We call this the Anals, not the Annals because putties are anal. They’re always either farting, licking their behinds, or in the litter boxes going #2. Welcome to Putties for Pagans 2! We’re so glad you could make it! Do check out your other Putties for Pagans groups on other networks because there WILL be other groups on other networks. Tegwedd will be starting new groups of this franchise wherever she can. But not on PaganSpace.net and WiccanTogether because they’ve gone all fascist on us. You have to get your groups approved and they haven’t been approving groups lately so we’ll go there only to post on groups already there, not adding more groups. Our possibilities have narrowed somewhat. Tegwedd can’t go on either BlessedBeUK or Avalon because these 2 networks were the first to go fascist. It’s not a pretty sight when Pagan sites go fascist.
The putties have been extremely active this past summer. Whenever Tegwedd goes out to hang up the wash, or to take it down after it’s dry, Dr. Livingston I. (the I stands for Isis) Presume aka Princess Henrietta the Navigator wants to “help” She becomes extremely approachable and affectionate. Naturally Tegwedd has to stop what she’s doing and scritch her. It’s in the union rules. Vampirella is very funny and affectionate. That’s why we think she must’ve belonged to a family, because she is so affectionate, and when she came in, she had a flea collar on. She craves and expects human affection and attention. Of course we give it to her. She is so pretty, short white fur with beige accents. We think she’s another one of Little Boy’s progeny because she has 6 toes on each front paw. The folks at the SPCA thought she was pretty too when Tegwedd and Walt took her there to get spayed. She was very good about going into the cat carrier. She doesn’t walk; she stalks. Her eyes are blue during the day but red at night. She’s the great white huntress. She goes after butterflies and other bugs in the grass.
Who’d a thunk that Pyewacket was a secret member of the Putty IRA? Pyewacket has a game she plays; where she will cry at the door, supposedly to come in, then back away when one of us opens it to let her in. We have to coax her in. She cries to be petted, then walks away when you try to pet her. Stephen calls the crying at the door and crying to be petted the crying game which was a movie about the IRA. This could also be what the crossed paws are about. Her secret IRA name is Pyewacket O’Leary. When she isn’t plotting the demise of a country, she plays with Tegwedd’s magickal necklaces. This action is a blind to conceal her nefarious activities as secret leader of the Putty IRA.
A few days ago a stupid mouse found its way inside the house. We say stupid because that mouse had to have been able to smell that there are 8 putties living here. Putty Bear and Frakki tag teamed to catch it. They took turns grabbing it in their mouths, but that.mouse wouldn’t die. It got lost for awhile under the sofa where Tegwedd was sitting, but the tag team putties soon caught it again. Then when they lost interest in it, Stephen swept it into the dustpan, and took it to the big garbage bin outside. The mouse that wouldn’t die dropped to the bottom of the garbage bin, where it stayed, eating garbage until it either died of its injuries, or the garbage collectors picked up the garbage. Now it’s under a pile of garbage in a landfill somewhere.
Tabitha is 6 months old and funny. She barks (actually it’s more like a squeak) when you hold something above her head like a treat, her brush, or just your fingers. She squeaks most of the time, but very often, she’ll open her mouth and no sound comes out. We call it the silent miaow after the book of the same name. Right now Vampirella is playing with a dead piece of weed eater line that Tegwedd is holding with her right hand while she write with her left. All she has to do is move it a little, and Vampirella bats it around with her paws, first the right one, then the left. Suddenly Vampirella abandons it in favor of a ball, and Frakki and Tabitha have discovered the line and bat it about.
The putties teach each other things, not only behavior, but also classifying of what is a putty toy, and what isn’t. Pyewacket and Vampirella have an intense rivalry going. They’re each jealous of the other because they’re both cute. Vampirella is about 1 ½ times Pyewacket’s size, but Pyewacket isn’t intimidated in the slightest. For an adult female, Pyewacket is small, having reached her full size about a year ago. At least she’s filling out. You used to be able to feel the vertebrae on her spine, but she has flesh covering that now. She can more than hold her own in a fight with another putty. She’s a little spitfire. She also likes to bite noses. All the putties like to get into weird poses and imitate rugs. Pyewacket likes to knead people. Stephen gave her the epithet “accordion putty” because of the cute noises she makes when you gently squeeze her.
