THE GODDESS RULES

There are thirteen Moons in a calender year

  1. January. Known as the Wolf Moon,Chaste Moon ,or Cold Moon.
  2. February. Known as the Ice Moon,Storm Moon,or Wild Moon.
  3. March. Known as the Seed Moon,Plow Moon,or Crow Moon.
  4. April. Known as the Hare Moon,Pink Moon, or Planting Moon
  5. May. Known as the Merry Moon,Flower Moon,or Dyad Moon.
  6. June. Known as the Mead Moon,Honey Moon, or Lover's Moon
  7. July. Known as the Hay Moon,Thunder Moon,or Blessing Moon.
  8. August. Known as the Corn Moon,Barley Moon,or Wyrt Moon
  9. September. Known as the Harvest Moon,Wine Moon,or Singing Moon
  10. October. Known as the Blood Moon,Falling Leaf Moon,or Moon of the Changing Seasons.
  11. November. Known as the Snow Moon,Mourning Moon,or Moon of Storms
  12. December. Know as the Oak Moon,Long night's Moon,or Moon of Storms.
  13. The thirteeth Full Moon of the year is called the Blue Moon, and occurs as the second of two Full Moons in a given calendar month.
A Spell to Becoming Calmed and Centered
Equipment
A very smooth, rounded stone, smaller than your fist; and some soothing taped music.
The Spell
Sit while holding the stone and listening to the music in a quiet room at home, or in the outdoors if the weather is nice. Breathe deeply and rythmically. Begin inhaling through your mouth, then exhaling through your nostrils with a long, steady humming note. With each exhalation, make the note smoother and draw it out longer. Breathe your tension and anxiety into the stone. When you feel calm and centered, put the stone on the ground, open the circle and walk away. The stone will dissipate the tension into the Earth, to be transmutted; if you wish, you can retrieve the stone in a day or two for later use.
A Spell for Love
Equipment
Two candles, one white, one in your favorite color; two holders; a rose- colored altar cloth; a piece of red chalk.
The Spell
In the circle, ground and center. Meditate on all the preconceived ideas you have about the perfect partner. Maybe you have a particular candidate in mind for romance. Release the thought of that person(it would be most unethical to work magick to make a certain person love you; this would violate their free will, and put you in jeopardy by The Law of Return). Release all notions of what your perfect lover will look like. These are externals, and if you cling to them then you run the risk of overlooking your ideal mate simply because your conscious mind was focused on superficialities. When your mind is clear and open, hold the candle of your favorite color: this represents you. Meditate, then speak aloud all the qualities and energies you are willing to bring to an intimate relationship. Replace that candle on the altar, and pick up the white one. This represents your ideal partner. Speak aloud the essential qualities you desire in a mate, and ask Aphrodite to bring you together in this lifetime. Then place the two candles in their holders at opposite ends of the altar. Draw a heart on the center with the red chalk, large enough for both candle holders. Each day thereafter, meditate on the perfect loving relationship for a few minutes, and move the two candles an inch close together. If you started on the new moon, then by full moon the candles should be touching in the center of the heart. When they meet, draw two more hearts around the first one, raise energy by singing your favorite love song, and charge the candles.

