Samhain

Red leaves are carried in the salt west wind
And turn to brown on dry soil.
The sun is bright still, but not warm
On the last rich gold of scattered fall.
The great wheel turns, another year
Old, bright gold with death.
Bare branches now, the Old Lord’s limbs,
Chill wind the Old Lord’s breath.

Like dancing leaves on sleeping branches
The dark tide of memory is stirred.
The deepest thought-flame now is kindled,
Consuming, the fire in ancient words.
Samhain, the thin veil opens, fingers
Reaching through the blackness deep.
Through the grey cloud wisps, old voices
Shapes, shifting, slowly creep.
Mab’s red-eyed dogs, howling, wander
Through the fields as soil grows hard
Searching for uncounted jewels
The Fairy Queen’s forgotten shards
The last red morsels, undevoured
Returned to Her who granted birth
Mab’s womb, given up its children,
Shrivels, cold with the hardened earth.

In meadows that the scythe has tasted
Now the Samhain fires are high
The circle dance is weaving, spinning
On graceful foot, on darkened thigh,
The spiral dance is downward twisted,
The Horned One’s chant, the Welcome Home–
“Home” is on the north wind whispered,
The Swordless Death Lord takes his throne.
And to Mab, the Horned One’s sister,
Whose loins have yielded up their spark,
“Follow” now the north wind whispers,
Mab, Death Queen, the Timeless Dark.

And in the barren, fruitless meadow,
Dancing ’round the Samhain fire,
Her face a flower, her eyes a-tremble,
A young maid spins the ancient spire.
Chanting home the swordless Horned One,
Like a doe, she leaps the flame.
In cold Autumn’s death, a new beginning,
In Mab’s cold womb, life starts again.

Blessed Be.

–Kenny Klein, Author
Published on Pagan Library

“The leaves are budding across the land
on the ash and oak and hawthorn trees.
Magic rises around us in the forest
and the hedges are filled with laughter and love.
Dear lady, we offer you a gift,
a gathering of flowers picked by our hands,
woven into the circle of endless life.
The bright colors of nature herself
blend together to honor you,
Queen of spring,
as we give you honor this day.
Spring is here and the land is fertile,
ready to offer up gifts in your name.
we pay you tribute, our lady,
daughter of the Fae,
and ask your blessing this Beltane.”

– Beltane Prayers

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Most of the time when someone comes out and rants on this site, it isn’t me. It is generally Eleanor or it use to be Mystie. But today, you have the honor of hearing my rant. For the last few days, I have come to reality. It has hit me in the face so hard, I probably won’t see daylight for the next week. I have come to the realization I have been an idiot for all these years, a very big idiot. I have took every dime I could muster to keep this site and the store going. I have asked for donations to help with the operations numerous times, I admit it and it was truly only when we needed it. I have told you over and over again I hate like hell asking you for a dime and Goddess knows I do.

In these last few days we have been off the internet, something very serious has come up and I found I don’t have a dime to my name due to my stupidity as far as using every bit of money I can get to keep this place open. My familiar has come down with something I don’t know what. I have treated him with everything I know to treat him with and he is dying. He should be at the vet today but I don’t have the money for an emergency visit. So he will have to wait till tomorrow, then perhaps I can find a vet that will see him and take us in as a charity case, ain’t that a laugh. Funny because I ain’t laughing. He has stopped eating and I am now having to force food down him. I know we were out in the yard and I turned around and he was gagging on something and then threw up. After that he slowly started getting worse and worse. I should have took him Friday but the tumor in my hip hurt so bad, I could hardly walk. I should have dragged myself out the door and took him then but I didn’t I thought it was only a cold and something I could treat. WRONG! He has tons of mucus flowing out his nose, can’t breath and as I said has stopped eating. I am going to fry some hamburgers for supper and see if he eats any of mine. If not, I know it is more serious than what I am thinking. But he is sick and I am kicking myself in the ass because of what I have tried to accomplish here and no one wants to help. I have been living in a delusional world and my poor pup is going to pay for my stupidity.

