Mysterious Workings

The Witches' Voice

N2itive1 — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 21:13:00 GMT

I joined The Witches' Voice in 2001.
It's a great place to find others in your area, events, classes and much more.

witchvox.com

Let 'Em Talk

N2itive1 — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 00:22:00 GMT

Let 'em talk.
You've made it through worse
You survived.
You're still around to talk about it
And that's something to celebrate

Someone sent me this:

Can't face me? Turn around
Can't stand me? Sit down
Think I'm Tripping? Tie my shoe
Like me? Great
Hate me? Even better
Think you know me?
You have no idea

Survivors

N2itive1 — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 16:17:00 GMT

Many (not all, but many) survivors do one other thing, sooner or later:
They go back to help others.
They take what knowledge they have and their experiences and start sharing with others. They reach out to victims with a helping hand.
They try to help society understand the problem.
They support every "young survivor" (any person who has just crossed that same turning point) with hope, understanding and the support they so desperately need.

-Kim Eyer-

HOW FRIENDS AND FAMILY CAN HURT

N2itive1 — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 17:57:00 GMT

October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month.
The year is 2010.
I find it difficult to believe that awareness is STILL such a problem.
But it is....

Friends and family can hurt survivors. Some may not mean to but some....I can only say their ignorance has blinded them .

If you do a search on any combination of words dealing with "those that stand with abusers" you'll find tons of examples.
And they're current accounts, not something that happened 50 years ago.

Blaming the survivor is what I see most. (Online and in person) "you deserved it" "why are you still talking about it?" "let it go" (most are holding on to past experiences themselves and crying over them but...it's different when they do it ) I've even had people tell me I'm not healing because I'm talking about it......something to do with "picking the scabs"

So, October is a time it's going to be OK to talk about domestic violence.
(Fortunately there are many places to go that aren't afraid to speak about it all year. I'm lucky I found one of those places...many don't)

It's about getting the word out that domestic violence is alive and well....it's about survivors telling their stories...it's about reading or listening about the victims that weren't so lucky to get out. It's a time to let abusers know we aren't going to smile and nod at them anymore ...we're stronger than they thought and we're not stopping in our fight to stop domestic violence.

It's a time for women to support other women. It's a time for those who have never been involved in an abusive relationship to understand what happens, learn and educate all they know so they won't ever have to rescue someone they love from a violent home...or identify them in a morgue.

It's a time to stop the misconceptions, the lies, the myths about domestic violence.
It's a time to stop standing by when you see or hear of domestic violence and do nothing.
It's a time to stop supporting the abusers.
It's a time to let our voices be heard.

Silence hides violence.
Ignorance about domestic violence and it's far reaching effects are shameful.

We can make a difference.

.....and it's time.

Fight with Guns (9.2009)

N2itive1 — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 15:57:00 GMT

It's been a year. This one is the hardest one to tell about...think about.

Another fight free day. No worries, though it was still early.

I can't remember what caused the fight. What I know now it wouldn't have mattered anyway, Anything I did or didn't say he would have reacted the same. (and I should have been able to say anything in our home and still be safe...anything)

I didn't see it coming.

All at once he had jumped up and began grabbing things off the night stand....threw keys or something at me. Then the furniture started being knocked over and thrown across the room......

I ran out of the bedroom.

My son and some freinds were in the living room. I screamed "Call 911, call 911...call the police!!"
(Domestic violence effects everyone. It wasn't just me he was trying to control. He didn't care who was there...even other peoples children, including my own)

The walls were being hit with ....anything he could get his hands on. Tables, chairs....the TV was pushed to the floor .
2 chairs in the bedroom were very special to me and my sons.....they had been brought over from Ireland when my husbands family had moved to the US. I kept them in there to keep them safe over the years .... no one would have destroyed them on purpose but there were always lots of kids and noise in our home......

My son and his friends didn't know what to do....I grabbed the phone and dialed 911.

While on the phone I realized he had gotten his gun.

"get someone over here now!! he's got a F&^% gun!!" is what I remember screaming into the phone.
The operator was telling me to calm down and give her the address. I gave it and kept telling them to send someone over (there was no way she could calm me down)

We were in the kitchen at this point . The phone was disconnected. I could hear the phone ringing but I was trying to get the gun away from him and couldn't answer.

I got the gun away somehow.

I'm trying to get the kids out to safety, find the ringing phone and keep a gun away from him.

He just went and got another gun.

This is when it really got terrifying.....

My 15 year old son was fighting to get the gun away from him now.

