Official Pagan Thread!

[farmerlor]

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When I first started meditating I'd use some Shakti Gawain (did I spell that right) CDs and headphones. That worked very well for me. From there creative visualization and magick were things I knew I could do.

 

[Kanchii]

I'll send you some positive, healing energy tonight Farmerlor!

 

[CoyoteMagic]

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I hear it's not good to do any magick when you're health is low, but to instead have others do something for you. Can I have your permission to send some healing your way?

In the mean time, try Zicam fast melts. They taste kinda gross but really help get you better quicker. It's the only thing that really gets the job done for me!

Also, good morning everyone!
It was pouring so hard - OOO there goes some more thunder right now - last night and the wind sounded so intense I didn't sleep a wink for fear of a tree crushing me! I have to keep reminding myself that the big Eucalyptus that was in our back yard already fell down last year (missed my room by several degrees, thank the Goddess) and that there aren't any other trees that are tall enough to reach my house if they fell. Well besides the palm tree, but those things are very bendable and made to withstand high winds in Hawaii so I think it'll be fine. Now it's back to raining buckets. We don't get very much lightning in the San Francisco bay area so this is kinda cool for me getting to hear the thunder!

Here's a funny story:
A couple months ago we had a big thunder storm. You know how sounds from the real world can be encorporated into your dreams? Well I guess all the bangs had me dreaming of a war. I was literally dodging bombs in my dream when a really BIG roll of thunder finally woke me up. I sat upright and saw flashes of light and heard great booms from outside. I was still half asleep and so, go figure, I thought we were being bombed. I was surprisingly lax about it. Literally just turned to my cat and said, "Well shoot, didn't feel like dying tonight. Oh well." And just sat there waiting for the blasts to get me. After about a minute of still being alive, I finally banged into my parents room as another REALLY big roll of thunder came through and yelled "WHAT IS THAT?!" they burst into laughter and told me it was lightning. I was like, oh, duh. And went back to bed. A couple hours later, around 6am, my dad bursts into my room yelling "WHAT IS THAT?!" to get revenge for waking them up the same way earlier in the morning! What a bugger.

Yes, I would appreciate any positive energy sent my way. I got my new central line put in today and of course it took all day so I'm really feeling even lower now than I was before and I wouldn't have thought that was possible.

I'm sorry Farmer. Sending healing energies your way.

I may have missed this along the way, but may I ask as to why you have a line?

 

[Hippie Chickie]

I love the tree visualization for meditating. It is definetly what works for me. When i can get my butt out of bed early enough it is one of the first things I do in the morning. I grab some coffee step of the back porch and just breathe while focusing on conecting with the earth. I listen to the trees blowing in the breeze and the songbirds talking to each other. Then I go let out the chickens. If I have the day off from work I slip on my headphones and listen to S.J. Tucker on my zune. Her "firebird's child" song to be exact and grab my practise poi and spin away for a few minutes. Afterward I feel grounded and at peace. Yet another reason to get up earlier. Poi by the way is the art of fire dancing. No I have never danced with lit poi balls. I hit my self often enough with my practise poi. There is no reason for me to "kiss the flame." Her is Sooj's website for all interested. She has some wonderful songs one of her albums is specifically pagan centered but most of her songs have pagan aspects. http://www.skinnywhitechick.com/index.php

 

[saddina]

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Usual bonfire, feasting, dancing, general merrymaking. I have a dress to finish by then, so I should be at my sewing machine.

 

[saddina]

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I do mine in the shower. The water falling is soothing to my thoughts and makes "white noise" to block out the little daily noises. Since my long hair needs mosture treatments weekly to keep it conditioned, I meditate the 5 minutes the goo needs to soak in.

 

[hottexaschick]

Are any of you on Facebook?
Feel free to look me up. I think my profile is www.facebook.com/samantha.r.smith

Sam

 

[Kanchii]

Sent you some healing energy, Farmerlor! Hopefully you feel better soon.

Goodnight everyone, Blessed Be!

 

[farmerlor]

Thanks, I do in fact feel a little better-certainly more hopeful anyway. Forgot to tell you guys that when I checked in at the hospital they asked me what my religion was and I proudly told them Pagan like I always do and for the first time the woman checking me in says "that's like atheism, right?" Ah, sometimes you just gotta laugh. At least husband who IS an atheist got all bent out of shape FOR me and replied tersely that it was not atheism.

 

[Kanchii]

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LOL woooow people. They ask you what your religion is at your hospital? That's a bit odd.