Dear Me,
Today I have decided to take back my life, to start living for me, to start being happy for me, to start doing what I know is best for me, to start taking care of myself. I will try to not get discouraged as I try to shed this weight that I am carrying around, I will try not to let the shallow people get me down that will whisper and sneer, and talk about how fat I am, I won't listen to them as they make comments, they do not know any better and the only way they can make themselves look good and feel good is to put others down, I won't wish that I looked like some super model, for that look is not healthy and will only make me doubt myself more and hate myself for trying to look like that and failing, I won't get mad at myself if I want to eat a cheeseburger and fries, I will, just make sure that I work out more, I promise to not skip meals, and to drink more water, and to not get down on myself, I won't get upset if I skip a day of working out, but I will promise to move more. I will not feel guilt or shame or fear for being the way I am, I won't get upset at the pace I am going now, because baby steps are better than no steps. One day one pound, one moment at a time. I will try not to hide anymore and I will try to let myself shine more, because baby I am worth it, I am alive, I am free, I am me. So today, I make a vow to take back my life.
Here is a list of websites that I love to shop at.
http://www.themagickalcat.com/default.asp great place to buy all your wicca/witch stuff.
Of Course Etsy.com
https://www.mountainroseherbs.com/ for all your herbal needs.
http://www.thedipper.com/ for all of your incense needs.
http://www.vitacost.com/ for all of your oil needs.
Amazon.com is another great place to get books and items.
Today I want to talk about Incense, Herbs and Oils. I have been watching emberhoney raven on youtube as well as Lady Gravedancer https://www.youtube.com/user/EmberHoneyraven/videos
These ladies are wonderful and full of knowledge and great tips on where to get incense, herbs and oils, as well as other things. I found two great recipes I want to try, I'll add them here later on. Once website is called thedipper.com. They have all kinds of incense, I ordered some from them on the 12th of this month and they will arrive on Sat. So I will get back to you on what they smell like and such. Another website I want to try is mountainroseherbs.com I looked at their website and they have a lot of herbs as well as teas and oils and other things. I'll order from them next month. I told my husband I wish I were rich as there are so many witchy things I want to buy.
I am the one who always gets sick, every year with a cold, so I was browsing youtube and watching Ember HoneyRaven and she mentioned LadyGraveDancer, so I checked her out and lo and behold I found something for natural cold and flu lozenges, which I am going to try to make next month, I'll go ahead and put the recipe in here as well as a link to the video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4MFbQOwV7Y
What you'll need is:
1- 1 1/2 cups of whatever herbal tea you wish, I would recommend Echinacea root, lavender, peppermint blend.
2 cups of sugar
honey.
in a pot pour in cups of already brewed tea with the sugar, boil on stove for 20 mins stir constantly, do not stop stirring add honey during the boil phase, when it starts to get very thick remove from heat and quickly fill small ice cube tray (I recommend the small pop out trays you can get them on amazon for 8.00 bucks for three of them) fill half way with mix let sit until hard, if you don't have ice cube trays you can use parchment paper and put small teaspoon size, when harden you can roll them in powered sugar. Store in air tight container and take one a day or when you feel a cold coming on.
The next one I want to try is also from TheLadyGraveDancer on youtube this is oil for pain. So if you have arthritis, joint pain, sore muscles rub this on the area and it is supposed to work, I haven't tried it yet, I will when I get the herbs next month.
According to Lady Grave dancer you will need:
1 quart mason jar, cleaned, blessed, with a lid, and a sharpie to mark on the lid.
1 Palm full of white willow bark
1 1/2 palm full of st. john's wort
2 1/4 cups of chamomile
2 cinnamon sticks
1 quartz crystal chip
grape seed oil or olive oil.
put all of the herbs in the jar fill half full with oil, saying a blessing each time you put in a herb, seal lid tightly shake very well, write the date on top of the lid of the day you made it, let sit for 4 weeks, shaking every day twice a day. After four weeks strain the liquid from the herbs put in a clean jar, store in dark area. Apply externally to sore muscles, joints.
