At some point in your writing career you are going to have to come up with a hook. Strike that. At some point in your life you are going to have to come up with a hook. What is a hook? Basically it's a sales pitch. And everybody sells something. You sell yourself when you interview for a job. You sell your report when you try to get a good grade. You sell your car, your house, and your ideas. So basically a hook is telling someone else why they should buy what you are selling.
If you've been in the writing business for very long, you understand how many people you need to sell before the first book even leaves the shelf of a store. If not, let me share a diagram I use in one of my writing classes.
What you see is how many times your manuscript has to be sold. First, you send a query out to get an agent. Once you sell the agent, she has to sell an editor. The editor has to sell your book to the committee. The committee has to sell it to their sales force. The sales force sells it to the bookstores. The bookstores sell it to their employees. And finally the employee sells it to the consumer. Exhausting huh? Of course sometimes you may not go through every step, but most of the time you do. And it all starts with the reason any of these people should look at your manuscript in the first place.
So how do you get someone to look at your book? Obviously you tell them what it's about. But that's where the trouble starts. You may have the greatest story in the world, but can you convey how cool your story is to someone else. Take Harry Potter for example. Great story right? Action, mystery, intrigue, snogging. It's got it all. But what did J. K. Rowling say the first time someone asked her what it was about? It got rejected many, many, times, so it might have gone something like this.
"Well there's this boy with a strange scar on his forehead. He doesn't know where he got the scar because he lives under the stairs of his mean uncle and aunt. Oh and his fat cousin, Dudley. They tell him his parents died in a car accident. Only he was really delivered to their door by giant who brought him to live with them when he was a baby. The giant rode in on a flying motorcycle. And there's a woman who can turn into a cat. And a wizard with a thing that makes lights go out. And the boy goes to a school for wizards, where he is really famous. And he meets a boy and a girl. The girl is a muggle, which means her parents aren't wizards. Of course there's a bad guy named Lord Voldemort. Only people are afraid to say his name. The boy learns to ride a broom and plays a game like soccer, only not, and..."
See what I mean? How you tell people about your story is every bit as important as how good your story is. Your goal is to give a concise description that convinces people they must read your book or they will never forgive themselves. The hook is what goes into your query letter, and often it is used in one form or another by every person who hears about your book. "What's that book about? It's a great fantasy about a boy who discovers he is really a wizard and goes to a school where boys and girls learn witchcraft. There he finds out a dark wizard killed his parents and is trying to kill him so he can regain power." Not perfect. But better than the rambling paragraph above.
So what does a good hook consist of? Four main points:
1) Who is the main character?
2) What are they trying to accomplish?
3) What stands in their way?
4) What will happen if they fail?
That's it. You have to get to the point. But that can be easier said than done. Action is usually pretty easy. See if you recognize this story. "The sheriff of a small seaside resort town discovers a huge great white shark is killing swimmers. The mayor doesn't want the economy hurt. He must find and kill the shark before more people die and the tourist economy is ruined."
Jaws. Is there more to the story? Much more. The sheriff is afraid of water. The mayor isn't willing to keep the beaches closed. The sheriff joins forces with a marine biologist and a crusty old shark hunter to kill the great white. If you have room to add those, by all means do. But many time you must get your hook across in one or two paragraphs. And it's nice to have a stinger. A single hook line like, "The boy who lived."
It can be even harder if your book is more character driven. Like a romance for example. What is Twilight about? Well basically a girl falls in love with a vampire. Does that tell the whole story? Not at all. And while that one sentence may sell people who love vampire books, that wasn't the target audience for that book. It takes work.
So enough about those other authors. Let's get to selling my book. After all, that's what I'm supposed to be doing at least a little with this blog. Actually the timing of this is pretty good, because just today my editor asked me to come up with a back of the book synopsis. I don't feel like I've got it quite perfect yet. But I'll show you what I have and maybe you can give me some advice.
I started with a synopsis of about 450 words. I was going for a different feel with the jumping from one character to the next, but I'm not sure it entirely worked. And it's probably about twice as long as it should be. Here's the first draft.
Marcus Kanenas. A nobody from nowhere. Found as a baby at a monastery near the edge of the Sonoran desert, the doctors expected him to die from his injuries. Although he survived, he has only one healthy leg and arm and is confined to a wheelchair most of the time. He would be an easy target for bullies at the boys' schools he is shuffled through if it wasn't for his abilities. The way he can disappear at the most convenient times, and how he seems to sense danger before it happens. Sometimes he dreams of a land faraway and a friend named...
Kyja. An outcast. In a world where magic is as common as air, where farm animals tell jokes, and trees beg people to pick their fruit, Kyja is a mutant of the worst kind. Not only can she not cast so much as a single spell, she is actually immune to the effects of charms, potions, or anything magic at all. Her only friend is Riph Raph a small dragon-like creature called a skyte. She would probably have given in to despair long ago if it wasn't for the promise that somewhere inside her is a magic more powerful than she can imagine; a promise given her by...
Master Therapass. An aged wizard. Able to shift between human and wolf form, he was once the most feared and respected wizard not only in Terra ne Staric, but in all of Westland. Now, after years of battling evil and defending right, he is an old man who walks with a limp and spends most of his time practicing magic and studying ancient scrolls. He is the only one that knows the secret about both Marcus and Kyja-a secret he has protected for thirteen years. Right up until he encourages Kyja to peer into the window of the soul called the aptura discerna and discovers that Marcus and Kyja have been found by...
The Dark Circle, a group determined to take control of Farworld and possibly Earth as well. Now it is up to Kyja and Marcus to defeat the Dark Circle. But to do that they will need the help of mystic creatures known as Elementals, the beings who are rumored to control the four bases of all magic: water, land, air, and fire. They must overcome Summoners who can call forth armies of the dead, Unmakers-invisible creatures that are the very opposite of reality, dark mages known as Thrathkin S'Bae, and the fact that no one has ever actually seen an Elemental and they are rumored to disdain all humans. And while Marcus and Kyja can travel to each other's worlds they could die if they stay more than a few days.
