Dagez means daylight, and represents divine light. This rune generally refers to dawn (the initial sparking of energy) or to midday (the climax of energy). Both dawn and midday are symbolic of change, but unlike the changes in the perpetual circle of the year which are slow and subtle, the changes over a day are much faster and more dramatic. The breaking of a new day is symbolic of the rapid illumination of dismal circumstances, and is suggestive of Satori. Be careful – although this rune generally suggests a positive change, the symbology of a peaking point suggests that there must be a change downward as well. Fortunately for some, this rune is cyclic and irreversible, and so permanence is not promised – the only thing you can be sure of is an exciting ride.
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Lighten Up – You Know You’re a Chaote When…
You Know You’re a Chaote When…
by Everfool
You Know You’re a Chaote When…
- You don’t think it’s a proper symbol unless you only just made it up a few seconds ago while doodling.
- Someone asks you if you believe life has a purpose, or whether it is meaningless, and you say “yes.”
- You always carry around lots of post-it notes and a pen in case you need to cast a sigil.
- People ask you how magic works, and you either A) don’t know and don’t care B) explain in torturous detail, later causing them to seek therapy.
- Someone asks you if you believe in the Christian God, and you say: A) “Only if there’s something in it for me” B) “What day of the week is it?” C) “Sorry, I rolled a 6 on the dice earlier, I’m a Wiccan today” D) “Okay, haven’t got any other plans for today”
- Missionaries find it easy to convert you to their religion, the only trouble is making sure you don’t convert to another religion as soon as you’re bored.
- Other magick workers compare rituals with you. You think they’re too serious and stuffy, and they refuse to live in the same neighbourhood as you. You don’t see anything wrong with making up your own god, until it starts telling you what to do.
- While in trance, a being glowing with pure white light tells you the secrets to true happiness. You smile and ignore it/laugh at it.
- People point out your beliefs are contradictory. You blush.
- Your bookcase contains various holy texts that claim all the other texts are wrong.
- You don’t learn Latin in order to understand tomes of magic, you learn Quantum Physics.
- You still don’t understand the tomes after learning Quantum Physics, but at least you know lots of big words now.
- Your rituals involve the first objects you can spot lying around.
- You aspire to schizophrenia. Your friends think you’ve already reached that state.
- Your banishment rituals are usually more fun than the rituals themselves. You keep a copy of a “certain revisionist” book for whenever you need to banish with laughter.
- Even eclectic witches think you need to be more discerning.
- You buy one of those glittery spell books to see if you can make the spells work. You read it and decide you would much rather write insulting letters to the author that will also give her the nasty cold you’ve been trying to get rid of for weeks.
- When Wiccans tell you the rede, you ask them to define “harm.”
- If someone you agree with turns out to be obnoxious, you immediately change your beliefs to the opposite of what they were.
And finally… - Shopping for presents becomes so much easier, as you decide to buy random things, mix them up randomly, and leave them lying around for the first person who finds them.
Lighten Up – Circle Etiquette
Circle Etiquette
Never summon Anything you can’t banish.
Never put asafoetida on the rocks in the sweat lodge.
Do not attempt to walk more than 10 paces while wearing all of your ritual jewelry, dream bags and crystals at the same time.
When proposing to initiate someone, do not mention the Great Rite, leer, and say, “Hey, your trad or mine?”
Never laugh at someone who is skyclad. They can see you, too.
Never, ever set the Witch on fire.
Looking at nifty pictures is not a valid path to mastering the ancient grimoires. Please read thoroughly and carefully from beginning to end so that your madness and gibberings will at least make some sense.
A good grasp of ritual and ritual techniques are essential! In the event of a random impaling, or other accidental death amongst the participants, (see next rule) a quick thinker can improvise to ensure successful completion of the Rite. Make them another sacrifice, Demons like those.
Watch where you wave the sharp pointy items.
Avoid walking through disembodied spirits.
Carry an all purpose translators dictionary in case the ritual leader begins talking in some strange and unknown language.
Avoid joining your life force to anything with glowing red eyes.
If asked to sign a contract or pact and you are experiencing doubts or reservations, sign your neighbors name. Malevolent entities rarely ask for photo ID.
Blood is thicker than water. Soak ritual garments an extra 30-45 minutes.
While drunken weaving may be mistaken for ecstatic dancing, slurring the names of Deities is generally considered bad form.
Lighten Up – Are You a TechnoPagan?
Are You a TechnoPagan?
