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zen1 — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 04:29:25 CDT

I carry many influences with me in my divination practice but all I do is influenced primarily through working from the heart. My philosophy and background is discussed in Tarot, Healing & Spiritual Guidance as well as Thoughts of Magick and Living Magickally. I work in a 'kosher' way that seeks to help you path-find and become empowered to make choices. The Tarot links to ancient languages and understandings and to the way we walk through the wheel of each year and phase of life. We attract to us the challenges and opportunities we face, are given them, reflect them, transcend them, 'as above, so below'. Divination cannot tell you an absolute future; to do so creates the beliefs that create that future. Positive Divination can help you navigate the tides and cycles of life by understanding the energy flows and helping us control and channel our will and desires in life-affirming ways.

Work includes combinations of:

Tarot card reading

Scrying & dowsing

Galgal - a qabbalistic system of divination using the Hebraic alphabet and world tree

Automatic writing

Animal Oracles

Angel Oracles

Lithomancy- divination using crystals

Hydromancy - divination using water

Pyromancy - divination using fire-gazing

Prices start from £25 plus travel where appropriate. Please contact me for further information. Discounts are available for group booked workshops and parties.

Hello

zen1 — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 04:18:56 CDT

Hello and welcome to this site, I hope you find something you are looking for here. My name is Antonia Zenkevitch. The photograph above is me, if you haven't guessed. Regulars may wish to cast an eye on the news or seasonal thoughts sections, otherwise please read on.

I am an artist, performer, poet, dreamer, witch, psychic, healer, and someone who likes to make up my own way and my own mind. I work in Creative Facilitation, using arts as tools of expression and learning, conflict resolution and community healing and finding creative sustainability solutions. Please look at my other website for more information. If you would like to know more about my work in tarot, healing and spiritual guidance please click on the page opposite. I hope you find something that inspires.

Being of the arty persuasion and loving people, I help to organise and manage events and special occasions. These have included unusual weddings, magickal gatherings and important birthdays. Please look at feedback and testimonials for a little more information or email me directly.

I work as often as possible with and for children. Recent work has included magickal murals on bedroom walls as well as workshops and story-telling. As child's play infuses and enthuses most of my work you will not have to travel far around the site to find out more. I have lately lead a child-driven project across a school, helping a newly formed group of 'young consultants', aged 7 to 13yrs old, to plan, deliver and evaluate their chosen vision of cultural experience days.

Passion and mischief are factors in my life and creativity. Performance, art and group healing work is focused on collective vision and construction. I like to work with the mixing pot. I find energy in the merging of inquiring personalities and divergent dreamers. That energy forms a kind of magic that springs from a creative cauldron. For more details on creative work please follow the links and look at feedback and performance. Alternatively you may contact me directly on the email given below.

I write and perform poetry and scripts and create verses and prose for special occasions. I also create unusual greetings cards, including those that can be given to those who have caused you pain in order to help heal and move on. A taster of my writing may be found in the realm of stories and myths section.

I try to rediscover collective roots and to amble into new possibilities in life and in art. My passions for human interaction and our relationship to the environment are a influence in all my work. In my eyes all life and every life form is linked. I believe we are interconnected and that we are all creative, that art is sown into life in almost accidental ways, like our handwriting and the way it and the pitch of our voice changes with our moods. I believe that we have the power to affect and transform our lives and help others do the same. To me this is a process of being an active participator in life; living magickally; towards optimum joy. My practice, both in creative and spiritual areas, is really just a process of accessing, and helping others to access, this fundamental need and ability to be and to enjoy life.

'Be the change that you want to see in the world.'
Mahatma Gandhi

az_aycayia@hotmail.co.uk

Tarot, Healing & Spiritual Guidance

zen1 — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 04:11:02 CDT

I specialise in divination (navigation of choices with help of guidance from spirit) and healing that focuses on empowering each person’s ability to path-find and to self-heal. I am a student of heremic wisdoms and I follow Rosh Chodesh. My practice is about passing on tools I have been given that each person may then use. Much of my practice comes from western and east-meets west lineage. I was born of a line of eccentric, wise, witty women, woven together with laughter across travelling generations. My family roots hale from old Russia and Byzantium, the hills of Wales and the plains of Holland. On my mother's side I carry the heritage of being a Sephardic Jewess, my mother's mother's line tracing back to 1400s. Stories, wisdoms and traditions have merged into many eyes and voices and I am proud to put mine to use. I began noticably chanelling healing and messages shortly after I could walk and these are skills I have worked with, particularly within the last fifteen years. The mainstay of my work remains to help others access the gifts I believe innate to us all. I am a steward of a 250yr old group enriched with ancient qabballistic, alchemical, astronomical and old magick traditions. I am also an active member of various inter-faith moots, groups and gatherings.

