Out of the broom closet,witches

I am officially and publicly out of the broom closet.Yes I am a witch, a white witch. I proclaimed this on TV yesterday. Halloween or Samhain is an ancient Pagan/wiccan celebration honoring the close of the old year and it is New Years. It is the day when the veil between the worlds is thinnest. NOvember 1 is All saints Day or the Day of the dead. I was also initiated as a Green Witch by Susun Weed at her goat farm in Woodstock New York in 1987. 

Archetypal wicked witch, hag, crone.

Wicca or wiccan is a modern term for ancient pagan spiritual beliefs which honoured the Great Mother the earth and the Divine Feminine and  participated in the turning of the wheel of the year.It is a non-hierarchical, pantheistic religion. Although I hesitate to use the term religion as we associate it with organized Patriarchal religions. 

The Catholic Inquisition which initially was against all heretics, the Cathars in particular, terrified pagans for hundreds of years.  The Grand Inquisitors ruled from 1200 until the mid-19th century. The Malleus Maleficarum written in 1486 stated that witchcraft was to blame for bad weather. This charge was levelled mainly at women, which according to this text “all witchcraft comes from carnal lust which is in women insatiable”. 

Over the course of 300 years in Europe estimates as high as nine million people were accused of witchcraft, 80% were women were burned at the stake, sadistically tortured and their children were forced to watch them burn. This was the women’s Holocaust. This was worse than Hitler and the Catholic Church is wholly to blame for it. 

 

I remember being burned at the stake and the  Jesuit Priests who convicted me. The one who convicted me in the past turned out to be my ex-husband in this life I later discovered. One re-appeared as one of the realtors who tricked me into selling my house out from under me years ago. It’s a long story,and is part of the book I am still writing.

HOLOTROPIC BREATHWORK

I experienced a full memory of this past life during a Holotropic Breathwork workshop years ago. Holotropic Breathwork was invented by Dr. Stanislav Grof following his experiments using LSD in psychiatry in the 70’s. It is a breathing and music aided psych0-spiritual healing journey which induces a non-ordinary state of reality experience. Most people remember their birth and pre-births in this state. Some people remember death experiences. A number of women at this specific workshop stated that they also remembered their past life as witches and being tortured. 

I had been very angry at the Priest who sentenced me. I cursed him for his ignorance and for so wickedly and arrogantly destroying my life as well as the other women who were also being tortured. My heart broke to leave my husband and children. This was not the first time that I had been serving The Goddess and my life had been destroyed because of it. I also remember being a High Priestess of the Goddess in Greece years ago and having that be overrun an destroyed by  hostile invaders.

Those 7 million women who had been tortured in the past have  come back into this life to take back their power and to reinstate the worship of the Great Mother. That is why the pagan Goddess worshipping communities, websites, workshops, and courses are increasingly  popular now. I am working on launching Priestess workshops and online Moon lodges now.

In the West where women are largely well-educated, relatively good wage-earners, and have freedom {to some extent{ within this culture, we all now must proudly announce where our ancient soul reverence belongs.

It used to be shameful to be called a witch. The stereotype of the old hag, or crone, depicted as an ugly old woman with hooked nose and warts and wild hair, and the fairy tales about the Wicked Old Witch, eating children are a gross misrepresentation and total cultural propaganda.

Elder women were wise women and healers. whose knowledge as midwives and who also attended to those dying were respected and honoured. They had status. 

In a culture which worships youth and not the status of being a wise elder, women need to also embrace this aspect. We are all inevitably ageing. The masculine type of pursuit of immortality is rooted in the false belief that we are our bodies and not immortal souls. The word crone is equated with witches and it carries the same popular stigma. I like the term Crone because it simply means chronos, Time, seniority, maturity, and implies wisdom from living so long.

In my mind if you are older but not wiser that is why you would want to avoid being called a crone and not acknowledged for your wisdom. Language is also empowering. A  large part of Feminism  pointed out that reframing and respelling, sounds Magical doesn’t it?  changes the meaning of a word.

Let’s Re-Spell this.

I put forward that the word CHRONE spelled with the additional H be used proudly to represent a woman past -menopause. That could be any age from the late 40’s. It means a wise women, an elder worthy of respect and honored for her experience and wisdom. We can revere aging as beautiful.

I had been saying I am ready to fully embrace my own power. I was sitting in front of the TV Tuesday night when a commercial came on for the CTV Morning show called Canada A.M. In my mind I said I want to be on that show. I stated that intention clearly.

Wed. October 28, I get an email from a producer at Canada A.M. asking me if I would be interested in being on the show for Halloween talking about wicca and witches. They gave me some homework to do to help them prep videos which I was happy to do.  watch the video below.

