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		<title>A note from the Goddess</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Something urged me to pick up my copy of the beautiful book by the amazing priestess Patricia Monaghan, The Goddess Companion,today. The book is organized by date, with a lovely poem and story accompanying it honoring a Goddess or Goddesses from a different culture, and it is not according to a specific year, so it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Little Imbolc on the Prairie</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Imbolc. We Pagans and Wiccans that follow the traditional Wheel of the Year typically learn at the beginning of our studies that Imbolc heralds the start of spring, the first stirrings of the Earth after the long lonely winter has passed&#8230;. Really?? I live on the Canadian prairies. As I&#8217;m writing this, at around 800 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://witchesdiary.com/yemaya/?p=137</link>
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		<title>Turning Outward&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Little darling It&#8217;s been a long, cold, lonely winter Little darling It feels like years since it&#8217;s been here Here comes the sun Here comes the sun, and I say It&#8217;s alright&#8220; -The Beatles, &#8220;Here Comes the Sun&#8221; As those wise bards said, and as another wise one said, the great JRR Tolkein, &#8220;Not all [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://witchesdiary.com/yemaya/?p=133</link>
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		<title>Thank you, Starhawk&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;as always, you are brilliant!! The True Spirit of Halloween, for Real Witches Halloween is here again. Pumpkins deck our porches and Witches in pointy hats swoop across the walls of classrooms and offices. Children accost one another, asking &#8220;What are you going to be for Halloween?&#8221; and grownups stock up on candy. But for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://witchesdiary.com/yemaya/?p=129</link>
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		<title>Blessed, Blessed Samhain!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[BLESSED SAMHAIN/CALAN GAEF to all of my dear friends that celebrate it. I have so much to be thankful for this harvest, and you are all included in those thanks! May your new year be blessed by the Lord and Lady with brilliance and abundance!! For all celebrating, have a safe and happy Halloween! Namaste. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://witchesdiary.com/yemaya/?p=127</link>
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		<title>On Initiation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My Sister Priestess in the Sacred Mists wrote a beautiful piece in her journal about the topic of Initiation. Today, we welcomed several of our brothers and sisters into the Priest/esshood of the Sacred Mists, as they Initiated to the First Degree. I offer them the warmest of congratulations and welcome them into the Coven [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://witchesdiary.com/yemaya/?p=103</link>
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		<title>Rest assured, I am not getting lazy&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;.I love my new Twitter account, but I&#8217;m not going to allow my two-second tweets to take over my blog. This week, I&#8217;ve just been very reflective and &#8220;inward&#8221; to the point where writing is difficult. But I shall try. The veil is thinning the more we move towards Samhain. I can feel autumn coming [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://witchesdiary.com/yemaya/?p=78</link>
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		<title>Expansion&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[..from my last post, as my brain does not appear to wish to be quiet at any point. I&#8217;m having the urge to write, and honoring it, as well as enjoying the free-flow of my thoughts into the written word, as it isn&#8217;t always so simple. A little more thoughts on Descent and Mabon, as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://witchesdiary.com/yemaya/?p=47</link>
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		<title>Just call me a Mellon-Collie&#8230;or don&#8217;t ;)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The fall often does this to me. My mom explained it the best when she said that in the fall, it&#8217;s as if transperancies (as in, on the old-style overhead projectors) are placed upon our time and world now; transperancies of the past, far-reaching, and sometimes even of the future. I can feel the veil [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://witchesdiary.com/yemaya/?p=45</link>
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		<title>OOOOO..ooooh&#8230;Witchy Wars&#8230;See How High They Fly&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s comfort found within &#8220;thinking inside the box&#8221; philosophy. I went to a very conservative Roman Catholic high school. I was coming from a very liberal, Jesuit parish that stressed social justice and religious scholarship over obedience to dogma and strict observation to Catholic teaching. It was quite different at my new school, which was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://witchesdiary.com/yemaya/?p=43</link>
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