Prepare Ye The Way of the Lords (and Ladies)

Blessings Darlings!

I'd like to expand on a theme I've touched on before, over in http://fernsfronds.blogspot.com/2009/06/intimacy-with-gods.html . 

I'm in a lot of Facebook Pagan groups.  It could well be argued that I'm in too many Facebook Pagan groups.  At any rate, I see recurring themes in all the groups, one taking place around spell-begging (asking strangers online for spells for X, Y, or Z, or even for ANY spells) the other around 'how do I know what God/dess is my patron?"

The first is, well, spell begging in general. I get that they are beginners (at least usually they admit to being beginners, once you ask them.  The others, who have claimed to be experienced in other threads but somehow need help from strangers online now ... ahem.)  But, really folks, it's like never having played the piano before, then one day renting piano and walking into a music store saying "I want the sheet music for the best music out there!"  You're going to be handed, say, the Rach 3 (Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3) ... and you're going to fail at it.  Because you don't have any of the basic skills, from finger work on, needed to play it. 

The second issue is, in fact, almost identical.  It's a beginner, without much knowledge in ... anything ... who wants to be aligned with any God or Goddess, or thinks that they are being called by some God or Goddess. So they ask strangers online who their Patron is/should be.

I understand the yearning.  In both cases.  But you gotta do the basic work.  You have to learn basic energy work to be able to do spells (in my never humble opinion, and, hey, this is  MY blog).  You have to work on yourself, to make yourself not just able to HEAR the Gods, but to be worthy of them paying any mind to you. 

I'll get into those basics in another post.  Probably one for tomorrow.  Maybe not - I work tonight, and I may not have time.  Damn, I'm such a tease, or at least too damn busy for my own good.

So, a little musical inspiration:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuUl522_8jQ

Frondly, Fern

Beef Recall

Blessings Darlings!

This beef recall probably won't affect any of the rest of you.  My local Wegman's, which I shopped at yesterday, called to tell me that the ground beef I bought yesterday is being recalled.  A part in their meat grinder broke SOMETIME yesterday and there may be metal shards in the ground beef. 

Obviously I used my Wegman's membership card when I shopped, so they knew that I had bought ground beef. I don't even really know WHY I use the card there - I KNOW it let them monitor what I buy and isn't usually tied in to any discounts.  It's a violation of OPSEC. But this time it paid off.  I know to return the meat.  

On a Pagan note ... once I got the meat home SOMETHING told me to NOT immediately form it into 1/4 pound patties and individually freeze them.  I left the meat in a cooler (my fridge being pretty full) with ice packs instead.  That was a good 'something'.

Why "Something" couldn't have told me in the STORE not to buy the stuff, thus saving me a trip back there, is not clear.  I'll have to find out why what wonderful whatever I'll get from driving the 6 mile round trip later, I guess.

OH!

Nevermind, now I know.  Just after I got home yesterday, FedEx dropped off a check from a client.  I need to drive back to that city to deposit it.  I refused the Chubby Hubby's request that I do that same afternoon.  I said that I was SURE that one of us would be returning to the city in the next few days.

I guess tweaking me was seen by 'SOMETHING' as easier than getting FedEx to drop off the check earlier...

Whatever.

Frondly, Fern