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*

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..



( more picks under here )

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*

This is the dawning of the age of Aquarius and its happening this saturday according to some

When the Moon is in the seventh house

and Jupiter aligns with Mars.

Then peace will guide the planets

and love will steer the stars

gosh.!!

*dances around*


oh and i will be picking up a new book tonight.. wheee

its all happening

Dear World Economy,

Please let the NZ$ strenghten somewhat becasue with this steep decline in value, you have casued books brought in new zealand to become really really pricey.. i mean really really pricey as apposed to the achieveable 30-40 kiwi dollars, the average book  (that i want to purchas) is now 50-100 plus kiwi dollars, and that is not even for hard back, that is for "quality paper back" wot ever that means.  

so in closing world ecomoy i do not think that it is very fair of you to make the kiwi dollar weaken like it has, because those of us who like to read want to be able to afford to purchas books, and according to your minions, (aka the politions) we should be spending money.. and really books are a good invenstiment.. of a sorts. 

ok we sorted now, i mean really $50 just a bit much really

Please and thankyou
Polly

* Grab the nearest book.
* Open the book to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post the text of the next two to five sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
* Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.

"The presence of slaves concubines, women who had even fewer rights than wives, and the hierarchy of status among them, must have been a constant reaffirmation of the superiority of male power"

well gosh any guesses to who the above author is?


in other news didn't get picked for the MoE job.. but that is ok.. i have an interview tomorrow.. *smiles*

today i traveled up to the Woolshed for the festival of Bridiget along with my flatmate pinkiepoopoo it was a grand day and i had a lot of fun, however, and the reason for this post, this late afternoon, after the rituals was preformed, the lunch eaten and the babies played with (there where three and they were a lovely edition to the ritual and whole day really) anyhoo after all was said and one a small group of us gathered and started to talk about various topics, one being the pagan lending library that i am will be setting up and houseing up at the Woolshed. The conversation then drifted onto a second a similar topic namey the topic of my thesis that i have never finished.. well never written.. (being dyslexic and all makes writing difficult) and every time someone sugest that i should go back to university to finish it, i start to hedge, and can at times become a bit of a prickly pear, but odley enough this dose not happen when suggestions of recording it and then turning it into a book of sorts or a series of recorded lectures. Pamela who runs the Woolshed suggest that i do a series of spring lectures 4 to be precise which are then recorded, and people who were also apart of this discussion offered to transcribe the lectures so that they could be turned into a book, which interests me, in a peeking out behind the couch where i was hiding from the university, kinda way. so i am left with the question of "do I, or don't I?" and from there a whole barage of other questions popup.. such as

who would be interested in such a book? one about other pagan books, pagan community, and pagan history, gosh that sounds kinda boring.. although i know that some people would be quite interested.. ???

would it be possible to learn a new way of speaking knowledge in lecture/talk format and get it transcribed so that it can be turned in to a book? how complicated is that process, would it work for other books??

if i am not writing for a university but instead myself would this make it easier to write/speak this research that i have collected and studied for the last 3 years, into a book of sorts?

why do i feel like bursting into tears that the though of this happening? why am i still angry at the university? did they really give me a bum deal? why does this scare me so much, why why why?

can i has a cuddles now? oh and some answers


any takers?

yesterday was all about presents for polly... *grins*

from the nice courier man, who also delivers to my work, and sidtracked a package that was going to go to my home address, by bringing it to my work address cause he was nice, .. but i digress

from the above nice courier man, i got two pointy objects,, yay.. i have been waiting on these pointy objects for quite some time, because of an issues with various authorities not understanding the value or meaning of said pointy objects, thus destroying them cause you know that New Zealand is teaming with terrorists, right! *rolls eyes*

i also got some beeswax candles.. hmm.. yummie
some herbs, mm
some magickal oil... tehe
and a pendant which i will be turning into a pendulum


and then when i got home there was a book waiting for me in the mail box.. "wicca, Magical Beginnings" which was signed by both the authors.. *grins*..  and the book is turning out to be quite interesting, so i might have to pop down to fidlels tonight and have a quiet read after work with a nice cuppa tea.. *nods*..


ok done bragging now..

also who would like to come around on satruday early afternoon and help me test run my library cataloge? aka putting books on book shelves in some sort of order??

do be do

edit: also posting at work makes for a very disjointed post.... *ponders this*

it has been a intense few days, two trips up to mums place and one funeral, but that is not what this post is about. on the way up to mum's place on Friday, my mind was a tad frazzled and kinda free forming, and an idea popped into my head, i have probably over 200 book's on pagan related topics, languishing on my bookshelves, why don't i start a pagan lending library, to which a part of me grumbled about not wanting to lend any books out thank you very much!!!, however i was then reminded that i have always wanted a library, and in that picture of the library i wanted, pagans actually did come and borrow them and return them by their return dates... *nods*

on the train, on the way back from mum's tonight my through solidified, in that yes i would really like to start a pagan lending library, i even camp up with a name.. (i likes naming things) "The Wellington Pagan Library" orginal eh? *grins* i also spoke to pinkiepoopoo  and he was keen on the idea as well.. yay a project for the winter.

now it is my goal
1/ to come up with a pagan logical cataloging system similar to that of the Library of Congress system, because that allows for expansion..