Having worked through The Art Organisation and been the resident tarot reader and a producer of seasonal and bespoke spells for Billies of Netherfield, Nottingham, I now work independently and fluidly while adding to my skills and experience through further study and travel. This exciting enterprise includes workshops and parties that can be tailor made. Hosts of events receive special gifts and discounts. Please contact me directly for more details.

I work with tarot, pendulum dowsing, scrying and automatic writing in prediction and life-patterning work. I study the qabballah, together with astronomical, alchemical and mythical references that may inform how I read the cards and signs. I work from instinct and the heart, remaining deeply guided but not ruled by traditional practices. I am drawn to hydromancy and pyromancy; seeing images and patterns in water and flame and hearing the whispers of messages in their dances. I also enjoy using crystals in interpretation and find much of the greatest wisdom comes from friendship with animals.

In my healing work I combine elements of energy-centre clearing, recharging and balancing, guided meditation and vision quest techniques with massage, sound healing and spirit guide work. It is my understanding that healing sent out to one can help heal many and that all healing and guidance I and others can offer is channelled through us by love and comes from spirit or universal energy. For more information and ideas please see my treatment menu.

Sessions are tailored to the needs and wishes of each individual. Special sessions can be created for children with the involvement of parents or guardians. Creative group workshops techniques are also available. Discounts are often given to those on a provable low income, including pensioners and those on income support. Below are some images of previous workshops with children. The first the aftermath of a performance & art piece about a bed of dreams. The second, a young prince and princess get ready to create. Please view feedback and performance for related information.

I create bespoke spells and gifts. These include hand decorated mirrors for ritual and pleasure, greeting cards for unusual situations, including those to send without harm to someone who has caused you hurt in some way. Spells are prepared in conjunction with each person and in order to aid path-finding. I write more about my views in magickal thinking and have included a page for sharing magickal views, spells etc for all our pleasure.

Individual prices start at just £25 for a one hour face-to-face personal tarot card reading, plus travel expenses where appropriate, or £25 for a half-hour healing session. Prices for workshops and parties vary depending on numbers and content but can be as little as £12 per head with host enjoying a free reading. Travel expenses are always extra. Please contact me directly via email. Once initial contact is made we can organise an informal phone conversation to discuss your needs and introduce ourselves.

az_aycayia@hotmail.co.uk

I look forward very much to hearing from you,

wishing you joy and success,

& blessings of your choosing

Antonia

Seasonal thoughts

zen1 — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 04:01:24 CDT

In the old months of the moon, as named in the Jewish Calender and headed by each new moon, ending as that moon, having waxed into fullness, wanes into shadow awaiting light again, we move fromTishri to Cheshvan. We are in Libra, a time of balance and justice, Autumn approaches in her colourful glory, in her winds and her letting go. October, with asks us to burn what is past and broken, forgive what must be forgotten, honour the gifts of the past, and of our loved ones and ancestors and light fires of hope for the future. I am lighting my fire of hope. It is the time of the last harvests of the year; a time to reap what we have sown and plant the deepest dwelling roots and bulbs for the following springtime.

Thoughts on Magick and living magickally

zen1 — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 03:50:55 CDT

‘Given the fact that two thirds of Man’s brain is dormant it never ceases to amaze me how little he uses the one third which is active. If Man pushed just a little harder what miracles there might be!’

Albert Einstein, 1932

I have included this section because it felt right to do so. It’s really the glue that holds all I do or try to do together. It is also here to give those new to or unsure of magick a taster of it and those well versed in it one more person’s input and the chance to add their own. Please see the ‘Sharing Magick’ page for my own and other people’s spells, ideas, incantations and the like. For me it is in being more ourselves and in connecting with life's cycles that we see more life and encourage others to do the same. Whatever you choose to do, may you find joy and love within it.