You might be a Redneck Pagan If...
  1. If any part of your invokation of the South Quarter includes any line from any song by Lynard Skynard ...
  2. If chewing tobacco is considered a sacred herb ...
  3. If part of your rite includes throwing shotgun shells into the fire ...
  4. If the bell on your altar was ever worn by an animal in a pasture ...
  5. If the cakes and wine are done with a bowie-knife, a can of Foster's and Little Debbie's ...
  6. If they chose their High Priestess at a wet t-shirt night ...
  7. If when your priestess says "Blessed Be" in circle, you respond with "YEEE-HAW!" ...
  8. If you believe a pentagram is a Western Union message to 5 people ...
  9. If you bought your chalice at the Piggly Wiggly ...
  10. If you buy your incense and candles at Wal-Mart (ouch!) ...
  11. If you call the God & Goddess by hollerin' "Hey, Y'all! Watch me!" ...
  12. If you call the North Quarter, but what you call it is an inner court secret ...
  13. If you can play "The Burning Times" on the banjo ...
  14. If you carry your ritual sword in your pickup's gun rack ...
  15. If you found out your familiar is an oppossum - and still ate it ...
  16. If you have a combined Maypole Dance/Tractor Pull/Turkey Shoot for Beltane. ...
  17. If you have cast a love spell on livestock ...
  18. If you have ever called the National Enquirer because you raised a potato that resembled the Willendorf Goddess
  19. If you have ever cancelled a coven meeting to watch Pay-Per-View wrestling on TV ...
  20. If you have ever refilled your chalice from a keg ...
  21. If you have ever written a spell on the back of a Denny's menu ...
  22. If you invoke the sprits so that your beer lasts longer ...
  23. If you pray nightly to the god of big tires ...
  24. If you sarcifice bbq and pork rinds on a altar made of old car hoods
  25. If you shoot guns into the air when the priestess says, "The circle is open but unbroken" ...
  26. If you smoke Salem cigarettes for the historical significance ...
  27. If you think a "family tradition" is a dating club ...
  28. If you think the Wiccan Rede is good for making twig furniture. ...
  29. If you worship the worship the gods of cheap beer and Nascar ...
  30. If you've ever done a candle spell for your local high-school football team ...
  31. If you've ever harvested ritual herbs with a weed wacker ...
  32. If you've ever meditated to "Dueling Banjos" ...
  33. If you've reached the 3rd degree but not the 3rd grade ...
  34. If your God statue looks a little too much like Elvis Presley ...
  35. If your Goddess picture says "Miss September" at the bottom ...
  36. If your Wand of Power is a cattle prod ...
  37. If your altar cloth is a Confederate flag ...
  38. If your altar cloth is vinyl ...
  39. If your altar cloth says "Holiday Inn" or Howard Johnson's" ...
  40. If your altar has a spit cup ...
  41. If your altar pentacle is a photo of John Wayne's star on the Hollywood "Walk Of Fame" ...
  42. If your annointing oil smells like "Old Spice" ...
  43. If your athame is by Bowie ...
  44. If your broom has four-wheel drive and SC plates ...
  45. If your ceremonial chalice says "Budweiser" on it ...
  46. If your ceremonial garb consists of cut-offs and a tube top ...
  47. If your circle dance includes the words "dosey-do" ...
  48. If your circle dance is a two step ...
  49. If your coven chose it's High Priest at a belching contest ...
  50. If your coven's secret names for the God and Goddess are "Cooter" and "Sweet Cheeks" ...
  51. If your coven-stead is propped up on cinder blocks ...
  52. If your craft name starts with Bubba ...
  53. If your familiar can point quail ...
  54. If your familiar keeps mice out of the grainery ...
  55. If your favorite Great Rite partner is your first, second and third cousin ...
  56. If your favorite painting of the Goddess gives her hair like Reba McEntire ...
  57. If your favorite ritual libation is brewed in an illegal backyard still
  58. If your maiden sweeps the circle with a weedwacker ...
  59. If your most sacred altar items include a hubcap, a velvet painting, and a half-empty can of chaw ...
  60. If your outdoor circle has defunct washing machines for quarter altars
  61. If your pantheon includes Yukon Jack, Jim Beam, and the St. Pauli Girl
  62. If your ritual music has ever included Johnny Cash singing "Ring of Fire" ...
  63. If your robes are made out of denim with Harley Davidson patches ...


Well, you might just be a Redneck Pagan!

WICCA- the name most modern day Witches use for the Craft. It comes from the Anglo-Saxon word Wicce, meaning to bend or to shape. This is the root word from which we get wicker.

QUEEN OF THE SILVER DOLLAR


She arrives in all her splendor Every night at nine o'clock. And her chariot is the crosstown bus That stops right down the block. Then the old piano minstrel Plays her song as she walks in, And the Queen of the Silver Dollar's home again.

She's the Queen of the Silver Dollar, And she rules this smokey kingdom. And her sceptre is a wine glass, And this bar stool is her throne. And the jesters flock around her, And fight to win her favors And see which one will take the Queen Of the Silver Dollar home.

Her royal gown is a satin dress That's stained and slightly torn. And her sparklin' jewels are rhinestones, And her shoes are scuffed and worn From the many roads she's traveled And the wondrous sites she's seen. And I watch her and I pray. God save the Queen.

The Queen of the Silver Dollar's Not as haughty as she seems. She was once an ordinary girl With ordinary dreams, But I found her and I won her. And I brought her into this world. Yes, I'm the man who made a Queen Of a simple country girl.

Now she's the Queen of the Silver Dollar, And she rules this smokey kingdom. And her sceptre is a wine glass, And this bar stool is her throne. And the jesters flock around her And fight to win her favors And see which one will take the Queen Of the Silver Dollar home.