My Introduction to Tarot

Intro:  I often get asked how and why I started reading Tarot cards. This piece answers those questions. I’ve been reading Tarot Cards for around 8-10 years, now.  It’s something I was always interested in, but didn’t persue until my sister ingnited a spark for professional purposes.  For several years, I worked as a “fortune [...]

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Quilting Magick

Written by:
Wendi Friend
Introduction
About eight years ago, give or take a few months, I received my first quilt. My father, long-since divorced from my mother, was married to a woman who had no children of her own. During two brief visits to my father’s house, I met and bonded with his wife. Shortly after those visits, [...]

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I Made This Up!

Written by:
Wendi Friend
When it comes to conjuring spells, writing incantations, brewing potions, or working other forms of magick; with the exception of honoring the threefold law and the law of harming none, the greatest benefit is that there are no set rules etched in stone to be followed. True, you can go to any bookstore [...]

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Power of the Pentagram

Written by:
Wendi Friend
Gazing into blackened sky, it’s the stars that are appreciated or wished upon. Actors, singers, dancers and artists are referred to as stars because we associate them with brightly shining glimmer and glitz. When a student does well on a paper, they’re often rewarded with a star. Our human bodies, when standing with [...]

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Daily Magick

Written by:
Wendi Friend
Every work of magick has a form of consequence. Before you go off trying to conjure prince charming or vanquish a spited ex, try working simple forms of magick into your daily life. Here are some examples:
Whenever people ask me how I began my journey into the magickal realm, I point to the [...]

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The Magick, Miracles, and Magesty of Animals

Written by:
Wendi Friend
Exotic creatures; domestic pets; finned, feathered, and four-legged critters of the wild: none of us debate their existence. What we do debate, however, is their value, their rights, their spiritual or intellectual status, and their “purpose” in life.
Are animals existent for the sole purpose of human fulfillment by providing food, clothing, leather automobile [...]

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Defining and Practicing Magick

Written by:
Wendi Friend
Why do I spell magick with a “k” at the end? No, it’s not a typo. Magic without the “k” signifies illusion, trickery, stage magic, or magic for show. By spelling magick with the “k”, I’m referring to an entirely different kind of magick – the magick of energy, the magick of thought, [...]

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Journal Entry – May 30, 2008

Had a powerful day yesterday.  The morning began with the Princess graduating from middle school, and her first year back in public school.  She graduated with honors, walking out with six achievement awards and three honors pins.  I sat alone in the audience, snapping photos and clapping wildly as the baby of my family attended [...]

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Knowing me, Knowing you

Intro: Written in March 2007, this is the beginning of my acceptance that in spite of what I tried, I’d be unable to influence another.  Writing is the only thing that brought me safely to the other side of this em-ocean… I don’t claim it’s all “good” writing in the technical or professional sense, but [...]

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Metaphoric Madness

Intro: This piece is metaphoric, symbolic, and does not reflect actual physical abuse.  Written in June 2007, it was an expression of the pain caused by a dying relationship and lack of respect which eventually led to divorce. 
“Metaphoric Madness”
Written by:
Wendi Friend
June 2007
The first blow
was a sucker punch
I never saw coming…
Right across the jaw
with full fist
drawing [...]

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