Cosmic Janice's Magickal Musings

2021-04-11T20:20:00.000-07:00

I have to laugh because all my doctors were on board with this diet back in the days, over 10 years ago, that I had insurance. Then George lost his job as they relocated to a cheaper place, namely Texas, and he was old and highly paid. So, out the door after over 30 years of service and more patents than anyone in the company, he went.

We managed to hold on to a year of COBRA although it was $10.00 a month more than he was getting in unemployment compensation. You might want to read that sentence again. We paid the ten bucks out of his severance. Then, no more insurance until Obamacare.

What happened with these lovely doctors, most of whom had treated me for 10 years or more and some of whom I was friends with from when I worked in the medical field?

Well, the testa all showed I was diabetic and not one of them said a word because they knew without insurance I could not afford treatment or medication. Over 2 yeara later when Obamacare came in and I got insurance the first thing a doctor did was put me in the hospital for diabetes. They didn't know why I was still alive and even more, how I drove to the hospital in that condition. A couple of days later the insurance company demanded I be released because they weren't going to pay. Seems my Obama policy didn't cover dying from diabetes as a reason for hospitalization. None of the policies actually covered much of anything so I was anxious to finally qualify for Medicare which I have discovered covers even less.

In about 5 years when I manage to pay off the last hospitalization, I should be allowed to go to the emergency room to die. Until then, it would be a good idea to not try and get any care at any hospital since they are all linked together via computer. Doctors, it seems are unable to actually do anything for you that requires getting up and administering treatment. Why should they? My squirrel gets more peanuts than they do just for looking cute.

And that is the real state of medical care in this country. If you are rich and I do mean rich, you get it. If you are in the other 98%, you die. Unfortunately I don't see Medicare for All actually fixing it simply because of the above paragraph. Medicare is the very least medical care you can get and it is all you get.

Right now I am in the same position I was with insurance my entire life. I can't afford the deductible and co-pays to go to the doctor with Medicare. I sure as hell can't afford the basic 2,400.00 a day in the hospital costs due to the Medicare Gap. I can't afford supplemental insurance. The actual cost of it shocked an insurance agent!

That's really the rub as the Bard would say. When you hear that Congress has the same policies you do, you feel kind of equal but on their salary and expense account, they can afford the deductible, co-pays and drug costs you can't/ They can afford to use the policy. You can't.

Now those that opted for the cheap really high deductible policies don't ever notice they come with payout limits. Once accident and they are bankrupt but here is what you don't know. Bush, Jr. revamped the bankruptcy laws and you aren't going to be able to file for bankruptcy. You will be homeless, carless and on the streets WITH THE BILLS FOLLOWING YOU. If you have a phone you will be hounded daily. If you try to rent, you won't be approved. Apply for a job and most places do a credit check. You won't get a job.

That is the state of medical care in this glorious somewhere around 4th world country.

Just remember, if you can't fit it in a paid for car and also afford the insurance for said vehicle, you are one misstep away from losing it, one hospital bill away.

2021-04-11T19:54:00.000-07:00

When are we rich?

The only time I feel somewhat rich is in Dollar Store and in my garden.

The only bags around here are Dollar Tree and Lowes.
This leads me to ask, does anyone know why construction materials have gone up in price. Lumber is up 110% in one year and 10% in the last month.
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Increased demand for single-family housing, much of it driven by the coronavirus pandemic, has housing starts up 30% year over year, according to the U.S. Census."

Now we all have to ask... with unemployment at it highest due to the pandemic. Foreclosures and evictions are poised to be catastrophic once the moratorium is over.

Who the Hell is going to buy all these new houses?

Why are banks financing the construction?

Is someone lying to us?

"New numbers from the National Association of Home Builders shows that since mid-April of 2020, lumber prices have risen by 130%, and those increased costs have increased the cost of single-family homes more than $16,000 on average"

And it is just not lumber that is going up in price. Remodeling is going through the roof, too.

Guess what dear ones.... This is a legacy from good old Trump. As I keep saying, we may have beat the rap but not the ride and it isn't over yet. How the Hell are we going to afford the improvements to the infrastructure with these inflated prices due to Trump's Tariffs? The one line in this article that really caused me to pause was "“Whoever the home buyers are, they have been able to pay for it,” said Todd Tomalak, who tracks building products for John Burns Real Estate Consulting."

Yes, we should all be asking with everyone out of work and about to be evicted or foreclosed on, WHO ARE THESE BUYERS?

2021-04-11T18:26:00.002-07:00

Death of a Monarch

It seldom seems like a Monarch is much more than a figure head and people tend to forget that they are people with lives, loves, mistakes and regrets just like the rest of us.

I have seen on social media that Prince Charles hated his father and the tension can be seen in the pictures but otherwise, this is a lovely testimony to the love of two people and that, too, can clearly be seen.

Prince Philip: A life in pictures.

2021-04-11T14:53:00.000-07:00

04-11-2021

Because of the crap Facebook has been pulling, this is the new home for Cosmic Janice's page.

All I can say is what goes around, comes around.

A couple of weeks ago I received a survey from one of the political survey companies I work for, hey, it's a few pennies and money is short, and the first question was who did I vote for and it was the last question, too. The other questions were about breaking up Facebook and Amazon and did I support it, what did I feel about their privacy controls and so forth. I had not heard anything about any of this and thought it was pretty weird because they kept asking if I read or heard about this anywhere. I chalked it up to someone with too much money to waste on buying surveys trying to plant ideas in people's heads and find out where they would go with them.

The next week I am not only hacked through Facebook by a follower... not even a friend and they manage to create mirror GOOGLE accounts as mine so they could sign in and use my account under their name. I found this out after Facebook banned me from sharing Lost Pet photos and the a couple of days later from sharing anything. I never got a single warning or notice from Facebook and there is no record on my page of restrictions. Apparently you are limited to 5 shares per day and there is even a limit on posts.. and yet, I get 7 of the same photo posted by Chinese companies all the time to my time-line. I guess there are several sets of rules and pagan, Liberals get the most restrictive of them.

Other friends are getting out of Facebook jail over posts. I was restricted from selling anything or live videos over a 2016 post for a month. 2016!!! Facebook standards change daily. If they go backwards with today's changes, they can probably put everyone in Facebook jail. Now a person had their post removed by Facebook because it was too depressing.

