Tuesday, September 30, 2008



Welcome to a wee bit a Magick
everything on these pages are my personal views.
for entertainment purposes only.
yes, I believe what I have written.
my 'job' is to believe and learn, not to convert others.

updated 09/30/2008

"The mystical theme of the space is this: the world, as we know it, is coming to an end. The world as the center of the universe, the world divided from the heavens, the world bound by horizons in which love is reserved for members of the in group: that is the world that is passing away. Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end." ---Joseph Campbell This is a quote from chapter 1 of "Exploring Inner and Outer Space" by Brian O'Leary, Ph. D., who was a NASA scientist-astronaut.

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Do I believe in magick? Absolutely! Magick is all around us, and in us. Magick is energy, everything is made up of energy. Even the universe. I know some people don't believe that. That is their opinion, to which they are entitled. As am I. I have a habit of asking my higher self many questions, but I also ask various Gods and the Universe. This is usually how I get answers. Am I a Christian? No. Have I ever been? You bet. I was a lot less tolerant, then. Any religion should be tolerant. But they aren't. Doesn't matter, each person must walk the path he/she chose, or the path that was chosen for him/her and that they agreed to be on. Now, I believe we all find our own way. And regardless of whether you're a Pagan or Christian, Shaman, Muslim, Wiccan, whatever...you go for it. We all need something/someone to believe in. Most of us give our power over to something/someone else. This way, they can get the blame if things don't work out the way we want it too. Not to mention, if we screw up...well hey! it's not our fault. (laughing) This is why we have so many gods and goddesses. Even if we don't believe in them, they believe in us. Actually, everything that exists, exists inside our awareness. If we aren't aware of it, for all intents and purposes, it doesn't exist. If you are unconscious, you aren't aware of anything, so nothing exists at that time. This is pretty much what a person's belief system is: The sum total of all the experiences you've ever had... all you've thought about yourself and those experiences... and all anyone has ever told you about yourself and them. After all, like I said, this is just my opinion. So, please don't bother trying to change my mind. If you wish to contribute to my knowledge, you're welcome too; but I'm not going to change my belief system. So don't even try. Stubborn? Probably, but at least I admit it. I don't claim to be the 'know all and be all' on the subject. We would all be hurting if I was. We all perceive everything in our own ways. We all learn in our own way, and in our own time. I know that much..been there, done that. What is true for me, might not be true for you. This too is ok. I'm here to learn, just as you are. Seems to me like we don't learn very well at times. Takes us so long that by the end of it, we're like..what the hell was that all about? Patience and attitude will go a long way in achieving anything. Focus on that which you desire. As you focus, you may feel a build up of energy. When you have gotten to the point where you can hold no more energy, let it go out to the universe with a heartfelt desire that it be granted. The more you focus, the sooner it will appear in your life. But focus on that which you want as if you already had it, not the lack itself. Whatever you focus your attention on, that is what you draw to yourself.
Now a few words about the 'wiccan rede'. It says "an it harm none, do as ye will", however, since I am part of this universe, this means that I'm not supposed to let someone harm me either. And if you think for one minute, that I will...you have another thing coming. No one should let another person harm them, we should all respect ourselves enough to protect ourselves. An example: if someone breaks in and is intent on doing you harm, will you let them get away with it or shoot them to stop the perpetrator? Me, I'm gonna shoot. Am I gonna feel bad about it? Hell no. I feel bad that they care so little for the rights of others, that they think they have no other way of getting what they want. But if they are intent on harming me, and they get hurt in the process, then I think they got what they deserved. Sometimes karma doesn't make us wait. Where do these people get these ideas? You might well ask. I find that by asking I get an answer. Maybe it's really my higher self. Maybe it's the universe. I like to call them 'my people.' As long as they don't mind, I will call them that...if they mind they will so inform me. At which time, I will call them something else.

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an addendum

Hi Again,
An addendum to my last post. I've just added another blog to my growing list of 'journals'. And I've updated my multiply blog.

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peace,
ravnone1

newsletter

Hi All,
So far, it's been a blast learning the ins and outs of this ebusiness. I hope to set up niche marketing selling only metaphysical and occult products, and yes I'm including witchcraft in this subject. I would like to start a newsletter about witchcraft. If anyone would like to contribute any articles, feel free. The newsletter would be free, so there wouldn't be any payments, but you would be mentioned as a contributing editor. Your name would be listed as the author of the editorial piece. Also, I will be using an opt-in so as to avoid spam. If you are interested, contact me at webmaster@ravnone1.com and mention newsletter in the subject line please.
peace and blessings,
ravnone1

Sunday, September 28, 2008

balance, and pet peeves

Hi All,
There must be balance in our lives if we are not to burn out. Life is more than just work, or having a lot of 'free' time. Work must be balanced with play, or some type of recreation.
I try really hard to lead a balanced life. Speaking of which, one of my pet peeves is that someone agrees with me that I'm right, but does nothing about it, then continues to bitch and whine about it. Why waste your breath when you're going to do nothing about the thing you're bitching about.
I'm going to start being what I am. I'm going to find that balance that is missing. There isn't much missing from my life, that I want in it I mean, but I intend to call that to me which I feel I'm missing. I will change that which continually henders me. I shall no longer stand by and live as others want me too. If there is anyone at fault here, it is my believing that which is designed to mislead, and also the willingness to believe the best of people. I have chosen to live my life the way I choose. As someone once said, "damn the consequences, full speed ahead." I have at times been afraid to do that which needs to be done, but I shed those chains that shackle me.
Let the ties that bind, ravel and unwind.
Let these chains of fear,
leave me now, thrice around
and sink down into the ground.
Let my wings unfurl,
To the skies I will arise,
My spirit, I set free.
As I will, so will it be!

