{Friday, July 13, 2007}
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Oberon Zell-Ravenheart - One of the great fathers of the Modern Pagan Movement, co-founder of the Church of All Worlds and Headmaster of Grey School of Wizardry. The above 2 part interview on YouTube by Magick.TV Oberon Zell-Ravenheart, is also a decent sculptor and artist and has brought back his Green Egg magazine. How often do you think he's asked if he's the real Albus Dumbledore? I'll bet you didn't know that he created unicorns. Labels: pagan  |
{Monday, June 11, 2007}
 Mrs Morrison's HotelThe 100% personal official blog for Patricia Kennealy Morrison, author, Celtic priestess, retired rock critic, wife of Jim. I was born..no, wait, that's David Copperfield. Anyway, I was born in Brooklyn, grew up on Long Island, went to school in upstate NY and came straight back to Manhattan to live. Never lived anywhere else. Never wanted to. Got a job as a rock journalist, in the course of which I met and married a rock star (yeah, yeah, conflict of interest, who cares). Became a priestess in a Celtic Pagan tradition, and (based on sheer longevity) one of the most senior Witches around. Began writing my Keltiad series. Wrote a memoir of my time with my beloved consort (Strange Days: My Life With and Without Jim Morrison). Curiosity will have you visit her and being a prolific writer with a beautiful spirit will assure your return. link |
{Monday, December 11, 2006}
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Winter Solstice Celebrations It's not too soon to think about Winter Solstice celebrations, which are increasingly becoming more popular. (If you really want to go old school, see Saturnalia.) Some people do this in addition to their usual Christmas traditions. Some have the celebration of Jesus birth assimilated into the Winter Solstice. And some are just tired of the whole cheesy commercialism of Christmas that concentrates more on enriching the retailers and stressing us all that they wish to try something different. It depends on what you want to get back from this season. Love? Peace? Presents? Do you want to honor it with a religious experience? And which one? Should you feed your spirituality in a more earth-based way, leave out the whole biblical aspect, or celebrate your usual family traditions? And what about the children? How does a Buddhist couple with Protestant parents and Pagan kids celebrate the holidays? We manage to do our own thing and also honor our family's way of celebrating by finding something we all can relate to. One thing is we all celebrate the Winter Solstice and continue through New Year's Eve: 12th Night. We build a bonfire, (my husband's favorite part) and a Yule log is taken from that to the indoors where it (and more firewood) burns until the 12th Night. Then you spread the ashes on the field or garden on the first day of the year (which get into Compitalia). In those 12 days there's also a procession, gift-giving, (a little gift each day) bells, singing, paying it forward, feasting, prayers and much more but this is getting a little long. Winter Solstice for 2006 will occur in North America on December 21, Thursday. The precise time depends on your time zone. In PST, it will be 4:22 pm; in EST, 7:22 pm. Related Resources * Solstice Planning Guide for the home and outdoors. * Winter Solstice Religious Celebrations * Sew seeds for Winter Solstice. * Saturnalia  In the midst of winter I found there was within me an invincible summer. ~Albert Camus |
{Friday, August 26, 2005}
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Life Among the Neo-Pagans --Paul Krassner's article on the Starwood Festival The first event was on a weekend, attended by 185 people, with twenty presentations and a bonfire built from an old split-rail fence. This July marked the twenty-fifth anniversary of Starwood; the weeklong event drew 1,600, with 150 presentations and twenty musical and theatrical performances. I attended several workshops, including "Shamans and Drugs" by Stanley Krippner, a psychology professor at Saybrook Institute, psychic researcher and co-author of Dream Telepathy. A member of the Rainforest Action Network, he mentioned a Brazilian tribe, the Guarani, whose members have hanged themselves from endangered trees. I related my participation at an ayahuasca ceremony in Ecuador where the shaman's shrine included a sealed-beam headlight from an old Buick and a gray clamshell-like item that opens up, revealing a head of the Virgin Mary that can be used as a Jell-o mold. [More »»] - Via [Wildhunt Weblog] Labels: ayahuasca, drugs, pagan, Paul Krassner |
