Tes, We Still Need Help

Yes, we still need help. We need help with paid gigs. Stephen not only does readings and classes, but also does yard work for locals at the rate of $20/hour. I can do readings, and classes Stephen’s skill set, where this is concerned, is larger than mine. But I can write. Should I make a sign that says “Will write for money”? As always, readings or classes are $32 each. You can get one of each for $60. You can select from a wide array of decks and divination tools. Between us, we probably have about 800 decks and divination tools, with some overlap. I have some decks/tools that he doesn’t have, and he has some decks that I don’t have. One such is the Ancestral Path Tarot.

For the classes, you can select from a wide array of topics in the wide field of magick. One such example is aspecting, also known as “drawing down the Moon/Sun,” or “assuming the godform”. Our partner, Julie Maahs, is going to be helping Stephen and me with banners for:
1. Her book
2. Gallery 14
3. Walt’s art & music
4. our Tarot readings & classes
5. Stephen’s yard work (I don’t do yard work)

And the work on the site for Abbott’s Inn International School of Magick continues. . Of course, I only mentioned one of many many classes we teach. Another is classes on divination such as: Tarot, Runes Ogham, Native American Medicine Wheel,Tibetan Tattwas, .and the Goddess Oracle.

In political news, Arizona has just enacted a very fascist law. In an effort to stem the tide of illegals coming from Mexico, police are permitted to do what amounts to racial profiling. They can stop the vehicle of anyone who appears to be Hispanic, and demand to see citizenship papers. You’ve heard of “driving while black”, well then this is “driving while brown.” We are asking you to join the boycott on all products from Arizona. Yes, that includes “Arizona Tea”. Some Hispanic legislators are heading up the boycott. Please join us, won’t you? Of course, I’m sure that the law get voided by the Supreme Court, but in the meantime, please join the boycott. Thank you.

It turns out that letter in which our landlady demanded additional deposits of $200 per cat, is not a legal eviction order, since she did it on the cheap, and did not file it with the court. But we are still leaving. It’s that now the time pressure isn’t there. But we still need around $3000 to move. You too can help. If you can’t afford $32 for a reading or a class, send me $5 and I will send you one of my ebooks. Send me $20, and you get all five. Please send all donations to either (me) tezra.reitan@gmail.com or (Stephen) abbottsinn@gmail.com at Paypal.

This past weekend, I did a reading with my Touchstone Tarot. I was right. It was and is perfect for reading at Renaissance events. I thought it might be, because the paintings on the cards are all painted in Renaissance garb. The cards were accurate, too. I don’t remember who published the deck, but I got it through One Spirit, a book club I belong to. One Spirit is a book club like “Crafter’s Choice”, and the SciFi Book Club. The Sci Fi Book Club finally got wise, and realized they’re not going to get paid for books that people didn’t order, but that just got sent to them automatically. It would be nice if the other 2 book clubs I mentioned followed suit. I’ve gotten a number of nice things from “One Spirit” over the years. I got the Legacy tarot from them, too. Stephen is currently borrowing the Legacy Tarot, but when I get it back from him, I’ll do more readings with it too. Stephen thinks that it’s one of the best decks out there. The pictures are not the usual ones. Their use of color is unique. He finds it awesome, and wants to get a copy.

Beer’s is Stephen’s favorite book store. It’s totally unlike the chain bookstores like Barnes & Noble and Borders. It’s a rather funky place I like it. I could drop a thou in there without half thinking about it if I had a thou that wasn’t earmarked for moving, or didn’t have a roomful of books I have yet to read. Speaking of books, I may have mentioned it in our post to the Hedge Craft group, but I’ll mention it here as well. I am halfway through “Hedge Witch”, and man does that book inspire me. In the very first chapter, I got a technique for manifestation that I have since used every day. We have scored the TV set in the living room, and I have scored Windows 7 for my laptop. All I need now is the extra RAM for it.

