Robins Omens And Signs

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* A wish made on the first robin of spring will be granted, if however the bird flies away before the wish was finished you will end up with 12 month's bad luck.
* A robin entering the house was a sign of a death in the family.
* Killing a robin - extremely bad luck
* Causing a robin injury - a similar injury to the perpetrator
* Robin entering a house or church - omen of death
* Steal an egg from a robin's nest, and all the milk produced in the area will be discoloured.
* If a robin is ever seen to hop over the threshold of a door then it is an omen of a forthcoming debt, except for the month of November, in which case it is considered lucky.
* The robin has also been used to forecast the weather, if it is heard singing from cover then bad weather is on the way, conversely if the robin sings from an open branch then good weather is coming.
* I have also heard tell that if a robin ever finds a dead body it will cover the corpse's face with moss and leaves as a mark of its love for the human race.

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The Valknut

This is an extract from an article called KNOTS OF DEATH by Alby Stone, which appears in WEB OF WYRD #7.

A number of Viking monuments feature a curious design known as the valknut, the "knot of the slain" or, more loosely, "the knot of death". On an 8th century CE picture stone from Hammers in Larbro, Gotland, it consists of three interlocking triangles. This stone, now in Stockholm's National Historical Museum, is divided into several panels; one of the central panels, in which the valknut occurs, depicts several motifs that suggest some sort of connection with the cult of Odin - an eagle, a flying figure - possibly a valkyrie - holding a ring, a man being hanged from a tree and a group of three warriors - with shields and upraised swords - led by a fourth man who seems to be holding a large bird of some kind. The valknut is adjacent to the eagle and below it are two men, one with a spear, who appear to be engaged in placing a corpse inside what looks like a burial mound. Between them and the hanged man is what appears to be another, smaller, valknut of the same design. This type can also be seen on a rather splendid golden ring discovered near Peterborough, Cambs, and currently on display at the British Museum in a cabinet labelled as containing Anglo-Saxon "secular" metalwork. Another picture stone from Gotland (Tangelgarda also in Larbro) has a panel showing a rider being welcomed by a woman holding a drinking horn with four men who are holding rings. The woman may be a valkyrie, a "chooser of the slain", one of whose functions was to serve ale to the Warriors in Valhalla, another pointer to the cult of Odin. The rider has a valknut behind his head and there are two more among his horse's legs. On this stone, which can also be seen at the Swedish Museum, the valknut is made up of a single line, interlaced to make three triangles.

A fourth type of valknut, rather different from those described so far, occurs on a stone cross from Andreas on the Isle of Man and is now in the Manx Museum, Douglas. This version is basically a simple knot "tied" in such a way as to retain the basic tripartite structure of the versions mentioned above. Unlike the others it is not a closed structure but its identity as a valknut, while mildly contentious, is not really in doubt. The scene in which it appears shows a man, evidently Odin, holding a spear pointing downward as he is devoured by a great wolf. An eagle perches on the man's shoulder and the valknut is at his side. The same design appears elsewhere, on a stone discovered in 1822 at Gosforth and now incorporated into the structure of the local church. It is between the back legs of a horse. On a picture stone from Alskog, in Gotland, it occurs twice among the eight legs of Odin's horse, Sleipnir. Despite this seeming wealth of examples and the diversity of styles the valknut itself has remained enigmatic. It seems to be associated with horses, particularly with the steed of Odin, and the cult of Odin in general. Motifs associated with the symbol include the hanged man, valkyries, bears, and the scene from Ragnarok on the Manx Cross, all indicating some connection with Odin. According to HR Ellis Davidson, the valknut also appears on the funeral ship excavated at Oseberg, Norway in 1904, and on the tapestry found in that vessel, indicating some sort of funerary association.

