On the Oddboards, which will not let me log in, the loverly cornute asked for pagan-y alternatives to "I'm so going to hell for that."

Here're some Egyptian stylee ones:

I'm so going to be walking upside down for that one.
Oh man, no way am I gonna be able to tell feces from food!
Ammit's totally gonna devour me now.


Got any favorites you'd like to add?

Wiccan Priestess Loses High Court Appeal

The county "issues invitations to deliver prayers to all Christian, Muslim, and Jewish religious leaders in the country. It refuses to issue invitations to Native Americans, Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs, Wiccans, or members of any other religion," justices were told in her appeal by American Civil Liberties Union lawyer Rebecca Glenberg.

The county's attorney, Steven Micas, said that the county's practice was in line with the Supreme Court's endorsement of legislative prayer as long as it did not proselytize, advance or disparage a particular religion.

I have been having wicked brain fog since last night and can't seem to form thoughts around much of anything, so, would very much appreciate any comments y'all have. Maybe it'll help me emerge from the cloudy zone.

Questions I have - did the Supreme Court review this case and form opinions or just mark it "denied" and move along? Who decides what's going to be reviewed? Is it the Chief Justice or the full Supreme Court?

Was it ignored because there was no legal reason for a review of the appeal or was it ignored because religions outside of Christianity, Islam, and Judaism are not taken seriously enough or seen as being in high enough numbers to require inclusion? Finally, MUST there be prayers at every damn government anything? It's not like these people are listening to anyone other than lobbyists.

I always considered myself to be balanced/blended spiritually and mundanely, yet I realized tonight while reading a friend's LJ just how separated I've become in a pretty short period of time. Since starting this walkathon thing, which itself was kicked off by consideration of maat and isfet, I've done next to nothing spiritually/magically to keep myself balanced or focused or to remove obstacles, etc. Wassup with that? I had a boost from a new friend online, got anti-fatigue pills that I'm popping daily, and truly am slamming along on this thing - but where am I in all of this?

I haven't done any of the exercises from the temple in weeks, which is farking ricockulous since those exercises, above and beyond any others, would help me the most right now.

I blame my extreme exhaustion for not really thinking about this until tonight. It's passed through my mind from time to time over the last three weeks, but I've not done anything about.

Nuff of that shit.

Getting back on the barque, baby.

I have been meaning to type up something about meditation and astral for a while now since an LJ friend asked about it. I've been meditating for what feels like forever, though I'm pretty sure that I started when I was about 20 or thereabouts. My problem is that I don't know how to break down what I do so it makes sense for somebody else. At this point, it's damn near second nature.

Meditation - best thing I can do is describe what I do, and hope it can be understood. I relax my body, let go of everything, close my eyes and see whatever I can see. You know how you see those colored dots when you close your eyes? I let them start spinning and going into patterns and then eventually I see... things. I just let it flow. Some of the things I see are rather intense. Some innocuous. All interesting. When I'm deep in to it I can direct it more, interact more. Particularly in the last two years, the things I see are things I can verify in some way following meditation. That's been rather freaky/cool.

Astral - Before I start I set in my mind that I'm meeting someone - usually neowiccan. We set a time to "get together" and then we use our own methods to "get there". I use a ritual by Akhet Hwt-Hrw that involves going through a door. When I get to the other side, I see in my mind's eye a certain place that is mine. When I feel the encounter is done, I head back to the computer and type like mad and attempt to get down everything I experienced and send it off in email. Suz does the same. Then we meet on AIM and compare notes to see how many (if any) hits we made. I would say that at this point we get hits more often than we don't.

Which reminds me, we're also long overdue for another meetup.

This has probably been no help whatsoever, but it's the best I can do at this point (and I haven't even started on the wine).