Pia's Eclectic Life ... A Witch Out of the Broom Closet...

 

Happy weekend everyone!  

We're getting close to the end of February already!  Where DOES the time go?

Before I begin, I will forewarn you that if you don't agree with witchy things, this blog is NOT for you.  It's, in some respects, my coming out of the broom closet on a small level.  Should that upset you, please read NO FURTHER.  My feelings will NOT be hurt.  This is MY journey in life.  You do you and I'll do me. 😉

If you're NOT bothered by this, WELCOME!!

I've always been drawn to something more.  I had an experience as a teenager.  I'd purchased my first tarot deck.  At that time, there was no internet or cell phones, so I found an ad in a magazine.  I was super excited to get the deck and learn to work with it.

Well.......... I opened the deck, was looking at it and all of a sudden, the curtains on my bedroom windows began to blow.  Mind you, it was completely still outside, and I had no fans on in my room.  I was so scared in the moment I screamed "GET OUT" and the one window that was open slammed shut and the curtains fell to their regular hanging position.  I couldn't help but think it was the deck, so unfortunately, I took it and burned it in the burning barrel we had in the back yard.  It never occurred to me that the deck could have been tainted with something where I purchased it from (bad Joo Joo).  And I was so young, I never knew about 'cleansing' my deck prior to using it.  

Now I know some of you, who were just having nose fever that are still reading, are probably going "Yep!  It was evil!  It's all evil and if you go down that path you're heading to hell!" I used to think that way too, but not anymore. You may be screaming at the screen, "I KNEW you'd back slidden!  I just KNEW IT!!".  Mind you, you are entitled to your opinion, but so am I.  You are under no obligation to read my blogs, so if you feel that way, please move along.  I've had too much negativity in my life, and I won't tolerate it here.

While the media, over the years, has portrayed witchy practices as all evil, I can assure you it is not, nor are all the people who practice.  While yes, there ARE people who use these tools for evil, not all of us do.  It's like people who own guns.  Yes, some who own guns do horrific things, but many people are collectors, avid hunters, and are not horrible people.  It's the person, NOT the tools being used.

I've been collecting tarot and oracle cards for the past 3-4 years.  It's been a journey and I'm still learning tarot because I don't always have a lot of time to study while working 6 days per week, but it's progress not perfection that I keep in mind.  There is no timetable for anyone for learning tarot.  I'm only doing it for myself anyway, not to read for others.  It's just something that I enjoy.

I've got TONS of crystals and have been having fun learning about their metaphysical properties.  I work with sigils and candles.  Anything I do is for edification of myself and my family, not to harm.  Anyone who knows me knows the only thing I could kill is a bug.  

I've found a great group of people on YouTube, or as many refer to it as TarotTube, that I've been learning so much from.  They are the nicest people with positive attitudes and so helpful!  I love joining in on live videos and commenting in the chats and sometimes requesting a reading if it's a video they're offering free readings on.  

Over the past 10 years, I've learned to open my eyes to so much more in the world.  I only used to listen to a certain few who 'claimed' to have the 'best' spiritual knowledge.  Unbeknownst to me, because I've been a trusting person and had blinders on, I fell into line with them because I was looking for somewhere to belong.  But now I'm on my own trajectory with the blinders off and I'm so thankful for that. 😍

I still love the Lord!!  He's been my rock and always will be.  Some will say, "You can't love Jesus and do tarot and oracle!!".  Well, I'm here to tell you I do and if that doesn't set well with you, that's a YOU problem because I'm very happy over here in my own lane.  

I will continue to share different things on my blog pertaining to my witchy practices in the future.  

May you have a wonderful weekend!!

I pray that you are happy, healthy, safe, 

and I pray you have P.E.A.C.E. in your life!

Until we meet again my friends!

Blessed be!

Welcome to Winter............Late.....

 

Well, as for SW Wisconsin, we've finally been getting a bit more snow.  It's not my favorite, but it beats fighting with gators. LOL

Hopefully you've been able to get out and enjoy it somehow, either with kids, grandkids, friends or pets.  My exposure is limited to going to work and coming home.  That's enough snow for me. 

I just wanted to check on you and make sure all is well.  We've just had the full Snow Moon and I definitely felt the effects of it.  I've been crabby and sensitive and excessively tired.  

Do you ever feel the effects of the moon?  Many empaths feel things that others ignore & empaths typically understand  the cause of such feelings.  