Since this is quickly moving through all of Facebook, want to bet how long it stays afloat?

Let's look at this objectively. Both Facebook and Amazon were started as a lark by rich boy dropouts. There was no real business plan and definitely no plan for growth. There was no objective beyond make money. In short, it was a wet dream that reached fruition and now we are looking at the monster it birthed. A business like that cannot survive because it has no purpose, no foundation and no real structure. It is running on the fly and the only people who have ever succeeded at that are psychics. These guys really aren't that smart and they fire anyone who doesn't tell them what they want to hear.

You look at two of the richest men in the world and what do they do, buy toys to play with? They could do so much for the world. You may hate Bill Gates but at least he is trying to do something. It might be the wrong or right something depending on your view, but it is something. I mean these fart fellows are so smart they buy multi-million dollar homes in California which it either shaking itself into the sea or burning down. I may have to deal with hurricanes but I have been dealing with them all my life. You build right, buy a generator and a chain saw. There is little you can do to fight an earthquake or fire or volcanic eruption. That is why no matter how much I love Hawaii and California, I am not crazy enough to move there. I don't live in a trailer in tornado alley or build on a flood plain. That is just common sense. They don't seem to have it or more likely, to the rich, everything is disposable. Collect the insurance and move somewhere that strikes your fancy. That is the same way they treat their users and customers.

Unfortunately their users and customers do not have the luxury of moving on or the money for insurance or we would all have our own websites and tell them where to go.

In other news on a purely metaphysical practical level, just about every platform for selling and credit cards is restricting psychics and psychic merchandise. The old "alleged" trick no longer works. At first it was only really evil companies that allowed you to complete a credit card merchant application, sell you hundreds of dollars worth of equipment and then say, sorry, you do not meet our standards, have a great day and by the way, as per the contract you signed, we just emptied your bank account for our pain and suffering of doing this to you.

Oh no, now established platforms are starting to play the same game like Ebay and Etsy. Paypal is even getting in on it and you have to be very careful how you accept payments through them. All these companies demand access to your bank account so they can make deposits and withdrawals. Soon everything psychic will be on a cash only basis just like before.

As they said in the 60's, you might beat the rap but you ain't beating the ride and the Evangelicals may not have the White House but they have the police, local governments and banks. That pretty much screws us.

Changing the Negative World

2014-04-14T18:33:00.000-07:00

I have gotten tired of all the negative comments and I'm going to pray you embrace my negativity comments on Facebook, so I decided to do something about it. Talk is cheap but I really am a Druid.

I AM a Druid so you know it is going to involve some really sneaky, snarky magick but I promise no curses like the old Arabic one: May you live in interesting times.

I have made the first sketch of the artwork but to avoid anyone getting fried, I have to make the dispersion well before you can see it and use it. Keep in mind, I am not an artist. I will do my best since it is mainly just lettering and some mixed media work.

I know that I know more about magick than just about anyone on the planet so let me explain a dispersion well. There are two main types of wells used in magick. The first is a water filled well that gathers energy and converts it to the nice gentle healing waters. Usually these are natural springs but you can make your own with some dirt, a bottle, rain water and a little aquarium pump. Then there is the second main type for getting rid of workings that is called a dispersion well. This well has little to no water though watering it with some rain water if you include plants is considered a good idea or they die on you. The well is made from a series of crystals forming the sides and plants or a lot of dirt on the outer ring to absorb the negative energy and transform it into green, growing positive energy. Remember, soil is alive and if you can a few earthworms in it, all the better. I like to use quartz, Apache tears, snowflake obsidian and some jasper with agate. I use minerals whose use cannot be corrupted. A piece of calcite in the center of the well helps. The whole thing can be neatly disguised as a potted plant if you sit it on the ground or run a copper wire to the ground. Do not use any wire containing lead.

In this case, the piece of artwork must connect to the inside of the well so the energy feeding back to through it goes into a transmutation device and doesn't hit anyone. I guess you could use orgone energy accumulators instead of a magickal well and I may attach a few of those or not.

Anyway, when the piece of artwork is complete in a week or two, I will photograph it and put it up on Facebook. You need to copy and save it in your photos and every time someone posts a comment deriding someone, bullying, being racist or just plain hurtful or greedy, you simply add the photo to the comments section, preferably if you can comment on their comment. Don't worry, it is so benign 99% of the posters will not even know they have been zapped until the change starts or maybe never. It is that subtle. So, I shall be busily at work on this little piece of transforming magick for a couple of weeks. I've got that lovely Full Moon and eclipse to help me out.

Warning: I will be making more of these for more things......because I am tired of the crap floating around.....It can be changed, transmuted and fixed.

Thought forms, fetches, focuses, and other things that go bump in the mind.

2014-04-13T17:19:00.002-07:00

An altar for protection

I prefer the term thought form because it accurately describes what I am talking about. It is form made entirely of thought. It exists as an energy and can be grown and used.

A few years back, I was in a group that did a lot of healing work. I set up an altar for my healing meditation and the focal point of the altar was a candle dedicated to the ocean as my chart pulls healing energy from the element of water. It became a bit of a problem to keep taking the altar down and then putting it back up so one night I took a good picture of it. The next ritual, I brought it up as a screen saver while holding the single candle. It was one of those big glass apothecary jar candles. When that candle burned down, I found votive candles in the same color and scent to use. It allowed me to maintain this virtual altar for healing and in the process create this electronic thought form from which I could withdraw energy by visualizing it and put energy into it at proper times during the week for later workings. Having a focus makes any work easier.

Thus I began to think today that setting a variety of altars for specific purposes, charging them and then taking a picture while maintaining something from the altar in a small box or bag to use as a connection to the thought form would be a feasible shortcut for my magical work. Not only that, but whenever someone sought that particular energy or work, I could simply upload the picture of the altar to the comments and set the thought form into action, anchoring onto the person's electronic signature. As long as I maintain the energy level of the thought form and even if others use it as a storage device and a focus, it should continue working forever.

Thus, I have my project for the rest of the year.

