Category: ALady Beltane Musings

Prayers or Light a Candle Please

My older daughter’s younger son, Chris, leaves today for Army basic training. He will be regular Army. Please join me in asking for him to be safe and if possible stay on USA soil during his your of duty.

Once he is done with basic he will learn how to drive and operate heavy construction machines(?) earth movers and stuff.

I am a proud but concerned grandma. He is a strong empath but asked me to bind his ability while he is serving in case he goes somewhere where fighting is going on. He was afraid his ability might keep him from helping his brother’s in arms if faced with a fire fight.

Lady Carla Beltane January’s Gratitude and Afirmation Lists

I try to write a personal gratitude and affirmation lists on the first of every month. I place it on the top of my clipboard that has some of my more used passwords, current month’s budget, and other miscellaneous paperwork I like to keep close at hand when I am working. Yes, my full-time job is all parts of WoTC – the website/blog, School of Witchcraft, Life in The Craft magazine, chats and Sabbat gatherings with the school’s Heart’s Spirit Coven, answering emails, reviewing novice and adept level apprentices lessons. Besides doing different types of divination readings, clearing auras and chakras, cleansing, and blessing clients’ homes. I also do Handfastings, Wiccanings, and Crossing the Veil ceremonies. So I do get burned out some days and that’s when my gratitude and affirmation lists is very helpful.

You might want to write one or both lists yourself. They can help you, as they do me, to feel better on days everything seems to be going wrong by being able to read all the positive things in your life

Lady B’s Gratitude list

I’m grateful for having a warm, dry, cozy home

I’m grateful for having my twin flame, Big Dawg, in my life and the love he shows me in many ways every day and that he totally accepts me for me, including supporting my spiritual and magickal path

I’m grateful for having enough food and beverages in our home for humans and fur kids

I’m grateful for the love I give to and receive from all 4 fur kids (we have a blended family-Big Dawg had 2 large breeds and I had 2 toy breeds when we moved in together. Amazingly, they all get along from day 1)

I’m grateful we could get each other a little something for this past Yule/Christmas (Big Dawg follows some Christian beliefs)

I’m grateful for my Social Security Disability monthly payments

I’m grateful to have good health insurance

I’m grateful we should be able to catch up our bills that fell behind when we had covid

I’m grateful to have a website dedicated to the Goddess (and Gods) where I can share information with others

I’m grateful for having a way to mentor young (in The Craft, not age) witches

Lady B’s Affirmation List

I am beautiful even with some extra weight

I can get posts done everyday.

It doesn’t matter if posts go live a little late

I can take my 2 fur girls for a walk everyday

It is OK not to be liked by everyone

Being a Pagan Witch doesn’t make me a bad person

It is fine to be out of the broom closet and wear a pentacle proudly

Honoring Other Religions/Spiritual Paths Holy Days and Holidays

Warning this article has not been proofread. I wrote it while listening to my Spirit Guides, Ancestors, and to me most important my heart. So I decided to leave the words stand as they came to me to be typed.

We as Pagans and witches would like to be accepted openly by society as other more mainstream religions are. Do be able to wear our pentacle, ankh, or other pagan pendants and amulets proudly displayed outside of our shirt, blouse, or dress as other people proudly display a symbol of the spiritual belief.

Granted, being a solitary witch is more the norm for us than belonging to a coven or other pagan groups. Have you ever asked yourself why this is? Or why is it so hard to find a coven, especially a face to face one? Putting it bluntly our spiritual paths are very misunderstood because of the horrible way movies, television shows, books, history, and word to ear stories are told. If people of other spiritual paths would read just one non-fiction book about witchcraft and ask a real, practicing witch about their lifestyle and beliefs public opinion would start to change for the better.

As pagans and witches I feel and think we should set the example of tolerance for other people’s religious beliefs. So, I have decided to further this train of thought by doing posts, starting this December, that will qgive us some insight into other spiritual paths/religions holy and holidays. My hope is that even those of us that have come to some type of pagan spiritual tradition from a “main stream” religion can lose some of the nasty taste leftover from our former spiritual walk while learning things about different religions worldwide. Just as ignorance about Paganism gives us a bad reputation throughout most of today’s cultures and societies, our ignorance of other religions can tend to make us think badly of those that follow them.

I ask you to please read the short definition I will post about each holy or holiday a day or two before it takes place to widen your knowledge of the many different spitual paths people walk and their traditions. Yes, just as there are witches who turn The Craft into something dark to fit their own needs and beliefs there are those of all religions that do the same. Just like we do not want to be judge as a whole by those few please do not judge everyone who follows another religion by the ones that twist it into something it is not.

Do not judge others unless you enjoy someone judging you.

Shalom To Our Jewish Friends as You Celebrate Hanukkah December 18th to 26th,

In 2022, Hanukkah begins at sundown on Sunday, Dec. 18 and lasts until sundown on Monday, Dec. 26.

Find a Hanukkah prep checklist here.

What is Hanukkah?

Hanukkah, which is Hebrew for “dedication,” is the Festival of Lights.

It commemorates the victory of the Maccabees over the Syrian Greek army, and the subsequent miracle of rededicating the Holy Temple in Jerusalem and restoring its menorah, or lamp.

The miracle of Hanukkah is that only one vial of oil was found with just enough oil to illuminate the Temple lamp for one day, and yet it lasted for eight full days.

To read more about this interesting holiday, please copy and paste this link into your browser:

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