It's one of the first things I do, to open my calendar to see when the full moon is. LOL

Just a little info............ Now you know. 😉

The moon controls many aspects of life on Earth, including: 

• Tides

  The moon's gravitational pull creates tides, which have guided humans for thousands of years. 
• Climate

  The moon stabilizes Earth's tilt, which leads to a relatively stable climate. 
• Seasons

  The moon's gravitational pull causes seasonal changes. 
• Day length

  The moon's gravitational pull is responsible for Earth's current length of day. 
Animal navigation
The moon is essential for migration and navigation for many animals, particularly birds. 
Reproduction
Some animals time their reproduction to coincide with specific phases of the lunar cycle. 
Sleep
The bright light from a full moon may impact your ability to fall asleep and stay asleep. 
Plant movement
The moon's gravity might affect the movement of some plants' leaves. 
Menstrual cycles
Some women temporarily synchronize their menstrual cycles with the full or new moon. 

May you find peace in the chaos.  Remember to take deep breaths and take care of yourself because there's only one you and we need you around!

Blessed Be!

Are You Ok?

 

We've only been under the new regime for about 2 weeks, and I know, for myself, it's been a roller coaster ride.

While everyone has the right to vote for who you choose, if you voted DJT, you should just not read this any further as you've already made up your mind.  I do, however, hope and pray that the blinders fall off your eyes to see the truth.

Every time I open my phone it seems there's yet ANOTHER radical change trying to get pushed through.  

Prior to the election I had a peace and a calm with my intuition, feeling that everything would turn out right, that Kamala would be the winner by a land slide.  

When it turned out that DJT won, it was unbelievable.  I questioned my own intuition, which is typically spot on.  My thought is that my intuition wasn't wrong, but that there was election interference with E.M.

While the world feels like it's turning upside down and inside out, I still have a calm and a peace within.  I'm believing that justice will prevail, I just don't know when.  

I just wanted to check in on everyone who reads my blog posts to be sure you're keeping your chin up and continuing to hope for better days to come.

Sometimes you just NEED to shut off the news.  Take the news in bites, not a whole meal because it can really mess with your mind and emotions watching/listening to too much at a time.

I know there are those hard at work sorting things out.  DJT needs to be stopped before he ruins our economy and our foreign relations.  

Hang in there and know that Karma will take care of things.  We just need to wait it out.  

Until we meet again my friends....................

So You Think You're A Christian......................

 

I hope this finds you doing well.  

I'm going to be brutally honest here.  While you don't have to agree with me, understand that each of us has the right to our own opinion and since this is MY blog, I will share MY opinions/feelings.  If you're not prepared, click away before going any further...

Back in the 90's, I felt like I was missing something in my life.  My family, like so many, had a multitude of issues.  My sisters quit speaking to me due to things my ex-husband said as he'd confronted them on a situation.  As a result, they didn't speak to me again until my son was 5.  It wasn't until our mother became ill and needed a complete hysterectomy did they speak to me again.  

I was feeling that maybe what was missing was the relationship with my sisters.  It was no doubt part of it, but I still felt a hole.  It was in February 2000 that I was 'saved' and became 'born again' at an event called Heaven's Gates and Hells Flames.  I finally felt like I was becoming a part of something bigger than myself, starting at the E-Free Church, learning the red-lettered words of Jesus, getting closer to Him.  

After a short few months at that particular church, I was saddened by the behavior of the pastor there, telling my then husband, 'If everyone would just give a little more'...........  The premise of his call at the time was supposedly to 'check on him'.  Unfortunately, it was about money.  My then husband quit going, but I felt obligated to continue to help our children have a relationship with Jesus, so I kept going.  And later I'd heard comments about me not coming to church with my husband, about the fact that I hadn't brought my children to 'Trunk or Treat', but chose to take them trick or treating, the fact that all the women of the church were expected to come each weekend to clean the church even though we had families and worked 40+ hours outside our own homes.  The pastor and his wife and children would make messes that THEY didn't clean, but the rest of us were expected to, yet neither of them worked outside the home (they lived above the church).  I, not knowing any of the Bible, was asked to teach Sunday School to the preschoolers and was told I could 'learn with them', instead of an elder teaching them and allowing me to attend adult Sunday School.

Long story short, I pulled myself and my children from that church and it was many months before we attempted to find another one.  We then went 'church shopping' as it were.  The first one was ok, but the building smelled of cat urine, which was a total turn-off for me.

