How Wiccans Greet Each Other
ren
suggestions.
When you greet a fellow Wiccan, raise one of your hands and fold your
thumb over your middle finger and ring finger. Extend your index
finger and little finger to form a crescent or horns.
Say, "Merry Meet".
When you leave, say "Merry part and merry meet again."
If a Wiccan says something you agree with, say "Blessed be."
Sizzle Flambé
If, partway through the above process, you realize the person
you are greeting is actually not a Wiccan, fold down your index
finger and extend your thumb horizontally instead, then say,
"Hang ten, dooood!", with a slightly dopey grin.
In this way, many Wiccans pass seamlessly as surfers.
Save for, well, pale skins....
Evergreen
> As a Wiccan you are required to do none of this. These are just
> suggestions.
Ren, we all know that we don't take orders from cowardly and
dishonest charlatans like you.
> When you greet a fellow Wiccan, raise one of your hands and fold your
> thumb over your middle finger and ring finger. Extend your index
> finger and little finger to form a crescent or horns.
>
> Say, "Merry Meet".
>
> When you leave, say "Merry part and merry meet again."
And this will identify you to all observers as one of the clowns
who dress up like witches and think that makes them the real thing.
> If a Wiccan says something you agree with, say "Blessed be."
Now there's the approach of an authoritarian bigot: 'God only
blesses you if you agree with me.'
<puke>
All existence is blessed and nothing anyone does or says can
change this simple fact.
Sid
--
Sidney Lambe
Wiccan Priest and Apprentice Magician
http://tinyurl.com/7vs9zb
usenet4444 (at) gmail (dot) com
Hope
*LMAO*
> Save for, well, pale skins....
Oh, for a second there I thought I took a wrong turn and was on
alt.native. ;-p
Ren
> If, partway through the above process, you realize the person
> you are greeting is actually not a Wiccan, fold down your index
> finger and extend your thumb horizontally instead, then say,
> "Hang ten, dooood!", with a slightly dopey grin.
>
> In this way, many Wiccans pass seamlessly as surfers.
>
> Save for, well, pale skins....
You need to bring the hand into your chest when you do that. Shake it
a little.
Ren
> Oh, for a second there I thought I took a wrong turn and was on
> alt.native. ;-p
You took a wild turn.
storm
> As a Wiccan you are required to do none of this. These are just
> suggestions.
>
> When you greet a fellow Wiccan, raise one of your hands and fold your
> thumb over your middle finger and ring finger. Extend your index
> finger and little finger to form a crescent or horns.
Wow! There's a secret handshake? I knew I should have gone further
in my Gardnerian studies.
>
> Say, "Merry Meet".
Done that.
>
> When you leave, say "Merry part and merry meet again."
"Merry part" I have seen used casually, but "merry meet again" has
only been used in actual circle scripts.
>
> If a Wiccan says something you agree with, say "Blessed be."
Unless you are really good with intonation and can use "Blessed be"
like some people use "Yeah, right."
-storm
Evergreen
> On May 30, 6:37=A0am, ren <ren1...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> As a Wiccan you are required to do none of this. These are just
>> suggestions.
>>
>> When you greet a fellow Wiccan, raise one of your hands and fold your
>> thumb over your middle finger and ring finger. Extend your index
>> finger and little finger to form a crescent or horns.
>
> Wow! There's a secret handshake? I knew I should have gone further
> in my Gardnerian studies.
And if you send in three boxtops you can get a secret decoder ring, too.
>
>>
>> Say, "Merry Meet".
>
> Done that.
Wow. You must be a real witch <swoon>!
>> When you leave, say "Merry part and merry meet again."
>
> "Merry part" I have seen used casually, but "merry meet again" has
> only been used in actual circle scripts.
That's all Wicca is: Role-playing. Halloween all year round.
>> If a Wiccan says something you agree with, say "Blessed be."
Like a true authoritarian religious bigot: They all think that
God only blesses people who think like they do.
>
> Unless you are really good with intonation and can use "Blessed be"
> like some people use "Yeah, right."
>
> -storm
>
"storm"? Try "tempest-in-a-teacup".
I know. Honesty and accuracy aren't something required by
Wicca.
But rational adults generally prefer them.
Ren
> Wow! There's a secret handshake? I knew I should have gone further
> in my Gardnerian studies.
Storm, there is a poster, a button, a Wiccan membership card, a
sticker you can put on your notebook of shadows, and a decoder ring!
> "Merry part" I have seen used casually, but "merry meet again" has
> only been used in actual circle scripts.
