I am a True Blood Truebie. Love it, love it, love it and can hardly wait for Season 6 to begin on Sunday.
Tonight on Twitter, TrueBlood@HBO was asking us to post our "bad thing" with the hashtag #badthing.
I tweeted, "I keep little coffins around just in case I need them for a spell". Which got me thinking why do I keep little coffins around and what type of spell work would I use them for? Why do I find peace in cemeteries?
I do enjoy cemeteries. Always have. And I do find them peaceful. Sometimes I just like to stroll through cemeteries. I like to read the headstones and see what kind of life a person may have had. I like to see how loved ones construct tombs to their dearly departed. So much knowledge can be gained by hanging out in a cemetery.
And the little coffins, what about their use? Little coffins come in handy for getting rid of stuff that no longer serves you, or things you want to let go of and bury. These things may be bad habits, thoughts, mistakes or feelings. Little coffins are also symbols for the turn of the Wheel and the season of Samhain and Halloween. They symbolize those who have crossed over and that are our own coffins are waiting for us as well, if you can think in those terms. They remind me that life is fleeting and fragile, and that we can go at any moment. So yes, I like little coffins and I find them to be very useful magickal symbols.
Priestess Najah
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Showing posts with label True Blood. Show all posts
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Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Friday, June 7, 2013
Vampires, True Blood and Anne Rice
True Blood returns to HBO on June 16, 2013. I can hardly wait. I have a passion for Vampires, Witches, New Orleans, cemeteries and Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles.
I fell down the Vampire hole when I first saw "Interview With the Vampire" in the theatre. During that time lots of people were reading Anne Rice and excitement about her writing was everywhere. Honestly at that time I didn't understand what was the big deal. And then I went to see the movie and this scene appeared before my eyes:
When she opened her eyes and looked at "Louis" a recognition shot through my soul, that I still have a hard time putting into words.
Who was this writer, who were these characters that spoke so deeply to my soul?. I was a changed person after seeing "Interview With the Vampire". I became obsessed with Anne Rice novels and and read all her Vampire Chronicles. I was like a parched traveler in the desert, finding an oasis. My favorite Chronicle is "Tale of the Body Thief". And to my great glory, I met Anne Rice at an Author's signing and she signed my copy of "Tale of the Body Thief".
I feel in love with Lestat and his unapologetic nature. There is nothing sexier than a Vampire without guilt or remorse. And definitely one that doesn't twinkle. No sparkling Vampires for this woman.
On my first trip to New Orleans, I had a wonderful day touring the Garden District. As fate would have it, I was alone the day I walked the Garden District and stood outside Anne Rice's home. At the time she was still living in New Orleans. I also toured Lafayette Cemetery No. 1. While I was in the cemetery I had a creepy experience with one of the Guides. Of course he was dressed in a top hat and had on round, blue sunglasses, which made it all the better.
Fast forward to True Blood. I was hooked after the first episode of Season 1. I could live and work in Bon Temps. I'd have a little shack where I wrote and sometimes did Conjure work for folks, if I was in the mood to do so. I'd take walks in the cemetery and have lunch at Merlotte's. And I'd be a friend of the Vampires, but knowing their nature and that immortality is not what its cracked up to be, I'd stay away from their fangs.
Priestess Najah
I fell down the Vampire hole when I first saw "Interview With the Vampire" in the theatre. During that time lots of people were reading Anne Rice and excitement about her writing was everywhere. Honestly at that time I didn't understand what was the big deal. And then I went to see the movie and this scene appeared before my eyes:
Who was this writer, who were these characters that spoke so deeply to my soul?. I was a changed person after seeing "Interview With the Vampire". I became obsessed with Anne Rice novels and and read all her Vampire Chronicles. I was like a parched traveler in the desert, finding an oasis. My favorite Chronicle is "Tale of the Body Thief". And to my great glory, I met Anne Rice at an Author's signing and she signed my copy of "Tale of the Body Thief".
I feel in love with Lestat and his unapologetic nature. There is nothing sexier than a Vampire without guilt or remorse. And definitely one that doesn't twinkle. No sparkling Vampires for this woman.
On my first trip to New Orleans, I had a wonderful day touring the Garden District. As fate would have it, I was alone the day I walked the Garden District and stood outside Anne Rice's home. At the time she was still living in New Orleans. I also toured Lafayette Cemetery No. 1. While I was in the cemetery I had a creepy experience with one of the Guides. Of course he was dressed in a top hat and had on round, blue sunglasses, which made it all the better.
Fast forward to True Blood. I was hooked after the first episode of Season 1. I could live and work in Bon Temps. I'd have a little shack where I wrote and sometimes did Conjure work for folks, if I was in the mood to do so. I'd take walks in the cemetery and have lunch at Merlotte's. And I'd be a friend of the Vampires, but knowing their nature and that immortality is not what its cracked up to be, I'd stay away from their fangs.
Priestess Najah
Monday, August 13, 2012
Lilith Awakens on True Blood
"Blessed Lilith, Primordial Mother, She who hath been banished. She whom is hidden, lying in wait for our consciousness to remember, to know we were created as whole, as powerful, not to be subordinate, but as equals, as the Great Living Mother who gives life unto all."
