Merry Meet and Blessed Be all I am _so_ glad I I am to be guest editor of this newsletter. I was very disappointed that we had so few submissions but on with the newsletter. Oh who am I? My name is LadyHighPriestessFaerieDawnLightbringer but you can call me Pixie. It rhymes with Trixie, which is my mundane name. Anyway I guess I should tell you a bit about myself. I'm the last descendent in a long line of DanishWiccanGypsyGwyddonsBritishtradWelshroyalitygaelictradsNewAgeCrys talweareringllewellynfluffbunnyhophophopFamilyTrad and have been a High Priestess from birth. I have a picture of my Mother and I dressed in matching traditional Witch outfits from when I ran my first circle at age 2. Everyone at the huge pagan gathering said I was so adorable according to my parents. My parents of course met at Heartland 10 years before I was born and both of my older sisters, who have left our family path, and myself were conceived there. My current age is 45 years old. My Father was DanishWiccan and Welshroyality while My Mother was Gypsy. I'm not sure how the GwyddonsBritishtradgaelictrads part got in there but I'm sure I'll figure it out sometime. I learned how to read tarot at my Grandmama's knee when I was 15. She was British Trad in her training and had been all of her life. She learned it from her Grandmama who taught it to Gardner himself. That's where the British Trad fits in. I knew I would think of it if I just concentrated enough. I was also recently made Headmistress of the Miss Kleo School of Tarot Readers. I also dance as a lead dancer of the Trixie Pixie solid gold harem dancers When I was growing up my Parents and I followed the greatest of Norse Goddesses Bridget and I still do. I have tons of books on Paganism, which I follow to the letter because my FamilyTrad insists that we must follow the written pagan to its fullest extent. I just know we will all be fast friends because like I tell my 15-year-old son. All Pagans are always good. Merry Part and Blessed be Love light and happiness LadyHighPriestessFaerieDawnLightbringer DanishWiccanGypsyGwyddonsBritishtradWelshroyalitygaelictradsNewAgeCrys talweareringllewellynfluffbunnyhophophopFamilyTrad High Priestess Coven of the we are not really a coven we're a study group Leader of the Trixie Pixie solid gold harem dancers Headmistress of the Miss Kleo School of Tarot Readers PixieTrixie@moonshinehollow.com ~*~*~*~ First Place Winner The Teletubby Beltaine Ritual by "Laa-laa Bunny" Ritual Garb: For this rite each participant should take turns wearing The Skirt. Sacred Space: The Tubbyphones blare out "Time for Teletubbies! Time for Teletubbies!". A designated person then purifies the sacred space (later to be referred to as the Tubbytronic Superdome) with the Ritual Noo-noo, vacuuming and walking widdershins. The other participants (if any) follow along behind, doing the Teletubby Conga as long as they want. When the dancing stops, the Tubbytronic Superdome will have been erected. Quarters: Starting in the east (since teletubby ritual is only ever done when the Baby Sun has just woken up), the participants use the ritual hand gesture (waving the right hand in a friendly manner) and chant the invocation "Eh-oh, Laa-laa!". Then south is called (same gesture, invocation "Eh-oh, Po!"), then the west (same gesture, invocation "Eh- oh, Tinky-winky!"), then the north (same gesture, invocation "Eh-oh, Dipsy!"). Deities: The Teletubby Tradition has only one deity: the Magic Windmill ("The One"). Participants will invoke the deity by raising the right arm, pointing the index finger and intoning "Oooh! What's That?". At this point the Sacred Energy from the Magic Windmill will rain down upon the worshipful throng and cause visions to appear on the participant's tummies (see "Navel Gazing"). Then shall the group rejoice greatly, engaging in song ("Bup-a-tum" and "Oooh!" are favourites). Sometimes a flying carousel will manifest inside the Tubbytronic Superdome and an Avatar of the Magic Windmill, known as the Teddy Bear, will dance for the entranced worshippers, who are then encouraged to join in. The Falling Down Dance is a favourite. The Great Rite: This ceremony is greatly simplified in this tradition. All participants gather in a circle, wrap their arms around each other and chant "BIG HUG!" as many times as they want. Cakes and Ale: The traditional feast food is Tubby Toast. It is also required to give offerings of Tubby Toast to the Magic Windmill by dropping Tubby Toast crumbs all over the floor, which will be collected later by the Ritual Noo-noo. Farewell to Deities, etc.: The Tubbyphones will announce "Time for TubbyBye-bye! Time for TubbyBye-bye!". Then the Deity and the Guardians are bid farewell as