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“The Power of Secrets” Workshop – Save the date!

Posted by Boneweaver (aka pjvj) on January 22, 2014 in Uncategorized

SAVE THE DATE!!

IPflyerpent

 The Power of Secrets, consent and consequences

(working title which may change, but content of workshop will not)

 March 21-23, 2014

Private residence near Pittsburgh, PA

 Join us and we explore using the Iron Pentacle for dealing with secrets. We all have them, we all keep them. What does it mean to be bound in this way? Is there a shelf-life to secrets? What do you do when the secret is so old it is now stale, but you are oathed to keeping your silence? What about the secrets vowed to muteness from the world that you keep only with yourself?

 The Iron Pentacle is an outstanding and adaptable tool. Discover one more area the points can be experienced in relation to secrets. Familiarity with the concept of the Iron Pentacle is not a must, but strongly encouraged.

Mark Your Calendar, Sync Your Phone, and Come to be Transformed!

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Time whizzing by – must do ALL THE THINGS!

Posted by Boneweaver (aka pjvj) on January 16, 2014 in Uncategorized

So many things to do! ALL THE THINGS! And they are wonderful things, but a bit of a stumbling block this week with unexpected other things. BUT! I started a class through Coursera which is a web site where you can take classes from universities all over the world. For free. SO I am taking Modern European Mysticism and Psychological Thought from the University of Israel. Geez I love the Internet!

Planning is continuing for Bone and Briar’s spring intensive weekend titled “The Iron Pentacle & Secrets”. At least that is the working title, it may change. It is slotted for March 21-23 in a private residence near Pittsburgh. The Baltimore peeps are driving up again for the intensive. W00t! Plus others old and new will be there. *so excited* I do so love this stuff.

B&B will be attending an intensive in Illinois where I get to meet Amoret’s people from her early training days and have a great weekend. We will bring our skills/learning from this back home and utilize them in our community. The intensive is:

 

Don’t Look Back: Orpheus & Eurydice

Date(s) – 03/28/2014 – 03/30/2014

Location
Toddhall Retreat Center, Columbia IL

Registration is now open!

Story

Walking in the dark. Feels like you’ve been walking forever. Everything you know, and love, is behind you. Ahead you see sunlight. New beginnings. A form unknown. Just don’t look back, and everything will be alright. Just don’t look back…
Orpheus looked back, and lost everything. Or did he?
Eurydice was left behind. Lost forever. Or was she?
The rest of the story and registration details here.
We (Amoret and I of Bone and Briar) are facilitating a path at this summer’s intensive hosted by Spiralheart in July (7/14-7/20). this path is titled “Cornerstones of Community” and it is based on Diana’s Grove’s work of that same name. We did indeed prior to submitting our proposal seek and receive permission to use their work.

I’m doing the art journal every week with a prompt. I have my page set in my head, but not on paper yet. I haven’t started my ATCs yet, but I do have until Feb 28th to mail. I am trying not to procrastinate too much on that. I am enjoying every day regardless of how it actually unfolds. Enjoying Every. Damn. Day. 😀

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Imbolc Contest

Posted by Boneweaver (aka pjvj) on January 6, 2014 in Uncategorized

Imbolc as described at the Wiki page:

Imbolc

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Imbolc
Also called Lá Fhéile Bríde (Irish Gaelic)
Là Fhèill Brìghde (Scottish Gaelic)
Laa’l Breeshey (Manx Gaelic)
Observed by Historically: Gaels
Today: Irish people, Scottish people, Manx people, Celtic neopagans and Wiccans
Type Cultural,
Pagan (Celtic polytheism, Celtic Neopaganism, Wicca)
Significance beginning of spring
Celebrations feasting, making Brighid’s crosses and Brídeógs, visitingholy wells, divination
Begins Northern Hemisphere: Sunset on 31 January
Southern Hemisphere: Sunset on 31 July
Ends Northern Hemisphere: Sunset on 1 February
Southern Hemisphere: Sunset on 1 August
Date February 1
Related to Gŵyl Fair y Canhwyllau,Candlemas, Groundhog Day

