Devotions to Hermes

I've been going through a transformation for the past two years. I gave up alcohol and a year ago I gave up soda. Since July I have been working out religiously. Lost sixty pounds and I Am at 18.7 percent body fat. I dedicated myself to Hermes as he is the god of fitness. Every workout is a devotion to Hermes. My body is my altar or temple to him. 

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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