// December 31st, 2008 // No Comments » // magick, personal
Read up on my New Years Resolution (but you’ll have to register for my site!!! Yes, I know, a shameless plug!)
The First Truth of the Left-Hand Path:
Individual Happiness is achieved by Individual Action
// December 30th, 2008 // No Comments » // magick
“and in his great weakness it may be a while that the New Will and Aspiration are not puissent. Yet being undisturbed by those dead weeds of doubt and reason which he hath uprooted, that grow imperceptibly and easily like and unwanted flower.”
// December 30th, 2008 // No Comments » // life the universe and everything, magick, personal
To extinguish something completely, it is not enough to destroy it. To destroy something completely, it is necessare to remove its Quintessence from reality altogether. To prevent it from ever having existed.
// December 30th, 2008 // No Comments » // magick
“In darkness with backward understanding and desire for destruction was the Abyss. And it is he who will not be and the place of that destruction and also of that darkness is what they call the endlessly dark.”
// December 30th, 2008 // No Comments » // magick, personal
OgHR: Devil In My Details
When I opened up the tri-pack there was a beautiful snow filled valley in the clouds and a quote:
“And the wild regrets, and the bloody sweats.
None knew so well as I:
For he who lives more lives than one,
More deaths than one must die.”–Oscar Wilde–
So true! So true…or in other words; “Those who choose to walk the cutting edge, bleed a lot.”
// December 30th, 2008 // No Comments » // life the universe and everything, magick
Since there was some lamenting over my inclusion of a Shriekback lyric in a former post, I thought I’d present the lyrics in entirety, with noble commentary from your fair blogger. And so, without further ado; “Faded Flowers” by Shriekback:
“Faded Flowers” by Shirekback
This Is The Sound Of Poisons
The Sickness No One Knows
No One Is Crying For Us This Time
Our Shapes Are Blurring Under Miracles Of SnowWeave A Circle Round Him Three Times
You Have To Plan Your Moves Out At These Times
Our Hearts Are Breaking
One More Song To GoThese Eyes Are Blind
This Is A Pure Thing
These Hands I Kiss
Tragic As AnythingThese Eyes Are Blind
This Is A Pure Thing
All Splash And Hiss
Beyond My MeasuringOnly The Anacrusis
The Main Event Remains
Shameful And Naked, Out There In The
Great Cold OutdoorsWe Have To Learn These Things Again
Bathe In This Incandescent Glow
The Leap To Something I Don’t Know
There Is No Doubt Upon Us When
The Greasy Men Come Back AgainThese Eyes Are Blind
This Is A Pure Thing
These Hands I Kiss
Tragic As AnythingThese Eyes Are Blind
This Is A Pure Thing
All Splash And Hiss
Beyond My MeasuringThese Faded Flowers
Precious As Memory
A Veil Of Cloud
Correct As EnergyWe Had Some Good Machines
But They Don’t Work No More
I Loved You Once
Don’t Love You Anymore
// December 30th, 2008 // No Comments » // life the universe and everything, magick
Wisdom from Don Webb over at: http://edred.net/community/members/103/Blog_Magical_Writings.php
“Karma” means action.
You bet you are bound by it. If you walked up to your boss at coffee-break and hit him in the jaw, the action would produce an effect. Most actions produce minor effects. You bought M&Ms with peanuts instead of plain — not much effect, unless you discover that you have a deadly peanut allergy. (more…)
// December 30th, 2008 // No Comments » // Recovery
Interesting article on the abstinence violation effect (AVE), “urge surfing” and how a more flexible mindset might just be beneficial to promoting a return to recovery.
Most people who try to change problem behaviors — whether it’s overeating, overspending or smoking cigarettes — will slip at least once. Whether that slip provokes a return to full-blown addiction depends in large part on how the person regards the misstep. “People with a strong abstinence violation effect relapse much more quickly,” says Marlatt. A single slip solidifies their sense that they are a failure and cannot quit, creating a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Find this article at:
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1868965,00.html
// December 29th, 2008 // No Comments » // magick
The Navy seems to keep pretty good tabs on these. I’ll refer you over there:
http://aa.usno.navy.mil/cgi-bin/aa_moonphases.pl?year=2009&ZZZ=END
2009 Phases of the Moon
// December 29th, 2008 // No Comments » // life the universe and everything, magick
I was updating my calendar to include the kids holidays off school, my work holidays and the pagan holidays and moon phases. I came across this resource that has the entire year presented in totality and individual calendars for:
How cool is that?!? Seems like you can download individual calenders to Outlook and iCal. Thanks for making this easy for me!
Update: 122908:1026: I just realized that some of the downloads didn’t work so hot. Maybe they’ll work for you, but I had trouble. But then I found Mike on MySpace who has a be-a-you-tee-full page with moon phase and instructions to modify the “Outlook.HOL” file to include additional holidays. I’ll post if it works like it’s supposed to!