There’s a certain putty toy that Stephen, with his glaucoma” thinks is a severed Santa’s head, when in reality it’s a small stuffed Santa’s boot or Xmas stocking, Tabitha loves that toy. She bats it around, which makes it moves, which makes it alive and attractive to Tabitha. Night time lockdown is a tense time for all because they have to come in and stay in all night. It’s for their own safety and well-being but they don’t realize that, silly putties that they are, and make us call them and run around in the dark, trying to get them inside. As is almost everything for them, this is a game, and great fun. The Japanese aristocrats would understand this. At least they would have understood it during the period we round eyes like to call the Middle Ages and Renaissance. They liked to say things like “He is playing at playing music.” or “She is playing at drawing.” Tegwedd learned this about 35 years ago when she read “Shogun. Putties also like to play a game called escape. If they sense a human is going to either go outside, or come in, they dash through the open door into the great outdoors. Then they expect you the human to go around in the dark and chase them while they evade you. It can last for hours. Stephen has a tendency to tire of this game in 10 minutes. There the putties are, snug as bugs in rugs, in their small dark cozy hiding places, and Stephen is indoors, trying to catch his breath, going in and out with the inhaler, and then taking a treatment with the nebulizer.
Tell us your putty stories. The Putty Anals will continue when we do our latest installment of Magickal Familiars and their Powers.
Our friend Caitlin ni Manannan has people bringing her wood from when they prune their trees in their yards. And we are shortly going to be making Rune and Ogham sets. So if you’re local, bring us your branches. They should be at least the thickness of your thumb.
All you hard-workin’ Pagans should stand solidly with labor and against the Tea Party. As James Hoffa Jr. said, “Recall those sons of bitches! Go to your ballot boxes and vote them out.” The 75,000 Verizon workers are on strike, and we stand with them. Solidarnosc! as the Poles would say. Verizon management, all Republicans, have made 100 unreasonable demands, and refuse to negotiate, but are paying scabs to cross the picket lines, and work for them. All the workers want, is to keep what they have, a small cost of living increase in wages, their health care, and their pensions. Management wants them to pay $100 per month for health care, while they get it free. If you were thinking of getting a Verizon phone and account, don’t, and do tell them why you aren’t, that you are boycotting them. If you have a Verizon account, close it, and go to another carrier, and tell Verizon why. If you want to piss off Stephen, abuse or oppress the workers. Tell Verizon that you refuse to do business with an employer who oppresses its workers.
Soon we may be selling pendants of the lady and the tiger worked in silver. If you reading this are a silversmith please call our toll free number 1-888-611-7982, and we’ll do business. Coming soon--prints of the Lady and the Tiger by Lizet. Rune and Ogham sets worked by Stephen. Tegwedd has started to crochet cellphone holsters of her own design. They are of acrylic yarn, in assorted colors. She is obsessed right now with making holsters for the Pagan Pride Harvest Festival, but she will make you one to order for a reasonable price. She has some right now in assorted colors for just $9.95+S&H. She is working with yarn she has on hand, so a custom one will cost more because she has to obtain the yarn to make yours. It will cost $14.95 + S&H The smallest container for US priority mail is $4.95.
We are offering a new service. For just $19.95, you can have spell-coaching. We will take you through the construction and performance of a spell. It’s very simple. If you want to perform a spell but you don’t think you know what you’re doing, hire us to coach you through it. The fee is payable to our PayPal accounts, to either abbotts_inn@yahoo.com or tezra.reitan@gmail.com .
We will coach you using strong ethics. Tegwedd has a couplet she will teach you which you can add to your spell that will ensure that it is ethical. Abbott’s Inn International School of Magick is over 40 years old, having been founded in 1970 in Berkeley, CA. It went cybernetic almost 9 years ago. Lizet has been helping us put the school on a more commercial footing, and with her inspiration, Tegwedd has started packaging the classes into manageable packets. Ms. Freeman did a 3rd website for us almost a month ago at http://abbottsinn.wordpress.com. From there, by clicking on two of the graphics, you can go to either of the other two sites: http://abbottsinninternational.com/ and http://abbottsinn.com/ . You can also get to our network http://abbottsinn.ning.com/ . With her help, we also salvaged some things from his old website, including the mission statement: The Abbott’s Inn International School of Magick aims to provide a gentle nurturing environment that promotes education in both the atmosphere and the specific tools of magick. Our research arm is called the Magickal Research Institute or MRI, not to be confused with the medical MRI, or Magnetic Resonance Image, which Tegwedd had on her right ankle about 10 months ago. Stephen and Lizet came up with the name almost 9 years ago. The three of us have become a very effective working team. Stephen has his cell phone, and we are both enjoying learning how to use our cell phones. His cell phone number is 916-467-6393. He’ll have access to the Internet on that phone. He says “I’m not very good at texting because of my glaucoma, so please be gentle with me.” Don’t forget to call 888-611-7982 for all your divination, learning class, and research needs.
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Why Vampires? Why Now?
Welcome to Vampires for Pagans 3! We’re so glad you could make it! Do check out our other Vampires for Pagans groups on the other networks we’re on. We like vampires. Do you like vampires? You must, or you wouldn’t be reading this. This vampire group is connected to our other vampire groups. This is a general all-inclusive vampire group, as opposed to our other vampire groups, which are for the specific shows they’re named for.
