A MagiQal Life

Those who can not see that there is magick in mundane life, are not living life to its fullest potential. Magick is all around us, and it does not really take all that much to see it. I’m not talking about pretty colored leaves that have fallen into the creek, and I’m referring to the autumn leaves that have turned color, but have not fallen, but there is magick in that as well. No, I’m talking about talking…

A simple hello and a smile can make a dim day bright, even if that hello is too a stranger. On a recent trip to Cades Cove with the family Lakota and I sat in the back of the van with the door open. When we passed by random hikers, bikers, and people riding horseback we talked to them. Most of the time it was little more then a How-dee-doo but at other times we asked them relevant questions to the days outing, like whether or not they saw the giraffe a few miles back, or if they got any cool pictures of the elephant. It didn’t matter that neither giraffe nor elephant were there to see or get pictures of, what mattered was the friendly way in which we asked. Friendly, polite, and with a sincere smile…

We passed two ladies on bikes and wished them the bestest of days. A very short way up from them we passed two guys. We pointed to the ladies a ways back and said they may do well to ride as team and make new friends. The ladies were glad to give us their hellos, and from the looks of the guys, they thought the idea I gave was a grand one.

A bit later we passed by some nice people on horseback. We called them cowboys, took their picture, and waved as if we were old friends. I could see them smiling broader as we drove away then when we drove up. On some level, we helped make their day a better one.

There was a nice couple with the largest lens we’ve ever seen, and asked them if they shot anything nice. They said “not yet” so we wished them luck…and I hope they got lucky.

A little girl riding her bike was wished well too, though that wish was likely foundered as she nearly crashed into the van while spitting expletives…though maybe had we not said hello, she’s have fallen, and made her day a bad one. Who can really know for sure.

All in all, we talked to at least 30 people, and of those 30 people 29 smiled, and I really do like those odds, and each of those 30 people made my day a little brighter, so I hope that my smile also brightened their day. Have you said hello to a stranger lately?

If not, then spread the magick…

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Perrin is my runestone…

A few weeks ago I had a few issues with my primary email account in that it was offline for a while (and still is) so I missed a notification from vBulletin.org. The notification was for a possible exploit in one of the add-ons on OccultCorpus. The exploit was actually minor, and hard to get into, but it was an exploit all the same…and an exploit I’d not have known about otherwise…

I went out to feed the chickens one day and he hopped onto my chair, grabbed my mouse and got to work… He clicked an icon from the top of FireFox, the one for my del.icio.us tags. That in and of itself was likely a strange thing, as it’s surrounded by other clickable icons.

He then scrolled down to the bottom of the page and clicked on the only link listed that had a “problem”. When I got back to my desk I noticed the open window and almost got angry that he was clicking things that he should not have been clicking… thats when I noticed the bright red warning on the page he found.

 More recently he was in here alone as I was out with Cyndi (his mom was in the other room on that computer) and again he got to work clicking random things. He opened up an image (which I don’t even know where it’s at on the computer, so can’t tell ya how he did it) and had the program maximized so that there was NO WAY I’d miss it.

 The image in question, indirectly predicted one of the new members on the forum….as the member is new, I can only guess if this is a good or a bad omen, but it’s an omen all the same, and an omen divined from a click happy two year old.

 Strange…strange indeed.

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Main faiths use the power of sacrifice for various aspects of religion and magick and you’ll even come across things in the simplest of sources that say to offer up this or that in the name of the gods. I have always wondered what you were supposed to do with the “sacrifice” when you are done sacrificing.

 A few days ago Cyndi and I were out in the yard killing chickens to put in the freezer so we could eat them later and as they ran around without heads I got to thinking… could I harness the life-energies as they are lost out the little naked necks of these Turkens?

 Then I thought to myself what if I did utilize such energies…what would happen to the carcass if I cooked and ate it? Can I give the life essence in sacrifice then keep the empty shell that remains for my own devices, or would that be bad form? And I’m not talking specifically about chickens. I’m taking about herbs, stones, and other things that one may offer up in supplication.

 These and more questions I think I will ponder over the next few days and weeks as we kill off several more roosters. And until I can come up with a few answers I think my mind will grind and my belly will rumble…

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