The Tale of Two Psychic Business Rivals and One Clueless Druid

2013-10-20T16:32:00.000-07:00

The Tale of Two Psychic Business Rivals and One Clueless Druid

Often when people come into the shop they see a huge assortment of oils of different brands and purposes. Immediately they ask me if the oils work, usually clutching a bottle of love oil. My answer is always, if properly intentioned they work well.

Keep in mind this singular statement by my aromatherapy teacher. “If I am in a bad mood, it doesn't matter what I mix, it smells awful.”

The original formulas for practically all the oils were mixed and created by a witch, ceremonial magician or HooDoo/Voodoo person with a specific outcome in mind. This outcome becomes what we call an intentioned thought form. It is kind of like a energetic cloud floating around just out of the sight and vibration of the physical world. When you intention the oil for a specific purpose aligned with that intentioned thought identified by its components and odor, it connects to the intentioned thought form that the witch or HooDoo person has built over a series of years and packs a punch. If it doesn't manage a connection, it may float along with it and manage to siphon a bit of energy off the master cloud to work a bit but if you didn't place intention on it, there is no predicting how it will actually work.

The lesson here is that using any metaphysical product is not add water and stir but set up some candles for energy and intention. It takes time.

I have a shop full of money oils and I am good at tapping into the intention, but they just didn't work for the metaphysical aspects as well as I wanted. Yes, I could use them and sell a lot of product but not the product I really wanted to sell or the services I wanted to sell. In short, I was getting tied up in the mundane where I didn't like to live. Hence one afternoon, under the right aspects I decided to mix up some oils designed to bring money into a business, but with a metaphysical bent and I named it: Metaphysical Business Oil. I mixed up a batch because it is always easier to mix a large quantity that a small one.

The commercial business oils had even brought me a job in a so-called metaphysical shop whose only focus was money, money and more money no matter who got hurt. It was a little like working in a nest of vipers as any move or word was subject to misinterpretation and was reported to the management to either get you a reprimand and hours removed from your schedule so your competition could scoop them up, permanently or at least until someone reported them for something like talking to another psychic working there. There were few people I was really comfortable with there but I tended to be polite. So, when one psychic left me the gift of a bottle of his special oil he was selling, on my next shift I left him a bottle of my Metaphysical Business Oil with a little bow wrapped around it. It was the polite thing to do: return a gift.

Little did I know how really little this person thought of me and wouldn't touch anything I made, except my money. So he left the bottle in the booth. We didn't own booths, we shared them shift to shift which also means you inherited the previous psychic's influences. They did not allow you to burn any herbs to cleanse the booth. They didn't know I had distilled spray for it. Any way, the next shift, his main competition arrived, saw the bottle and being a petty thief at best, scooped it up and used it. He had no idea where it came from or who owned it.

Within a month, the first psychic was no longer working there. I didn't know it, but he had lost all his clients and the second psychic was thriving. It was over a year later that the second one showed up in my shop, saw a bottle of the oil on my personal shelf and proclaimed, “So that's where it came from!” I didn't have any more of it for sale and I quickly remixed a new formula attached it to the original intentioned thought form, coating it, so the original formula stopped being quite so successful. Since I knew who had all the bottles I had mixed, I asked them if they needed new oil when they arrived and most everyone had already used all the old batch and was doing really well so they didn't need more oil.

That is the second lesson in metaphysics and magic. Once you achieve the result you intended, you stop, because if you keep layering onto the original at some point, just like building a tower, it collapses. There is just so much intention that one thing can support.

Intention Verses Action

2013-09-27T14:30:00.002-07:00

Intent verses Action

This is one of the least understood principles in metaphysics. It is also why things just don't work a lot of the time.

You can do your affirmations every morning to get a new job but if your intent is to get your teeth brushed and out to the job you hate as fast as possible, guess what isn't going to happen? Yes, that would be a new job.

There is an even darker side this little problem. Let's say you are doing affirmations or prayers to get a person out of your office and even adding; to a job they will enjoy, but at the same time all the anger, rage and hate is festering as you clench your teeth and pray for them. You are actually going to be cursing them. There is no deity that will be stepping between you and the rebound on this one. You may find yourself out of a job. You may find yourself tied even closer to this person.

Most of the time I tell clients that a spell they do themselves works better because they have more invested in it. In this case, hire someone to get the person moved to a better job and out of your hair. Any time you have strong negative feelings about a situation that you want to improve, it is time to hire someone.

I have seen this in simple things like home improvement projects. A friend trying to replace something that broke was feeling really put out they had to spend the money. They spent a fortune on bandages and almost broke something vital. It was simple. The Universe said if you hate replacing it this much, I'll make sure you don't replace it and off the ladder they went. The intent they felt manifested really well. They had to hire a handyman. If you aren't feeling positive about the project either don't do it or hire someone. My aromatherapy teacher told us that if she was in a bad mood, it didn't matter what oils she mixed, they smelled bad.

The same thing applies to cooking. Your food will reflect your mood. If you are burning things, are you doing a slow burn over something? It is always intent that is expressed over action.

Intent is the hardest thing to face as it often shows us a side of ourselves we don't want to see: the dark side. Suddenly, you have to face what you hate about the person you are “trying” to help. The white light and goodness mask just dropped off and you don't like what you see. Ideally, that is the time to step back from helping the other person and start working on yourself. The problem may really be staring back at you in mirror. Forge ahead and you are guaranteed a real muck up. Your intent will manifest. Fix yourself and you might just discover a whole slew of problems simply go away. The relationship you always need to work on is the one you are having with yourself, not with other people.

That doesn't mean other people can't affect you negatively and do it deliberately. It took me 30 years of practice to run into someone who really was being cursed. No one was more shocked than me. It turned out that just a little bit of protection and she was out the black fog that surrounded her. Since that day, I have seen some really strange stuff. I'll tell you about some of it in the coming weeks. However, I will say one thing right now, do not exceed your skill level because in this area, you can really muck things up for yourself and others and unmucking it is always harder than mucking it. I think the Universe has a perverted sense of humor in that area. The best approach is always limited engagement and limited destruction.

Curses and Verses

2013-09-26T13:35:00.003-07:00

Let's see here:

You thought someone had wronged you so......

You bought or traded for a curse on them from someone who was living a really great life......