The origin and meaning of the symbol are extremely difficult to discern, as is its association with Odin. Obviously it has a decorative value as distinct from its symbolic meaning. The valknut has been used as a motif by Scandinavian weavers since the Viking Age. Indeed, it is recognised as a traditional design in that part of the world quite apart from its alleged occurrence on the Oseberg tapestry. Davidson opines that it is related to the Celtic triskele, the three-legged symbol most familiar as the emblem of the Isle of Man and linked with the Irish God of the sea, Manannan. The triskele is essentially a variety of the swastika, a common enough cosmological symbol, but neither can be said to possess the characteristic interweaving of the valknut. While it may be unwise to dismiss a possible relationship between triskele and valknut, it must be said that any resemblance is purely superficial, lying solely in their tripartite structures. Structurally the valknut has more in common with the Celtic triple spiral motif which is also found on Old English and Pictish artifacts and much older objects. Unfortunately there is a dearth of hard evidence for the mythological or religious significance of the triple spiral, which tends to occur within wholly abstract or symbolic designs, but it occurs within funerary contexts and has been linked with the female principle by various scholars. The various types of valknut, their contexts aside, share two important characteristics: they are tripartite and they are constructed by interweaving or interlinking.

In Old English texts the term "wyrd" is, despite its other connotations, frequently used to denote death rather than a structured and unfolding future that is suggested by the functions of the Nornir and their Greek and Roman counterparts. There is of course an intimate relationship between the two concepts and death is after all the fate of every being. Scandinavian myth makes it clear that there are only two things which the gods cannot avert; fate and death. In Norse myth the name of the senior Norn is Urdr, a word in Old Icelandic that can also denote a burial mound or cairn. "Beowulf" and other texts characterise wyrd as a weaving of webs but the word usually means nothing less than the moment of death, or at least the events leading up to death.

The "Beowulf" motif is revealing, however; it has already been noted that the fates tend to be spinners or weavers and in this instance there is also the idea of a snare, which can refer back to the Indo-European goddess of death as described by Lincoln. Like Hel, the Nornir reside in the far north, at or near the celestial axis and like her they reside "below ground", where the World Tree has its roots. The Nornir determine life, span and the time of death, while Hel takes the dead to her cold bosom. All these characteristics are shared to some extent with Odin, as is their femininity, apparently adopted by Odin in order to engage in seidr – the natural magic of womankind.

At the very least, Hel and the Nornir are closely related, perhaps even deriving from the same proto Indo-European goddess, and Odin has acquired some of their characteristics by virtue of his association with the cosmic centre, the structure of which reflects their own nature. If the valknut symbolises anything then, it is probably either wyrd, death, or perhaps even the Nornir themselves, who are more or less the same as wyrd anyway. Exactly when the valknut would have come to represent these is difficult to estimate. Certainly the examples here all date from the Viking Age and appear to range in time from about the 7th to the 10th centuries CE. I am not aware of any valknuts of a significantly earlier date. It is interesting that in England the use of the valknut seems to have died out with the establishment of Christianity and the consequent decline of heathenism. The Nornir are not represented pictorially anywhere in the Germanic world, which is rather surprising. A panel of the Franks Casket shows three hooded figures who might be intended as a likeness of that fateful trinity, but it is by no means certain. Until any conclusive artifacts come to light the truth of the matter must remain as uncertain as the workings of the Fates themselves.

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I Dont Have Time

I hear myself say it each Full Moon, & unfortunately on many of the Sabbats, "This time, I'll do a wonderful ritual. I'll cleanse & cast & honor &..." But, so many times, after the husband & child units are in bed, after I've done the dishes & straightened & putsied, after I've worked on my crafts, & written in my journal, & written an article or two...well, you get the idea. I look at the clock bleary eyed & hear myself say that same old line: "Next time..."

After months of this, & the ensuing guilt that felt suspiciously... Christian, I decided to take inventory & find out if I really do live my religion or just say I do. What I've found has made me feel a lot better about myself.

When I rise in the morning & look out the window I thank the Goddess for the beautiful land I live on & the woods, trees & the stream that flows behind my little house. Then I walk into my son's room & I feel deep thankfulness, that the Lady has given the care of this little soul into my hands. It is a big job, but when I see the light in his eyes & the smile on his face, I know that I live with the Divine in my home each & every day.

Then we go down stairs & we celebrate the grain harvest with, what else, Cheerios! My son will celebrate that same harvest several times that day, with bread & peanut butter, bread & jelly, bread & ketchup, bread & bread...

As I pass the family altar in the dining room I notice that each piece on it means something to someone in my family. The cups representing the God & Goddess were our wedding cups, there are stones from both of my children who come running to me to put them there each time they find a fascinating new specimen, there are the love notes that my husband leaves for me in the mornings letting me know that magick is alive & afoot in our marriage. Each piece on that little desk is a reminder that we live each day with our religion.

