A SPANISH Teacher was explaining to her class that in Spanish, unlike English, nouns are designated as either masculine or feminine.

'House' for instance, is feminine: 'la casa.'

'Pencil,' however, is masculine: 'el lapiz.'

A student asked, 'What gender is 'computer'?'

Instead o f giving the answer, the teacher split the class into two groups, male and female, and asked them to decide for themselves whether computer' should be a masculine or

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I hate to be a bummer but I want everyone to be safe and the only way I know to do that is to get the messages out because the mainstream media will not. I am so thankful I have a computer right now....please be aware...
Could this stuff be true?! You must see these videos for yourself. The first is
about 4 minutes.
The second is about 8 minutes.....an investigative reporter trying to get the
truth out about H1N1.
These ppl are saying not to take the vaccine. I can't take it anyway because of
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Hidden Passages by Vila Spiderhawk is a set of small stories about a woman’s milestones in life. For example: birth, child, parent and death. The author pulls you into the storyline with great depth. For instance, you can imagine and almost smell the herbs. You can also feel the character thoughts and feeling in the last short story as she goes through birth to death. It w

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A 5th grader asked her mother the age-old question, 'How did I get here?'

Her mother told her, 'God sent you.'

'Did God send you, too?' asked the child.

'Yes, Dear,' the mother replied.

'What about Grandma and Grandpa?' the child persisted

'He sent them also,' the mother said.

'Did he send their parents, too?' asked the child.

'Yes, Dear, He did,' said the mother patiently.

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Needed:
9 hazelnuts
Black colored twine
Nut pick


Using the nut pick, bore holes in the nuts. Don't shell them; use whole nuts. String them on the twine, making it just long enough to hold the nine nuts with a little bit of space, then tie off in a circle. On Samhain night, consecrate it in the fire, passing it back and forth 3 times, and chant:

"Hazelnuts nine in a ring
By the smoke of the Samhain Fire bring
To those within our humble home
Form over this a protective cone
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October 22, 2009
Empathy in Action
An Experiment in Gratitude

Sometimes we forget to take the time to recognize the richness that defines our lives. This may be because many of the messages we encounter as we go about our affairs prompt us to think about what we don’t have rather than all the abundance we do enjoy. Consequently, our gratitude exists in perpetual conflict with our desire for more, whether we crave time, convenience, wealth, or enlightenment. Yet understanding and truly appreciat… Continue

Forest Song: Little Mother has been nominated for this year’s Pushcart Prize (yes, the one you read about in the New York Times!)

“The Pushcart Press has been recognized as among the most influential publishers in American history by Publishers Weekly. Pushcart won the National Book Critics Circle Lifetime Achievement Award (2005), The Poets & Writers/Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Prize (2006), and Publishers Weekly’s Carey Thomas Prize for publisher of the year (1979).

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Dear Ms. SpiderHawk,

I am reading Forest Song: Little Mother just now and I have to tell you how much I love it. I am Jewish, you see, and I just read your Passover scene. It brought tears to my eyes because, though I am Jewish, since I moved from my family’s home in Alabama, I have not really practiced my religion. Your Passover scene gave me the kind of communal sense that I used to have at the Seder. I doubt that I shall go to Temple because of this book. There are many reasons why

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The following excerpt is from "Kindling the Celtic Spirit: Ancient Traditions to Illuminate Your Life Throughout the Seasons," published by HarperSanFrancisco, and used with permission of the author.

On the eve of All Souls' Day in Ireland, families lit a candle in the window to guide the souls of the Dead back to their old homes. As the veil between the worlds thinned, a sluagh, or host, of spirits walked the land, and encountered the same hospitality the Celts have always shown the living, Do… Continue

Protective Affirmation

Isis of the flowing Nile,
Shield me while I mediate.
Psychic guidance from the East.
As I will, so mote it be.