The next church had seemingly good preaching but was so dark with dark brown paneling.  I'd thought, 'if only it was brighter in here, it would be nicer to attend'.  We came back the next week and the walls were painted a light cream color.  I'd not said a word to ANYONE and felt it was a sign that this was where we belonged.  

The original church was smaller, but it felt more like family.  The kids attended Sunday School while we attended church.  I'd also gone to women's conferences with many of the church ladies and had a great time.  All the while, though, I always felt like an outsider or that I had imposter syndrome.  They all appeared to have the 'perfect life'.  They came to church all smiles and happiness.  No one seemed to have any struggles.  Meanwhile, I was living in a verbally, emotionally abusive marriage and didn't feel I could outright share that because no one else shared any struggles, so I must be the odd one out.  Most are also hard-core Republicans.  While I vote for the person, not the party, as I've voted both ways before, I felt detached from the rest as it didn't matter WHO ran on the Republican ticket, they backed the person strictly because they're Republican and that's supposed to be the most 'Christian' party................ I did not agree and felt odd standing shoulder to shoulder with people I wasn't aligning with.

I attended church for 20 years and singing for the worship team for most of 19 of those years.  While we're not to 'take offense' to some things people say, I would get subtle digs about my weight, I would never be contacted if something was changed up for that week's worship (if Pastor would be gone or if we'd have special music coming in).  I was always the last to know, yet he expected me to text him if I wasn't going to be there as he chose songs that way... new ones if I were attending, or old familiar songs if I weren't.  

When the new church was being built, I'd heard the Lord saying "Be Careful" before the walls were even erected.  I wasn't sure what that exactly meant, but I did keep the thought in the back of my mind.  

Over time, we continued to lose partitioners for one reason or another.  I was beginning to wonder if it was me.  My son came out to me as bi-sexual, and because of the teachings over the years that homosexuals would go to hell, I wondered if it was me tainting the congregation somehow as I'd always sing worship.

No, it had nothing to do with me.  I don't have that kind of power. LOL

There had been a change in the worship team at one point that drove a divide in the church.  And then finding out our phone line for the church had to be shut off 'because we didn't have enough money'................ Again, I took on the burden myself as I'd been unable to monetarily tithe.  I only tithed my time and talents.

Once again, it had nothing to do with me.  

I'd found out the Pastor had been writing himself out 'bonus' checks to the tune of $3,000 each (unclear of how many there were).  And also, had found out he refused to come before the congregation to explain himself as these bonus checks were not discussed nor authorized by the elders.  

I just couldn't take it any longer and walked out of the church on Sunday December 8, 2019, and haven't been back since.

It took me a lot of therapy and self-reflection to stop blaming myself in the whole situation.  As a result, I won't be going back to organized religion any time soon.  I still love the Lord, but the people have sure tainted His word, and it breaks my heart.  

So many 'Christians' have voted for the current president, and it makes me sick.  He does nothing but lie to the people and they drink it all in hook, line and sinker.  He's making so many unethical decisions and yet they continue to back him.  When asked about the plane/helicopter collision over the Potomac River, he had no sympathy for those who'd lost their lives, he had no interest in going to the crash site.  He wants to change the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.  He wants to take over Greenland.  He's placing tariffs on so many countries, and he doesn't understand how tariffs work.  He's trying to fire a multitude of Federal workers, sending them an email and causing mass chaos, and the list continues to grow.  Yet they STILL give him all of their support.  

To me...... a TRUE Christian has ethical common sense, someone who can see what's clearly right and what's clearly wrong.  A TRUE Christian shares the struggles they go through allowing others to know they're not alone and offer a helping hand and a listening ear to those in need.  A TRUE Christian is being humble, teachable and helpful.  

Let's all try to be better and do better.  

Confused & Depressed..........

 

The Math Just Ain't Mathin' ......

In many facets of life, I keep my mouth shut.  Not always, of course, but I try to avoid political talk as several people I know voted red and many are women.

While I've always told my children that common sense is a gift, it's not a given, as not everyone has it, I do respect the fact that we each can choose whom we want to support, but it makes me wonder where the ethics of many has gone.  

To support someone who has sexually abused women, who's spoken of grabbing women by their privates and it was blown over as 'locker talk', who's been convicted of 34 felonies, (in other words, voted for a felon when felons can't even vote and shouldn't be allowed to run for any government office) continues to lie and deny what he's said and done even though it took place live in front of people and see/heard by millions on social media, is thought to be this wonderful business man who, himself, has declared bankruptcy at least 6 times leaving many people stuck without payment for the hard work they'd completed for him, who's been choosing those who aren't fit to serve in the positions he's placing them in, who seems to be getting direction from the multi-millionaires & billionaires who are his 'friends'........ the list goes on and on.

