Life and death are our present and our future. So much fear is conjured in the human heart at the mention of this truth. But as with birth, growth, living, bearing children and moving through the other transitions that life provides. Death is but another transition. I believe this without hesitation. How many before us have moved through these acts and scenes in the play of life, only to feel the petrifying fear of ultimate demise? We are and will be no different…except that we can CHOOSE to accept the natural and harmonious transition to another state of being. We are really “spiritual beings having a human experience”…as the saying goes.

Please know that I love you both…and that my feeling is that you provide an essential service in producing this show. Other peoples’ perspectives bring understanding and self-discovery. In this sense, you are both the vehicles of human growth. There is no higher calling. Keep the faith, know that God loves you and please know that you are beautiful in all respects.

Remembering now about an event from so long ago brings me joy. It is a paradox that I should feel that I have grown and changed so much since then yet that I know in my heart, I was at my best in that moment. Life IS wonder. Without wonder, without perspective, we are dead yet still breathing.

Blessed be…Praise the All-Father,

Ivaldi (a.k.a., RavenShield, Edbert, Fa’obi Eshubunmi, Babe Oche Bile (Omo Obatala, Awo Orunmila)) (oh and yes, Fox, Star Trek ROCKS!!)

Ashe!!

Such a nice surprise!

It’s great to have you both back!

BB / 93!

Waiting for “quiet time” on Monday to listen, but wanted to say “thank you” in advance. (also, new listener, found you through PPP)

Btw, I love wagons too. Have always had one as my main ride or a hobby car :>)

Peace and Cheers, Chet

Awesome fantastic supercool news! I finally got my act together, and not only do we now have the second episode up, even after recording it mooooooonths ago, but we are now on iTunes!!! So please subscribe! I will try to suck less and keep them coming out on a regularly scheduled basis. Probably only every 3 mo at first (I don’t have a whole lot of bandwith anyhow), but I think every 3 mo will be good for all parties involved.

I really loved this weeks podcast and what you said about music being an important part of ritual. I spend most of my waking hours (when not at work) listening to music and even though my taste is pretty mainstream I am able to find pagan messages or images in most of what I listen to. One of my favourites is a song called All Around Me by a band called Flyleaf, which is a Christian rock band but it does not mention any deity spcifically so I find it fits perfectly with my thoughts of the Goddess. I even have a playlist on my iPod of songs that I dedicate to and can imagine myself singing to the Goddess or I can see her singing to me (Clay Aiken’s ‘I Will Carry You’ being one of them) and when I am having a particularly bad day it makes me feel better to listen to them and strengthen my relationship to the God and Goddess through these songs.

Anyhoo, I finally caught up with all the episodes (Except 3 I cannot get to work) and cannot wait for the next update. I have a request of sorts for a possible topic, that being Pagan names. I have struggled to find my Pagan/Witch name for many years and cant find anything that fits or feels right so I would love to hear how you found your names and what magical techniques to ascribe to, to help find them (Such as Bucklands numerology section in the Big Blue Book saying your magical name should match your birth number and such)

Thank you for a wonderful podcast! Much Love and many Blessings to you both. Gem

No worries Arrowind, I am about your age and I know exactly who Ella & Gershwin are. I love old jazz standards, big band and classical music – Cab Calloway is one of my favs!

As for Christmas songs changed to pagan lyrics, I actually don’t mind this. It takes a song that I grew up with, gives me words that sound less contrived and allows me to still appreciate the music, without getting my hackles up about the whole “Christmas” story stuff (big issue with me). I’m not a big fan of “this is the story we’re selling and you absolutely have to believe it or you’re not a good person” crud. Oh, look at that, there go my hackles again…Excuse me while I step of that soapbox. That aside, there are quite a few “Christmas” carols that are actually very pagan or at the very least, about the season instead of religion, without changing any of the currently-used words.

I also enjoyed the discussion about music in rituals. It was spot on.

Anyway, great show as usual.

Personally, I don’t believe in Karma. It makes no sense. The notion that someone, living high on the hog, stepping on everyone to get want they want, with no cares in the world and receiving nothing but rainbows and sunshine purely because they were Gandhi in their last life is completely absurd in my mind.

My belief is that each life is chosen by us, with certain lessons to be learned and taught. Not every twist and turn is fated per se; just the milestones that must be dealt with in some way. This, to me, explains why babies/children die - the lessons they were here for have been learned and their last lesson to us is how to cope with their passing. Everyone always teaches that last lesson to someone.

That’s not to say that we all deal with life’s lessons the same way. Some deal with it and some clearly don’t. But that’s part of the lesson…the consequences of those choices. Maybe you had a crappy childhood but that was one of the things you came here to experience. It might have sucked but how you deal with it makes you the individual you are today.

I also believe that Earth is not the only learning environment we have but that is a whole new discussion!