And they told you nothing bad was going to happen because just look at them.....

And now your life is in the crapper.

You know.....That takes a special kind of stupid....**

**There is always a reaction to any action, consequences to any action and someone always pays the price. People who do bad things to others always have a way to shift the consequences to the purchaser or they wouldn't be able to stay alive. Of course, they can always sell you another curse or a protection spell or a cleansing to fix what you bought the first time around....and they don't have that new car, house or lover because it is going to work so very well for you......

Black, white or inbetween candles?

2013-09-25T07:01:00.000-07:00

Some candle basics......

Once you enter a Metaphysical type shop, the first thing you probably see are candles, lots of candles. They come in all colors and a variety of shapes. You have votives, tapers, pillars, glass enclosed, image and mini candles.

So let's start at the beginning with two common candles, black or white.

White reflects everything that is thrown at it and hence is most often used for protection. White is also used for most altar and religious applications. They are also the cheapest and most common candle.

Black absorbs everything. This can be very helpful when you have a lot of negativity coming your way or anything that is overwhelming you. On the other hand, if you want more something, black will act as an attractant or bait.

A lot of people get really upset when they discover their candle is dipped. That usually happens in cheap stores because reversing candles are normally large pillars and expensive in your local Magick store. What this means is the base candle is white and it has them been dipped in another color. So you get what looks like a black candle but if you break in it half, you discover the interior is white.

You should buy all of these. Now I know a famous (if fame is determined by the size of the ad you can buy) psychic claims all black candles are evil and you'll lose your soul to a demon if you have them in your house. I watched her scare a poor woman half to death one night, but she knows better. The black outer layer can be programmed or will by itself absorb whatever influence is around you and then the white layer “reverses” it. So if there is a lot of negativity, the black layer absorbs it and the white layer reverses the energy and emits it as positive energy.

I use candles in all colors that I managed to get from a Scandinavian firm once that are white cored to do various reversing work. They are highly effective. I hide the box so you won't find them and buy them. I am sneaky that way.

So why would this 'psychic' try to scare this poor lady whose only crime was decorating her dining room in black and white? Whenever someone in the psychic tries to scare you, get ready for old “gypsy” cleansing routine where you lose a few thousand dollars to get the evil cleaned off something. I had one offer to cleanse my money one day and I asked simply, why don't I just return it to the bank and new. If you get involved in one of these schemes, either they will take your money outright or you will get neatly wrapped blocks of cut newspaper back. So don't let anyone scare you. To cleanse something, simply soak it in a white or clear dish of salt water placed in a sunny window for one day. Or light a sage stick and pass it through the smoke 7 times. It is easy and a simple beginning do it yourself project.

Have a great day!

Candle Magick

2013-09-22T05:45:00.002-07:00

Candle magick is using the energy of the burning wick to transmit a message or spell. As long as the wick is burning the message or spell is working. Once it is out, the message or spell is released.

For example let's say your message is I love you. As long as the candle is burning, the message is repeating over and over. When the candle goes out the message is released from repeating and should attach to the target.

Electronic or battery operated candles can be used the same way but the battery has to be allowed to completely discharge to release the spell. You can't just turn them off because unlike a candle, the battery stores energy. The spell will withdraw into the battery rather than attaching to the target. Turn the candle off, the spell stops dead in its tracks, incomplete.

The length of time the candle must burn is measured in minutes, hours, or days and the significance of the time requires numerological compatibility. You would burn a candle in a multiple of 4 time units to close on a house.

Some spells require writing on the candle to work the magick. Some require chanting and visualizing the whole time the candle is burning. Some simply require intent and lighting the candle. The differentiation is usually how difficult the end is to obtain.

Symbols, Talismans and Earth energy

2012-08-15T01:33:00.001-07:00

There is a lot of confusion of which is which and how. So, let me give you the Cliff Notes.

A symbol is a pictorial representation of a form of energy such a a heart for love.

A Talisman is a symbol that has been charged with energy by convincing a large number of people to believe in what it stands for and to invest in it. A cross, a star of David, a Pyramid with an eye are all Talismans.

Now let me explain the more sinister aspect of Talismans.

Originally, all money was gold and silver coin. It didn't matter if you accidentally melted your coins because their worth was the gold and silver's worth. You traded your work and goods for precious metal.

Then the government began printing paper and claiming this paper represented your gold and silver that they had locked up in a vault called Ft. Knox. The paper was covered in symbols that you didn't understand or really look at, but unfortunately they lodged in your subconscious like little time bombs.

Paper was more convenient, lighter and easier to count than having to weigh out gold and silver. Thus people willingly traded their energy for a symbol of wealth. But, the person who controls the gold and silver also controls your energy that you have invested in the symbol because the real worth is the gold and silver.

The system worked and the country grew prosperous and independent. Unfortunately that was against the goal of a group of bankers who want to control not only all the money but all the energy. They tried to get their hands on all the gold and silver but that was a really heavy undertaking. So, they came up with a better way to co opt the energy.

They invented credit cards, plastic symbols of money exchange. Now the energy of worth existed not in a vault represented gold and silver, but in a dynamic computer system represented by electricity. Your energy was now truly energy.

That makes it so much easier to use and control than having to get all that heavy gold and silver in a room to direct the energy. Not only that but they discovered a simple fact. Earth energy travels longitudinally. By placing major banking centers, Churches and specific occult temples in a straight line around the globe, they diverted the natural flow of Earth energy into their perverted little games of power and sex.

The result is the earth is dying. She is running a fever. She is suffering wild weather swings, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. Our paradise is turning into a dead zone. It is their plan because Earth Energy is poisonous to them unless we transmute it into something they can use. We do that by trading our energy for "money".

Now I am not advocating you start blowing up banks, churches and temples. It is much easier to ruin their plans than that. Start by using your old cash money. Take your bills and isolate them by denomination in your wallet. Put them in upside down. whenever you look at money, invert the bills so the symbols are upside down. Do the same thing with your credit cards. Get the bank to send you extras and then scratch the magnetic strips...write void in them....put a series of X's across the magnetic strips. When you can, don't use money at all. Barter. But every time you do use money or a credit card, mentally remind yourself you are more than this symbol. Do not give it any weight or energy. It is just paper or plastic. Disconnect yourself from it.