NATIONAL DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AWARENESS MONTH

N2itive1 — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 02:56:00 GMT

Domestic violence touches the lives of Americans of all ages, leaving a devastating impact on women, men, and children of every background and circumstance. A family's home becomes a place of fear, hopelessness, and desperation when a woman is battered by her partner, a child witnesses the abuse of a loved one, or a senior is victimized by family members. Since the 1994 passage of the landmark Violence Against Women Act, championed by then Senator Joe Biden, our Nation has strengthened its response to this crime and increased services for victims. Still, far too many women and families in this country and around the world are affected by domestic violence. During National Domestic Violence Awareness Month, we recommit ourselves to ending violence within our homes, our communities, and our country.

To effectively respond to domestic violence, we must provide assistance and support that meets the immediate needs of victims. Facing social isolation, victims can find it difficult to protect themselves and their children. They require safe shelter and housing, medical care, access to justice, culturally specific services, and economic opportunity. The Family Violence Prevention and Services Act supports emergency shelters, crisis intervention programs, and community education about domestic violence.

NATIONAL DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AWARENESS MONTH

The Domestic Violence Awareness Project

N2itive1 — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 18:00:00 GMT

In 1995, the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence (NRCDV) convened several national domestic violence organizations - the Family Violence Prevention Fund, the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, the National Domestic Violence Hotline and later the National Network to End Domestic Violence - to launch a new effort to support domestic violence programs' awareness and education efforts for Domestic Violence Awareness Month (DVAM), observed annually in October. The collaborative effort became the Domestic Violence Awareness Project (DVAP).

Today, the DVAP is a diverse and unique partnership of local, tribal, state and national domestic violence organizations and networks. The DVAP collaborates to collect, develop and distribute resources and ideas relevant to advocates' ongoing public and prevention awareness and education efforts not only in preparation for DVAM, but also throughout the year.

The work of the DVAP strives to creatively bring to life its statement of purpose:
The Domestic Violence Awareness Project (DVAP) supports the rights of all individuals, especially women and girls, to live in peace and dignity. Violence and all other forms of oppression against all communities and families must be eliminated. The purpose of the DVAP is to support and promote the national, tribal, territorial, state and local advocacy networks in their ongoing public education efforts through public awareness campaigns, strategies, materials, resources, capacity-building and technical assistance.

DVAM

Girlfriend found dead in Calif. murder suspect's car was alive during cop chase

N2itive1 — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:22:00 GMT

The co-worker of a woman found dead in her boyfriend's car after a fatal California police chase said Thursday that she spoke with the victim during the pursuit.

The high-speed chase ended at a Richmond strip mall on Tuesday night, when officers shot and killed murder suspect Efren Valdemoro.

Officers found the body of Cindy Tran, 46, in the passenger seat of Valdemoro's car. Tran had apparently suffered severe head and neck injuries.

"I could hear these sirens, and I could hear Jennie screaming, 'No! Stop! Honey, I love you. Please. No!'" she said.

"Then I started asking her in Vietnamese, 'Where are you at? What city are you in? What street are you on?'

"She was pleading with him to stop. He was yelling at her. I couldn't understand what he was saying, and I kept yelling for someone here to call 911."

link

"Let me out....just stop the car and let me out...."
"Please, just stop the car and let me out!"
I was also begging him to stop the car the let me out....the 911 operator could hear him screaming....SHUT UP! had changed to GET OUT, GET OUT, GET OUT!!!

"Stop the car and I'll get out!..".STOP THE CAR!"

He pulled over to the right side of the road and leaned over me and opened my car door...he was pushing me out. We weren't stopped, the car was still moving...I was trying to get my seat belt off while holding on to my phone and talking to the 911 operator.... all the while he was still screaming "GET OUT, GET OUT, GET OUT" and pushing me...I got my seat belt off, fell out of the car and he sped away.....passenger door still open....he crossed the grass median and was now heading west.....

Link

The last link is to part of my story....Quite similar to the news story...
though....he wasn't being chased for murder.....he was just having a" bad day".
.....and he didn't kill me.

The news article says the man had suspected his g/f of cheating with one of the men who rented rooms from her and that's why he killed them?

"He apparently suspected that Tran was romantically involved with either Ricardo Sales or his son."

More

I was accused often of cheating...and the women I've been talking with all say they were always accused too. We weren't....

Domestic Violence is never ok....

