This week’s theme for Sidhe Shots is Awareness. I took a picture of my current journal, my Robin Wood Tarot, and one of my daggers. The journal represents awareness of myself, and the Tarot deck resprents awareness of both the future and my higher self. As for the dagger, I see it as a tool of awareness, its sharp edge cutting through the fog to show us what is there.

Yesterday was a busy day. I spent approximately four and a half hours redoing the computer room. We now have nice new decks from Ikea. And the computer room no longer looks like a leftover from our university days. I still need to do a bit of rearanging and reorganizing, but my back is killing me. Sadly, I had to do nearly all of the work by myself because quanta’s parents all but kidnapped him last night.

Anyway, enough whining, on to Unconscious Mutterings.

1. Lounge:: Rest
2. Photograph:: Picture
3. Catacomb:: Dungeon
4. Crucifix:: Cross
5. Fire drill:: School
6. Tube:: Sock
7. Dropped:: Class
8. LTD:: Wha?
9. Panther:: Cat
10. Formica:: Table

It’s time for another Witches Weekly. (This weeks questions were donated by: Liv)

Wearing Symbols in Public

Do you wear any religious symbol jewelry/clothing? If so do you wear it openly in public?
No, I generally do not wear any religious symbols in public. When I was much younger, and fairly new to Wicca, I used to wear an ankh ring and a pentacle ring. In university, I wore ankh earrings almost every day (they were so small most people mistook them for crosses). Just after university, I wore a pentacle pendent, but I usually kept it in my shirt. Currently, I am looking for a small gold pendent, pentacle or ankh, to wear. If I found one, I might wear it in public, depending on what I was doing. I wouldn’t wear it at work, because as I have said before, I feel religion is private and has no place at work.

How do you feel about the issue of wearing religious symbols in schools and how some young teens are forced to remove their religious fashions?
If all religious jewellery is included, then it doesn’t bother me. So, no pentacles, cross or Stars of David. I think it teaches children that they are more then their religion, and allows them to get to know someone who they might not normally want to know because of their religion. I do feel, however, that young ladies should be allowed to cover their head. That is one of their religious tenants, and not a fashion statement like religious jewellery is.

Have you ever experienced a confrontation about wearing your jewelry in public? How did you handle the situation if so?
I have never had any sort of confrontation about my jewellery. Once, one of my co-workers mistook my ankh necklace for a cross and asked me when my confirmation was. (She wasn’t the sharpest tack in the box.) A few years ago, when I was wearing a pentacle necklace, it slipped out of my shirt while I was helping a rather matronly customer decide on a game for her son. When she noticed it, I saw her eyes get larger and she grabbed the game we were talking about, quickly bought it and left the store. I’m not sure that my necklace caused it, but it seemed that way to me.

I’m suffering from a bit of writer’s block today. I think it is mainly because I’ve spent several hours going through The Lotus Pond, fixing various errors and tweaking different things. So, today is quiz day.

You are the the Hierophant card. The Hierophant,
called The Pope in some decks, is the preserver
of cultural traditions. After entering The
Emperor’s society, The Hierophant teaches us
its wisdom. The Hierophant learns and teaches
our cultural traditions. The discoveries our
ancestors have made influence the present.
Without forces such as The Hierophant who are
able to interpret and communicate traditional
lore, each generation would have to begin to
learn anew. As a force that is concentrated on
our past and our culture, The Hierophant can
sometimes be stubborn and set in his ways. This
is a negative trait he shares with his zodiac
sign, Taurus. But like Taurus he is productive.
His traditional lore can provide a source of
inspiration for the creatively inclined, and
his knowledge provides an excellent foundation
for those who come into their own in the
business world. Image from: Morgan E.
Cauthers-Knox.
http://elfwood.lysator.liu.se/loth/m/o/morganc/morganc.html

Which Tarot Card Are You?
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*sigh* So true. Interestingly enough, the Hierophant card is the one associated with my Zodiac sign, Taurus. I’ve lately come to see him as more then just protecting traditions. He is also guarding them from those who would abuse them, and inviting those who are reading to explore them. Here I am seeing the word tradition as referring to things like magical and religious traditions, instead of things we do just because “that’s the way it has always been done.”

After taking the quiz based on the way I think I am, I took it again and answered the questions based on the way I would like to be. Keep reading for the results.

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