Aphrodite, Goddess of Love and Abundance

The seasons they are a changing. I have been in a heart break slump for a few weeks. I asked Aphrodite for help a couple of days back. She can be very generous in healing the heart and opening it up for new possibilities. The results of my request have shown up for my healing through my amazing resources of community.  First I was gifted tickets for the Pleasanton Highland Games and was fortunate to have the entire weekend to be with my "peeps". I love my extended family and our "taste tests". The Farquharsons are generous in heart and spirit. I also rode the "Dicken's" out of my penny farthing, swerved a bit after the second taste test. Throughout the day I pounded the earth Celtic style to the drum beats of Brother, a band from Down under. They were at Faerieworlds 2010 and I couldn't have imagined that their set would lift me higher than before. Listen to them as soon as your little ears can seek out their didg', drums and pipes. Another band that inspired me to thump and writhe was Albannach. I've seen them at the Fringe, Edinburgh in years past and was thrilled they'd made it across the pond. Their drumming is so intense that my hips have become double jointed, LOL!. 

Then today, I awoke and found that abundance had reached me here on the home front.

I was included in a treasury on etsy today, whoot whoot! http://www.etsy.com/listing/25995155/treasury-item-eye-of-sauron-fire-opal?ga_search_query=fire%2Bopal&ga_search_type=user_shop_ttt_id_5376328
Here is the treasury, please check out all of the beautiful work
http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4c850bacae808eefc067bf82/metaphysical-autumn-orange-and-persimmon

This is an auspicious day, another treasury!http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4c84e5aaae808eefb9feb682/cultural-connections Here is the piece that was included, http://www.etsy.com/listing/54294786/vintage-pakistani-folk-art-treasure-box?ref=tre-4c84e5aaae808eefb9feb682-12

This is only the beginning of the month of Autumn Equinox / Mabon and harvesting the results of our year of sowing. Please do share what is flowing into your lives during this time. I will post the details here with links to your own blogs and other accounts.

New photos on Facebook

I am adding new pics daily from my etsy shops, rainadelmagick and rainasvintageattic . I want to get your feedback about which pics inspire you and which do not. Please visit my fan pages when you have a moment and look in the photo albums. Your comments are greatly appreciated.

paganteam etsy chat tonight 08/30/10

Greetings friends. Tonight rainadelmagick will host my last Monday night chat on http://etsy.com I will be switching to Friday evenings for the next few months while I engage in aerial acrobatics class in San Francisco at the circus Center. I would be thrilled if anyone local wishes to join me in the class! So, as for tonight, We are going to discuss paganteam plans to organize a team wide sale in celebration of Mabon and we will begin planning for Samhain and Halloween! So, please join us at 9est, 8cst, 7mst and 6pst in the etsy chat room. All are warmly invited whether you are on the team or not. You just need an etsy account to log in.

Clearing your Path under the Full Moon

The August 2010 full moon is the smallest, farthest full moon of the year. It lies more than 252,000 miles away, in contrast to the moon’s average distance of about 239,000 miles. For more information on the full moon this evening please visit http://earthsky.org/tonight
The name of this August full moon is the Green Corn Moon. This is a perfect time to perform a simple ritual for clearing your path of unwanted obstacles that you have been treading over for some time.

If you can join in a circle then you will perform this together. If you are a solitary practitioner, spread a circle of salt around you and stand within. Take scraps of paper and write the negative thoughts that are holding you back, whether they be about yourself or others you have relationships with. Then burn those pieces of paper while declaring out loud how you choose to see yourself as a loving, powerful, present person. Thank the Goddesses of the moon for your connection to your highest self. That is it! I hope you feel inspiration in the practice of this simple ritual.
If you ever want to discuss full moon folklore, rituals and mythology please feel free to contact me here or on either of my facebook fan pages, rainasvintageattic, rainadelmagick

New rainasvintageattic facebook fan page

I have made a new fan page for my second shop. rainasvintageattic Please check it out and join it if you feel so inclined. I look forward to having fellow paganteam and metaphysicalteam members join and post their own shop, fan page and blog links.

