Ostara 2020 - Part II

'Creole Voodoo' - Wednesday evening, February 19, on Coast To Coast AM

That would be on the second half, which is midnight pst and 3 AM est.

Second Half: Born and raised in the Voodoo rich culture of New Orleans, author and spiritual advisor, Denise Alvarado will discuss mysticism and the practice of Creole Voodoo and indigenous healing traditions as well as the life of Voodoo queen of New Orleans, Marie Laveau. She'll also explain some of the rituals and practices used to bind enemies, banish naysayers and bend people to your will, or even find love.

CreoleMoon.com

The Magic of Marie Leveau (new 2020)

The Voodoo Doll Spellbook

Hoodoo and Conure: New Orleans


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These traditions actually originated in West Africa and were essentially brought to the Americas where they unfolded as an underground culture, displaying tremendous enduring, longevity, and power. For traditional African-Americans to try to become "Wiccans" is metaphorically like trying to sneak into someone's shed through the window at the dead of night.... when in fact they have a glorious mansion of their very own right across the street!


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Voodoo vs Hoodoo (The Difference Between Hoodoo & Voodoo)

Crescent City Conjure

Hoodoo vs Voodoo ( a clear explanation of the difference)

In this video, we talk about the difference between Hoodoo, Rootwork, Conjure, Voodoo, And Vodou.

There are a lot of misconceptions surrounding the difference between the two, and I hope this video provides a little bit of clarity.

You often hear these two words interchangeably, but when you are serious about your spiritual path you need to understand the difference!

Hoodoo is an ancestor based folk magic practice. And Vodou is a religion.

Visit us at https://crescentcityconjure.us/


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"Magic creates opportunity."
-- Sen Elias


What Hoodoo is and what Hoodoo isnt


Crescent City Conjure website


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A Medium talks about the Other Side

CT STYLE

Medium Phil Quinn talk about the other side.


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Life on the Other Side


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Owl kills Rat 01, Time Lapse Speed x1

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http://Ojatro.com

http://Ojatroblog.blogspot.com

Barred Owl kills and eats a rat filmed by Heiko Kiera in South Florida 2010. Barred owls are opportunistic predators and feed on smaller mammals like rats, squirrels rabbits as well as they prey frequently on birds, reptiles and even fish.


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Owl kills Rat 02, Time Lapse Speed x0.5

The raw harshness of nature in action.


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         The Beautiful Rachel Evan Wood

I think her natural hair color is dark red. Wow. Scottish looks. Gaelic beauty.

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'20 Mel Ramos Art Pieces: Pop Art Nudes You Have to See'

The provocative artwork of the late Mel Ramos. There's a certain visceral quality to them. Beautiful photograph-like images with miniscule body flaws that make them seem even more lifelike.


Mel Ramos

Melvin John Ramos (July 24, 1935 – October 14, 2018) was an American figurative painter, specializing most often in paintings of female nudes, whose work incorporates elements of realist and abstract art.

Born in Sacramento, California, to a first generation Portuguese-Azorean immigrant family, he gained his popularity as part of the pop art movement of the 1960s. Ramos is "best known for his paintings of superheroes and voluptuous female nudes emerging from cornstalks or Chiquita bananas, popping up from candy wrappers or lounging in martini glasses".[2] He was also a university art professor.


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Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds Don't Pull Your Love with lyrics

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Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds was a 1970s AM soft rock trio from Los Angeles. The original members were Dan Hamilton (guitar/lead vocal), Joe Frank Carollo (bass/vocal), and Tommy Reynolds (multi-instrumentalist/vocal), all of whom had previously played in The T-Bones, a 1960s band noted for the instrumental hit "No Matter What Shape (Your Stomach's In)".

The group first hit the charts in 1971 with "Don't Pull Your Love." Reynolds left the group in late 1972, and was replaced by keyboardist Alan Dennison; however, the band still kept the name 'Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds'. This revised line-up performed the group's biggest hit, 1975's "Fallin' in Love

Don't Pull Your Love" is the title of a song written by Brian Potter and Dennis Lambert. The song was originally recorded in 1971 by Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds, reaching four on both the US Billboard Hot 100 and the Easy Listening chart

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Full Flower Moon 2019

The Full Flower Moon will occur on the evening of May 18.... this Saturday night.


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From The Old Farmer's Almanac - Moon Calendar 2019

In a Bulgarian folktale, the Sun asks the hedgehog why he is nibbling on stones instead of attending the Sun's wedding to the Moon. The hedgehog replies that he is in training for when no food will grow because of all the little sun offspring that will be shining in the sky. When the Sun takes his point and cancels the wedding, the hedgehog has saved the world.