{Sunday, July 24, 2005}
 The New Yorker interviewed Stephen Colbert of The Daily Show recently, which is good since I don't see much information about him. I have watched him since the wild and weird Strangers With Candy on Comedy Central. I just read that he's the voice of Ace of the Ambiguously Gay Duo on SNL. He also talks about studying improv with Del Close in Chicago, who was also a noted pagan. Colbert will star in “The Colbert Report,” in October, which will air just after the “The Daily Show.” Labels: pagan |
{Wednesday, March 02, 2005}
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The Here & There/ADD Post  Rumsfeld's Being Served. All counsel are representing the plaintiffs on a pro bono basis. [details...] Republicans Defend Gay Man, Pigs Fly One more story the rabid right wishes would fade away. I'll just file it away in beside my Bill O'Reilly's Loofa-gate folder. Snap out of it. We're not letting it go that easily. Jon Stewart show to parody Gannon/Guckert on Thursday. (via maru) Hunter's Last Hours via: jay's bird on the moon, who just completed a cleansing 80+ hour fast. Well done! I could never last that long. Esoteric paths, divination, ceremonial magick and more at Esoterism Easy Bake Coven - A Review by MeMy computer's fucked up again; trippy music, Blogger sucks, I'm cold, funky-ass art, Repubs are evil, Ommmm, Wash, Rinse, Repeat. How would you describe your website in 25 words or less? {Welcome to the Blogosphere} Interview with some pagans on the new Vox Box. (seen @ wildhunt) A beautiful spirit is permeating throughout Every Woman is a Goddess; another new collaborative website on the blog block via ollapodrida.  Better wrap up this keypounding sonata and get busy... |
{Thursday, February 10, 2005}
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{Sudie's Web Trail} - rated R today
:: Pagan Moss has a nice writeup in the Seattle Weekly this week. :: North Korea reveals that they have nuclear weapons. Later, we'll try to get the Pope to admit he's Catholic and authenticate that a bear....well, you know. :: WTF? Nature lovers take it literally NSFW (seen @ The Wildhunt Blog) :: The annual Pazz & Jop is interesting to read the different music critics' favorites. (Christgau et al.) Half-assed cheesy with the pre-requisite top40, but critic cred salvaged with the inclusion of some actual talent. :: Naked, probably NSFW and Not Naked - Galleries of breathtaking beauty by photographer, Joris Van Daele. :: Hey, Johnny B: Will try and post my answers to your music meme soon - Johnny Bacardi. I've had pc problems since Saturday and just getting back online. Today's Quote If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution. ~Emma Goldman Spreading bloglove far and wide --- xoxo
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{Monday, August 30, 2004}
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We've decided to let Skyler (16) go to Raleigh, about 200 miles away, to Ozzfest Tuesday. It starts at 9:30 am and goes straight through til 11:00 pm. She'll stay overnight in a hotel with her best friend, Jessica, and Jess's Mother who are family friends we've known forever. That was the deal clincher. Believe it. And they'll all have their cell phones with them, if needed. My husband and I both told her not to drink anything after anyone. I've been jackpotted like that a few times long ago. Weighing it over, I can't really think of why I shouldn't let her go. Because she's growing up way too fast and I just don't want her to? Because I'd rather she stays home til she's 44, alone, with a lap full of catnip saying, 'Here, kitty, kitty, kitty'? She'll be fine.
Pagans Gotta Protest, Too. Live Protest from the RNC. Phoning it in. Literally.
