Email from a small blue planet:

Desperately seeking anyone willing to listen.

This is mother earth calling humanity...is there anyone out there? Repeat...is anyone there?

You have sacked my treasures, burned my kingdoms, soured my waters, maimed, injured and utterly laid waste my vast resources...

Is anyone there...

You have wreaked havoc on my sacred forests and set traps and snares to catch my prized animals. You have shot pure acid into my atmosphere and generated tons of toxic wastes that will not be diluted even a million years from now...my veins, the rivers of this planet are tainted with every poisonous thing known to man.

Are you hearing me?

You have put wealth and fast moving machines ahead of the sacredness of life and family, neglect, poverty and illness run unchecked through my humankind.

You have justified wars without cause, and hatred without basis, you have turned a blind eye to the starving, the destitute, the old and the infirm. You have raise up generations that have no value for life, who see no sacredness even in the breath of their own parents or children, you have allowed the massacre of millions simply because they live in places you never heard of and have no interest in.

Are you there? You can't hide you know I hear your ever breathe! You can't run away, you can't escape the TRUTH of what you have done.

I gave you speech in the hopes that you would become the keepers of my kingdoms and that you show respect to she who bore you, but no...now you have no use for me, you would rather play with your fancy machines, drive over my face in you pollution vehicles, watch endless hours of meaningless tripe on the Television, turn up the volume, turn out the fact, turn a blind eye...well, guess what you have put yourselves in danger!

Ah, now I see you are listening...you didn't like that did you? TRUTH hurts! Especially when you know that you should be doing something about it...some of the children are starting to awaken, they see clearly what is coming,

This nice mother you have, this ‘little blue planet' as you so fondly call me is very ill, any day now it will become apparent that either you all must begin to work to get me healthy or someone better find another place to live! There is no more time left to work on solutions, all of you should know what needs to happen, that is if you would take a good look around you,,, when was the last time you actually took a walk with nature? No I am not suggesting that you run out to one of those Natural Food places and start buying supplies, I am suggesting that you should go touch the face of this dear old mother of yours, feel the earth, look at your sky, see what you have done!

Ah, are you uncomfortable? Too bad, so am I! My forest have been ruined and I need some fresh air, my rivers, lakes, oceans and streams are polluted and I desperately need fresh water. There are land fills bulging with your endless disposable this and that's and quite honestly it makes it difficult for me to redistribute soil where it is so desperately needed.

In once lovely Africa there is no safe place for many of my creatures, and in some places there not even the humans are behaving as if they had a brain.

What is it going to take for all of you to take a day to just be with me, look at me, speak with me, and begin to dialogue with me in meaningful ways? Would the world as you know it come to an end if everyone just took a full 24 hours and tried to learn about all the things you could be doing individually to help me? Sorry lot of offspring you all are can't even help out your old mom when she needs tending to!

How much longer are you going to continue to let the haters of this world keep on making hate, how much longer are you going to pretend that everything is alright?

This is the letter of a desperate and albeit old woman, and I demand to know what you intend to do! Enough with meetings and reports, enough with organization and affiliations, enough with all of things that you think will work! How about this for an idea, everyone just sit down for one day and discuss what exactly you can do to help, before it is too late.

Show our Earth a little Random Act of Kindness. From this day on if you see litter on the ground outside pick it up. Try to pick up three pieces of trash a day. It will make you feel better and I'm sure Mother Earth will be pleased.

Merry Friday

I must say that I am in such a great mood! I have had a tough week me and kids were very sick. But due to me taking a trip to my area Witch Store (called Earth Lore http://detroit.citysearch.com/profile/5194272 for those of you in and around the Detroit Metropolitan area). As soon as I walked in I took a deep breath and felt all the stress from work and sickness literally roll of my shoulders. I spent some serious cash in there (at least for me) stones, crystals, this sweet ass hourglass with the red sand like the one in the Wizard of Oz (I'll post pics later), incense, and a nice silver locket. ENOUGH of my shopping list. Let's just say that the money to me was well spent, and my night just became better:)) Life is good to me right now.

So I just wanted to share and to share this, my version of a Witches Bottle that I sent one of our covenspace bloggers. When life send you bad energy you make a Witches bottle to put it in ...

So if you can send me some good thoughts and energy as payment I'll send you some back three fold.

Here are the Witches Bottles

There are two ways to make one. Depending on which one feels right to you. You can either set a trap for negative evil energy to be trap and destroyed or you can make one that creates an impenetrable energy field surrounding you and your family (they sound the same but the setup is different). Either way your intention is what makes this work very well.