What is it about vampires that so draws us to these blood sucking maniacs? The movie a few years ago called “30 Days of Night” showed them for what they are, alien blood-sucking maniacs. Certainly there is no mystery or romance connected with leeches, wood ticks, or mosquitoes, but we attach a certain mystique to these other devourers of gore; vampires. Is it because of that biblical proverb “the blood is the life”? This group is like a trunk for all the other vampire groups the focus. This group is for all Pagans who love vampires.
“True Blood” is going to be gone for awhile. It’ll probably be back next summer. Let’s review what we learned during this past summer season of “True Blood.” First of all, there was a coven of Witches operating out of the Moon Goddess Emporium with Marnie, a Witch who was also a medium acting as the High Priestess. Now these aren’t your run-of-the-mill bloodless Wiccans. These Witches do shed blood; their own, and if you get in their way, yours too. She did something you’re never supposed to do. She invited something into her. It’s cool to invoke a deity into you, but you evoke different kinds of spirits. Invoke means call into, like a willed possession. Evoke means call out of or call out, like into a triangle outside the circle, or, as we do at Lughnasadh into the loaf of bread that represents the God Lugh. Back to Marnie. She summoned the spirit of a Witch who had been burnt at the stake in 1611 for rooting out the vampires who had insinuated themselves into the church. It was then that the fun began. A spoiler for you: it got really bloody, and several vampires became piles of ashes before the end.
The Vampire Diaries will start on the CW soon. Stephen likes to watch that show, while Tegwedd finds it to be rather jejune. She prefers more adult shows about vampires. It was also on at the same time as another show she prefers to watch, namely the original CSI. It has nothing to do with vampires, but a couple years ago, there was an episode about vampires.
Who has heard about the newest movie in the Twilight series in which Bella gets pregnant by Edward? Is it being shown yet? We had thought that Bella would become a vampire, and in the literature, vampires can neither get pregnant, nor sire children.
Wikipedia is really invaluable when finding out things about such shows as “Kindred:the Embraced. They were going to bring it back, but Mark Frankel, who portrayed Julian Luna, was killed in a mysterious motorcycle accident. From the Wikipedia: The Vampire Diaries is an American teen (see, Tegwedd was right to call it jejune because it is juvenile, being created for teens, even though Stephen doesn’t think it’s jejune) supernatural drama developed by Kevin Williams and Julie Piec, based upon the book series of the same name by L. J. Smith. The CW series began on September 10th, 2009 and finished its 2nd season on May 12th, 2011. It follows the events in the fictional town of Mystic Falls, VA, which is haunted by supernatural beings. It throws a light on the town’s mysterious past involving Elena’s evil doppelganger Katherine, who seeks revenge against the town, Stefan, Damon, and Elena. Its premiere enjoyed the largest audience since CW opened in 2006. It received average reviews, which improved over time. The 3rd season started on September 15th, which we missed. Some character changes were made from the books, but the story lines have run pretty faithfully from the books.
We have a vampire putty named Vampirella. When she walks, she stalks, and has 6 toes on each front paw. She is mostly white with beige points, a beautiful animal. We suspect she has Siamese ancestry. Several years ago there must have been a very active Siamese tom in the neighborhood. Also, her polydactyly status tells us that Little Boy our polydactyl male cat, was very active in the neighborhood before he was fixed. Her eyes are blue, but at night they turn red. Do any of you have your own Vampirella whose blue eyes turn red at night and who stalks instead of walks? Vampire putties of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but your pigments! Do any of you have other vampire critters: dogs, lizards, fish, snakes, rabbits or others?
There is a children’s book series published by Scholastic Books called Bunnicula about a vampire bunny. You can get them from your friendly local public library. The Republicans are wrong. The Internet has not rendered the public library obsolete. If anything, there is more need for it now than ever. Support your friendly local library. Our library re-opens on the 26th, this coming Monday after the completion of the major renovation project they started in June.
Do any of you know of any new vampire series coming up in the future? Inquiring minds want to know. Wikipedia, as was mentioned above is great, and if you get the Mind-n-Magick toolbar on your browser, you’ll get the Paganopedia. Tegwedd was very fond of encyclopedias as a girl. She read the World Book Encyclopedia during the summer between 4th grade and 5th grade. She even tried to sell Encyclopedia Britannica door to door after graduating from college. But she isn’t a sociopath, so she can’t sell anything.
Our friend Caitlin ni Manannan has people bringing her wood from when they prune their trees in their yards. And we are shortly going to be making rune Rune and Ogham sets. So if you’re local, bring us your branches. They should be at least the thickness of your thumb.