Now, that is done...
I will only say that it feels great to be free of the cumbersome chains that I have allowed to hold me back. Now, I let my sense of right guide me, even more than before. I have always tried to do what was right. But I usually chose what was right for others. Now is my time, and I intend on doing what is right for me...although if I can temper it with what is right for all concerned, then I will. But I shall prevail in all these things.
peace,
ravnone1
"Let there be peace."
"Let there be love."
"Death is but another door, think before you knock."
P.s. Life is too short each time around to even consider suicide. Been there, done that. So, I'm finally free of that. I rejoice in life."

Saturday, September 27, 2008

tired all the time?

Hello All,
Are you tired all the time? There could be many reasons. Lack of proper vitamins, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, lack of exercise, depressions, etc. I'm nota doctor, and I do have chronic fatigue syndrome, so I know how it feels to be tired. But there are other reasons that one may be tired. If you work all the time, sleep all the time, or watch TV all the time, maybe that's the reason?
Life isn't meant to be all work. Nor is it meant to be watching TV or sleeping all the time. ere must be balance. We all need balance in all things. There are checks and balances, you know.
If I spend all my time in front of the PC, or TV and not do something physical, other than cleaning house, I will be tired. My mind has no outlet for all the things it's doing, and therefore, I will be tired. We need physical exertion in order to free our minds, to refresh our spirit. Otherwise, we might as well be comatose.
It's almost 7 am, and I've been up since 2 this morning. I wondered why I couldn't go back to sleep. I need more physical exertion. I love working with the PC, and I have many other things I also like to do. But, even so, I need a break from all this. I'm not happy with this scenario. I hate it when I'm too tired to do anything, and even if I'm not, my mate is. I wish he'd realize that life isn't just work. Where is the balance? I'm a Libra, my sign symbol is the balances. I need balance in my life.
Great gods above!!!
Let it be...
peace,
ravnone1

Saturday, September 20, 2008

Merlin, the Quest for the Holy Grail, and the betrayal of Merlin







Merlin lived a long time ago. And there are some who think he was a myth. All myths and legends are based on truth. Someone's truth. He was betrayed, they say by his half sister. Their son later was the one who caused the demise of Camelot. Speaking of which, at one time, while John F. Kennedy was president of the United States of America, his reign was spoken of as Camelot.
I have a theory about the legend of Merlin and his betrayal, and about the Holy Grail. Merlin had lived a long time, and his time was fast passing. Perhaps he wanted to take the journey that is called Death. So his betrayal may have not been a betrayal at all. It might have even been an ingenious plan. Mankind must search for the Holy Grail, and if Camelot were to be in evidence, man would cease to search. The search for the Grail must always be within, not without. And yet people continue with the quest as if it were a physical cup. We need look no further than inside our own hearts. We always know what is right and true, but so many are caught up in the day to day minutia of living, that we forget the truth stares us in the eye every time we look in the mirror. We know, we just don't realize that we do. It's as if we have some type of amnesia. So we seem to be on an eternal quest to find ourselves. Our true selves, why we're here and what is expected of us, both collectively and individually. This is our true quest, this is the true Holy Grail. We are sons and daughters of the Creator, the One True God. This has nothing to do with religion, or even our beliefs. Although I surmise that we would believe differently if we all remembered the truth, and the reason for our journey thru life.
Peace,
ravnone1

Thursday, September 18, 2008

new products on line: astrology, tarot

Hi All,

I've just uploaded 2 new products to my website. They are "The Art of Astrology" and "Learn to Read Tarot".

The following article is just some of what makes astrology interesting. People like to know if any famous people were born in their sun sign and even on their birthdays. I know I occasionally think about. How exciting that is at times.


Famous People and Their Sun Signs:


Here is a list of some Famous and Some Infamous People and Their Sun Signs that you might find interesting:

Famous People With a Sun in Aries:


Doris Day, Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Gregory Peck, Charlie Chaplin, Eugene McCarthy, Arturo Toscanini, Thomas Jefferson, Vincent Van Gogh, Johann Sebastian Bach, Warren Beaty, Virgil Grisom, Henry Luce, Robert Frost, Edward Steichen.