I’m fasting right now, because after group, I’m going to the other Kaiser to let Dracula’s Disciples take some of my blood for a cholesterol screening. That’s what I jokingly call the phlebotomists. It isn’t due until 2012, but my dr. wants to be ahead of the curve. I wonder if Kaiser retains a nutritionist/dietician. If so, I’d like to see if one can design a diet for me. Fasting is required for all blood panels. Fasting is a feature of the spiritual disciplines of many cultures. Muslims fast during the day at Ramadan, some Catholics fast during Lent, Jews fast during Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. Some magicians fast during certain magickal workings. I fasted the week before my 1st Degree Wiccan initiation. Hindus fast during some of their festivals, then feast after the rituals. With Wiccans and Thelemites, we fast when we Will to. A fast is used to focus. Boy, was I focused today. I was focused on getting my blood drawn so that I could eat. After the blood was drawn, I was focused on eating. I had chicken noodle soup. Man, was that good. It’s like I couldn’t see straight until I got that soup in me. My “Dracula’s Disciple” laughed when I told him what I call phlebotomists. He thought it was just awfully funny. I got the idea from an indie film that was made about 30 years ago about a priest who is made a vampire, then decides that Jesus and the saints were also vampires. It was a very interesting film.

The section of “Hedge Witch” I just finished had to do with stitchery. RavenWolf supports my assertion that stitchery is very soothing to the soul. The repetitive action of needle in cloth then out again is extremely meditative in nature. This, like stroking a purring cat, tends to put the human mind into the alpha state. I love either conversing, or watching a movie whilst stitching. Add a purring cat, and I’m in paradise. By the way, the word “paradise” is from the Persian for walled garden. I love finding out the histories behind words. It’s weird, I realize, but then I’m weird. Stephen would say that this penchant of mine is just part and parcel of my being the Phonetic.

Remember, if you go to a Ning network, and they ask for money, walk away, and don’t look back Refuse to pay anything. If you have networks, and Ning demands money, either find other places to put your sites, or leave them behind. A cent per month is too much. If we all stick together and boycott these sites, Ning and the greedy so-and-sos who are trying to charge us for using their networks will go under and learn their lesson. . This is going to be a huge sacrifice for me, because I had blogs on almost 200 networks.

You may have heard about the planetary shift.of the poles. Well, the poles have not moved more than 5 degrees in the past 200 million years. Stephen thinks they may have shifted not physically, but in a way only a shaman would recognize.

I was looking on Amazon for the Ancestral Path Tarot deck, with a view to perhaps ordering a copy from them, but they want at least $116 for it. Forget it! No deck is worth that much. You spend that much on a deck, and then you’re afraid to take it out of the box and use it. It’s like having a diamond necklace that you’re afraid to wear. Jewelry should be worn and enjoyed. A tarot deck is a tool that is meant to be used and enjoyed. If you have this tarot deck, and want to get rid of it for a more affordable price, please let me know. By “affordable,” I mean under $50, including shipping and sales tax. Please let us know as soon as you can, as we’re planning to do something special with it. This deck has specific cards in it that have ritual significance. Stephen likes that there are the princes and princesses instead of pages and kings.

Teaser alert!!! Teaser alert!!! We will soon have the banners I mentioned above, so look out for them! It is May, so soon we will be gathering at their office to do this thing. I will have a clipboard with paper on it and pens, so I can take down what Julie says. Soon we shall also have libations. Libations are sweets we have, click together, and say affirmations over. Stephen is slowly getting the hang of affirmations. It takes a lot of doing to get anything through that thick skull of his. He kept putting his affirmations in the future tense, and it was only with difficulty that I managed to get through to him that affirmations are always always always in the present tense. You say you already have it, and that convinces your Younger Self to bring it to you. We use the Secret with this. Now to us magickal people, the Secret is in reality no secret at all. It is quite simply the Law of Attraction which is at once the first law of Sympathetic Magick, and the first law of Hermetic Philosophy, which was promulgated by Hermes Trismegistis or Hermes the Thrice Great of Khem. The Law goes: “Like attracts Like.” As you think, so shall it be. The Christians say it this way: “Ask and ye shall receive, believe, and it shall be granted unto you.” So if you’re thinking all the time about how poor you are, you will remain poor but if you have an attitude of gratitude, and think about how rich and fortunate you are, you will get rich and fortunate. The key is belief. Do you know what the opposite of faith is? I can hear you saying “Disbelief”, but you’d be wrong. The opposite of faith is despair. I should know. That’s where I was in March. March was a hard month for both of us. Then in early April, I got a phone call that turned my head around, and got me thinking about the Secret again, and how it works. Ir’s always on. Whether it works for you or against you is up to you.