You may be a TechnoPagan if…
If your athame has a SCSI interface…
If your OBE’s begin with a netsplit…
If your priest robes conceal a pocket protector…
If you calculate the phases of the moon with Windows ’95…
If your altar has a keyboard…
If drawing down a circle is a POST (power on self test)…
If you call the Watch Towers on your cell-tell…
If you do most of your correspondence by email and sign off with Blessed Be…
If you don’t call it a ritual, you call it a Macro…
If you end a circle with Ctl-Alt-Del…
If you have ever attached ribbons to a May Pole using a staple gun…
If you invite the God and Goddess to come online…
If you keep a Disk of Shadows (with encrypted backups)…
If you participate in online rituals more than you do FTF…
If you refer to eclectic ritual as cross-platforming…
If your Beltane ritual includes more than one news group…
If your candles have batteries…
If your cauldron is a crock-pot…
If your deities include Murphy and Gates…
If your drumming is done on a CD player (pre-recorded)…
If your herbs are always mail-ordered (express, overnight)…
If your idea of a great retreat has a Computer City, electricity, and a TV nearby…
If your incense is by Glade…
If your magic wand is a light pen…
If your magical name, email address, and online name are all the same…
If your magical writing is done in binary code or C++…
If your pentacle is made of computer chips…
If your technician compains about the wax and incense ash on your motherboard…
If, instead of asking what tradition someone comes from, you ask what operating system they run…
If your Yule ritual involves defragmentation…
If your coven is spread over a 12,000 sq. mi. area…
If your Book of Shadows has a 6-digit version number…
If you refer to deities using 3-letter acronyms (ODN, LKI, THR)…
If you do cord magick with ethernet…
If you ritually down your server for Samhain…
If your altar cloth is a mouse pad…
If, when your quarter candles burn out, the UPS backup system kicks in…
If erecting the temple entails formatting more than 4 disks…
If casteing the circle changes an (int) to a (float)…
If your Star Trek screen-saver signals when your meditation period is over…
If your Beltane ritual includes more than one news group…
If passing the cakes and ale entails using a /me command…
If your search for truth involves regular expressions…
If your familiar is a computer mouse…
If you draw down the moon using a light-pen…
If your cone of power has a surge suppressor…
If your tarot cards multi-task…
If your daemons collect news for you…
If your crystal ball has a horizontal-hold control…
If you refer to solitary practice as a stand alone…
If you tap into the collective unconscious using Netscape…
If your favorite deity has a homepage…
If the address of your covenstead begins with http://…
and finally, if your circle is a token ring…
Well, you just might be a TechnoPagan!
Candle Colors and What They Mean
CANDLE COLORS AND WHAT THEY MEAN
White:
A balance of all colors; Spiritual enlightenment, cleansing, clairvoyance, healing, truth seeking; Rituals involving lunar energy. May be substituted for any color candle.
Yellow:
Activity, Creativity, unity; brings power of concentration and imagination to a ritual; use in rituals where you wish to gain anothers confidence or persuade someone, or in rituals that require solar energy.
Gold:
Fosters understanding and attracts the powers of cosmic influences; beneficial in rituals intended to bring about fast luck or money, or in rituals needing solar energy.
Pink:
Promotes romance, friendship; standard color for rituals to draw affections; a color of femininity, honor, service, brings friendly, lively conversation to the dinner table.
Red:
Health, passion, love, fertility, strength, courage, will power; increases magnetism in rituals; draws Aries and Scorpio energy.
Silver:
Removes negativity and encourages stability; helps develop psychic abilities; attracts the influence of the Mother Goddess.
Purple:
Power, success, idealism, psychic manifestations; ideals for rituals to secure ambitions, independence, financial rewards, or to make contact with the spiritual other world; increases Neptune energy.
Magenta:
Combination of red and violet that oscillates on a high frequency; energizes rituals where immediate action and high levels of power or spiritual healing are required.
Brown:
Earthly, balanced color; for rituals of material increase; eliminates indecisiveness; improves powers of concentration, study, telepathy; increases financial success; locates objects that have been lost.
Indigo:
Color of inertia; stops situations or people; use in rituals that require a deep meditational state; or in rituals that demand Saturn energy.
Royal Blue:
Promotes laughter and joviality; color or loyalty; use to attract Jupiter energy, or whenever an influence needs to be increased.
Light Blue:
Spiritual color; helpful in devotional or inspirational meditations; brings peace and tranquillity to the home; radiates Aquarius energy; employ where a situation must be synthesized.
Blue:
Primary spiritual color; for rituals to obtain wisdom, harmony, inner light, or peace; confers truth and guidance.