Lilith has awakened on True Blood. I'm a True Blood fan, dipped in the waters of Conjure and Magick, and one of my truly favorite places, New Orleans.
Not one to be a spoiler I won't go into details about Lilith and her character on True Blood. But I will say this, the writers have done their homework. Lilith is present and she will not be ignored.
Perhaps the mainstream know their religious history and perhaps not. As a child I went to a private Baptist elementary school. The Bible was part of our daily curriculum. No where in those teachings did I ever hear of or learn about Lilith. Not until I came to the path of the Goddess and the Divine Feminine did I learn about Lilith.
One of my most beloved books is "The Witches' Goddess" by Janet and Stewart Farrar. The Witches' Goddess gives detailed history on the history of Goddess worship and devotes entire chapters to prominent Goddesses, such as Isis, Ishtar, Ma'at and Lilith, just to name a few. Truly a book no practicing Witch, Pagan, or Practitioner of the Old Ways, should be without.
From the chapter on Lilith:
"The disturbing Lilith...being the most dangerous and subversive threat to the established male order, was buried in the furthest depths of Hebrew unconscious. ~ Jean Markale
...As recorded in the Talmud, Adam's first wife was Lilith...but Lilith refused to subordinate herself to Adam or the male God - even physically: when Adam insisted Lilith always lie beneath him during intercourse, she quarreled with him, flew up into the air and vanished.
It is significant that...Lilith (is) condemned to become (a) night-owl, perfect symbol for the dark-side magic of the feminine principle, of which patriarchy is terrified.
Doreen Valiente (An ABC of Witchcraft, pp. 225-6) sums up the accepted picture of her as 'the archetypal seductress, the personification of the dangerous feminine glamour of the moon. Like Hecate is visualized as an old crone, Lilith is instead the the enticing sorceress, the beautiful vampire, the femme fatale. '
Lilith the True Mother of All Living must be reacknowledged - so that she and Eve can become one again. "
Years ago I attended Sara McLachlan's Lilith Fair. I had a great time. The fair was dedicated to Women and it raised over 10 million dollars for charity. I purchased a CD from the fair and played it over and over until it skipped. I was captivated by the beauty, power and strength of the Women's songs. At that time, never did it occur to me to learn who Lilith really was.
One of my favorite quotes is "The Goddess is Alive and Magick is Afoot". It would appear with the popularity of such shows as "True Blood", She is indeed making a resurgence. The word "Goddess" is becoming commonplace now. I even see it in TV commercials. Is this all just coincidence? I think not. I truly feel in my heart the Wheel is turning and I am grateful to be here in this time, in this moment.
Blessed Be,
Priestess Najah
Lilith has awakened on True Blood. I'm a True Blood fan, dipped in the waters of Conjure and Magick, and one of my truly favorite places, New Orleans.
Not one to be a spoiler I won't go into details about Lilith and her character on True Blood. But I will say this, the writers have done their homework. Lilith is present and she will not be ignored.
Perhaps the mainstream know their religious history and perhaps not. As a child I went to a private Baptist elementary school. The Bible was part of our daily curriculum. No where in those teachings did I ever hear of or learn about Lilith. Not until I came to the path of the Goddess and the Divine Feminine did I learn about Lilith.
One of my most beloved books is "The Witches' Goddess" by Janet and Stewart Farrar. The Witches' Goddess gives detailed history on the history of Goddess worship and devotes entire chapters to prominent Goddesses, such as Isis, Ishtar, Ma'at and Lilith, just to name a few. Truly a book no practicing Witch, Pagan, or Practitioner of the Old Ways, should be without.
From the chapter on Lilith:
"The disturbing Lilith...being the most dangerous and subversive threat to the established male order, was buried in the furthest depths of Hebrew unconscious. ~ Jean Markale
...As recorded in the Talmud, Adam's first wife was Lilith...but Lilith refused to subordinate herself to Adam or the male God - even physically: when Adam insisted Lilith always lie beneath him during intercourse, she quarreled with him, flew up into the air and vanished.
It is significant that...Lilith (is) condemned to become (a) night-owl, perfect symbol for the dark-side magic of the feminine principle, of which patriarchy is terrified.
Doreen Valiente (An ABC of Witchcraft, pp. 225-6) sums up the accepted picture of her as 'the archetypal seductress, the personification of the dangerous feminine glamour of the moon. Like Hecate is visualized as an old crone, Lilith is instead the the enticing sorceress, the beautiful vampire, the femme fatale. '
Lilith the True Mother of All Living must be reacknowledged - so that she and Eve can become one again. "
Years ago I attended Sara McLachlan's Lilith Fair. I had a great time. The fair was dedicated to Women and it raised over 10 million dollars for charity. I purchased a CD from the fair and played it over and over until it skipped. I was captivated by the beauty, power and strength of the Women's songs. At that time, never did it occur to me to learn who Lilith really was.
One of my favorite quotes is "The Goddess is Alive and Magick is Afoot". It would appear with the popularity of such shows as "True Blood", She is indeed making a resurgence. The word "Goddess" is becoming commonplace now. I even see it in TV commercials. Is this all just coincidence? I think not. I truly feel in my heart the Wheel is turning and I am grateful to be here in this time, in this moment.
Blessed Be,
Priestess Najah
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