That phone call which I got was my adopted sister asking whether I might be interested in going to Tartan Day at Ardenwood. I had the time of my life there, and an even better time last weekend at Woodland. It told me why I stay in Renaissance year after year, even after the guy who introduced me to Renaissance died. I feel such love there. I was informed by my “brother” (my adopted sister’s real life brother) that the guild would help me move again. If any of you lives in the Sacramento area, you are cordially invited to join us. There will be pizza and root beer for all who help us move. That’s what part of the $ 3000 goes towards. It’s a minor part, no more than about $60, but it really helps. Buying pizza and soda for the workers is traditional. I like root beer because it is caffeine free. With such traditions, moving becomes a family affair. Moving should not be so stressful if you use this formula. It should be an activity of comrades. Participants should know that someday their day too will come when they are called upon to be there for the other individuals. We talk about moving here because we’re trying to show that Wicca is not just a family affair, but a community affair.

There are many Pagans and Wiccans in the armed forces. Even though we don’t support the wars they are currently fighting in, we support them to the hilt. One of these is a friend of Stephen’s. Wiccans and other Pagans in the armed forces have been going on for awhile. The idea of Wiccans in the military goes back to the Vietnam era. Stephen went to demonstrations to support the Wiccan veterans, anf Wiccan soldiers. Today you can find many Wiccan military groups on the internet on such places as www,paganspace.net. This seems to be a recent phenomenon, possibly because of the two wars our people are on now, and the prevalence of the internet.

Welcome to DruidWicca Coven 7! We’re certainly glad that you could make it! We strongly urge you to check out the other DruidWicca Coven groups on other networks. If you haven’t joined any of the other six DruidWicca Coven groups, let us tell you what it is about. A few years ago Phillip and Stephanie Carr-Gomm and artist Bill Worthington created an absolutely drop dead gorgeous Tarot deck called the DruidCraft Tarot . We were so inspired by the deck that we created this group to celebrate it. You could call it the Celtic Tradition of the Craft of the Wise. Know what you’d call it if the Mafia ever went Wiccan? You’d call it “Craft of the Wise Guys”. Seriously though, we are glad to see you, yeah, even you in the corner twiddling your thumbs.

This desire to be both Druid and Wiccan was shared by not just us, but also others. Since you joined this group, we’re guessing that you share it too. Both of us came from the idea, and the deck was a revelation to both of us that this was true, that Druidry and Wicca could be combined quite successfully. Basically, this would be the Celtic tradition. Of course, if you are ADF, it can be any Indo-European tradition, including Vedic (Hindu) I regaled the ADF Grove I belong to with my experience of attending Sri Ramadhni (Rama’s birthday) celebration the last four nights of the celebration last month. It was about the only good thing that happened in March.

First we shall talk about the similarities of Druidry and the Craft, then the differences. They are both Pagan religions. Neo-Druidry and Wicca are both co-ed. Druids wear robes, as do Wiccans, if it isn’t a skyclad coven. They both use fire. They both use cauldrons for fire. Both Druids and Wiccans have feasts after the rituals, and at times, within the ritual itself. Both Druids and Wiccans love chocolate, and weird flavors of herbal teas.