All you hard-workin’ Pagans should stand solidly with labor and against the Tea Party. As James Hoffa Jr. said, “Recall those sons of bitches! Go to your ballot boxes and vote them out.” The 75,000 Verizon workers are on strike, and we stand with them. Solidarnosc! as the Poles would say. Verizon management, all Republicans, have made 100 unreasonable demands, and refuse to negotiate, but are paying scabs to cross the picket lines, and work for them. All the workers want, is to keep what they have, a small cost of living increase in wages, their health care, and their pensions. Management wants them to pay $100 per month for health care, while they get it free. If you were thinking of getting a Verizon phone and account, don’t, and do tell them why you aren’t, that you are boycotting them. If you have a Verizon account, close it, and go to another carrier, and tell Verizon why. If you want to piss off Stephen, abuse or oppress the workers. Tell Verizon that you refuse to do business with an employer who oppresses its workers.
Soon we may be selling pendants of the lady and the tiger worked in silver. If you reading this are a silversmith please call our toll free number 1-888-611-7982, and we’ll do business. Coming soon--prints of the Lady and the Tiger by Lizet. Rune and Ogham sets worked by Stephen. Tegwedd has started to crochet cellphone holsters of her own design. They are of acrylic yarn, in assorted colors. She is obsessed right now with making holsters for the Pagan Pride Harvest Festival, but she will make you one to order for a reasonable price. She has some right now in assorted colors for just $9.95+S&H. She is working with yarn she has on hand, so a custom one will cost more because she has to obtain the yarn to make yours. It will cost $14.95 + S&H The smallest container for US priority mail is $4.95.
We are offering a new service. For just $19.95, you can have spell-coaching. We will take you through the construction and performance of a spell. It’s very simple. If you want to perform a spell but you don’t think you know what you’re doing, hire us to coach you through it. The fee is payable to our PayPal accounts, to either abbotts_inn@yahoo.com or tezra.reitan@gmail.com .
We will coach you using strong ethics. Tegwedd has a couplet she will teach you which you can add to your spell that will ensure that it is ethical. Abbott’s Inn International School of Magick is over 40 years old, having been founded in 1970 in Berkeley, CA. It went cybernetic almost 9 years ago. Lizet has been helping us put the school on a more commercial footing, and with her inspiration, Tegwedd has started packaging the classes into manageable packets. Ms. Freeman did a 3rd website for us almost a month ago at http://abbottsinn.wordpress.com. From there, by clicking on two of the graphics, you can go to either of the other two sites: http://abbottsinninternational.com/ and http://abbottsinn.com/ . You can also get to our network http://abbottsinn.ning.com/ . With her help, we also salvaged some things from his old website, including the mission statement: The Abbott’s Inn International School of Magick aims to provide a gentle nurturing environment that promotes education in both the atmosphere and the specific tools of magick. Our research arm is called the Magickal Research Institute or MRI, not to be confused with the medical MRI, or Magnetic Resonance Image, which Tegwedd had on her right ankle about 10 months ago. Stephen and Lizet came up with the name almost 9 years ago. The three of us have become a very effective working team. Stephen has his cell phone, and we are both enjoying learning how to use our cell phones. His cell phone number is 916-467-6393. He’ll have access to the Internet on that phone. He says “I’m not very good at texting because of my glaucoma, so please be gentle with me.” Don’t forget to call 888-611-7982 for all your divination, learning class, and research needs.
What is it about vampires that so draws us to these blood sucking maniacs? The movie a few years ago called “30 Days of Night” showed them for what they are, alien blood-sucking maniacs. Certainly there is no mystery or romance connected with leeches, wood ticks, or mosquitoes, but we attach a certain mystique to these other devourers of gore; vampires. Is it because of that biblical proverb “the blood is the life”? This group is like a trunk for all the other vampire groups the focus. This group is for all Pagans who love vampires.
“True Blood” is going to be gone for awhile. It’ll probably be back next summer. Let’s review what we learned during this past summer season of “True Blood.” First of all, there was a coven of Witches operating out of the Moon Goddess Emporium with Marnie, a Witch who was also a medium acting as the High Priestess. Now these aren’t your run-of-the-mill bloodless Wiccans. These Witches do shed blood; their own, and if you get in their way, yours too. She did something you’re never supposed to do. She invited something into her. It’s cool to invoke a deity into you, but you evoke different kinds of spirits. Invoke means call into, like a willed possession. Evoke means call out of or call out, like into a triangle outside the circle, or, as we do at Lughnasadh into the loaf of bread that represents the God Lugh. Back to Marnie. She summoned the spirit of a Witch who had been burnt at the stake in 1611 for rooting out the vampires who had insinuated themselves into the church. It was then that the fun began. A spoiler for you: it got really bloody, and several vampires became piles of ashes before the end.