Now if you start wearing gloves to handle money, people will look at you funny but it would be very effective. You can fight talismans with talismans. Pick out a ring of either gold or silver with a symbol on it that represents your worth. Have you ever noticed how our 1% wears talismans like that? There is the class ring, the diamond pinky ring, the diamond tie tac, the diamond bracelet, the diamond eternity ring (which has to be the most uncomfortable thing in history) the power suit, the expensive shoes, the gold watch, and so forth. Heck their women even all tint their hair the same shade of blond to form a sisterhood of energy. All these things serve to represent their worth instead of the money in their wallet or their credit limit. They aren't stupid enough to give up their power to the ones controlling things. You on the other hand see your worth as how much you have in your wallet and your credit limit. They wear their worth and you give your power up to their talismans: money and credit. Do you see how this works? You are charging their talismans with more and more energy which they use to take more and more power away from you until you are sick and tired all the time. So, stop doing it.

Trying Too Hard

2012-03-30T14:56:00.000-07:00

I had a client, a perfectly lovely woman, who was constantly having problems at work. She was cited continuously for some minor infraction of the "rules", everyone was uptight and impossible to work with and it was generally a cut throat atmosphere. She was pretty much buying me out of oils, sage and candles not to mention amulets and self-help books.
Finally one day I asked her exactly what she was doing, step by step to fix this problem. I was exhausted before she got to lunch. There were the morning affirmations followed by the morning cleansing bath followed by more affirmations and rushing in early to smudge her area before anyone caught her and so forth to the special route to the break room on another floor with affirmations for every step on the stairs, visualizations of positive white light around her....are you tired yet?
Well, grab some caffeine because we aren't done yet and remember, it isn't lunch yet. She was guarding every single thought to make certain it was the bastion of positivity and any negative thought had to be countered with a positive one, anything negative from coworkers equally and all communications had to be filtered for self defeating word play and dear Goddess, there were even smiley faces!

My eyes must have been as wide as saucers and I am sure my mouth was open by that point. So, I began:

You are focusing so much on every tiny piece of everything that you can't see the forest for the trees. No one can have totally positive thoughts or communications. It's no wonder you are making so many mistakes at work. You are totally distracted from your actual work.

So, let's start by simply ignoring everyone and everything else but your job. Cleanse at night and then build your protective wall in the morning visualization. Go to work. Focus on work. Come home and jump in the shower to get rid of any lingering influences and go about your night.

Now, if you think anything in my world ever gets solved that easily, here, have a nice long walk in my shoes.

It wasn't two days before there was a clattering at the shop as I was packing up to go home. I opened the door to a woman I didn't recognize but since she was nicely dressed and looked professional I figured she wasn't the neighborhood robber. It actually took me a minute to realize who I had in the shop. It was my client and she was distraught. She had just had a reaming by her boss about something she had not even done. I got her sat down and took a good look.

The woman who arrived on the weekends in jeans and a T-shirt with a happy saying on it, sandals with hair in a lovely casual cut and unpainted nails had transformed to coiffed and sprayed with enough lacquer to be a fire hazard, fake nails, business suit so stiff I could have used it for siding on the building and heels so high she was now at least 6 inches taller than me marionette. Her makeup looked like she had just escaped the counter at Macy's after a bad encounter with an over zealous technician or three.

All I could mutter was, "What happened to you?"

She began to launch into the encounter with the boss and I stopped her. "No, I mean where is the person I see on the weekend?"

I have seen few people look so mystified and then I began to explain that her entire work persona was basically stick up the arse perfectionist. No wonder every infraction was being pounced upon. She was the source of the problem in the office and everyone else was reacting to her.

Now, if you think she believed me, here are my shoes, again.

So I laid out a modest proposal. The next day she would wear flats to work. The protest began but I countered with the sandals she wore that weekend were perfectly okay for work with some stockings. If the universe failed to crash, since there was no dress code in the work place, two days later she would ditch the suit jacket and every two days, one aspect of this fake person would go away and the real her would start to emerge. She was certain the four horsemen of the Apocalypse saddling up as we spoke but she agreed to try it for at least the rest of the week. Then I dropped the bomb. After a week of this, if the world was still spinning and if she had had no more complaints, the affirmations would go. If she agreed to that, there would be no charge for session. Well, you could see the conflict over being a really miserly person and giving up the beloved affirmation of which I was certain she had an entire library. Finally money won as it always does and she left.

I didn't hear from her for several weeks and almost breathed a sigh of relief. To be honest, she was wearing me out, but, well you know the drill...here try on my shoes.

Sure enough on the one night I was open late, she strolled in wearing a softly flowing skirt, loose top, large hoop earrings I knew she loved but obviously never wore to work, cute little kitten heel sandals and her hair was longer and brushing her shoulders. The precise makeup was now casual and she looked 10 years younger and much happier. She sat down and told me that things were going great at work. She even had friends but now, without affirmations, without three times daily meditation, she felt as though she was being called to the ocean to work. A reading revealed it was in fact time to move on..on out of the area and six weeks later, she was in another state, no longer an executive but running a small beach front business where she interacted with the previously dreaded public and even went barefoot at home in her very small little cottage with a yard. This woman was previously afraid of house plants.

However, her metaphysical support group of the positive attraction variety wasn't speaking to her and that I strongly believe was good thing. Some times, the single most important lesson in your life is learning to follow your heart and by that, learning who you really are and what YOU really need to make YOU happy.

If the 9 to 5 you bears no resemblance to the weekend you, I will bet that is the problem with your life. Bring them into alignment.