One difference between them is that Druidry is mostly solar in nature, whilst the Craft is mostly lunar and stellar. .Modern day Druids are obsessed with hating circles, whilst Wicca is dependent upon circles. It’s mostly an ADF hatred of circles. Wiccans go skyclad, whilst Druids are scared shitless of anything sexual. Wiccans use magickal tools. Druids mainly just use the staff. ADF mainly does sacrificial worship, whilst the Craft does magick. With these differences and similarities in nature DruidWiccans take the best of both worlds. It’s a marriage between the two traditions, uniting the two in harmony.

As it stands today, Stephen feels that Druidry is weak and inferior to the Craft. He mostly has the ADF in mind. I disagree with him, feeling that Druidry is not either superior or inferior to the Craft of the Wise, just different. We encourage diversity within DruidWicca Coven; that is, diversity within faith with understanding of tradition. Stephen and I disagree about modern day Druidry. He says that it has gotten too structured and leaves no room for magick or any kind of spontaneity. This may be true of the ADF in a certain way, but can we really lump Henge of Keltria and White Oak in with them? I tried to explain to him, but in vain, that the ADF’s approach is simply different from the NRDNA. ADF does sacrificial worship. Stephen finds it boring. Stephen thinks there’s too much politics in ADF. I disagree with all of this. If the officers of the grove were a clique, how did I, a new-comer, manage to get into the “clique”? Stephen’s just resentful that his star in the grove fell, whilst mine rose.
Mine rose and his fell for one very simple reason. I am in learning mode. I was gung ho to participate in all activities of the grove. Stephen didn’t bother to participate. He felt he had no more to learn. I’ll take that attitude when I’m dead. Or maybe I won’t I can just see myself wandering all over the Summerland, interviewing people. I’ll interview all my dead friends, including Doc, then ask them to introduce me to other people that I can interview. You can tell that I’m not a female Stephen-clone. We disagree violently on this issue. I do NOT feel that Druidry is either asexual or conservative. Just because every other word they say isn’t profanity, he thinks they’re right wing fascists. The ADF has to be a bit antiseptic because there are families with young children who belong, and they have to feel that it’s a safe place for them and their kids. Zane is three, and I’m sure his parents don’t want him to be spouting blue language. The phrase “little pitchers have big ears” is a cliché because it’s true. Kids are big imitators and mimics. It’s how they learn. A good parent takes care to make sure that the only words his kid hears and picks up are good words.

I’m pretty excited. I tried out a technique I learned from the book I’m reading called “Hedge Witch” by Silver RavenWolf, and she has really redeemed herself from “Solitary Witch:. I hated “Solitary Witch”, which is the only book of hers I didn’t like. It just had too many errors. But “Hedge Witch” is another kettle of piranha altogether. One of Silver’s friends got an old fashioned telephone that he was going to add to his wife’s retro décor. But he didn’t hook it up to the telephone system. He was having home insurance troubles, and getting the run around from his insurance company. He dialed 911 and stated the nature of his emergency. Within 48 hours, he got the policy he wanted from a new agent. When I got home, after going to the missing persons’ room (a very popular place), and pouring myself some pink lemonade, I asked Stephen for his old phone. He gave it to me. I made two calls. I used primal language. I smiled. I concluded my “conversation” by saying “It always works” and “Always a blessing.” Now I’m just occupying myself to see what happens. I’m calling it the “manifestation telephone.”

The technique is as simple and profound as the Secret and Law of Attraction. You have to believe. Mainly, you have to get your subconscious lined up with your conscious mind. Nothing’s going to happen if they’re at odds with each other. I do it by playing 3 CDs every night, two on the Law of Attraction, and one on the Secret. The Secret is the Law of Attraction. I think Silver believes in it too, because her whole book is on how to attract abundance, great health, and harmonious relationships into your life. You also have to smile, and phrase your requests in simple direct language, the language of feelings and direct images. She calls it “the primal language”, which is what the universe understands. I hope it makes as much sense to you as it does to me.

