Its all in the details....
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trystinnI've been rushing around getting ready for Halloween, having been too busy this weekend to attend to the secular holiday. Ran to the store and bought candy, completely chickening out and buying eight bags of chocolate-themed candy. Oddly enough, there were no Hershey mini-bars combo packs, perhaps I'm just too late? I re-organized the vehicles in the driveway - turning the van around so the pagan bumper stickers faced the fence, instead of the open driveway and placing it next to the RV too close for anyone to get between them and into the RV (RV doorlocks are really cheap and flimsy). I put up lights down the driveway so folks can make it safely to the house, as its set back from the road and the driveway itself is very dark.
I walked the front yard, trying to get creative as to how kids could be destructive and realized the Witch Ball had to come inside. Its just too tempting out front, sadly. Brought it inside, placed it in a basket and placed it on the table at the front door so ToTers can see it (the green swirl glows in the dark), sort of like a scrying or fortune telling crystal ball. Spent a few minutes searching through the holiday stuff to realize, oddly enough, I don't own one of those plastic orange jack o'lanterns, which I wanted to place on the witch ball stand in the center of the spiral walk. So the foundation stand is just sitting out there with nothing on top...maybe I can figure out something later to put on there. I checked each of the fence gates to make sure they are secured, so no one can sneak into the backyard. Maybe this is overkill, but I've a standing stone (driftwood) circle in the backyard out of site of the house and I don't want anyone getting wannabe occultist for Halloween out there.
Inside I've placed miscellaneous tapestries over the tables, setting little scenes since our front door opens up right into our living room (yuck - something we're going to re-orient when we re-model. I do miss those beautiful entry ways in my former New England homes. I'm realizing that I'm going to have to invest in either a Chinese-type room screen to give either my office or my living room (depending on event) some privacy from the living room or find a suspension rod to hang something in the doorway to the office.
Now, everyone chant with me "I will not go overboard on lighting candles. I will not go overboard on lighting candles"...
I walked the front yard, trying to get creative as to how kids could be destructive and realized the Witch Ball had to come inside. Its just too tempting out front, sadly. Brought it inside, placed it in a basket and placed it on the table at the front door so ToTers can see it (the green swirl glows in the dark), sort of like a scrying or fortune telling crystal ball. Spent a few minutes searching through the holiday stuff to realize, oddly enough, I don't own one of those plastic orange jack o'lanterns, which I wanted to place on the witch ball stand in the center of the spiral walk. So the foundation stand is just sitting out there with nothing on top...maybe I can figure out something later to put on there. I checked each of the fence gates to make sure they are secured, so no one can sneak into the backyard. Maybe this is overkill, but I've a standing stone (driftwood) circle in the backyard out of site of the house and I don't want anyone getting wannabe occultist for Halloween out there.
Inside I've placed miscellaneous tapestries over the tables, setting little scenes since our front door opens up right into our living room (yuck - something we're going to re-orient when we re-model. I do miss those beautiful entry ways in my former New England homes. I'm realizing that I'm going to have to invest in either a Chinese-type room screen to give either my office or my living room (depending on event) some privacy from the living room or find a suspension rod to hang something in the doorway to the office.
Now, everyone chant with me "I will not go overboard on lighting candles. I will not go overboard on lighting candles"...
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Date: 2005-11-01 01:07 am (UTC)Seems like the ToTers have finished early. :( I wanted my son to use his "evil overlord" voice on the kidlets, but he wouldn't play along. Spoil sport. Oh well. I guess I'll drown my sorrow in a Take 5. I haven't had a single piece of candy today.
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Date: 2005-11-01 01:11 am (UTC)the basset hound has been sitting in front of the sofa end table where I've set up the Witch's ball and a candle as a set "scrying scene".
So now - is my basset an aspiring occultist or is something else unusual and metaphysical going on?
Or yes, just another post-absinthe reality check?
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Date: 2005-11-01 01:15 am (UTC)My cats go completely nuts when I take out a pendulum. I could understand it if they swatted at it as it swung, but they have to lie down under it and chew on it! And, of course, tarot cards' meanings must be absorbed through the side of a cat's body . . .
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Date: 2005-11-01 03:16 pm (UTC)We judge how effective a ritual is by how many of the dogs snore their way through it. Otto attended his first ritual Saturday, and is a very loud snoozer, btw.
The shepherd mix, on the other hand, is a very spiritually attuned doggy. She's been known to help people with trance work.
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Date: 2005-11-01 01:22 am (UTC)b b but, it's the eve of Diwali!!!
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Date: 2005-11-01 01:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-11-01 01:52 am (UTC)seems every religion has one ;)