Imbolc or Imbolg (pronounced i-molk or i-molg ), also called Saint Brighid’s Day (Irish: Lá Fhéile Bríde, Scottish Gaelic: Là Fhèill Brìghde, Manx: Laa’l Breeshey), is a Gaelic festival marking the beginning of spring. Most commonly it is held on 31 January–1 February, or halfway between the winter solstice and the spring equinox.[1][2] It is one of the four Gaelic seasonal festivals, along with Beltane, Lughnasadh and Samhain.[3] It was observed inIreland, Scotland and the Isle of Man. Kindred festivals were held at the same time of year in other Celtic lands; for example the Welsh Gŵyl Fair y Canhwyllau.

Imbolc is mentioned in some of the earliest Irish literature and it is associated with important events in Irish mythology. It has been suggested that it was originally a pagan festival associated with the goddess Brighid and that it wasChristianized as a festival of Saint Brighid, who herself is thought to be aChristianization of the goddess. At Imbolc, Brighid’s crosses were made and adoll-like figure of Brighid, called a Brídeóg, would be carried from house-to-house. Brighid was said to visit one’s home at Imbolc. To receive her blessings, people would make a bed for Brighid and leave her food and drink, while items of clothing would be left outside for her to bless. Brighid was also invoked to protect livestock. Holy wells were visited and it was also a time fordivination.

In Christianity, 1 February is observed as the feast day of Saint Brighid, especially in Ireland. There, some of the old customs have survived and it is celebrated as a cultural event by some. Since the 20th century, Celtic neopagans and Wiccans have observed Imbolc, or something based on Imbolc, as a religious holiday.[1][2]

Etymology

Irish imbolc derives from the Old Irish i mbolg “in the belly”. This refers to the pregnancy of ewes.[4] A medieval glossary etymologizes the term as oimelc “ewe’s milk”.[5] Some Neopagans use Oimelc as a name for the festival.

Since Imbolc is immediately followed (on 2 February) by Candlemas (Irish Lá Fhéile Muire na gCoinneal “feast day of Mary of the Candles”, Welsh Gŵyl Fair y Canhwyllau),[6] Irish imbolc is sometimes rendered as “Candlemas” in English translation; e.g. iar n-imbulc, ba garb a ngeilt translated as “after Candlemas, rough was their herding”.[7]

Prehistory

The date of Imbolc is thought to have been significant in Ireland since the Neolithic period.[8] This is based on the alignment of some Megalithic monuments. For example, at the Mound of the Hostages on the Hill of Tara, the inner chamber is aligned with the rising sun on the dates of Imbolc and Samhain.[9][10]

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The contest medium this Sabbat is collage! Whatever you want to say, however you want to say it about Imbolc. Submit photos to witches2brew at gmail dot com email. Winner chosen at random, deadline 11:59 p.m. February 2nd, winner drawn on February 3rd. Prize TBD.

Details on the Sabbat contests can be found here.

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Yule contest – Winner!

Posted by Boneweaver (aka pjvj) on January 1, 2014 in Uncategorized

Congratulations, Labrys! An EO blend will be coming your way!

Hearth

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More Yule Photo Contest!

Posted by Boneweaver (aka pjvj) on December 22, 2013 in Uncategorized

Yule 2011 003

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Ahhh .. more of Labrys’ Yule photos

Posted by Boneweaver (aka pjvj) on December 22, 2013 in Uncategorized

Bowl of light

Bowl of Light

Winking Sun

Mozart Sun

Jack Frost Guarding the window

Night Jack Frost

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Yule contest!

Posted by Boneweaver (aka pjvj) on December 21, 2013 in Uncategorized

Solstice at Labrys’ home. See more photos at her blog.