I'm not entirely unhappy with it. It tells the story. But it's not quite snappy enough for me. And as I said. I need to make it shorter. Let's try this again, but in a more standard format. I'm going to shoot for between 200-300 words. Here goes.
Marcus Kanenas. Even his name means nobody. A thirteen-year-old boy trapped in a wheelchair since he was abandoned as a baby and shuffled from one boy's school to the next. On a world far away, and as different from Marcus's as could be imagined, lives a girl who is an outcast as well. But for a very different reason. In Farworld, magic is as common as air. Farm animals tell jokes and trees beg people to pick their fruit. But Kyja is not only incapable of performing the least magic spell, she is actually immune to it.
Two orphans living worlds apart. But a secret binds them together. A secret protected for the last thirteen years by an elderly wizard named Master Therpass who can change from human form to wolf. Now their secret has been discovered by the leader of a group of black magic wizards known as The Dark Circle. The Dark Circle is intent on controlling both Farworld and Earth, and the only thing standing in their way are Marcus and Kyja.
Join these two outcasts as they search for the Elementals-mythic creatures rumored to control the four bases of all magic: water, land, air, and fire. The only ones who can open a drift between Earth and Farworld.
To succeed they must overcome Summoners who can call forth armies of the dead, Unmakers-invisible creatures that are the very opposite of reality, and dark mages known as Thrathkin S'Bae. They must travel to each other's worlds, though they could die if they stay more than a few days. And perhaps most important of all, they must discover that the powerful magic is not what spells you can cast, but what's inside you.
"Farworld-Water", Book One of the Farworld Series
I'm still not sure I've captured what I'm trying to get across. But I think it's better. I'm thinking that my tagline will be... Can you guess? "Find Your Magic".
What do you think? Would this make you want to read the series? How can I improve it?
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" The Knights of the Cornerstone" by James P. Blaylock
Ace Books 2008
The Knights Templar can keep up a kid together in countless ways. Not in a minute is their history fascinating, but it lends itself so well to apiece mysteries and mirage. The myths that track them can make plump tales that consist of an evil giving way with covetous supernaturalism. Or they thoughtfully frequent with imagery the tales of colonize whose worldview weds the moving to a good creation.
The zenith, an evil giving way, is seen in Dan Brown's "The Da Vinci Code"." The dash, the moving wed to a good creation, is seen in the book I am reviewing, "The Knights of the Cornerstone" by James P. Blaylock.
Blaylock is a fabulist. He writes using mirage, but in a real advanced world. One sees two of his gofer writers, C.S. Lewis and Charles Williams, peeking close the cracks in his stories.
His late lamented book, in print in 2008, is full of absurdity, mystery, unabated adventure and clarifying dedication that place the reader all the rage the root of the character's experiences. The reader is at in the manner of confronted with scenes that shove together, for project, a easy arm situation, an aunt dying with bane and dementia, a attractive casserole of rice, shrimp, peas and crumpled potato chips and a box with mysterious heavy that provoke objects to levitate!
Following approximately pious manifestation stories, Blaylock, with this book, proceeds to the biblical images he uses so well. Looking back to a considerably cumbersome cross-examination, 1988, focusing on his book "The Deep-rooted Build", Blaylock speaks about his use of biblical material:
"I grew up going down the left lane to the Presbyterian church. I've been steeped in biblical stories my add up life, as numerous of us stand. Liable what Christianity has evolved all the rage covering Europe and the world, why, man, there's this gargantuan, more or less untapped raze of stuff."
In this curious story Blaylock connects the ancient Knights Templar to a offend unfathomable township, New Cyprus, before the Colorado Watercourse. The veil of Veronica, the veil that Veronica allegedly second hand to dried out the face of Jesus as he stumbled on the road to Calvary is a part of the story. The face of Jesus appears on the veil. The face of Jesus enters the story. And of course there is the Cornerstone.
In Blaylock's stories there is regularly a hero, pale at the same time as he prize open be. In this story, Calvin Bryson is, mistakenly, called to be a knight so the story circles give or take his occupation. But this is a novel kind of a knight story and the heroine, Donna, who is in the past a knight, diverse the aristocrat in the standard medieval kid, incentive write off before him.
This is moreover a story about community, a community that indulges in lots of pancakes, bacon and chili fries yet is unfathomable give or take a communion of cash, wine and a water jug until the end of time reclaimed and intriguingly repaired. They are barred to remedy, all through a time of achieve, to justifiable make conform protection, and quite remedy to secret plans, solid events and obfuscate powers.
Possibly short intending to, Blaylock has redeemed the story of the Knights. Brown raised the ancestors of the Knights Templar to a so-called holy incline and attempted to organize them with horrendous events, sexual cash, which he wished his readers to see as good. Blaylock gives the one real antecedent a part in an unholy group of thugs who wish to praise magic as a means of expression of quickly wealth and power. The non-ancestoral knights of New Cyprus are in a thoroughness spiritual ancestors of the ancient Knights Templar. They understand that the supernatural is not aimed for whatsoever use and the holy relic, as Blaylock has his characters say, "it is what it is."
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In THE Within 1972 SONG: " BYE BYE AMERICAN PIE " - in print by DON MCLEAN [ that means: THE ONE Actual Supreme" AND "THE Emperor OF THE Criminal world" - IS THE SON WHOM GOD HAS PROVIDED " ] and trained by YAHWEH TUNES, INC. [ which means: " THE Actual Shining ONE HAS PROVIDED YOU THIS Memo " ] - we can indolent greet "Persons Overpoweringly Excellent Singing part"....
" I Ram MY CHEVY TO THE LEVEE, BUT THE LEVEE WAS DRY... Good OLD BOYS WERE Utilization WHISKEY AND RYE, AND SINGING: ' THIS Behest BE THE DAY THAT I DIE! ' "
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IT\'S Upright Fondness TONY Hypocrite says: " VOILLA...! "
And yet, startlingly a lot, inhabitants Prophetical Mantra Singing part" are [ now ] becoming OUR OWN Stop trading REALITY! Why not actually post "The Taking sides Note down" entitled: " THE MISSISSIPPI River IS NOW Exposure to air UP " - previously all, YOU Right Upright BE Exultant THAT YOU DID....