Let's Celebrate the abundance of Mabon

I am very eager to get this blog out there to my community. I want to inspire my friends to participate in discussions about pagan and artistic events that feed their fire. For this reason I am offering to send a quartz crystal to the first 10 people who sign up for my blog feed! After you sign up, send me a message with your address and I will send you a confirmation and get your treasure in the mail in time to reach you for Mabon. It is all about the abundance!
Also for those of you with whom I share the http://team.etsy.com/profilest/pagan.shtml and the http://team.etsy.com/viewteam.php?id=425 I will happily list your shops and your own blogs here so please send me your links!
If anyone wants to make a special request for ritual tools for Mabon please visit me at http://www.etsy.com/shop/rainadelmagick

It's Official, I'm heading to Scotland to Hawk my Wares!

If any of you creative souls will be at the Fringe Festival in Edinburgh this August, 2009 please oh please do come and visit JoJo's World and rainadelmagick. We are fortunate enough to be included amongst the unique and talented artists in the West End show near the historical Churchyard at the west end of Prince's Street. Please visit the website below to find out more about the event and other arts and crafts shows 3D2D puts on throughout the UK. Also head on over to rainadelmagick to see what types of artwork I'll be bringing. Or you can go to my etsy shop and send a convo to me if you might be able to meet up there and have a special request or just want to arrange to go to a pub.

Jo-anne D. Bertenshaw is an illustrator and also creates the most amazing faery/fairy dolls. We are doing a cross country collaboration on several projects together for the festival. I've written a story called No One Knows Me Like My Gnome and she is doing all of the illustrations and will also be drawing for the the other weird poems and stories I spill forth from my Mental Attic.

We will have updates here and at sanfrancisco-to-skye.blogspot.com/over the next two months on our progress as co-creators and also invites for fun events where we would be truly honored to meet with our fellow pagans and artisans. I sure do hope to see some of you there!

rainadelmagick

rainadelmagick and her witchy ways at Pagan Festival 2009

Look for us at the

Pagan Festival in Berkeley

Saturday, May 9th, 2009

We'll be at the The 8th Annual Pagan Festival at Peace Park (MLK Civic Center Park), Martin Luther King Jr. Way between Center and Allston in Berkeley, on Saturday, May 9th, from 10:00 AM - 5:30 PM. There will be Music, Dance, Stage Performances, Vendors, Story Telling, Arts & Crafts and so much more.

I will have new jewelry, apothecary herbs, wind chimes and fertility fetishes. Come out, enjoy the day, and mention that you saw the festival on my website I will give you a free self-collected quartz crystal from the Sierra foothills!

For detailed information about the festival
see the Pagan Alliance Festival website.

Also check out my new goodies on my own homepage, rainadelmagick.com

Hope to see you there!

Coraline, take me away

I saw Coraline yesterday. I was in Gothic heaven. I found myself wanting to crawl into the story and block the return door. I don't know what this says about my state of mind (age wise) or my state of satisfaction with the world as it manifests day to day, but I always end up chocking down tears of longing for my youth when I see films like this. The Nightmare Before Christmas especially draws me in with it's hypnotic soundtrack by Danny Elfman. I feel an attempt to woo me with promises of safety in the darkness being offered if I will just release my connection with the mundane worries of all that I wake up to in this plane. "Ah, but that is the dilemma isn't it?" If I slip into madness will I always enjoy the fantasy world or should I be satisfied with the possibility of unknown events that can unfold here? Well, as of this morning I'm hanging in here still. Another day of walking a few dogs in the rain for minimal earnings with a good friend and then coming home to pay the utility bills may not have me feeling like leaping out of bed, but who knows? Maybe I'll see a wraith in the mists while we hike along the cliffs in Pacifica. Maybe I'll find inspiration in the music of the rain drops and return with new poetry aching to be written. For additional musings please meander over to another spot in the world of JoJo

and rainadelmagick on our joint artistic projects page here at  Creative Connections from San Francisco to Skye.