Lights In The Snow

March has been a horrible snowy month and where I live the services stop at the drop of a hat. There is hardly any gritting done, so essential services cannot reach the houses. Bins are left unemptied, the postman disappears off in to hyperspace and doesn't bother delivering mail and no one clears the roads. It is perhaps for this reason that privately rented houses round here frequently change tenants. It is an absolute nightmare trying to get around. Cars/taxis can't get anywhere near and a person was taken to an ambulance the other week strapped to a sledge because the streets are so steep. I have been going to move for over ten years but seem to be still stuck here.

At my last address I lived within a short walk of the town centre and it was a great place to be. I lived in a flat above an unoccupied shop for 18 months and at one stage we even had an ITV film crew round filming a song we wrote and performed for Take a Break Magazine's then campaign 'Mum's Army'. The place was tiny but convenient however we had to move because the floor in the bedroom began to cave in, becoming unsafe and the shower water just poured in to a puddle on the pavement outside. We still enjoyed living there though.

Fireworks on 17th February 2018

We let some fireworks off as well as using some of them for rituals, on 17th February. little did we know however that a short taxi ride had given us a really horrible dose of Australian Flu from which we are still recovering.
The female taxi driver was chirpy enough when we saw her on the 17th but when we used her again on the 22nd she was coughing and snorkelling. I really do wish people wouldn't go out when they are clearly very infectious. It is really thoughtless to others!

The Pippins, Lou And The Chinese Lunar Year Of The Earth Dog

February 16th 2018 was the start of the Chinese New Year Of The Earth Dog. This will last until February 5th next year when the Pig,(sometimes referred to as a Boar) will take over. All the three dogs appeared to be having a really good time and they were very connected because it is the year of their namesake  All the dogs were heavily ready to party big time.

Tallulah And The Sheep Are Not Going For Walks

These are some new arrivals, getting a bit of a Freemason's look with the black and white chequered floor (or cushion) I really like the books by Mark Alexander Jackson; they are quirky and funny books and he digs deep in to local information for the areas he walks in with his dog Lou Parsons.
Basically this is a man in a flat cap who has a liking for Jack Russell dogs and is generally accompanied by Lou or Tallulah, as he mentioned she is really called, on his longer walks. I like the fact he uses public transport, i.e. buses and trains and is not climbing out of a car to do his treks with the dog. It makes it all the more real somehow that someone is actually out there walking through meadows, ruins and hills and not simply driving up to the sites for a quick gambol and drive off to suburbia.

Valentine's Spellworkings

We have a really beautiful romantic spellworking film but we are not able to put it on a blog as the Powers That Be would expect a payment every time the blog was viewed. We once made the mistake of putting some old spell films of intricate workings on a blog and soon realized that the forces that worked with them wanted something so they were hastily removed. People buy our spells and for each one bought we always give a gift of sweets, fruit, or cake to the spiritual forces that govern the spell. The photos are different because the spell is not repeating again and again, it is just a picture.

Spell For The Power Of The Dragon

This is a spell calling on the powers of the dragons. The cakes are offerings. the spells produce an energetic power which can be easily felt. We also do musical spells and have even incorporated our many musical instruments in to the sounds of spells. but sometimes, on the fly, it is necessary to have something smaller to hand than a full size guitar, or even something that needs taking from a case .

By the time things have been plugged in the special moment can have passed, so the guitars have been silent for a while and instead we have used some rather unusual little pieces to make music which is intoned to spell work. loud music drives out stuck energy. I usually put anything that comes through on one of my bedside recorders. Needless to say they are full of weird songs and song rituals.

The Pippins And The Fortune Telling Tea Cup

This is a 1930's fortune telling tea cup. It actually has playing cards marked out inside and then some brief meanings around the side of the saucer. It is at present sitting at the back in my kitchen and at night I get the impression of a middle aged woman with long thick red wavy hair, wearing a blue skirt suit, a burgundy hat and a kind of fox fur, standing near to where the cup is placed. She has deep red lipstick and painted fingernails too.

See also:
Brother Darklight & Rebecca