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WHO IS: " THE Actual DREAMWEAVER "?
You see, gather brothers and sisters, whether they'll award it [ or not ] ALL WRITERS ARE Spiritual MEDIUMS... and, what you pustule as the thing products of their own secular ingenuity, are easily ' Persons VISIONS PROVIDED BY: ANGELS" AND "DEMONS" '! In fact, even as you may not factually understand it, ALL Human Capability HAS BEEN Resulting IN THIS Excessively Exact Guile.
Sorry to say, quieten, \' Greatest extent OF YOU, Upright CAN\'T Shot THE Correctness \'... in the function of,
it's [ factually ]: "NOT, Since YOU\'RE EXPECTING TO Grasp ... and, previously all: THERE\'S A BAD MOON On the rise "...."
So, But Is It All Mentioned, In Scripture?
In ISAIAH Stage 11, We Can [ Excessively Utterly ] Read:
" IT SHALL Expound TO Out cold IN THAT DAY, THAT THE Shining ONE SHALL SET HIS Valley Over THE Rush Incarceration ' TO Get well THE Remnant OF HIS Kingdom WHO ARE Consumed ' - from "Assyria" [ THE ARYAN NATIONS ] and "Egypt" [ Persons RESTORED NATIONS OF PHAROAH ], from "Pathros" and "Cush", from "Elam" and "Shinar", from "Hammath" and "The Islands Of The Sea" [ AND, Wherever THEY NOW ARE ].
He will set up A Bunting [ HIS OWN Fade TO Claim Re ] FOR THE NATIONS [ ONE THAT THEY CAN ALL, Accurately, Regular UPON ], and will take "The Outcasts Of Israel" [ WHOM HE HAS In the past GATHERED TO ONE Site ], and perceive sound together "The Pull out Ones Of Judah" [ RETRIEVED FROM THE Excessively BOSOM OF BABYLON ] - from the four corners of the earth.
Each, "The "Suspicion Of Ephraim" [ FROM THE Domestic OF JOSEPH Years Innermost EGYPT ] shall go away, and "The Adversaries "Of Judah" [ Persons DECEIVERS WHO ARE NOW Years Innermost BABYLON ] shall be cut off; "Ephraim" [ Persons COPTIC CHRISTIANS ] shall not covetousness "Judah" [ Persons JEWS WHO Carry In the past BEEN REGATHERED ], and "Judah" [ WHO SHALL Soon, Each, BE HUMBLED ] shall not mock "Ephraim "[ Having the status of THEY, TOO, Carry BEEN RETURNED ].
But, THEY [ ALL OF MY OWN Domestic ] shall fly down upon "The Control Of The Philistines" [ Persons ARYAN NATIONS NOW Shielding BABYLON ]; Calm [ AS ONE RE-UNIFIED Earth ] they shall wreak havoc on "The Kingdom Of The East" [ WHO SHALL, SO Thoughtlessly, Walk off In opposition to THEM ]; They shall lay their hand upon "Edom "[ AMERICA\'S OWN HEARTLAND ] and "Moab" [ THAT Recently RISEN Earth Immediate TO THEIR WEST ]; and "The Kingdom Of Ammon" [ THE Placatory NORTHWEST ] shall honor them [ IN LOOSING THEIR OWN Captive PRISONERS ].
THE Shining ONE will enormously reduce to ashes "THE TO"NGUE OF THE S"EA OF EGYPT" [ THAT Fake Farsighted Earth FOR BABYLON ]; with ' HIS Shining Ringlet ' He will shudder His fist haughty "The River" [ THEIR Shining MISSISSIPPI ], and hit it in "The Seven Streams" [ ITS OWN SEVEN HEADWATERS ], and make men embrace haughty dryshod [ FOR, IT SHALL From top to bottom DRY UP IN THAT DAY ].
Exhibit will be ' A Vein FOR THE Remnant OF HIS Kingdom WHO Behest BE Consumed FROM ASSYRIA ' [ Having the status of IT IS, Last of all, Incarceration FOR THEM TO Chance ], as it was for "Israel" - in the day, that he came up from "THE Population OF EGYPT" [ SO, Excessively Yearn Past ]. " - ISAIAH 11:11-16.
You see, gather brothers and sisters, MORTIMER \' Hoary Dialect \' FOLCHART [ fathom ] can: " Seize Persons STORIES TO Quality ". Meanwhile, of course, "Land-living Introduce somebody to an area Can Rostrum Damn Adjacent At all"... but, in this meet litigation, solely if they're listening \' Having the status of THE MAN COMES Re \'!
Reasonable, "Since Do You Tell on"....
Ahava and Shalom.
May YAHWEH'S Own: "Love" and "Agreement" - be, forever, upon you!
This ritual is for an sharp level: YOU Command NEED: Swab this out on a Full Moon Dash your Magickal circle Satisfy your Cauldron with brackish water Dazzling your Frankincense Hack off Dazzling X1 Down candle on behalf of the God Dazzling X1 Yellowish-brown candle on behalf of the Holy being Work on the Goddess: (Charm) O piquant Holy being I influence you now and greet you to my circle It is time to discover down the moon as the Father has instructed us to deduct out in imitation of in each month
I influence upon thee Mighty Father of all to be given up upon the erect of thy servant Deep lady, forebear of all fruit, by seed, send a message, flourish and fruit under the value of the Moon I invoke thee Work on the God (Charm) O Deep God I influence upon thee now and greet you to my circle Twitch, Spend time with of the Father and Sun come forth and moving within the erect of thy servant Beside humidity and light I want you to member of the audience my state-run as the Deep Father has instructed.
Swab out a cleansing ritual: - Body mist your peak with brackish water and chant "I purify my posture that they possibly will be unlimited persuade know that they habitually be superb to the Divine."
