I was asked recently.. what do you want for your birthday... from a close friend.

Want? what could I want? why.... Nothing for myself thank you!  How sweet people even ask what we want for anything.   But I do wish for a few things.

I wish that everyone that is hurt and in trouble gets the help that they need.

I wish that everyone reads this has a blessed long life full of learning and Love.

I wish that hatred would fall off this earth and peace and understanding fill in its place.

I wish that we could all hang out, sit for a spell, relax, drink tea, enjoy laughter and harmony and dirty jokes till our sides split and we almost pee ourselves.

My wish for my birthday, is for Peace and Happiness and Laughter and Joy!

I hope you all Do get these things in your life  and if you are missing any ONE of them that they come to you soon.  Life is too short to sweat the crap like cars breaking down, over sleeping alarms , mowing the lawn, friends that dont call, long lines at stores.  Rush rush rush... Do do do... Blah blah blah I say!

Take time for yourselves and your friends and loved ones. Gather and Enjoy!

Happy Birthday to me if any of these things happen for any one of you.. Happy birthday to me for even thinking of them for you.  To think a thing and have it happen? I know this to be true, May all my wishes come from me and land there upon you!

I love you all

Artimus Rowan

Hello my fellow Witches and Merry Meet-

My Dedication went very well other than I fubbed some words during the ceremony,  Its not about the words we say but the intent of what we are doing I'm told, as far as Ceremony goes,  I was hugged and kissed and welcomed by the coven members at the end and I felt the Love and Acceptance that I was not aware i was going to feel, It was touching and sweet.

For a few days afterwards I had a fluttering in my chest I at first was scared was a palpatation, but soon i realized i was in balance and I was feeling well,  not short of breathe or anything and i seemed in "tune" with everything, I was told it might be the Quickening, It has past but I am still filled with elated Joy on my new path and I know i made the right decision.  My studying has been halted though.. I have been too excited to read and write, I am going on Vacation finally next week and have been doing nothing much else but thinking of it.  

Oh and Another thing to mention in my life when i decided to be Witch, I have taken up being a vegetarian,  Its not required i know but I couldn't be apart of the chain of possible neglect and abuse... So far i have been doing well I have lost wieght and slimmed a bit, I am a bit on the Heafty  side {in other words im fat LOL} so a diet change was in order anyways,  BUt a cool thing has happened since I started the change, I don't have blood sugar issues anymore, or atleast not that have noticed.  I am or was diagnosed with Low blood sugar i forget Hyper, hypo, glycemia and have battled the dizzy spells and near passing out at times but now after making the switch in my diet I haven't been having the dizzy episodes I get A little shaky still and a slight headache when its time to eat but thats about it... If i would have known or been told that a Vegetarian diet would help with that i would have made a switch years ago.  Its a pleasant side effect to say the least of what I am doing with my life...  Yay  me and a  good Decision   Hahahah!

Well again I ramble on, I could go into all the bad things that have also happened... But i don't need to dredge them up we take the good and bad in life and i like to focus on the good things so the bad are paled in comparrison,  NOt saying if i have a crisis i wont come here to vent sometime,  you know to bend a ear or two hahah... Just trying to keep the positive flowing here is all don't give the bad things energy and they don't always effect you as bad,  I wasn't taught that by the way,  its something I have always known..the way i was raised I should be on meds and crying... something in me refused to lay down and take it I guess, and in my head the rainbows are much prettier than the gray clouds and storms.

I hope everyone out there is seeing the rainbows in their life also, Lifes hard enough as it is... we might as well be happy through most of it! 

Thanx for taking the time to read this if you got this far,  I am really new to blogging so sometimes  I wander in my writing,  Just jotting down things in my head sometimes I think helps clear space, Possibly, or im just scattered brained .... either way I am the best Me I can Be and thats all anyone can be or do for themselves.

Merry Part my Friends and Blessed Be

Artimus Rowan

Don

Dedication

Just to let you all know that my dedication is on Friday may 5/16.   I was going to do it on Beltane but I became very sick with cold and flu and sinus infection ....  talk about fun! HAHAHA

The ceremony is of my own design and being done by the coven i belong too.  I have written my own circle cast but using the quarter calls and dedication invocation traditially used in this circumstance.  I am very excited with all the studying i have done to take this next step in my Path to being a witch my year and a day starts tomarrow!  

Being I am new I still have much to learn... as we all do no matter how long we have been practicing. 

I am not sure if I let you all know my witch name is Artimus Rowan at this time, and as all of you have done, may change in the future. 

I have made many new friends here on Covenspace and wish you all well,  Thank you for your help I have acquired on my journey thus far, Your opinions and Knowledge is appreciated and I hope we can continue to share many things as my years go on.

Peace be with all of you and may happiness shine down from the stars above and the Earth below to wrap us all in the Love of creation from our Gods and Goddesses that we have chosen.

Blessed Be and Merry part

For we are the people, the power and the change, So mote it be

Artimus Rowan aka

Merry Meet!

Just an update on things... my studying on Magick have slowed some I have blazed through books and read and re read many books..   I am fortunate to have a Job on third shift that doesnt require me to do anything really so the reading for 10 hours a night at work helped me do all that....

I seem to be more at peace with a time frame I thought I was under I thought must learn and know it all now I am feeling more like if I commit things to memory that is fine and If I don't it wont be the end of my world.. I always have the books to reference if things go wrong and my own Book of Shadows....    Magick has its time and place and Its not what you know all the time its who I am... I am Witch.. I am a good person and thats what really matters in the end.

I wish all of you a Happy new beggining or a Happy middle or a Happy end to what ever you are doing... Blessed be my friends!

Merry Meet again!

Happy Imbolc or Candelmas which ever you preferre!

I work third shift and been having trouble sleeping Iwas taking over the counter sleep aids but was always groggya nd drugged... My new discovery is chamomile tea!  I had no idea it works so well. Ijust buy the Lipton Variety at my  local walmart called Bedtime story and it putsme out if i have two cups.. actualy i get very tingly and almost drugged by it.  Has anyone else had this experience with Chamomile tea?  I am also a science based persona d Researched some of its effects.. you knwo the FDA doesnt research herbs for many reasons which i wont get into now BUT the scientific studies i found on the net if they are true are ASTOUNDING!   Not only is there supposedly a chemical in chamomile that is a sedative but with a lot milder effects of course but reacted the same in the brain.  Also it was researched to treat bowel ailments sauch as IBS with great results especially in children.  The biggest one of all Anticarcogenic research is proving promising that chamomile is helping with certain cancers in research labs ... NOw this is all heresay from me of course but the cancers they studied where prostate and breast cancers, Was not a cure by any means BUT did help fight it in the study.

Okay so WOW is all i can think, I drank the Tea and my lips got tingly and numb and I sleep, usually witha bit of wild dreams nothing scary just erratic BUT it works and then i research and see all this stuff about it!  how cool.  of course if people are on MEds that treat these conditions The Tea would then possibly hurt you if taking and prescribed Sedatives and drinking alchohol and so forth.  

Are there any Herbalists out there reading this blog? If so please please contact me I would love to know more about Herbal medicines and natural cures.. yes yes I know magickally we can use the vibrations BUt as all you witches out here know Knowledge is magick and magick is power the more you know the more we can do with it.  I believe myself that medicine part of science and witchcraft can work together not sure how yet BUT im seeing its potential to do so.

I hope you all that read this are doing well, okay I also hope all that dont read this is doing well also!  Hahahah

MErry Part and Blessed Be

Don