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First off, they're going to be ugly. Well, I think they are honestly. They're ugly until you get Amish good at dipping candles which is a lot of time and energy I don't have. But! They work beautifully, burn beautifully and take in magic like a sponge.
To make at least four candles you will need:
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This is something that’s been rolling around in my head for a long while. I’ve noticed that when wounded and likely broken up (this applies to friendship and relationships) people have a tendency to call the other person in the situation toxic. In our post-pop-psychology world, people like to grandly say that they’re keeping toxic people out of their lives.
To me, this only devolves one way:
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Innovation is something I struggle with in magic. Because on one hand, I have strong feelings about not trying to turn one's washing machine into a nuclear reactor. On the other, at some point everything was someone's UPG at one point. Where is that delicate line in the sand where you're being innovative in your own personal practice that stops just before you're invoking Oya and Yemaya in a closed circle because they're both orishas so they must work together well, right?
Sidebar: Gordon and I had an interesting discussion during his visit. People are quick to be like, oh no you mustn't ever ever invoke Deity X from Y pantheon and Deity Z from B patheon! To me that's never made sense and I couldn't figure out why. I mean, yeah, they don't know each other and may find each other offensive but it's not like they've been to a million dinner parties together and had enough time to really work up a good hate-on for each other in all likelihood unless their customs run against each other's. Gordon pointed out that when you invite two deities from the same pantheon, they likely already have an established feud whereas deities from two different pantheons (besides again, offensive behavior but even that most people/deities are willing to put up with a certain amount if it's cross-cultural) haven't had time to really get into it with each other. It's the difference between a dinner party (two deities from two different cultures) and a family dinner (two deities from the same culture. Which is more likely to flip a table and start beating the crap out of each other? Family dinner, obv. I think it's why Erzulie and Aphrodite work pretty well together for me but Oshun and Yemaya, less so (for me at least, as with everything, YMMV).
..."Waiting to get my nails did and a lady just walked in wearing a floor length mink coat over a track suit. Also: SO MUCH JEWELRY. ALL THE (YELLOW) GOLD JEWELRY. New Jersey, I love you. Never change." - a text received by me from Ms. K, the ex-opera singer at 4:14p yesterday.
I can never sleep this close to the Winter Solstice. I run in my sleep like a dog, turning fitfully and dreaming about missing teeth.
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Liv Tyler wasn't always an elf. Robin Tunney wasn't always a witch. Renee Zellweger wasn't always Bridget Jones. Once, they worked at a record store together in that hazy fun that was the 90's.
I came of age during the 90's. I remember when my parents would leave my sister and I home alone we would listen to their records, lying on the floor on our tummies for hours, singing along until we heard the garage door open and we would put everything away quickly so our parents wouldn't get the wrong idea that they could ever possibly own anything that would be considered cool to us.
...Make the cornbread according to the directions on the box the night before. Cut cooled corn bread into small cubes. Leave out overnight.
Delegate. Carving open the top of the pumpkin is a huge pain the butt. Find another sucker who doesn’t mind potentially losing fingers to the surly pumpkin. Make sure the diameter of the opening is almost as large as the top of the pumpkin. A cheese pumpkin puts up a bigger fuss than a regular pumpkin on being carved so make sure your special helper uses a very sharp implement.
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I. Conversations With My Husbands
I guess I just must be a daredevil / I don't feel anything until I smash it up / I'm caught on the cold, caught on the hot / Not so with the warmer lot / And all I want is a confidant / To help me laugh it off / And don't let me ruin me / I may need a chaperone
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Love. It. 