The Vampire Diaries will start on the CW soon. Stephen likes to watch that show, while Tegwedd finds it to be rather jejune. She prefers more adult shows about vampires. It was also on at the same time as another show she prefers to watch, namely the original CSI. It has nothing to do with vampires, but a couple years ago, there was an episode about vampires.
Who has heard about the newest movie in the Twilight series in which Bella gets pregnant by Edward? Is it being shown yet? We had thought that Bella would become a vampire, and in the literature, vampires can neither get pregnant, nor sire children.
Wikipedia is really invaluable when finding out things about such shows as “Kindred:the Embraced. They were going to bring it back, but Mark Frankel, who portrayed Julian Luna, was killed in a mysterious motorcycle accident. From the Wikipedia: The Vampire Diaries is an American teen (see, Tegwedd was right to call it jejune because it is juvenile, being created for teens, even though Stephen doesn’t think it’s jejune) supernatural drama developed by Kevin Williams and Julie Piec, based upon the book series of the same name by L. J. Smith. The CW series began on September 10th, 2009 and finished its 2nd season on May 12th, 2011. It follows the events in the fictional town of Mystic Falls, VA, which is haunted by supernatural beings. It throws a light on the town’s mysterious past involving Elena’s evil doppelganger Katherine, who seeks revenge against the town, Stefan, Damon, and Elena. Its premiere enjoyed the largest audience since CW opened in 2006. It received average reviews, which improved over time. The 3rd season started on September 15th, which we missed. Some character changes were made from the books, but the story lines have run pretty faithfully from the books.
We have a vampire putty named Vampirella. When she walks, she stalks, and has 6 toes on each front paw. She is mostly white with beige points, a beautiful animal. We suspect she has Siamese ancestry. Several years ago there must have been a very active Siamese tom in the neighborhood. Also, her polydactyly status tells us that Little Boy our polydactyl male cat, was very active in the neighborhood before he was fixed. Her eyes are blue, but at night they turn red. Do any of you have your own Vampirella whose blue eyes turn red at night and who stalks instead of walks? Vampire putties of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but your pigments! Do any of you have other vampire critters: dogs, lizards, fish, snakes, rabbits or others?
There is a children’s book series published by Scholastic Books called Bunnicula about a vampire bunny. You can get them from your friendly local public library. The Republicans are wrong. The Internet has not rendered the public library obsolete. If anything, there is more need for it now than ever. Support your friendly local library. Our library re-opens on the 26th, this coming Monday after the completion of the major renovation project they started in June.
Do any of you know of any new vampire series coming up in the future? Inquiring minds want to know. Wikipedia, as was mentioned above is great, and if you get the Mind-n-Magick toolbar on your browser, you’ll get the Paganopedia. Tegwedd was very fond of encyclopedias as a girl. She read the World Book Encyclopedia during the summer between 4th grade and 5th grade. She even tried to sell Encyclopedia Britannica door to door after graduating from college. But she isn’t a sociopath, so she can’t sell anything.
Our friend Caitlin ni Manannan has people bringing her wood from when they prune their trees in their yards. And we are shortly going to be making rune Rune and Ogham sets. So if you’re local, bring us your branches. They should be at least the thickness of your thumb.
All you hard-workin’ Pagans should stand solidly with labor and against the Tea Party. As James Hoffa Jr. said, “Recall those sons of bitches! Go to your ballot boxes and vote them out.” The 75,000 Verizon workers are on strike, and we stand with them. Solidarnosc! as the Poles would say. Verizon management, all Republicans, have made 100 unreasonable demands, and refuse to negotiate, but are paying scabs to cross the picket lines, and work for them. All the workers want, is to keep what they have, a small cost of living increase in wages, their health care, and their pensions. Management wants them to pay $100 per month for health care, while they get it free. If you were thinking of getting a Verizon phone and account, don’t, and do tell them why you aren’t, that you are boycotting them. If you have a Verizon account, close it, and go to another carrier, and tell Verizon why. If you want to piss off Stephen, abuse or oppress the workers. Tell Verizon that you refuse to do business with an employer who oppresses its workers.
Soon we may be selling pendants of the lady and the tiger worked in silver. If you reading this are a silversmith please call our toll free number 1-888-611-7982, and we’ll do business. Coming soon--prints of the Lady and the Tiger by Lizet. Rune and Ogham sets worked by Stephen. Tegwedd has started to crochet cellphone holsters of her own design. They are of acrylic yarn, in assorted colors. She is obsessed right now with making holsters for the Pagan Pride Harvest Festival, but she will make you one to order for a reasonable price. She has some right now in assorted colors for just $9.95+S&H. She is working with yarn she has on hand, so a custom one will cost more because she has to obtain the yarn to make yours. It will cost $14.95 + S&H The smallest container for US priority mail is $4.95.
