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Nekkid Glory

Mon, 18 May 2009 01:05:56 -0400

Please note Witches mark on breast. I earned it.

Open Call: My Sketch of Duaneart

Mon, 11 May 2009 20:05:49 -0400

Here 'tis!

Birthday Post: Finding My Place in the Sun

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 05:04:10 -0400

April 30 is a Witches Sabbath called Beltane.

Beltane. A night of bonfires and woodlands and sex. A celebration of the potency of Life and the bliss of Spring. A night when the veils between the dimensions are thin thin thin. And diverse beings pass through them easily.

A night for Witches to convene on top of wild craggy peaks and dance about with naked abandon while multitudinous stars glimmer overhead.

A night to honor the sheer exuberance of Creation. To frolic sexually through the forests all night long and in the morning dance around a Maypole.

I was born on April 30, 1948 in Bixby Knolls Hospital, Long Beach, California at 9:45 pm.

The first word that comes to mind re: my childhood is grim.My parents were born in 1904 and 1905 and came from a time when it was apparently normal to get drunk and beat your kids. My parents really didn't have any foundation as to how to raise children.

I am a very social creature yet all my life I felt alienated. Like I didn't belong anywhere. My ethnicity is mixed so I couldn't identify with any one group. Certainly in one way this was beneficial to my growth as an artist, to be an outsider, an observer, but there was always a background of aloneness that permeated daily existence. My father died in 1979 and my mother died in 1987.

I thought that "to find my place in the sun," to find my belonging , I had to get to the financial point of being able to purchase property, and that would be my place in the sun. Well, maybe so, but I have not been in any sort of monetary place for that to happen. I had resigned myself to never finding it.

Then last year, at the end of November, my brother called me and told me about a performance at the Mission in San Juan Bautista CA of The Virgin of Guadalupe, performed by El Teatro Campesino. He lives there and his new lady love was involved with the company. Accompanied by my friend Bonny I went to see this play on the Feast Day of the Virgin of Guadalupe, December 12.

The story of the Virgin is as follows: The area this story took place in is called Tepeyac, later changed to Guadalupe by the Christian missionaries.It was a region dedicated to an Aztec Goddess: Tonantzin. One winter morning a peasant named Juan Diego was heading to mass when a brilliant light appeared before him, in it was an apparition of Mother Mary . She told him to go tell the bishop what he had seen and that she wanted a basilica built on that spot. The bishop of course didn't believe him and demanded proof. Back Juan Diego goes to Mother Mary and she tells him to gather the roses that were blooming nearby (this was winter). He did so, placing them into his serape. When he gave the bishop the flowers there was, lo and behold, an image of the Virgin Mary on his serape. The basilica was built and the Virgin of Guadalupe is Mexico's "Patron Saint"

The performance was spectacular. Singing, dancing, and all the performers seemed to be in a trance state. This video clip is the only one available, at least on Youtube. It will give you an idea of the story. The gist of what they are singing is:

Chorus: "In the Arc of Colors She comes down from the sky."

Mother Mary and Juan Diego engage in a back and forth. He is saying, "Why me? I am just a lowly peasant. She is saying "You are one of my children. I have come because of the injustices done in the name of my Son. You and your people are treated badly"

At one point during a back and forth, between Juan Diego and Mother Mary I studied the face of the actress portraying her. All I can tell you now is that I got it. The actress, Olga-Lydia Winegar, was not acting, she was embodying. Embodying complete Love and concern. Blocks in my soul were just demolished. My ego became helpless. To this day I have a deep emotional feeling in my heart chakra. After the performance I was telling everyone how I'd had a "visitation! I've had a visitation!" The performers were lined up as the audience exited and when I got to Olga-Lydia all I could do was put a hand to my heart and gasp out "visitation!"

She did the same thing back to me.

I stayed overnight at my brother's house, sleeping in the living room. From a sound sleep, I sat bolt upright as the room was filled with a bright yellow light. I sank back and into sleep again and remembered it in the morning.