Emerald Green:
Important component in Venusian rituals; attracts love, social delights, and fertility.
Dark Green:
Color of ambition, greed, and jealousy; counteracts these influences in a ritual.
Green:
Promotes prosperity, fertility, success; stimulates rituals for good luck, money, harmony, and rejuvenation.
Gray:
Neutral color useful when pondering complex issues during meditation; in magic, this color often sparks confusion; it also negates or neutralizes a negative influence.
Black:
Opens up the deeper levels of the unconscious; use in rituals to induce a deep meditational state, or to banish evil or negativity as in uncrossing rituals; attracts Saturn energy.
Lighten Up – Coven Getting Older?
You Know Your Coven’s Getting Older When…
The ritual feast is pureed.
Last Beltaine the coven decided it would be nice to go out to dinner to celebrate.
The last time you tried to do a spiral dance your oxygen feeds got tangled.
Viagra is kept in the coven supplies.
The maiden of the coven is a grandmother.
The ritual room is outfitted with defibrillators.
The coveners drive their RV’s to Scottsdale for Mabon.
When you are at a festival you go to bed at sunset.
It takes the whole coven to move the cauldron.
The high priest still has a vendetta going against Richard Nixon.
You find yourself using your pendulum over the stock pages in the newspaper.
You tell an initiate that in your day you had to slog through five feet of snow uphill both ways when you did a Yule ritual.
You drop your teeth in the ritual cup.
At Samhain you see more of your coveners in the Wild Hunt than you do in circle.
You put your athame in the chalice during ritual but you can’t remember why.
You hold an all night blow-out drum frenzy and none of your neighbors noticed.
You use Glenn Miller records for trance music.
All of your ritual robes are tie-dyed
Your coven has a 401(k) retirement plan.
A nitro pill vial replaces the crystal on your pendant.
No one’s successfully jumped the Beltaine fire since 1983.
When the coven sings, “Creak and groan, creak and groan . . .”
When you set comfy chairs around the circle.
When you sit on the floor and can’t get up again.
You do anointings with Aspercreme.
The oak tree your coven planted died of old age.
You use Bran Muffins and Prune Juice for Cakes & Ale because you need the extra fiber.
You don’t use salt to consecrate you altar because you need to stay away from extra sodium.
You use a walker during the Wild Hunt
You prefer to rent a Hall for rituals because the bathrooms are closer.
You need a flashlight to find the candles.
Today’s Runes for Tuesday, July 3rd is Ken
Spirit Runes are most commonly used for questions about mysticism, spirituality, and religion. Ken is the rune of light and knowledge, driving away darkness and ignorance and revealing hidden truth. This rune also brings forth images of friendship and comfort. Ken is the light of inspiration, the light of imagination, and a beacon in the darkest hours.
Lighten Up – Top Ten Cheesy Pick-Up Lines For Pagans
Top Ten Cheesy Pick-Up Lines For Pagans
10. Hey babe, what’s your sign? What’s it’s ascendant? What is your planet alignment in Venus during Cancer’s revolving around the Fourth House?
9. Read any good Llewellyn Books lately?
8. Would you like to come over to my place and widdershens?
7. Haven’t I seen you someplace before in another life?
6. Yes, I’m handfasted, but that’s not “technically” marriage.
5. So, do you draw down the moon here often?
4. What’s a nymph Goddess like you doing in a place like this?
3. You have the prettiest third eye I’ve ever seen.
2. You’re feet must be tired because you’ve been Spiral Dancing in my mind “all” night long.
And the Number One Cheesy Pick-Up Line for Pagans to Use at Gatherings is:
1. Is that a May Pole in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?
Today’s Runes for June 27 is Inguz
Today’s Runes
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Spirit Runes are most commonly used for questions about mysticism, spirituality, and religion. Inguz is the rune of completion and fertility. The presence of this rune suggests that tasks which have been initiated will come to fruition. This rune is associated with Ing and Frey, it is this connection that explains its connotations of both fertility and sexuality. The variant of this rune shown here is reminiscent of the twin strands of life, and of the challenge and rewards of bringing together things complimentary |
Today’s Runes for Thursday, June 21 is Othila
Spirit Runes are most commonly used for questions about mysticism, spirituality, and religion. Othila is the homeland. Land was the purest form of immovable wealth in Norse civilization, distinct from the movable wealth represented by Fehu. This rune speaks of stability and safety stemming from inheritance, both material and genetic. With respect to the question asked, consider the background of the people and families involved
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