Important message about Witchcraft

Magical Love…

There may be rules to love, for sure we break a few and create some of our own. Yet, we continue to love, maybe even unconditionally with time… As life continues, you will find that this is the only way, to love, fathoms deep love, its magical! 

 Jenney Clark – Don’t Be Afraid To Love: The Holy Grail Of Love By A Woman For Women 

chessboard rules, okay….

Overturning the board is a “move” in the chess game, one of the gestures that can be made within the universe of the game. But it is a “move” against rules. So the disturber is not someone who “no longer is playing” but someone who has decided to continue to play, against the rules. Only the decision explains that the rules are disturbing him. If he really were no longer playing, then the rules couldn’t bother him. He decides to disturb the disturbing rules (to overturn the board and avoid the defeat to come) exactly because he was in the game when the decision was made. 

In this example, Zerstõrung (disturbance) and Destruktion (destruction) part company. “To disturb” means to get rid of the rules that put things in order and so cause these things to fall apart. Nothing of this sort happens with the overturning of the chessboard. This movement does not undermine the rules of chess but rather confirms them by not following them (it dis-turbs, as a thief confirms the law). Disturbers (barbarians) are not necessarily destructive spirits. On the contrary, they can have a constructive effect. 

As the Germans disturbed the Roman Empire, they transferred its rules (its structures) into other areas, for example, into the Church. If destructive spirits (e.g. cynics or Epicurians) had triumphed, the empire would actually not have been disturbed, but it would have been destroyed. Disturbers disturb that which is disturbing; destroyers destroy structures. Disturbers are thieves and are unlike destroyers in that they do not deny the law. Disturbers are frustrated conservatives; destroyers are frustrated revolutionaries 

 Vilém Flusser – Gestures 

Things you mustn’t do near the Vampire’s castle

1 Don’t go anywhere near a vampire’s castle, no matter how bad the weather.

2 Having gone near the castle, don’t knock at the huge forbidding door.

3 Having knocked at the huge forbidding door, don’t accept the invitation from the strange man in black clothes to go inside.

4 Having gone inside, don’t go into the guest bedroom.

5 Having gone into the guest bedroom, don’t – whatever you do – sleep with the window open.

6 Having slept with the window open, don’t come runnin’ to me to complain.

Terry Pratchett – Nanny Ogg’s Cookbook

flows spontaneously on to the page

I have noticed that many readers and novice poets often hold to a very romanticized and mystified view of the craft of poetry and the life of the poet. They seem to believe that poetry is 99% inspiration; pure self-expression that flows spontaneously on to the page; and that the poet is merely a channeler who downloads a poem without much effort. I’m guilty of believing that myself when I first started writing. In that regard, the most important thing I’ve learned is that a poem is “made,” and that being a poet is analogous to practically any human endeavour. Say, for example, that I wanted to be a professional football player. I’d first have to learn the rules of the game; then get out on the field every day and practice, practice, practice to hone my skills and develop my instincts. Eventually, I may become good enough to play a perfect game or season. But that wouldn’t mean that I’d never fail again. I’d know to keep practicing in order to maintain my skills, as well as to keep challenging myself to become an even better player. The same applies to poetry and poets. We learn the “rules” of our craft; then we practice and apply them by constantly writing and reading. We write terrific poems. We write terrible poems. But we keep at it. We know we’ll never completely master the art, even though that is our end-game. The beauty is in the act of writing itself — that’s the most important thing I’d tell my younger poet-self, and still tell myself every day.

Richard Blanco – 9 Contemporary Poets On Craft And Inspiration, Chicago Review of Books, 3rd May 2019

Dogging Etiquette

In the act of dogging, there are participants who are actively dogging, and others, the watchers, who are observing what is going on.

As dogging has become more popular, a certain set of rules, a dogging etiquette, has developed, which continues to evolve.

The following are some of the widely recognised dogging signals you should be aware of:

Flashing headlights or brake lights – are there any other doggers nearby?

Interior light on – we want to be watched.

Window half down – oral sex is on offer.

Window fully down – touching and fondling is allowed.

Door open – full sex is on offer.

my other rule

Though my rule for this poem
is honesty, my other rule is Fuck You.

Alice Notley
Disobedience

We all need guidelines…

Who makes the rules….