High John the Conqueror

2012-03-16T20:18:00.000-07:00

High John the Conqueror root is identified as Ipomoea Jalapa, a red morning glory in most texts and now all over the net. However, there are a few things that bothered me with this designation. The first of which is it is used in HooDoo which is originated in the barrier islands of North and South Caroline and Louisiana and favored by slaves as the legend of John the Conqueror is of a slave. The plant is native to Mexico, South America and some parts of Southern Europe.
So, why would this plant be John the Conqueror root? It doesn't grow in the area in which Hoodoo and much of Voudoun are practiced in this country.
Then the other night while looking something else up, I came upon what must be the real John the Conqueror plant. It is Ipomoea Microdactyla which is a red morning glory that is native from the pine rocklands of Miami-Dade County to the Bahamas and Cuba. It's range is zones 10/11. The Bahamas and Cuba were stop overs for slave ships where slaves were sorted and cleaned up before bringing them ashore to the southern states. No doubt, this plant will grow in other locations because it produces a giant tubor like root. It is sometimes called small fingers because of the small projections that often grow from the root.
Now comes the part that I think lends to the legend. After a fire in the area where this plant grows, it really takes off, covering everything and creating a showy display of bright scarlet flowers. It uses the burnt stems of other plants as a trellis.
It is endangered in Florida because the native rocklands are being destroyed for development. In Cuba it is called Bejuco colorado which means red reed or red rattan. It is also called: Man in the Ground.
Since the plant is so beautiful and red morning glories are seldom seen in cultivation, no one is certain why this cultivar isn't grown more.

ref: Everglades Wildflowers by Roger Hammer

Revenge Magick

2012-02-14T21:58:00.000-08:00

I bet that title got your attention.

That, you see, is the problem. In Huna you learn that where attention goes, so goes your energy.

I have known a lot of vengeful people. The slightest provocation and they were looking for a curse to use. A hangnail and they were certain someone was cursing them. This pursuit pretty much occupied their nights and days and then they wondered why they didn't have a significant other or any friends. Gee, could it be they spend all their time on vengeance?

Relationships take time and effort and if your days and nights are spent looking up, casting and thinking up curses, you don't have much time for anything else.

You are also building absolutely nothing. You are tearing things apart and down and then, people sit around and wonder why their life is in tatters.

I was really bad at sports and I mean really bad. There are kids who get picked last and then there are kids the team tries to pay the other team to take. That was me. Then one day a very wise man took me aside and said I would do a lot better if I focused on winning rather than defeating the image people had of me. The next day I took home a bowling trophy. I stopped playing against other people and started playing to win, just me and the game and I won. It didn't matter what anyone else did. It didn't matter what their strategy was. It only mattered that I was doing my level best to succeed.

Many years later I was in a Metaphysical group trying to make some changes in the general metaphysical community. One man was arguing against every idea we proposed until finally we simply got tired and agreed with him. Suddenly he started arguing against his ideas that we were agreeing with and he didn't even know it until we pointed it out. He was so focused on defeating us, he completely lost sight of the goal. You are seeing that a lot now-a-days.

You can't build something when your focus is tearing things down. And, of course, you will attract that destructive energy into your life.

I had a client who was a very aggressive business woman. She decimated her competition even though there was no real reason to compete. There was plenty of business for everyone. Why was she paying so much for weekly readings? Her personal life was a shambles. The moment she stepped in the door at home, her mother was on her back. Her lover was complaining. She was living in a battlefield. She had a lot of trouble seeing that the world she created in workplace was the world she came home to at night. The energies she sent out all day came home to roost every evening.

A very wise man once said: "The best revenge is living well." Think about that before you decide to enter into a cursing war, because you may turn out to be the only person on the battlefield.

Forgotten Thought Forms.

2011-10-30T18:31:00.000-07:00

Here is a question to ponder. How many spells have you worked?

They all used a focus of some form. That focus created an energetic pattern called a thought form.

Physics tells us that energy can not be destroyed, only transmuted into another form. Thus, somewhere in the Universe, those little patterns are bouncing around. That's why no matter how obscure the deity, calling on them tends to get results if ever they were worshipped by enough people.

But, how about those little patterns you created? They tend to hang around their creator: you.

The other night I was not quite up to a healing spell I needed to do and I happened notice a plastic box of scented votives I have not opened in a while. So, curiosity being the domain of both cats and Druids, I opened it to see what lovely scents awaited.

A few years back I worked with a group doing healing and used a particular scented candle as a carrier for the energy. Oddly enough, and I find this seems to happen constantly, the moment the healings really start working, someone blows the group apart and more often than not, it is the organiser leaving me to wonder what is really going on out there in the world. I have even gone so far as to research a few of the organizers and didn't like what I found.

But, I took the candle out because this was my channel and I wondered if even with the group completely blown apart the healing pattern was still out there. Yup! I immediately connected to it, found it fully functional and nicely charged. Now, it is my thought form.

Is this the ultimate recycling? Try it and find out. Why go to all the trouble of creating an energetic pattern every time when you can just tap in the old ones, reinforce them and use them?

What do you think?

The Goddess Columbia

2011-07-26T19:11:00.000-07:00

I know most of my Goddesses but when the local Christian nuts decided to hold a month long prayer vigil to discredit her in the nation's capital I found myself muttering: who is she?
Then a large number of pagans jumped on board creating an event to honor her. Who is she? Is my education lacking?
Nope. Columbia a created goddess by the Masons and illuminati to represent the ideals of freedom. Considering she was used as the embodiment of Manifest Destiny and in two wars as what our boys were fighting for, one would think she would be right up the Christian Rightwingnut's alley.

Bargaining

2011-07-25T22:01:00.000-07:00

I'm not really sure where this came from but I suspect the Judeo/Christian faith as most older faiths have better sense.

An accomplished spell worker came by and had a question about her work. It seems she does everything right but she gets "some" return on the spells for herself, whereas for others, they work completely. That's strange I thought as I let her continue to ramble sort of half listening when my ears pricked up.

"You what?"

She always offers a bargain when she is doing spell work for herself pretty much along the lines of giving something up, like a favorite food, if this will just happen.

"Ah, I do believe I see the problem. Stop bargaining."

What I did not explain was the why of it.

We share this dimension with any number of creatures of energy. Some are not so nice. You have all heard the horror stories attached to Ouija boards when not used with a proper circle or invocation of protection. Those spirits are always hanging about just waiting for someone to blunder into them.
Start volunteering to hurt yourself by giving up things or preforming some task and their little ears get really BIG. They can affect the physical and they are just plain ornery. So, they will give you a little of what you ask for and wait to see what else you will do to yourself for more. Soon, you attract an audience of these lower level entities for their entertainment only.