That and it takes too long to say. So "Merry party!"
> Unless you are really good with intonation and can use "Blessed be"
> like some people use "Yeah, right."
>
> -storm
I've done that several times!
aine
> On Jun 1, 6:28 am, storm <st...@frii.com> wrote:
>
> > Wow! There's a secret handshake? I knew I should have gone further
> > in my Gardnerian studies.
>
> Storm, there is a poster, a button, a Wiccan membership card, a
> sticker you can put on your notebook of shadows, and a decoder ring!<
I have them all, proving one does not have to be Wiccan. Only really
good at a Poker Face!
Sizzle Flambé
> On May 30, 6:37 am, ren <ren1...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > When you leave, say "Merry part and merry meet again."
>
> "Merry part" I have seen used casually, but "merry meet again" has
> only been used in actual circle scripts.
oh hades, storm, if you want to go for real *class*, you know how:
First Witch
When shall we three meet again?
In thunder, lightning, or in rain?
Second Witch
When the hurlyburly's done,
When the battle's lost and won.
Third Witch
That will be ere the set of sun.
First Witch
Where the place?
Second Witch
Upon the heath.
Third Witch
There to meet with Macbeth.
First Witch
I come, Graymalkin!
Second Witch
Paddock calls.
Third Witch
Anon.
ALL
Fair is foul, and foul is fair:
Hover through the fog and filthy air.
Exeunt.
(need i name source and author, for any but sidney?)
Hope
How synchronistic. I just quoted the soliloquy from this play
elsewhere, not an hour ago. *cue weird music, and perhaps a little
thunder, just for the halibut*
Sizzle Flambé
> How synchronistic. I just quoted the soliloquy from this play
> elsewhere, not an hour ago. *cue weird music, and perhaps a little
> thunder, just for the halibut*
mmmmmmmmm... halllllibut....
Ren
>
> mmmmmmmmm... halllllibut....
The other white fish.
storm
> On May 31, 4:28 pm, storm <st...@frii.com> wrote:
>
> > On May 30, 6:37 am, ren <ren1...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > [...]
> > > When you leave, say "Merry part and merry meet again."
>
> > "Merry part" I have seen used casually, but "merry meet again" has
> > only been used in actual circle scripts.
>
> oh hades, storm, if you want to go for real *class*, you know how:
>
> First Witch
> When shall we three meet again?
> In thunder, lightning, or in rain?
About this time, especially when I lived in the heart of silicon
valley, everybody brings out their PDA. One time, in a Terry
Pratchett book, the three witches start comparing who's available on
which day of the week. I couldn't help thinking "He's been to a real
circle. He has to have been!"
In one satire ritual we had, which people loved, the up-tight witch in
the business pant suit is calling quarters from text on her PDa when
the others take it away from her and make her extemporize. I was also
in charge of secretly ringing her cell phone so the quarters could be
seen calling back. It was great fun and great commentary about over-
preparation and the obsessiveness of techno pagans.
-storm
storm
> On Jun 1, 6:28 am, storm <st...@frii.com> wrote:
>
> > Wow! There's a secret handshake? I knew I should have gone further
> > in my Gardnerian studies.
>
> Storm, there is a poster, a button, a Wiccan membership card, a
> sticker you can put on your notebook of shadows, and a decoder ring!
I've got a bunch of cool posters. One set is a group of atrological
signs done by some painter with an obviously deep CM training. The
best is the household motto, "As we endure storms, so we receive
rainbows." We use it as a signature on various Craft crafts we make
for people, quilts and such.
For a while there, there was actually an attempt at an official
button, many years ago when discretion and being in the broom closet
were high priorities for many. It was a simple solid green button
that was supposed to discretely let other Pagans know you were "one of
us". I noted said little trinket in my shadow box of odd little
mementos, seed packets, shells, even an arrowhead, all given as tokens
of specific circles. All treasured more than silver or gold. Can't
say I wore the button but the one time it was given me, and can't say
I ever saw anyone else wearing the id that was just guaranteed at the
time to be universal.
I do have a card, one given to me by a Discordian, identifying the
holder as Pope. Given that we each claim to be our own religious
authority, it is not an inaccurate document.
As for secret handshakes, I'll take a hug instead every time.
So I just need a decoder ring. I've got the one I got at Disneyworld,
at a booth that wanted to carve your name into a ring there in front
of you with a jeweler's saw. So far as that barely-English-speaking
person knows, my name is "Blessed Be." Oter than having something
that translated to Theban, it will just have to do.