*PLEASE CONSULT YOUR DOCTOR BEFORE TAKING ANY HERBAL SUPPLEMENTS*
*I AM NOT A DOCTOR NOR A PHYSICIAN, NOR CLAIM TO BE ONE. USE THESE RECIPES AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY SIDE EFFECTS THAT MAY HAPPEN OR INJURY.*
I am also going to check vitacost for oils, I just looked at their site and it is a vitamin company but they also sell oils, You will have to do a search in the search bar for what you want but they look reasonable in price. I hope you enjoyed this post and these tips and I may today to a post about all the websites that I have found that I love and have great products.
I just came out of the broom closet about eight months ago. I have been told by some people that I was going to hell and that I was crazy to believe there is another God/Goddess besides the Christian God. That I should be celebrating Christian Holidays, as I was raised Southern Baptist and how could I turn my back on the way I was raised, that it's just a phase I am going through as this is a new age religion, So let's address this, for one I do not believe anymore that I am going to go to hell, I do not believe in the concept of hell or Satan. Other Gods/Goddesses, Long before Jesus was born, people were worshiping other Gods/Goddesses, it was God himself that said thou shalt have no other Gods before me, so for me he is saying yep there are other Gods but you must worship only me. As for the Christian Holidays, well those are pagan holidays, Christmas=Yule, Easter= Ostara, Halloween=Samhain, Mabon=Thanksgiving, etc. New Age religion? Nope not new, witchcraft and the craft has been around long before Christianity, it has always been around, we just had to hide or face another burning times and Salem. Wicca, has been around since the fifties, I believe, so yes it is fairly new, however, I consider myself wiccan/witch, I try to follow both,. I never turned my back, I always felt like something was missing when I would sit in church, I also did not like how there was a lot of back stabbing, gossiping, and "You're going to hell if you do this and this "., etc. When I got the calling from my Goddess and I made that decision to answer and to obey, I felt at such peace, I felt like I came home. Another reason, Wiccans have more respect for each other than any I have ever seen, we go out of our way to help those that we can, Also, this is the only religion that I have seen that does not commit murder in the name of their God.
I feel so blessed today. I am meeting a lot of new people on face book, who are very accepting of my beliefs as they hold the same ones or almost the same ones. I have a wonderful husband, three wonderful fur babies, a place to live and food on my table. The other day I was gripping about having to do the dishes, I just wanted to read and or play world of warcraft , and I was like hey, No I am grateful I have dishes to do with most don't, I am grateful for the floors that I have to sweep and I am grateful for the bathroom I have to clean.
As I sit and listen to the birds outside and the sun shining I am grateful to be alive and accepted by my Goddesses and God, Danu, Morrigan, Cernunnos. I haven't felt this much peace in a long time since I started my journey. You see,not long ago I tried to kill myself, I had reached that point to where I couldn't fight anymore, I didn't have the strength. I sat in my bathroom with three bottles of Trazodone, Zoloft and Tylenol PM and had them opened and dumped in my hand and up to my mouth. That's when I heard a voice say, I am your mother, it is not your time yet, I claim you and will teach you to walk the path. Thank you my Divine Mother for my life.
So for the past few days if not weeks, I have been meditating every morning. Asking God and Goddess to hear my call. Today Morrigan came through and claimed me. She spoke to me. I felt released all the burdens I have been carrying all the emotional scars that I had been holding on to seemed to have washed away. My husband can attest to the fact that I had tears slipping down my face, I went into a meditative state, eyes closed head bowed. I could see her and I could hear her. Energy flowed through me, so much that my husband said he could feel it. I cannot say what she said to me but I had better damn well listen and obey. She is a demanding Goddess, full of love and protection, but she can also be harsh if not followed or if we don't listen.