Famous People With a Sun in Taurus:


William Shakespeare, Henry Fonda, Barbra Streisand, Shirley MacLaine, Audrey Hepburn, Harry Truman, Benjamin Spock, Nicklai Lenin, Adolf Hitler, Edmund Wilson, Elizabeth II, Perry Como, Bing Crosby, Willem de Kooning, Willie Mays, Yehudi Menuhin, Eddie Arnold, Carol Burnett, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

Famous People With a Sun in Gemini:


Judy Garland, Prince Philip, Jean-Paul Sartre, Richard Wagner, John F. Kennedy, John Wayne, Walt Whitman, Thomas Mann, Igor Stravinsky, Dean Martin, Leslie Uggams, Bob Hope, Paul McCartney, David Rockefeller, Hubert Humphrey, Richard Strauss, Joe Namath.

Famous People With a Sun in Cancer:


Phyllis Diller, Ernest Hemingway, Ringo Starr, John Glenn, Diahnn Carroll, Merv Griffin, Julius Caesar, Nelson Rockefeller, Van Cliburn, Louis Armstrong, Paul Anka, Marc Chagall, Franz Kafka, Helen Keller, Julie Nixon Eisenhower.

Famous People With a Sun in Leo:


Jacqueline Kennedy Onasis, Princess Margaret Rose, George Bernard Shaw, Napoleon Bonaparte, Jimmie Dean, Eddie Fisher, Lucille Ball, Mike Douglas, Julia Child, Fidel Castro, Casey Stengel, Princess Anne, Benito Mussolini.

Famous People With a Sun in Virgo:


Lyndon B. Johnson, Henry Ford II, Sophia Loren, Anne Bancroft, Leo Tolstoi, leonard Bernstein, Arnold Palmer, Alan Jay Lerner, Cardinal Richelieu, Greta Garbo.

Famous People With a Sun in Libra:


Dwight D. Eisenhower, William Fulkner, Ed Sullivan, Julie Andrews, Oscar Wilde, Johnny Carson, Helen Hayes, Mohandas K. Ghandi, Pope Paul VI, John Lennon, Eleanor Roosevelt, Al Capp, Vladmir Horowitz, Le Corbusier, Juan Peron, Giuseppe Verdi.

Famous People With a Sun in Scorpio:


Joan Sutherland, Pablo Picasso, Chiang Kai-Shek, Robert Louis Stevenson, Marie Antoinette, Martin Luther, Bobby Kennedy, Marie Curie, Richard Burton, Petula Clark, Billy Graham, Rock Hudson, Jonas Salk, Prince Charles, Leon Trotsky.


Famous People With a Sun in Sagittarius:


Frank Sinatra, Mary Martin, Walt Disney, Winston Churchill, Mark Twain, Dick Van Dyke, Patty Duke, John Lindsay, Margaret Chase Smith, Pope John XXIII, Andy Wiliams, Connie Francis, Jane Fonda, J. Paul Getty, Sammy Davis Jr., Robert Vaughn, Joe Dimaggio, Charles de Gaulle, Caroline Kennedy, John F. Kennedy, Jr., Ludwig van Beethoven.

Famous People With a Sun in Capricorn:


Lady Bird Johnson, Cary Grant, Rudyard Kipling, Sir Isaac Newton, Louis Pasteur, Joan of Arc, Elvis Presley, Danny Kaye, Richard Nixon, Benjamin Franklin, Joan Baez, J. D. Salinger, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Barry Goldwater, Henri Matisse, Pablo Casals, Cassius Clay, Kit Carson, Joseph Stalin.

Famous People With a Sun in Aquarius:


Leontyne Price, Lewis Carroll, Charles Dickens, Thomas Edison, Abraham Lincoln, Douglas MacArthur, Gertrude Stein, W. C. Fields, Adlai Stevenson, Carol Channing, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Mia Farrow, Ronald Reagan, Wolfgang Amadeus Motzart.

Famous People With a Sun in Pisces:


John Steinbeck, Jackie Gleason, Elizabeth Taylor, Albert Einstein, Victor Hugo, Nicolaus Copernicus, Frederic Chopin, Luther Burbank, George Washington, Edward M. Kennedy, Earl Warren, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Tricia Nixon, Sidney Poitier, Rex Harrison, Thomas Schippers, Edward Albee, Samuel Barber, George Harrison, Rudolf Nureyev, Pope Pius XI, Price Edward, Prince Andrew, Pat Nixon.

Peace,

ravnone1

Saturday, September 6, 2008

time running out?, etc...

Hi all,
I have a new website for my personal pages. So, anything new that I post will only be on ravnone1
I'm working on many things now, which includes spiritual work. I've been having thoughts and dreams about 2012. I'm not panicking, nor am I afraid. But I know things are starting to happen. To many things are starting to fall into place now. I was told years ago, around 1992, that "the schedule has been moved up." I believed at the time that it meant that things would happen sooner than it had been thought to be, and I'm still of that opinion.
I'm glad things have happened in my life as they have; life's lessons are the best way to be prepared for life itself.
There are so many things happening now, and yet as much as we either know or at least think we know, there are still more things to come, I believe.
I'm working on a document that I'll place on my personal home page, when I have it finished. Hopefully it will be done within a couple of weeks.
peace,
ravnone1