I am finally back.

Hi! Everyone! I am here. I'm catching up on my invites. I hope you all are doing well. For those who don't know me I co-founded this group with Tegwedd over 5 yrs ago. I have been ill a long time. I contracted the Swine flu according to my doctor. I'm way over it now. My glaucoma got worse and I'm still dealing with it.  My asthma got worse I'm still dealing with that. In fact time to put my drops in. People we need more people. Start inviting your friends. Tegwedd and I have big plans for Google groups. I am back to writing full time now. In November Tegwedd will go on a hiatus from working on Abbottsinn International. She will be writing on her e-books for the whole month. I will be in charge for all of November.   I need your help people. Abbottsinn International has grown a great deal. We are now on 20 Pagan-Magickal Networks world wide. We have over 400 Pagan-Magickal Teaching Groups now. We are expanding daily. We need help. It is a lot of work running an Empire LOL. We are starting our 8th ning Network today. It is called: "Abbottsinn's Pagan-Spawn.ning .com Hope you all join and tell your friends. All of our Networks need the following: 1. Staff members. 2. Bodies preferably warm living ones. 3. Graphics of all kinds. 4. Groups. 5. blogs. 6. forums. 7. advertising 8. Music. Anything you think is appropriate.  I have four e-mails here they are: 1. Abbottsinn@gmail.com 2. Abbotts_inn@hotmail.com 3. Abbotts_inn@yahoo.com and Abbottsinn_School@yahoo.com Our  4 main Networks are 1. http://www.PaganSpace.net. This Network has about 25,000 Pagan-Magickal folk on it. Tegwedd and I have 2 blogs and 2 homepages on it. We have over 40 Pagan-Teaching Groups on it. We both recommend this Network.  2. http://WiccanTogether.ning.com This network has around 20,000 Pagan-Magickal folk. Tegwedd and I have 2 blogs on it and 2 homepages and over 40 Pagan-Teaching groups on it. We highly recommend this Network. 3. BlessedBeUKNetwork.ning.com This network is smaller then its USA cousins. It has around 5,000 members. Tegwedd and I have 2 blogs here and 2 homepages and over 40 Pagan-Teaching groups here. We recommend this network. 4. http://Avalon.ning .com also known as: http://CeredwensCauldron.ning.com This Network has about 2000 members Tegwedd and I have 2 blogs here and 2 homepages and over 40 Pagan-Magickal Teaching Groups. We recommend this Network. Here are the Abbottsinn networks: 5. http://Abbottsinn.ning.com 6. http://Abbottsinn International.ning.com 7. http://Abbottsinn93.ning.com Here are some that Tegwedd and I share: 8. http://Dactylian.ning.com 9. http://Necronomocon.ning.com 10. http://Griffin network.ning.com 11.http://Puttynetwork.ning.com. The last 3 Networks I need to consult Tegwedd about. She set them up with me. 12. http://www.PaganRadioNetwork.net Tegwedd and I are members here. You can be involved in the forums here. No blogs here yet. This station plays 24hrs of non stop Pagan music and you need to get the cool toolbar it's so cool. It is free. Tegwedd and  recommend this radio station. They also have Pagan podcast. Check it out,people. 13. http://www.Mind-N-Magick.com This a great site Tegwedd and I are members. No blogs here yet but there is much to check out here get the killer toolbar it is free. This site has a Pagan-Magickal Paganopedia which you can contribute too 14. http://www.keen.com  Both me and Tegwedd are now on KEEN. I'm Stephen6580 and Tegwedd is Teiweth Shadow Dancer8342 come check us out. Read our latest blogs. Mine is entitled: "How to Use Court Cards in a Tarot Reading." There are many Pagans on keen now. I can be reached at: http://www.CeleberityPaychics.com and I have a 1-800 connected to the service I'm Stephen1580 here. Here is my 1-800 number: 1-800-280-8496 Stephen Abbott ex 1580. You can give this number out to anyone who did not vote for that asshole George Bush. I hate him. I share my birthday with the fucking bastard. I hate most Republicans I'm Green Party. I can be found soon at http://www.niteflirt.com getting women off sexually with my sexy voice. There are no web cams here. I can be reached at: http://www.virtualgirl.hd.com and at http://IMVU.com as Stephen93 and http://www.Utherverse.com and http://www.redlight.com
Now for some very bad news. I'm sure most of you know Isaac Bonewits. Tegwedd  and i have known him for a very long time. 35 years for her and 40 for me. He is in the hospital now. Tegwedd told you about this in her post before mine. Suffice to say if anyone hears about any healing circles for Isaac please let us know. Tegwedd and I want to be a part of it. We can't lose Isaac this way he has to recover. There is much more for him to do for the Pagan- Magickal community. "Mayy Patron Goddess Bridgit Lady of the 22 Names(my title) purge him of
 his illness. May he have a rapid and safe recovery. May he get through this ordeal and be with us who love and respect him and all he has done for us. O lady Bridgit, May this be done in your Holy Name B-R-I-D-G-I-T."
