Whats in a name?

Do you know what your name means? Have you given it any thought as to what it means to have that name?

I used to hate my name and to be honest using my given name still bothers me. Its one of those names that you think a cheerleader would have. Now that would be fine if I was a cheerleader type, but Im not. Im one of those people who would have been rightly named Gertrude or Helga. Something that sounded strong and old.

The name given me means "beloved". All I have to say about that is EW.......UNLESS you put it with my whole name. My name was given to me by my sister when I was born. She was given a list by my mother and she chose my name from its sound. My sister was all of 14 when she did this so you can imagine what she chose right?

A couple of years ago I was doing a study on names and how important they are in shaping a future. Naming a child is one of the most important things someone can do. Thats what they thought in the days of old and I believe it today.
My brothers name means "Honoring God, the noble one from the oak grove" He has become a very zealous Christian and holds his head so high most of the time I can cound his nose hairs.
My mothers name meand "Bright one pledged of the ocean" Now anyone who knew anything about my mother knew she had a love of the ocean and light like a beacon when she was near it. Even when she was land locked she painted ocean scenes and longed to have as much yellow and blue in her life as possible. Her very soul yearned for the ocean.

I have written some in this blog on the kinds of things I do. Yes I am a spiritual person. I talk to trees and animals and spirit travel at will. I am very opinionated and yet I try to be peaceful about my opinions and view others opinions as learning tools and often study guides. Its fair to say that what you see is what you get. I am an artistic person who loves music and dance with a passion. I have never settled my mind on one thing for very long so I tend to be a free thinking person.I also am very complicated on matters that mean the most to me. I know some of you know my real name but I bet you never knew its meaning.

I am "Beloved renowned warrior from the oak grove"

For those of you who know anything about the path I am on, it is very plain to see that my future from birth was handed to me on a silver platter.....by a 14 year old girl who suffers brain damage.

I challenge you to look up the meaning of your full name. You might find something out about yourself you never knew...and then again, I can bet theres something about it you have always known.

Music

Music effects my daily routine. If I play soft music I tend to be depressed or insightful. If I play loud heavy music I can be very loud and angry. Certain rhythms send my feet dancing while others make me sit or even lie down. I dont know if it is the energy collected and then put out for me to hear or if it how my body reacts to the energy I am listening to, either way it is an interesting study.

I know that plants react to music and the scientists have found that some plants do well with classical and some do well with rock and roll. Unborn babies respond well to music also.

I have found that sound and rhythm are what allows me to do what I do. The more I like the sound the better the outcome is. I cant help but wonder how many others are like me. I wonder how many work with the same kinds of sounds I do. For me its drumming and droning with good harmony. I dont know how to put what I am trying to describe but I can certainly tell you when I hear it. It would seem that my craft is severely effected by what Im listening to.
Maybe I should collect music as payment for my work.....how many kinds of work could come form that? Now this is an interesting idea. I will have to think more on it.

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The sounds of an echo
When you whisper to the wind
In the minds eye
Drawing pictures within

Colors in prism
That dance all around
Music is life
harmony profound

Balance in time
Our dreams to escape
Thoughts of you
My soul to take

Simple it seems
To understand
The meaning of all that is
And what we are seeing

Fools are we
With thoughts incomplete
To end a story
When we speak

To Break Free of the Vampires Hold

to rid ______
of being a target
and force the
feeders to go away

to let the love
and understanding of one
be stronger at will
and keep them at bay

behold the mother
caretaker of all
go to her now
upon my call

show her the ways
of loves hard truths
and break the ties
and feelings of youth

Hecatate, Diana, Artemis all
the mothers surround her
and keep her from answering
the vampires call

change not her love
but eyes to see
set her mind
and body free

we love our sister/brother
_______'s her name
bring her/him back
to us again.

a candle for the Goddesses and Gods and one for________in the center. I use sage for cleansing, cinnamon for strength, and lavender for calm. (burn the spices/herbs) I print out the persons signature so I have something thats personally theirs to place on the alter. upon every morning I will repeat this until they comes back!

LAdy Raven

Freedom

I am but one
Who stands alone

I look around to see

The we
The me
Them and they

All is seen
And goes astray

My protection is
My dignity
Transparent as
It may be

I am but one
Who stands alone

I am Freedom
And Freedom is me

Your Belief Or Mine?

IMHO...
and I mean to be really humble here...if everyone has their own
path, doesnt that mean there are just as many ways to walk a path as
well?

as a former Christian I can say there are literaly 1000's of
Christian Witches. Most dont even know what they are practicing.
My old Pastor discovered the healing powers of liquid oxygen
and went around putting the stuff all over peoples wounds healing
them almost instantly saying how great God was for showing this to
him. It cracked me up because I knew of this practice back when I
was just a girl and mom was a practicing witch.
Being filled with the holy spirit is the same as being a medium or an integral part of Shamanic practices.
Shamans have been practicing the laying on of hands since the beginning of time and the Hindu people also practice this. Come to think of it the African Voodoo beliefs say you can both give and take by the laying on of hands.
Its all semantics people, Who cares what you call it. It is what it is. Life is far to short and far to precious to waste on arguing about who can or should do what and how. The fact is, if we can all be kind in our thinking and put beliefs aside and just practice what we do, much more would get done. I see no need to carry out a war thats lasted more than 2000 years.

Have you ever noticed that you seem to have certain times when things just dont feel "right"? You know its not your period because that was last week. You know its not the significant other because they have been perfect. People just seem to bother you. Sound bothers you everything isn't "right" Check the planetary alignments. Its probably Mercury in retrograde. I'm no expert on this and in fact know very very little about it but I can say this, my friends go crazy when this time happens.

The best way I know to deal with it is just to laugh it all off. You can try to explain away why its happening but most wont believe you. Its better to snicker to yourself and wait out the storm. I spend most of my retrograde days in solitude and watching the most hilarious things I can find. My dog is a great form of entertainment. She tends to do stupid things only she can do best. Like burrowing a tunnel under the covers only to smell My husband's feet and come back up. I use my computer and go online to watch people do stupid things in video. Cartoons are a good way to past the time too. Anything to get me to smile. So if you see me out and Im laughing at everything you can bet its because our friend mercury is at his tricks and I'm trying to think its funny.