Magickal thinking can be found everywhere. In almost all creeds and religions if you look closely enough and disregard that which seeks to lessen and control us. Magickal thought often translates that when writings and scriptures claim that we as humans were moulded in the image of God, a part of the meaning of this is that we are imbued with the image-creating power of God. Within our imagination lies the power to create; to manifest and change our realities. Descartes said ‘I envision therefore I am.’ It is possible we are each a part of the universe envisioning itself. I believe divinity, whatever we choose to name it, is in us all and within all life, that it has both male and female forms and is all genders and none. I see it as the breath behind the wind, the spark in our thinking, the fire in our bellies and the joy in our hearts. We may learn to know it through living and loving; through ourselves, eachother, the nature of now and within writings ancient and modern. We may hear it in laughter and in tears and feel its presence and power both in the daytime and at night.

Working towards thinking, living and being magickally requires, in my eyes, creativity of thought and an ability to listen to life; it asks for us to be able think outside accepted ideas where it is appropriate, even vital so to do. Living with awareness comes with a responsibility to see how all beings, lives and energies flow in and out of each other and how we are all part of a big ‘oneness’ with many currents and tides. I don’t mean we should ‘survive’ like a dead fish just going with the flow. It is to recognise and celebrate change; to be part of it; to be navigators of the tides and a part of the tides themselves. This is of course my own opinion and I welcome others.

To me spell-weaving is based on living with intent, focus and joy; about sending out and receiving energy and about actively visualising and working towards a future and inviting other energies to work on that plan. We may be taught spells by others, past and present, by a voice in our hearts. We may see spells written in flame, hear them in wind, reflected in water. They may nourish us like fruits from the earth. All is connected to spirit. As I believe we are all linked I see a ripple affect in magick. Just as when we give out smiles we welcome others to share being happy and the opposite can happen when we trade harsh words, I see that joy given to one can lift many, pain given to one can hurt many. For this reason I try to exercise my will through love, to protect others' right to live and be within love and to take the path of no or least harm.

“Love is the law, love under will.”–AL I:57
(I would add to this: 'will through love')

Performance and Art Work

zen1 — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 03:48:25 CDT

Ongoing and long-term work includes facilitation and creative education, working with various groups aged 2 to 92! Work has been done in schools, nurseries, colleges, community centers, care homes, beaches, parks and woodlands. Adults and children with special needs, young people living in disadvantaged areas, refugees, adult mental health survivors, business people, teachers and senior citizens have been amongst my clients. This work is all about empowerment and sustainable development within individuals, groups and communities. More information can be found on these areas in the feedback and spiritual guidance sections. Information about workshops with schools, businesses and communities can be found on my Creative Facilitation website. Such work includes the recent Creative Partnership Change School Project at Samworth Enterprise Academy, Leicester. I was chosen by a panel outnumbered by children for a child-driven project. Initiating a young consultancy of students aged 7 to 13yrs the project employed me to help with their first undertaking; cultural experience days across the whole school involving pupils, staff, community and outside artists I sourced for the children's approval.

Own work includes performance poetry at various cabarets and live events, , life-modelling, writing and physical performance, including elements of dance. Below are details of some of these projects.

I have done magickal murals for children's bedrooms. I also work in performance based rituals, such as various rites of passage and seasonal celebrations.

2006 - 07

‘Revelations’ (photographer / artist / model), a series of domestic nude portraiture shown in virtual galleries and in private collection

‘Life-Line’ (performer) conceived & directed by Daniel Hunt as part of 3 Cylinders at The Erewash Museum, Ilkeston, Derbyshire

steward / co-organiser, talks, ritual and performance held in the Caves beneath The Salutation Inn, Nottingham

2005
Costumed Interpreter bringing history to life in ‘NCCL Galleries of Justice & City of Caves’ through various roles spanning centuries

2004 – 05
‘Urban Explorer’, (actor / facilitator), solo work across 9 schools & nurseries in Nottingham working on developmental skills & love of natural world through story-telling, drama & craft. Organising bodies included ‘Purple Monster Theatre Company’& ‘The Wildlife Trusts’

‘Life-Line’, (performer), conceived & directed by Daniel Hunt & shown at various unusual venues in ‘Bath Fringe Festival 2004

