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Come the first half of July, friends of mine are coming down, back home, to visit. They're a married couple with a small child. The husband, who is in the Army, will be returning to Iraq later this year. He will have all of his gear with him, including his armor and uniforms.
It's our (my friends' and my) intent to hold a ritual of protection for these items. However, I'm not sure on how to go about the ritual. Suggestions would be very, very helpful. x_x
I was thinking, possibly, about calling Bastet, the motherly goddess of happiness for help, or Gaia. The only herbs I have available are dragonsblood, rosemary (fresh), and mugwort. Crystals include bloodstone, rock quartz (wand and loose stones), amethyst, selenite (wand), serpentine, and...a lot of other stuff that I'm not really sure all of what's there.
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Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 7:30 am
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Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 8:32 am
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Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 9:02 am
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Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 10:22 am
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Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 11:59 am
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Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 12:02 pm
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Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 1:47 pm
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Nicky McCloud Come the first half of July, friends of mine are coming down, back home, to visit. They're a married couple with a small child. The husband, who is in the Army, will be returning to Iraq later this year. He will have all of his gear with him, including his armor and uniforms. It's our (my friends' and my) intent to hold a ritual of protection for these items. However, I'm not sure on how to go about the ritual. Suggestions would be very, very helpful. x_x I was thinking, possibly, about calling Bastet, the motherly goddess of happiness for help, or Gaia. The only herbs I have available are dragonsblood, rosemary (fresh), and mugwort. Crystals include bloodstone, rock quartz (wand and loose stones), amethyst, selenite (wand), serpentine, and...a lot of other stuff that I'm not really sure all of what's there. there are a whole slew of gods and goddeses that you could invoke for protection, though i have only used one before, i called artamis to help me and a friend be quite while we snuck out of the house, it worked well the first time xp
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Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 7:05 pm
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midara the happy banshee shirokitsune Nicky McCloud I'm kinda hesitant to involve a deity I haven't worked with before. Plus, I'm not really sure if it would piss off one of my deities... I'm not sure how jealous they are, but I don't want to offend my patron or one of my matrons... x_x xd I would HOPE that the Gods would have evolved past petty human jealousy! I can't know what the Gods think but I really seriously doubt you could ever offend them .. ^^;; I'm going to guess you've not worked too extensively with the Hellenes. Any look into their mythos shows they they, indeed are not above jealousy, and not above a good smiting either. xd
I haven't worked extensively with them, but I've studied on the subject quite a bit. That's why I don't work with that pantheon really. The stories are a bit too much like soap-operas .. sweatdrop I personally don't really "believe" those stories to be true. I think they're just allegory, really .. ^^; not to offend anyone, that's just what I think. In my mind part of being a Divinity would ( or might ) require a certain 'letting go' of the smaller human emotions like jealousy, anger, ect. I guess this is because I am so accustomed to Buddhist practices.
And the later patriarchal stories of Zeus running around raping people kind of turned me off to the pantheon right off the bat. >_<;
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Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 7:31 pm
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Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 8:05 pm
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shirokitsune midara the happy banshee shirokitsune Nicky McCloud I'm kinda hesitant to involve a deity I haven't worked with before. Plus, I'm not really sure if it would piss off one of my deities... I'm not sure how jealous they are, but I don't want to offend my patron or one of my matrons... x_x xd I would HOPE that the Gods would have evolved past petty human jealousy! I can't know what the Gods think but I really seriously doubt you could ever offend them .. ^^;; I'm going to guess you've not worked too extensively with the Hellenes. Any look into their mythos shows they they, indeed are not above jealousy, and not above a good smiting either. xd I haven't worked extensively with them, but I've studied on the subject quite a bit. That's why I don't work with that pantheon really. The stories are a bit too much like soap-operas .. sweatdrop I personally don't really "believe" those stories to be true. I think they're just allegory, really .. ^^; not to offend anyone, that's just what I think. In my mind part of being a Divinity would ( or might ) require a certain 'letting go' of the smaller human emotions like jealousy, anger, ect. I guess this is because I am so accustomed to Buddhist practices.
And the later patriarchal stories of Zeus running around raping people kind of turned me off to the pantheon right off the bat. >_<;
Yeah, I certainly could see how Buddhist philosophy would conflict with Hellenism. xd But really, if you read the Delphic maxims, it's pretty clear that ancient Greeks and modern Hellenists aren't nearly as depraved as the mythos might suggest. I feel that I really have no business applying my morality or codes of conduct to the immortal Gods, and nothing they do could cause me to pass judgement on them. Also, I think their actions are often times symbolic and have within them many lessons for humanity. But at the end of the day they have lives to lead and I have no business deciding what actions are appropriate for them.
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Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 8:22 pm
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midara the happy banshee shirokitsune midara the happy banshee shirokitsune Nicky McCloud I'm kinda hesitant to involve a deity I haven't worked with before. Plus, I'm not really sure if it would piss off one of my deities... I'm not sure how jealous they are, but I don't want to offend my patron or one of my matrons... x_x xd I would HOPE that the Gods would have evolved past petty human jealousy! I can't know what the Gods think but I really seriously doubt you could ever offend them .. ^^;; I'm going to guess you've not worked too extensively with the Hellenes. Any look into their mythos shows they they, indeed are not above jealousy, and not above a good smiting either. xd I haven't worked extensively with them, but I've studied on the subject quite a bit. That's why I don't work with that pantheon really. The stories are a bit too much like soap-operas .. sweatdrop I personally don't really "believe" those stories to be true. I think they're just allegory, really .. ^^; not to offend anyone, that's just what I think. In my mind part of being a Divinity would ( or might ) require a certain 'letting go' of the smaller human emotions like jealousy, anger, ect. I guess this is because I am so accustomed to Buddhist practices.
And the later patriarchal stories of Zeus running around raping people kind of turned me off to the pantheon right off the bat. >_<; Yeah, I certainly could see how Buddhist philosophy would conflict with Hellenism. xd But really, if you read the Delphic maxims, it's pretty clear that ancient Greeks and modern Hellenists aren't nearly as depraved as the mythos might suggest. I feel that I really have no business applying my morality or codes of conduct to the immortal Gods, and nothing they do could cause me to pass judgement on them. Also, I think their actions are often times symbolic and have within them many lessons for humanity. But at the end of the day they have lives to lead and I have no business deciding what actions are appropriate for them.
xD Yeah true that! I have a good book about the earlier versions of several Greek mythologies .. I think I'll look at some of them again. <3 It's not really my morality I'm applying to the Gods .. I actually get a lot of my ideas on morality from Buddhist practice. xD Which speaks of the Gods (or Bodhisattvas in their term) as being those ideal moral personifications, for example, Compassionate Tara. I'm just so used to it that I kind of apply those ideals to everything. xD It's a bit silly of me.
Oh! I know Hellenists aren't depraved. I would never think that. I love you guys. xD We're all in this together. <3
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Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 5:38 am
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Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 8:56 am
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