As many of you know last year we lost our business due to Hurricane Matthew. We re-branded and even though we can't attend the festivals as we normally would like to due to the loss of our Vardo, we are still making our jewelry and selling online. This past weekend was the kick off to festival season and many of our friends attended Festival of Legends this past weekend and will be attending Mayfaire next weekend. Ironically, we had another run in with the river this week. There wasn't a huge amount of rain all at one time yet the Neuse decided that we needed to see her power again.
As I sit typing this my videos of the swollen river are uploading to YouTube. I'm reminded of the chants from last year, "Water is life" and here I am realizing that it is also death. Water plays a huge role in magic. Water can be used in spells for love, friendship, healing, sleep and fertility. The Chalice is often used to represent water on the pagan altar. I draw upon the element of water often in my spell work. As a Piscean, water is near and dear to my heart. I have a healthy respect for water and after two near drowning experiences I tend to keep my distance, while always offering her respect.
I embraced her completely in this tarot card project I worked on where I represented the Star card.
The Star - Female Mystique Tarot
Many of the stones I work with in my wire weaving also represent water. Some of those stones are Amethyst, Aquamarine, Azurite, Celestite, Chrysocolla, Coral, Mother-of-pearl, Lapis lazuli, Lepidolite, Moonstone, Pearl, Blue and Pink Tourmaline, Sapphire, Selenite, and Sodalite. As we were walking the property to survey the damage I found a few river rocks that I plan to use in my jewelry. I plan to call upon the river energy to bless and protect the stones (and the wearer). I will have these up in on the site soon. I can't wait to share them with you.
I'll end with a few photos from the flooding we're having now.
This is the far side of the property. There shouldn't be water here.
Photo Credit Renee Sosanna Olson
I turned around to take a photo of the house so you can see how close the water is to the house. It is about 100 feet from us on the side. The tree line behind the house obscures the view so I couldn't show you that. It is about 25 feed behind the house right now.
Photo Credit Renee Sosanna Olson
This is the boat ramp downtown Seven Springs. The river has taken over the bank and part of the parking lot.
Photo Credit Renee Sosanna Olson
This is the Main Street bridge. Still in the boat ramp parking lot. You can't see the part where you back your boat trailer up to put the boat in the water.
Photo Credit Renee Sosanna Olson
Next we stop at Cliffs of the Neuse State Park. This is the overlook shot. I take a lot of pictures here. It doesn't really show the impact of the flood water, but it was a beautiful shot.
Photo Credit Renee Sosanna Olson
More of the Neuse River.
Photo Credit Renee Sosanna Olson
Respect the water energy, she brings life and death.
It was a pretty challenging week last week. From the infighting among other Pagans and Witches about the election and immigration to trying to deal with the forced estrangement that my child has put on me to some pretty significant changes at work I feel like my head will explode. When hubby sees me getting to this level of stress he usually comes up with something to break up my day and help me get my mind back into a level place. For me home and family has always been really important. Unfortunately at this time I don't really have anyone in my family of birth that I can confide in. As this election weighs heavy on my heart, I have found that I can't really talk to any of them. It is so sad, and yet pretty typical. Frankly we really didn't share a great deal of closeness before. This election just sort of codified the whole thing. I even thought I would have a closer relationship with one of my siblings after a two years of isolation but yet, that didn't happen either.
Yesterday was a huge fight within the Pagan community which further demonstrated to me that there are just some people out there that no matter what you do, they will always be out to attack. There's nothing you can do about it. The choice is either to make yourself available for that attack or sever those ties and move on. When I get to this point usually I end up needing a release. So today we took a walk around Cliffs of the Neuse State Park. I took some photos and decide to queue them up for this weeks Witchy Wednesday. I hope you enjoy this walk in the woods.
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