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"Louisiana Voodoo"

"We will cast a shadow over you that can't be distinguished from Fate." --"Legends of Haiti"

Featured at the start of the 2014 film 'Jessabelle', apparently this quote is tied to Voodoo. The film, set in southern  Louisiana, tries to make a Haitian connection to it; however, these old West African traditions actually continued and developed separately in Louisiana.

'Jessabelle' is, like the recent horror flick 'The Nun', more in line with the many "gotcha!" type films. I think those films should be critiqued and categorized more on that level. I loved the environment and mood of both films though.


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I don't get the standard pay movie channels, so I just see films as I can. Now and then HBO gives a free three-day sampling, and I tape a few. I would like to review films, but it takes a lot of time to do it right. I liked some of the Sci-Fi films in recent years, such as 'Interstellar', 'Oblivion', 'The Martian', and 'Prometheus'.

 
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Salem.org

A good traveler's guide to the many goings-on in Salem, Massachusetts (events, shops, tours, food, etc.).



























 

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The Minds of Men - Official Documentary by Aaron and Melissa Dykes

If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable - what then? -- George Orwell, '1984'



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[Lyric] Blue Bayou - Alisan Porter

Trần Đại Nghĩa

Song: Blue Bayou (The Voice Performance)
Artist: Alisan Porter
Writers: Roy Orbison, Joe Melson


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The Voice 2016 Blind Audition Alisan Porter Blue Bayou (live performance)


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This could be a great allegorical song.... of "that special place." It could even be a "time-place-person," something that one can't truly recreate... except in the mind and soul. Also, a futuristic concept maybe.


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I recall one time hearing Robert Redford state stating that "Anglo culture"--whatever that specifically means--has lost the "art the storytelling." I think he said it in reference to perhaps Mexican culture. At the time I think that I saw it as a somewhat antagonistic comment. However, the real point should have been that a whole lot of people around the world have lost this concept from their lives. People still of course tell of experiences, but not in an explicit "storytelling" manner. I listen to some of these on my iPod when I'm working.













I wasn't even aware until fairly recently that Chuck Missler has passed away a year ago. A very open-minded and highly intelligent Christian for many decades. He covered so many fascinating and ominous subjects.

































































































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Dümènica potpourri: Part 1

The word "Dümènica" means "Sunday" in the Camunian dialect. I just wanted to put some various miscellaneous items together here under two postings. They won't follow any consistent pattern.

The following news item I found so bizarre: 'Prehistoric forest arises in Cardigan Bay after storms strip away sand'. The "Borth forest," a forest of legend, was unearthed by a big storm off the coast of Wales recently. More eery images of the forest, last alive 4,500 years ago, can be found on a Google search for "Borth forest." That is such a long time, and in just one day or so... there it is!

Just as the word "Israel" is an old reference to the Egyptian goddess Isis, the Egyptian god Ra, and the Phoenician god El ("Isis-Ra-El"); the Christian term "Amen" actually means "Amon-Ra," or "so be it Ra."

A huge pentacle upon the ground in Kazakhstan, and only visible from the air, is explained in the following article: 'Mysterious Pentagram on Google Maps Explained.' It's so curious that this relic from the Soviet era was fashioned after the pentacle, rather than a Soviet star. After all, five-pointed stars have many meanings, and a pentacle is a distinct one. Have a look at it in any case, on the article link.

The country music star Bobby Bare composed a song entitled 'Marie Laveau', from his 1973 record 'Bobby Bare Sings Lullabys, Legends and Lies', about the "Voodoo Queen" of New Orleans. It was a song done in sort've a silly, not-serious, story-telling style; but I like things like that.. legends and folklore. Marie Laveau was a native believer.



I don't like to go off topic much, but for me this is a crazy time warp thing. It never ceases to amaze me the types of things you can find on YouTube. I was a fan of hard rock/heavy metal music. Not a huge fan, but a fan of the culture of it as much as anything. Here is the entire concert footage of Van Halen in Sao Paulo, Brazil on January 21, 1983. I can remember in Junior High School and High School of them being usually at the Oakland Coliseum... probably on this very same tour. It was like a really big deal then. There are so many long videos now, you can just skip down to the end. Sao Paulo is at the south end of Brazil, and about five million Italians live in that province if you can believe that. The most prosperous part of that country. I remember attending a David Lee Roth solo concert in what was not much more than a garage in San Francisco in the 90s with two or three hundred people. Then when the band reconnected, they could pull a huge crowd again.