National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1−800−799−SAFE(7233) or TTY 1−800−787−3224.
http://www.ndvh.org/

A Woman With A Mission

More Regulation for Psychics

N2itive1 — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:00:00 GMT

Starting this week, fortune tellers in Warren, Mich., must be fingerprinted and pay an annual fee of $150 — plus $10 for a police background check — to practice their craft. The new rules are among America's strictest on palmists, fortune readers, and other psychics — and part of a growing push to regulate a business that has never been taken, or overseen, very seriously. But officials in Warren, a town of 138,000 near Detroit, say it's time to weed out tricksters. "We had no mechanism of enforcement to protect people against unsavory characters," Warren City Council member Keith Sadowski says. "We want to be sure there is some recourse in case we do get somebody who is not legitimate."

Regulating an industry that deems itself clairvoyant, has no standard education requirements and yet rakes in cash for revealing spiritual truths may itself be an act of faith. It also might make good economic sense: just over one in seven Americans consulted a psychic or fortune-teller in 2009, according to the Pew Forum for Religion and Public Life. That could be 30 million or more of us.

Read more: link

"somebody who is not legitimate" ?
Well.....let's see.
Didn't stop the priests from doing what they wanted....
Those in law enforcement who are to uphold the law ....don't always.
How many tv evangelists are raking in the money ?
Politicians?
I could go on about this for a while

And it's Friday again....hope your week-end goes well

Storms

N2itive1 — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:28:00 GMT

A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving,
swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship.
But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent,
their songs never cease.
(John Muir)

Hurricane Earl

N2itive1 — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 02:52:00 GMT

The governors of North Carolina, Virginia and Maryland declared states of emergency, sea turtle nests on one beach were scooped up and moved to safety, and the crew of the Navy's USS Cole rushed to get home to Norfolk, Va., on Wednesday ahead of the bad weather.
link

(Our internet service has been off for a few days....will return emails asap)

Friday

N2itive1 — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 11:45:00 GMT

It's football Friday again and a busy week-end with psychic parties.
Enjoy your week-end!

Gazing at the Moon

N2itive1 — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 12:21:00 GMT

I sat in the backyard just gazing at the full moon. The night air was cool, the neighbors were sleeping and I could hear all the night sounds around me.

I was trying to gather my thoughts, make a plan for the upcoming weeks....
My oldest son is getting married in May and my youngest son begins his junior year in high school today.

My thoughts drift to the loss of friends in the last few weeks.....their deaths unexpected and they were much to young to leave ....

The news report of the man who called 911 ..."I think I may have killed her"..... He went on to say, "We were fighting [...] we got into it in the bathroom [...] I don't know, I just snapped [...] we fell to the floor [...] and I started choking her." Link
There had been no signs of domestic violence in this relationship.

And I begin to think about the women I've talked to that have been in violent relationships. The ones I've spoken to have gotten away, some after many years....The most recent had been with her husband for 15 years. These aren't women I've met through counseling or the safe house...these are friends of mine that I've known a long time....
And I had no clue.
I probably never would have known if I hadn't brought the subject up.....
I'll say again.....DV isn't limited .

I wondered which was easier to talk about...domestic violence or being a witch?
I realize the unfortunate truth...neither are readily accepted unless I'm talking with someone who is pagan or someone who is a survivor of DV.

I lie back on the picnic table to get a better view of the sky and the moon .....and sing.....

Summerland

Lyrics

Pagan Girl

N2itive1 — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 18:18:00 GMT

It's "Football Friday " for us
Enjoy your week-end ...I'm starting mine wih this :

Emerald Rose-Pagan Girl

Well the world is full of women
Every color, shape, and kind
And with this female cornucopia
It might be hard to make up your mind
I've had my share of failures
But I've learned a thing or two
I've laid down some hard-earned guidelines
Listen well and I'll sing them for you

Chorus:
I'm gonna find myself a pagan girl
Who understands the Goddess and rocks my world
Chant in the circle as the Sun and the Moon
Then dance round the fire to a Goddess tune
Rock all night 'till the morning unfurls
I'm gonna find myself a pagan girl

Back in college, Mary was an A D Pi
And as fine as any you have seen
But she blackballed the God and the Goddess
If they didn't wear pink and green
And Belinda, she was a wild girl
She could dance, she could ride, and she could scream
But the only Gods she adored and served
Were Mary Jane and old Jim Beam

(chorus)

Now Sherry was a fine, sweet girl
My happiness was her goal
But she had one very big problem with me
I would not let her save my soul
And Annie was a New Age mystic
Dolphins, angels, crystals, trees
But her idea of wild good time
Was channeling from the Pleiades

(chorus)

I didn't think that I would ever find her
Thought it might be a greater mystery
Then I saw her standing in the circle
An earthly Goddess weaiting just for me...

