Balancing Libra
It's a magical life!
Do you remember Voices from the Pagan Census by Helen A. Berger (with Evan Leach and Leigh S. Shaffer) from 20 years ago? Well they're back with a followup census The Pagan Census Revisited and you have the chance to be a part of it (and you should!). To find out more, and take the census visit http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=WYCq4kaxG_2bYrJ8xnemeR3A_3d_3d
Lunar and Solar Events this Cycle
The New Moon- Friday, September 18th at 2:45pm
The moon goes void of coursei at 7:56pm
The moon enters Libra at 9:27pm
Sunday, September 20th the moon goes void of course at 2:43pm
The moon enters Scorpio on Monday, September 21st at 12:53am
Tuesday, September 22nd at 11:54am the moon goes void of course at 11:33pm
The Autumn equinox occurs at 5:18pm on September 22nd.
The moon enters Sagittarius at 7:44am on Wednesday, September 23rd
The moon goes void of course 10:15am on Friday, September 25th
September 25th 2:50pm the moon enters Capricorn at 6:20pm
The First Quarter Moon- Saturday, September 26 at 12:50am
September 27th the moon goes void of course at 11:33pm
The moon enters Aquarius on Monday, September 28th at 7:07pm
The moon goes void of course on Wednesday, September 30th at 7:34am
The moon enters Pisces at 7:27pm September 30th
Friday, October 2nd at 11:29pm the moon goes void of course.
Saturday, October 3rd at 5:21am the moon enters Ares.
The Full Harvest Moon occurs Sunday, October 4th at 2:12am .
Witch in the Garden
You should see my sunflowers! They are fabulous. They are huge and glorious. My eggplants are also going crazy. I think we'll be eating alot of eggplant this autumn, which is great, cause I love those tasty bits of Jupiter... but nobody else does! Now is the time to starti pinching off any new flowers so that the plants focus their energy on ripening existing fruit instead of making new fruit that won't have time to ripen before the frost.
Witch in the Kitchen
Now that the kids are back in school it's time to look at school lunches. Despite some steps in the right direction, school lunches remain nutritionally dismal and it's the rare school that offers vegetarian options. Since peanuts and tree nuts are banned in most schools, I tend to find this frustrating. But I have a lot of healthful school lunch suggestions in my cookbook and I am totally fascinated by (but don't have time for) the art of bento. Check out Lunch in a Box: Building a Better Bento blog. So cool. I wish I was a housewife.
From Dawn's Reading List
I spent last week in bed with the flu; an annoying situation made tolerable by my latest book club delivery. It was a hardcover 2fer, This Witch for Hire (Dead Witch Walking - The Good, the Bad, and the Undead)
by Kim Harrison
While I was thoroughly entertained, I spent alot of time rolling my eyes while reading these books. They contain all the things that annoy the hell out of me. Supernatural witches annoy me, but the author at least allows humans to be magic-users too, if sub par ones. Friendly vampires are a major turn off, but at least it's not easy for them. Lack of research is my biggest pet peeve, and the character spends half of the first book in the shape of a mink... which the author apparently believes is rodent considerably smaller than a six-inch pixie... a gnawing creature with big incisors... that eats carrots. Come on. Five minutes on Wikipedia could have remedied that. The most annoying thing is the main character. She likes to spend her time whining about her luck and about how she gets no respect while she runs around acting like a fool and treating others like garbage. She is particularly susceptible to vampire charm due to an unusual incident I won't spoil for you. This is an interesting character trait which would have a much bigger impact if she wasn't a total sex pot who seems to view every man she sees as a mindless walking dildo.
I don't like the main character. She's stupid, reckless, disrespectful and way too much of a hardass to feel any sympathy for. Her priorities are also totally twisted. She is so understanding when her friend tries to EAT her, and she finds out she's been lying to her for years, but she's dead set on bringing down the guy who is smuggling drugs that are outlawed because of reasons she herself thinks are stupid and that save peoples' lives??? She causes ridiculous amounts of problems for the people around her and I don't understand why they like her. I wouldn't give her the time of day.
Most books I keep reading because I'm interested to find out what happened to the character. I make a personal connection. These books are like a train wreck. I can't turn away because I have to find out the details I have to know more. I want to know what happened and how it happened and if there are any body parts scattered about. It's morbid, I know, but I'm going to keep reading this series just because. At least when I have nothing better to read. Assuming I can get them cheap.
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Wow, I have to agree that
Wow, I have to agree that the books were terrible! However, I couldn't get through them because I couldn't make that personal connection.