Category: ALady Beltane Musings

Regular Daily Posts Will Be Back Tomorrow Monday, January 16th

Thank you to all my readers in the WoTC’s family. It means more to me then I can explain that you support me in the rough spots as well as the good times in my life by not leaving when I cannot post for whatever reason. May the Great Mother and Great Father bless your life with positive energy and all good things.

I need one more day off as this week has been a roller coaster physically, mentally, and emotionally. I thank the Great Mother and Great Father for carrying me since January 3rd. Without my faith in them I would be in a psych ward again. I did catch up on Birthday Horoscopes and Astronomy Picture of the Day. Tomorrow I will be doing th 16th posts and tomorrow posts for both hemispheres.

My new grandson got to go home from the NICU on Friday. His big brother was so excited to be able to hold him with my son’s help.

My grandson, Chris, got assigned to his Basic Combat Training (BCT) company on Tuesday. He’s now fully enmeshed in his soldier training. My daughter, his mom, and I are starting to adjust to not being able to talk or text him whenever. The trainees cellphones are locked up by their drill sergeant (DS) and only given out to call home when the DS feels they have earned the privilege.

Where Are All the Regular Posts?

Well, I just went through a very emotionally stress filled week and it has not gotten any better so far.

My 3rd oldest grandson left for active service in the USA Army on January 3, 2023, which left his mom my daughter very upset, so I have been on the phone or texting here quite a bit every day. It is her younger of two sons that went.

On the 5th I had another divorce court hearing, and it did not go well. The man I have been married to for 25 years now and have not seen in 22 years is trying to control my life by making the divorce harder than it should be. So that triggered my PTSD from his and other men in my life abuse. I all I want is to cut all ties and be able to get married to a man that loves me, accepts me as I am, and we have known each other over 2 decades. That man would be Lord Beltane a.k.a. Big Dawg.

Yesterday I was honored with another grandson being born. He was born early because of serious medical problems my daughter-in-law was having. He had to be put in the NICU right after birth because he was breathing too fast for his body to get the right amount of oxygen. As of this writing he is still being monitor in the NICU. His name is Asher if anyone would care to light a candle for him or say a “prayer”.

Today we were gone from the house at 10:00 AM after I got up late and did not have time to work. Tomorrow, we leave about 9:00 AM CST to travel back and forth to Wisconsin to take care of some business a total of a 5-hour ride.

Tuesday, I clean a friend’s house for extra pin money.

Oh yeah, I also fell twice on my right hip which is not broken but extremely sore.

So, to wrap this up I will not be back to regular posting until probably this coming Wednesday, but I will make sure the birthday horoscopes go up on their correct date every morning.

 

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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