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I love Paul Newman. I gauged hotness by how close men came to resembling Paul Newman in Cool Hand Luke for years.
He was a great man, and a great actor. I loved all of his movies, loved the man, I love his damn Newman's Own line...
Much love to you Mr Newman, and may the next world love you as much as this one has and always will.
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Hey Occulties,
On October 4, my blog will turn 4 - yes, I've been doing this blog for almost four years already. I can't believe how many readers (of all occult levels, might I add,) are now my regular occulties coming in to read what I have to write. I actually had someone rush up to me who I'd never met who was excited to meet the NinjaCat the other day, and wow! That was the best feeling ever. You've all been as awesome, I so appreciate you reading my blog, I'm really grateful, and I thank you for it. :)
So in celebration of the fourth year of Cat's Rants - Confessions of an Occult Mastermind, I'd like to do a Questions You've Asked Me Contest, and the prize is a $50 Gift Certificate to Mountain Rose Herbs OR Stormsong! OR if none of that is interesting to you, a free half hour reading with me (retail value, $50.)
To enter, ask me a new, well worded question (I will try to fix your grammatical errors, but look at all of mine, hehe,) and on Oct 4 (the birthday of the blog,) I will pick a winner out of all of my entrants. Their question will be featured as the first question in a Questions You've Asked Me, Contest Edition article, and they will recieve their choice of a $50 gift certificate to Mountain Rose Herbs where you can purchase the best herbs for your ritual needs at super awesome prices, or to Stormsong which offers a superb selection of ritual supply including figural candles in every color you can imagine...or have a psychic reading with me. (you can only pick one prize.)
Its totally free to enter - you just have to email me a question and tell me its for the contest - you could win $50 free dollars in merchandise just asking me something you wanted to know the answer to anyhow! Wow!
Please note:Your name will not be shared on the blog, only your initials if you are the winner. If you want your name shared, let me know. ;)
Please send all entries to this email (click here, my lovies,) and use the title QYAM Contest. All entries must be in my inbox by 11:59pm Eastern Time on Oct 3.
You all make me so happy. We had so much fun with a Questions You've Asked Me Contest last year, I know this one will be so much fun too! For your amusement, a picture of me in my costume on Halloween last year where I was the Devil. I want to be Marie Antoinette this year, so hehe, if you are lucky I'll share a pic of that too in Novemeber :D
I heart you all,
~Cat
Hey Occulties,
I have been working on that freaking color article for eleven days and its boring my eyes right out of my pretty but enormous head (for reals, I looked like Charlie Brown or one of the Peanuts characters when I was little...as in EXACTLY LIKE,) so, I have decided to take a break from it and write you a new and fun article.
Today, I wanted to share some insight on what I've been watching unfold around me, and despite some posting on this about a month ago or less, allow me to preach on my soapbox again about something my readers read my preaching on all too often.
Listen... Spellcraft isn't something entirely predictable insofar as which route the spell takes to manifest, and I can't predict HOW something is going to manifest. If you want your ex back it manifests with your ex coming back. If you want a job, it manifests with you getting a job. How? Why? What? is happening from casting that spell (point a,) to that desired manifestation (point b,) is not a recommended thing to do because its a form of thinking it to death. Let it go, and do not try to pick at the how or why it will manifest. Trying to do that is BAD. YES, after years of this, I do actually have a good idea how something manifests about 75% of the time, but I don't try to guess how each spell will manifest, because as we've gone over before in this post and a ridiculous number of times on this blog, this is a form of thinking it to death. It does NOT matter how the spell gets from point a (casting the spell,) to point b (the desired manifestation,) so long as it gets there, and predictably, spells usually take the path of least resistance to work. :)
What is the path of least resistance? More or less, this is the chain of events which are the most likely to occur naturally. For example, it is far more likely you will run into your ex or have them call you if you did a recon spell, as opposed to you finding them parachuting through your window at 3am with their mouth filled with roses and a diamond ring. Or...the path of least resistance with another recon example is WHY does your ex come back? These energies give them feelings where they are feeling remorseful for how they behaved and missing you rather than say...they get hit in the head with a blunt object and amnesia has made them forget they broke it off with you.
BUT WHY DOES IT MATTER WHY SOMETHING HAPPENS AS LONG AS IT DOES? If you spellcast for something you should want it A LOT, so you should be willing to have most any event occur for you to get what you want.
I have watched the experienced and the neophyte allow themselves to start to obsess with "is the spell working, and is this part of the spell," obsessions, as well as the "how and why will my spell work?" mind sets. No, its not good for the spell, but its human nature to do this. No, its not me making excuses for slow spellwork - I've thought my own shniz to death and was a big-girl about it, put my big-girl panties on and admitted it was my own doing, and took responsibility for myself thinking my spell to death. YOU need to keep your mind of off the spell. I can offer 35 different methods how, and still you will google my blog, poo-poo all my methods and tell me you "just can't" (a serious cop out, by the way,) keep your mind off of the spell and "just can't" get over your need to know how it will manifest. Well, if you want to know how it will manifest, wait for it to manifest, and then you will know how it does. ;)
I go into this here: http://originalninjacat.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/01/questions_youve.html on the first question,
And here:http://originalninjacat.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/07/cats_tips_for_b.html particularly the number 5 "tip."
AND in those posts, I think I express myself better on that point than I have in this article.
Listen, kiddos, your friend Cat could not have explained this topic more repeatedly...but I have posted about it again, and hopefully will not have to post on it for MONTHS now that I have. ;)
~Cat
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