2003
‘Finale’, (Artist / Collaborator) - video installation & performance with ‘Pacitti Company’ at ‘The Custard Factory, Birmingham’ during the international ‘SWARM’ festival’

‘Everyone needs a Flexible Friend’ (consultant / performer) in collaboration with students & artists, as part of ‘The Slum Group’, Surreal, high-energy live art meets performance questioning the nature of violence, communication and identity, ‘Derby Dance Centre’

2002
‘The Blue Boy’, (Actor/Devisor - T.I.E piece), a play based on novel by Martin Auer & Simone Klages, devised and performed on behalf of ‘Indigo Brave Theatre Company’, Nottingham, shown to pupils aged 8-11yrs in the Leicester area

‘Pitfalls’, (Performer/Devisor), collaboration directed by Daniel Hunt. A physical piece exploring life and a pig called Kenneth. Using Morris dancing within contemporary performance, shown at ‘The Powerhouse Studios’ &‘The Preset Studios’, for Nottingham ‘Showroom’

2001
‘Traces’, a visual layering of the stories of past generations and living relatives in art meets performance, shown in various basements

2000
‘Invisible performances’, (various) with Jordon Mckenzie in unsuspecting venues in Leicester - included an impromptu dinner party, with black tie dress code, silverware and flower vases in McDonald's

‘Arizona’, (Femme Fatale). A film noir post-modern musical steered by ‘Third Angel’, shown at ‘Phoenix Arts Centre’, Leicester

1998
‘Geological Cookery Class’ (various roles) an ecological show commissioned for the ‘Edinburgh International Science Festival’, shown at Edinburgh Science Museum. Written & directed by Malcolm Le Maistre, ‘Environmental Arts Theatre Company’, Edinburgh

news

zen1 — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 03:31:05 CDT

Life has a way of sprouting branches in so many directions when you nurture the roots. A great deal has been happening and much change is on the horizon. I have another website under construction focusing on my Creative Facilitation, Sustainability, Human Security and Conflict Resolution work. I also have a blog up and coming weaving together aspects of the sacred feminine and following the paths of the moon linking ancient Judaism and primordial wisdom.

I have started painting murals of mystical persuasion, especially for children!

I have studied in South Africa as part of a pioneering MA in Sustainable Enterprise as part of the Applied Research Centre in Human Security (ARCHS) of Coventry University, closely affiliated with their Peace Studies department. The MA program is the result of a partnership between The Eden Project, Cornwall, The Sustainability Institute, South Africa, The UN and Coventry University. I'm really excited and inspired!

I am part of an evolving cooperative of artisans, healers and facilitators with a shared ethos of sustainability and social enterprise. This collective seems to have started organically and we are in the exciting stage of looking at ways in which we are able to help each other and the wider community through such work as skills sharing, networking and a shared administrative base. Keep logging in for progress reports or to add ideas.

Treatment menu

zen1 — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 03:24:21 CDT

Welcome to my menu of delights for the senses and the soul. Treat yourself or someone you love to a holistic and healing therapy from the list. Alternitavely contact me with questions and requests inspired by the examples given below. Some of the following treatments are available as elements of parties and events or as a gift for hosts of home parties. Please contact me for more details or to book.Please note I have public liability insurance.

The therapies I offer are holistic and adaptable. They are designed to help you heal yourself and are affective for body, mind and soul. Some treatments are not suitable for pregnant women or those with certain health conditions. No treatment shall ever be given without a full consultation. Where-ever I feel expertise not within my field are required I do not hesitate to recommend reputable therapists or medical practitioners. Where possible therapies can be adapted, though I reserve the right not to give a treatment I feel would be inappropriate. All treatment times are approximate.

Whispering Stones:

Crystals have a wonderful way of helping attune our energies. They can help us elevate the frequency of our spiritual vibrations and alleviate pains and discord, physical, emotional and mental. They can help heal invisible scars and energise us to move forward in our lives and loves. I offer a range of therapies using crystals from chakra rebalancing to a whispering stone treatment with the added soothing benefits of heat and cold. Please contact me to discuss your needs. (From 20 min, £25)

My Crown and Core therapies are inspired by the ancient Indian ritual of shirodhara, hot stone massage as well as other ayurvedic and qabballistic principles. These therapies concentrate on balancing the energies of head and heart; harmonising mind, body and the emotive self. If our hearts and minds are open and working together the world is our flower bed and each of us can be sovereign of our destiny. Deeply calming and centring, such therapies are said to bring clarity and insights and ward of memory loss. They may also help with the resolution of inner conflict.

