Hi I’m Polly and i am addicted to books, and not just any old books mind, but ones that inspire me and expand my mind, ones that speak of magic and nature and the powers that be.  Ones that explore the universe, this world, and the resonating energies in-between.  Ones about witchcraft, druidry and provide excellent food for the mind body, spirit and soul. 

 

Ok so i might of purchased two err three new books today.. *grins*.. for some reason i have an urge to rebuild my library sort of...*ponders this*...

 

Oh you want to know what i purchased... umm..

 

The Living Temple of Witchcraft, vol 1, and The Living Temple of Witchcraft, vol 2 and The Mystic Foundation, gosh i guess i will have some reading material over the xmas holidays *looks shifty eyed*

*twitches*

when surrounding yourself with enablers, all you end up doing is enabling your own psychosis


in other news i like hooping, and soon there will be tape... *nods*...


*blows on the pie*

i have a google wave account, in its preview form, which i am a little unsure what that means, but they its all very exciting and in general i am quite enthusiastic about the product.. although currently it is mostly like a glorified instant message sender, its the potential that is kinda cool, i am also wondering if with the preview account will eventually morph into a fully fledge account that has the ability to send and receive emails.

ideally google wave should also incorporate google docs, calendar, the reader, and of course email. there should be functionality for video communication as well as audio, and then finally it should work wonderfully in tandem? combination with the rumoured "itouch table" from apple. *nods*.. but then google wave is open source which means currently there are hundreds of wonderful programming geeks currently creating the functionality that i wish .. just for me right.. *nods more*... and of course apple want to play nice with google, and visa versa.. right... *smiles sweetly*

so all in all i am happy to have a google wave account just cause all the cool kids have them, and i am hoping that more people get invites soon as that will make it much less quite, and much more fun.

then when i got home there were socks, from sockdreams.com.. ohhh.. lovely socks well stockings really, there are odly autumn coloured ones that i am wearing today with the hopes that they stretch a little, cause you know i have thighs, shapely thighs thank you very much.... anyhoo. there are the blue and black strips which i am also hoping with stretch case again with the thighs, *sighs*.. and the neon pink and black strips, which are wonderful and will go very well with my rave kilt.. whoot.. *skips*.. and of course to keep these socks up i got a garter belt.. a industrial looking hockey garter belt.. is lovely.. *nods*...


eek i have been consumed by stuff...tehehe

Dear Google Wave

its really nice that you sent me an invite cause i have wanted one for ages... however it dosen't work, so now i feel like you guys are just teasing, thus while you can't actually see it i am pouting.. quite a bit actually.  anyways i will try the link once i get home incase it is some odd work computery thing.. and if that fails i suspect that there will be more pouting, and then probaby a polite email enquiring what went wrong.. *nods*...

in the mean time, please to be making sure its all fixed by the time i get home.. you have two hours or so mmk..

*grins*
a slightly slulky Polly...


i'm sure it will work out in the end but still.. such a tease...

so i was reading Robert Cochrane letters the other day, and there was instructions on how that tradition sets up their altars, with a ring of salt.. and i got an idea, so off to spotlight i went to see if my idea would work.... and hey presto it did, below are the pictures..



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so now its back to reading The Temple of Shamanic Witchcraft: Shadows, Spirits and the Healing Journey by Mr Penczak, which i am enjoying quite a bit as it is turning out to be quite some good food for thought, which is always good.. *nods*

just so you all know, my phone is not charged, and the charger is at home.. doh... so no cell phone for polly today.. mmk..

also..


*ponders*.

nope nothing but my hotwater bottle is nice, mmm.. NICE!!

apart from the very obvious 42, the meaning of life has been on many peoples minds of late.. its like we are at the beginning of a tipping point of some sort and the momentum is building. people are realising the our capitalist society is outmoded and broken, and going to work for 5 days a week pushing paper around a desk enter things onto a computer and try not to strangle work colleagues, who insist on miro managing everything and every one, *takes breath* for the most part i am ok with this,as it is not a job i have to take home with me, however every now and again i am left wondering "what is this work for?, what meaning does this work have?" its just numbers on a computer and really the context is just to confusing...

ack... then of course my mind shy's away from it all because it seems so vast as to make one go a little crazy around the edges...*ponders this*..

so i guess the way forward the way to start is going to be cleaning out my room... odd but it does make sense..

*ponders stuff*

maybe i just need a holiday *ponders this to*

have left cell phone at home... but will be at fidels tonight...

also..

there will be a general gathering meeting of kiwiburners this sunday at 1pm in miramar, if you want the address please email me

mistresspolly     at    gmail

mmk..

