Category: A Thought for Today
A Thought for Today
Dear Sisters, Brothers, and Honored Guests welcome to WOTC!
If you would to see some information on any tradition of witchcraft please put it in the comment section. I will try to find some information to post about it.
May your life be filled with all things positive!
Life is in the super-fast lane lately and my fibromyalgia has been in overdrive with the weather changes making it hard for me to get to my computer daily to post.
Please let me know what other monthly posts you would like to see and I will attempt to get them up this week.
Thank you for your continuing support and good thoughts you send my way.
A Thought for Today and For Your Listening Pleasure
I am in such an uplifting, positive mood and not tired today I hardly recognize myself from a week ago. This is how I prefer to feel everyday. Plus no nightmares since last Friday helps to put me in this better mood. PTSD, which can be a total disability to function in everyday life, troubling dreams or nightmares can really ruin a person’s day. Those with have PTSD for what ever trauma or traumas that have caused it have a true disability but the average person you come in contact with thinks you are just fine because this is a silent disability just like depression, bi-polar, anxiety things, etcetera. We do not get a special parking place or treatment from others with what I call silent disabilities. Why don’t we? Because to most people the world over if they do not see you using a wheelchair or crutches or other outward helpers to get around they think you are lying when you say you are disabled.
Here is a list of just a few things besides being in a war zone that can cause PTSD:
Domestic Violence or Abuse this goes for men as well as women.
Being in an Automobile Accident even if neither you or anyone else was hurt badly or died.
Being Molested as a child or young adult.
Being Raped at any age. YES, whether you want to believe it or not MEN can be raped though very few report it because4 of fear of being laughed at or ridiculed.
Being Held Captive by a spouse or parent or other care giver.
Being Homeless
And the list goes on and on.
So, the next time you see someone struggling but they have no outward signs of being disabled stop and think for a moment before you pass judgement on them.
I picked this song because to me it means at least one person cares about and loves me unconditionally and I love him back the same way. He stands by me when my PTSD or depression or an anxiety attack or a fibromyalgia flare or any or all of them combined is happening or just our everyday life can be to much for me physically or mentally or emotionally or all three combined.
My hope for each of you is that you have someone like this in your life too!!
All I Have To Do Is Dream – Everly Brothers
A Thought for Today
Dear Sisters, Brothers, and Honored Guests welcome to WOTC!
If you would to see some information on any tradition of witchcraft please put it in the comment section. I will try to find some information to post about it.
May your life be filled with all things positive!
A Thought for Today
A Thought for Today
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I know I have been missing a lot of posts and consecutive days for which I ask you to forgive me. Between Big Dawg job, over 1,000 per week for the last 2 weeks, Star my Chihuahua being sick and the crazy weather where I live bring on different levels of fibromyalgia flares, I just did not have the energy to do everything. I am trying to get back to doing the northern hemisphere’s tomorrow posts which I am hoping to accomplish tomorrow. I still have my Yule/Christmas tree to take down…lol.
I would like to thank each one of my readers for sticking with me through another turbulent time. I all can do is my best on any given day and to keep my stress down to not add to the flares.
A Thought for Today
A Thought for Today
Finally, I got time to do all the regular posts for today. We are going to be home tomorrow, and I hope to get the regular daily posts done for Sunday and Monday. Even though I will be home I have a busy day between posts, a coven gathering, helping to shampoo all the carpets, and whatever else needs to be done like taking down our Yule/Christmas tree. So once again I will do my best for you.
A Thought for Today
A Thought for Today
The tomorrow posts will be up sometime this afternoon. We took yesterday off because the side road conditions were really bad after sleet than snow than rail than a light covering of snow of all of that. Unfortunately, we cannot work from home for Big Dawgs job but only working during daylight hours because of the very bitter cold that has started between today and Wednesday we are looking at will chill temperatures of -30F or lower and barely any Sun light. Nice cloudy, cold days when we wish we could just stay warm and safe at home with the fur kids, but it is what it is so out we go. Any “prayers” for our safety would be most appreciated. I am not worried about Big Dawgs’ driving it is the other bad drivers out on the roads I am worried about along with black ice and drifting snow. We are staying kind of close to home so we do not have to travel through miles upon miles of open fields with nothing to stop the snow from blowing across the road causing whiteout conditions.
If you live in an area with totally yucky weather, please stay inside as much as possible. If you have to go out, please dress appropriately for the weather by you and above all BE CAREFUL out there!!