Extreme emotion.

This was a life altering experience for me. My place in the sun seems to have found me. I feel like a child. The same stuff from my past is there, but now, underlying it all is acceptance, not alienation. Wherever I am, there's my place in the sun.

A few weeks after this I had a dream where the actress OlgaLydia was

dressed in the blue and white robes of a High Priestess. She told me

"Pay it forward".

Since then, I have increasingly seen my parents as The Magician and the High Priestess shown at the top of this post. I have felt for several years that they were looking out for me, even as I had dreams of working things out with them, especially with my father. (you can read more about these two cards at http://www.learntarot.com)

BEFORE:

Amelia E. Ortez

Frank P. Ortez (probably with the only fish he was ever able to catch)

How does this relate to Beltane? I was born on Beltane. I honor both father and mother and I am devoted to bringing female and male energy into balance by focusing on the Goddess. She has many aspects. I feel like I'm dealing with the "Wild Woman" and "Holy Virgin" aspects.

I hope you all have found your place in the sun. And tonight? Go Native!

I give Thanks to the Great Above

I give Thanks to the Great Below

I give Thanks to the Point in the Center

May All Beings Be Happy!

HAPPY EARTH DAY!

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 03:04:21 -0400

In honor of this Earth Day 2009 I give two offerings to you, you sacred and blessed OS people. May our Beautiful Planet Earth always be bountiful and green. May we always honor her and ALL her children: two legged, four legged, multi-legged and all in between and around.

"What a Wonderful World" by Louis Armstrong. The lyrics : "Bright Blessed days, Dark Sacred Nights" sums it up for me.

The next is in honor of Great Mother Goddess TARA (=TERRA=Earth)

TARA is known and the Mother of Liberation, regarded as a Boddisattva of compassion and action. She originated millions of years ago as the Princess Yeshe Dawa, her name meaning "Moon of Primordial Awareness"

Due to her enlightened activities Princess Dawa was approached by monks who suggested to her that in her next lifetime she be reborn into a male body in order to progress further. She declined, stating that it made no difference what gender one was and resolved to remain in the body of a woman until all beings are enlightened.

MAY ALL BEINGS BE HAPPY!

Godzilla, Mothra, Two Tiny Princesses - Bringing IT UPDATE

Mon, 13 Apr 2009 06:04:00 -0400

As some of you may know, AnniThyme and I are locked into a warm oil wrestling match over just who exactly can lay claim to Sheldon the Wonderhorse's most exquisite elemental jewel like appendage. She actually challenged me (ME!) and I quote: "Oh Blakini (that being her oh so clevair play on my avatar - we are not amused, by the way) don't make me unleash years of bad dance movie memories and ask you to bring it on, cause I will."

This has left me seething and hissing as I lay in wait in my lair, looking for Ms Thyme to "bring it on". I began to see there has been some confusion as to who was going to first "bring it on". Then I find out she has fallen and can't get up. Or so she says.( I think it's a dodge) Nevertheless! I will take it upon myself to "bring it on". Without further ado here is the first offering:

Run, Tiny Princesses, run! Save yourselves! (I identify with the one on the left) This next clip is from the movie "Godzilla vs the Sea Monster" set on the island where Mothra is still worshipped, as well he should be. Note the exciting red apparel of the Tiny Princesses. I have it on good authority that what they are saying is " We are so ashamed! We are so ashamed!"

BONUS VIDEO!!!! Courtesy of Stellaa via Donna Sandstrom (so you'll know who to go after with torches and pitchforks) Please observe how happy every one is, how much fun fun fun they are having. I am pleased to see how everyone who gets up to dance with the teachers has mastered the footwork.

Annithyme is SO going to be my slave after this. She can attend to Sheldon and myself as we conduct our official duties.

I figured I'd better add an actual catfight-don't want no restless natives!