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Tegwedd ShadowDancer
Aug 3, 2011, 11:15:21 AM8/3/11
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Sorry we’ve been away for so long, but we’ve had computer issues for
four months. Stephen still has computer issues, but Tegwedd has a new
computer, which she won’t let him use because he tends to kill
computers. She thinks he has a negative psychic field around him that
kills computers; he’s killed 5 so far, and she has no intention of
letting near hers. We’re waiting for him to get his computer back
from the shop so we can finished the 3 sample chapters to send to
Llewellyn. More about this in Tarot for Pagans.
We watched an interesting mini-series on HBO earlier this summer
called Game of Thrones. It’s based upon the 1st installment in the
Fire & Ice series by George R.R. Martin. The 5th installment just
came out, so we’re waiting for the library to put it in circulation.
Funny thing. It’s a fantasy series without all that much magick in
it. They are Pagans, having seven deities. Everything in the book
was in sevens. There was a set of “old gods in the north.” There
were probably seven of them as well.
Stephen highly recommends the novels of Jacqueline Carey. What he
liked most about them was exactly what Tegwedd didn’t like about
them. They were BDSM fantasies, and she doesn’t care for BDSM.
She’ll do it to someone she either doesn’t care about, or hates, but
not to anyone she cares about or loves. But Stephen does like BDSM,
and he highly recommends these novels to those who are interested in
the lifestyle. “She’s a very progressive creative writer who is
either a Pagan, or a Pagan sympathizer. Naamah is basically a Pagan
Goddess of love. She was a follower of Eloa, who was rejected by the
Judeo-Christian god. But 7 angels consented to follow him, and Naamah
was one of his followers. The 7 angels mixed their seed with humans,
and a new race was born. They settled in what is France in our world
It was called Terre d’Ange. The culture of Carey’s novels is
fascinating, and Tegwedd would really like it, if it weren’t for all
the BDSM in the novels. The culture is one where the so-called
demimonde has a lot of power and prestige. Even the royal family uses
the services of the courtesans of the various houses. Stephen
appreciates the sexual freedom in Carey’s world. He also appreciated
the sexual freedom of this world. He also appreciates the research
Ms Carey did on the groups we recognize as the Celts and the Norse.
She created a fascinating alternate Earth. She has her own variation
of China and Africa. The motto of the religion is “Love as thou
wilt.” So Naamah became the patroness of the courtesans, the givers
of pleasures. The main character is what is known as an agnissette,
someone whose pleasure and pain receptors in the brain such that she
experiences pain as pleasure. This is deemed very special in this
world, and she is much in demand, making a lot of money both for her
house, and so that she can complete her tattoo, and perhaps someday
forming her own house. There is nothing sleazy about these houses;
they are furnished in the best of taste, the girls and boys are clad
in the highest of fashion.
And now Tegwedd is going to go off on her subject about how
prostitution should not only be legal, but an honored profession,
instead of the lowest, right down there with thieves and dope
pushers. The people who ply this profession, it being the oldest
profession, (both men and women) should be skilled talented
professionals adept at the art of giving pleasure. It is a common
myth that just about anyone can do sex for money. Not everyone can.
Not everyone has the talent to give pleasure.
Tegwedd is presently reading one of the books in her personal
library. It is a fantasy by Christopher Paolini, the second
installment in the series that began with Eragon, a novel about dragon
riders. The dragons have a telepathic bond with their riders. It
isn’t a master/servant relationship. It’s an equal partnership, if
anything the dragon is one up on her rider. The name of this novel is
Eldest, and it is about a kinsman of Eragon, who also is a dragon
rider, and is introduced to the group Eragon met in novel #1. Tegwedd
got it from the Science Fiction Book Club, which is certainly a good
way of adding to your personal library, if you can afford it. They do
things differently from the way that other book clubs do business, and
the way that Tegwedd wishes other book clubs would do it. You only
send back the card if you actually want to order a book. How novel.
She also has Brisingr, the sequel to Eldest. She likes to alternate
non-fiction when she’s reading her own books (books she owns, not
books she’s written), so she probably won’t get to reading Brisingr
for another month or not.
Stephen just finished reading Dhampir. Dhampir is ½ human, ½
vampire. You can probably get the book through Amazon, but Stephen
got his copy at Thrifttown. The authors are Barb and J.C. Hendee.
Tegwedd would class this as dark fantasy. We’re reading books out of
our own library because the public library closest to us is closed for
2 ½ months for renovations. It doesn’t matter except for the
computers. Stephen has no access to the internet until either his
computer is ready or he gets his cell phone. The main character in
Dhampir is Magiere, who is a vampire hunter.