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{Saturday, August 28, 2004}
 RNC Schedule
New York, NY 6:00 PM - Opening Prayer led by the Reverend Jerry Falwell 6:30 PM - Pledge of Allegiance 6:35 PM - Ceremonial Burning of Bill of Rights (excluding 2nd Amendment) 6:45 PM - Salute to the Coalition of the Willing 6:46 PM - Seminar #1: Katherine Harris on "Are Elections Really Necessary?" 7:30 PM - Announcement: Lincoln Memorial Renamed for Ronald Reagan 7:35 PM - Trent Lott-Re-segregation in the 21st Century 7:40 PM - EPA Address #1: Mercury: It's What's for Dinner 8:00 PM - Vote on which country to invade next 8:10 PM - Call EMTs to revive Rush Limbaugh 8:15 PM - John Ashcroft Lecture: The Homos Are After Your Children 8:30 PM - Round table discussion on reproductive rights (men only) 8:50 PM - Seminar #2: Corporations: The Government of the Future 9:00 PM - Condi Rice sings "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man" 9:05 PM - Phyllis Schlafly speaks on "Why Women Shouldn't Be Leaders" 9:10 PM - EPA Address #2: Trees: The Real Cause of Forest Fires 9:30 PM - break for secret meetings 10:00 PM - Second Prayer led by Cal Thomas 10:15 PM - Karl Rove Lecture: Doublespeak Made Simple 10:30 PM - Rumsfeld Lecture/Demonstration: How to Squint and Talk Macho Even When You Feel Squishy Inside 10:35 PM - Bush demonstration of trademark "deer in headlights" stare 10:40 PM - John Ashcroft Demonstration: New Mandatory Kevlar Chastity Belt 10:45 PM - GOP's Tribute to Tokenism, featuring Colin Powell & Condi Rice 10:46 PM - Ann Coulter's Tribute to "Joe McCarthy, Great American Patriot" 10:50 PM - Seminar #3: Education: A Drain on Our Nation's Economy 11:10 PM - Hilary Clinton Pinata 11:20 PM - John Ashcroft Lecture: Evolutionists: A Dangerous New Cult 11:30 PM - Call EMTs to revive Rush Limbaugh again 11:35 PM - Blame Clinton 11:40 PM - Newt Gingrich speaks on "The Sanctity of Marriage" 11:41 PM - Announcement: Ronald Reagan to be added to Mt. Rushmore 11:50 PM - Closing Prayer led by Jesus Himself 12:00 PM - Nomination of George W. Bush as Holy Supreme Planetary Overlord A31 Coalition Artists Network of Refuse and Resist Billionaires For Bush Code Pink CounterConvention Critical Mass Radio # DNC2RNC Democracy Uprising Gotham Gazette Greene Dragon No RNC Sound Coalition # Not in Our Name NYC Indymedia * Pagan Cluster RNC Not Welcome RNC Watch * Still We Rise The UnConvention Time's Up United For Peace & Justice Updates @ Indymedia * * = Most informative # = Live broadcasting FYI: WABC-TV, in New York City, is being broadcast live, when events warrant, throughout the week on CSPAN television. |
{Tuesday, August 17, 2004}
 {Magickal Mystery Tours}
Vincent Bridges is an historian, author, independent researcher and a self-proclaimed “anthropologist of the weird.” He is also a pioneer researcher in the field of psycho-acoustic therapy, a trauma abreaction technique using light and sound entrainment of brain frequencies, a pagan political activist and a world traveler, having organized and led tour groups to southern France, Egypt and India. Formed out of a need for real Adventures in Sacred Travel, and founded in 1995 as an outgrowth of the Fifth Way Mystery School (be sure and look thru this site well) experience and as a way for our intrepid researchers and explorers to share their insights, Magickal Mystery Tours provides up-close and personal contact with the sacred traditions of pilgrimage. There's the tour, In The Footprints Of Fulcanelli which traveled in June from Paris to Hendaye. And Nostradamus' Provence are but a few. His many books will take you on beautiful spiritual journeys as well. My husband has always had Bridges books around and I finally picked up the Holy Grail one and became quite interested. Start at any of these web sites if this interests you, and you'll spend hours pouring over his many spirutual and literary adventures. |
{Tuesday, August 10, 2004}
Monday was full of errands. Don't you love going to the DMV (Department Of Motor Vehicles)? I had only 19 people ahead of me, so it could have been worse. And has.
World Of Alternatives - A Portal of Brainwave Harmonics, Alternative Medicine, Pagan, Homeopathy, Psychedelic, New Age and Occult links covering the whole world wide web. Specialist links to Magick, Crop Circles, Tarot, Wicca, Paranormal is called, Strange Directory, and is believed to be the largest database of its kind.
 Too much posturing and bravado appearing in the US Presidential election ads. The Cowboy vs The Soldier. Kerry likes to spend his time riding Harleys or slaughtering wildlife and 'Bring It On' Bush likes to spend his free time clearing brush on his Texas ranch, dressed in a sweaty T-shirt and a cowboy hat. Just two macho men running for Prez.
