My Vows to my wife

My wife and I are renewing our wedding vows during a handfasting ceremony in Oakhurst, Ca this Saturday June 25, 2011. I wrote my vows using Astrological, Planetary and Element attributes. I must say it worked out better than I thought.

My lovely Dove, we come together today one year after you made me so happy when you agreed to marry me again. Twenty years ago, we started a journey. Twenty years later, we begin a new chapter in front of family friends and nature.
My love, I promise to share new adventures with you, to continue working to make our house a home. I will compliment you by working on my communication. I shall always and forever be there for you for your needs. When you are cold, I shall be there to warm you on cold days and nights. I will try and keep myself organized when dealing with problems. I will share my experiences with you to balance myself and become a better person for you. I will satisfy your every desire. Together we will fulfill our visions of what we want in life together and travel side by side as we grow older. I vow to continue to build our life together, to learn from you as you have taught me so much about love. I will have the dedication and faith that our love will grow stronger everyday and I will continue to love you unconditionally.

I vow to make you happy as you have made me and to have fun ans share with you the abundance of my love for you.
During hard times, I shall be there for you, to be your rock and your knight in shining armor to keep you safe. I will shine brightly as the sun fro. The love that is ours. I will make love to the goddess that you are ans bask in the warm glow of your beauty. I will continue to open up my communication by talking with you, to make you laugh and keep you on your toes. I will share every part of me as it is yours, my soul, my personality, my heart and body.

From all new beginnings of our journeys together to the completions, when we look back we will laugh and say we did it together.

My Passion, My Thoughts and My Feelings that make up My Body are yours.

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A funny thing happened on the way to the initiation.

I went through an initiation into the grade of water. It went very smooth. A funny thing happened during my initiation. It began raining during setup and well after my initiation into the water grade. Changes have already been happening.

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The Tree of Life Ritual

Tonight I performed the ToL ritual. It involved focus, breathing techniques and visualization. Much like the Middle Pillar the ToL uses the three pillars.
The ritual went well until I reached Hod. Hod was especially difficult to perform. I should also note that I recently been initiated in the grade that involves Hod. It let's me know where I need to work. To focus my energy. I was impressed. I will definitely do it again.

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The Golden Dawn: The work and the fruit (A Review)

Today I attended a presentation of the Golden Dawn presented by Robert Hagar.

Robert Hagar is the chief of the Bennu-Wadjet Lodge in Formation in Bakersfield, California. He started his path in occult study in the 80's when he walked into a B-Dalton bookstore and discovered The Golden Dawn by Israel Regardie. He was a member of now defunct Bennu-Kheper Lodge where he served the office of Premonstrator.

The presentation began with a history of the Golden Dawn followed by a journey of a Fool named Fred. The Journey took Fred through the application process through adept.

Robert spoke of what the Golden Dawn is to accomplish for the student. The final portion of the presentation involved how modern Neo-Paganism borrowed from the Golden Dawn system. To show that Golden Dawn Occults are not a bunch of pompous elitists complaining that everyone takes their stuff, Robert showed that the Golden Dawn also borrowed from Egyptian and Jewish mysticism along with other occultist's work.

The talk was well presented and very informative overview of The Golden Dawn system of Magick. The material presented had the potential to be dry and go over one's head. Robert's presentation style made the class enjoyable and easy to find the gems of knowledge. Robert Hagar is definitely someone to watch for in the occult scene. I highly recomend The Golden Dawn: the work and the fruit, to anyone interested in or curious about The Golden Dawn system of Magick.

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A Psychic Faire in February.

So I attended a psychic faire at the Enchanted Cottage earlier this month. I read Runes again. My buddy Robert read Tarot next door in my canopy. I had quite a few clients come in. The questions ranged from relationships to career. To be quite honest I was on top form. I used a three rune spread for the majority of the readings. In a few of the readings I pulled other runes if I had a question on a perticular to find the root of the first rune in relation of the question. Being Valentine's month I used a special heart shaped spread split for the couple for relationship questions. It worked beautifully. I'm going to use it in future readings.