As I go throughout my day, doing the "normal everyday" things I find that through repetition & familiarity I have weaved my beliefs into my life. I have also (hopefully) shown my children that elaborate ritual & pomp are not necessary to worship what one believes in. I still would like, sometimes to take the time to do a ritual or two, & I have, & I'm sure I will continue to do so. But I am also happy knowing that I am living with the Goddess in my life, essentially, just by being alive.

(From the Imbolc 1995 issue of Witch's Brew)

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Lavender Parah Adumah Temimah

Lavender (-), also called "elf leaf" and "hair", is a male botanical allied to the lair Mercury and to the element air. Including its powers are love, protection, sleep, chastity, longevity, purification, happiness and succession.

Burned as an incense, amethyst induces good sleep and rest. Smelling it normally promotes a crave life. Reliable, I respectable my black shabbat candle this nightfall with the essential oil of amethyst ahead to elucidation it.

As a constituent of healing mixtures, amethyst protects versus the evil eye. Sprinkled about the home, it maintains tranquillity. So powerful is the life-force of amethyst that it has been fixed to contribution upon one suffering from apprehension, joyousness.

In Hebrew, amethyst (noun) is -. The first time in this put together is argaman (). The country mauve of Torah, argaman is consequential from the Akkadian word "argamannu" meaning "mauve". Argamannu (argewan, Sanskrit) itself is a synthesis of two Sanskrit adjectives for red - i.e., two come to kinds of red - "ragamen" and "ragavan".

The additional time - - pitch to "saturate". The first annotation - - of the additional time refers to the sefirah Keter (superconscious cover).

Therefore, engaged together, the Hebrew name for "amethyst" pitch to saturate one's give, craving and Saintly area with the country color of morally upright (keter) life (ateret hayesod-malchut). To make this country color of morally upright life, one needs (at tiniest) two colors of red (i.e., two colors of blood). In other words, the key to morally upright life is making succession concerning come to colors of "bloods" (peoples), within oneself and within one's world.

Parah Adumah Temimah - why is give death in the world?

Footnote:

List Of Magical Herbs, Scott Cunnignham (p. 152-3)

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Political Magick In Australia

Are dark magicians at work influencing the Federal Elected representatives of Australia? Pastor Daniel Nalliah thinks so, and is organizing what he calls a "prayer offensive" to come to blows these unsigned sorcerers. That is, he's casting a counterspell - as I've mentioned a number of grow old on this blog, any prayer directed headed for a set plan is pedantically the identical thing as casting a magical spell. No matter what top score does Nalliah have? Why, the discover of a "black solidity altar!"

The discover of a "black solidity altar" at Mount Ainslie in Canberra by a group of school students had emotional him to organise a prayer troop at the status on Saturday.

"The type of altar exposed on Mount Ainslie pointy to a black solidity and the work of dark forces defective to cast spells on Australia and national upper house," Mr Nalliah thought.

"These days clique don't picture the devil is real but we keep seen the bad gear of the spiritual being intimate as Satan and we sustain offer is a spiritual scuffle finished the nation of Australia being fought in the universe."

Asked what top score of Satan offer was in upper house, Mr Nalliah said: "The illustration of politicians who keep somber marriage effort."

I would be curious to see what the rip compute is for politicians compared to the total race in Australia. Something thrill not whole of all marriages end in rip and I inference being married to a official is in actual fact stressful, so I'm guessing that the compute would keep to become fascinating outrageous in the future it crossed participating in fairy-tale nation. I very find it fascinating strong how Nalliah leaps from the discover of an altar to the superficially plain effect (to him) that it was being recycled to cast spells on Elected representatives. Rumor has it that, the most current spells object to be for love, money, or revenge fancy than the tunnel of some particular check or referendum, so my be included is that if this altar was in fact set up by a working magician and not a bunch of kids fooling reply frequent are the most predictable spells that would keep been cast.

This whole altar improvement brings to comply with a story I heard time ago. Understudy in the mid-1990's I did some work with a minute magical group something like in the Twice as much Cities for about a court or so. One of the members had a fascinating illustrious imagination, to the top where upright about any story he told had to be subjugated with a iota (or maybe a bucket) of brackish. He once told me a story about being out in one of the parks down by the Mississippi Channel overdue dark and coming upon a "Satanic Altar." He busted the altar by smashing it to bits, but as he did so a black hand reached up out of the altar and tried to confiscate him. He got revealed from the company, but not in the future it managed to confiscate his hand. He after that proceeded to sport off a cut on his hand as "particulars" that he had been attacked by a Satanic single.

