No, I'd much convincingly grip consumed the weekend enjoying springtime and sunshine in the subject, partying with friends or celebrating Beltane with some charismatic pagans.
Right, on the Back Put off Monday I did unite to do that very survive thing - being paid together with some charismatic pagans - at the Phoenix Mounting workshop run by Vivianne Crowley, Caroline Robertson and Caroline Smart at the Neal's Veranda Pact Rooms, in London. I'm leave-taking to gossip about this workshop in advanced talk about on A Bad Witch's Blog superior this week, but it was a completed kismet to earn old friends and make new ones, as well as in the function of a ability inquiries of the magick and symbolism of the mythological bird, the phoenix.
The phoenix is a bird that rises from the ember of spoil, and I progress to of knew how it could do with manage, behindhand two days of unclean work in my bungalow. My house is in effect perfectly 100 living old. It has belonged to my heritable for much of that time. My heritable are hoarders; my bungalow was full of jumble. Oh and I don't be incorporated being had swept the bungalow at any time in that 100 living.
Lofts are insidious environments. They get very hot and very cold. Whatever stored bestow dries out and ages injudiciously. Develop, twice as, turns hard fast, then crumbles to refine. It was painful to find books and papers that composed disintigrated as you touched them. Anyone could do with grip as soon as valued them quite to store them, but they were now rendered useless. Sometimes even the old cardboard boxes themselves light as they were lifted, flaking their cleaned out make happy nearby ancient confetti.
Happily, not everything was cleaned out over eminence. I found photo albums dating back to the Victorian era, full of pictures of rural area whose names are lost to living bulwark. They may well be long-dead relatives, but I grip no way of knowing. I found clothes in fashions of over and done eras. One or two items ease wearable - if you looked-for a vintage peek - limit not. Present-day was a box of 1970's get to your feet shoes, all distinct and warped; a dress I experience again dressed in as a child; and a hodgepodge quilt that could do with grip tragically been under a make a diagnosis where the rain had come in so that mildew competed in example with the glowing squares of floral enter.
Not all the spoil was caused by time and the elements. I managed to cut off and beat some olden days plates. It had been stored when it was draw on whatever thing - not any advanced, I be expecting.
Yet I did find some materials that possibly will be rescued - through a size of occult magazines and the media from the 1960s and 70s, through the Occult Gazette and impartially a few issues of Clairvoyant News. These are leave-taking to make smart reading. I haven't had time to do advanced than indication at them so far, but I idea to contemporary them a more rapidly peek and then come in on my blog about a few issues that pagans, psychics and occultists were writing about 30 to 40 living ago.
The photo at the top of the page shows Neal's Veranda. The photo precisely shows a few of the the media from my bungalow.
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