other than that things are pretty good. hot, but good. I'm a bit of the way through Witch Wars Manual. Ed's going to be the first guest on FearlessRadio's premiere show tonight at 11pm.
Ego's bruised. and just had to retype everything which really rankles. damnit. c'est la vie. half the time i'm just typing to get things out anyway, so i suppose it doesn't really matter. oh well. c'est la vie.
Healing circle tonight at 7:30 CST. Tomorrow? who knows. *shrug*
Mini-spells are doing well. Ed's got all these candles sold already. Now they just gotta get 'em packed and shipped.
Oh, and while they're talking about it, I can't forget to mention my NewsWall -- a bunch of old news clippings from The Chronicle, Illinois Times, Times-Republic, The News-Gazette, and a few other newspapers. It's on the north wall of the main shop area. Yesterday or so, Ed handed me the lot of them (along with 20 sheafs of signatures below a petition from the "townspeople" saying to us here at witchschool they didn't want us around, 17 of which aren't legal anyway because they don't have signatures. ha!) and basically said, Here ya go, Nine, have at it. Really, really cool.
Thursday, June 30, 2005
blah.
things are just blah here. it's hot. i'm always interrupting people's conversations and i feel like an ass right now because i just got "(half)playfully slapped" by Casey.
oh well. too hot to care. they'll forget in a few hours anyway. sayonara.
oh well. too hot to care. they'll forget in a few hours anyway. sayonara.
Wednesday, June 29, 2005
ergh...
it's not hot. it's not even muggy outside today. but i'm already ticked because i had to edit the Daily Spell twice due to Blogger's idiocy. ugh.
Tuesday, June 28, 2005
excellent, most excellent.
Ed the pagan, a few hours ago, has autographed for me a copy of his Witch Wars Defense Manual. A most excellent piece; reading is well underway. I'm also an administrator of his blog -- WitchWars. Most definitely worth checking out.
Anyway, a storm is about to burst over our heads, rumbling thunder as I type. Quality reading time is in order.
Anyway, a storm is about to burst over our heads, rumbling thunder as I type. Quality reading time is in order.
A Total Lunar Eclipse
Longtime eclipse observer Fred Espenak captured this series of photographs of a lunar eclipse on July 6, 1982. The sequence is similar to what you might see tonight (May 15-16) during a total lunar eclipse visible from most of the Western Hemisphere, weather permitting.Espenak took the images from Chesapeake Bay, MD. They show the Moon at the beginning, middle and end of the total phase of the eclipse.
The Moon is in Earth's shadow, with no sunlight reaching it directly, so why the red glow? Earth's atmosphere filters out most of the blue, green and yellow light that comes from the Sun, while some of the red light is refracted through the atmosphere, hits the Moon, and is reflected back.
Espenak works at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and is the author of "Totality: Eclipses of the Sun" (Oxford University Press). He is perhaps the mostly widely quoted eclipse expert and recognized by other experts for the maps and diagrams he creates for solar and lunar eclipses.
Eclipses don't have names, so astronomers recently honored Espenak, known as Mr. Eclipse, by officially attaching his name to an asteroid in March.
"It came as a terrific but most pleasant shock to be honored with the naming of minor planet 14120 as 'Espenak,'" Espenak told SPACE.com this week. "Now everyone is asking me if I've picked out a few acres for my vacation home!"
(again, Space.com. again, Robert Roy Britt.)
Inside Andromeda
NASA/CXC/SAO
It's often said the the Andromeda Galaxy is like our own Milky Way. Sure, there are similarities. The two are destined to collide and probably merge, for one thing. And they share a similar shape, both being spiral galaxies with central bulges loaded with stars.
But there is one big difference: Andromeda's presumed central black hole packs the mass of 30 million suns. The Milky Way's black hole is estimated to be a mere 2.6 million solar masses.
You can find the supermassive black hole in this image of Andromeda from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. See the blue dot? That's actually a relatively cool X-ray source, "only" about a million degrees Celsius. Nobody knows what it is. When Chandra first imaged the region in 2000, researchers thought the blue dot corresponded to the exact center of the galaxy -- the position of the suspected central black hole. But it should have been hotter, so the scientists were puzzled.
Just above the blue dot is a bright yellow dot, several tens of times hotter. That's radiation from around the black hole, astronomers now believe, based on refined Chandra imaging in 2001 (and some help from the Hubble Space Telescope) that showed the cooler, blue X-ray source is actually about 10 light-years south of the galactic center.
The X-rays are given off by gas that swirls toward the gravity sink and is superheated as it approaches the speed of light.