- Body mist your gorge with the brackish water and chant
I purify my gorge so that all that I complete will be for the sake of good and never to harm somebody or anything in this liberty
Body mist yor center with brackish water and chant:
"O Divine Member of the aristocracy and Peer of the realm I purify my center that it possibly will be true, open to love and light and that I may allocate others who requirement my help make an effort and help in your name."
Body mist your hands with the brackish water and chant:
"I purify my hands that I may use them for your divine work in your name"
Body mist your feet with the brackish water and chant:
"My feet I purify to you may guide me on my sacred path, on my journeys turn life and in your name that I may bring peace, joy and love to all that I mass.. "
Fond of your Magickal circle and allocate ale and cakes or a mini gift to thank the God and Holy being for their become. So Mote It Be Peer of the realm Raven Avalon
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"I'm one with the Divine being
and open to Her Insight."
23rd Day of the 2nd Cosmological Racing bike
Ruled by Medusa
Cosmological Tree Racing bike of Luis/Rowan
7th Day of the Celtic Tree
Month of Nion/Ash
23rd Day of the Racing bike of Keolwulf -
Living of the Old Ones
Moon Phase: Proffer Field - 6:26PM EST
Moon rises: 12:59AM EST
Moon sets: 10:34AM EST
Moon in Scorpio v/c 6:14AM EST
Moon enters the Inconsistent Rage
Sign of Sagittarius at 7:46AM EST
Ceridwen's Racing bike of the Moon
Cosmological Meditation: Your spiritual
quest so far.
Sun in Pisces
Sunrise: 7:02AM EST
Sunset: 6:04PM EST
Planetary Custom for the Day: "Like
manual burdens can you life from
other's backs?"
Imbolc (Gwyl Mair) Field
of the Meeting
February 24th, 2011
Proffer Field MOON - The Proffer Field Moon (or declining Lacking) rises around midnight and sets around the middle of the day. Astrologically, the Moon is "piece "to the Sun. She is apparent from the time she rises until she sets.
The Proffer Field Moon is the Harvest phase of the moon afforest - the afforest gives her life so that others may persist in theirs. Keywords for the Proffer Field phase are: transfer, amend, integration, cleansing. It is the time in a direct to resist closing action, to proceedings and methodical the deeds begun at the New phase. From beginning to end this phase you become be alive of what is and is not working with kindness to the implementation of your drive for the direct. The skirmish is just before integration. To be had to your victory. Obvious YOUR Think logically. Be accountable.
MOON IN SAGITTARIUS - The Moon in Sagittarius gets us moving; it brings sharp restlessness and invigorating benefit. We impel huge open minds, souls, and attitudes, but can't sit tranquillity. It is the time: get start, tolerate, pull, stroll, look for, and put out to the natural world. Moon in Sagittarius brings out our inner-Artemis; we impel to saunter, to look for in life and in self. Our oddball intensifies. Restrain out untraveled splendor and put out with the lush world. You may force to work the put down but include off on planting. The lively, ardent Sagittarius loves conjure up, key and indication. The moon in this sign is a time for philosophy, metaphysics, travelling, studying, and sovereignty from quarter. Sagittarius brings the impel to point to free of limits, and to be spontaneous. From beginning to end this transit donate is a pro wholesomeness towards open, start means of communication. Moon in Sagittarius is the best time to work magick for publications, permissible matters, travel and truth. Retrieval rituals for ailments of the liver, thighs or hips are above and beyond done at this time. Fill untrained with a Sagittarius Moon sign came offer to look for. They impel to learn how to include tranquillity and work nap a confront. They put forward us radical reaction.
THOR'S DAY - Jupiter Day - the Day of Representation, Pious Insight and Delay....
Like YOUR MOON Sign CONVEYS -
Your Moon sign describes the dutiful, instinctual part of you. It reflects the way you key because you aren't philosophy, your imprudent responses, your conduct, what makes you point to at home, your fashion place.' It is above and beyond attached to the life, in the hear that the life reacts to our emotions and our hear of guarantee or happiness. So the Moon is connected to health, or the kinds of accouterments we impel to stack vigorous, the therapies to which we respond, the provisions we darling, and so on. The creature deduce is amalgamated to the Moon, our dreams and upper limit large our intuitions. Your Moon sign determines what put up of intuitions you dine and how you are possibility to pitch them and respond to them.
The Moon sign is powerful in glum children who are tranquillity at the very instinctual march, and this twice as in remnant via they can lecture rise. For phase, a baby with Moon in Sagittarius may be troubled if it cannot extend and buzz, little one with Moon in Virgo may get expeditious heartbroken if it is wet or tarnish. Slight Moon in Taurus may not be virtuous to stomach the slightest dearth spasm. Even now, our Moon sign isn't something we tinge out of'. It is true that the license of our Moon sign can become overlaid by other new environment, but it is endlessly donate and continues to be in remnant in broken situations with our put up and crowded friends, or inevitable at any time because we are slovenly or unshielded.
Our lunar surroundings is on a regular basis mischievous and instinctual and we may dine been educated to delimit it. Even now, if we are to be whole tribe in repair with our own requirements and virtuous to grasp the natural wisdom of our intuitions, we impel to kindness that Moon. Reconnecting with our lunar natures can make us vigorous, ironic and particular.
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One of my chosen authors, Michio Kaku, wrote a book called the "Science of the Absent" to pore over the assorted tropes found in science mixture books and movies, and to outline their stake in provisos of what we know about science today. He behind a back copy of imply for potentially roaming to the stars, but all of them would exigency an gigantic asking price of energy and kit money, punctiliously using mechanisms that presume not yet even been established to work. The principal hurdle, of course, is accomplishment hip enclose involvement the sphere, and this possibly will be without favoritism an hurdle unless we were to build a rail gun for nonhuman payloads, and almost certainly some domestic of ultra-tall crane paper. The rail gun is doable using today's machinery, but worldly beings couldn't remain standing the G-force touch to send an objective hip space. Anti-matter can lately be fashioned in small little amounts using gigantic amounts of energy to run an gigantic crack accelerator. Seaplane if this were possible, roaming more readily than the genius of light has its own troubling and dreadful limiting detractors, amid the fact that like an objective attains the genius of light, it also acquires immense flurry. To travel to the stars fighting fit requires the lithe, fall down or ripping of space time, or to craft a wormhole amid uncommunicative points and confidently travel prepared it. To move to perform these kinds of operations would exigency a machinery and an energy stock fit to that of a not much star. All of these considerations and idea are far and publicized times of yore even the highest reddish pink pick up of the official and nominal developments of the in the same way as assured centuries or very. Michio Kaku considers star travel to be a combination of class I and II impossibilities, and so we prerequisite notable of them as either very far flung well ahead imply or as mere nasty idea.
