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Gearing up for Samhain has been a task all itself. I say this because at this time i am currently deployed to Kuwait. I wish that i had all my witchy tools and all my witchy herbs. I dont however so I have had to use what i could find. As you can see from last post I posted my altar.  I adapted my spiritual practices to better serve me here.

My altar though it is a mishmash of different things they all hold a special purpose for this day. I was lucky enough to get the things I needed by just looking around and see how I could use it to benefit my needs.

Then I got to thinking. How am I going to set this up? Well i thought about the signficance of this season. The endings and beginnings of this past year and what is to come. So there was my theme. I pulled out the pictures i had, the death card to represent the season, my statues i had brought from home and a  scarf I found in a market.

How am i going to celebrate. Looking at the pictures and the path that this past year has taken was enlightening alone. My grandpa is a spirit guide, halloweens past, my neice Ava being born, deployment, and my family getting larger through the merging of families in holy matrimony. So much i search and look to learn from that in this year to come. Therefore i choose the hermit card in the tarot deck.

So much to meditate on and learn from. I am so excited. I hope your years end and beginning is just as special as mine.
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Samhain Altar 10/28/2011
 
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So as you can see i have set my altar up. I have set up a kinda timeline of the my life and jumping to the this past witchy year. The wooden box is rosewood and has a lock and key on it, so i use that as my spell box. In there is a mirror that i plan to use for divination and other mirror magick. I have my statues of Apollo and Aphrodite. Lucky Bamboo for the coming year cause i was "lucky" enough to find it here in Kuwait. I used a dark altar cloth that i found at a local hajji mart. I chose one with sparkles to represent snow and stars in the dark time of the year to come. The two tarot cards i chose to place on the altar is death and thats next to my grandpa who died when i was younger. The other card is the hermit. I chose that because he always holding the lamp to light the path of life as shown by my pictures. So like i said the theme is endings/beginning.
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Where am I going? It has taken me now almost 5 years to realize that only I can answer that question. So I was meditating one day. I was talking with Apollo and Aphrodite. I asked them this same question, and they answered me by saying that only I can answer that question. I asked my next question, Why did you choose me? I posed this question to both the gods.
Apollo replied, "I am the god of the sun. I burn all day and I live within you. You are fierce and strong. As you age, you are forever youthful such as I. I am the god divination and medicin. You honor me when you use both those gift as a collective. From this point on, you will go forth to help heal the world spiritually and mudanely. I will be your guide. Be forever a vassal of me."
Okay at 20 years old I had no idea what he meant and I even thought I was crazy. I continued to meditate on his words, and i meditated on my life as to where I was going.
Aphrodite responded, " I am the Goddess of love, desire, and tender passions. History has made me out to be a goddess that emphasizes only the physical aspects of love. Truely I say to you my gifts are greater than that. You, my child are sensual. You have a gentle air about you. You care a lot for the people of this world. Now, your task is to go ahead in this life and teach the greatness of love. Love of others and love of the world. The task you must master to be successful in your quest, is to know and understand what it is to love onesself and teach others. I bless you with the traits of myself. I bless you with beauty and grace. I bless you with understanding and the calm temperment you will need for this journey."

Again I was confused, and again I meditated on the meaning of what these two etherial beings were trying to tell me. After much soul searching the answer was clear. Apollo and Aphrodite wanted me to go into the medical field. Yes I know its crazy how I get such a simple explaination out of so much. Apollo wants me to use my gifts of clairvoyance and healing in the medical field. He wants me to be a healer of humanity on levels spiritually and mundanely. Aphrodite in her wisdom wants me to show that its okay to love others and have a love of the world. The message that she wants to be spread, is that to achieve complete love of another, one must truely love themself. They must know themselves inside and out. They must embrace the dark traits they hid within, to understand the good traits they use everyday.

September of 2009 I enlisted in the Army as a medic. I was so torn with what I wanted to do as a job. Should I go to chaplains corps, or should I do medical. I am so glad I took the job as medic. I am so happy when I am either working with my soldiers on the road or in the clinical side. I have learned that I need to trust my guys. My guys have begun to trust me and so therefore there is a "professional love" of one another in a familial sense. You see the connections?
I trust where I am being guided. The will of the gods is for me to be helping people. So here I am.

Where are you being guided too? Why do you think your being guided there? This is where you start when you are lying in bed after a long day and question creeps up into your mind, "Where am I going really?"
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