Personally, I think the life to life karma is unfair and pretty much bull crap. Some schmuck in this life, that is stealing from people and not getting caught (like some over rich CEO) is rolling along because he was a great person in the last. And then his next life (most people don’t even have any idea other lives happened) will be totally crappy and they have no idea why. Just doesn’t seem right, why would the gods do that???

Good things happen to shitty people and really bad things happen to really cool decent people all the time. Any of us “regular” folks on the street can attest to that.

We are given lessons, we either learn from them life to life or not. It’s not a forced senrio, you “listen” to that little voice in your head or you don’t. If you are a decent person, hopefully it comes back to you from other people. And if you are nasty, you deserve to get busted and pay the dues because you did not listen to the lesson voice talking to you.

And then, shit happens, things our of our control, just because everyone elses free will is flying around and bumping into us, as well as Mother Natures. We just hope we can dodge some of that and roll along without too many problems, which usually is not the case, cuz life is tough for most of us.

Boils down to, foremost, be decent to other folks, love Mother Earth and all the Gods you prefer, smile when you can and try to make the best you can out of what we have going on here.

Hope this all made sense! Chet

And I think the names “Little Weasel” and definitely “Fluffybunny” should be adopted on a regular basis.

In keeping with the theme of the show, it occurred to me that sometimes life throws out these curve balls (ie: the issue with Kveldrida & Oni’s apartment) that placed them in the right time/place and shows like this are the result. If that didn’t demonstrate the purpose of the show, I don’t know what does.

Awesome show guys. I absolutely loved it!

Feel free to use this email in the show. You two are AWESOME!!! Blessed be!

Great to see (hear) you back and look forward to spinning these new shows. Ya made my day :>)

Peace and Cheers! Chet

Peace, cheers and health :>)

Chet

-Gavriel

Blessings

A) it’s not costume, it’s Garb. Costumes are for halloween.

B) What’s this have to do with parenting?

I loved this podcast. I have been getting really amused lately with the idea of what I’m going to tell my children, one day, about Santa. Living in America, with Christian parents, a Jewish mother (me) and a Freethinker father (the most likely father of my children) makes the concept of raising children in a single religion home pretty impracticable. But I don’t want to take Santa away from my kids if all their friends get to celebrate Santa, and let’s face it, my entire family are going to encourage Santa on them, so why should I deny them this. Yet at the same time, I’m too smart to make us silly excuses about what all these Yule celebrations have to do with Christmas. So how do I explain to my kids that St. Nick is one guy who comes and fills shoes with candy on his feast day on the 6th, and Santa is actually Father Christmas, or the Holly King, and you can celebrate that on Yule or Christmas, and in some countries there’s an elf that comes, and some its the Three Kings and they come on the Equinox, and some its a Witch ::pant pant::

Anyhow, this episode amused me, enlightened me, and gave me a neat insight to what ‘new age’ parents do when discussing such things with their kids.

Also, Christ is actually Greek for the Hebrew Moshiach(Messiah), which means ‘one who is annointed’. It would refer to a king, but king in Hebrew would actually be ‘melech’. Your argument is perfectly safe, I just had to correct the linguistics.

drop us a line at themagicalearth@gmail.com so we can work out a promo swap.

Cliff

Cliff the Magical Earth

First of all, I’m sorry this is a comment on an old show! I feel bad about it but hey, I just remembered that I hadn’t said anything about it to you so I thought I’d mention it.

When Foxfire mentioned that all the Aquarians he’d met had been very spiritual people, I heard it loud and clear. I myself am an Aquarian, my sister is an Aquarian, and also her boyfriend is an Aquarian, and despite our younger ages (20, 26 and 27) I’ve found we can have some highly intellectual conversations. All three of us are highly spiritual people, and in fact every other Aquarian that I have known has been similar. I don’t know what it’s attributed to, but I’ve also found Aquarians to be kind of the kookier ones in the Zodiac - we’d almost be the ‘hippies’

I love the show guys, keep it up

Brightest Blessings,

Tahlea Moonwater xo

Unfortunately, the changing attitude towards new folks in Paganism and Wicca (as well as similar pagan-related paths) has made it more difficult for people to find acceptance or feel as though they are welcome. Some of this is also due to the rising amount of people who are involved in Paganism because it is ‘cool’, which seems to turn more established Pagans off towards -anyone- who is new. The wrong attitude, to be sure, but I have seen it happen. (I have also, at times, felt this way myself. Needing to have serious discussions on spiritual topics and only finding newbies who don’t want to talk about spirituality, or have no idea what I’m needing to talk about.)

I would love to have the experience of walking through a gathering and feel free and accepted, and wish it happened more often these days.

Anyway, great podcast! Blessings to you folks and your kids!

–Diranda

PS: Thanks for the mention on the podcast! That was very cool to hear!

Thanks for the great shout out on your show. We definitely do take a lot of joy out of our path and doing our show, glad to know that it comes through to the listeners.

I have listened to all of your shows and I enjoy them all. Email us at thewigglianway@gmail.com and we can do a promo swap.

Thanks for the great show and welcome to the family.

Mojo The Wigglian Way