I truly feel had this been ANY past President, the outcome would have been drastically different as these behaviors wouldn't have EVER been tolerated.  So WHY have all these things been tolerated THIS time?  

I try not to watch the news, but rather to read it.  Reading it doesn't contain the overly dramatic music and hype the way it's presented on TV, so I've chosen to take a step back from the rhetoric for my own mental health. It's all made me quite confused and depressed.  It's not because my candidate lost, but rather trying to understand the mentality of those who voted for #47.  

I feel as though the things he speaks of, hasn't hit close to home for many, so they're easily overlooking these things.  Part of the issue with human beings is that we don't always learn our lessons from someone warning us or when it happens to others.  We only seem to learn when we go through the muck and mire personally.  By then, it's too late.  

Our country is more divided than ever before.  People have stopped speaking to each other when they've voted opposite sides of the pole, including family members.  Parents & children have disconnected over this.  Friends have disconnected over this.  I've witnessed firsthand the aggression/hostility in some feeling that #47 is the next best thing since ice cream.  

We're in for a bumpy ride regardless of which side you're on.  Project 2025 is a scary, 900+ page document that will rock our world.  I've read that migrant workers in California have already stopped showing up for work due to being scared of ICE.  These are the people who are doing the hard labor that most American born citizens refuse to do.  As a result, our food prices will continue to rise, families will be torn apart, etc...

While yes, I know there are those that are corrupt who come to this country, but I also know there are many who are NOT corrupt and just want a better life for their families just as our forefathers did.  If you stop and truly think about it, none of us except the American Indians would be here as our ancestors all traveled across the ocean to make a better life for OUR families.  That also goes for #47, but he's not stopped to consider that fact.

No, I don't know what the right answer is, but doing a mass deportation and trying to get children who have been born here to suddenly NOT have citizenship because of where their parents came from, is also NOT the answer.  They had no say so in the matter.  They didn't choose to be born, but they deserve to have a good life just like the rest of us.  

There is good and bad in every race, creed, & color.  There are plenty of Americans who've done dope smuggling, murdering, abuse.... So why are all of the crimes blatantly blamed on all who come here to seek refuge and a better life?  

Again, I don't know what the right answer is, but I do know the next 4 years are going to be interesting and no doubt very costly in many ways.  

I just hope the blinders fall off those who refuse to see what's going on right before their eyes.  

Stay safe everyone!  

Let Us Support One Another........

 

This has been a difficult week for many of us.  As we push forward through the days to come, let us support one another knowing that our vote mattered and that the truth of the foolishness that has happened, will truly come to light.  

We voted to protect ourselves, our daughters, our granddaughters, our mothers, our nieces, our cousins and we will continue to fight for us all.  

I wish I could understand why any woman would want to vote for a felon, but no matter how much I ponder, it won't change things.  

Just know that I love each and every one of you!!

#WeWillMarchOn

#SupportOurSisters

#WomensRightsMatter 

White Coat Syndrome..........

 

WHITE COAT SYNDROME..........

I'm guessing it's mostly just me, right?  Does anyone else get anxiety even days prior to a doctor appt even when it's just routine? 

For me, I've never enjoyed going to the doctor, but after having had ovarian cancer and thyroid cancer, I REALLY don't like to have my own appointments.  Part of it is because I'll have to hear about my obesity, my blood pressure, my cholesterol, etc... 

Some of you are probably sitting there saying "THEN LOSE WEIGHT!".  What you don't realize is that I've fought my weight my ENTIRE life.  I've been on more diets and spent more money than I care to admit to.

Should the doctor be concerned?  Ya, probably, but I always feel like I'm going on trial each time I go.  

And, NO, I'm not jumping on the 'shot' bandwagon of any of the popular weight loss drugs.  I've read that some experience eye issues, some experience their stomach paralysis... 

Ummmm............... NO THANK YOU!  

We'll see how everything goes.  I know I have to have labs drawn, my weight & BP taken... you know, all the usual things.  While I hate it all, I know it's for my own good, but I still don't like it! LOL

If you have white coat syndrome, just know that you're NOT alone.  Many of us feel the same even though we feel we're the only one right before our appt..  

Keep your chin up buttercup!  This too shall pass! 

I pray that you're healthy, happy, safe.....

And I pray that you have PEACE in your life!