Update: 122908:1140: Just opened and installed the “Mike on MySpace Pagan Calendar” and realized that all the entries are prior to 2007. But, I opened the “OUTLOOK.HOL” file and parsed it and got all the dates and I’m planning on updating them. There’s a bunch, so I’m probably only going to do what I use:
But if you head over to chinakrysdarrington.comand register and head into the MAGICK section I bet I’ll have the OUTLOOK.TXT file available for you to add updates. Let me know if you update a section with holidays more pertinent to your paradigm and I’ll be sure to plug it away!
// December 29th, 2008 // 1 Comment » // magick
It’s six to midnight on a work night and I need to be getting my buttocks onto a sleeping surface momentarily. But first, I need to transcribe some of the luscious words my avatar piped into me:
Painted onto the backside of the Ace of Swords tarot card:
Fire:
Purity. Through the cascade of burning flame.
With my Ace my is done.
With the Ace, which is the One.
With the Ace, it has begun.FIRE OF AIR.
Nice, eh? But wait! Act now and there is more;
It is this night
which I will cross again
into no-man’s land.Best to experiment to find the pen
most appropriate for the job.“We had some good machines, but they don’t work no more…
…I loved you once. Don’t love you any more.” ~Shriekback~I AM THE MOTHER NIX
I love it when she gets all avatarish with me!!!
I went under…just to see what was there.
and then she continues with her serpent self:
…I’m waiting here
for you
walk with me…My perfect pose of pain
My endless grey vogue
My nothing is clearThe edges are glinting
the scales
contractexpand
the serpent waits…
…and watches.
She gives me a little invocation:
“Open to me, night sky of Daath.
Genesis of the Abyss.
I am your child and my Path
leads me here.”
And so with that, gentle readers, I am off. To see what the “night sky of Daath” has to offer my this find evening. Be well and my the Dark Moon bathe you in her inverse glow.
// December 29th, 2008 // No Comments » // life the universe and everything, magick, personal, spirit
"Icarus" by Matisse
The Icarus Moment is something that I’ve thought about for a decade now. It is that moment, when one tries to fly too close to the sun, for too long…that one’s wings melt, and they plunge into the oceanic abyss. Sometimes this is a mortal event, one that terminates the life and rescinds the promise of existence. For others, like myself, it merely rends the wings from our souls and renders us mortal, for ever after, with only the memory of flying.
I am not trained in psychology, nor sociology, nor any endeavour of academic pursuit. I am no expert or professional, unless embracing this chance to be human counts me as a professional one with a degree of mortality. I am just a girl, a woman, who thinks and feels and is frightened. A woman who walks across the rickety bridge even though she’s not confident that it will hold her. I am a woman who loves more strongly than wisely and who plots her course with the heart and only the whispering nagging of the brain. I’m a woman who has endured e v e r y t h i n g…and nothing and because of that I AM.
Are you? (more…)
// December 28th, 2008 // No Comments » // family, personal
I’ve talked about the House of Chaos, where I live, and the Chaos Cats. Three bad cats; Griffin, Lucifer and Felize. Here are some images of the clan feline:
Chaos Cats on the Sofa
Chaos Cats on the Bed
// December 28th, 2008 // No Comments » // family, personal
Mia - From a Hawaiian themed birthday party in Summer 2003
// December 28th, 2008 // No Comments » // magick, personal
Qlippothic Twins
I have this avatar who follows me around. She’s that voice in my head that it just a bit more sinister and crinkly than polite society allows. Tonight…this is her wisdom:
Beware the Dwellers of the Darkness
Those who radiate bio-luminescent magicks
and relish in their transmorgrificaitons.Beware of those of the Outside…
Those below the beyond.For their existance can never been quantified.
And their knowledge allows for the manipulations
of Pattern and Prime.They can walk you backwards
until you never existed at all.
Now there is a fine way to take care of those irritating co-workers and ex-lovers. Have those Dark Dwellers walk’em backwards until they never even existed.
// December 25th, 2008 // No Comments » // magick, personal, spirit
from www.dvsdetroit.com! Go buy something from them! Beautiful!
// December 25th, 2008 // No Comments » // funny-bone
more animals
// December 24th, 2008 // No Comments » // House-of-Chaos, magick
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// December 24th, 2008 // No Comments » // magick
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// December 23rd, 2008 // No Comments » // life the universe and everything
I thought I was over this. I really thought my fingernail gnawing days were behind me. But this photo, taken today, serves as evidence that I apparently:
*sigh*
Does this count as a relapse?
// December 23rd, 2008 // 4 Comments » // BMX
Mike Dominguez @ Pipeline, 1984
I just started the story of how I got into freestyle BMX in the 1980′s over at chinakrysdarrington.com. Go over and read up on how my thieving ways and safe-cracking abilities turned me onto Californian golden-boy Mike Dominguez and from there…me and the bike…we were like, one. Really.
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