Using Incense List

Yes, I have a list today. Godchecker was busy, giving me the error message "Sorry, the Gods are busy".
Anyway, here is a list of common virtues or issues and incense that corresponds with it.

Balance: Jasmine, orange, rose
Banishing: Cedar, clove, patchouli, rose, rue, vervain
Binding: Apply, cypress, dragon’s blood, pine, wormwood
Blessing, Consecration: Carnation, cypress, frankincense, lotus, rosemary
Changes: Dragon’s Blood, peppermint
Courage: Allspice, dragon’s blood, musk, rosemary
Creativity: Honeysuckle, lilac, lotus, rose, vervain
Divination: acacia, cinnamon, honeysuckle, lilac, nutmeg, rose, thyme, yarrow
Energy: Allspice, bay, carnation, cinnamon, dragon’s blood, frankincense, ginger, lotus, musk, pink, thyme, rosemary, verbena
Good Luck: Bayberry, cedar, cinnamon, honeysuckle, jasmine, lotus, mint, nutmeg, strawberry, vervain, violet
Harmony: Jasmine, juniper, lavender, lilac, lily of the valley, lotus, myrrh, orange, patchouli, rosemary, vetiver, vervain, ylang-ylang
Healing: Carnation, cedar, cinnamon, clove, cypress, eucalyptus, gardenia, lavender, lotus, myrrh, orange, peppermint, rose, rosemary, sandalwood
Inspiration: acacia, clove, cypress, fir, laurel, lily of the valley, rosemary, sage
Love: Amber, apple blossom, frangipani, gardenia, honeysuckle, jasmine, juniper, lavender, vetiver, violet, ylang-ylang
Meditation: Acadia, bay, cinnamon, frankincense, jasmine, myrrh, wisteria
Money: Bayberry, bergamot, cinnamon, honeysuckle, jasmine, musk, vetiver
Protection: Basil, bay, bayberry, carnation, cinnamon, citronella, cypress, dragon’s blood, fir, frankincense, jasmine, juniper, lilac, lily of the valley, marjoram, pine, sandalwood, violet
Psychic Abilities: Ambergris, honeysuckle, lemon, lotus, mimosa, nutmeg, wisteria
Purification: Basil, bay laurel, cedar, cinnamon, citronella, dragon’s blood, eucalyptus, citronella, dragon’s blood, eucalyptus, frankincense, myrrh, peppermint, pine, rosemary, sage, thyme, vervain
Removing Hexes: Cedar, Myrrh, vetiver
Spirituality: Frankincense, lotus, myrrh, sandalwood
Success: Ginger
Visions: Acacia, bay laurel, frankincense, lotus
Will Power: Rosemary

Wiccan Numerology

Wiccan Numerology: odd numbers are related to the Goddess, women, and receptive energy. Even numbers are related to the God, men, and protective energy. I had no idea about this, even though I do some numerology. This is very much a Wiccan list, not a general Pagan list.
Anyway, this is probably the most awesome numberology list I've ever read:

1: The Universe. The one and the source of all.

2: The Goddess and the God. Perfect duality and balance. The physical and spiritual equally combined.

3: The Triple Goddess. The physical, mental and spiritual aspects of ourselves. The lunar phases. I do think that this could also be the three aspects of the God as well

4: The Element, the directions and seasons.

5: The senses. The elements plus Akasha. The pentacle/pentagram.

7: The planets as known in ancient times. Magick, power and protection.

8: The number of Sabbats. A number of the God.

13: The number of Esbats. A lucky number.

21: The number of Sabbats and moons in the Wiccan year.

28: A number of the moon.

101: The number of fertility.

Astral Projection Oils

Just a quick update with a little list of essential oils or incense you can use to aid you in astral projection.

Benzoin
Cinnamon
Jasmine
Sandalwood

So, if you're thinking about trying astral projection, or you want to give your projections a little more kick, try burning these incenses or rubbing the oil on your hands and third eye to help.

Elemental Overview-Earth

Of all the elements, I think Earth is my least favorite. I'm just not an "earthy" person.

Anyway, here's a list of things with Earthy attritubes.

Direction : North
Rules : Growth, prosperity, nature, wealth, abundence, wisdom
Elemental : Gnomes, trolls
Time : Midnight
Season : Winter
Colors : Black, brown, dark green
Tools : Stone, Pentagram
Zodiac : Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn
Animals : Bull, stag, bison, mouse
Places : Caves, mountains, forests, caverns

An Overview of Air

Of the five elements, I find Air, on a personal level, to be my second favorite, tied with Fire; my favorite being Water. This is a very limited, however very interesting, look at things that are associated with the element of Air.