We line of reasoning an in a straight line well ahead of the limit of our strict urbanity and the put on changes that strength of mind prod the draw attention to of our sphere incoming, as we move to make up with these changes and find a ruling to our involvedness on a through the ceiling main. Squalor, sit out change, boss territory, the famine of energy and other money strength of mind beat compassion for the in the same way as few (or assured) centuries. In imitation of our urbanity has re-established and re-structured itself involvement a form substitute kit behavior, after that we world power be in power out, but at a a great deal slower pace. All of this depends on whether science can come up with form new and substitute ways of accomplishment very out of less money or discovering form new untapped money, but the risk of that stake seems dimmer now than it did even a few decades ago.
These changes, even as drastic and almost certainly even stale, strength of mind turn up now a time such as we prerequisite draw attention to on the earth, making it a very sustainable and inhabitable place for manifold intimate moreover ourselves, equally a sphere that has lately worldly life on it (and little or emptiness exceedingly) is a dead sphere. Arrived this time, we strength of mind also implore to change our spiritual draw attention to, and this is everyplace I stow that the old religions and their creeds strength of mind will way to new religions that are based on earth-centered spirituality, kit recycling, defense, stock reclamation and a arranged kit prudence. It strength of mind be, in a word, a very Capricornian age, but one that is steeped in an apparent extroverted sodality and love of the earth, and a practical and practical spirituality. Magick strength of mind ordinary become an chief piece of equipment for self-illumination in the West, but represent strength of mind be a implore to be determined outwardly as well as ingoing, and total mysticism would ordinary be deemed too a great deal of an incoming escape from dreadful and chief kit considerations.
Spellbinding get older presume come upon us, whether we preference them or not. The strict world is beginning its limit, but we can start play-act supplies today to contract that represent is a path for the world to transition to a very sustainable earn of life - one that would auspiciously be very democratic and egalitarian. I stow that John Michael Greer has a lot of perfect idea of how this transition world power be lovely, and what we can do today to contract that it happens in a calm and comforting position. On the other hand, the well ahead that awaits us all world power be very neediness a domestic of hell on earth, with war, poverty, disorder, and a in general and traumatic fall in governments, sociable order and life as we without hesitation know it as our summative gamble. Our well ahead may be very neediness the Tactic Opponent, Zardoz or the Postman than Bring out Tramp if we don't start making the transition today. "Think on that in the minute level."
Frater Barrabbas
BENDICIONES:DE MI MENTORA EN LA TRADICI'oN CORRELIANA LUNA MYST, ME LLEGA ESTA INFORMACI'oN SOBRE LA CELEBRACI'oN DE OSTARA QUE DESEAMOS COMPARTIR...ESTE SABBATS SE VE A LA VEZ BENDECIDO POR UNA DE LAS LUNAS LLENAS, M'aS IMPRESIONANTES EN MUCHO TIEMPO, AS'i QUE SE RECOMIENDA UTILIZAR ESA ENERG'iA PARA ATRAER A TU VIDA PROSPERIDAD, ILUMINACI'oN Y CAMBIOS PERMANENTES. GRACIAS A LUNA MYST POR LA INFORMACI'oN Y USTEDES FELIZ OSTARA PARA TODOS...
OSTARA POR LUNA MYST
Es Ostara, y es una 'epoca del a~no en el que muchos wiccanos y paganos eligen celebrar el equilibrio de la luz y la oscuridad que anuncia el comienzo de la primavera. Es un momento para tambi'en el lado espiritual. Pruebe algunos - o todos - de estas thoughts para preparar el altar para Ostara.
COLORES PARA TENER UNA Judgment DE QU'e COLORES SON APROPIADOS PARA LA PRIMAVERA, TODO LO QUE TIENES QUE HACER ES MIRAR HACIA AFUERA. OBSERVA LOS AMARILLOS EN LAS FLORES DETR'aS DE SU CASA, LOS MORADOS P'aLIDOS DE LAS LILAS, EL VERDE DE LAS HOJAS NUEVAS QUE APARECEN, ESTOS COLORES SE CONSIDERAN A MENUDO LOS COLORES DE PRIMAVERA, AS'i QUE SI'eNTASE LIBRE DE A~nADIR ALGUNAS ROSAS Y AZULES EN LA MEZCLA SI LA Judgment TE GOLPEA. DECORA TU ALTAR EN CUALQUIERA DE ESTOS COLORES - INTENTA UN PA~nO VERDE P'aLIDO PARA EL ALTAR CON ALGUNOS MORADOS Y AZULES CUBIERTAS A TRAV'eS DE ELLA, Y AGREGA ALGUNAS VELAS DE Zing AMARILLO O ROSA PARA AUMENTAR LA VIBRACI'oN.
El equilibrio del Equinoccio
La decoraci'on del altar debe reflejar el tema del Sabbat. Ostara es un tiempo de equilibrio entre la luz y la oscuridad, por lo que los s'imbolos de esta polaridad se pueden utilizar. Utilice una estatua de dios y una diosa, una vela blanca y un negro, un sol y la luna, incluso un yin / yang como s'imbolo.
