Author: katborealis (Page 18 of 28)

Poll: When you think of the element water what kind of water do you think of? fresh? salt? both? what images does it bring up?

Also: I am thinking about taking a break after this water episode until the minerals one and going back and making sure I have detailed posts for all the minerals and topics I have covered… do you like that idea? Get the power points and posts caught up? I got very behind with finishing grad school and moving and was more focused on getting podcasts out and I could use some time to get caught up on the reference material!

If you think that is a horrible idea…. and want podcasts as fast as I can make them…I could use some help?

Thanks! I love you guys and I love putting out my podcast! Ummm I just passed 1 year and didn’t even notice it!? How did that happen!?

Hello! Remember when I said I was going to do a color episode in the last one? Well here is the post. I am going to have a special guest and we are going to do some serious research. The general information will be presented with a few examples but we need YOUR list of minerals, or mineral colors to talk about! Otherwise it is going to be a short episode!

This episode will be coming out in October, so we have plenty of time for researching!

So here are the preliminary topics please help flesh out the outline for the episode! Comment on this post or email me and I will add them to this post!

I need: minerals, colors, any other topics!

Preliminary topics:

– General how you get color in minerals

– Specific minerals and how they get their colors

o You supply the list

* fuchsite

* Hematite

* Fluorite

* amethyst/citrine

* Lapis Lazuli

* sugilite gets its gorgeous purple color

* tourmaline,

* larimar

* kyanite

* aventurine,

* calcite

* corundums

– How the change of color affects the associations for a mineral

o Again you supply the list

* amethyst and citrine

* tourmalin,

* aventurine,

* calcite

* corundums

Let me know if you have anything else to add to the list

Other topics:

– metamorphosis of arsenic sulphide.

Apologies for the strange sentence structure, I am almost asleep but wanted to get this out.

Deep in my mind there is a very special place. When I need to feel connected to my spirituality that is where I go. I have never had a teacher but I’ve always wanted one. I have always operated by the idea that any tools I need will come to me, I just have to be open to them. So I garage sale (small caldron was my most recent find, and that’s how I got my tarot cards), go to thrift stores, and keep my eyes open for things around the house. I have a box of very special items, but it has taken a while. A long while.

I have always said “I am a student of the earth” and that’s how I ended up in geology. I tend to chase obsessions in my life. The good thing about the earth is… its complicated. I don’t think I will ever be bored! I have found my teacher in that path, my studies. I have found my partner and best friend for life, and now I feel I am ready for my spiritual teacher.

When I started on the pagan path I was young, struggling with situations beyond my maturity level (thank you Juno for that awesome phrase), and depressed. I needed something. I tried feeling a connection at church when we went (like twice a year). Nothing. I spent long hours in the religion section of my library pouring over world religion books that were WAY beyond my reading level. Think college reference books, and I was in 6th grade. When I found this path, my immediate reaction to it was now that I look back on it what stuck.

I love my path. But there are some things about the wicca based paganism that I don’t like. For one, talking to myself. I feel stupid, and like things (that are just around) are listening. Always have. I prefer the silent, action heavy way of doing things. I like making things, arranging things, leaving out offerings, and praying. I do some spells, but not many. When I need help with something normally I already have my mundane plan of action set, and I just ask for a little help. To be perfectly honest I always feel bad asking for things, I prefer to work for them. That holds true in my life as well. I’m not one to ask for money or help unless I have exhausted all of my own resources.

I guess the problem with that approach is that when the universe sends people your way it helps to interact with them. I also consider my religion to be NOYFB (none-of-your-fucking-business). Very few friends know I have a podcast. Very few people know I am still a practicing witch. I like it that way. I feel like a lot of my shortcomings as a practitioner (my dislike of talking to myself included) would benefit from having a teacher. Sucks that I always end up in the middle of no where! Maybe realizing I need a teacher is a step on the way to really wanting a teacher enough to open up.

I know I haven’t bloged a whole lot, but that’s because I was a grad student before. Now I am employed and living somewhere new (translation I don’t really know many people here). Maybe its time for a more diverse friend group, science and religion right? I’m a pagan scientists, and a scientist thanks to being pagan. Hear me meow?

This has devolved. Sense-drive dying, eyes wanting to shut… I guess its time to close my eyes and see where my dreams take me. Good night.

Fire:
Ok here we go again, I am going to try and get this episode out tomorrow… its going to be a lot of work so I need some help.

Fire: cleaning
Have you used fire for cleansing? When would you use it?

Fire: powers/ideas/images
when working with fire what other ideas and images come up for you?
this ties in with associations, but the images and ideas

Fire: associations
What tool, herbs, crystals, colors…. do you associate with fire?

Fire: gods/goddesses/beings
are there any in particular you use when working with the element fire?

Fire: plasma
” In physics and chemistry, plasma is a state of matter similar to gas in which a certain portion of the particles are ionized. After sufficient heating a gas dissociates its molecular bonds, rendering it into constituent atoms. Further heating leads to ionization (a loss or gain of electrons), thus turning it into a plasma, containing charged particles: positive ions and negative electrons”
Using the physics definition of plasma, does this tie into your ideas about fire?

How do you experience the element of fire?
do you have any specific experiences with fire?
I have some family history with fire I am going to share, do you have any stories?

What does fire mean to you!?

Remember: awesome prize! 🙂

paper work, work, and sickness, and now SPRING! Its been hard to stay inside! 🙂 something is coming though!

I can’t listen to everything.

Not every podcast is for everyone, even if you are pagan and it’s a pagan podcast. I have accepted that with my own podcast and its time to extend that reality to my itunes podcast subscriptions. I am not going to like every pagan podcast. I am going to LOVE some and giggle with excitement when a new episode comes out. I am going to just like more of them. Some are going to be just not for me, and a few I might even just HATE. I haven’t found one of those yet, but I am not saying that one doesn’t exist.

So, from here on out, I am going to stop listening to the ones I don’t care for out of gilt because they are pagan podcasts, whatever. I am going to listen to new ones, and decided if I am going to subscribe or not. And from that list in my itunes I will draw my promos. That way the promos will be for the shows I actually listen too.

That means I need to get on it, collecting those promos! And please, send me shows you like, new and old. I have tried to search out new podcasts but there are new ones all the time! Of course I can’t play promos for all of them in every show… 😉