Five Elements Balancing Therapy:

Working sensually with the five elements of earth, air, fire, water and consciousness, ‘Five Elements’ uses specially selected smooth crystals, gently warmed and cooled in herbal steams and fresh water and placed upon meridians of your body. This enables gentle, effective removal of energy blockages and recharges the system. A continuous, calming trickle of warm herbal water or oil is applied to the forehead, opening your crown before flowing soothingly through your hair. A gentle salted oil foot massage and bath completes the process. (Allow 1hr, £35)

Sea-gold Heart Spa:

Focusing on the heart, head, feet and hands ‘Heart Spa’ uses marigold infused oils and quartz crystals to open up and balance energies. Warm marigold and olive oil is poured gently onto your crown while your heart embraces quartz crystals. Hands and feet are massaged, helping your body and soul to reconnect and align energies. Softening sacred oils anoint you and subtle scents envelope you while the powers of head and heart and the inner honours of giving and receiving are helped to find equilibrium. (Allow 1hr, £45)

The Receiving Eye:

Sacred oils and herbs are used to anoint and awaken the crown, first Sephiroth of the tree of life on the body, according to ancient qabballah. This can be used with either of the above therapies or adaptations of them in order to affirm equilibrium while finding keys and pathways to wisdom. This is a powerful treatment for awakening and soul alchemy. Prior discussion as to its uses and possible effects is necessary and the treatment will not always be appropriate. (In conjunction with other therapies, £10 extra)

There is much to be said for feeling good. My love yourself range of treatments are designed to help you do just that!

Facial Massage:

Using natural, wild crafted, home-grown and organic ingredients the skin is cleansed then warmed with a gentle steam or warm towel before a clarifying mask and soothing massage. An aromatic, gem charged water is used to finish. Facials are tailor made for different skin types. (Allow 1hr, £25/ £35 with Indian Head Massage 1hr)

Decadent Feet:

An inspired and luxurious blend of ingredients goes into a foot treatment with a difference. Including fine fresh coffee granules to exfoliate and combat odour, while increasing circulation and detoxification processes within the body (Allow 30mins, £25)

Feedback & Testimonials

zen1 — Mon, 05 May 2008 07:49:37 CDT

Supporting Other People's Creativity
This includes feedback for: Events, Readings, Healing, Workshops.

The below is a slightly random collection of testimonials and feedback for various areas of inter-related work. If you have been stunned by my work, for all the right reasons, and would like to add your words please email me at az_aycayia@hotmail.co.uk. If you would like to see more testimonials please also contact me at the above address.

Events

Antonia was thorough and detailed in her co-ordination and support at our wedding reception. We are delighted with her organisation and layout. We were able to trust Antonia with our specifications and would highly recommend her for any events. She always put us at ease and was extremely enthusiastic in her responsibilities.

Bina And Kllyph Williams, Beeston, Nottingham.

Healing

(Nach ihrer Behandlung habe ich mich sehr wohl gefuehlt, ruhig und ausgeglichen. Ich fuehlte mich als haette ich gut geschlafen, enspannt und ausgeruht. Dank Antonia hat sich der Zustand meiner Beine (naessendes Ekzem) sehr verbessert. Seit etlichen Jahren hatte ich grosse Schwierigkeiten und Schmerzen. Jetzt bin ich endlich auf dem Weg der Besserung.)

After the healing session I felt very comfortable, calm and well balanced. I felt like I had slept well, was relaxed and rested. Thanks to Antonia the state of my legs (weeping eczema) has improved greatly. I've had extreme problems and pain with this for years. I'm now finally on the road to recovery. Gudrun, Wien, Austria

Personal Development & Creative Education:

Working with community, isolated and personal development groups in The U.K and Greece, using voice, environmental arts, drama and creative writing workshops. Clients have included mental health survivors, young people at risk, adults and children, including those with special needs. Feedback from schools and carers includes:

‘Encouraged children to make full use of their imaginations … prompted some good quality, thought provoking follow-up work.’ (Sue Poole, Deputy Head, St. Barnabas C.E Primary School, Leicester.)

