Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Interesting and a Bit Scary
My youngest daughter, Michelle, who lives in Colorado, had a very interesting thing happen the day before yesterday. A woman who had recently moved next door to where she is living just recently starting talking to Michelle and striking up a friendship. Well, on the day mentioned, she comes to Michelle and says I have to tell you something very important. The woman goes on to tell Michelle that she sometimes gets visits from dead people and she doesn't tell people about it very often because most people just think that she's weird but she had received a very important message from a dead person who said he was Michelle's father. Michelle, who was somewhat skeptical, listened to what the woman had to say. Her father just passed away last October and so she was surprised that he had supposedly contacted this woman, but she also misses him so she wanted to know what he might have had to say. The woman explained that she had had a horrific dream about Michelle getting seriously hurt and this was around the same time this spirit who said he was Michelle's father starting contacting her. He told this neighbor that it was very important that she make Michelle understand that she was not to cross the bridge. The woman asked Michelle is she knew what that meant and Michelle wasn't sure until the woman told her about her dream from which she described three people that Michelle knew who they were right away from the woman's description. The three people she knew were the father of her three boys, his current girlfriend and his girlfriend's best friend. There was a fourth person in the dream, whose name had been given to the neighbor in the dream but Michelle said she didn't know him. The neighbor insists that Michelle does know him and that those four people were responsible for the serious injuries that Michelle recieved in the dream. The neighbor also told Michelle the place where she had seen Michelle seriously hurt, which is what freaked Michelle out because it explained what her father said about not going over the bridge. The road where the neighbor said she saw Michelle was on the way to the father of Michelle's children's house and one of the routes to get there takes you over a bridge that crosses a deep canyon. This would all sound a bit whacked except the father of Michelle's children is getting served papers this week telling him that Michelle is filing for sole custody of their children and he has threatened to kill her if she tried to take the boys away from him. Okay, so what are you alls thoughts on this. I told her some of the stuff that Patty had told me previously to do to try to bind the boy's father and she's letting her case worker and a sheriff know about the threat. I've told her about using eggshells for protecting the boys and all the other stuff she can to to protect herself as Patty suggested. Is there anything else that she can do or that I can do. I'm already burning candles and say prayers. If nothing else, please send prayers and thoughts her way and hopefully this will all turn out to have just been a person's bad dream.
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Knot/String magic
Knot magic is something I really enjoy. It is simple, easy to do just about anywhere, and has a lot of wonderful applications. From calling/storing wind to binding, there are a lot of well known forms of knot magic (such as tying the knot). There are highly circulated knot magic charms for any purpose, one that I have had in my book for ages has a few variations, and this is my favorite (with lines from different sources, these are just the ones I prefer):
"By knot of one, the spell's begun,
By knot of two, it cometh true,
By knot of three, it comes to be,
By knot of four, it's strengthened more,
By knot of five, the spell shall thrive,
By knot of six, the spell is fixed,
By knot of seven, the answer given,
By knot of eight, I meld with fate,
By knot of nine, the spell I bind."
The nine knots are tied in a cord or string. I've seen several different orders for the knots, from simply starting at one end to tying them in this order: 1-6-4-7-3-8-5-9-2.
To capture wind, you tie knots in a cord when the wind is high, and then when you wish to call wind, you untie knots (less knots: gentler wind, more knots: more wind).
To let go of inner frustrations, take a length of string and start tying knots. Each time you tie a knot, visualize something that is making you mad or aggravating you as being tied up in the knot. When your string is a jumbled up mess of knots and you run out of things to tie knots for, bury or burn the string.
Many times when two things are to be 'bound' together, either in partnership, or to draw the attributes from one to another, they are tied together during the working. At the end of the working, the cords are removed but either kept somewhere (this allows you to undue the binding at a later date if you wish) or buried somewhere (to keep the binding going). To remove the cords, slide them off the things bound or cut the cord but don't untie the knots. To undue the binding, you can untie the knot.
A very simple enchantment is to take a charm representing what you wish to accomplish, and tied it onto a person or thing. You could tie a heart onto a child's backpack to keep them safe, a compass or star onto your shoe so you can always find your way or an umbrella on your jacket to keep you protected from unexpected storms.
The type of cord or string has a lot of possibilities as well. I keep old shoelaces (I hate throwing things out that aren't broken!) and bits of string or yarn left over from crafting projects. You can get small travel sized dental floss that is handy to keep in a purse or backpack. You can knot strings that hang off of clothing. You can even use your own hair (easier if you have longer hair).
Something I was thinking about recently when I went to do some knotwork was that, while I like rhyming charms like the one above, some of the wording is clunky, and other than the repeating idea of tying your intent into the knots, there isn't any real differentiation between the knots.
Instead, consider using numerology to reinforce different aspects of your goal. Or a number of steps you feel necessary to work up to your intended result. Or qualities you want in your end result (if you were working for a job, you might tie a knot for easy commute, a knot for flexible work schedule, a knot for daytime shift...etc).
"By knot of one, the spell's begun,
By knot of two, it cometh true,
By knot of three, it comes to be,
By knot of four, it's strengthened more,
By knot of five, the spell shall thrive,
By knot of six, the spell is fixed,
By knot of seven, the answer given,
By knot of eight, I meld with fate,
By knot of nine, the spell I bind."
The nine knots are tied in a cord or string. I've seen several different orders for the knots, from simply starting at one end to tying them in this order: 1-6-4-7-3-8-5-9-2.
To capture wind, you tie knots in a cord when the wind is high, and then when you wish to call wind, you untie knots (less knots: gentler wind, more knots: more wind).
To let go of inner frustrations, take a length of string and start tying knots. Each time you tie a knot, visualize something that is making you mad or aggravating you as being tied up in the knot. When your string is a jumbled up mess of knots and you run out of things to tie knots for, bury or burn the string.
Many times when two things are to be 'bound' together, either in partnership, or to draw the attributes from one to another, they are tied together during the working. At the end of the working, the cords are removed but either kept somewhere (this allows you to undue the binding at a later date if you wish) or buried somewhere (to keep the binding going). To remove the cords, slide them off the things bound or cut the cord but don't untie the knots. To undue the binding, you can untie the knot.
A very simple enchantment is to take a charm representing what you wish to accomplish, and tied it onto a person or thing. You could tie a heart onto a child's backpack to keep them safe, a compass or star onto your shoe so you can always find your way or an umbrella on your jacket to keep you protected from unexpected storms.
The type of cord or string has a lot of possibilities as well. I keep old shoelaces (I hate throwing things out that aren't broken!) and bits of string or yarn left over from crafting projects. You can get small travel sized dental floss that is handy to keep in a purse or backpack. You can knot strings that hang off of clothing. You can even use your own hair (easier if you have longer hair).
Something I was thinking about recently when I went to do some knotwork was that, while I like rhyming charms like the one above, some of the wording is clunky, and other than the repeating idea of tying your intent into the knots, there isn't any real differentiation between the knots.
Instead, consider using numerology to reinforce different aspects of your goal. Or a number of steps you feel necessary to work up to your intended result. Or qualities you want in your end result (if you were working for a job, you might tie a knot for easy commute, a knot for flexible work schedule, a knot for daytime shift...etc).
