Sunday

Today I found that I was bored and struggling to come up with a topic for the blog and i got to thinking about how today is Sunday.
Today for me was Church Day growing up.

I would wake up at the ass crack of dawn (6am) to get ready to go to church. Spend an hr in Sunday School learning in my respective age group class, spend 9 to 12 in the adult church unless your 12 and under then you had children church which i guess was better cus at least then your spending most of the time playing with kids. After church service depending on the week we would either have Sunday picnic where everyone prayed and worshiped and ate at the local park till 3ish then go back to the church for all the different chorus practices, went home to eat lunch and come back at 6 for the practices, or had a lunch at the church and stayed and socialized all day and then had chorus practice before church. All ending the same way with me going to church again at 6 to attend children's/youth practice then adult chorus practice and then spend another 3 hrs or more at church for the evening service that started at 7 and ran at all hrs of the night at times even as late as 12 pm. I did this every day since I was born till I was 15.

What always got me more then anything is that my mother never had to attend all the services or do half the things me and my sisters were told we had to do. And this always made me madder then a bird who didn't get the worm.

I've learn not to let these things get to me as I'v grown but lately after much looking back on it it still gets me how parents make us do all the things they would never do to make you a "better person" or "have a better life then me".

My mom was not a good women and granted I understand she loves me, I still don't thing she had the right to do half the things she did as I was growing up. If she couldn't give herself a better life then how dose she have the right to tell me what will make my life a better one.

I bring this up to tie into the Sunday topic because I am so sick of people like my mom or even the parents who are the perfect parents and great people, who force children to believe what they believe or do what they think is best for them when it comes to things like religion or career paths for example:

You have a child who is a natural dancer, to them dancing is their life. However, life isn't easy for dancers and more then a little hard to make something out of yourself so a parent tells them that that is not a viable career path and instead force them to be something more "productive and viable" a career.

Or you have a parent like my mom who made me go to church ever chance there was Monday- Sunday if there was something going on then I was there sick or not. She know full well that I didn't believe in God and that I would never willingly go to church yet I was told God was the only religion of worth and that I needed him in my life or I was going to hell and all the other stuff that comes with Christianity bashing on people who don't believe.

These parents force their children into a life they don't wont to have and grow to hate. My question is why? You know that it pushes your children away, makes them resent the very thing you are making them do, hell your making them into what you wish you had done or did, and when it backfires and they tell you that this is not them you get upset and offended. Didn't you see this coming? How would you have reacted if you were them?

A popular question among parents now a days is rather you should force religion on to the children you are rising. My stance is no you should not ever force or sway your children for the fear that you will make them resent you or the very thing you love and hope that they will grow to love, but they should still be exposed to it to at least learn know about it and take to it if they please.
I think the world would be a whole lot happier if you stopped forcing people to believe in what you think is right for them when in actuality you yourself haven't found out what is right for you.
So what if  Christianity isn't my belief, or if they don't wont to continue the family line of lawyers of doctors. To to them/me its what makes us happy and there for shouldn't that be what counts?

My alter atm :)

My alter just pushed to the side, i didn't feel like setting it all up.

The stuff above my alter, since i meditate in front of my alter this is hear for my spirit guide. The string with the close pin holding paper are pre made sigils and a bookmark i made.

This is my pentagram, its just a old dream catcher ring i had with rubber bands cus i cant keep it up.
My sun and moon candle holders, and My flower arrangement for Freya, she loves flowers so i got some fake ones, added some handmade ones i made this morning with some paper and little glitter eggs from easter, the ribbon around the top is a wedding ribbon so i though it fit with her :)

Cinnamon cus thats one of my go to herbs for working, my container with my sigil for blessings from Freya: it just has dandelion seeds, the lady bug candle holder is just holding some dried flowers and buds again to represent Freya and nature. and behind them are just a lot of candles. 

I saw this on pintrest and loved it so i drew it up my way, then colored it. I love that it contains both my wolf and the elements all in one.

This is just a orange covered in whole cloves it makes a pomander ball. (whole cloves are what's in my bowl)  I love the smell and wonted to make one so this is my first one lol figures crossed it works out lol.  Oh and the bowl is what I use to burn things or mix stuff ie my cauldron. 

This is a vile of sigil infused water I made and the candle in the back is a white one i love that i drew the goddess and god moon symbol in repetition along the top.

I rely on salt like  more then normal cus thats all I had to protect me when  I was younger so i tend to keep a vile of it. This is just some i keep in a old medication bottle the cap has the rune for protection and under the cap is a drawn pentagram.