Saturday night we watched a fantasy movie on SyFy which was a takeoff
on Moby Dick, except that that was about a great white whale, and this
movie was about the search for a great white dragon who had killed
Captain Ahab’s wife and son. The characters had the same names as in
the original. When Tegwedd pressed the info button, she discovered
that the critic who had evaluated the movie had given it one and a
half stars. Fantasy movies don’t get no respect. Neither do scifi
movies. Instead, critics tend to give high marks to exactly the
movies Tegwedd likes to avoid; movies based on real-life situations.
She doesn’t know about anyone else, but she likes movies that have
escapist appeal. What can you tell us about new fantasy movies or
books? The Hobbit is coming out with the cast of the Lord of the
Rings movies.
Tegwedd actually prefers fantasy to science fiction because there is
the prospect of magick that there isn’t in scifi. Stephen also likes
fantasy 40% more than scifi. He likes the combat, the magick, the
creatures, the romance, even the sense of innocence and
primitiveness. He likes to put himself into the story as one of the
characters through fantasy role playing.
We are offering a new service. For just $19.95, you can have spell-
coaching. We will take you through the construction and performance
of a spell. It’s very simple. If you want to perform a spell but you
don’t think you know what you’re doing, hire us to coach you through
it. The fee is payable to our PayPal accounts, to either
abbot...@yahoo.com or tezra....@gmail.com .
We will coach you using strong ethics. Tegwedd has a couplet she will
teach you which you can add to your spell that will ensure that it is
ethical. Abbott’s Inn International School of Magick is over 40 years
old, having been founded in 1970 in Berkeley, CA. It went cybernetic
almost 9 years ago. Lizet has been helping us put the school on a
more commercial footing, and with her inspiration, Tegwedd has started
packaging the classes into manageable packets. Ms. Freeman did a 3rd
website for us almost a month ago at http://abbottsinn.wordpress.com.
From there, by clicking on two of the graphics, you can go to either
of the other two sites: http://abbottsinninternational.com/ and
http://abbottsinn.com/ . You can also get to our network
http://abbottsinn.ning.com/ . With her help, we also salvaged some
things from his old website, including the mission statement: The
Abbott’s Inn International School of Magick aims to provide a gentle
nurturing environment that promotes education in both the atmosphere
and the specific tools of magick. Our research arm is called the
Magickal Research Institute or MRI, not to be confused with the
medical MRI, or Magnetic Resonance Image, which Tegwedd had on her
right ankle about 9 months ago. Stephen and Lizet came up with the
name almost 9 years ago. The three of us have become a very effective
working team.
four months. Stephen still has computer issues, but Tegwedd has a new
computer, which she won’t let him use because he tends to kill
computers. She thinks he has a negative psychic field around him that
kills computers; he’s killed 5 so far, and she has no intention of
letting near hers. We’re waiting for him to get his computer back
from the shop so we can finished the 3 sample chapters to send to
Llewellyn. More about this in Tarot for Pagans.
We watched an interesting mini-series on HBO earlier this summer
called Game of Thrones. It’s based upon the 1st installment in the
Fire & Ice series by George R.R. Martin. The 5th installment just
came out, so we’re waiting for the library to put it in circulation.
Funny thing. It’s a fantasy series without all that much magick in
it. They are Pagans, having seven deities. Everything in the book
was in sevens. There was a set of “old gods in the north.” There
were probably seven of them as well.
Stephen highly recommends the novels of Jacqueline Carey. What he
liked most about them was exactly what Tegwedd didn’t like about
them. They were BDSM fantasies, and she doesn’t care for BDSM.
She’ll do it to someone she either doesn’t care about, or hates, but
not to anyone she cares about or loves. But Stephen does like BDSM,
and he highly recommends these novels to those who are interested in
the lifestyle. “She’s a very progressive creative writer who is
either a Pagan, or a Pagan sympathizer. Naamah is basically a Pagan
Goddess of love. She was a follower of Eloa, who was rejected by the
Judeo-Christian god. But 7 angels consented to follow him, and Naamah
was one of his followers. The 7 angels mixed their seed with humans,
and a new race was born. They settled in what is France in our world
It was called Terre d’Ange. The culture of Carey’s novels is
fascinating, and Tegwedd would really like it, if it weren’t for all
the BDSM in the novels. The culture is one where the so-called
demimonde has a lot of power and prestige. Even the royal family uses
the services of the courtesans of the various houses. Stephen
appreciates the sexual freedom in Carey’s world. He also appreciated
the sexual freedom of this world. He also appreciates the research
Ms Carey did on the groups we recognize as the Celts and the Norse.