We are offering a new service. For just $19.95, you can have spell-coaching. We will take you through the construction and performance of a spell. It’s very simple. If you want to perform a spell but you don’t think you know what you’re doing, hire us to coach you through it. The fee is payable to our PayPal accounts, to either abbotts_inn@yahoo.com or tezra.reitan@gmail.com .
We will coach you using strong ethics. Tegwedd has a couplet she will teach you which you can add to your spell that will ensure that it is ethical. Abbott’s Inn International School of Magick is over 40 years old, having been founded in 1970 in Berkeley, CA. It went cybernetic almost 9 years ago. Lizet has been helping us put the school on a more commercial footing, and with her inspiration, Tegwedd has started packaging the classes into manageable packets. Ms. Freeman did a 3rd website for us almost a month ago at http://abbottsinn.wordpress.com. From there, by clicking on two of the graphics, you can go to either of the other two sites: http://abbottsinninternational.com/ and http://abbottsinn.com/ . You can also get to our network http://abbottsinn.ning.com/ . With her help, we also salvaged some things from his old website, including the mission statement: The Abbott’s Inn International School of Magick aims to provide a gentle nurturing environment that promotes education in both the atmosphere and the specific tools of magick. Our research arm is called the Magickal Research Institute or MRI, not to be confused with the medical MRI, or Magnetic Resonance Image, which Tegwedd had on her right ankle about 10 months ago. Stephen and Lizet came up with the name almost 9 years ago. The three of us have become a very effective working team. Stephen has his cell phone, and we are both enjoying learning how to use our cell phones. His cell phone number is 916-467-6393. He’ll have access to the Internet on that phone. He says “I’m not very good at texting because of my glaucoma, so please be gentle with me.” Don’t forget to call 888-611-7982 for all your divination, learning class, and research needs.
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Long Time No See, 93!
Do check out the other Great Wild Beast Furtherment Society groups on other networks! Sorry to have been gone so long, but for a few months we had computer issues. Now Tegwedd has a new computer and Stephen has his laptop back. We also have cell phones that go on the Internet, but Tegwedd prefers to use her computer.
It’s very appropriate that this is number 11 because it was Uncle Al’s favorite number. He had 3 more favorite numbers, 93, 56 (which adds up to 11), and 156, the number of the Goddess Babalon. Tegwedd likes the number 11 because it occurs in so many places in her life, in her height (5’6”), in the last 2 digits of the year she was born (47), in her Social Security number, and when she lived with Fat Boy, the number of the mobile home space was 47. Eleven and 22 are master numbers. Babalon is her favorite Thelemic Goddess, and at one time, she and a friend started the Daughters of Babalon because she was born nine months after the Babalon Working by Jack Parsons.
When Tegwedd passed her 4th and PI degrees (Perfect Initiate or Prince/ss of Jerusalem) which is all about the death of the ego, she realized that her ego wasn’t about to die. It was too strong. Those around her who claimed that their egos had been killed or annihilated were either bsing or fooling themselves. So she made a decision. Since her ego wasn’t about to just curl up and die the way that a good little ego should, maybe she could make use of it. So she made it into a tool. She would use her ego to make sure she did the best job she could of whatever she turned her mind to. Something just occurred to her as she is writing this; the true meaning of a song by the Police in the 80s, “Wrapped Around Your Finger.” Part of the lyric goes ”I will turn your face to alabaster when you realize your servant is your master.” Sting is singing this, not to his teacher of arcane knowledge, as we at first thought, but to his ego. The song is about making your ego your servant, not letting it be your master.
We want to do Crowleymas in some form on October 12th, either in person, for those of you who are local, or online for those of you who are not. Stephen started the practice of celebrating Crowleymas 38 years ago in 1973 when the Great Wild Beast Furtherment Society was started as a physical real life group in Berkeley. There was great food, a large attendance, and live music. Tegwedd joined the group in 1974. It was at a Crowleymas party that she met the late not-so-great Grady McMurtry, and took an almost instant dislike to him. She thought he was a disgusting old drunk. He was way too handsy for her taste, and treated his Scarlet Woman, her friend Shirin in a most shameful manner. If she had known then what she knows now about Thelemite men, and how they treat their women, she would never have joined either the group or the OTO.
We have got to get to house and grounds shipshape for the inspection sometime this month, so chances are we’ll both be able to be on our computers in October so we can have a virtual Crowleymas, anyway, even if no one is here to help us celebrate it in real life. Sorry to cut this short, but neither of us can think of any more to say. But hey! You guys can post too, you know. It doesn’t have to be just us two. , .
Our friend Caitlin ni Manannan has people bringing her wood from when they prune their trees in their yards. And we are shortly going to be making rune Rune and Ogham sets. So if you’re local, bring us your branches. They should be at least the thickness of your thumb.