'The provider had pitched the work at just the right level. All students participated… it was a good, interesting & stimulating programme for the students.’ (Yeoman Park Special Needs School, Mansfield Woodhouse.)

Feedback from adult participants from creative workshops include:

‘Sharing the realization of being alive.’
‘Maturity, ability to communicate … and your laugh.’
‘Clear and friendly voice – very caring and fun loving, many qualities.’
‘Commitment to process… sure of you.’
‘Lovely to have such fun and laughs, supportive and caring.’
‘Clarity and beauty of voice and thoughts.’
‘Brought beautiful insights and remarkable wisdom beyond your years,extraordinarily extraordinary!’
‘Clarity of purpose and commitment and dedication.’
‘Spirit of adventure and fun.’

Tarot Readings

I was on a big crossroads in my life when Antonia did a Tarot session for me. I had done a lot of thinking myself which way to go, and how to go about the change I needed to make. The Tarot session really helped me to clear things in my mind, to find out where to focus and to set priorities. I have now started my journey and with Antonia’s Tarot reading pointing me in the right direction, I’m progressing well.
(Isi, Nottingham, UK)

My life was full of changes and decisions,which i did not know what to do with. A friend told me to do a tarot session with Antonia -
so i did, but because i live in the Netherlands it should be a on-line one. It was the very first time for me that i did a session. But boy it was amazing,i now know what decisions to make. The tarot session really helped me. i know now my life is gonna change for the better - and i already made a good start with it. (Ed Alkmaar,The Netherlands)

realm of stories and myth

zen1 — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 08:14:06 CST

Greetings! This page is simply for myth and hopefully inspiration. It is under copyright. I hope you find something within the words. If you do remember that any wisdom we are able to hear comes to us through a greater wisdom within us. Enjoy!

The Bennu is born every 500yrs from aromatic flames of emerald and myrrh. She is a heron-like creature that speaks of the alchemy of the soul, while her sister, The Phoenix, allows for the re-formation of our lives through fire. Bennu has flown through the millennia from ancient Arabia. Hers is the cry of pain and triumph of a child springing from a womb; of a bird learning to fly; of life charging out of death into absolute being, knowing that death again awaits it in so many ways, just as life can be found at every turn. The flames burn and re-forge our soul, each cycle patterned towards a flight and a call of triumph; a life to be lived fresh from flame. Each time, as we face the furnace, a voice inside asks ‘how can this be?’ and each time we fly or recall flight we know. The flame has forged tools and weapons of learning, living, of love and of battle. It will meld our selves into fuller, surer, sharper, stronger form. The soul does not have boundaries and the body does not deceive. From the fire of her deathbed and cradle Bennu screeches a command; ‘Live! Live and live again!’ It is sometimes a hard law to live by, particularly when scorched and resolutely unaccustomed to taking orders. It may possibly be the best and only command worth hearing. It is one of two ‘laws’ I will listen to. (The other is the ‘law’ of love.) To survive the flame sometimes you must simply be the flame yourself, then you will rise above with outstretched wings. I believe we are living through a birth of Bennu. May you fly with sure wings & see with sure eyes!

Be involved: Images & Ideas

zen1 — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 08:13:38 CST

Traces

Traces has been shown in buildings and basements across two Cities, Leicester and Nottingham. The letters of past generations, known and unknown to one another form a visual layering traced from past lives on a translucent paper creating a pall/ cocoon from which, through a ritualistic merging of lives, the audience emerges. Mirrors reflect audience’s reflections within a time and identity-questioning construct.

Why?
Our writing is unique and changing and defines something of us, like fingerprints after we are gone, or the paintings on cave walls. Men have studied handwriting for centuries as a sign of the workings of the human mind and heart. It is accidental art. We live our lives through a language passed down to us within families and communities, altered, and then re-delivered to others. We are created by a past witnessed by the written word, made possible by the communication and miscommunication of others before us.

Our words both join us together and set each one of us apart. We are inspired, confused or repulsed by them, we are made love to and governed using them. History is told in many ways, the records change with who holds the pen. ‘Traces’ is an invitation to re-write our sense of the present, challenging our concepts of time and identity.

Tracers form a web of words that they become part of, becoming aware, not only of their own tracings, but of other words, other people and themselves together in the shared space.They may also add other hand-written extracts that they themselves bring. The piece becomes a multi-layered maze,so viewers walk between the layers of words, light, shadow and and reflections. The traced echoes of the past and present etched and moving on their skin as they pass mirrors.