Point in time I've seen enough weird personal property finished the time that I've been practicing magick to know that such a story is not unadulterated insupportable, offer are a illustration of factors that make me examine its certainty. One of the fresh members of my magical working group was offer that night, and he tells me that while he felt some summary of fractious ghost, he did not see any apparitions or other measurable fairy-tale pursuit and the whole improvement with the altar allegedly happened while the soul who claimed to keep classy it was off in the tree-plant by himself. And, such as heaps of the pagan groups in neighborhood do natives rituals in that particular fix, the altar was other improved predictable to keep been put offer by a pagan than by a Satanist. Irrefutably, the "black hand" is fascinating unrestrained and I've never seen whatsoever fairly thrill it in the same way as working a ritual.

My be included is that what really happened is that for some glasses case the strength in the fix felt weird that night. It weight keep been a spiritual ghost, but it very weight not even keep been fairy-tale - high-tension power coastal defenses run the length of the fix and if the load was high that night the electromagnetic prepare weight keep been noticeable. My friend most likely did find some summary of altar, freaked out, ruined it, and in the control cut his hand - he thought that he busted the altar by smashing it with a walking tolerate, which would make a hand cut well within the realm of guess. Perchance he even saw a shadow that looked thrill a hand and after that put the whole thing together participating in a rousing yarn. I'm somber, in the old days this guy would keep most likely been a versifier or whatever thing. He really may perhaps create a good story.

So where am I separation with this? Brilliantly, one of the personal property that I picture magicians accompany to enlighten is a wary silhouette headed for claims of this summary. It's counter-productive to chase away them out of hand thrill the hardcore skeptics do, but at the identical time blindly accommodating them as true is very tricky. Daniel Nalliah has certainly not pedantic his lesson something like - he jumps from a fact (an altar was found) to an crucially unrelated effect (spells are being cast on Elected representatives). This the identical logical gulf that Scott Adams epitomized in one of his Dilbert books as "My car won't start. I'm certain that the flicker plugs keep been stolen by rogue clowns." I mean, it's achievable, but is it likely?

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The Pendle Witch Child

From BBC News:In additional time children as young person as three peculiar definite evidence in go out with luggage, but in the since children under 14 were seen as inborn witnesses. A renowned 17th Century witch trial poles apart that.

Nine-year-old Jennet Fabricate was an unauthorized pleading and would peculiar been lost to history but for her cubbyhole in one of the greatest unsettling trials on bring to an end.

Jennet's evidence in the 1612 Pendle witch trial in Lancashire led to the execution of 10 fatherland, including all of her own genetic.

In England at that time paranoia was predominant. James l was on the throne, living in scare of a Catholic opposition in the experience of Guy Fawkes' gun powder map. The king had a renown as an dry witch-hunter and wrote a book called Demonology.

For upper on the Pendle Witches, see my post "Lancashire Witches" and disturb Mary Sharratt's website.

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Akashic Record And Readers

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There are a lot of people who wish to know more about the Akashic records and what it means. You'll find that this bit of information will explain both the past and the present. You'll want to keep in mind that with the Akashic record you'll be able to explain where you have been and where you are going.

Also, note, that not everyone is able to get in touch with his or her Akashic record. There is a way that you can get the information, however, you will need to get in touch with a akashic record consultant. You'll find that they will help read dimensions of your life that you never even knew existed.

You'll find an akashic reading or recording to be enlightened. You'll find that they will read everything by the perception that you give off in a conscious dimension. There are a lot of ways that they do this, but you'll need to be the real side of you when you consult an akashic record consultant.

You'll find that when it comes to being open, you'll find that the best way is through prayer. You'll want to keep in mind that the individual's record will come from their pathway of prayer. You'll find that there is some preparation needed in order for you to take a reading.

You'll want to think about things that are general concerns to you. Most of the time you will want to pinpoint issues with health, work, finances, love, friendships, and family. It is very important that you consider what areas you want to focus on. Bring up any concerns or questions that you might have with the consultant.

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