Now for a subject related to this group. "How to construct a Ritual Working". 1. The first thing to do is to make sure your place of Magickal Working is clean and free of dust. There is nothing worse then having a messy, dirty and dusty Ritual area so clean it up. Make it a pristine as you can. Make it a place to be proud of. 2. Now it is time to get you clean. Take a Ritual Bath with or with out bath herbs your choice. You can purify your ritual bath with bath herbs and purification herbs such as sage and eucalyptus. Here in Ca. we have a lot of eucalyptus trees. Maybe in your area they are not as plentiful.. Those 2 are very good purifying herbs use them if you can. Let me and Tegwedd know if you have others which will work just a well. After your Ritual Bath is done then it will be time to return to your Ritual Temple of Magickal Working. 3. Now that you are back in your Ritual Place of Working it is time  to don your Magickal Robes and perform the Magickal Working nude-skyclad it is up you. I prefer both. What I do is take off all my clothes then I don my Magickal Robe over my naked body. I do it this way because sometimes it gets cold. Now it is October almost November here in Sacramento. To each their own. Wear what you think is appropriate. I can only speak for myself not for you. You wear what you think is best. Some rituals you may want to be skyclad say a Sex Magick ritual with a Sex Magick partner.  4. At this point in phase 4 I would cross my legs in a East Indian or Native American style and do some form of meditation. This is just me but I feel it helps to center you and increase your focus. It is important to be focused for your Ritual. Each Magickal Working is different though. Some may not need a meditation phase . I say for me I need it but for you you may not. To each their own again. 5. Now comes the time of the casting of your Magickal Circle or Magickal Circle of Working. Whatever you want to call it is fine. Cast your Magickal Circle and walk or skip or dance clockwise the method is purely up to you. After you have created it sit or stand inside it. Visualize a light forming around you completing your Magickal Circle. This can be any colour you like. From Green to purple to Pure White or deep Red. It is purely up to you. After your Magick Circle is complete then it will be time to move to the next phase of your Magickal Working. 6. The next phase of your Magickal Working is your invocation or evocation of the Deities you want to evoke or invoke. Once again this is your choice on which one you want to use. In most cases my choice would be Celtic or Norse. It depends on the Magickal Working. I could use other cultures and races depending on the rite. Whatever the Magickal Working calls for is what I do. It could be Native American or Japanese. You can make your own decisions on this it is up to you. Whoever you evoke you can use this format and one you create yourself. You evocations-invocations should rhythm where possible. This is traditional for Wiccan Magickal Workings. Which is fine with me because I'm Wiccan for the last 40 yrs. Ten years as a Wiccan High Priest. Don't make your invocations-invocations very long but don't make it too short either. Make sure it has everything you want in it. Make sure the words you use project the right feeling. Make sure you know the deities that you are invoking-  evoking. Do your research on your deities before your ritual begins. Way before it begins. When your ritual begins you work with what you have and hope it is enough. You do the best you can. You learn by doing. You learn nothing by doing nothing. Don't be afraid. Just do your best.