And then you attract something, bigger, meaner and more powerful and that is when your happy little bargaining turns really nasty. They can majorly alter this universe. They can hurt people directly. Suddenly your little temper tantrums really have effect on others, to their detriment, and you start losing energy, become unable to get up in the day time (they work best at night) and finally are just plain sick.
Next thing you know some psychic says, "Did you know you have entities attached to your aura sucking you dry?"
No matter what the price tag, remember this: the old ways of baths for purification, fumigation, bell, book and candle work the best and if it just involves waving hands over you, you might want to get really professional help.

Sodalite

2011-07-16T18:26:00.000-07:00

I was kicking around in my mess, mainly because George knocked a box of odds and ends over and I saw a bag of this speckled blue and white tumbled stones that reminded me of the blue and white porcelain dishes. When I looked at the tag it said: Sodalite Quartz. Well, I had never heard it called that before so I decided a little research was in order.
It belongs to the silicates family and is seldom used as anything but cabs because it has poor cleavage and uneven to conchoidal fracture. That means you can't cut it like a most gemstones. It's hardness is 5.5 to 6.
That last number is very important if you storing your stones together in a bag. If you mix soft with hard stones, you will scratch the soft stones.
Quartz is SiO2 which is an oxide and has a hardness of 7.
Technically, Sodalite and Quartz would be distant cousins. Sodalite is closer to Lapis Lazuli. Both are sodium aluminums with the same hardness and both are used to access the subconscious or deeper layers of consciousness.
With that little digging completed, I scratched Quartz off the tag.
Thus, if your question in a working is whether you can get off using Sodalite (which is relatively inexpensive) as a substitute for Lapis Lazuli (which can be really pricey) the answer is yes. However, Lapis usually has gold in it and you can't substitute sodalite if you are using it in a money spell.

Dark Magick

2011-07-03T17:42:00.001-07:00

Dark or black magick is just that, no matter what name you want to try and white wash or justify it with. You, and only you, will pay the price even if you pay someone else to do it.
Let's talk about what constitutes the Dark Arts. They are not defined as for personal gain but as attempting to force someone to do something against their will or against their best interests or harming another or working against the greater good. The last will get you the least smut on your soul as most of us are not capable of seeing that far into the future.
Let me give you an example of some very black working all prettied up in the" for your own good" category and the "we really didn't know what we were doing so we really, really screwed someone up good" secondary category.
Trust me, the payback is always bad. Ignorance is no excuse.

A gentleman came to me because he was having a spate of "bad luck" that was driving him to financial ruin and his friend, whom I had counseled, recommended me. He really didn't understand how exactly these nice "church ladies" could be "cursing" him. However, since my friend had almost lost his life to the workings of a similar group he knew what he was seeing.

Unlike the "wizard for hire" bunch, I question my potential clients carefully and I have the training to get answers. I was totally puzzled. The problem was simply that the mother did not want her daughter involved with him. Okay, here is a man who owns his own business, car and home, is financially solvent and good looking to boot. I could have five women fighting over him with a phone call. So, I bluntly asked exactly what was wrong with him. He replied, "I'm a Presbyterian." That caused uncontrollable head shaking and eye blinking on my part. "WHAT?????"
Then I asked exactly what these women were doing to him and how this "mother" convinced them to do it and by the way, who are they? It turns out the "they" was a prayer circle in a little Fundamentalist Church. "They" were meeting twice a week to "pray" that he be stopped from dating her daughter and that her daughter quit working for him.

Now, let me explain quickly why this IS the DARK ARTS. There is no difference between praying, chanting and standing on your head imagining or casting a well crafted circle, lighting incense and invoking your chosen God/desses. The problem with this group is they were totally uneducated in the arts they were invoking. By leaving the prayer open ended (he be stopped from dating her daughter) they left the door wide open for any entity listening to use any means (including killing this man) to do the job. Without a circle of protection, they had left an open door for anything and anything always has a price. They left an equally open door on the daughter quiting the job and as a result, he was suffering a myriad of health problems (and this was a healthy guy) preventing him from "dating" and his business was going under hence the daughter not working for him would be because there would be no business. This would hurt not only him, but the community his business serviced.

I asked how he got into this mess and his reply was the daughter rebelling against the restrictive faith of the mother had picked him out for her little rebellion and since she was pretty and a good sales person, at the time he didn't see any harm. He really didn't want to date her in the first place but she chased him. She had spent a week convincing him to hire her on a commission basis with the old "what have you got to lose" argument. He was quickly finding out what he had to lose.

So, I taught him cleansing and basic protection magick, none of which conflicted with his religion. In the end, he had to sell the business to get rid of this mother/daughter team from Hades as when he tried to fire her, she went to the prayer circle with a list of grievances and they then redoubled their efforts to now "punish him". That was when they really stepped over the line into the Dark Arts and I have no doubt paid the price.

So, what happens when you step over the line?
It is all energy and energy is neutral. It is all how you use it. When you attempt to go against another's best interests or desires, you have to use more energy than just going with the flow. One person can only channel so much energy so unless you are very skilled "vampire" you are going to weaken. First your aura goes and eventually your body follows but your mind is going to go before that happens. Without your aura to shield your mind, and severely weakened, you are prey for every creature of the other realms who wants a snack of your energy and sanity. There are plenty of them.
A group of people can raise more energy than the individual members taken singularly. One thing every High Priestess knows is that channeling the energy of a group is like walking a moving tight rope that was greased. That's why you don't get the head piece by passing a written test. Even with a well organized group, one person out of it that night can cause the energy circle to tilt and if the circle breaks, the energy feedback is, well, Hell. Headaches, nausea, weakness and dizziness are the weaker of the symptoms of a circle gone bad and that includes a prayer circle. There may be a temporary "high" and then the symptoms hit anywhere from an hour to a day later. I have seen people literally thrown to the ground and bounced off walls. The problem in prayer circles is simple. How well do you know the people you are working with? Everyone is nicely praying for poor Mable's recovery when one person suddenly thinks, oh, and could you get rid of my daughter's fiancee. Suddenly, your healing circle dipped into the Black Arts and poor Mabel is going to pay right along with you. Someone always pays.
With a good High Priestess, we know the moment the energy moves to a new level and will stop it. Our members also know the danger if the circle unbalances before the energy is released and aren't gong to play add a little prayer to it. We work in a purified and sealed environment. Hey, there is a reason the Pope is swinging that censor and chanting in Latin around the altar and those priests and choir boys and going up and down the aisles and around the perimeter of the Church at all major services. Too bad your pastor can't speak Latin and doesn't know why. The local witch knows why. He's not going to take the chance that the local JC impostor shows up to Mass. He's making sure he gets the clear, unfettered and open line to the real thing.
What happens if you persist on this path aside from insanity, rocking back and forth in a padded cell while watching the local entities eat you? You mean that didn't scare the crap out of you? Well, you get to die a long and lingering death because you aren't as valuable in their world as ours. Here you are food. Once you cross over, all the things you did arrive to haunt you and unfortunately for you they will be really, really real. You will find you are virtually a slave in the afterlife to whoever or whatever is stronger than you and there will be someone stronger than you waiting for you. I have been told the pain is excruciating because your soul is not intact and you feel like you are constantly hungry and thirsty trying to replenish it. Shall I go on or are you getting the idea that anyone who tries to rope you into these things is no friend of anyone but themselves.
The bottom line is you wouldn't play with explosives with a group of people smoking and who have no knowledge of safety precautions. Don't play with energy the same way.