What now?
If you would like to be involved with the next installment or have a piece of writing you feel you would like to have traced into the membrane of 'Traces' please email me @ az_aycayia@hotmail.co.uk

Sharing Magick

zen1 — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 08:12:42 CST

This page is open to invited guests to contribute to. I will shuffle it round a bit from time to time. If you would like to add a simple spell or inspiring thought either email me with it or add it directly by joining as a wetpaint member and applying to contribute to this site. Otherwise just enjoy.

Recharging your Life Spell:

Universal Power
expands us with
Almighty force
So we may find
success, whatever
be our course;
Opulence of
heart and mind
connects us each
to the source -
prosperity we find
when we give and
take kind for kind

Write this or another life empowering incantation beautifully while burning white and gold candles. Use materials which mean something to you and write it during a waxing moon. This is when positive magick (magick asking for things to come into and not out of your life) is most powerful. Harnessing the power of the Sun or Jupiter by performing the spell on a Sunday or Thursday can also add potency. Ask for and thank any spirits, energies, planets etc for their help and protection. Place the incantation in a space where it is most needed in your home. Mine is in a previously dark corner of a study area in the centre of my home. It is written on glass to reflect light back into the space. (AZ)

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A recipe just for joy and awakenings is shared below. I personally think Ms. Rowling got it spot on when she wrote that chocolate is the best remedy for after a dementor attack. Well done that woman!

Maya’s dark promise: (adapt at will)
You'll need:

6 - 8 chunks of maya gold chocolate or similar (dark & lightly spicy 'Green & Black's is organic and fair trade)
1 teaspoon of runny honey or homemade flower syrup - vegan (rose, lavender, clover, violet all good)
a handfull of large juicy black seedless grapes
enough english apple juice to make a liquid constancy of choice

To make:

melt the chocolate in bowl over pan of simmering water
blend chocolate with grapes and honey (or flower syrup)
add to apple juice and leave to cool
add a slice of apple to each glass and an optional sprig of fresh mint
thank the divine energies for your share in their fruitfulness & the hands that grew, harvested and bought the food to your table.
Share in a spirit of love, fertility and indulgence! (AZ)

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A spell for banishment and letting go:

At the time of the waning moon visit the sea. Stand as close to the water's edge at ebbing tide as possible whilst remaining safe. This is esspecially beneficial when a north wind blows. Have with you a gift for the mari (sea mother) and spirits. A stone or charcoal is good. Have about your person too an athame or wand if you find these helpful. They can be used to draw any symbols or words in the water, sands or earth should you wish. Then again your mind or hand can do the same. They do not have to be master works, just something that represents what you wish to let go of. The words below or your own version of them will help you after you have first asked Goddess, God and spirits for their help and protection. When you have finished burry the stone or charcoal or give it to the sea. You can do this at home with a bowl of water and seasalt. Make sure, however, that you do not burry this within the boundaries of your own land or what you seek to pass may never quite leave you.

‘North wind blows and she blows cold;
The ebbing tide; the changing road
Now’s time to thank and lift the load,
Now welcomes tides for letting go,
Now is the time for letting go,
I give the north wind what is past
For pain is never meant to last
I thank her and the ebbing tide
For giving me this transient time.’

A shortened and far easier to recall version is simply:

‘North wind blows, It’s time to let go’ (repeated as needed) (AZ)

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Painting magickal kingdoms

zen1 — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 14:02:49 CST

The above is taken from a mural entitled 'Sea kingdom and the Princess of Pearls'

The above is taken from a mural entitled 'Tree of Life with Princess of Wands'

Both murals are for two enchanting sisters. They are based around the sisters' favourite animals and magical beings, together with their favourite pastimes. In the background of each kingdom is the other kingdom with the other sister in it. They are different kingdoms for different sisters yet still close together. More images are available on request as are quotes for further work.

This is what the sisters thought:

'When I first walked in my new room I was amazed. Every time my friends come round they compliment my room. I love the way all the mystical creatures dance under the water.' (Vicki, aged 11)

'When I first saw it I was very happy and surprised. Now I am used to it I show my friends how lovely the picture is and they admire it as if they want it.' (Savannah, aged 7)