There is a little “trigger” spell I got from “Instant Magick” by Chris Penczak. You use a trigger, which is a mudra done with the fingers. I visualize the bus of my choice coming, and repeat the number of the bus over and over in my mind, kind of as a mental chant. And the bus comes. I get on it, and show the driver my day pass. You have to back it up with mundane actions such as paying your fare, and showing your pass to the driver. But it works for me. It can cut half an hour of waiting out of a bus trip. Everyone has their own trigger or mudra. What little (or big) techniques do you use? They can involve any tool, no matter how mundane, or no tool at all except your brain. Sorry, had to say that, because it rhymed. I’m a sucker for such word manipulation tricks as alliteration, and rhyming, if you haven’t guessed before. One reason is that they make things easier to remember You may think of more reasons to like alliteration and rhyming. Please submit them here. One other reason for liking rhyming spells is that they entertain the Mighty Ones, and make Them that much more likely to grant your request. Another reason is that the Younger Self (mine does, anyway) likes rhyming, and it’s the Younger Self who does the magick. Please tell us your reasons. Inquiring minds want to know.

Rhyming spells are a strictly Wiccan/Witchcraft technique for magick, Stephen says. “Druids are utterly devoid of magick.” I retorted that Ian Corrigan is quite the magician, I’ve heard. “Sieera Madrone Grove is utterly devoid of magick They’re strictly devotional.“ But I replied “I’ve been present when magick happened. It isn’t planned.”
Today was a case in point. I went to the Sierra Madrone Grove Beltaine ritual today We raised power during the Opening of the Gates section. I came to the conclusion that Stephen blocks the power somehow or he’s anesthetized. I figure that unless he can get laid or pick up some bucks from doing readings, he’s not interested in a ritual that just celebrates the Gods and Goddesses. But I picked up on the magick we raised there today. I’m starting to think Stephen isn’t the magician he thinks he is.

I received a piece of sad news this morning. It seems that Robin Goodfellow came home yesterday from the NROOGD ritual last night, lay down, slipped into a diabetic coma and died. Gaia did just what I did after Doc died, got on the phone to notify some people. Robin and I had had a fling back in the 70s but it wasn’t serious, not on my end, anyway. We stayed friends, though. When I met Gaia, I was happy for both of them, because I knew they’d be good for each other. I was proud to call him friend. Whenever I’d run into him at either Himalayan Fair, or Pagan events, he always had a joke or a funny story. I’m a little angry at him because he persisted in drinking beer, even though he was diabetic. He favored Rainer Ale because it came in 16 oz. cans instead of the skimpy 12 oz. cans of most beers. Drinking alcohol is strictly verboten for diabetics because alcohol is fermented sugar, and so it screws up your sugar insulin balance. One time he went into insulin shock at my place because he’d taken insulin and not eaten afterwards. I cured him with a chocolate chip cookie. Robin made a great Horned God in rituals. We were all pretty concerned when Robin had a heart scare, and landed in the hospital in the early 90s. We all did healing rituals for him. But nobody was prepared to do a healing ritual for him on Saturday, and so he slipped away from us. Gaia Wildwood, his widow, is in our thoughts and prayers.

Stephen knew Robin most of his adult life, from age 20 on. Robin was one of the first California Pagans he met. There used to be a Pagan event in Berkeley where they’d parade a golden calf down Telegraph Ave. Robin and Stephen were both a part of it. Robin was one of the chief organizers, and had a newsletter about it. “The main thing about the Order of the Golden Calf was decadence, comedy, Paganism, and theatre.” In the 70s, Robin mainly concentrated on NROOGD. Somewhat later, in the mid-80s, Robin started teaching “A Course in Miracles” at Sunrise Books. They also spent a lot of time at Shambala Books. Gaia was Stephen’s therapist, so the three spent a lot of time together. The two men spent time together at NROOGD events, Ancient Ways, and Annuvin, Gwydion’s land in Greenfield Ranch outside of Ukiah in Mendocino County. It was Robin Goodfellow who got Stephen interested in the Cthulhu mythos. They used to go to the Mediterranean Coffeehouse on Telegraph, and discuss Paganism. They kept in contact when Stephen moved to El Sobrante, and Oakland. They remained in contact, even when Stephen moved to San Jose, and from there to Sacramento.