2/to build up my collection of books to about 500 or so, by asking for donations and the like, i might need some more books shelves

3/ to find a good library program, which allows lending (i figure that i can put all the books on my library thing, (or make a new account) and then re categorise them to match the category that i have created in step one) and then figure out what to do about late books etc etc...

once i have that all set up i will have a opening party and invite a bunch of pagans and my friends and hey presto a new hobby for polly...

so who would like to help?  *beams*

also if you have any pagan books languishing about that you no longer want or need and they are not on this list would you like to donate them to the soon to be (prolly at least 6 months) opened Wellington Pagan Library ?  if so can you please email me at mistresspolly  (at)  gmail   (dot)  com

*beams*

it all started with this post on Wren's News

gosh that was fun.. not sure that it will get a reply, but it was fun..

*beams*

this started out as one thing..consumerism  but then there was digression  .. pagan publishing

 

Gosh…

 

*grins* 

so i have been looking for a particular book for quite some time, Where Witchcraft Lives, by Doreen Valiente published in 1962, not long after she left Gardner to play with Cochrane.  Today I found this book on craigs list, yay.. Finally, however it is an x library copy, that is selling for $100 dollars.. EEK, US EEK more…and right now I can not justify spending that much money plus postage  and while it is one of the rarest books known to the pagan bibliophile, I just can’t justify spending that much… *pouts*

 
Well bugger.. guess I will have to wait until another copy of it comes up somewhere in the world.. casue I know that they are out there.. *nods*.. 

 
Actually I was searching around for an electronic copy of sorts, but came up with a physical copy, maybe in time there will be a electronic copy available somewhere.. *crosses fingers*.. also maybe some plucky publishing house will reprint it??  *ponders this*

i will have this book one day...Rodger Phips *shakes fist*

 

So how did you fill up the quite moments at work today?

 

*beams*

I am reading 'The Second Circle' by Venecia Rauls at the moment and I am enjoying it hugely. I have found the book pretty inspiring, and certainly a beyond wicca 101 book, in fact it will see the average pagan looking to advance well into the journeyman's path and in some cases well beyond 

 

I am enjoying this book hugely and am looking forward to reading the rest of it, so when are the publishers going to pull their cowardly heads out of their asses and publish more of this witches work?  Cause I really want to read it.

there is a new terry pratchett book out that looks all with the good...

it's called Wintersmith and the first chapter can be found here http://terrypratchettbooks.com/books/wintersmith-xpt.html ifin work is boarding and you want to read something fun and good, even if work is not boaring i reccon you should go and read it anyways..

*dances around*

today a waiting on the door step was a huge bag of books... and it containted, books.. how suprising...tehehe

so anyways.. here is a list of what i got..

Cyberhenge: Modern Pagans on the Internet. By Douglas E Cowan.

Daughters of the Goddess: Studies of Idenity, Healing and Empowerment, Edited by Wendy Griffin

Magical Religion and Modern Witchraft, Edited by James E Lewis

New Age and Neopagan Religions in America. by Sarah M Pike

and finally Spiritual Mentoring: A Pagan Guide By Judy Harrow

so the first four are academic type studies, most of which will be very helpful for my studies and the last is an advance type pagan book.. which should be quite interesting... yay

and in other news.. i was rang today and told that i have another 12 weeks of student allowance left owing to me and that i have to fill out a student allowance form from feb this year so that they can back pay me.. student allowance for 12 weeks or so, kinda odd but there you so.. so i duly fill out said forms and see what happens... all very strange...

hopfully tomorrow i will get pagan bling in the post.. weee..

*bounces*

PS.. if you want to look at what i have in my very pagan library you can go here and have a looksee... one of them is worth heaps of money...

*bounces more*

apprently one of the books in my library is worth quite a bit of money, infact according to amazon you can buy it second hand for $123USD and on abe books for between $139USD, and $762USD which makes it worth just over $200NDZ at the cheepest price.. . . . . Gosh.. maybe i should read it.. the reviews on amazon are rave on about how good it is... also i might have to stop chucking putting it on the floor ...



golly gosh..

*grins*

all your fuzzies turned up the the form of a book and you know how gooie books make me feel... yay!!!!!! you guys so rock.. *beams*

i am now the proud owner if "lid of the cauldron" by patricia crowhter fist published in 1981 repinted and updated in 1989... and it British... woot!

oh and horseys horseys horseys...


now what am i going to wear!!