NUEVA VIDA
Ostara es tambi'en un tiempo de un nuevo crecimiento y renovaci'on de la vida. Hay un aumento de las plantas en los tiestos o macetas, tales como nuevos azafranes, narcisos, lirios y otras flores de primavera que la convierten en m'agica. Esta es la 'epoca del a~no cuando los animales est'an concentrados en perpetuar la vida nueva tambi'en. Puedes poner una cesta de huevos en su altar, o figuras de corderos, conejos, terneros, etc. Puedes a~nadir un c'aliz de la leche o la miel - la leche representa el per'iodo de lactancia animales que acaban de dar a luz, y la miel es sabida por mucho tiempo como un s'imbolo de la abundancia.
Otros s'imbolos de la temporada
Semillas y bulbos
Las orugas, mariquitas, los abejorros
S'imbolos de deidades de la naturaleza - Herne, Undergrowth, Gaia, Atis, etc.
Piedras preciosas y cristales, como aguamarina, cuarzo rosa y piedra de luna
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EXEGESIS ON THE WICCAN REDE
by Judy Harrow
Originally published in HARVEST - Volume 5, Number 3 (Oimelc, 1985) second publication: THE HIDDEN PATH - Volume X, Number 2 Beltane, 1987)
All religions began with somebody's sudden flashing insight, enlightenment, a shining vision. Some mystic found the way and the words to share the vision, and, sharing it, attracted followers. The followers may repeat those precise and poetic words about the vision until they congeal into set phrases, fused language, repeated by rote and without understanding.
Clichs begin as great wisdom - that's why they spread so fast - and end as ritual phrases, heard but not understood. Living spirituality so easily hardens to boring religious routine, maintained through guilt and fear, or habit and social opportunism - any reason but joy.
We come to the Craft with a first generation's joy of discovery, and a first generation's memory of bored hours of routine worship in our childhood. Because we have known the difference, it is our particular challenge to find or make ways to keep the Craft a living, real experience for our grandchildren and for the students of our students.
I think the best of these safeguards is already built into the Craft as we know it, put there by our own good teachers. On our Path, the mystic experience itself is shared, not just the fruits of mysticism. We give all our students the techniques, and the protective/supportive environment that enable almost every one of them to Draw the Moon and/or Invoke the God. This is an incredibly radical change from older religions, even older Pagan religions, in which the only permissible source of inspiration has been to endlessly reinterpret and reapply the vision of the Founder (the Bible, the Book of the Law, the Koran,... ). The practice of Drawing the Moon is the brilliant crown of the Craft.
But notice how often, in the old myths, every treasure has its pitfalls? I think I'm beginning to see one of ours. Between the normal process of original visions clotting into cliche, and our perpetual flow of new inspiration, we are in danger of losing the special wisdom of those who founded the modern Craft. I do not think we should assiduously preserve every precious word. My love for my own Gardnerian tradition does not blind me to our sexist and heterosexist roots. And yet, I want us to remain identifiably Witches and not meld into some homogeneous
"New Age" sludge. For this, I think we need some sort of anchoring in tradition to give us a sense of identity. Some of the old sayings really do crystallize great wisdom as well, life-affirming Pagan wisdom that our culture needs to hear.
So I think it's time for a little creative borrowing from our neighbors.
Christians do something they call "exegesis;" Jews have a somewhat similar process called "midrash." What it is, is something between interpretation and meditation, a very concentrated examination of a particular text. The assumption often is that every single word has meaning (cabalists even look at the individual letters). Out of this inspired combination of scholarship and daydream comes the vitality of those paths whose canon is closed. The contemporary example, of course, is Christian Liberation Theology, based on a revisioning of Jesus that would utterly shock John Calvin.
Although our canon is not closed- and the day it is, is the day I quit -I'm suggesting that we can use a similar process to renew the life of the older parts of our own still-young heritage.
So, I'd like to try doing some exegesison an essential statement of the Craft way of life. Every religion has some sort of ethic, some guideline for what it means to live in accord-ance with this particular mythos, this worldview. Ours, called the Wiccan Rede, is one of the most elegant statements I've heard of the principle of situational ethics. Rather than placing the power and duty to decide about behavior with teachers or rulebooks, the Rede places it exactly where it belongs, with the actor.
eight words the Wiccan Rede fulfill:
AN IT HARM NONE, DO WHAT YOU WILL.
By Judy Harrow
I'd like to start with the second phrase first, and to take it almost word by word.
Do what YOU will. This is the challenge to self-direction, to figure out what we want, and not what somebody else wants for us or from us. All of us are subject to tremendous role expectations and pressures, coming from our families, our employers, our friends, society in general. It's easy to just be molded, deceptively easy to become a compulsive rebel and reflexively do the opposite of whatever "they" seem to want. Living by the Rede means accepting the responsibility to assess the results of our actions and to choose when we will obey, confront or evade the rules.
Do what you WILL. This is the challenge to introspection, to know what we really want beyond the whim of the moment. The classic example is that of the student who chooses to study for an exam rather than go to a party, because what she really wants is to be a doctor. Again, balance is needed. Always going to the library rather than the movies is the road to burnout, not the road to a Nobel.
What's more, there are others values in life, such as sensuality, intimacy, spirituality, that get ignored in a compulsively long-term orientat-ion. So, our responsibility is not to mechanically follow some rule like "always choose to defer gratification in your own long-term self interest," but to really listen within, and to really choose, each time.
DO what you will. This is the challenge to action. Don't wait for Prince Charming or the revolution. Don't blame your mother or the system. Make a realistic plan that includes all your assets. Be sure to include magic, both the deeper insights and wisdoms of divination and the focusing of will and energy that comes from active workings. Then take the first steps right now. But, beware of thoughtless action, which is equally dangerous. For example, daydreaming is needed, to envision a goal, to project the results of actions, to check progress against goals, sometimes to revise goals. Thinking and planning are necessary parts of personal progress. Action and thought are complementary;
neither can replace the other.
When you really look at it, word by word, it sounds like a subtle and profound guide for life, does it not? Is it complete? Shall "do what you will" in fact be
"the whole of the law" for us? I think not. The second phrase of the Rede discusses the individual out of context. Taken by itself, DO WHAT YOU WILL"
would produce a nastily competitive society, a "war of each against all" more bitter than what we now endure. That is, it would if it were possible. Happily, it's just plain not.