Oh, I found myself a pagan girl
Who understands the Goddess and rocks my world
We stand in the circle as the Sun and the Moon
Then dance round the fire to a Goddess tune
Rock all night till the morning unfurls
I found myself a pagan girl
P-A-G-A-N, P-A-G-A-N,
I found myself a pagan girl -- pagan girl!

Emerald Rose

The National Domestic Violence Offender Database

N2itive1 — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 17:57:00 GMT

The National Domestic Violence Offender Database was created to be a tremendous resource in the fight against domestic and family violence, stalking, cyber-stalking and sexual assault. These are crimes that until now have been hidden from public view by the victim and their abusers. Let’s face it, we all know someone who is now or has been a victim of this horrific epidemic. At best, because we are so ill-equipped to productively deal with domestic violence, most find it hard to offer any help at all to victims.

We at the National Domestic Violence Database have worked hard and will continue to work hard to make sure that this database will continue to keep women, some men and their families safe and free from an abusive relationship before it’s had a chance to begin. Patterned after Megan’s Law (The Sex Offender Registry) we provide a comprehensive overview which contains the conviction records of offender who have been found guilty of domestic abuse, stalking, criminal confinement, intimidation, strangulation, domestic battery, sexual assault as well as criminal Orders of Protection and Restraining Orders just to name a few. We provide this data free of charge and to the general public.
With the member base of on-line social networking sites and on-line dating services reaching the 200 million million member mark, domestic and family abuse which has already exploded will continue to climb. No one seems to be taking on the cumbersome tasks of making sure their date is who they say they are. More and more people are looking forward, with no regard for the past. Not knowing someone’s past could negatively impact their future.

It’s time for all to date responsibly, know who your dating and what secrets lie in their past. We help you foster greater awareness of your dating choices! This Knowledge will Save Your Life!!!

Domestic Violence Database

NC Students Can Take 2 Days Off for Holy Days

N2itive1 — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 17:48:00 GMT

A new North Carolina law requires public schools and colleges to give students at least two days off to observe their religion's holy days.

The News & Observer of Raleigh reports Friday the law is meant to ease the minds of parents who want their children to observe holidays not recognized by school systems. Democratic state Rep. Rick Glazier says parents grow frustrated when school officials aren't willing to accommodate them.

Link

Perseids

N2itive1 — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 17:39:00 GMT

The next meteor shower is the Perseids on the night of August 12. The Moon is just a couple of days past new at the shower's peak, so there will be no moonlight to interfere with the faint meteors. The shower should reach its peak in the hours after midnight (before dawn on August 13), with a maximum of a few dozen meteors visible per hour.

If you live near a brightly lit city, drive away from the glow of city lights and toward the constellation from which the meteors will appear to radiate.

Perseid meteors will appear to "rain" into the atmosphere from the constellation Perseus, which rises in the northeast around 11 p.m. in mid-August.

After you've escaped the city glow, find a dark, secluded spot where oncoming car headlights will not periodically ruin your sensitive night vision. Look for state or city parks or other safe, dark sites.

Once you have settled at your observing spot, lie back or position yourself so the horizon appears at the edge of your peripheral vision, with the stars and sky filling your field of view. Meteors will instantly grab your attention as they streak by.

link

Do What You Can

N2itive1 — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 14:16:00 GMT

Never Underestimate A Woman....

N2itive1 — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 18:43:00 GMT

Never Underestimate a Woman....

Well, I was ranting down the road in my pickup truck
Defending the faith and the land of the brave
Got a fish on the front, a cross on the dash
And a sticker on the back says "Jesus Saves"
I drove into the woods where I knew those heathen raged
I had to save them all from the dangers of the New Age

Bible-armored, I got out of my truck
A righteous man with many souls to win
I followed the sound of their wicked singing
Till I found them there, dancing in sin
I preached from the Book, exactly how it read
Till one jumped up, wagged her finger, and this is what she said:

Chorus:
Never underestimate a woman with the Goddess in her eyes
'Cause if you ever do, then surely you will get a big surprise
You'll find that she is positively practicing the Craft of the Wise
Never underestimate a woman with the Goddess in her eyes

Surrounded by these witches, my legs went into twitches
Before I knew it, I was dancing around
All that joyful singing set my heart to ringing
Filled to full with that magical sound
I jumped up in the air every time their drum went BANG
I chanted with them all, and this is what we sang:

Chorus

I woke up in the morning flat on my back
Staring at my clothes in the top of a tree
I sat up in the clearing, head in my hands
Oh, my Lord, what's become of me?
On the tree was a note; it was writ in lipstick red
A shiver went through my heart when I saw what it said

Emerald Rose

Lyrics

Inside of You

N2itive1 — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:19:00 GMT