Diana of the Hunt,
Guard me while my time does run.
Energize the light for me.
As I will, so mote it be

Thor, might god of the west,
Shelter me with thy mighty power
As I wander near and far.
As I will, so mote it be.

Odin, mighty god of the north,
Bring wisdom and safety to me.
Energize the night for me,
As I will, so mote it be.

Ra, father of the gods,
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October ’09 Newsletter

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Celebrating the Dark and the Light

By Patti Wigington

A Time of Positive and Negative Energy

Mabon is one of those times of year that affect people in different ways. For some, it's a season Goddess, calling upon that which is devoid of light. For to honor the darker aspects of the others, it's a time of thankfulness, of gratitude for the abundance we have at the season of harvest. No matter how you see it, Mabon is traditionally a time of balance. After all, it's one of the two times each ye… Continue

Forest Song: Finding Home is the story of Judy Baumann’s struggle to escape to her true home in the woods and to grow into her power there. A cast of magical characters, including a wise woman and the woman’s consort, help the girl in this enterprise. The story, situated between Germany and Poland, begins in 1929 and ends in 1933 when Judy becomes a woman.

ISBN 978-0-9814739-8-7 >p>Perfect Paperback 404 pp

Released March, 2008

$15.95

Available at:

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I have what’s called a Ventricular Tachycardia (my Heart wants to beat 3-4 times faster than normal), which will throw me into Cardiac Arrest. Then I have to be injected with a medicine that stops my Heart followed by an injection of medicine that restarts it. When this first started I would panic and get sick to my stomach, which just made it worse. As I learned what was going on with my Heart, I also learned to control my panic. The last time I had an Attack I was even able to lay there and wa… Continue

To everyone here and other sites:
I need to apologise for a mistake I made. The other day I was inviting my friends to my new site. I thought it would save time if I used to auto invite. Now I find out that it sends invites to EVERYONE on the ning network. I didn't know that I was not Spamming. I am sorry if I have offended anyone. I have already recieved some very vulgare and nasty e-mails (not from anyone here I don't think) and I have left notice with Ning officials about this inccident and y… Continue

The following blog is what we've been dealing with during this past month. I hesitated to include it here, not only because it is personal, but because it contains the nitty gritty reality of everyday life. I try to retain an upbeat atmosphere , and I think that usually I do, with the occasional exception of a small rant every now and then, though that's few and far between. (I hope.)

No one's life is perfect, everything is not rosy 24/7, and anyone who tries to give you that impression is eith… Continue

Most people only know and expect from magick what they have seen on television and movies, or what they have read in fictional stories. They expect lots of special effects, both visually astounding and sometimes noisy. They expect instantaneous reactions from magickal incantations and would be satisfied with no less. To most people, if magick does not meet the above criteria, it is not magick.

They would be wrong.

Real magick works in its own way and in its own time...no special effects, no dr… Continue

The August newsletter from The Witch's Corner is chock full of home videos and summer photos...

My witchlings and I were invited over to a dear friend's home for a 'girls night', and I took my camera.

In her magickal backyard is a giant 'truth tree'. People who venture under this mysterious and beautiful tree tend to spill their deepest secrets...with the magick of video, you can follow me beneath it's branches, into the dark recesses of this magickal spot.

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(I"m reposting my myspace blog of our recent experience with a computer repairman. This is a lesson and a warning about trusting any type of repairman/stranger to come into your home. We learned the hard way...)


Where do I start?


The computer man called me when I was having lunch with a friend to ask if he could come at 3 o’clock instead of one. Sure. “I was looking at a picture,” he said, “is Amythyst your real name?”


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One of the lasting popular myths in Wicca is that of the so-called "Burning Times" when allegedly 9 million women died for refusing to give up their Pagan beliefs and convert to Catholocism. We are given the story of women in their hundreds walking into the sea to drown rather than be burned. We are sometimes even told about the Pagan women who were burned at Salem, MA. Sadly this myth seems to be a hard one to make go away even when all the evidence clearly shows that it is incorrect.

In the f… Continue