All you hard-workin’ Pagans should stand solidly with labor and against the Tea Party. As James Hoffa Jr. said, “Recall those sons of bitches! Go to your ballot boxes and vote them out.” The 75,000 Verizon workers are on strike, and we stand with them. Solidarnosc! as the Poles would say. Verizon management, all Republicans, have made 100 unreasonable demands, and refuse to negotiate, but are paying scabs to cross the picket lines, and work for them. All the workers want, is to keep what they have, a small cost of living increase in wages, their health care, and their pensions. Management wants them to pay $100 per month for health care, while they get it free. If you were thinking of getting a Verizon phone and account, don’t, and do tell them why you aren’t, that you are boycotting them. If you have a Verizon account, close it, and go to another carrier, and tell Verizon why. If you want to piss off Stephen, abuse or oppress the workers. Tell Verizon that you refuse to do business with an employer who oppresses its workers.
Soon we may be selling pendants of the lady and the tiger worked in silver. If you reading this are a silversmith please call our toll free number 1-888-611-7982, and we’ll do business. Coming soon--prints of the Lady and the Tiger by Lizet. Rune and Ogham sets worked by Stephen. Tegwedd has started to crochet cellphone holsters of her own design. They are of acrylic yarn, in assorted colors. She is obsessed right now with making holsters for the Pagan Pride Harvest Festival, but she will make you one to order for a reasonable price. She has some right now in assorted colors for just $9.95+S&H. She is working with yarn she has on hand, so a custom one will cost more because she has to obtain the yarn to make yours. It will cost $14.95 + S&H The smallest container for US priority mail is $4.95.
We are offering a new service. For just $19.95, you can have spell-coaching. We will take you through the construction and performance of a spell. It’s very simple. If you want to perform a spell but you don’t think you know what you’re doing, hire us to coach you through it. The fee is payable to our PayPal accounts, to either abbotts_inn@yahoo.com or tezra.reitan@gmail.com .
We will coach you using strong ethics. Tegwedd has a couplet she will teach you which you can add to your spell that will ensure that it is ethical. Abbott’s Inn International School of Magick is over 40 years old, having been founded in 1970 in Berkeley, CA. It went cybernetic almost 9 years ago. Lizet has been helping us put the school on a more commercial footing, and with her inspiration, Tegwedd has started packaging the classes into manageable packets. Ms. Freeman did a 3rd website for us almost a month ago at http://abbottsinn.wordpress.com. From there, by clicking on two of the graphics, you can go to either of the other two sites: http://abbottsinninternational.com/ and http://abbottsinn.com/ . You can also get to our network http://abbottsinn.ning.com/ . With her help, we also salvaged some things from his old website, including the mission statement: The Abbott’s Inn International School of Magick aims to provide a gentle nurturing environment that promotes education in both the atmosphere and the specific tools of magick. Our research arm is called the Magickal Research Institute or MRI, not to be confused with the medical MRI, or Magnetic Resonance Image, which Tegwedd had on her right ankle about 10 months ago. Stephen and Lizet came up with the name almost 9 years ago. The three of us have become a very effective working team. Stephen has his cell phone, and we are both enjoying learning how to use our cell phones. His cell phone number is 916-467-6393. He’ll have access to the Internet on that phone. He says “I’m not very good at texting because of my glaucoma, so please be gentle with me.” Don’t forget to call 888-611-7982 for all your divination, learning class, and research needs.
It’s very appropriate that this is number 11 because it was Uncle Al’s favorite number. He had 3 more favorite numbers, 93, 56 (which adds up to 11), and 156, the number of the Goddess Babalon. Tegwedd likes the number 11 because it occurs in so many places in her life, in her height (5’6”), in the last 2 digits of the year she was born (47), in her Social Security number, and when she lived with Fat Boy, the number of the mobile home space was 47. Eleven and 22 are master numbers. Babalon is her favorite Thelemic Goddess, and at one time, she and a friend started the Daughters of Babalon because she was born nine months after the Babalon Working by Jack Parsons.
When Tegwedd passed her 4th and PI degrees (Perfect Initiate or Prince/ss of Jerusalem) which is all about the death of the ego, she realized that her ego wasn’t about to die. It was too strong. Those around her who claimed that their egos had been killed or annihilated were either bsing or fooling themselves. So she made a decision. Since her ego wasn’t about to just curl up and die the way that a good little ego should, maybe she could make use of it. So she made it into a tool. She would use her ego to make sure she did the best job she could of whatever she turned her mind to. Something just occurred to her as she is writing this; the true meaning of a song by the Police in the 80s, “Wrapped Around Your Finger.” Part of the lyric goes ”I will turn your face to alabaster when you realize your servant is your master.” Sting is singing this, not to his teacher of arcane knowledge, as we at first thought, but to his ego. The song is about making your ego your servant, not letting it be your master.