I REALLY want to celebrate on the moon phase but...

2011-07-02T14:48:00.000-07:00

How many times have we all said that and life and job just won't let us do it?
Don't panic. The Full and New Moons are considered to last 3 days, one before and one after so you have some breathing room.
Quarter Moons' turning lasts about one minute but the phase lasts a week. You have time.
Eclipses last at most about an hour but their effects continue to next eclipse. Unless it is a really nice eclipse energy, I don't care for them and actively avoid doing magick during their happening time. I will pick a good day astrologically to do the work and tap into the eclipse energy. It's not going anywhere for a while. This last eclipse energy is in Cancer and that is anything home and family and skirting issues. Remember, the crab moves side to side when using these energies and retreats into its shell when threatened. It seldom carries through on threats.

Exits and Entrances

2011-05-14T13:04:00.000-07:00

Whoever is building houses needs a BIG lesson in Feng Shui. So, listen very carefully. A house must have one entrance and ONE exit. Any more and the energy enters the house and gets confused, runs around goes out bounces back in and you suddenly find you can't make up your mind, you are jittery, your money is leaving faster than it is coming in and your relationships are in the crapper.
Here is the cure: designate one back door. Outside of the other doors, place a mirror facing into the house so the energy bounces back in and continues in its natural cysle through your home.
If you have two entrances, pick one. Place a mirror inside the house facing out at the other one so the energy cannot barrel through both doors like a run away freight train and mow everything in your house down.
What about garages? In the overall scheme, garages are often treated as a part of the house and if you are dong that, you have to make adjustments because that is one really big opening for energy to fly through. I have always designated my garage as a separate entity, with its own entrance and exit. I keep the door going into the garage from the house mirrored off, so the energies do not enter or exit through it. It has its own side exit. That way I can isolate the energe and not have a huge money leak.
I know all these sliding glass doors are a big selling point but you should have learned with the Donald as an example that lying is the main talent of real estate agents. First off, they are one huge security risk that even with the unbreakable glass, can be jimmied off the track in a matter of minutes unless you want to put the security bars on them every time you leave the room. They are also a huge energy leak, literally. They both heat up and cool down your rooms really fast. Lastly, the first hurricane that makes an approach, you are going to find they are really, really expensive and difficult to secure. Even if you are feeling safe with the unbreakable glass, the pressure from the wind can pop them right out of the frame and you aren't going to be getting them back in with 120 mph of wind pushing you back. So don't fall for spiel. There is a reason old Florida homes do not have sliding glass doors and it is one darned good one.

Notes for those who do workings or spells....

2011-04-26T19:09:00.000-07:00

Around the second time someone shows up on your doorstep needing a curse on someone because they are "cursing" them, you might want to consider you have a nutcase on your hands and start doing benighn spells instead of the curses. It would be a really good idea not to tell them because they will just move on to the next practitioner and curse YOU! Consider it a case of self preservation.

Sigel and Seal Notes

2011-04-21T20:36:00.000-07:00

As important as it may be to get your time and day correct in their drawing, getting the colour right is critical. Thus, you really need one of the more expensive books to give you that information.
An interesting book is The Grimoire of Armadel. I like to use it.

Those little things that get to you...

2011-04-19T19:31:00.000-07:00

Have you been losing things lately? Are things breaking?
The first step is to determine if there is one thing you keep losing far more than anything else. What do you do with that thing? How important is it?
For example, my hubby finally lost his phone for what seemed like for good. He had been losing it at least once a day for a few weeks. This time it was really gone. Over a week later, he found it neatly packed in a box in a box of stock. There is no way he would have consciously done that. Within 15 minutes of finding the phone, he lost it again. This time it appeared an hour later.
The important thing is that the phone is used for my business and he forwards the shop line to it when we out so we don't miss any calls. We use his phone because I am virtually deaf on a phone and can't understand much that is said. Losing the phone put a dent in business.
For a couple of weeks, business had been going down hill. If we smudged the area and did a money spell, immediately we would get customers and I mean immediately. If we didn't, we could sit here for hours and the phone wouldn't even ring with the usual telemarketers. The simple fact that a little magick and the business would start up indicates there is something magickal being done to us. If it were just the normal ebb and flow of business, a customer wouldn't show within minutes of doing the clearing and money bringing spells.
So, we simply smudged the phone and it hasn't gone missing since.
As Marie always said, when one too many things go wrong, someone is working a mojo on you.
Hubby asked me if I had normally been doing the smudging and spells before I had to take the year off for cancer treatment and I really had to think back. Then I remember that the last year, it had been a constant struggle and these rituals were my morning openings every blasted day. To this he said: "This is BS. It has to stop."
A warning seems to have stopped the person who was doing it, but should it start up again, I am not bothering with a warning. I am swatting and I swat hard. That is mainly because I hate to do it so I make sure the person never bothers me again.
So, if you are having the same problem with things going missing. When you find them, smudge them. If it immediately stops, you have someone working something on you. If it just keeps up, you are either really absent minded or you may have a faery trying to get your attention.