Direction: East
Color: Blue, green and yellow
Gender: Male
Season: Spring
Ritual Tools: Besom/broom, fan,incense, pen, sword and wand
Sign: Aquarius, Gemini and Libra
Planet: Neptune
Chakra: Navel
Sense: Touch
Tarot Cards: The Hermit, Wheel of Fortune and the Swords suit
Crystals: Aventurine, mica, pumice and meteorites
Herbs: Agrimony, dandelion, holly, hops, lavender, marjoram, mistletoe and parsley
Metals: Aluminum and tin
Favored Moon Phase: 1st quarter
Favored Time: Dawn

My First Award!

Oh wow Skye, thank you so much! You have no idea how much this made my day. I was feeling so down and then I saw that you had nominated me for this award and, wow
Thank you so much!
PS: you can check out Skye's blog right here: http://betweenthebranches.blogspot.com/

Here are the award rules:
1. Thank the person who gave this to you. CHECK
2. Copy the logo and place it in your blog. CHECK
3. Link the person who nominated you. CHECK
4. Name 7 things about yourself that no one would really know. CHECK
5. Nominate seven 'Kreativ Bloggers' CHECK
6. Post links to the seven blogs you nominate CHECK
7. Leave a comment on each of the blogs letting them know you nominated them. CHECK

Well, seven things about me:

1. In my BOYS folder, only 11 are under the age of 25 (at the time the movie or film was made). I have 39 different boys in the folder.

2. As much as I enjoy the films, I have not watched Harry Potter in almsot a year.

3. High-budget horror flicks don't scare me as much as lower budet ones

4. I can recite the first half of The Fellowship of the Ring from memory

5. I don't think I'm ever going to find a man that is as excited about my relgion as I am

6. Some of the best times of my life have been when I watch Disney movies with my best friends

7. There are times when my friends talk about trivial things and I'm having a crisis. I never bring up my problems because I don't want to ruin their moods. I feel so angry with them afterwards, and that ends up making me feel better during my crisis.

My Nominees

1. Between the Ticks: This is one of those "catch-all" blogs. It has all sorts of things, including pagan articles, videos and my personal favorite, wordless wenesday

2. Pagan Culture: This is actually one of the first blogs I started following. This blog is insightful and wonderfully written about all sorts of issues affecting an eclectic pagan

3. Leaving Stones Behind Me: This is the diary of a North American girl just traveling the world in the attempt to find adventure and herself

4. Satya Rising: The woman who runs this blog is so awesome. Seriously. I did an interveiw with her, (to be posted on Sunday). She is not afraid to be who she is, and I admire her for that.

5. Kimerlimation!!: Though this blog is just starting out (seriously), this woman is a fantastic artist. Give her some love

6. Pagan Blog Prompts: With what seems to be a never-ending supply of blog prompts with a pagan twist, this blog is seriously a great way to network and meet new people

7. Lunar Wisdom: With little inspirational quotes at the top of each of her posts, this blogger is becoming a huge, well, inspiration to me. Keep it up (and where do you find all these quotes?)

Altar, Part Two

Another Pagan Blog Prompt!

What does your altar look like?
What kinds of items do you include, and why?
What does each item symbolize, or what purpose does it serve?

I got this print of the Aztec god Tonatiuh at the Mexican pavilion in Walt Disney World. I got it framed, so I could keep it out.
Beside this is a postcard size print of Quetzalcoatl, a deity who I’ve recently become very attached to.
Though I’m not Aztec in tradition, I found the prints too pretty to pass up, and they were inexpensive and easy to pack...as they were flat. I’m actually really happy I got the Quetzalcoatl print especially, considering he has recently made contact with me. You can read about that in my dream journal.

Okay, next is my stone collection and my deity candles.

My deity candles are my candles that I have dedicated to certain gods. I burn these the most.
The tall green and black striped one is my Thoth candle, the red one is Quetzalcoatl’s, the blue is Ptah and the white is Bast.
I don’t really know why I keep these out, I just kind of started doing it, and I found I liked the arrangement.

These are my miscellaneous stones.
Back row, right to left: Peacock ore, moonstone, dark sunstone, jade
Middle row: Hematite, Smokey quartz, clear quartz
Front row: Howlite, green apatite, snowflake obsidian

These are my two carved wands: Smokey quartz and mookite

My large-ish stones
Back row: Lapis Lazuli, petrified wood
Front row: Sodalite, zebra agate

This is my ammonite

Possibly my pride and joy: my rather large obsidian crystal ball.

My rose quartz, which is “my” stone.

These are the stones of Leiko, my little flower faerie. She likes purple. The stone in the front left hand side is amethyst, and the other three are just dyed that I found in Disney.

Finally, this is a piece of malachite I purchased for Quetzalcoatl. This is the same colour and pattern the god had when he revealed himself to me.

I keep all my stones together on my altar because I play with them when I’m working, and I like having them nearby. I really like using stones every day, so having them nearby and being able to touch them, they will really absorb my own energy so that when the day comes when I really have to use them, I don’t have to really worry about having to recharge my stones.

