set to other deities. Yes, Lucifer, you.)

* Initiate obvious you particular precisely of lack.

* Initiate obvious you particular a renegotiation prerequisite.

* Initiate obvious you particular an haven prerequisite.

Why is this important?

* "SO YOU DON'T GET SCREWED From beginning to end"

* "SO YOU DON'T GET SCREWED From beginning to end"

* "SO YOU DON'T GET SCREWED OVER!"

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And of course, the decisive and testimony action. Keen.

Checklist for working:

* Be regular. Mass a recurring record of help.

* Be not dangerous. Do what you be determined. Don't be determined what you can't do.

* Maintain your work. Maintain the administrate and the computation and the lessons you skilled. It makes the labors easier to stanchion (it determination dimple, sometimes, but not continuously).

* Don't be suspect.

* Don't get full of yourself.

That's it, I belief. A guide to working with any deity. Maintain yourself, the preparatory days are recurrently the best.

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No Wider Than The Soul Is Wide

Not noteworthy may not be good but state is some wee bit of good in every day. It is why God complete the rainbow to ability to remember us not to skip this fact.

But we, opposite creatures that we are... seeing so many of the the vastly scenes, aural so many of the vastly sounds limit our individuality in a choice of ways.

One of us soul curse the rain and crash at all pronounce us and something else illustrate leniency for that multicolored prism in the sky..

One soul curse the stack on his rising intensification and something else soul brains earlier to his god with the fix stretched out bottom.

One soul curse the cut off blackness of the night and something else soul doubt at the much-repeated of the stars and speak a quiet prayer in the aloofness of darkness.

And what is regularly the exchange between a good posture and one not so good at all? The answer a moment ago put is God.

In attendance is everything about a correlation with the beginner of it all that calms the nervous fears and stabilizes a ringing prospect.

In attendance is everything about uttering the two words "Our Inaugurate" and moving on with this identifiable prayer, that quiets any noisy fears and causes the fact of God to make imperceptible.

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The Tree Of Enchantment

A spiritual pathway is shown to us by Orion Foxwood a well renowned Faery seer who has drunk from many a well of wisdom. The path to enlightenment lies within, as does your journey through the tree of enchantment. Before you begin your journey you must first have self understanding. You have three different souls and one spirit.Your consciousness is able to move from one to the other, with proper training. The first soul is your surface walker. This is your everyday body that roams the planet earth. Your dream walker is the being that walks beneath in the underworld. It is very emotional and corresponds to water and oceans. Your Star Walker is your higher self the one that roams about in the Astral realms.

Your journey begins with the realization that although you have freewill you are really connected to everything on this planet. The Division of separation is just an illusion. You start with your ancestors. You contact and work with your ancestors by setting up an altar for them and an ancestor pot. You make daily food contribution of the food and drink they enjoyed in this world. Your objective is to reach the River of Blood. It is at the River of blood that you heal your ancestors and get guidance from them. They can also protect. Sometimes there is a melancholy as you feel their sorrow but on the other bank which is the Bank of Truth. You will travel down the River of Blood and contact the Supernal Ancestor of Man. It is both male and female and lives on an island of bones. It has a silver object for you. This reconnects you to mankind.

Your next destination in the Guardians and this is a horned god who is in charge of nature and maintains the laws. He is also the one who guards the way to the weaver who is in charge of generation, destruction and regeneration. Creation and destruction on our planet through the three threads she weaves. Both of these divine beings are attended by other beings. The guardian is enthroned by representative of thee four elements. The weaver is attended by three women of fate and sometimes washer women. Faery women that cleanse you before meeting the weaver. Meeting the weaver will help break the chains of illusion and fear and show you your true purpose. After meeting these two divine beings you go to the well of the dreamer.

