Chiaroscuro: The Life in Liminality

A blog exploring the life of a magick-worker, a Marine veteran, a shaman-in-training, an artist, Asian American, and whatever else he feels like being that week

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Cat Yronwode Has Defeated Me! Congratulations!

I can’t take it any longer. I have done nothing but share the truth about Cat Yronwode’s actions since my first post. Sadly, nearly everything I receive in turn is hate mail or threats. No proper dialog, no discussions, and never an apology from Cat Yronwode herself for her grotesque actions. It saddens me that people can not accept the truth about a person they regard as a leader, mentor, practitioner, and friend.

Another Tumblr user reached out to me tonight (cat-yronwode-truth) and had (very quickly) copied all of my posts into his personal blog. I have also received numerous emails in the past 12 hours alone, all of them thanking me for the work was doing in sharing these truths with the world. It’s encouraging to see how many people truly want to help keep the truth alive about Cat Yronwode, even if they currently must remain anonymous. Sadly, I can no longer remain in the spotlight over this. The health and safety of my husband and I come first.

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this isn’t even a problem

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Want 🙈💜

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I would like an owl

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This Post Has Been Removed

For the health and safety of my family & friends, this post regarding the grotesque behaviors of Cat Yronwode has been removed from this blog. Learn More.

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Pagan Voices is a spotlight on recent quotations from figures within the Pagan community. These voices may appear in the burgeoning Pagan media, or from a mainstream outlet, but all showcase our wisdom, thought processes, and evolution in the public eye. Is there a Pagan voice you’d like to see...

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Last night, Clayton James, the partner of Eduardo “Eddy”Gutiérrez (aka Hyperion), posted to Facebook that the prominent rootworker, podcaster, priest, and community leader had died from a sudden cardiac event earlier in the afternoon. He was 38.

Eddy Gutiérrez

“Today, at 3PM,...

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I’m so happy

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Cats, Cats and More Cats (=^.^=)

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Your cute cat(s) of the day

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Click and Enjoy - SonhosMolhados(Sex) - CityoftheGuys(Life) - HotCountry(Cowboys) - WiccanLife(Pagan/Boys) - Sex-3(Sexwith3) - AngelsandGuys(CuteFace) - Facebook

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Click and Enjoy - SonhosMolhados(Sex) - CityoftheGuys(Life) - HotCountry(Cowboys) - WiccanLife(Pagan/Boys) - Sex-3(Sexwith3) - AngelsandGuys(CuteFace) - Facebook

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(looking up ideas for some home made gifts for my family. I think I would appreciate these more than anyone else, so I am sharing them. -stephoebe)

Herbal Fire Starter

Pinecones and dried herbs such as rosemary, sage leaves, and cinnamon sticks make fragrant kindling for a winter fire — and, unlike composite firelogs and lighter fluid, don’t rely on chemicals to ignite the flame.

1. Bundle dried herbs and small pinecones in a sheet of newspaper and secure the ends with raffia or cotton twine.

2. As you pile up logs for your fire, nestle the herb bundle underneath, with paper ends sticking out.

3. To start the fire, light the newspaper ends. As the paper burns up, the herbs inside will ignite and incinerate, giving the logs a chance to catch fire. Cost: less than $10

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What a great idea!

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This has more uses than that as well.

Bonfires, wood stoves, cook stoves (some of us still have the wood burning ones in use), grills.

Rituals, spells, gifts, offerings, covering the smells of: soot, cigarettes, pets, sickness.

All the uses.

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Chris Panda

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"Drown the Witch" Reversing Spell

^ This is a public domain picture.

Here is a spell to take off a curse or crossed condition off of you, and send it back to its source. No drowning of actual witches involved.

Make a doll (poppet, doll, etc.) to represent source of the curse. Use biodegradable material since you will be "drowning" the doll in a river. Include personal effects if the source is known. Otherwise, refer to the doll as "enemy". Tie the doll to a rock. Go down to a clean, moving running and bathe yourself, rubbing yourself with the doll, praying that whatever evil condition on you is washed off in the river and taken by the doll. Take the doll and throw it downstream from you, commanding the doll to take what negativity was on you with it.

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Spiritworker 1301: Stuff I Wished I Had Known as a New Spiritworker, Part II

Gods are not the way Christianity portrays its god; this includes their own god. Gods do not know everything. They are not perfect or all-powerful. Some of them are kind, and some of them are...

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