Easter/Mabon

Merry meet!!

First of all I would like to wish those of you living in the Northern Hemisphere a belated "Joyous Ostara"!

And for those living in the Southern Hemisphere Happy Mabon!!!!

My Dad (who has started to gain an interest in Wicca and all things Pagan since I came out of the proverbial Wiccan closet to him a Mom a few months back) sent me this awesome picture on facebook which I thought I would share.. :) Everybody needs a little cuteness especially with how much negativity there has been in the media lately... 

Because my partner and his family (he has two nieces and two nephews at between the ages of 8 and 13) and also my parents celebrate the traditional Judaeo-Christian/Catholic Easter I still get into it but not as much as I used to. For the PEST's though (the nickname give to the kids because their initials spell it!) I get all excited for the Easter egg hunt! It's my second favorite thing about Easter! The first is watching their faces as they hunt around for the eggs!

For Mabon I was fairly laid back in terms of rituals or ceremonies. I chose a white candle and and focused on the meaning of light and dark and how I can try and change to be a better person and wiccan working always for the light. 

I also stumbled across this truly excellent blog post by this lady whose articles are informative, witty and make me smile! So please give her blog a read and the link to do so is below.

http://www.rebellesociety.com/2014/01/17/13-signs-youre-a-witch/

With that I will end this post here with a chirpy Merry Part!!!

Family Christmas

Merry meet,

This Christmas (I celebrate Christmas with my non pagan family and friends and have a private Litha celebration by myself being a Solitary in the Southern Hemisphere) I was really excited to be able to spend it with some of my family. My partner and I had slept over with the rest of his family on Christmas Eve and so we spent Christmas morning with his mom, his nieces and nephews and their parents which was really cool but so noisy. And the place we all stayed over was the home of his more Martha Stewart sister so of course the house was artfully decorated, the tree was perfectly matching with symmetrical amounts of baubles on and the food was perfect as well. But the part I loved best was taking Nic to have Christmas dinner with my mom and dad! The house was a little bit of a mess which just made reminded me of home. They had delicious food and dad did his wonderful pork crackling while mom made trifle and Christmas puddings based on the recipe given to her by Dad's mom. We ate, we talked and exchanged pressies and it was really nice to just be able to hang out with them. It was a really split up Christmas this year with my eldest cousin having exiled himself to NSW because of a stalker ex and her mom while the rest of our family (his mom and brother, our nan and gran) all still live in Tasmania.

Mom gave me a $50 voucher for the local book store which is awesome because I always love getting new books but also I bought my first Tarot set as one of those basic sets in which the cards are based on the original french cards. Nic was really surprised when my aunt and parents got him a present each... :) I had even told him that they both probably would but he hadn't believed me which was funny. Daddy really loved his presents as I had found his favorite childhood book on ebay and a book of Australian war stories while Nic had got him a panda lego set. (Dad LOVES Panda's! They're his favorite animal) For mom I got a few seasons on Minuscule and a book on dragons while Nic got her a lady bug lego set as they are mom's favorite! From the both of us to the both of them we got them one of the really beautiful and incredibly expensive wooden carved chess sets that they were always looking at but never bought because of the previously mentioned expense. So they were really happy and kept saying how spoilt they felt... :)

Nan and my step pop sent me one of the pretty little pink lady necklaces from the Breast Cancer foundation while my Gran sent me this gorgeous little carved silver chest with this beautiful russet red and antique gold rose brooch. Both also sent me letters which made it feel like they that little bit closer even just for a few moments and made the gifts truly special.

Nic got me a gossip girl card game version of "I never" knowing how much I like watching Gossip Girl.(However the game hasn't been touched and I haven't watched any of the show since New Years- it hits too close to home) He also gave me a beautiful silver bracelet with tiny dangling heart charms hanging off it, with a heart pendant that it black in one side and white on the other, (his last name is White and I always say how my favorite colour is black so it represents us both) and a Nickleback cd. We also went and saw "The Desolation of Smaug" in the Gold Lounge of the cinemas and had a lovely dinner.

So in all it was a lovely, crowded Christmas!
I hope everyone else's was as nice! :)

Merry part!

Sickness and health

Merry meet,

After a very long hiatus of not blogging I'm back. I have been really unwell on and off the last month.

A lot of this has been due to stress related illness with work and my best friend turning into Bridezilla with her wedding preparations.

But work is finished for the year and I found out today that my friend doesn't seem to wish to have me as her Maid of Honor anyway so that's two less stresses off my shoulders.

Now if my other best friend would just stop sulking and blaming me for her past in-digressions (when I didn't even know her) and her communication problems with her boyfriend that would be yet another huge stress off my mind... My New Years kicked off with a bombshell worthy of an episode of Gossip Girl and that issue with best friend 2 just keeps getting worse and morphing into a different and worse beast... I just want to make things right with her but I can't right now when she is trying to blame me for all her problems.

Goddess give me the wisdom to speak clearly and wisely without hurt.
God give me the strength to weather her storms of anger aimed in my direction and learn to forgive.

Mios dios!

Merry part!