My Beloved Wicca

I have been a follower of the Wiccan path since I was 15 (I’m now 25, so it definitely wasn’t a phase!), and have always practised alone, my Wiccan name being Caae.

I’ve been inspired to write to this post after watching Kendra of the First Wiccan Church on the Biography channel the other night.

She just came across so well, with an accurate depiction of the path. She seems like a very insightful lady, and it’s refreshing to see her able to tackle bigotry with concise words and a tactful approach.

She, as well as many other Wiccans, have had to deal with comments with regard to devil worship and satanism. We simply do not have anything to do with Devils or Satan. Not a thingy-dingy. Zip. Nowt. Zilch.

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Anyway, the real point of this post was now that Mabon (the 2nd harvest festival) has passed, Samhain (pronounced Sa-ween) is almost upon us. This is a significant time in the Wiccan calendar since it is the festival of the year’s last harvest (Our New Year!). It is also a time when the veil between the physical and spiritual plane is the thinnest.

This is the time when Wiccans celebrate the life and death of all things. The cycle of life. Deceased ancestors and beloved family members/friends/pets/familiars are asked to join us on this night to be honoured, respected and, of course, celebrated – as all creatures, living or dead, should be!

Kendra performed the Samhain ritual with many Christians, and non-believers in her midst. I was just amazed at how enlightened many of them were once they had seen what Wicca is all about!

It was just fantastic, I really hope more people see their documentary, it was really well done and she should be proud of the way she presented her beliefs.

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Although, one thing I really would like to know is why she chose to call her establishment a ‘Church’ , and why she labelled herself as a ‘Reverand’ when she was a High Priestess? Trying to make a link between Wicca and Christianity doesn’t make sense to me. Wicca runs far, far back into the roots of Paganism. Pagan and Celtic religions were established in the UK a long time before Christianity and the Church were even presented to the Western World by the Romans.

I guess as an English/Scottish witch, the link seems crazy to me. Maybe it’s different from an American point of view. But to me, I can feel the ancient roots attached to my beliefs without the Christian perspective clouding it. I’ve always thought that I was probably once the local witch/herbalist in early Medieval times! Not quite the pagan era, though

Other than that small grievance, it was a good program! If you have the chance, and you would like to know more about Wicca, please read about Kendra and her work HERE

BLESSED BE!!

Damn Evap Lines!

Stupid tests, I’ve taken three of these internet cheapies from FertilityPlan on eBay.

The first one at 11 dpo was negative, couldn’t see any line whether I had wanted to or not! Wasn’t with FMU though.

Second at 12 dpo with FMU, negative within the time frame, but a very very feint positive line showed up after 40 mins…grrr! It has a pinky tinge, so didn’t rule anything out.

Third this morning at 13 dpo…well, there was a feint line within the time frame which disappeared as quickly as I’d seen it…now it’s back again another hour or so later. Again, with a pink tinge but a little easier to see than yesterday’s.

So, are these just evap lines, or does the fact that 2/3 have been like this mean something?? GRRR!

Best I can do is wait for another few days I guess! I’ll be really disappointed if it’s negative after these

Good luck to anyone else testing!

It’s so hard to refrain from POAS so early!

Wow, Emigrating Is Confusing!

Well, we are hoping to emigrate to Uruguay at the end of this month, beginning of next so I’m trying to get all the documents that I need straightened out.

After months of looking for info on the ‘net, I ended up with a lot of inconclusive and contradictory info. Really rather annoying :/

In normal circumstances, you need to present the following:

• Certified copy of Birth Certificate, duly legalized by Uruguayan Consulate closest to or at place of birth
• Certified copy of Marriage/Divorce Certificate (if applicable), duly legalized by Uruguayan Consulate closest to or at place of marriage
• Good Conduct Certificate issued by country’s National Police (i.e. FBI for U.S.) of country of birth or that you have lived in for 5 years, duly legalized by Uruguayan Consulate closest to or at place of residency
• In addition a proof of income will be required, which MUST BE of a minimum of USD 500 (it is recommended to have a bit more than that). A Health Certificate will also be requested by Immigrations, which only is obtainable at specific Institutions in Uruguay. Tetanus vaccination is mandatory in Uruguay and will be necessary for all applicants (Vaccination Certificate from Abroad will be accepted). Blood and urine test will be made to all applicants over 15 years of age. All women between 21 and 65 years of age have to provide a PAP Test and all women between 40 and 65 a Mammography as well (tests from abroad will be accepted if no older than 3 months).

All above mentioned documents will be retained and NOT returned

It seems that our case is slightly more specialist than some people’s, so it has been harder to find decent info. Anyone reading this that may be having the same trouble, Sociedad Southron is a very good forum for getting correct info. I’ve only just found this site myself, so started asking questions immediately!

As I said, our circumstances are a little different due to the fact that my husband’s father was Uruguayan. This should actually make this whole process easier as my hubby should be counted as a UY nation himself, but someone on the forum above mentioned that this law was to be changed in the near future, and may not be applicable soon…*sigh*

So, I think we’re back to square one*cry*

What I really wanted to know for myself was, if being the wife of a UY national would mean that I wouldn’t have to declare my income, etc either. But so far, no answers on that front!

It shouldn’t matter too much because we will be renting out our UK home to provide this monthly income in UY, apparently this should be sufficient.

We’ve been told that we need to show the Rental Contract, Bank Account Number that the rent goes into, and the cards that we use to withdraw money in UY. I’ve been told that we shouldn’t deposit it in UY, not sure why that is though!! Would be nicer not to have to bother…

Hopefully we’ll get through this soon!

Still need my passport back first :/

Can’t wait to go though…

La Luna

I was recently sifting through info on the ‘net looking for general ovulation info, when I came across this…

Lunar Fertility.

I can honestly say that I had never heard of this before, until now!

This method of charting suggests that every woman has a chance to ovulate twice within her monthly cycle (except for times when the lunar chart overlaps your normal ovulation). Basically, from working out the phase that the moon was in when you were born (for accuracy, a rough birth time is generally needed) you can work out when you have a second chance to conceive during the month. You can work out your moon phase at birth on this site: Life Cycles & Destiny.

Once you’ve got the phase that corresponds to you, each time this phase happens within your cycle, you have a chance to conceive (including AF days!). For example, my moon phase at birth was the last quarter (waning crescent moon), so whenever the moon is in the last quarter within the month, I should have another chance to get pregnant.

If this phase crosses over with your normal ovulation window, then you are meant to be super fertile and have a 99% chance to conceive.

If you look up the Dr Jonas Method, this is something that he has studied for a huge part of his life, and his research has not been disproven! Although his method is also geared for controlling the sex of child you conceive, but I can’t say I’m too interested in that part!

Since our periods are cyclical like the moon, it makes perfect sense that it can also control our chances to create life as it once did for our planet! From what I can gather, you won’t always just release an egg during your moon phase, sometimes it needs to be triggered – you should be able to do this by making love on the correct day of your moon phase to provoke your body into spontaneous ovulation.

I’m not sure how right all of this information is, but it seems my lunar date crossed my ovulation window last month, so I’m waiting to see if anything happens!!

If you want to track yours, enter you birth data into the form of this site and it should give you your personal moon phase dates for a year: The Lunarium

Happy Charting!!