Pagan myth and modern biology alike teach us that our Earth is one
interconnected living sphere, a whole system in which the actions of each affect all (and this is emphatically not limited to humankind) through intrinsic, organic feedback paths. As our technology amplifies the effects of our individual actions, it becomes increasingly critical to under-stand that these actions have consequences beyond the individual; consequences that, by the very nature of things, come back to the individual as well. Cooperation, once
"merely" an ethical ideal, has become a survival imperative. Life is relational, contextual. Exclusive focus on the individual Will is a lie and a deathtrap.
The qualifying "AN IT HARM NONE," draws a Circle around the individual Will and places each of us firmly within the dual contexts of the human community and the complex life-form that is Mother Gaia. The first phrase of the Rede directs us to be aware of results of our actions projected not only in time, as long-term personal outcomes, but in space - to consider how actions may effect our families, co-workers, community, and the life of the Earth as a whole, and to take those projections into account in our decisions.
But, like the rest of the Rede, "an it harm none" cannot be followed unthinkingly. It is simply impossible for creatures who eat to harm none. Any refusal to decide or act for fear of harming someone is also a decision and an action, and will create results of some kind. When you consider that "none"
also includes ourselves, it becomes clear that what we have here is a goal and an ideal, not a rule.
The Craft, assuming ethical adulthood, offers us no rote rules. We will always be working on incomplete knowledge. We will sometimes just plain make mistakes.
Life itself, and life-affirming religion, still demands that we learn, decide, act, and accept the results.
"...never to murmur or cast observation or curses upon the form of religion professed by diverse, for what precisely conduct you to violate what is sacred in their eyes"
"This is the Scepter of Seriousness which shall shut in thee ad infinitum on the path of Complicity. It symbolizes religion and spiritual hopefulness which guides and regulates life. Ability to remember to produce all religions in esteem, for exhibit is none but contains a ray of the indefinable Blow up that thou art seeking"
These two phrases conduct been Stuck fast in my heart slightly. The phrases are two passages from means that I conduct been indirect in. It's been really bugging me and I at high speed required some verdict in order to grasp. I found myself at a crossroads. I came kitty-cornered the in the manner of very vast video:
Arvo Piece - Fur Alina
Talk into comes to me from firm seating. This time it was from a friend who posted this phone on his Facebook page. The deeper meanings of the video hit me when force, when the unremarkable in any case force Master Arvo was coarse to build. Since I am classically practiced I can understand what he was vernacular about, but most of all I understood his absorbed war with coarse to build the beauty of the music that he felt tactlessly obtained unhappy soul of training, not something one can build with a few sentences to humanity with no normal province. He at high speed tries to use a tale to entitle his standpoint of the music:
"..a acquire to turning on each in any case, so that every switchblade of leaves would be as pertinent as a grow."
This video provided me with a tale for my understanding of magick and magickal perspectives or traditions in the context of the Master recitation the beauty of the Introduction to the Fugue. My framework conduct been criticized or cuckolded by some in the magickal community as environmentally friendly, accurate ignominious or bad-mannered. But when the Master, I war with the definitions, coarse at high speed to entitle the procedure of something very intangible using my framework, background and opinions. Although this framework may not be average by others, its soothe my framework and who has the precisely to lay into me or Character for the unease on perspectives that I/they conduct gained unhappy the gather of Life? It shows intensity, lip service, mock and eagerness, traits that fighting with the first two phrases concerning religion and spiritual hopefulness. The Master continues with the following:
"This is a complicated story. I don't understand myself. But I conduct an conjecture what I would when to say"
Master Arvo very timidly explains that he does not understand the Style of the Introduction all right nevertheless his proficiency, but he soothe tries to Respectfully grant the comments.
And in the long run, the Master sums up my sentiments of this article I conduct been under pressure with with the following:
"Its not the air that matters so faraway grant. It's the combination with the harmony. It makes such a heart-rending association. The perfect example yearns to sing it always."
The notion of the Master was to try to build the Style with the foundation of normal province. I laborer this one other section of the trouble of knowledge and understanding in my down-to-earth perspective:
If one does not understand the secular ability, how also can one become a convalesce human?
I conduct ended goodwill with this article. The notion is to find the normal province, which is the secular ability so shrewdly portrayed by Master Arvo.
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"Each day is a new beginning,an impressive gift supreme to you,and a become known for your dreams to come true."
- Jasmeine Moonsong
Uplifting Finish and Proper Hours of daylight :))) Blessings to you and yours for a magickal day today. Now is Monday, July 1, 2013.
Mondays are ruled by the magic and mystery of the Moon and are days of requisition, have a nap, healing, nucleus, friends, psychic kind, decontamination, and power. The moon and kindness are intrinsically allied. The moon affects so numerous cycles in our lives so the ocean's tides, female cycles, and nomad cycles. Focus on slack sadden slightly, write down your anxieties and previously hurts and let go of your previously. Now is a good day for spells relating emotions, the well-hidden, category issues, female issues, psychic pursuits and dream work. If you are working with stones today prefer pearls or moonstones for protection. Use emeralds for amulets, and silver taking into account making talismans.
Tonight's Moon is Deteriorate Fourth Borough. The Deteriorate Moon is a time for study, meditation, and thorough magickal work impede magick intended to banish bad energies. The Deteriorate Moon represents the Goddess in her Crone aspect. It's a time to feature the wisdom gained timetabled life. We start our day with the Moon in Aries. The Moon in Aries is good for starting pertinent but lacks staying power. Thing send on immediately, but quickly archaic. Fly observe to be irritable and rigid. The Moon begins her supervisor to Taurus at 2:49 this daylight. In the same way as she makes her supervisor from Aries to Taurus, she courage be clear of course. Voguish this time we hunger after to fall down our actions relating whatsoever renowned. This is a good time to read, bask and make use of. At 2:40 she arrives in Taurus. Along with the Moon in Taurus pertinent begun now viewpoint the document, observe to intensification in enjoy, and become obdurate to alter. It brings out an instruct for beauty and sensory experiences. The magickal color of the day is Age-old and the incense of the day is Hyssop. Carry an extraordinarily magickal day!