She created a fascinating alternate Earth. She has her own variation
of China and Africa. The motto of the religion is “Love as thou
wilt.” So Naamah became the patroness of the courtesans, the givers
of pleasures. The main character is what is known as an agnissette,
someone whose pleasure and pain receptors in the brain such that she
experiences pain as pleasure. This is deemed very special in this
world, and she is much in demand, making a lot of money both for her
house, and so that she can complete her tattoo, and perhaps someday
forming her own house. There is nothing sleazy about these houses;
they are furnished in the best of taste, the girls and boys are clad
in the highest of fashion.
And now Tegwedd is going to go off on her subject about how
prostitution should not only be legal, but an honored profession,
instead of the lowest, right down there with thieves and dope
pushers. The people who ply this profession, it being the oldest
profession, (both men and women) should be skilled talented
professionals adept at the art of giving pleasure. It is a common
myth that just about anyone can do sex for money. Not everyone can.
Not everyone has the talent to give pleasure.
Tegwedd is presently reading one of the books in her personal
library. It is a fantasy by Christopher Paolini, the second
installment in the series that began with Eragon, a novel about dragon
riders. The dragons have a telepathic bond with their riders. It
isn’t a master/servant relationship. It’s an equal partnership, if
anything the dragon is one up on her rider. The name of this novel is
Eldest, and it is about a kinsman of Eragon, who also is a dragon
rider, and is introduced to the group Eragon met in novel #1. Tegwedd
got it from the Science Fiction Book Club, which is certainly a good
way of adding to your personal library, if you can afford it. They do
things differently from the way that other book clubs do business, and
the way that Tegwedd wishes other book clubs would do it. You only
send back the card if you actually want to order a book. How novel.
She also has Brisingr, the sequel to Eldest. She likes to alternate
non-fiction when she’s reading her own books (books she owns, not
books she’s written), so she probably won’t get to reading Brisingr
for another month or not.
Stephen just finished reading Dhampir. Dhampir is ½ human, ½
vampire. You can probably get the book through Amazon, but Stephen
got his copy at Thrifttown. The authors are Barb and J.C. Hendee.
Tegwedd would class this as dark fantasy. We’re reading books out of
our own library because the public library closest to us is closed for
2 ½ months for renovations. It doesn’t matter except for the
computers. Stephen has no access to the internet until either his
computer is ready or he gets his cell phone. The main character in
Dhampir is Magiere, who is a vampire hunter.
Saturday night we watched a fantasy movie on SyFy which was a takeoff
on Moby Dick, except that that was about a great white whale, and this
movie was about the search for a great white dragon who had killed
Captain Ahab’s wife and son. The characters had the same names as in
the original. When Tegwedd pressed the info button, she discovered
that the critic who had evaluated the movie had given it one and a
half stars. Fantasy movies don’t get no respect. Neither do scifi
movies. Instead, critics tend to give high marks to exactly the
movies Tegwedd likes to avoid; movies based on real-life situations.
She doesn’t know about anyone else, but she likes movies that have
escapist appeal. What can you tell us about new fantasy movies or
books? The Hobbit is coming out with the cast of the Lord of the
Rings movies.
Tegwedd actually prefers fantasy to science fiction because there is
the prospect of magick that there isn’t in scifi. Stephen also likes
fantasy 40% more than scifi. He likes the combat, the magick, the
creatures, the romance, even the sense of innocence and
primitiveness. He likes to put himself into the story as one of the
characters through fantasy role playing.
We are offering a new service. For just $19.95, you can have spell-
coaching. We will take you through the construction and performance
of a spell. It’s very simple. If you want to perform a spell but you
don’t think you know what you’re doing, hire us to coach you through
it. The fee is payable to our PayPal accounts, to either
abbot...@yahoo.com or tezra....@gmail.com .
We will coach you using strong ethics. Tegwedd has a couplet she will
teach you which you can add to your spell that will ensure that it is
ethical. Abbott’s Inn International School of Magick is over 40 years
old, having been founded in 1970 in Berkeley, CA. It went cybernetic
almost 9 years ago. Lizet has been helping us put the school on a
more commercial footing, and with her inspiration, Tegwedd has started
packaging the classes into manageable packets. Ms. Freeman did a 3rd
website for us almost a month ago at http://abbottsinn.wordpress.com.
From there, by clicking on two of the graphics, you can go to either
of the other two sites: http://abbottsinninternational.com/ and
http://abbottsinn.com/ . You can also get to our network
http://abbottsinn.ning.com/ . With her help, we also salvaged some
things from his old website, including the mission statement: The
Abbott’s Inn International School of Magick aims to provide a gentle
nurturing environment that promotes education in both the atmosphere
and the specific tools of magick. Our research arm is called the
Magickal Research Institute or MRI, not to be confused with the
medical MRI, or Magnetic Resonance Image, which Tegwedd had on her
right ankle about 9 months ago. Stephen and Lizet came up with the
name almost 9 years ago. The three of us have become a very effective
working team.
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