Hearth

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Yule Contest!

Posted by Boneweaver (aka pjvj) on December 16, 2013 in Uncategorized

I apologize for the lateness of this, but so everyone has a full week to enter this contest the drawing for this will occur on Monday December 23rd. Entries need to be received by midnight Sunday December 22nd. Have fun!

The contest entry for Yule should be a photo that you have taken of any sort or variety of subject that encapsulates what Yule means to you in whatever form that takes. It can be traditional or not, focused on a piece of the Sabbat or the whole shebang. You can include a description and what the photo says to you, but that is not necessary.

Contest guidelines: Bone and Briar wants your creative side to shine! Introducing Sabbat contests. At each Sabbat we will host a short contest and randomly choose a winner for a prize! The contest will be posted about a week prior to each Sabbat (northern hemisphere specific) and the random drawing will occur the day after the contest closes. Media used for creating the entry will change with the Sabbats. For example, our first one is a writing, but don’t look ahead because the next may be rendered in Play-Doh™. All entries are to be submitted via email to witches2brew@gmail.com (photos for non-written entries) and they will appear on that Sabbat’s contest page for all to enjoy and also on our Facebook page. The winner will be notified via email and their winning entry will showcased on Bone and Briar’s blog. Good luck and have fun!

Winners are selected at random.

Prize: A custom essential oil blend based on your needs.

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Feeding the Soul

Posted by Boneweaver (aka pjvj) on December 13, 2013 in Uncategorized

One thing I’ve noticed as a common thread through those who have been initiated is a noticeable heels-dug-in attitude of no longer being satisfied with lots of filler or meaningless junk taking up life’s time. Feeding the soul becomes a huge part of The Work. Shifting and sorting, tossing out the useless and carving space for that which feeds the core. For me, Joy is what I feed. Food comes in many forms, but I have go-to’s that serve me well: music and art, connecting and laughing, creating magical items, and tiny touches throughout my day that remind why I yearn to feel deeply and how I reach toward that Joy.

Some people cut the space from part of their free time that already exists, but most cut more than they had before initiation. A drive inside is ignited that insists on being noticed and tended. We can’t all quit our day jobs, but finding ones that don’t strangle the bright spark that fires Fetch becomes an insistent nagging. Career changes or modifications often accompany this push in whatever manner is feasible to make our time not only count, but insist that it serve us in ways and depths we hadn’t yet tapped.

This I think is a lot of what seekers notice in those initiated (and perhaps in those thoroughly dedicated, yet for whom no formal rite of passage has been performed). Seekers notice the flame inside and the turn to a different value set where priorities have been upended and reordered like a tipped box full of memories cleaned up – memories of who we are, who we wanted to be when we first formed those thoughts as a child, and who we live to be in our future.

This thing, this impetus to pursue only those endeavors that can sate our hungry soul is a thing that marks us. It is seen. The Divine gleam that runs through each of us shines brighter, clearer, and far more potently than it did before and others notice. It pulls those wishing a mystic path and the tug brings apprentice to mentor. Knowledge, tools, skills, energy – passed from one human to another,  over, up, and down to the Gods, wrapped around Ancestors and Descendants and back again. This is the way it has always been. This is the way it will always be. The continuity, the flow, the forever memory of the passing – it feeds all of us. And we plant our futures in our students. Gladly so. We are part of the process, essential to and yet a tiny piece of the eternal process of being.

Blessed Bee.

 

Originally posted at Lean In To Joy.

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Beliefs, doubt, skepticism, and unseen beings

Posted by Boneweaver (aka pjvj) on December 8, 2013 in Uncategorized

This is a fabulous episode. I get that I feel this way because she is voicing my already held beliefs, so yeah, it is easy to agree with oneself. And yet …. excellent stuff.

Discover Spirituality Internet Radio with BlackHeart Feri Radio on BlogTalkRadio
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