Here is how you can create one to trap/destroy the negative energy from you and loved ones.
Gather rosemary, needles, pins and red wine. Fill a small jar with the first three, saying while you work:
Pins, needles, rosemary, wine;
in this witches bottle of mine.
Guard against harm and enmity;
this is my will, so mote it be!
Visualize these doing just that. When the jar is full, pour in the red wine. Then cap or cork the jar and drip wax from a red or black candle to seal. Bury it at the farthest corner of your property or put it in an inconspicuous spot in your house. The witches' bottle destroys negativity and evil; the pins and needles impale evil, the wine drowns it, and the rosemary sends it away from your property.

Second way

Begin by gathering the following items:
A glass bottle with a top (a large spice bottle would work excellently)
Basil
Rosemary
1 Garlic clove
Pins
Needles
Thorns (anything that's sharp)
Black candle
Small pictures of the loved ones you wish to protect, and hand drawn car, house,
school (since those items may change at any given time, no need to have a picture of them. A description is all that's needed).
Plus a pair of tweezers (this will come in handy)

Once these items have been gathered, take them to a quiet place that will not be disturbed in nature, a barren spot in the woods works perfectly, or somewhere on your property where you know that one will find, trample over it, or dig up.

Dig a hole that will completely cover the bottle (@ least 4 inches of soil should cover the bottle)
Take the bottle in your hand; put your Basil, Rosemary, and 1 Garlic clove in the bottle.
Then place all of your sharp objects into the bottle (careful not to hurt yourself),
Using tweezers carefully place your small pictures of the loved ones, hand drawn car, house, and school into the middle of the bottle (as best you can).
Light your candle and concentrate on the hole being a solid shield of power around you and loved ones, above you, and below you. Speak the following aloud:
I call to the powers of the universe, to the god and goddess, and all other good entities who might provide assistance to my cause. I consecrate this bottle (raise the bottle in the air) as a tool of power and protection by the name of Isis and Athena, so mote it be.'
I call thee Demeter, Goddess of Earth to empower this bottle for protection. So mote it be.'
Drip the black candle wax on the lid sealing those who you love safely inside.
Now mother earth will protect you and your loved ones.
I like this one. Because if anyone is trying to hurt you they can't because the pins pierce the negative energy before it gets to you and then the negatives energy leaves you alone because of the basil rosemary and garlic.

I took this definition from wikipedia.org

Ethics is a major branch of philosophy, encompassing right conduct and good life.

Morality (from the Latin moralitaser "manner, character, proper behavior") is the learning process of distinguishing between virtues and vices.

Ethics and morals are respectively akin to theory and practice. Ethics denotes the theory of right action and the greater good, while morals indicate their practice.

Many people believe they have ethics, but how many of those people are moral? You can have a stockpile of ethics that you hold dear, however if you don't have morals and actually put them into practice, then those ethics will never hold any weight. 

I hear so many people who truly believe since they have the desire to do good for themselves/others; they think it's enough (they talk a good game). Also there are people out there that ware their ethics on their sleeve, and practice to some extent what they preach. At least until they encounter someone who doesn't share their views and ethics and then, morality goes out the window.

I do not pretend to be a moral witch all of the time. I do TRY to practice my views as often as I can. I don't set out to cause problems or to always subject people to my way of thinking.

Now the hard part... When I find a person who doesn't have the same ethics and moral character as I do, I will usually try to explain my point of view, if it is not well received; I stay on the path of higher ground for as long as I can. I figure that we are made in the "image" of the God and Goddess, and I feel that to be true also as in their "temperament". Everyone knows of God's wrath and how a flood/brimstone would come when he was trying to teach a lesson, when a Goddess drove men to madness causing them to kill their own children, and who can forget a Goddess who is know for crib deaths. Well just as the God or Goddess is capable of horrid acts, I too have my faults. I may scream and rant at times, but I never use magic to cause physical or mental harm to those who endanger me or my family... I am like the fawn in that aspect better to run to safety (when able) then to stand and harm. (Now you know why I am Screamingfawn)

I do not pretend to be so unflawed as to say I don't think about retaliation, but I do stop and think about how I will feel and how (if I did succumb to anger) how will it affect me.

As of today I am content to follow and act on my ethics.

Screamingfawn   

 Today I can say has not been the best day for me. My sister decided that today would be a great time to try to punish me for helping her son; I paid for him to go back to school. Now I'm not saying that I am loaded but the Goddess provided me with the right amount of money to be able to give him a helping hand. Unfortunately my sister is a very bitter woman. She tends to be upset over things that she can not control. So she tries to make others feel bad about themselves. She's an accomplished woman, however she wants what others have, to the point that she makes herself miserable.

This would have normally had me crying and upset for days. But fortunately I have had a great awakening since I have become more in tune with myself. I didn't have the time to fully dedicate to meditation, but I did give myself the chance to breathe and try to focus on how I wanted to feel on a Friday afternoon. Who wants to be upset and angry before the weekend even starts? Well not I.

So if you are having a bad day or afternoon, please make sure you take time to breathe deep and focus on how you want to feel. Do not let energy vampires rob you of a great Friday night and a fantastic weekend.