THE VEIL BETWEEN THE WORLDS 

Get in touch with your past lives tonight when the veil between the worlds is thinnest. Do a breathing exercise and meditation tonight. Bring out your crystals, create a sacred space. Set up a bowl made of dark opaque material to scry on. This is the night of connecting with your dead ancestors for their wisdom and guidance.

I will be out at an event this evening at SOHO HOUSE doing readings tonight.  Then I will be home doing ceremony and scrying. 

PLease share widely 

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Watch my on Canada A.M. I start at 1:14:52 

http://canadaam.ctvnews.ca/video?playlistId=1.2634823

STRANGE BREW-Cream 1967  

 

 

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Scorpio Astrology, obsession sex,power-what’s yours? from Tara Greene

so the President of Iran Mr. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad appeared on CNN interviewed by Piers Morgan and talked about or didn’t  -THAT MOVIE!, Israel, the Holocaust, Palestinian refugees, homosexuality.

Honestly I didn’t listen to this interview but have heard his view before,, just wanted to look at who this man is. Astrology tells all.

so let’s get down to it.

Ahmadindejad was born October 28 1956 in a very small place near Aradan Iran-no birth time of course.

So he’s first and foremost a SCORPIO-

Scorpio the most intense sign of the Zodiac- always concerned with P-O-W-E-R and

C-O-N-T-R-O-L, Obsession, S-E-C-R-E-T-S , ATOMIC POWER, SECRETS, SEX, RUTHLESSNESS, FOCUS, WILL, 8th house, other people’s’ money, FIXED, LIFE, DEATH,

REBIRTH, the FORBIDDEN, the SHADOW, the UNCONSCIOUS, WILL TO RULE, SPITEFUL,

click on chart to enlarge

Don’t have a birth time but it looks like he was born with the Moon in LEO conjunct the FIxed Star REgulus -heart of the LION, star of leaders.It is possible that if he were born later in the day he would have a VIRGO moon- so we need to work within that possibility too. HOLD THAT thought.

Mercury at 25 degrees Libra which Saturn just crossed a few months ago. Giving him some serious butt kicks and karmic lessons.

He was born with a Mercury Neptune conjunction,with NEPTUNE at ZERO degrees Scorpio. This makes him seem impossible to pin down,he is always speaking through a fog horn. It is also very Spiritual but at Zero degrees of Scorpio it is Spiritual obsession, possession, power. He’s a slippery talker, a chameleon of speech.

Sun is at 14 degrees of Scorpio at the powerful Fixed middle degree. All that Scorpio stuff.

He has VENUS at 25 degrees of VIRGO conjunct JUPITER at 23 degrees.

This is a very POWERFUL beneficial POSITIVE combination of planets. Jupiter always benefits, in VIRGO this is executive command, discipline, work, order, efficiency, perfectionism,conjunct VENUS rules all things of women, money, luxury, relationships, a love of attention to details.

He may be a very intelligent man,well read with a very good memory albeit selective. JUPITER rules religion. He loves-VENUS -RELIGION. He is very persnickety about the definition and interpretation and could debate about this topic for ever and he would be in Paradise.

MARS -God of WAR

what kind of a warmonger is he? How defensive?

Mars tells the tale – MARS is surprise! at the 15th middle degree of PISCES!

Interesting, if I dropped all the pre-conceived judgements on this guy and his politics I would see him in a very different light, but we must SYNTHESIZE.  MARS in Pisces is the mark of a SPIRITUAL WARRIOR- Mars is opposite that hugely beneficial VENUS/JUPITER conjunction. So YES this guys’ BLISS is to fight the world TO INFINITY AND BEYOND  because his religious ideas are more grandiosly perfect than anyone elses! HA! now we’ve nailed him.

WHERE”S HIS KARMA?

SATURN Lord of KArma, hard knocks, testing, limitations is at One degree of SAGITTARIUS.

SAturn in Sagittarius is about the karmic test of broad mindedness, judgements, teaching, religion, higher thinking,FOREIGNERS, optimism, fairness,humour-doesnt have much with Saturn here. Saturn in Sagittarius limits that hoof-in-mouth disease and he can also most certainly be hung on the cross for putting his hoofs in his mouth- so to speak.

SATURN in Sagittarius s the father, PATRIARCHY, the OLD MALE DOMINATED RELIGIONS,

preserving, resisting change, patience. Saturn in Sagittarius is like Moses coming down from Mount Sinai, and punishing the Jews for worshipping “false idols.” You KNOW THE MUSLIMS and Jews revere the same prophets.

