snow glow.......

It snowed in the night here last night,and at about 5am this morning the light from my window woke me, I thought it was later than it was. When I came down stairs I looked in my back garden and there is about 1/2 an inch of snow, the luminosity of which woke me this morning. I didn't mind getting up though as i had a little peace before the children woke for the day.

up early again............

For the past couple of days my smallest has been getting me up around the hour of 3am, we've got up this morning at 3.45am and he is burning up, looks like there's a reason he's been getting up so early he's been coming down with something all week. He's lying in front of the fire at the moment feeling sorry for himself, hopefully he'll get better soon as I'm going out with friends Friday night.

My Altar......

.....Is slowly coming together. I've been hand crafting my items one at a time. Those that i have not hand crafted have been salvage from charity shops and other household items. Even if i do say so myself it is looking pretty special. My god and goddess have been molded from polymer clay by me, my book of shadows has hand made paper ethically sourced, the cover is a reused piece of cardboard from packaging that i was recycling, the wand i crafted myself from a piece of hazel deadwood, i cut a spiral in all the way to the handle. I've yet to set the piece of quartz in the top though. The altar cloth is an old piece of black cloth that i have embroidered with gold thread, my witch stones are riverbed stones that i have found on my walks with my children through the country side, painted with acrylics and varnished, they are beautifully smooth! My main expense was my tarot cards, i picked out the druid craft tarot, these are actually my third set now, and my only complaint is that they are overlarge for shuffling. The images though are wonderful, they really speak to me, and are so beautifully detailed. Just when you think you've made a good study of them your perspective shifts and you can see more detail than before, they are a joy to work with.

I did my self a reading with them last night the general question or ask of the reading was for guidance in my spiritual life. I did myself a pentacle spread, it follows;

1. Fire/intuition; 8 wands reversed. A shift of attitude is needed. 8 is the number of successful magical work.

2. Water/feeling: 7 wands reversed: Struggling with other peoples objections. Magic , spirituality and research.

3. Air/Thinking: Queen of cups. A woman who is fully open to the qualities of the goddess.

4. Earth/sensation; Cerrunos (the devil) The dragon of newfre (life force) awakens within you. Take care to integrate and channel this force.

5. Spirit; the magician: creativity, life force, empowerment.

Overall a pretty good reading i feel.

Autism.........Again

My daughter has autism and is kind of mid spectrum, which means she needs more help than is viable in a mainstream school and attends a special school for children with autism. After recent concerns voiced by his school middle T has to go for assessment, how crappy is that? Actually it's more than crappy it just plain sucks!

So............ i really need to stop having the pity party, however as my husband says; if they didn't have these odd character flaws, they wouldn't be our children they'd be someone else, very Zen of him i think.

Nearly there......

The last week in my house has been a nightmare thanks to fireworks, yep while many people enjoy this time of year my dogs decidedly do not! We have had one dog whining consistently and another trashing everything in the house, getting defensive when he's told off, sicking everywhere, it has been an absolute joy. I wonder however if many children today even know about Guy falkes , and his attempt to blow up parliament? My 8 year old certainly doesn't and if people are no longer aware what the holiday is about doesn't that make it defunct? Or perhaps for many, it's just an excuse to burn rubbish, let off fireworks and get obscenely drunk. Lovely just what we need another excuse for people to be idiots like there weren't enough already. The photo is a firework i caught in mid burst from a professional display, which by the way i don't mind, they time their events reasonably (there's no 1am eruptions.), they are done with all the correct safety equipment, and you know weeks in advance to prepare for the discomfort of your animals and/or disruption of your childrens sleep.

Ok i'll get off my soap box now.

Samhain......

I went to a party at my sister-in-laws house, it wasn't an adult party though alas!

The house was full of small and not so small children, which considering that my sister-in-laws youngest is 13 and the youngest child there was 17 months it was quite a collection of kids. Goodness knows why she did it, crazy to have a house full of kids when yours are older, but I am thankful she did. For if she had not it would have been up to me to do the party.

<>, That was a close call.