Well, that’s my altar. It’s a little strange, like me, but it changes almost daily, even just by brushing along the stones.

Altar

Another Pagan Blog Prompt!

What does your altar look like?
What kinds of items do you include, and why?
What does each item symbolize, or what purpose does it serve?

Well, let me show you some pictures!

This is my desk. Yes, it is a desk. From Ikea, which is my favourite store EVER. This desk is, I believe, ALVE desk. In the drawers, we’ve got random junk, my train-case, safety pins, and all sorts of electronic cords.
I do most of my work on this desk. When I’m practising makeup, or watching TV before bed, or working on my USBoS, I sit here.

Over here is my little faerie corner. I bought these for my mom one year for mother’s day, but when we moved, I hijacked them. They don’t balance very well, so they are more often than not laying down. I have a rather close connection to the faeries, or rather...faeries have a close connection to me. I keep them here, and I’m not really sure why...
I mean, they are really cute.

Okay, this is my jewellery spot. I keep all the jewellery that I usually wear here. This is my Isis jewellery box. In here I keep some important papers, and some more of my dressier jewellery like my blue topaz necklace I got for my 16th birthday, and my garnet necklace I got for Christmas one year. Just sitting there, in front, are my 5 rings: a plain black one on my thumb, a tear-drop amethyst and diamond on my index, an ankh on my middle, a pentacle on my third, and a replica of the One Ring from Lord of the Rings on my pinkie. I’m on the hunt for a new pinkie ring. There is also my good ankh necklace (in the box), my plastic Hieroglyph of Ra on a chain, my Egyptian charm necklace with an ankh and the Eye of Horus, my two watches, one has Eeyore on it, and that weird silver thing? That’s a spoon that was made into a bracelet.
I keep all my jewellery on my altar so that it not only has a “spot” where I am sure not to lose them, but also so that there can be an energy exchange. I wear most of these things every day, so at the end of the day when I take them off, my energy can permeate my altar, and my altar’s energy can recharge my jewellery.

Next is collection of Egyptian statues. I have four at the moment, but when I get more, things will be moved around.
First up is Anubis; on his base I keep tiger’s eye, citrine and hematite, because I didn’t have any of the stones that are usually associated with Anubis. Also, I keep a mini plastic statue of Anubis on his base.

Second is Isis. On her base, I keep three pieces of carnelian, which is called the “Blood of Isis”, and a piece of moonstone. Also, she has a miniature plastic version of herself.

Third is my statue of Thoth, who is one of my patron deities. He looks better from the side! Anyway, on his base I keep a malachite obelisk and a piece of uncut and unpolished emerald. He also has a miniature plastic statue of himself.

My fourth and final statue is of Sobek. I love his headdress! On his base are also tiger’s eye, citrine and hematite, because I didn’t have any of the stones that are usually associated with Sobek. On his base, as well, is a miniature plastic statue of Bast, because the tube I got the other plastic statues in didn’t have Sobek.

Here are all four together

Stay tuned for Part Two, coming up right ahead of this post!

Music

I don’t have a lot of music that I listen to when I do spiritual work. Though I love music, I don’t like using music with lyrics when I do any kind of spiritual work.
Now, a lot of people listen to Enya and other things like that. I can’t STAND that kind of music, and I don’t think I’m the only one.
So, I came up with my own playlist of instrumental songs that differ from the “norm”.
So, without further ado, I present THE LIST!

He’s A Pirate (Testo Remix)-POTC soundtrack
Tubular Bells-Exorcist soundtrack
Conga Fury-Animatrix soundtrack
Speed Racer-Speed Racer soundtrack
Zion-Matrix Reloaded soundtrack
Divine- t.A.T.u.
Happy Smiles-t.A.T.u.
Dread Rock-Matrix Reloaded soundtrack
In A Mirror Darkly-Enterprise “In A Mirror Darkly” episode title song
Anubis-Banzai
Isis Unveiled-Hossam Ramzy
The Moloch Machine-Metropolis Soundtrack
The dance of the Whore of Babylon-Metropolis soundtrack
Through the Ankh-Hossam Ramzy
Witch Hunt-Metropolis soundtrack
All The Things She Said (Instrumental)-t.A.T.u.
Cosmos (Outer Space) (Instrumental)-t.A.T.u.
Bells of Avalon-Unknown
Friend or Foe (Instrumental)-t.A.T.u.
Fusion of Ra-World Tribe
Go Speed, Go!-Speed Racer soundtrack
Loves me Not (instrumental)-t.A.T.u.
All About Us (instrumental)-t.A.T.u.
Perfect Enemy (instrumental)-t.A.T.u.

Really, it’s not that far out of an idea. Instead of listening to the traditional meditation or Celtic music, I made a playlist with lots of my favourite movie soundtracks, and some other instrumental stuff I found.