While I'm on the subject, I ran into a music video ('Buttercup' by Sinboy) that reminded me of when we used to go down around the LA metal/rock scene during weekends in the 90s, which was basically after this music genre was being fazed out by the big record companies. I remember two all-female bands in particular, Sinboy and Phantom Blue. A lot of times they would bounce around band to band because those gals didn't always get along and there wasn't the fame and big money to keep them together. I remember the late bassist Rana Ross, she was really good. Nice gal too. Another singer who could have, and really should have made it big, was Gigi Hangach. Sometimes they would talk to you, other times they would just sorta laugh at you.. but it was a fun time. One thing I remember that you never say to any member of any local scene band is to imply that "they're popular locally" or even "local legends." As far as they and their hard core fans are concerned, they're the best in the world!

I like the cable channel Investigation Discovery, and one program is about missing people--I think the name is 'Disappeared'--where it had one docudrama about the account of a woman named Tanya Rider. She went off the highway and crashed, and survived I think it was eight days severely injured without food or water. I thought one of her quotes was important: "No matter what life gives you, you have to embrace it and move forward." It's very true, although it's much easier said than done. I think one add-on to it is to, for-the-most-part, try to forget bad experiences of the past that just drag you down. Again, easier said than done! The head coach of the San Francisco 49ers, Jim Harbaugh, lives by something called "the Harbaugh rule." This "rule" is that no matter what happens, good or bad, forty-eight hours later you're onto the next thing. What's done is done. If you can learn from mistakes, fine, but "highs and lows" aren't helpful after forty-eight hours. It's true.. and pragmatic.

I have thought about devoting a post to bumble bees, probably mainly because I can remember as a young child playing in our backyard with trucks and things. There were several large bushes with lots of flowers, and I can remember playing on warm days with large bumble bees all around me. We paid no attention to each other. They were so big, and in hindsight I now perceive them as equally gentle. Actually, they were just doing their job collecting pollen. Just a couple of days ago I caught one who accidently entered the garage here. I caught him in a glass container and walked him outside. I stared at him for a moment, and then lifted the top, and off he went. A few times I have found a bee who was weak and vulnerable, probably due to dehydration. I  put a little water, and sometimes sugar, down for them to ingest.. and they eventually gathered themselves to moved on.

There are quite a number of fairly well known people who loosely fit into the category of "truthseeking." Whether referred to as researchers, activists, authors, academics, spiritual gurus, Christians, or those unlocking negative aspects of the occult at the highest levels, etc., they all loosely fit into this same category... and they rarely fit into the "right-left paradigm" which is always good and allows for honest interaction and open-minded study. Michael Tsarion and Mark Passio are two good examples in the latter category... which overlaps a little into the pagan arena that we cover here, but I could list one hundred off hand in a short time. Many over time have passed on, such as Ted Gunderson and Michael Ruppert.

One women within this truthseeking milieu is Nancy Red Star, who is more in the "spiritual guru" category, but also a native pagan, author, researcher, and activist. She stands out in some ways, to me, because she represents Amerindian pagan culture and occultism of the positive aspect of the word. Her work on native "star ancestors" is not totally unlike evidence of certain strange rock drawings in the Val Camonica, which we can cover at another time. It should be pointed out that a "native believer" is any person who believes in their own ancestral-spirituality, but I've sort've mixed the two definitions here a bit. I thought her name was worth mentioning because she is well known (she has been an expert on the tv program 'Ancient Aliens') and is a type of pagan leader of a sort for her culture. A lot of her lectures and interviews are on YouTube. What is really disturbing to me is how Nancy Red Star, or Steve McNallen, are frequently attacked online... usually by anonymous sources. Yeah, Steve McNallen and Nancy Red Star are "the problem" with the world... right!

I left the following comment on the Asatru Update blog a few weeks ago, and I wanted to place it here because I think it captured a certain idea well. The following comment was from an entry from Steve McNallen entitled 'The Gods and Goddesses Are Not Online' (3-26-14): "I am a non-Asatru folkish pagan. Yesterday evening, we took a time out from our busy lives for an unofficial "roundtable" with our fold up chairs on a trail at the base of the northern Santa Cruz Mountain chain. There, among the soft sound of crickets and an occasional hoot of an owl... only a few lights from the nearby business park and an occasional truck rambling by reminded us of the nearby urban sprawl. The darkness of the mountain even provided a window to view some of the stars. Through the break in the trees we could see the black mountain peak standing majestically amid the navy blue sky. A small caravan of racoons moved by at one point. Pagans and Heathens need to force themselves to get away, even if it's just a short distance. That was the best Sunday evening that I have had in awhile." I should point out again that I am not an Odinist/Asutrar.

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