We should have an arena for Bush and Kerry, pull out a ruler (or yardstick?) and be done with it. The winner would be the one with the biggest.... biceps. [link via kane] {Quote Of The Day} The fragrance always remains in the hand that gives the rose. ~ Heda Bejar Labels: elections, pagan, psychedelic |
{Thursday, May 27, 2004}
 {Morning Blog Trail}
»David Sedaris interview offers insight into his strange leetle world, and he explains what a gynocolumnist is. Great word. Link »ExxonMobil ReHash Theatre presents: Oval Office Space - The Director's Cut which was found on a good site, George Must Go. »Portrait Illustrator Maker - Make an original icon. Another fun face maker. I'm still working on mine, Bsti. via: Chapel PerilousLink »For my pagan friends: MysticWicks looks like a friendly and busy online Pagan Community. »The city is all atwitter about the upcoming Naked Bike Ride here in Asheville on June 12. It happens to be the only one in the southeast so we're getting riders from Atlanta, Knoxville, Charlotte and other areas. Think: naked breezy bike riding and strategically applied body paint. Link »Today's Quote - He who know he has enough is rich. ~Tao Te Ching I like these simple truths. The ones that usually take me years and years to realize. |
{Thursday, February 19, 2004}
 Political Theatre In The Streets - Have you seen Billionaires For Bush? Billionaires for Bush is a collection of activists who use satire to make a political point. The group demonstrated outside a fundraiser in New York on Wednesday. Getting fired up and in brilliant satire mode for the Republican National Convention when it comes to New York City from Aug. 30 through Sept. 2. [via: NYTimes]
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{Wednesday, January 21, 2004}
 Wednesday already? Good Wednesday morning/evening to you then.
"Nixon had a tighter grip as he peace sign'd on his way out to the goodbye chopper," says DongResin, describing Howard Dean's Iowa loser speech. I say, Physician heal thyself. Dean's just not wrapped very tightly. I don't want him to examine me, much less lead my country. If he gets the nomination, I'll support him. I mean, I damn sure won't be voting for the Dipshit Cowboy. But who's to say there's not some fabulous Independent wannabe waiting to throw their hat into the ring? Just as long as it's not another cowboy hat or the equally dismal Ralph Nadar. Dean has no idea how to present his best side to the country. We see him change right before our eyes according to the latest pundits and polls. I'd love to see someone sneak an idea to his handlers and tell him, "Voters love to see the candidates scratch their balls while howling at the moon." And then we can tune in the next day and watch him digging in by the moonlight.  URLS Gone Wild!
Ohhh, Nooooo! No Child Left Behind, George? Guess Who? Music Plasma-via jwalk Caution: Another website owner wailing away about their stats. But as I look through my stats today, I'm really starting to rethink this whole Easy Bake Coven name. This site is now the #1 Google search for the word "Coven"? Kinda misleading, don't you think? For the uninitiated, I named this site after a "Simpsons" episode called, "Easy Bake Coven" in which Marge was thought to be a witch in colonial times, hilarity ensues, etc. I've met wonderful pagan people that I would have probably otherwise not have met which is great, but it's not what my site is about. Guess I didn't put enough thought into it when I got the domain name. I'd like to keep the domain name the way it is, but perhaps if I change the site name it may not rate so high when searching for all things coven-related. {quote for today} We don't see things as they are; we see things as we are. ~Ana?s Nin  What the hell, go and put all your eggs in one basket. |
{Wednesday, October 08, 2003}
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Good morning. 
 Can we finally raise our Pangalactic Gargleblaster and drink to the promise of a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy movie?
Rickie Lee Jones is at her best. Isn't she always? Unsure of what faith your true beliefs follow? Buddhist? Pagan? Catholic? Take this quiz and find out. Pressure is still on for Suu Kyi's release with Japan's PM now pressing Myanmar to free her. Have you see the real George Bush Blog? It's not a joke. Too bad there's no comments.  Putting the "ass" in classy.Labels: films, pagan, Rickie Lee Jones |
{Wednesday, September 17, 2003}
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Why, hello there...thanks for stopping by.