they leave for Teletubby Land, using the chant "Bye- bye", again using the Ritual Gesture as in the Invocation. The names of the Guardians are used in the farewell also, starting in the west (where the Baby Sun sleeps) and moving widdershins. Once farewells have been said the participants use the Ritual Gesture and the "Bye-bye" chant to bid each other farewell, taking down the Tubbytronic Superdome in the process. (In a close-knit group "BIG HUGS!" may also be used, but only if the members are already comfortable with this level of intimacy.) Thus is the Rite ended. ©2000 Fishgoat ~*~*~*~ Cool Link(s) of the week: Hello Darlings, I thought I would add my own extra special links to this issue. First off I promised one of my dearest friends Tabitha cat that I would send the link to her book. She has written the most marvelous book you know and you may find information about it HERE: http://www.geocities.com/tabbycatwiccan/ The next link is to the most wonderful coven I have ever found outside my own of course. It is the The Mystical Wiccan Coven Grove of the Glittery Butterfly Unicorn of Magical Healing and Holy White Light of Divine Spiritual Spiffiness and Enchanted Smiling Faerie Goddess of the Brilliant Light of Wonderfulness and the information about it can be found HERE: http://www.tftb.com/deify/fluffybunny.htm ~*~*~*~ Second Place In a startling development, a good friend of mine, who agreed to be quoted in confidence, informed me that if you're wearing glasses you are not, I repeat, NOT naked. The ramifications are staggering. Under this new guideline, you are free to send anyone any picture of yourself you like, so long as you are at least wearing glasses. This would include "Groucho Marx" gag specs, if you wish to remain anonymous in the pictures. This revelation particularly rocked the porn industry, as they suddenly realized that their materials could be sold without concern for obscenity laws. Titles such as "Four Eyed Hotties" and "Ladies With Lenses" are now in production, along with "Spectacled Specimens", featuring men posed with nothing but their "sexy specs". A movie, "The Love Optometrist" is slated for wide release for the holidays. On the more personal side, lusty people are overjoyed by this news, as their friends no longer have to worry about sending them "lewd" pictures via work e-mails, or to homes where parents or spouses might be monitoring incoming content. "She's not naked-- She's wearing glasses" t-shirts and bumper stickers are already hitting the streets. Reporting from Madison, Wisconsin, this is Dave Javoux ~*~*~*~ Announcement(s): Buy Tabitha cat' Book!!!!!!! ~*~*~*~ Writer's Biographies: High Holy Priestess and Pastry Chef Laa-laa Bunny is the Thirty- second Avatar of the Lords of The Outer realms (yes, all of them).Contact her at Iamgoddess@dream.on.ca. She'll answer any e- mails you send her during the commercial break just as soon as her supply of faerie dust mushrooms and Tubby Toast runs out. Dave Javoux is not to be trusted with sharp pointy things, and has been known to cause headaches, drowsiness and nausea. One should not take Dave Javoux on an empty stomach, and if bleeding persists, Dave suggests you see a doctor. ~*~*~*~ Submissions are always welcomed and can be made to: Zeliziw@netins.net In submitting materials writers are agreeing that if accepted I may post them in the newsletter and on the web page (whenever I finally get back to work on it.) Works submitted must be the writer's own work and they must still retain the copyright OR it must be verifiably public domain. Works can have been published before but please nothing that has been around over and over again. Copyright remains in the author's possession. The Author also realizes that they will not be paid. (If I had money I would be hosting this on something other then Yahoo.) If a submission is accepted, I will check for punctuation, capitalization and spelling in submitted articles. I will fix minor errors if they are present. I will NOT reword things (except for an occasional "an" for "a" and vice versa.) Poems are published as submitted. Forwarding information: If you chose to forward this newsletter, do so in its entirety, including copyright and contact information. People may subscribe to Whispers of A Stone Circle at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WhispersOfAStoneCircle/ All articles, poems, etc, except where noted are copyrighted by the writers and are used with permission. They are not to be republished without the express permission of the writers. Contact information may be obtained by contacting the editor of Whispers of A Stone Circle at Zeliziw@netins.net Copyright (c) 2002 Sheila K. Watson. All Rights Reserved