Early Winter

The date of the winter solstice has passed and we are now in early winter. We haven't had much snow in the area yet but all the other signs of winter are here! The cold air, the chilly air, the leaf-less trees and the barren-looking land.

But this is a time when I do the work of having supplies stored just in case I get trapped by a winter storm. I am so glad and grateful that I work from home and I have found other witches who are writers like me.

I do know that this is the time of year for a sort of like slumber period almost like a hibernation where we try to stay away from the harsh elements of winter as much as we can and in the meantime prepare for the spring.

I have started my inside garden starting with some lavendar and other herbs and they are finally starting to grow and I'm going to add more seedlings as well!

I enjoy this time of year - especially when I don't really have to go anywhere and I can work from home with my own hours and my own pace.

I'm also too, planning for the spring - mostly getting my outside garden cleaned up so that I will be able to plant and garden outside again this year as soon as possible!

Angelwitch1012003?

I was looking at my screenname and it reminded me that I have been on my path since 2003, now almost 6 years! Wow! That is a lot of time!

Of course my first year involved learning as much as I could about "The Craft" and I am still finding out that I am still learning and will continue to learn all my life!

So much of it is so fascinating!

I have still continued to enjoy the path of hedgewitch (with a little "green" and "kitchen" witch thrown in).

Right now we are definitely in the midst of the winter season and I know that this is a good time for reflection and to prepare myself for the spring season coming.

Here you see a picture that I took just outside my door.

I have been laying low for the past few weeks because of the cold winter weather. Right now in the Philadelphia area the temperatures are quite cold and we are still recovering from all the ice that has built up everywhere! Even my neighbors are lying low and if they don't have to go out they don't! But we're expecting some warmer weather Sunday - temps in the 40's - so hopefully that will melt the ice outside that has grown so thick!

Mind you in some ways I am quite enjoying this weather. Since I work from home I haven't had to go out if I didn't want to unless it was for something like grocery shopping. And of course this will be a good time to start getting my income tax forms ready and ready to mail out.

I have my hot chocolate and tea to drink as I look out my window and view the gorgeous scenery around me that I am blessed to have and delight in the fact that I live in an area that does have a change of seasons - I don't think that I would have it any other way - in fact, I know that I wouldn't - LOL!

So I'm laying low and also giving thoughts to my garden and how I'm going to vow to start it as soon as possible!

Rain, Rain, DON'T Go Away!

I just don't know what it is about me and the rain! I was reading a post on someone else's blog about how they were having rain and it was just a "bummer" for them. I kinda feel the exact opposite way!

Just had some heavy rain a few days ago and for me it felt oddly comforting! The sound of the rain was so comforting and I felt all nice and cozy inside my house with the heat going but I also had a view out of my kitchen window to see how it looked outside! It was like the trees were welcoming the rain. Even though the skies were darker there was still some activity going on outside. I could see lights from other houses and I was just imagining the activity that was probably going on. Just because its raining outside doesn't mean that there isn't any activity going on inside!

There's always plenty to do inside (at least for me) when its raining outside. This last rain spell I spent some time doing my income taxes - along with a nice hot cup of tea with honey and lemon!

Even when I'm out in the rain and the time and my mind are just right it almost feels as though the rain and I are one - sounds kind of silly doesn't it? But I think that is what is accomplished when you relax your mind and let go of any stress and anxiety that you are carrying. You feel peaceful and serene!

I Did A Tarot Reading For Myself Today

I did a tarot reading for myself today and I drew the "Ace Of Wands"



This card symbolizes creativity and says that the seeds of opportunity and success are coming my way (which I certainly HOPE SO!). Additional interpretations are:

expanding your potential
opening to greater possibilities
conceiving a dream
expressing yourself
stimulating your imagination
allowing a talent to unfold
coming up with a solution

At this point in my life the above sounds absolutely true!

I have been doing tarot readings for some time now and I do readings on myself as well.

I Didn't Want Too Much Time To Pass Without Posting.......

I see that I haven't posted at all this month but what I HAVE noticed is that there have been quite a few visits to my blog so I feel that I should post something.

Right now my concentration is manifesting the kind of life that I want to live. I am my own worst enemy though because of my thoughts! I do realize that financial miracles happen all the time and everything I read (and hear) tells me to have faith and patience. Positive thought, positive energy and meditation are all things that I am practicing now.

