A MagiQal Life

Marshall University, a college in Huntington, W.Va., recently became the first college in the country to grant pagan students excused absences for celebrating pagan holidays.

While many colleges have policies allowing students to miss any class for religious reasons, no other school has recognized paganism by specifically granting students permission to miss class for pagan holidays, The Associated Press reported.

I’m simply thrilled by this news, as it’s one step closer to making the various pagan faiths once again mainstream…something that has not been done for generations. And while I am not really sure of the specifics of it all or which holidays they are allowed to miss, I really do feel that this is a step in the correct direction. Now if all goes well other schools will follow suit, and then maybe rather then closing the school down for the Christian holidays they will close them for government holidays (veterans day, in service, boss’s day, etc) and then allow the students on an individual level leave when they need to observe something for religious reasons.

Luckily many of the holidays are pretty close to one another, if not on the same day, so such a transition should not be all that hard of one.

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The Church is sometimes the best friend that the Pagan Community has ever had. For instance, in an article  from Today’s Christian Woman, there are several grand claims in it based on personal experiences from people the author knows.

 In reading the article I have learned that if I leave Christianity behind I can then use spells to get a better job, use a spirit guide for guidance, and otherwise lead a very happy and healthy life through the use of witchcraft and magick. Simply fantastic if you as me!

 Dr. F. Douglas Pennoyer, a cultural anthropologist and senior pastor of Snohomish Free Methodist Church near Seattle. says that “it really works”. I mean, the guy is a doctor and an outstanding member of the community and church. I’ll certainly take that as an endorsement any day!

 Once it gets done with all of the wonderful examples of how Witchcraft can make your life easier, better, and more fulfilling, it goes on about how all of that is a contradiction to biblical scripture. Even in the middle of all that Pastor Doug Pennoyer agrees that “There’s a resurgence in Wicca because people are seeking power in their lives, something that works”. Of course he then says that parents should pray that their children never find such joys in life as something that works. Though, he does have a point with something else that he’s said; “Neo-paganism is simply old garbage recycled.”

 Either way, in reading the article I see that A) The Occult and a New Age lifestyle are means to better ones life, and that B) God thinks that doing these things is “bad” though other then saying that it’s bad, there is no real explanation as to why. Why? Likely because there isn’t one.

 Blessed Be.

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Back in 2005 when I was a full fledged member of Occult Forums we got a loony that made an account named “Jack Blade”. Half of this members posts seem to claim he had some affiliation with Satan. The other half had him claiming that he was Jesus Christ.

Through some twist of normal logic he claimed that there was proof of his divinity on his birth certificate. (exhibit A, exhibit B, exhibit C), and his twisted logic is thus:

Technically look at it.. My mother’s name is Caroline Rosser.. Carol as in the song.. See sign’s C.Rosser like Jesus died on the cross.. Which made God crosser.. Then my father’s same Stuart Evans.. Stu Art.. As in the Devil makeing art of food.. Art of you.. You become the Devil’s toy an he ain’t human.. I got all nature im like a wild animal when i want to be.. An then he sign’s S.Evans As in Seven spirit’s of God.. An also like the film Seven which show’s how dark my metality goes.. Understand if it exist’s it exist’s in me an my head.. Makeing it my metality an memory’s.. Then we have me my name is Geraint David Evans.. Which break’s down into G Re Ain’t Vaild Heaven’s.. Why ain’t Re correct or vaild.. Because Jesus was God an Devil.. Not just God.. Jesus was the man with the spirit of the Universe.. Makeing him both God an Devil.. Then my birth date prove’s this.. 21 April 1983.. 21 as i said is the number.. An even my birth year add’s upto it.. 1+9+8+3=21.. 3×7=21.. 7 an 21 are the Alpha an the Omega of the last chapter of the bibel Jesus is coming.. Jesus say’s he the Alpha an Omega would return then i turn up haveing the number’s which prove me to be the Alpha an the Omega of that chapter.. See i said i would return an i have.. An the fact that my number’s prove God as similer number’s to Devil prove’s they are one an the same.. Just different side’s of God’s metality.. An the fact that the number’s is proved by the supposedly holy bible.. Prove’s it is from God.. No matter what crap they pull.. If they think im nothing but the Devil then i would not be connected in such a way to the bible.. A book you claim is so holy.. Yet it was wrote by them ba*tards who killed me.. Holy i think not.

Post after post of bad poetry and random biblical ramblings followed and proceeded that revelation to the point that the member had to be banned for breaking several of the forum rules and regulations.

Almost two years later he was accused of killing Father Bennett, a Vicar at St Fagan’s Church. While this is a story out of the UK, it crossed over to the states when the news had an image of the forums he was a member at. Oddly enough, they equated the forums with Satanism and other evil things, where that was not really the case. Either way, the publicity of the event has forced the current administration to ‘archive’ the posts of the member, so I’ll not be sharing anything more.

But if you would like to know more of the story from the media you can check out this story, and this video.

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I have several google alerts set up for various “occult terms” such as Witchcraft, Pagan, Magick, and Occult, and many of them give me the strangest things. Like an article about Chris Pagan trying to sell his car, or the current Events of Druid Hills Idaho. There are also many hits on books like Harry Potter, but now and again I get some real gems and I just have to share them with someone, and today that someone is you!

In Waukesha Wisconsin recently there was a lady in her back yard where she was apparently dancing about and singing strange songs along with her iPod around a bonfire that her neighbors mistook as some strange spell casting. Why did they make this mistake? I bet you are thinking a witch hunt in middle America right? Wrong…the lady is completely bonkers, and the mistake is likely easily made by anyone.

Point One: She recently changed her name from Brenna K. Barney to Moon Fyre which is likely a sign that the better majority of her magickal knowledge comes from Llewellyn Publishing. But I guess there is no crime in that.

Point Two: No, she was not skyclad, but she was only in a teeshirt and her undies.

Point Three: She was buring her bonfire in a pre-fab firepit. Likely due to local ordinances which she was trying not to break (bless her heart). Nothing loony there right…wrong. She was not using wood for the fire, but rather Rubber Car mats, and a cooler.

Point Four: When the police got there she completely ignored them, in fact, she took lighter fluid and sprayed it on her already melting and black smoke billowing fire pit. All the while belting out whatever song was playing on her glorious iPod.

Point Five: She is a self employed Psychic, and a self professed “Solitary Eclectic Witch” (Ok, I guess that’s pretty normal).

Point Six: She didn’t bother to appear in court but claims that she was happy with the outcome… A fine for $249 dollars for a public disturbance and resisting arrest.
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The main reason I think I found humor in that was because the very next Google Alert had the following Headline and short:

Identifying Mental Illness

The following is the highlight of that article:

Behaviour Symptomatic of Mental Illness: Mental illness is an ailment which needs to be treated clinically (like diabetes, hypothyroidism). Contrary to popular belief, mental illness cannot be mitigated by yoga, meditation, witchcraft, black magic or prayer.

The article did not say all that much other then that, I’ll not give a link, as it’s overly filled with spam…but those two alerts in a row certainly did seem to go hand in hand.

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