So there’s a screen image of a list of supposedly openly pagan celebrities going around. I rather doubt many of the names on the list so have tried to research them. 

Alyson Hannigan — As far as I can tell it’s just a rumor tied to her being Willow on Buffy. 

Avril Lavigne — She apparently declared herself openly as a wiccan in an interview a few years ago but I was unable to find it. It’s also been cited that she’s a Roman Catholic. (Could she possible be a Christopagan??). So, she’s either Wiccan or Catholic. 

Fairuza Balk — She’s the only one on the list that’s a “maybe” that I believe to be pagan. She was openly pagan after The Craft, and owned at least for awhile an occult shop. 

Fred Durst — He was apparently raised a Wiccan, but I was unable to find this cited anywhere reliable. 

George Lucas — He’s also a pretty likely maybe. But most listed him solely for “the Force”. 

George Takei — Can’t figure out why he’s listed. I found absolutely no reference to him being pagan. 

Tamora Pierce — Yeah, she’s seems to only be listed because most of her books use made up pagan religions. 

Vanessa Carlton — again, nothing reliable. She apparently uses pagan imagery in her music, though I’ve never heard it in any of the songs I’ve listened to of hers and that’s a lot. 

Virgina Woolf — She’s likely a neo-pagan, which is what she apparently claims to be. I couldn’t find any reference to this at all tho. 

Yoko Ono— As far as I can tell she was only listed because she was into tarot and psychics. 

The entire list can be seen at www.angelfire.com/ia/Geoff/famous.html but the site seems to have been inactive since about 2006. I was going to contact the author to hear his references for my own personal knowledge, but he has absolutely no contact information on the site, not even an email address, instructing visitors to sign his guestbook in order to contact him. The guestbook has been disabled. 

Do you know anything that could solve this debate?

If you do, please include the source or information to find it. Thank you. 

As someone who actively studied the French language and culture for 3 years in high school and had a hell of a time trying to translate pagan related sentences/paragraphs due to lack of accurate vocabulary, this is fascinating!

I actually cried reading this. I’ve never understood how anyone claiming to be religious or a devout practitioner of any religion could be so cruel and kill someone for practicing another religion, especially if the the religion in question (the one doing the persecuting) has actual laws against murder!

It’s taken me longer than I anticipated, and not all products are up yet, but Invocations has officially opened. 

The shoppe is located at: http://www.etsy.com/shop/InvocationsShoppe

And it’s facebook page is here: https://www.facebook.com/invocationsshoppe

If you order before March 29, enter the code: Practical-Magick in the comment box and receive a free Ostara bracelet!

I don’t know why it didn’t dawn on me yesterday. I’ve been learning to knit this past week. Yarn is made from wool. Wool is from sheep. Ewes are female sheep and lambs are baby sheep. Knitting should be traditional for today. I have a sneaky suspicion that a certain creativity goddess tied to Imbolc had her hand in this. 

Also learned that the colors for Imbolc are also the colors for Lent, which starts next week. Hello Irony. 

So tomorrow I decorate for Mardis Gras/Lent. Mostly Mardis Gras. 

I made two Brighid crosses. I originally intended to make them both purple and white, but found out I only had two purple wires left. So I made one out of a mix of greens, whites, silver, and gold. It reminds me of Ireland and St. Patrick’s day. So I’m going to make that part of my St. Patrick’s/Alban Eiler/Easter decor. Then after mass today I made it to the store and picked up more chenille wires and make one from white, lavender, sparkling whie and violet. That one’s sitting on my altar right now. Also happened upon some wall plaques of the Virgin Mary. The one I put on is of her in Renaissance-ish garb bowed in prayer. I’m hoping it will inspire me to pray more often and to stick to my Lent sacrifice/fast if I can ever figure out what I’m giving up. 

I’m a little sad Easter and Lent are coming so early this year. Last year Ash Wednesday and Pentagram night were on the same week. Pentagram Night is a bit like the Wicca Ash Wednesday so it was very fitting. Instead I’ll have to right something up to celebrate on Ash Wednesday itself. 

And if you didn’t hear: while my area of Michigan got a few more inches of snow this morning, it was announced that Puxatawny Phil did NOT see his shadow so spring should be showing up any day now. Part of me feels this is correct. There’s been a certain something in the air lately that reminds me of spring and rainbows, green grass and daffodils. Just something. But on the other hand, I can look out my window and still see piles of snow and it took so long this year for Winter to fully get here… I think Spring will START arriving early, but I don’t think it will be full spring until the vernal equinox. Of course I’m old school Irish when it comes to the seasons so as far as I’m concerned Spring started today. 

Do any of my lovely followers fast for Lent? Do you fast for other reason?

This is written for catholics who are having a hard time finding the proper colored candles for Advent wreaths, but I though it could be useful to pagans and witches who are having trouble finding the right color for their workings as well. Or anyone who can’t find THE candle they want!

Winter semester starts January 7th, so I plan to have the first items in the shop and my correspondence course running by then. 

The shop will be called Invocations and I will post a link as soon as it’s online.