Boy, boy, boy, you talk about someone kicking theirself in the ass, I am. As I sit here and write this, I wonder what on earth was I ever thinking. Seriously, what was I thinking. I thought I had a family here, brothers and sisters since I have no one else on this planet to call upon when I need help. Maybe that is it, I have asked you once to often for help. Perhaps, I have worn that line very thin between us. Who knows? I don’t have time to ponder it, I will do that later. Right now I am concerned for my baby. If I do not get him to a vet, he will die I know that. If he does die, I will never sit foot on The WOTC again. Because with his death, I will realize one thing, life is too short to sit at a computer and bust your ass for nothing. I am beginning to figure that out with this tumor in my hip that keeps coming back. Maybe that or someone is trying to tell me something, get up off your ass and enjoy life while you have some life left in you.

I can’t stand by and let my Kade suffer, I can’t do that. It is unfair to him and it is killing me. I thought the other day, I would not be making another post on here till the first of the month but circumstance beyond my control have occurred. I won’t let him die. I am asking for your help to save him. This is no joke or some scam to get money out of you, I swear it to you. I would never play with my baby’s life like that. He is sick and he is going to die if I do not get him to a vet tomorrow, it would be better tonight but I can’t afford an emergency trip to the vet. I can only hope and pray that he hangs on to in the morning. If he doesn’t make it through the night, then I don’t know what I will do. Probably lose my mind because of what I have spent my money on, a hopeless dream that apparently only I had. I don’t want to think about what might happen because it makes me sick at my stomach but if he does pass I will never be back here again. I will sign the title over to Lord Myst and he can do with this site as he likes. Why? Because I don’t believe I could face another person on this site after pouring my heart out and crying while I write this about my poor Kade again.

I guess basically I would consider myself a fool, cause the only thing in this world that loves me unconditionally I let die and for what? If this pisses you off, I won’t apologize. I am angry myself because I have been such an idiot for all these years. You are people that I have called brother & sister, who I have told I love you and meant it with all my heart and then I turn to you with my poor baby dying and get no help. How would that make you feel?

I am doing everything I can think of for him and I am having to watch him just lay there motionless. He is sick and I can’t do a think in my power for him. Perhaps this is my wake up call from the Goddess. I don’t know but I know in the last couple of days, I have done a lot of thinking and this now with Kade has pushed me to my limits. He needs to go to the doctor. If anything over the past few years that I have done has meant anything, won’t you please help me get him to the vet?

I won’t beg you because I don’t beg when I am angry and scared. I am scared I am going to lose Kade. The poor little thing has enough problems without his mother being a stupid, ass-idiot and letting him get in this shape and not having the money to take him to the vet. I will ask you only once and this will be it, help me raise the money to get Kade to the vet, then I will leave you alone forever, I promise.

Thank you,
Lady of the Abyss

I believe most of you can understand why I am so upset, especially if you are a witch. You can stomp all over a witch, but I be damned if you touch our familiars or cause them harm. If that happens, we will fight the world to save them and that is exactly what I am doing now. Fighting the whole damn world to save my baby.

Thank you psykev88 and Peta Nagle for your help it is deeply appreciated.

The WOTC is currently down due to our budget running out & lack of financial funding.

Thank you,

Lady of the Abyss

Good Thursday morning to all our dear family & friends! I hope everyone is having a very wonderful day so far. I wanted to let you know that your Daily Horoscopes, Birthday Horoscopes, Get a Jump on Tomorrow, Daily Tarot, Runes and Ogham reading have been posted. They are all on the WOTC’s store which I will provide a link to below. They are posted on the store because we have reached our data usage for the month, which will mean we have a higher internet provider bill. We will be posted our full line of dailies tomorrow on The WOTC. Basically, we are on an everyday schedule right now as to where we are posting. One day here, the next on the store.

I am not going to beat around the bush this morning. We are in a financial crisis, plain and simple. I know everyone is having financial difficulties at this current time as well as us. They say the economy is great, I want to know where. I ever find that place, we are moving, lol! As most of you know I have tried for years to finance the WOTC with the check I draw each month plus donations we receive. The government has seen fit to cut my monthly check to $700 a month. Try living on that for a month and see how well you do. I had some money put back for rainy day but that source has now been depleted. Our expense are double everything. I have two electric bills, two water bills, two insurance bills, car and truck insurance and the internet bill plus somewhere along the line I am suppose to be able to eat and buy groceries. Now we have property taxes on two places and the land that are due. Frankly there is nothing left.