I plan on working on my Geomancy skills to present it at psychic faires.

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PantheaCon

Its finally coming up! The greatest indoor pagan convention on the west coast and probably the nation. It will take place Presidents Day weekend. The web site www.pantheacon.com has the program schedule uploaded as of today. I will be blogging on the events, classes and off schedule stuff. If you have never been to PantheaCon, I suggest you make every effort you can to made it.

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A concert worth going to part two.

As I had posted back in September of last year, I attended a concert by Wendy Rule. To say the least, I was blown away. I also posted that she might be coming back to the United States for the upcoming PantheaCon in February.
We emailed each other last night and she said she will be at PantheaCon this year. In fact, her concert will be on Saturday night at 7:00 PM, February 19th. If you haven't seen her concert, you have got to go. You will not be disappointed. I can't wait.

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Theory on Divination

My wife and I recently celebrated our twentieth wedding anniversary. Its a monumental occasion. We decided a couple of months ago to celebrate it at the beach. Cambria, California to be exact. The plan was for me to work until midnight, the wife and kids pack up and be ready when I get home then we drive that night so we will be at the beach and ready to celebrate our anniversary the next day. Sounds like a plan huh? We thought so too. What the hell does this have to do with Divination you ask? Stay with me, I'm getting to it.

I got home two hours early to get a jump on the trip. So far so good. Then it starts. My wife and I then get into an argument the day before our anniversary and a bad one too. We get to the point that we say we shouldn't go. Then we get over ourselves and get back into the groove to going on the trip. We get packed up and pile into the truck. We drive over to the nearest gas station and fill up. Then nothing. The truck is dead. Did I mention it was raining? Yeah, raining a lot. All day and night. So much its making me have a dreadful feeling about driving in the middle of the night in the rain on the dreaded Hwy 46 AKA Blood Alley. So, its raining and the truck won't start. I decide to bite the bullet and walk ten blocks back to the house in the middle of the night, in the rain. I'm walking home, get the van and drive it back to the gas station where my family is waiting for me at the closed store. I jump the truck battery which starts right away. We drive home and decide wait till sunlight to drive to the beach. While in bed, my wife tells me that she has been having bad feelings about trip too. Red flags about the trip huh? So my wife asks me to pull out my Runes and do a Divination for her about the beach trip. She doesn't tell me what her questions are as I pull the Runes out of the back. I just interpret the Runes and she tells me after what her question was. Anyhoo, all of the answers were negative that we shouldn't go to the beach. When asked why, the answer was that of a female energy source. We took it as to the Goddess. So, we decided to not go to the beach. Funny how the universe has a way of putting blocks when you are not meant to do something. The next morning, was a bit sad. Our twenty year anniversary was upon us and we wern't doing anything. I tell my wife if we are not going to the beach then why don't we go somewhere else like Hollywood. We did another Divination with the Runes and this time its all positive. Off we went and had the time of our lives. Here's to another twenty years together.

What did that have to do my theory on Divination? I did have a point in there somewhere. My point was when someone does a Divination or has someone does a Divination for them, They are tapping into their concience and unconcience mind either by themselves or by using a vessel (the reader). In doing a Divination, when the quierent has a question in mind, they also know the answer to their question. They just haven't tapped into the answer yet and needed the Divination to bring it out. Also the quierent uses a focused thought to help choose the particular card, rune etc. It is even more amazing when a reader is in the zone in fact is in the zone with the quierent working together to form a Magickal Mind Link (MML) to do the reading. The reader is the vessel in which the quierent is actually doing the reading through the reader's abilities.

The opposite applies too. I posted earlier about a lady I did a reading for during a psychic faire in which the lady completely walled up and was difficult to do a reading for. The lady had a focused thought to have a reading and completely wall up to make it difficult for the readers. She did a great job.

My theory is simply the quierent plays a very important part in that they provide the focused thought to the reading and that the quierent knows more about the answer to the question than they realize.

A good friend of mine once said...Imagine what you can do with a focused thought- Lon Milo Duquette.