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WOO HOO for me!! I have caught up on good sleep all week, Big Dawg’s job is going good so I am feeling a lot better! Always a plus in my book. We are waiting to see how much snow gets dumped on us Friday early morning through all day Saturday than below zero temperatures the rest of the weekend. For me the more snow the better I am one of the few people who suffer with SAD in the summer and thrive in the winter. The biggest draw back this year to getting a lot of snow is we have to wait until the roads are clear and safe for us to travel on to serve paperwork. We have blankets, pet and grass or farmer fields friendly, extra water, chocolate and other snacks, rechargeable safety lights to put out behind us and a bunch of extra lights on the Jeep in case we get stuck somewhere and have no cell phone service (we have many areas like that around where we live) or have to wait for a tow truck or friendly farmer to help pull us out if we get stuck. I am not really worried about that as Big Dawg is an extremely careful driver even in heavy rain. When driving anytime he takes into account my PTSD from the accident that killed my dad and a couple of accidents I have been in as an adult, one of which I barely made it out of. I love my husband so much. He is everything none of my ex-husband or ex-boyfriends were. He is very thoughtful, kind, loving, and treats me like royalty.
For those of you who live where snow and bitter cold temperatures with high winds is coming through again – Please be careful, stay warm inside as much as you can. If you have to go out please dress appropriately for the weather in your area.
A Thought for Today
I will be back later today to finish the regular daily posts. We have to go catch up on serving papers this morning through early afternoon. I will also post something for the New Moon tomorrow.
A Thought for Today
Sorry I haven’t been doing tomorrow posts. I’m a little rough around the edges right now. Starting this pass Tuesday, I have been wearing a nicotine patch to help me to quit smoking cigarettes. While it is going well, I don’t feel like totally like myself as I am also changing my diet and exercising more. It also is a little hard to concentrate on what I am doing at any given time…lol. Why all these major changes in my life at once? My last blood tests show my cholesterol is so high the doctor put me and a second medication to try to help lower it. Making me at a very high risk of a stroke which I definitely don’t want. I want to dance at all 10 of my grandchildren’s weddings and welcome great-grandchildren into our family and introduce them to their ancestors through a Wiccianing. I will do the best I can on posting but no guarantees I will post daily right now as I don’t like to post when my feeling physical and metaphysical are not in a positive state of mind. Everything I am changing will also help me not to have so many fibromyalgia flares according to the doctors. So, wish me luck on getting the cholesterol down and my body in better shape again.
A Thought for Today
If you could pick as smaller circle four or say even up to twelve other like minded people to go on a retreat with to get closer to being in harmony with the unsullied world around us and to honor Goddesses, Gods, and other beings that try to keep nature in the wild pure…Who would you pick?
This is not a question to answer here. For me, it is a question I ponder often and usually come up with twelve others and myself to go on a trip like this. Those currently in my coven always come to mind, but the other six evolve and change over time. As I evolve, my priorities in life change, and the people close to me change, so do who I would want to be with.
So, this is just a question to ponder. I think for everyone, whether they follow The Old Ways, Neo-Paganism, or some other spiritual path.
A Thought for Today
Yep, I am still at my computer making sure all the daily and birthday plus the northern and southern hemisphere’s tomorrow current moon phases are done through January 2, 2024 are done. At least doing these posts are relaxing me after printing out about 400 pages of paperwork today for various jobs that Big Dawg has got done. I still have another 408 pages for just one job to do but they can wait for tomorrow. I so deserve to have fun time at the computer! Look for New Year’s Eve some of the witchcraft/magickal correspondences and some spells for New Year’s Eve to be posted tomorrow. I want to make sure you have plenty of time to have everything on hand you may need to pick up if you choose to do them.
I sincerely hope you are being able to relax and have been enjoying your whatever time a day or night it is where you!!
Love and hugs, LCB a.k.a. Lady Carla Beltane
I’d like to thank my reader ED for the LCB nickname so much easier than typing out Lady Carla Beltane all the time so expect to see me using it more in 2024.
A Thought for Today
I know many different traditions of witchcraft and The Old Ways read this blog and I am truly grateful for you all. I felt the need to share this and the full Rede will be posted later this morning. As I am not fully Wiccan but an Eclectic witch, I changed the name of the Rede for myself to the Wicce Rede. Why Wicce? Wicce is an old English word meaning wise woman. I consider myself a wise woman not only when it comes to The Craft but also when dealing with other people my family included. On my birthday I tell people I am 1 year wiser not older Ok this might sound like I am boosting but it is a positive affirmation I had to use for more than a decade that I stay in an emotionally and mentally abusive relationship.
As somehow that woman I had to banish from my coven has gotten not only to me but to my husband as well. We are experiencing serve exhaustion even after a full, good night’s sleep. I am also having symptoms of I don’t know what because I have never felt like I do before this. I had increased protection around both of us, our 3 fur kids, our home and the land surrounding it and our vehicle. Only thing I can think of is she did some type of curse or cascading spell on me before I locked things down tighter than Fort Knox. She had told me a few times that she had done cascading spells on others but quit doing them when she started studying with me. So, I should have prepared for something like that but didn’t. As the saying goes hindsight is 20/20.