Saturn in Sagitttarius is the fundamentalist religious fanatic who WILL NOT BUDGE

North Node at 29 degrees – the LAST critical degree at 29 degrees of SCORPIO

the most intensely SCORPIO- I will push the RED button on the A-Bomb and destroy the entire world with me, because I see it that way.

He has power, control, destruction, fail for spite, secrets, ruthless, if unconscious a STINGER, he is a very dangerous man.

On a personal level all of the people I have met from IRAN here in Toronto are very intelligent, warm, highly cultured, respectful people, with incredibly soulful eyes.

Uranus at 6 degrees of LEO- a generational influence, everything LEO is always leadership royalty, ego, power and Uranus is directly opposite CHIRON at 6 degrees of AQUARIUS, the sign of disseminating new ideas, inclusive management, higher consciousness,  new technology.

CHIRON is exactly conjunct LILLITH- exactly!

his real problem is all about his fear of WOMEN’s INDEPENDENCE!

He was born with an innate FEAR of women’s freedom or independence, that’s what AQUARIUS is all about, the major T-square in his chart is this WOUND.  LILLITH in his consciousness opposite URANUS- {Uranium/nuclear power} square to His natal SUN.

That very critical Scorpio mid heaven is ten apex of the pressure Mr.A. feels to control women at all costs.

Oh yeah did I mention his PLUTO MOON conjunction

PLUTO at ZERO degrees VIRGO – new experience

whether the MOON is in Leo or Virgo the conjunction is still there,

and that is OBSESSIVE,COMPULSION.. enuf said.

South Node directly conjunct the PLEiADES at 29 degrees of TAURUS

the 7 sisters are always weeping.

The transits to Mr. A’s chart now

Pluto is squaring his CERES and URANUS is on it

so the square dance of SOUL< POWER, DANGER TRIGGER FINGERS RASH ACTIONS

is on his sense of Mothering/lack thereof

SATURN enters Scorpio Oct 5 and crosses his NEPTUNE!

A BIG TRIGGER !

Saturn consolidates builds and also limits, his Dreams, his illusions and fantasies and NEPTUNE rules OIL! so I would predict the OIL flow being turned off!!! and the world will be tail spinning if you aren’t off the grid and working from home online.

SATURN will also be SQUARING that darned nasty T-square in his chart

SATURN conjunct NEPTUNE squaring URANUS in LEO opposite LILLITH/CHIRON in AQUARIUS.

MOST dangeous to the rest of the world is NEPTUNE and CHIRON in PISCES

directly opposite his PLUTO in VIRGO as Chiron making him vulnerable,read STUNG!

-Delusions of grandeur, fantasies of power, control, and feeling vulnerable and bespoke, self-righteous, and a MARTYR to boot. DANGEROUS!

and all that Happens in CONJUNCTION with

THE VERY IMPORTANT SCORPIO SOLAR ECLIPSE November 13

The Mayans did NOTE THIS according to my cousin who works with Archeo-Astronomers for the last 35 years.  That eclipse occurs at 21 degrees Scorpio and squares his Moon if in LEO.

Mercury is also at zero degrees of Sagittarius on the eclipse conjunct his Saturn.

JUPITER goes RETROGRADE OCT 4 at 15 degrees of GEMINI, EXACTLY SQUARE to his MARS.

Jupiter in Gemini triggers his defenses BIG TIME.

PLUS another big eclipse before the end of 2012

on November 28 its a GEMINI LUNAR ECLIPSE

and those eclipses do trigger MAJOR events for 6 months- to a year,

THE NORTH NODE symbolizes the collectives “highest spiritual intentions” but of course that depends on WHAT your definition of the highest spiritual goal is. It’s relative,

The North Node has crossed Mr. A’s North Node in early September, IT is squaring his MOON,so

he feels totally self-righteous about everything.

 Well I would start storing up food and supplies and hunkering down and pray that Israel doesn’t start the much prophesied WW3.

If I were gay I would certainly pray that the Iranians, the Chinese, the Orthodox Jews, not to mention the Catholics and the PUTIN do not end up ruling the World.

Don’t vote for Mitt Romney if you are gay needless to say.

Jupiter in Gemini- boosts all things gay,hermaphrodite like, rules laws,

so make hay while the sun shines.

Sorry to sound so doom and gloomy,,, the times they are INTENSE

IT’s going to be ALL SCORPIO ALL THE TIME SOON

what’s your power trips?

Stay positive, send Light to the forces of darkness, oppressors of freedom.

Blow silent kisses of love at all your enemies as well as your loved ones, but especially your enemies.

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there’s only one song I can think of

SOLDIER OF LOVE by SADE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IR5_rTCi-Bo&feature=fvwrel