Gratitude also is advised and I do have a lot of things to be grateful for. From the things that I have read I feel that this may be a "test" of some sort and while I strongly desire the results that I want there is still the journey that I have to go through and I'm supposed to appreciate and feel gratitude for the journey that I am going through and I'm supposed to have faith that the outcome that I want will happen. So I guess you could say that I am at a very critical crossroad in my life where I have to have faith.

I'm sure mostly everybody has gone through times of turmoil and getting through them without ever knowing how they were going to get through it - and that is where I am now. All I know is that I have to not give up!

I Was Wondering Whether Or Not I Should Get A MySpace Page?

It's so much with keeping up with the blogs that I have. Besides this blog I have a few others which I don't post in as much. But I was doing something else and I was thinking about MySpace and then I wondered whether or not I should join it.

I don't think there's anything wrong with having a MySpace page - its just that I have so many other sites and its hard enough remembering all of them much less going back and updating and bringing them more current.

But MySpace is a good networking site so I might decide to go ahead and get a myspace page. But I am curious as to how many of you already have a myspace page and if you do have one could you kindly leave a link to it - I may want to start my own myspace page and it would be good to have some "friends" waiting for me to get.

Here is my new myspace page:

Angelwitch's MySpace Page

Let me know what you think of it......

Another tale of manifestation magic?

I have posted many times here on my blog about my financial troubles. I have also posted some inspiring links to other sites that have inspirational messages that I sometimes even use myself.

What I want is to be successful in my career that I have chosen which is that of writing. There are some bills that I have that are of the nomal sort - mortgage, utilities and the like - that I sometimes struggle with. Another bill that I have is that of my mother's nursing home bill. My mother died last year and there was still a balance due on her nursing home bill. I started to pay this undue balance. Besides the fact that the nursing home had a claim on her estate the fact of the matter is that this was a very good nursing home and I'm glad that my mother received the kind of care that she did. The staff was so nice and they treated her with such respect and friendship that I was glad that she was there. There were also a lot of other residents there that helped for the atmosphere.

Well the unpaid balance started at just over $4,000. I was paying about $50 a month towards that balance. About 9 months later after making the monthly payments that balance that was due was cut down to just over $2,000. Imagine my surprise! It was due to my mother's insurance who before this wouldn't pay for the bill at all even though the nursing home submitted the bill to them more than once.

Well I welcomed that decrease in the balance due - more than I could tell you!

Although my finacial obligations were still a struggle I still continued to make the monthly payments and I still continued my sessions of meditation and my sessions of manifesting and my various spells to achieve what is that I wanted which was wealth.

I got behind on the payment for the month and was worrying and fretting about it. Well guess what I got in the mail? It was another billing statement from the nursing home and on it was the balance currently due and it was $0! Again imagine my surprise!

I am thoroughly convinced that my mind and other forms of mental things that I did had something to do with this. I kind of ponder why the results turned out the way that they did because it wasn't exactly what I wanted. But I know that some of you that will read this will tell me that my thoughts are working even though they may not be working in the way that I wanted them to. Not having to pay this monthly bill leaves me with additional money and I think that that is part of the magic that I created.

So, what do you think about this?

Nocturnal

I was sitting here at the computer and it suddenly dawned on me that I have been very much nocturnal for a good part of my life. Even back when I was a kid I remember seeing signs of it. My father used to come home late because he worked the night shift and I remember staying up waiting for him to come home. I wasn't always successful at it but I do remember me staying up late.

Later on in life I have worked a lot of overnight shifts and it didn't bother me much to sleep in the daytime - except when the phone rang or someone was knocking at the door - THAT always annoyed me!

So I'm sitting here typing away and its almost 2am in the morning. It's been raining off and on and there are occassional bouts of lightening. I have the window open and can feel a breeze - as a matter of fact its a little cool for June but I attribute that to the rainy weather. I have the radio playing soft music but not too loud for me to not hear what else is going on! My cat is downstairs laying at her most recent favorite spot which is the coffee table in the livingroom.

I'm going to stay up a few hours more - sunrise is around 6am - so maybe it will just start to be light outside before I go to bed for the "night". The kids will be out waiting for the school bus around 7:30am and I kind of use that as a "clock" to let me know what time it is.

To be quite honest I kind of like this nocturnal schedule and I know that if I don't stress about it too much my schedule will resort to more "normal" hours later on down the line like it always does. How cool is it to live like that!