We want to do Crowleymas in some form on October 12th, either in person, for those of you who are local, or online for those of you who are not. Stephen started the practice of celebrating Crowleymas 38 years ago in 1973 when the Great Wild Beast Furtherment Society was started as a physical real life group in Berkeley. There was great food, a large attendance, and live music. Tegwedd joined the group in 1974. It was at a Crowleymas party that she met the late not-so-great Grady McMurtry, and took an almost instant dislike to him. She thought he was a disgusting old drunk. He was way too handsy for her taste, and treated his Scarlet Woman, her friend Shirin in a most shameful manner. If she had known then what she knows now about Thelemite men, and how they treat their women, she would never have joined either the group or the OTO.
We have got to get to house and grounds shipshape for the inspection sometime this month, so chances are we’ll both be able to be on our computers in October so we can have a virtual Crowleymas, anyway, even if no one is here to help us celebrate it in real life. Sorry to cut this short, but neither of us can think of any more to say. But hey! You guys can post too, you know. It doesn’t have to be just us two. , .
Our friend Caitlin ni Manannan has people bringing her wood from when they prune their trees in their yards. And we are shortly going to be making rune Rune and Ogham sets. So if you’re local, bring us your branches. They should be at least the thickness of your thumb.
All you hard-workin’ Pagans should stand solidly with labor and against the Tea Party. As James Hoffa Jr. said, “Recall those sons of bitches! Go to your ballot boxes and vote them out.” The 75,000 Verizon workers are on strike, and we stand with them. Solidarnosc! as the Poles would say. Verizon management, all Republicans, have made 100 unreasonable demands, and refuse to negotiate, but are paying scabs to cross the picket lines, and work for them. All the workers want, is to keep what they have, a small cost of living increase in wages, their health care, and their pensions. Management wants them to pay $100 per month for health care, while they get it free. If you were thinking of getting a Verizon phone and account, don’t, and do tell them why you aren’t, that you are boycotting them. If you have a Verizon account, close it, and go to another carrier, and tell Verizon why. If you want to piss off Stephen, abuse or oppress the workers. Tell Verizon that you refuse to do business with an employer who oppresses its workers.
Soon we may be selling pendants of the lady and the tiger worked in silver. If you reading this are a silversmith please call our toll free number 1-888-611-7982, and we’ll do business. Coming soon--prints of the Lady and the Tiger by Lizet. Rune and Ogham sets worked by Stephen. Tegwedd has started to crochet cellphone holsters of her own design. They are of acrylic yarn, in assorted colors. She is obsessed right now with making holsters for the Pagan Pride Harvest Festival, but she will make you one to order for a reasonable price. She has some right now in assorted colors for just $9.95+S&H. She is working with yarn she has on hand, so a custom one will cost more because she has to obtain the yarn to make yours. It will cost $14.95 + S&H The smallest container for US priority mail is $4.95.
We are offering a new service. For just $19.95, you can have spell-coaching. We will take you through the construction and performance of a spell. It’s very simple. If you want to perform a spell but you don’t think you know what you’re doing, hire us to coach you through it. The fee is payable to our PayPal accounts, to either abbotts_inn@yahoo.com or tezra.reitan@gmail.com .
We will coach you using strong ethics. Tegwedd has a couplet she will teach you which you can add to your spell that will ensure that it is ethical. Abbott’s Inn International School of Magick is over 40 years old, having been founded in 1970 in Berkeley, CA. It went cybernetic almost 9 years ago. Lizet has been helping us put the school on a more commercial footing, and with her inspiration, Tegwedd has started packaging the classes into manageable packets. Ms. Freeman did a 3rd website for us almost a month ago at http://abbottsinn.wordpress.com. From there, by clicking on two of the graphics, you can go to either of the other two sites: http://abbottsinninternational.com/ and http://abbottsinn.com/ . You can also get to our network http://abbottsinn.ning.com/ . With her help, we also salvaged some things from his old website, including the mission statement: The Abbott’s Inn International School of Magick aims to provide a gentle nurturing environment that promotes education in both the atmosphere and the specific tools of magick. Our research arm is called the Magickal Research Institute or MRI, not to be confused with the medical MRI, or Magnetic Resonance Image, which Tegwedd had on her right ankle about 10 months ago. Stephen and Lizet came up with the name almost 9 years ago. The three of us have become a very effective working team. Stephen has his cell phone, and we are both enjoying learning how to use our cell phones. His cell phone number is 916-467-6393. He’ll have access to the Internet on that phone. He says “I’m not very good at texting because of my glaucoma, so please be gentle with me.” Don’t forget to call 888-611-7982 for all your divination, learning class, and research needs.
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