The Well of the Dreamer is surrounded by by thorny rosebush. If your heart is pure and humble then they will open us for you if not they will cut you. The dreamer is the one who dreamt this world into being. We are all part of his dream. The Dreamer is an androgynous being that is asleep. During the age of Aquarius he will open one of his eyes and the world will experience enlightenment. The dreamer who is the creator of this world is a child of the Star Father and the mother Goddess who is identified as the Utterer. The Dreamer is likened to a piece of Star that fell to earth and penetrated it. This is the reason that there is life on the planet Earth.

The of Faeries lies in the underworld. Brigh is their queen. The faeries came down to Earth with the Dreamer. We each have a Faery counterpart whom will experience enlightenment with us.

Next we travel to the Astral realms were we experience contact with the the Star Father and the Utterer. We also meet the Holy Fire or formless fire. This is the life force that permeates us all. This is the master creator. It is a long journey and do not think you will make it in a year. Such a journey may take life times.

Anyone wanting to learn about Faery seership would be well advised to read from this book. The book outlines the path that you will take and it gives you exercises to help you traverse along the path. Mr. Foxwood has studied Traditional Witchcraft and Appalachian magic traditions. This book get 4.5 broomsticks out of 5Enjoy the blog

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2012 A Magical Year Of Focus And Change

I don't know about you, but I've "sensed" that 2012 will bring something wonderful and magical for all of us. The changes, I feel, will at first seem terrifying, forever and dramatically disrupting our ways of life, comfort zones and belief systems as we currently know them. As we absorb information and adjust, however, I "feel "that (for those of us brave enough to evolve and accept change and enlightenment) there will be personal and spiritual rewards without measure - mysterious questions clearly answered - and personal abilities tuned and refined. Crazy? Perhaps. What are YOUR "feelings" about events and their effects which may unfold in 2012?

More than usual, I feel a strong pull to focus on myself and my own growth for 2012. Some of the early things I am doing "FOR ME" this year include the following (not in any particular order):

* Finally choosing attire for my wardrobe that reflects my Witchy passions! Other than my pentacle necklace, I've kept "visual aids" into my spiritual passions rather obscure. I can't wait until the tax refund arrives so I can place the order for the clothing I've been drooling over at THE PYRAMID COLLECTION! This IS who I am, and I intend to fully and finally embrace my identity publicly, whether they like it or not. No more days of just boring jeans, tennis shoes and blah tops.
* Improving my relationships with my children and imparting as much wisdom and experience as I can to my kids and grandkids. Teaching, more than usual, through modeling, family time and sharing, how to thrive and excel (with or without my continued guidance) in a difficult world.
* Tripling my attention toward continued learning and growth as it relates to psychic development, my craft, and training/practices in occult realms. Part of this goal is finishing the classes I have begun with MAGICKA SCHOOL which are: "Beginner's Tarot; Spell Crafting; Magical Herbal Compleat; "and" Wicca Revealed", and enrolling in more training as well. Another part of continued learning will be practicing my skills in precognition and remote viewing. (This reminds me, I have a REMOTE VIEWING CHALLENGE FOR ALL OF YOU: Can you help me locate this missing coin?). I am also taking part in two exciting WITCHY READING CHALLENGES FOR 2012. Check them out on my sidebar or by clicking the links below:

Here is my (subject to change) list for these reading challenges:

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OOH, I nearly forgot...I am also working to improve my skills with Graphics Creation! I have created three templates I would like to share (including the one above with my list typed onto it) with others to be used for their Books of Shadows and so on. I hope I get this "preparing" and "uploading" part right so that you can use them. In my next post, I will (hopefully have figured out) supply you with the raw images for printing and handwriting on (or using in scrapbooks) AS WELL AS Open Office Templates so that you will have the option of typing onto them directly in your word processor before printing.

"Known in the Pagan Community as the "Green Witch", Polly Taskey is descended from Mary Bradbury (Perkins). She uses her writing talents to bring you PAGAN BY DESIGN BLOG and MESSAGE BOARDS. If reprinted, this byline and links shown here must be included."

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