Nobody Died When Clinton Lied - keeping track of similar signs around California. T shirts and bumper stickers. ::Daily Mislead - A Daily Chronicle of Bush Administration Distortion ::Auction Witch is like a Pagan Ebay site. Jewelry making supplies at $2.00 a chance because of a recent family emergency. ::Blues fans can witness performances by the best and brightest talents of the blues genre taking the continent by storm. Otis Rush’s smoldering 1966 rendition of "I Can’t Quit You Baby," laying down the template for the Led Zeppelin version that followed three years later; John Lee Hooker, or Howlin’ Wolf on three songs backed by the even-then-legendary Willie Dixon. The American Folk Blues Festival 1962-1966 Also, BB King was 78 years old yesterday. ::How much is inside a Sharpie? (from the folks at the always entertaining Cockeyed) If I don't get my 23 and a half hours sleep, I'm cranky all day. Labels: Led-Zeppelin, pagan |
{Thursday, August 28, 2003}
Ah, Thursday....one of my seven favorites days of the week.
 Cyberia: Life in the Trenches of Hyperspace, by Douglas Rushkoff
Rushkoff, a New York-based journalist, goes west to Berkeley for a look inside Cyberia-the emerging countercultural terrain of computer hackers, "smart" drugs, house music, and a range of alternate "cyberpunk" lifestyles and anarchic philosophies. This largely sympathetic report from the latest frontier will undoubtedly strike many older readers as outrageous, but others (especially those with clear memories of the 60's) may find much of the rhetoric familiar, even nostalgic. In fact, many of the ingredients hark back to the Berkeley scene of nearly three decades ago: the text is full of references to acid trips, pagan rituals, and Grateful Dead concerts, and even Timothy Leary puts in an appearance at a virtual reality demonstration. Go here to read it all online. Very informative. [via (ripping off): the most excellent stare] ::Black Table's Primer on Collegiate Preparedness A whole summer went by and now it's time to head back to the wonderful fairyland called college, where responsibility is kept to a minimum and partying is a club sport. New shoes, new haircuts, and new book bags -- why leave your penis out on all the fun? Back-to-school time not only means there is massive amounts of homework and studying to do, but also massive amounts of casual, consensual sex. So, dress your little feller up into something nice and comfortable before he goes trolling through the bushes. 
100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time - According to Rolling Stone magazine. Not hard to figure out who's number one. I was so fortunate to see him once. And I'll never forget a moment of it. ::MTV VMA tonight. You can still vote for Viewer's Choice award. Nominated are: Eminem, Justin Timberlake, Beyonce, Kelly Clarkson, 50 Cent, & Good Charlotte. Christina Aguilera threatens to wear a Nun outfit. The Sun reports Courtney Love has pulled out of presenting tonight because of a disaster over hair extensions. ("Squauwk! Yeooowww! You Royally Fucked Up My Fucking Hair, You Stinking Cunt--now you must die," Courtney didn't say.) ::Bummer Chinese Fortune Cookies ::Splut Photos - Very nice. I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize. Labels: 60s, books, drugs, music, pagan, peace, Timothy Leary |
{Saturday, June 21, 2003}
 PBR, or Pabst Blue Ribbon beer, making a big comeback, umm splash? Hipsters now drinking the beer that once abandoned Milwaukee, says NYTimes. I haven't had one of these since you needed a "church key" to open one.
Saturday morning at the mystical megaliths of Stonehenge, where Pagans have celebrated the summer solstice for thousands of years. Did Pamela Anderson finally get her vision restored? Which random Phallic Object are you? [via crinks]  Great Bush for President 2004 parody site.
Chocolate Dicks, anyone? Adult and Erotic Chocolates NSFW - (Not Safe For Work) Mick Jagger slams Justin Timberlake. Jagger said, "I've watched Justin, but every single move he does is stolen," according to Britain's itv.com. Quote For Today If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears the beat of a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away. ~Henry David Thoreau saturday morning me// 
grey fat shorts-(elastic band)/navy duke tshirt/ flip-flops/dogs playing/daughter sewing/ braided ponytail on left/scent: sandalwood/ hot coffee/cold danish/sounds: pixies cd/ how's about you?/ Excuse my typing. I'm reloading. Labels: Mick Jagger, music, NSFW, pagan, Saturday Morning Me, Skyler, solstice |