I have about made up my mind there is no winning for losing anymore. I have considered offering Tarot readings or Rune readings to offset some of our expenses. But until I can get myself situated, it is not happening. I don’t even know if any of y’all would be interested in those types of readings or not. But back to the point and I hate like hell to even ask but we seriously need your help. There is too much going out and not enough coming in. You can figure it up yourself all the bills I named and the operating expenses here, see if you could do it all on $700 a month. You can’t do it. If you can, I want to know how. We have a electric bill from the past month, we haven’t been able to pay just yet. Thank the Goddess we haven’t been disconnected yet. But what concerns me more is the taxes. They are currently due and payable. I called the Sheriff’s Department and we have until May the 15th to pay them. If they are not paid, then they will put the building, my house and land up for auction. So you see we are in dire need of some money coming in from somewhere.

I have had several sleepless nights because of our finances. I have even spent some of those nights crying about our situation, which does no good except makes me have bags under our eyes. Last night, the idea of asking y’all for donations or some kind of help was put into my head. I don’t like asking you for donations but this little voice told me it wouldn’t hurt to ask. So I am not only asking, I am pleading. I don’t want to lose everything we have and I don’t want to just have to stop our work on the internet.. I feel like we have accomplished a lot and I don’t want to quit just in the middle of it. I would like to be able to continue our mission and survive at the same time.

My current health situation prevents me from going back to work. I haven’t said anything about it but the tumor they removed, has come back. I will undergoing treatment for it in the next few weeks. So right now, if I wanted to go back to work I couldn’t, I am dragging my leg along behind me. Who would want to hire someone who is dragging their leg behind them? No one in their right mind anyway, So all I know left to do is to ask for donations from the members here. We wanted to open up a New Age store downtown in Paducah but I don’t see that happening right now. That would be a great source of revenue for us but again we are held back because of funds.

Now that you know our current situation, I am asking for your help once again. It doesn’t matter what you can give, a dollar or two, would be greatly appreciate. Those dollars add up after a while. I know we appreciate one time donations greatly but it would also be great if we could have some monthly sponsors. We have a few and it does help out but we need more. Whatever you can find in your heart to donate, we would greatly appreciate it. Like I said, I hate to ask you for donations but there comes a time, I can’t to it all. We are now at that point. If you can give a dollar, five dollars, ten dollars, any amount is greatly appreciated and very welcomed. Perhaps when we get the Tarot card readings and Rune readings going, that will help to offset some of our operating expense or at least I hope it will. For now, I am asking you for help.

We appreciate your help and your efforts to help us to continue our work on the internet. We are making a difference and I don’t want to have to stop in mid-stream. Please help us continue our work and also meet our daily operating expenses.

Thank you so very much,

Lady of the Abyss

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Hope your Monday is off to a flying start! Just wanted to remind you, even though we aren’t on the net today, you can still get your Horoscopes, Tarot card, Rune reading & Ogham reading at your favorite, local New Age Store. They are now up and ready for your viewing at….

Witches of the Craft’s Online Shoppe

This link takes you directly to them.

We hope you have a beautiful day and we will see you tomorrow.

Till then….

Love ya,

Lady A

See I’m not as a cold hearted witch as I pretend to be, lol!

The WOTC was founded to join many Faiths, Religions, Traditions and Paths together. In the hope of one day we could all live in peace and harmony together. Giving honor and respect to all our members and the various Paths and Religions that are amongst us. With that said….

For Those Celebrating Easter Today,

May you have a very joyous & blessed day!

Happy Easter!

Remember tomorrow we will not be on the internet. Your horoscopes, tarot and runes will be posted on the WOTC’s store. Once again the url for the store is https://witchesofthecrafts.net.

Have a great rest of your day and we will see you Tuesday,

Till then….

Blessings, Peace & Comfort,

Lady of the Abyss

(And that’s all folks! Enjoy!)

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