Hi Donn... welcome

Hey, Jill. How are you?

my ears are still ringing from my daughters bday pool party

Oh how fun! How old is she now?

11

Hi Ruth, Hi Jill, pleased ta meet ya!

Are there any Celtic based pagans out there?
I know I am not alone,
" Ny Yl Blyth, Gul ken Aval Ages Aval Blyth..."

there may be, but we get very few people posting in here. Did you try posting your question in the General Religion forum? More people view that forum than this one.

Not a wiccan or a pagan, but happen to be familiar with both-- and with the struggles many have had to endure just to be respected equally among supposed neighbors.

Blessed be.

It's nice to meet you. Thanks for coming by.

Nice to meet you all too.

welcome

It is truly ashame the way a lot of people shun and judge others based on how they view life and nature.

Unfortunately there are sick religions that actually teach people to behave so ignorantly. And the real irony is that those religons profess to be all about "Loving your neighbor as yourself", yet they actually do precisely the opposite. They shun, belittle, and denounce their neighbors who don't believe as they believe which apparently amounts to a belief in hypocrisy and prejudice.

It's truly sad.

...That being said ... we welcome you here

For a moment of night we have a glimpse of ourselves and of our world islanded in its stream of stars— pilgrims of mortality, voyaging between horizons across eternal seas of space and time

Or we can just watch tv and have a beer.

Well, okay. That was one seriously, unbelieveably, truly, horrible, crappy day. But, at least it's over.

I got my chakra wands today from Points of Light Goddess Shoppe.

I'm impressed.

I bought the following two chakra wands:





The smaller one was $12 and the larger one was $20.

Complete with shipping they came to $40 for the pair. They will only ship via Federal Express, thus the reason for the high shipping costs. It still takes a month to get them. I think they make these on request.

Anyway I'm very happy with them. They aren't exactly like what's in the pictures. Obviously, being individually handmade they are going to differ a bit.

The smaller wand was advertised as 8" long, but is actually 10".

The larger wand was advertised as 16" long but is actually 14".

Not that it matters to me but clearly they aren't concerned about matching their descriptions too closely.

These are very 'rustic' looking and truly appear to have come right from the stone age or some archaic tribe.

I'm glad to have these wands, but a large part of the reason I bought them was to see how they are made. I'm really glad I did now. They are made of wood and sculpting clay along with the crystals. All they did was take a couple of dowls that do appear to be machine-made wooden dowls. and then used sculpter's clay to set in the stones. Then they baked the whole thing to harden the clay and that's it.

So now I'm excited about making some wands of my own. I think I'll use natural sticks though. But I already have the modeling clay and crystals so I'm all set to go. I've been trying to figure out a good way to set the stones, but this baked clay idea seems to be the ticket. The possiblities are endless.

Anyway I thought I'd share this with anyone who's interested.

If I ever get access to my web pages again maybe I can upload a little instruction page for wand making using this baked clay process. I need to call my ISP and see what's going on with my web site. They changed my URL and now I can't access my own site to change the content anymore. I'm a bit annoyed with that. I hope they can get this straightened out soon.

Those are really beautiful, James. I guess you can't complain about the lengths because together they add up to the advertised length.

I studied Shamanism for a couple years in my teens. I also studied some books on wicca. As far as chakras and whatnot go, would do the visualization exercises to open them and channel energy. I found it to be extrememly interesting, and very familiar.

I remember one of the lessons that impacted me the most, and that I still use on a daily basis, was the right and wrong, love and hate, truth and a lie.

I had a tape I bought at a second hand spiritual store called "The soul retrieval journey" by sandra ingerman. I had never fully grasped alot of what I had read until I heard that tape.
She explained how right and wrong, love and hate, truth and lie, are all the same thing. A honing system to navigate life. Hate is arisen from fear of the unknown, lies are doubt, which is a form of fear, therein hate and wrong, destruction. Whereas, love, truth, and purity, the opposite of hate and fear, leaves you with a solid, whole, true, confident emotion, healing.
So, they are navigational tools in which guide you along a moral compass, so to speak. To live by instinct and create harmony with simple choices. To purge the negativity that causes sickness because from what I learned Shamans believe all sickness has a spiritual basis.
She talked about a lot more than that, but, that part impacted me the most. And she described it more in depth than that, with a visualization exercise that just made a buttload of sense. Anyways! lol

Unfortunately, I never found someone to make me their apprentice, and that just kinda went on the back burner ever since.