Here’s the situation: Jason Rosenthal, probably a Christian Republican, the new CEO of Ning, intends to put the Ning networks on a paying basis. That means no more free networks, no more joining other people’s networks for free, either because you know that the owners of the paying networks are going to pass their exorbitant costs onto us. What do you say to that? Make a noise, make a big noise. Make a noise so big and loud that Rosenthal can hear it. The next noise he’ll hear is the thundering of many footsteps as we all leave. We have to fight for our rights. We can’t let assholes like Rosenthal dictate to us. This kind of fascist BS should not be allowed to happen. We should do a letter writing campaign to fight this a-h. We have to fight this biotch. This fascist crap cannot stand. We have to get going right away. If everyone protests, it’ll make him go broke and he’ll be fired. We got support for our position from an unexpected quarter. A friend of mine, whom Stephen can’t stand, both because of his politics and his lovestyle (he’s a Reagan Republican and a Gorean) said that what Rosenthal was doing in phasing out the free services was a bad business decision. “People would be coming to him from the free services to get the premium paid services, but he’s cut that part of his Market out. He should keep both.” Let’s boycott Ning, and any of the networks that cave-in to his Gestapo tactics. If any network says you must pay to play, just say no, and get all your friends to say no too. Spread it around, tell everyone you know. Don’t keep it a secret. I have been sending my blog to all the Ning networks I’m on. “We have to stop this neo-Ning fascism,” says Stephen.

We need at least $3000 to move. 916-455-2267 is Stephen’s number for multimedia readings. Just 93.75 readings would do the trick. Don’t stand by and figure that your neighbor or your friend will do it, so you don’t need to. We need your donation too. Every little bit helps. Don’t forget that you can donate to Stephen’s Paypal account. abbottsinn@gmail.com. Also call 1-800-ASK-KEEN and ask for Stephen6580. Or call 1-800-280-8496.Stephen 1580 Stephen now has.$250 in his account which is not enough to pay rent.

One of the psychic reading services that Stephen works for has changed hands. Zodiac (Celebrity Psychics.com) has changed hands and names. It is now Psychic Power. They are recruiting new readers. Stephen gets $50 for anyone who signs up and $100 for someone who signs up and racks up 500 minutes.

Stephen’s done it. He’s gone over to Chase with me. It came to a head because an agent at Bunko de America told him that he had enough money to write $900 in checks to our landlady to pay off his back rent when he didn’t have the money. Now you should understand that Stephen is even more math challenged than I am. He was sick for 5 days with asthma symptoms and wasn’t able to call them to ascertain his balance, or he would have caught the error sooner. They charged him $900 in overdraft charges, and paid everything except for the Rhapsody charge, and his porn. Now I can understand why they wouldn’t have paid the porn one, but the Rhapsody? Why didn’t they pay that one? He just called Bunko de America, and they still won’t own up to any of their responsibility in this. SSI plays a role in this whole thing too because they toyed with him for two hours, letting him think that they were going to cut him an emergency check, then reneged on him. Now folks, this is two hours when he could have been doing readings, and getting his overdraft down. And they turned around and called the sheriff on him. So maybe now you understand why Stephen is so depressed and angry. I realize that you’re probably all out of compassion. I know I am. But the need is real, and the need is dire. He is no longer suicidal, but another setback could send him over the edge again. Of course I have a plan of action now if he turns suicidal again. I’ll call 911, and have him go in on a 5150. In this state, that’s the code for in danger of harming himself or others. This way he’ll get the help he needs.

Now I’m in need of readings too. I need to put in my share of our moving money. My PayPal account is tezra.reitan@gmail.com. For a donation of $5, I’ll send you a copy of one of my books, and for $32, I’ll give you a reading by phone. For $20, I’ll send you a copy of all five of my books. 916-457-7476 is my number. I can’t give you a multi-media reading, because I don’t have my webcam and headset hooked up yet. For that, you’ll have to call Stephen at 916-455-2267.