And this is just a MTG mat that i tend to use to practice stuff on like Cartomancy lol. I plan on getting one thats more shall we say pagany but that requires customizing a pic and then getting it printed and stuff and I don't have money for that atm.

Playing Cards: Cartomancy

Ive been always drawn to tarot. In fact why most girls at age 8 or 9 were buying Goosebumps or Junie B books at the school book fair I was buying a mini tarot card set. They were my pride and joy at the time lol. I use to pull a card every day or spend the day reading the book that came with it. Unfortunately I lost the little mini cards do to how I grow up and always moving around. *sad panda face*

Fast forward to now. Ive yet to get a big tarot deck because the option is just not available to me atm but for the last couple of years Ive thought about using playing cards to fulfill my needs. Especially when I watched the show Psychic Tia and seen her Gypsy Witch Fortune Telling Playing Cards and I know that it was for me.
So I set about studying how to use playing cards till I get around to buying the Gypsy Witch Fortune cards and have to admit that this is a lot easier to remember and understand if your starting out then a full tarot deck. The spreads can be just as complex or just overly simple. The meanings are short and to the point, and although its hard at times to combine them, that I will admit, it actually makes you think about the spread and whats happening overall. I have to admit I'm loving it to pieces.

heres some easy to understand links if you wont to give it a try:
http://www.talisman.net/tarot/regcard.html
http://www.cafeastrology.com/fortunetellingcards.html

Two Videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtcXtzkzhTk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zX7-Lq4sp8

My Necklace

This is just a necklace I made. Its a combo of my luck gris gris I make every year in black bags to cancel out negativity and a bracelet I made that I was drawn to make and later found that it was a lot of stones to do with my healing abilities and my trouble over coming  my mental blocking of all my abilities. The bracelet broke so i combined both of them since I tend to carry them both around and I just love the peace I feel when I wear it. :)

The Bracelet was made from:

The Arrow Head- This is made of Green Jasper and its properties include:

sooth the spirit,

heighten healing abilities by helping you find the problem clairvoyantly, 

all purpose healing stone,

banish evil thoughts and spirits,

heighten life force energy,

( read more here about its old school properties and uses)

The tan beads- This is Snow Quarts and is properties include:

stimulations of hopes, 

stabilizes dreams,

help your inner strength to alleviate self-blocks,

promotes clarity of mind

The gemstones- This is just some Turquoise and its properties are:

protection against major traumatic injuries,

one of the four Pueblos "elemental" gemstones, this one believed to connect the Earth and Sky,

increase wisdom,

recommended for healers to wear to increase their powers,

aid in stomach disorders and eye problems,

help heal the wearer's heart of spiritual/emotional wounds,

believed that if given in December will bring the person a year of good luck.

The Luck Gris Gris:

Ingredients:

Honey

Cinnamon

Pennies from the year you were born (I choose 4 cus thats my life path number)

Clover

A black square of cloth

Something to tie it off

Read the link

everythingunderthemoon.net/forum/town-greece-galloway-bad-news-t27040.html

guys im not at all happy abut that as you can see from my posts
oh yeh you dont know lol
I use this forum to talk to other wiccans like me and i love the community
My username is BabyBear feel free to add me lol

anyway as you can see from the link this is not at all a good thing people

this is going to open up a whole new can of worms and a whole new reason to discriminate, be unethical and down right mean from the south
and i for one am not happy about this

May Day Pics :)

This is my God candle holder at the moment I just keep these neat gel balls that hold the sent of essential oils. I think I have blackberry in it atm I'm not sure.

This is my Goddess candle holder. I put tea lights into these btw or some of the fat pillar candles if i can find them in the right size.

This is my drawing of Freya and my sigil of the holidays is on her arm. I added her two cats and of course the raven she turns into along with some flowers she loves in her hair. And the word is her name in this Norse font i found online and liked.

I got into the mood to make this like two days and i didnt know why until i was making my alter today ><. 

I made this to represent my wolf spirit guide and to honor him on my alter :)

This is a caligraphy piece i won in a giveaway done by one of my friends on everythingunderthemoon.com and i love it.

This is just a wreath i made out of tp rolls and some flowers, its a bunch of flowers and two butterflies. 

This is another wreath but my grama made this one for easter I just stole it for today lol

This is a hair spray cap that i saved with some ducktape on the bottom so the holes are covered, i made a bow and added it to the back to look like wings. In the cap is milk, honey, rain water collected earlier this morning, and some cinnamon. This is my faey offerings.

heres just a back veiw

and this is a side view

This is my make shift alter. Living with my Grama I cant leave it out or have to much so this is my solution.

This is a old gel incense jar filled with dandelion seeds, some ginger and lemon grass with some lemon rine and a few other herbs.