Gee, I must be a much more official Wiccan than I thought. I even have
star shaped stickers with my name on them for my Book of Shadows. (My
wife's ability to find bizarrely appropriate cheap little silly
trinkets at five and dime stores is amazing. Our best find was a
collection of pin-on buttons from the diamond store "Helmonds". They
used to have this open bowl of pins on their counter, each pin saying
"You are loved." It was our standard practice to give one to anyone
who had been recruited into a part in one of our coven's community
rituals. We explained to the store that it was for a "church group"
and they let us take double handfuls of them.)
>
> > "Merry part" I have seen used casually, but "merry meet again" has
> > only been used in actual circle scripts.
>
> That and it takes too long to say. So "Merry party!"
That works! Consider it stolen!
>
> > Unless you are really good with intonation and can use "Blessed be"
> > like some people use "Yeah, right."
>
>
> I've done that several times!
Blessed be! This room is a bigger mess than Dorothy's room after the
cyclone!
- the mom
storm
I find playing Poker with a family of psychics to be as frustrating as
arranging a surprise birthday for a psychic. The best we have done is
have one husband of one such psychic turn the entire arrangements over
to us and then we didn't tell him anything except when to show up with
her after her Yoga workout class when we usually had their kids over
for a play date. There she was in front of dozens of people while
wearing a soaked sweat suit and a little miffed at that until my wife
brought out the fresh change of clothes that had been pre-arranged.
Of course, then came the general hot tubbing and clothes became less
of an issue. For two months we avoided any contact with her except
brief messages over the phone. It came out that she thought we were
mad at her about something. Only time I have really gotten away with
the trick of giving a surprise party for a psychic and I am
inordinately proud.
-storm
Sizzle Flambé
> One time, in a Terry Pratchett book, the three witches
> start comparing who's available on which day of the week.
> I couldn't help thinking "He's been to a real circle.
> He has to have been!"
Surely not impossible, day and age and all, but surely not
necessary either. Knowing real *people*, cantankerous and
contrary and crotchety as we all are, is all it takes.
You take the airy-fairy fantasy scene, remove the pastel
wish-fulfillment character, plop down in her place a real,
somewhat tired and frustrated and already half-angry woman
interrupted in the middle of her work, and let the play
resume quite naturally....
"Excuse ME, Your Highness, but you want me to try on WHAT?
It's VERY pretty, I grant you, but glass, I don't think so.
One wrong step, and it's shards all over the floor and in
my foot, and this IS a farm, and tetanus, no, I think not.
High heels on this surface would be just asking for grief,
and, look, you seem like a sweet lad, but, all this time
you spent dancing with the gel, didn't you spend any of it
looking her in the FACE? To, like, recognize her when you
saw her again? No? Where were you looking, then? Ah, thought
as much. Men. Poor gel. Pity her if you find her. Well, then,
Your Highness, I guess it's on to the next house, eh?"
storm
>
> "Excuse ME, Your Highness, but you want me to try on WHAT?
> It's VERY pretty, I grant you, but glass, I don't think so.
> One wrong step, and it's shards all over the floor and in
> my foot, and this IS a farm, and tetanus, no, I think not.
> High heels on this surface would be just asking for grief,
> and, look, you seem like a sweet lad, but, all this time
> you spent dancing with the gel, didn't you spend any of it
> looking her in the FACE? To, like, recognize her when you
> saw her again? No? Where were you looking, then? Ah, thought
> as much. Men. Poor gel. Pity her if you find her. Well, then,
> Your Highness, I guess it's on to the next house, eh?"
That is seriously and dementedly funny. Kudos. Kilokudos.
-storm
Hope
I'll second that! It's like "Fractured Fairy Tales," but better.
Ren
Damaeus
ren <ren...@hotmail.com> posted the following message
on Sat, 30 May 2009 05:37:39 -0700 (PDT):
I would no more do that than I'd say "driver out" at a Pizza Hut I worked
for in Dallas. I don't like making pre-recorded expressions with my own
voice, just to keep others informed of my comings and goings. If I'm not
there, I'm obviously gone. If the manager can't figure out I'm not there
based on the absence of my body and my vehicle, then he doesn't need to be
the manager.
I was often interested in the Freemasons, just to see what they were
about. But I just wanted to go in and sort of "audit" without really
being too involved at first. I don't "get" the ceremonies. Are they
really serious? Do they really think they're necessary, or are they doing
it because it's fun to dress up and play in special uniforms? Do they
think the ceremonies hold any real power?
Damaeus
thewi...@gmail.com
Bright blessings to you all!