There are 4 books every magick user should have and keep up.  1)Your Book of Shadows referred to as your BOS/Grimoire.  2) Your Magickal diary, which is like a lab note book.  When you have done your ritual, write down the ritual in your BOS/grimoire.  It is the collection of spells/rituals which you have done/are doing.  In your Magickal diary you can refer to your spell/ritual by the page it's on in your BOS/grimoire.  Whether you call it a BOS or a grimoire is up to you.  BOS is more for Witches.  Grimoire is more for magicians.  In your magickal diary, you note down the surroundings of your ritual, weather conditions, any pertinent details such as what signs the Sun and Moon are in, etc.  Describe what happened during the ritual, your feelings, and any other magickal apprehensions, insights, etc.  The magickal diary is your lab notebook for the magickal experiments you are carrying out.  I call it a lab notebook because I go along with Uncle Al's saying of "The Method of Science, the Aim of Religion.  3)  Dream journal or log  The subconscious should be the Witch's/Magus' best friend because it is here that the magick is really done.  The subconscious is the seat of the astral realms.  I know that as a writer I certainly use the subconscious as a resource, because it's where my stories all come from.  Artists and musicians, especially those who write and compose music also use the subconscious.  Here too resides your shadow, the unexpressed side of you, what you avoid about yourself.  But it is often expressed in dreams, which is why many people avoid their subconscious, since it seems weird and frightening to them.  But a Witch or Magician must learn to embrace his or her shadow, or it will rule you.  Tegwedd likes to follow the Thelemic practice of listing the sun sign and moon sign.  Then you describe the dream in as much detail as you possibly can.  Leave room for an interpretation, which may come later.  The form these books take is up to you.  You can go elaborate and expensive, or simple and cheap.  It is up to you and the resources, both financial  and physical you have to call upon.  Since scrap-booking is such a popular craft, many witches like to glue pictures and sprigs of dried herbs in their BOS's.  Tegwedd has a leather loosleaf binder she tells me she paid way too much for ($15) that she puts the printed handouts she gets at rituals she attends.  She also has a "Disk of Shadows", which is a floppy disk she types all her rituals and spells onto.  The magickal diary can also be simple and low cost.  She uses those marbled colored composition books you can get for cheap in August before school starts.  She reported to me that once she got a package of 4 for $2.  You can't haggle over a black hen's egg, but it is couth to hunt for the best bargains you can.  The Goddess doesn't want you to go broke doing this.  For the dream journal and 4) the divination journal you can also go fancy and expensive or cheap and simple.  Tegwedd tells me that a friend of hers in the Renaissance guild she belongs to bought a leather book with handmade paper from a Renaissance faire.  You can go that way, or do what Tegwedd did.  For her dream journal, she took a 3 ring loose leaf binder and put a package of notebook filler paper in it.  She did the same for mine.  4) for the divination journal, the same rule applies, elaborate & costly, or simple and inexpensive.  You can also use those hard-covered blank books you can get at bookstores.  They vary in price from just a few bucks to many.  You alone know what your budget will allow.  Don't be afraid to use found and scrounged objects.  It's what our Witchy ancestors, both actual and spiritual, did.  They didn't have fancy occult stores.  They had to rely on their ingenuity. 

7) Back to Magickal Working. In the Seventh phase you  would do your Divination. The Divination can be anything you want . From Tarot to Celtic Ogham-Ogam it is up to you. Use the system you are most familiar with. The one you know the best. I use the Tarot  and Runes and Celtic Ogham-Ogam because 3 is my number. I am comfortable with all 3. That is just me. I'm not you. I would suggest that you copy your reading so you can look at it later.  The ritual itself should go in your Magickal Diary. It  is always a good idea to keep good records for your rituals. You may want to compare your rituals in the future.
8). The next phase is spell casting  and incantation phase. Here you want to project your  will with inner strength and vigor. Your incantations and spells  must also projects that same strength and willfulness. Whenever possible you want your written spell or incantation to rhyme. If  nothing else it is traditional. I personally like my mine to rhyme. They seem to work better for me when they do. Again you don't have to take my word for it. Try it yourself see if it works for you.  All through these phases if you are using magickal tools such as a wand or sword-athame or chalice or pentacle they should be used at the appropriate time. 
9.) Now we have come to the end of our Magickal Working. But before we end  our rite I recommend one more meditation session. Think only of your Statement of Intent. Did you accomplish everything you wanted in your Magickal Working? What more could you have done? If you  feel you have then end your rite and say farewell to the forces and powers you evoked in the rite. If you feel you have missed something then by all means continue your rite. When you feel you have done all you can then say good bye to the Gods and Goddesses which you evoked -invoked and end the rite by closing your Magickal Circle of Working and thus your rite is ended.  If you feel I have missed something in this description of a Magickal Working please respond and tell me what I missed.
Well it is time to end this post. I hope you all got something out of it. If any of you can help me raise my $400.00 rent I would very much appreciate it. In point of fact  if you aid me you will receive a Divination reading or a class on a Pagan-Magickal subject of your choice. You can also give donations to Abbottsinn International through my Pay Pal account. Using these emails once your there: Abbottsinn@gmail.com and Abbotts_inn@yahoo.com Till we meet again. Take Care and Blessed Be. Have a good Sown-Samhain and send your healing energy to Isaac Bonewits. AD(arch-druid) Stephen W. Abbott also known as Stephen6580 on www.keen.com and on www.niteflirt.com and Stephen93 on www.IMVU. and Abbottsinn on www.covenspace.com Peace! Peace! Peace!, Co-Owner and Founder of this group.

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