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Sondra

Embrace the Mystery!

About Me

What to reveal? Reflections in the crystal ball say I'll be 59 in March. In this society it probably means I'm descending the proverbial hill. In another time and place, I'd be the Wise Woman. So let's say this is another time and place. I aspire to the magickal life and try to tolerate the mundane annoyances and inequities of existence in this time and place. I have had my share of joys and sorrows; rain and sunshine. It's been a good life. I had a wonderful grandmother and mother who never dampened my imagination and encouraged me to be who I am (as weird and unconventional as that may be.) I have a great family; wonderful kids and beautiful grandchildren. I think it is enough! HOT Myspace Layouts
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My Interests

Magick; music; rennaisance festivals; writing poetry; playing with my grandkids; growing herbs; remembering when.

I'd like to meet:

The Green Man! but he's probably in the Summerland. Oh well... I'm drawn to whimsical, nature-loving pagan types; you know, the old hippies! I like old 60's music like Peter, Paul & Mary; Jethro Tull; Moody Blues; Grateful Dead; Fleetwood Mac; Crosby, Stills and Nash and Kate Wolf. I also like most new age/ pagan sounds like Loreena Mckennitt; Enya; Sarah MacLachlin; Spiral Dance; Wendy Rule; Blackmore's Night and Incubus Sukkubus. So people who like those vibrations might share common ground. I have an affection for good souls and good instincts for recognizing those few that remain. Blessed Be!

"O thou that was before the earth was formed.
RHEA, BINAH, GE.

O, tideless, soundless, boundless bitter sea,
I am thy preistess; O answer unto me O arching sky above and earth beneath,
Giver of life and bringer-in of death, PERSEPHONE, ASTARTE, ASHTORETH,
I am thy Priestess; O answer unto me

O golden APHRODITE, come to me
Flower of the foam, rise from the bitter sea.

The hour of the your moon tide draws near,
Hear the invoking words, hear and appear

ISIS unveiled, and RHEA, BINAH, GE.
O ISIS, veiled on earth, but shining clear.

In the high heavens now the moon draws near
Hear the invoking words, hear and appear

SHADDAI EL CHAI, and RHEA, BINAH, GE."

I am she who ere the earth was formed
Was RHEA, BINAH, GE.

I am the soundless, boundless bitter sea
Out of whose depths life wells eternally

ASTARTE, APHRODITE, ASHTORETH
Giver of life and bringer-in of death;

HERA of heaven, on earth, PERSEPHONE;
LEVANAH of the tides and HECATE

All these am I, and they are seen in me
I am the soundless, boundless, bitter sea

All tides are mine, and answer unto me.

Tides of the air, tides of the inner earth,
The secret, silent tides of death and birth.

Tides of human souls, and dreams, and destiny
ISIS veiled and RHEA, BINAH, GE.

The hour of the moon draws near
I hear the invoking words, hear and appear

ISIS unveiled and RHEA, BINAH, GE.
I come unto the Priestess that calleth me."

~ Dion Fortune

Music:

Moody Blues; Blackmore's Night; Bruce Springsteen; Loreena McKennitt; Sarah MacLachlin; Kate Wolf; Enya; Inkubus Sukkubus; Spiral Dance; Neil Diamond; John Denver; Laura Powers; Wendy Rule; Stevie Nicks and Jethro Tull.

Movies:

Peyton Place; Bridges of Madison County; Something's Gotta Give; Terms of Endearment; Evening Star; Practical Magic; Hocus Pocus; Lord of the Rings; Mists of Avalon; DaVinci Code; Cleopatra; Nightmare Before Christmas; Fern Gully; Charlotte's Web; Pocahantas; and Alice in Wonderland.

Television:

History International channel; Lime Channel; Discovery Channel and Travel Channel. Occasionally; episodes of Charmed.

Books:

Peyton Place; Bridges of Madison County; A Thousand Country Roads; Mists of Avalon; Lammas Night; The Sea Priestess; The Goatfoot God; Moon Magic and Book of Shadows

Heroes:

My Grandma; Lillian Dorothy Taylor Fowler; My Mother; Esther Margaret Fowler Costell; my Great Grandmas: Margaret Gibson Fowler and Martha Jane Bollinger Taylor; my wonderful daughters; Allison (the Astrologer); Tanya (the Mystic); and Carolina (the Energizer Bunny); also Grace Mettalious; Marion Zimmer-Bradley; Princess Diana; Mary Kay Letourneau; Monica Lewinsky; Lady Godiva; Starhawk; Loreena McKennitt; Dion Fortune; Morgaine LaFey; Cleopatra; Isis; Viviane; Cassandra; Little Lulu; Allison McKenzie and... my sons; Joe and Torry; Robert Kennedy; J.F.K; Carl Sagan; Joseph Campbell; Bill Clinton; Bruce Springsteen; Walt Whitman; W.B. Yeats; the Green Man and someone who shall remain my secret.

My Blog

Tidbits collected over 6 Decades

These are bits of wisdom, irony, trivia and nonsense collected over the past 6 decades of my visit: From ages 0-10 I learned:   * Life is too short. Flowers and animals and people die t...
Posted by Sondra on Mon, 17 Mar 2008 09:49:00 PST

13 Random facts about Myself

(To Alicyn and Heather who both tagged me, I couldn't seem to do it right so II'm creating this one.) 1.) I was born on Friday the 13th just after midnight.  The radio in my mother's hospital roo...
Posted by Sondra on Sun, 02 Mar 2008 05:39:00 PST

Loathing

Before yesterday, I always thought that Hate was the reverse side of Love.  I thought you had to love someone before you could hate them and that hate was the condition left from the hurt of love...
Posted by Sondra on Fri, 22 Feb 2008 06:50:00 PST

Exerpts from My Book of Shadows

*** Embrace the Mystery! *** *** The Power is in the Secret. *** *** The Shadow is as important as the Light! *** *** Knowledge comes from learning, Wisdom comes from living *** *** "In the end, only ...
Posted by Sondra on Mon, 10 Sep 2007 06:51:00 PST

Mothers

   With Mothers" Day around the corner, I thought I'd write something about my Mother and Grandma and my Great- Grandmas.    My Mom, Esther passed away 4 years ago.  It doesn'...
Posted by Sondra on Mon, 07 May 2007 06:30:00 PST

Beltane

   Beltane is one of the Major Sabbats/ Fire Festivals of the Pagan Wheel of the year.  May 1st (May Day) is the modern name.    It lies across the Wheel from S...
Posted by Sondra on Sat, 28 Apr 2007 04:30:00 PST

Earth Day

Well another Earth Day is coming; Sunday, April 22nd.  I haven't formed the substance of this blog so I guess it will just flow from my consciousness as I type it.  Everyone who knows me kno...
Posted by Sondra on Fri, 20 Apr 2007 06:51:00 PST

without ryme or reason

   What really matters?   What we feel/ have ever felt?  What we know/ our cummulative wisdom?  How much we love or how much we are loved?  How deeply we've connecte...
Posted by Sondra on Thu, 12 Apr 2007 04:23:00 PST

Welcome Spring!

Ok, Friends & Loved Ones, the vernal equinox is upon us.  The wheel is starting its eternal revolution one more time.  Just want to wish Bright Blessings on all those I hold close to my ...
Posted by Sondra on Wed, 21 Mar 2007 02:01:00 PST