Australian Witches

I didn't start crying when I woke up this morning, and maybe that was because I had a waking dream.

In the dream, I saw a puppy in the back alley way near where it meets a bush track. It looked like a plush toy and had different markings, but somehow I knew it was Peggy, about to be reborn again. I (though I'm not actually visible in the dream) shout out his name and he comes running along the bush track. I seem to be in an adjacent horse paddock separated by a fence. He comes up wagging his tale but just as he tries to go under the barb wire red lines saying "NO ENTRY" appear (just like in Second Life, when you try and enter a private area) and he can't get through. Then I say "It's OK boy, you can go now, I'll be OK" and he barks and wags his tail and runs off down the bush track a happy pup.

This morning when I walked Hallie and Bobby, as I passed the sofa and grave in the backyard (the solid red line in this map) it didn't feel like Pegasus was still there. It felt like he was gone. Ever since he died I've been feeling his presence here, especially around the grave and sofa under the trees that we'd rest on so often. The sofa was a favourite spot for both of us. He'd sit listening and watching (and barking at distant dogs) and I'd be reading a book or a comic.

For the last three days I've been talking to him as if he was still alive, watching me around the other dogs.And I've been feeling like his spirit's here, even watching me dig his grave.

But not this morning. This morning he wasn't there.

And I believe that we all move on. That when we die our soul or personality dies with us, but that our spirit lives on, to be reborn anew to re-experience the world as a witness to the divine, whether one is human, animal, plant or whatever. And the dream I think means that to me. Yesterday I had a ritual in Second Life, and afterwards I planted a memorial candle for him. Though these things are all virtual, it was the best I could do until I do the same thing in real life, and regardless of that such rituals do seem to make a difference to me.

In any case, what the candle said was more or less "thank you for being in my life, and speed on to your next life". And last night - after I had a warm bath but before I dressed - I went out the back and sat next to the the grave, and said the same things to him, thanking him for his time with me, that I will never forget him, and that he can move on now. Then I came inside drank some wine, and fell asleep.

And this morning it feels as if his presence has been lifted, like a great weight taken from me. I will still cry and be upset for a long while to come, but I feel... ...relieved. And I will have my ceremonies, but I know now he's gone to restart the great cycle.

Back in 1997, I went to a Pagan gathering at Minto on the outskirts of Sydney. It was a good event. At the time I was very very lonely and after a fireside round robin (in which we talked about multicoloured unicorns) I retired to my tent. Before I went to sleep I made a prayer to the Goddess - I wanted one true friend to come into my life soon.

That morning I had a dream in which I'm standing on a hill watching multicolour pegasi fly about. A voice says "read this" and someone hands me a scroll. I read what it says and the nearest one, which was white, lands next to me, retracts it's wings and rolls over on it's back. I tickle it's stomach and then the voice says "you've got that one for life now". And then I woke up to the sound of something scratching on my tent.

I opened the zip and there's the care taker's little white dog. A couple of weeks later friends at Maitland phoned me. Their dog Cleo had just had a litter and would I like one? I drove up and their were a dozen puppies, all snow white. I called out "Pegasus, come here!" and one very special one came to his name.

And that was how I got and named him. He really was a gift from the Goddess.

 

im not too sure how often people check this community, but im stubborn and determined to get it up and... uh... you know, talky-like.

so i'll put a nice and easy question "out there" and see what happens.

do you have a pet or "familiar"? do you have animals which are one but not the other?

im wanting (but not demanding) pictures. only because its wonderful procrastination from uni and im full of squealy noises when it comes to animals. even spiders and mouse type rodentus.

i myself have a cat, a devon rex. i named her lenore after the character from the comic book of the same name (she's a destructive but well meaning zombie, just like my cat).

not sure if i consider her my familiar, i've been mainly non practising for the last five or so years. but then again i have an intense bond with her that surpasses the owner/pet variety (which in itself is also intense, i admit).

there's a photo under the cut :)
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I thought the web comic for the 8th September, 2002 at Tasha's World was all too true!

Hey my name is rachel or chelli for short.  Im new to this community but not new to wicca.  im 16 years old and from canberra Australia.
I've read some of your posts and you sound like a great bunch of girls, sorry if there are any guys here.
Ill probably be in and out of here most days of the week so drop me a line if ur not busy.

 I was wondering is anyone here is from canberra? i would love to meet any fellow wiccan's/pagans out there seeing as in my community there is no obvious covens around.
cant wait to meet you all.

 byebye * Chelli

Does anyone know where in Melbourne I might be able to find statues of Greek gods? I'd love to find some of the more "obscure" like Hestia, who mightn't be stocked in Spellbox (or my local new-age shops), but let's face it; right now we don't even have a statue of Dionysus or Apollo.

I know we have a large Greek community here, so I find it hard to believe that there isn't a Greek gift shop that stocks statuary on Bridge Rd, or Lonsdale St or in Oakleigh somewhere. I was just hoping that someone might be able to point me in the right direction, since all those locations are a fair way apart!

Thanks for your time.

(Crossposted a wee bit.)

i dont know whether to be angry or just feel sorry for these people. to still live with your religious beliefs based on 12th century superstition invokes pity from me. i wonder if they also refuse to accept that the earth is round and goes around the sun.


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TUPELO - In November five local members of the Knights of Columbus, a
Catholic fraternal benefit and service society, discovered a Tupelo
store that deals in occult books and magic supplies.

Dave Palladino, one of the men, said the group felt compelled to act on
that discovery. "We want to let people know it's there, and it's
dangerous," he said. "It's just so easy to turn our backs on certain
things. I see that apathy as such a danger."

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Hi everyone, have just joined your community trying to find people in the same state (meaning Western Australia not the frame of mind i'm in) as me to talk to about witchcraft, wicca, spirituality. I have only been reading books for roughly two years and have not done any spells yet as i wanted to be sure i knew what I was doing and research it a little :) So if there are any Perth people in wanting to chat I'd love too :) Thanks...

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Wow, it's been very quiet on here for a while...
What's happening, fellow witches?
Anything fun or new? Have you joined/created/left a coven?
Found a new path? Spent scads of money on a shiny new athame or that enamelled candlesnuffer that I have serious lust after?

Or have you just been living quietly, loving the Gods and Goddesses, and doing the best you can?