Our friend Julie Maahs has a book out called the Serpent and the Stag. It can be found at http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/10619. I urge you strongly to buy a download, and tell your friends. She is publicizing it through viral marketing; or what used to be called word-of-mouth advertising. She’s directing the book towards a Pagan audience. It’s a murder mystery with nice contorted twists and turns. When I read it, I saw it as though it were a movie and I was the lighting director/art director. If you review books, contact her at julie@your-taxes.com and she will send you the free coupon code so you can get a free download. She wants a copy of the review, so send her a copy. I sent her a copy and also posted it on Blogger.

We’re sorry that we haven’t been around much, but March was a really bad month for both of us. There’s been a lot of stress around here. The putties have been expressing it by either barfing or eliminating everywhere except where they should. Stephen has been getting his sick migraines. I just recovered from a bout of walking pneumonia and the boogie woogie blues.and high blood pressure, in spite of the blood pressure med I’ve been taking the past year and a half. I still have a nasty cough that makes me sound as though I have what used to be called consumption. At least I’m no longer either whooping or gasping for breath like I was for a few days. I’m sure I got this illness because my immune system was down from all the stress I was under. At least I can function through it better than when I got it 32 years ago, when I would come home from work, eat something, and plop into bed until the next morning. Then, during that attack of pneumonia, I had body aches and a fever. My skin hurt. But in this bout I’m not as sick. It’s just that Dr. Jones wasn’t happy with the amount of air my lungs were taking in. She asked me if I were wheezing. Not this time around. At least I didn’t notice any.

We still don’t have a house-mate, but because I re-ran that ad in the SN&R last Thursday, I expect some nibbles soon. The very people we want to attract as a house-mate are scared to live here because of the neighborhood. Well, I’ll tell you about neighborhoods. Every neighborhood is at risk now because gangs have wheels and money. No neighborhood is safe anymore. I’m a woman, and I feel safe on this street. One of you must know someone in Sacramento who needs a congenial cheap place to live. We have an 11,000 volume Pagan/magickal library, a long slender backyard, a fire circle, and a cauldron. We have satellite TV too and a workshop where you can pursue your craft or artificer dreams. Stephen just renewed his craigslist ads today, and I’m going to do it tomorrow.

There are five putties we need to give up. Ordinarily I would’ve said “free to good homes,” but a very wise friend told me this past weekend that we should charge something for them so that the prospective owner demonstrates that s/he has enough disposable income to care for a pet. The real reason is that people in the dog fight game get cats for their dogs to practice being vicious on. The really twisted ones bring their kids, and have their kids pick out the cats and kittens.So we’ll charge the nominal $10. We’re looking for people who love cats as much as we do. .

I received a piece of sad news this morning. It seems that Robin Goodfellow came home yesterday from the NROOGD ritual last night, lay down, slipped into a diabetic coma and died. Gaia did just what I did after Doc died, got on the phone to notify some people. Robin and I had had a fling back in the 70s but it wasn’t serious, not on my end, anyway. We stayed friends, though. When I met Gaia, I was happy for both of them, because I knew they’d be good for each other. I was proud to call him friend. Whenever I’d run into him at either Himalayan Fair, or Pagan events, he always had a joke or a funny story. I’m a little angry at him because he persisted in drinking beer, even though he was diabetic. He favored Rainer Ale because it came in 16 oz. cans instead of the skimpy 12 oz. cans of most beers. Drinking alcohol is strictly verboten for diabetics because alcohol is fermented sugar, and so it screws up your sugar insulin balance. One time he went into insulin shock at my place because he’d taken insulin and not eaten afterwards. I cured him with a chocolate chip cookie. Robin made a great Horned God in rituals. We were all pretty concerned when Robin had a heart scare, and landed in the hospital in the early 90s. We all did healing rituals for him. But nobody was prepared to do a healing ritual for him on Saturday, and so he slipped away from us. Gaia Wildwood, his widow, is in our thoughts and prayers.


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