Anyway, if some posts come out a little wonky this may be the reason for it, or it could just be brain fog from the super fibromyalgia flare that started yesterday as our weather is taking a dramatic turn once again or my age checking up with me…lol
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A Happy and Joyous Solstice Dear WOTC Family and Friends!!
I was thinking in the middle of the night when all three of our fur kids, Cleo, Star, and Merlin, woke me up for cuddles that you might enjoy knowing how I celebrate the Winter Solstice and Yule. If you would like to use an idea from here, please do.
I’ll start with the Solstice because it’s a little more in depth than our Yule celebration. About 2 minutes before sunset, I light a black 4-inch candle to bid the Holly King a restful slumber and thank him for what he has helped me during this wheel of the year. I place a small black or dark blue piece of material over his statue to symbolize his passing. I mourn with the Triple Goddess for the lost of this consort I meditate and let my mind wander to all I want to let go of and speak it to the candle to burn it away. I sit until the candle has burned down to a small stub usually about 1/2-inch is left I snuff it out so as not to release the negative energy it holds into our home or the universe. I take the small stub of the candle and in the moonlight, I bury it on the west side of our yard as far away from our home as possible with all the negative things I ask Mother Earth it to take all negativity I may still unknowingly be harboring from me for her to renew and reuse however she sees fit to do with the energy.
Then I completely clear my altar and use the small broom I have to sweep away to the west all the negative energy that might have been left after doing spell and ritual since Samhain. I sweep off all the items that had been on my altar also so everything is clean and shiny to welcome the Oak King.
I then set up my altar to welcome the rebirth of the Oak King and to rejoice his rebirth with his mother /consort the Triple Goddess. Now I only have one statue to represent the Holly and the Oak King. When I place this statue back on my altar, I place a white piece of material around it like a swaddled baby to represent the Oak Kings rebirth. About 1 minute before the exact time the Winter Solstice “officially” begins I light a 4-inch white candle to help the birthing of the Oak King and for RA to honor him for bring the Sun back for longer days. After welcoming the Oak King and thanking RA I meditate on the candle speaking to it the goals I have set for myself for the coming calendar year. Once it has burnt down to about a 1/2-inch I blow it out to release my goals to the universe with a chant to please help me achieve them. I bury this on the east side of our yard close to our home in the morning as the first rays of sunlight are showing in the sky. I ask Mother earth to hold my goals so I can revisit the spot I have bury the candle stub in when I feel I may not achieve them.
This year my main goal is to write a short story on Esbats, New Moon one or two but one for every Full Moon, and each Sabbat as the wheel of the year turns. My second goal is to quit smoking cigarettes, eat less red meat and other things high in the bad fats as my cholesterol level is so high, I am on 2 different medications for it and am in very real danger of having a stroke. Will I completely achieve these goals? I’m not sure but if I just break them down into pieces to do each month there is an excellent chance that I will completely achieve my goals for 2024. I actually start the short stories with Yule as I follow the Celtic Tree calendar and tradition that the new year starts on Samhain.
Now for our Yule celebration I fix a nice meal, or we may even go to a favorite restaurant for supper. We come home light our Yule/Christmas tree exchange gifts, riminess about the preceding year which had many real high ups, our legal marriage, the birth of my 10th grandchild and a few very low downs, putting our beloved Dreamer into eternal sleep. Then I get into my favorite pair of pjs, curl about with which ever fur kids want to join me to watch Its a Wonderful Life. Then the fur kids and I will watch The Nightmare Before Christmas which always makes me laugh. Big Dawg goes in the other room and does whatever on his laptop while I binge on movies until it is time to celebrate the rebirth of the Oak King. This may sound pretty simplistic, but it works for us. Big Dawg and most of my children with their families celebrate Christmas. Along with a daughter-in-law who celebrates Hanukkah with my son, who is Christian, and their two boys, this is another home in my family that celebrates 2 different holidays in December and a couple of other times during the year. What this means for me is a lot of family stuff in one month, but I enjoy the diversity of spiritual paths in my family.
Now that this post has gone from a simple few lines to as a friend referred to an email he sent as his “War and Peace” that’s fits this post…ROFL! Thank you Owen Firewolf for this fantastic way to describe long posts!!
A Thought for Today
May the Lord and Lady bless the WOTC Family and our families with love, happiness, all things positive!
SOrry for the short posts for a couple of days but Big Dwag’s job has kept us on the go. I’m barely getting todays’ done as I have had a broken 3 hours of sleep. Hopefully tomorrow I will have the time and energy to do the northern hemisphere’s Sunday and Monday’s post
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