So what about all those other yellow dots? They are most likely what astronomers call X-ray
binary systems. In one of these, a normal star is orbited by a dense stellar corpse, either a stellar-mass black hole or a neutron star. The dense object siphons matter from the normal star, setting up a miniature version of the same scenario that generates X-rays in the supermassive black hole at the galactic center.
At just 2 million light-years away, Andromeda is our nearest large galactic neighbor. [Learn more about the impending collision]
(story written by Robert Roy Britt. Space.com)
my dedication
Thought I'd get a few pics on here of me at the Correll Mother Temple here in Hoopeston this past March after my dedication ritual. Dedication is a year and a day, traditionally, of studying Wicca and holding to the precepts of the Goddess.
Looks like it's not going to let me link to the photobucket. But that's ok.. I'll get some pics another time.
Looks like it's not going to let me link to the photobucket. But that's ok.. I'll get some pics another time.
good morning, World.
Today is going to be a good day. it's cooler than yesterday morn' by a long shot; only 78 degrees Fahrenheit.
Mini-spells are coming along nicely -- check them out, they're worth it ("Because a little magic goes a long way").
Should be joining Ed's blog soon -- Witch Wars. He wants team members and I volunteered straightaway. He's a pretty cool guy.
Not allowed to help with the candles today, but that's ok. Gives me more time to study and surf the web. I've got a new course now -- Correllian Alphabet. Passed The Five Mystic Secrets yesterday with a 92%; I'm pleased. Too, soon I'll be able to take my Lesson 8 test for Correllian Wicca First Degree. It's easy stuff; I'll succeed.
Yesterday, E said he would find something for me to do... and that can be a good thing or a bad thing, I haven't found out which yet.
Choices, choices. ARGH!
Mini-spells are coming along nicely -- check them out, they're worth it ("Because a little magic goes a long way").
Should be joining Ed's blog soon -- Witch Wars. He wants team members and I volunteered straightaway. He's a pretty cool guy.
Not allowed to help with the candles today, but that's ok. Gives me more time to study and surf the web. I've got a new course now -- Correllian Alphabet. Passed The Five Mystic Secrets yesterday with a 92%; I'm pleased. Too, soon I'll be able to take my Lesson 8 test for Correllian Wicca First Degree. It's easy stuff; I'll succeed.
Yesterday, E said he would find something for me to do... and that can be a good thing or a bad thing, I haven't found out which yet.
Choices, choices. ARGH!
Monday, June 27, 2005
WitchWars
check it out: Witch Wars--a wonderful book written by a cool guy named Ed. Also a blogname.
witchwars.blogspot.com
witchwars.blogspot.com
Me, Myself, and I
hello world
this is my first blog post for this blogger account in quite a while. i figured it was time to start one; a new chapter of my life is well underway. since last October, in fact. i found the Correllian Tradition of Wicca, and the experience is one of a lifetime.
everyone is so wonderful to me, and to others in general. we are a people of "perfect love and perfect trust" -- however, as Aunt Ruthann said last night, "Violence is an option."
yes, i am pagan. yes, i am a witch. i love it; there are people who appreciate my thoughts and my ideas, and don't discount them because i'm "just a teenager". i thoroughly love my religion and would defend "me and mine" to the end of the earth.
this time around has been quite interesting for me, with many ups and downs... it began with a lot of downs, so now that i'm in an "up", i really can appreciate it more because i know what it's like to have a day that really really sucks.
this is my first blog post for this blogger account in quite a while. i figured it was time to start one; a new chapter of my life is well underway. since last October, in fact. i found the Correllian Tradition of Wicca, and the experience is one of a lifetime.
everyone is so wonderful to me, and to others in general. we are a people of "perfect love and perfect trust" -- however, as Aunt Ruthann said last night, "Violence is an option."
yes, i am pagan. yes, i am a witch. i love it; there are people who appreciate my thoughts and my ideas, and don't discount them because i'm "just a teenager". i thoroughly love my religion and would defend "me and mine" to the end of the earth.
this time around has been quite interesting for me, with many ups and downs... it began with a lot of downs, so now that i'm in an "up", i really can appreciate it more because i know what it's like to have a day that really really sucks.
God and Goddess, You have a son in need.
A Champion of the Lady Goddess;
A Warrior of his Leige Lord.
You know who i speak of.
Hear our prayers for Your Champion.
Let our positive energy move outward
to stop the creeping destruction
before it becomes all-consuming.
Goddess, God -- please hear our prayers.
As I Will, with Harm to none
So Mote It Be.
It shall be done.
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