*skips around*

EDIT: cell phone not at home. but went venturing in the handbag of one of the witches...tehehe

i suspect that i will be in town enjoying brunch at city limits cafe at around hmm.. 10.30am..so if anyone wants to join me that would be nice, might want to dress warm however cause it might be a cold day and i will be sitting in the outside...

however if nobody wants to join me that is also all fine..

mmk done now

*skips around*

so i am getting more electronic storage space soon.. ohh glee.. which will free up some space on my laptops hard drive and well give me a place to store more electronic media. mmmm.. quite obviously i have been thinking about this, and quite obviously i might be thinking about obtaining some fun TV media...

i would like...
supernatural season two and three,
true blood season 2,
doll house season two when it comes out,
and maybe Merlin that everybody is talking about...

*ponders other fun type media*

also there is a nice rumor going around about a apple itablet which has a 7" or maybe 9" screen.. mmm.. it sounds quite lovely and is meant to be similar to the itouch but bigger..  this makes my inner gadgit geek very happy.. *nods*... 

so i guess we will see.. some are predicting that it will be out in feb2010 others predict earlier.. but still.. it sounds very very pretty

do be do

in the fit of pique and perhaps some frustration i drew (sort of using my touch) two tarot cards and got, the 2 of pentacles followed by the fool

err.... any takers on interpretation?

the equinoxes both spring and autumn, are supposedly a time of balance, it is a time when the days and nights are of equal length. in practice however i have found it is actually a chaotic time, things are not in balance, they are in stead wobbly. and as Val mentioned last night things are perhaps not so much a time of balance but a time of finding your balance, which makes sense... also i wonder if the equinoxes are when the earth becomes wobbly on its axis? any astronomers our there who knows of such things? *ponders this*

umm.. yeah.. so in honour of wobbleness i am wearing my lady boots,, it makes the wobbling less obvious.. *grins*

*wobbles off to make tea*

i like that there is an musical wind instrument repair shop down in the grand arcade, and that some of those musical instruments are probably older than the people who fix them. this also leads me to realise that we should be fixing stuff more as opposed to throwing it out and buying a new one. repair & reuse, repair & reuse people

i get confused and somewhat taken aback when people think that i have been babysitting tommy for the last week and a half while his mum tats in Africa.. cause really tommy is a young man rather than a baby, and its been pretty much like having a young flatmate who is pretty good to live with thanks..and i know the lawns will be mowed properly soon or i shall be wanting my money back.. *nods*

i am really vauling some advice i got from rivet on friday and have put it into action and it has made work life much easier, so much easier.. yay

and finally i am really loving googlereader, now that i have set it up, i can read a whole bunch of interesting pagan blogs, and a few friends bloggs that are not lj, but i wanted to read them. it is much like ljfriends page.. so excellent.. you can also put in lj journals into it.. *skips*

blogs i reccomend are Witch of the Forest Philip Carr-Gomm and The Wild Hunt. The Witch of the Forest is crafty, Philip Carr-Gomm is a mystic druid, or should that be druid mystic, both ways fit, and The Wild Hunt is a wrap up of a whole bunch of pagan orientated news with some cometary. which is pretty good. it is how i found out about Marion Weinstein's passing. i think it was perhaps how many Pagans found out about Marion's death this way. odd tho as she died in july, a few months before.. this perplexes me somewhat..

and finally where is the vacuum repair or parts place in Wellington?

oh and a couple of nice letters from MAF <---- said in a booming voice!!!

on thursday a nice package arrive from a nice lady who makes some pretty wonderfully artistic and magical stuff.. ohhh so pretty.. anyhoo we did a swap.. which was great fun, i sent her stuff form kiwiland and she sent me stuff from Caniadia, whee... however MAF, <--- booming voice again here, decided they wanted in on the fun, and removed some of the items from Canidia. MAF is New Zealands boarder biological security making sure that biological items that might be harmful to our tiny islands do not get in.. as a general rule the have a specially trained beagles to sniff out plan material, and quarantine it. when i rang the lady yesterday she said that they had a whole heap of strange pagany type stuff up there waiting to be fumigated. well golly...

so there are essentially two options for fumigations, on is all with the chemicals, eew.. and the second is all with the heat for 15 hours.. umm.. cooking it.. to make sure that the plan material is inert, or that any bugs that might be lingering on feathers.. (sobs and they were crow feathers) are not longer alive.. so to speak.. and as you can imagine this less chemically orientated option is way expensive... thus i had to opt for the items, (sobs crow feathers and wonderful ritual incense) to be destroyed... well i figure that they burn them thus there will be a lovely smell about the office for a spell.. *grins*...

anyhoo.. now for pictures... the first.. MAF sticket on the box<--- again with the voice..
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also the nice lady from Canada, Sarah, has a Etsy Shop.. where you to can purchase some wonderfully made magical crafts..

i so loved the candles, they are hand dipped and smell divine.. there was also raw silk fabric, we are both crafty peoples.. *grins*, some red ceder powder.. oh nom nom.. and of course a Book.. *bounces*.. published in the late 60's so first wave.. ohhh.. interesting.. so it will be a grand read..