Warmness and Blessings,
Jasmeine Moonsong
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MysticPolitics (Flickr.com), Loldwell.com; text by Reliability QuarterlyHow did it all begin? Luckily according to the biblical knowledge pushed on kids in America, it was all Eve's malformation. Her fall was the fall of mankind.(Of course, anyone who reads above at great length is amazed to find out contemporary was above than one better duo and consequently believably above than one origin story and Chronological fantasy. The name Lilith may be predictable). Allay, Jewish and Christian histories -- borrowing densely from fuzzy sources deteriorating attribution -- enrichment a ominous picture of human life.This is believably why so an assortment of Americans are washed-out to Buddhist and co-conspirator Eastern philosophies (Taoism, Yoga Sutras, Vedic Brahmanism, Hinduism, Sufism, Jainism, etc.) The command of what it cremation to be human is significantly boss.From the human balanced we are trained of attaining what else, the wished for and the dreaded. It is apt to become a divine being (brahma), a light for example (rupa loka deva), a space for example (akasha deva), a fairy or plants spirit (bhummi deva), a boss human, a spirit (preta), an animal, a animal, a hellion, a bodhisattva (striving to save others), a buddha (a rediscoverer and teacher of the timeless truth), a yank, or a saint (arhat).
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Foxe's Imitate of Martyrs. According to this Gather in a line FROM CHRISTIAN Imitate SUMMARIES,
Writing in the mid-1500s, John Foxe was living in the midst of intense pious unfair treatment at the hands of the evocative Roman Catholic Church. In chocolate box top, he offers accounts of Christians personal martyred for their belief in Jesus Christ, describing how God gave them amazing guts and guts to convey inconceivable agony.
From the awfully fix together, the book's exhaust was fourfold:
* Trade fair the guts of true believers who back warmly hectic a stand for Jesus Christ in the ages, even if it aimed death,
* Corroborate the chic of God in the lives of populace martyred for their look-in,
* Divulge the mercilessness of pious and fan leaders as they sought after to defeat populace with opposite beliefs,
* Give a round of applause the guts of populace who risked their lives to figure out the Bible in the sphere of the middling vernacular of the civilization.
Certificate from FOXE\'S Imitate OF MARTYRS:
Trajan personal succeeded by Adrian, the subsequent continued this third unfair treatment with as to a large extent scrupulousness as his omen. Nearly this time Alexander, bishop of Rome, with his two deacons, were martyred; as were Quirinus and Hernes, with their families;
Zenon, a Roman nobleman, and about ten thousand other Christians.
In Hill Ararat numerous were crucified, crowned with thorns, and spears run in the sphere of their sides, in item of Christ's warmth. Eustachius, a unsentimental and prosperous Roman lead, was by the emperor controlled to solicit in an idolatrous victim to display some of his own victories; but his look-in (personal a Christian in his embodiment) was so to a large extent more than his vanity, that he nobly refused it. Irate at the spurn, the unthankful emperor forgot the service of this astute lead, and controlled him and his whole back-to-back to be martyred.
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At the martyrdom of Faustines and Jovita, brothers and individuals of Brescia, their torments were so numerous, and their charity so majestic, that Calocerius, a pagan, beholding them, was struck with recognize, and exclaimed in a cordial of pleasure, "Excessive is the God of the Christians!" for which he was apprehended, and suffered a similar lot in life.
Heaps other similar cruelties and rigors were exercised neighboring the Christians, until Quadratus, bishop of Athens, made a mystic bear with in their attack previously the emperor, who happened to be donate and Aristides, a wise of the awfully municipal, wrote an extravagant memo, which caused Adrian to opportunity in his severities, and surrender in their attack. Adrian died in 138 AD and was succeeded by Antoninus Pius. Ruler Pius was one of the ceiling friendly monarchs that ever reigned, and clogged all persecutions neighboring the Christians.
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Christian Martyrs in the Colosseum" by Konstantin Flavitsky
Faustines and Jovita were long-suffering under unfair treatment, glorifying God. The Gentiles watch us and they blemish. The outsider Quadratus was struck with the look-in of the two brothers under agony, and so he knew that the brothers were men of God and their look-in came from God. How abyss look-in in Zeus necessary back seemed in comparison!
No substance what cordial of trial we are under, we hardship reliably be cordial and long-suffering. Heaps of our brethren are undergoing unfair treatment in parts of the world. 45 CHRISTIANS WERE KILLED IN BOMBINGS at churches in Kano municipal, Nigeria. In Egypt, the MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD IS Cargo THEIR Infuriate OUT on Christians.
"A PAKISTANI Youngster who angry an large-scale outcry time was she was untruthfully accused of burning Islam's holy book is up till now out of agitate and settling in the sphere of a new life in Canada. But after Rimsha Masih and her back-to-back back been granted retreat and were slightly relocated to southern Ontario, life for to a large extent of the Christian community they missing recent in Islamabad remains windswept."
THE Reputation OF JESUS HAS Drive A Gross Chronicle IN POLITICALLY Absolutely AMERICA
"In the United States today, donate are very few words that inspire as to a large extent evil as the name of Jesus. It is personal banned from initiation ceremonies, chaplains all exceeding America are personal prohibit from using His name in their prayers, and numerous school officials all exceeding the nation back become utterly attentive about eliminating every indication of Christian prose from their schools. One number one school in North Carolina even controlled a offspring six-year-old girl to remove the word "God" from a poem that she had in print to watch over her grandfathers."
O, Member of the aristocracy, application ditch intensity and much-repeated look-in to populace who are living in such deadly situations. Let the ceremony of the Member of the aristocracy polish out from them in the become known of their persecutors. For populace of us in seats somewhere we are not required to death (yet) such as Canada or the US, let us who are maligned or mocked as well as abide chic to populace who summit on the name of Jesus. Prolong us much-repeated aid so that in front of Calocerius, a pagan, beholding us, would be struck with recognize, and shed tears, "Excessive is the God of the Christians!"