Witch Swaps.. they are heaps of fun and i recommend them..

Twirls around

gosh.. this parenting lark is fraught with things they don't tell you, like getting a phone call from the skool to say that T fell off a unicycle and injured his arm and should go to the doctors for xrays... *que panic stations for polly* OMG what would i tell Tats now that i have broken the kid.. eek eek... panic panic... then there was the phone calls to happyinmotion and tieke who have vehicles in order to puck up the teenager and take him to the emergency doctor... constant update texts keep me from loosing the plot completely *phew*...

last update was that the teenager had nothing broken but sprained and to keep it in a sling for a couple of days, which is good and much *phewing*.. and of course wanting to hug tieke for running him around and making sure he was all good....

in-between all of this drama, there was the important meeting at work, not that i was a part of the meeting, but i did have to set up the room and play hostess with the distracted mostesset...

gosh.. its been a busy morning.. i might need a bucket of tea to clam down.. but it should be all ok... will have to remember to get panadol on the way home,

and then this evening there will be witches, and lessons on seasons oh and fish and chips.. yay...


*clutches teacup looks around wildly*

shamelessley stolen from  Letter from Hardscrabble Creek  Chas Cliftons Blogg

Three researchers are working to update Voices from the Pagan Census: A National Survey of Witches and Neo-Pagans in the United States, originally published in 2003.

Helen Berger, one of the researchers, writes, "This survey builds on an earlier one completed over twenty years ago, primarily in the United States, which was conducted by Helen A. Berger and Andras Arthen (of the EarthSpirit Community) entitled the Pagan Census.

"A number of scholars have noted that it would be helpful to have a follow-up of that survey to see if and how the community has changed or remained the same. The survey that follows uses many, although not all of the same questions that were in the original survey to provide that comparison. There are also new questions, for instance about the Internet, something that was of little interest 20 years ago but is now, and some from other studies, that again permit a comparison. This has resulted in the survey being somewhat long--we appreciate your taking the time to complete it."

Please feel free to spread this URL around the Pagan Web to get as wide a variety of respondents as possible.

its a long survey, however the site enables you to save it in that if you leave your tab open like i did and then hyperbate your computer you do not loose any of the data that you have painstakingly entered *phew*... also despite it being long it is well worth doing.. especially if you are a kiwipagan, cause you know we are here and we are kinda different like everyone else mmk.. *beams*

do be do

so this weekend entailed not breaking the kid, check, shopping for food, check, getting vegetables and fruit, check, and making bath bombs, or fizzies,

so having just gotten out of a bath with one of these bath bombs that i made, i and somewhat disappointed and not all at the same time. it would seem that with the added sea salt and epsom salts the bath bomb becomes heavy, and while fizzies well and good it dosn't zip around the bath or float like the ones from lush, but then they don't have sea salt or epsom salts, .... however the smell was pretty good and i vaugly remember what i put in it, frankincense, patchouli, and maybe cinnamon... not sure.. and of course i forgot to write it down.. *doh*.. and the oils are nice on my skin.. hmmm.. nice..

hmm.. could be more bath bomb making in a couple of weeks... might have to play more with bath melts to,, maybe add powdered milk and see what happens...


*ponders things*

so last night my flatmate tied me up and someone took photos, which is to say it was my first foray into modelling in front of a flashing light bulbs and photographer.. it was an interesting experience.. and a lot of fun. needless to say there way much laughter and giggling along with being asked to make the penis face.. *smirks*.. what face do you make when you think of erect penises? *smirks more*..

there was also umbrellas, fabric, floggers, wips and ball gags..... well golly!!

so soonish there will be some samples here.. for those who wanna see.. *grins*

the evening finished with smoking out side a high skool, a uni-cycling teen, fish'n'chips, hotwaterbottles, and then a absolutely fabulously wonderful sleep...

this morning, there has been a lot of ponderings, and i would like to say that rope is more interesting  and ball gags are fun especially with someone you trust... *smiles*

*twirls around*

have you guys seen this http://www.syzygymag.com/ it looks all with the good.. *nods*...

any ladies you can submit your original slashy fiction to said magazine.. yum...

most excellent.. go on to look.. it looks quite interesting..

of course i found about the above through http://www.filamentmagazine.com/ which is also aimed at sexy naked men that women find attractive.. wheee... so go order issue 2 cause they have Britian's very first erection in print that is aimed specifically at women.. *snorts*..that sound ummm.. *laughs*.. anyhoo.. do it.. its a great magazine..!!

all with the pron today..

*twirls around*