Music Monday/Monday's Music Moves Me: Celebration and Truth

The theme for today's Monday's Music Moves Me and Music Monday is a song of celebration and a song that describes ourselves. The first is a song celebrating the summer solstice.

Here is a lesser known song by Elton John which describes how misunderstood I tended to feel in my youth. Depressive with an interest in the "supernatural" and the "occult," sure didn't fit in with the local church youth group. Believe me, the rumors flew. 
Like Lady Samantha, I was "harmless and empty of anything bad." I guess the rumors about me being a blood sucking fiend from beyond the grave were more interesting than the reality that I was just a shy, lonely young woman with a vivid imagination who happened to like wearing black.

I still like wearing black, and while it's nice to be understood, if people don't want to make the effort, I'm not going to do bend over backwards trying to make them like me. I've got better things to do with my time.

~DJ Helena~

A to Z Blogging Challenge: W is for Winterfylleth

A to Z Blogging Challenge
W is for Winterfylleth
by
Opal Zushaquon

I'm going to be honest and tell you that I don't know much about this band. They're fairly new, having formed in 2007. They're British. And they're well worth listening to if you're a fan of the Black Metal genre.
They do have an official website where you can go to learn more about them.
Winterfylleth might also be subcategorized as "Folk Metal." Their name means Winter Full Moon. Winterfylleth is also an Anglo-Saxon festival celebrating the arrival of winter. Their subject matter focuses on English folklore and history. Check them out!

~Opal~

Magick Lessons: Lamashtu and the Left Hand Path

Thanks to certain lies spread by the Christian church over the years, anytime someone talks about the Left Hand Path, they are seen as being "evil," sacrificing puppies to Satan at midnight while raping baby bunnies, and all manner of other nastiness along the same lines.

While it is my understanding that Lamashtu is not a particularly nice deity, like Kali, she can be helpful if met on her terms.

Rather than viewing deities and realms such as heavens and hells as "good" or "evil," I view them as dark and light. Dark is not evil. Dark is simply dark.

A further misunderstanding which requires clarification is the mistaking of Lucifer and Satan as being the same entity. Lucifer is not Satan. The name Lucifer simply means "light bearer." Thus, he is not a dark deity at all. He was originally associated with the "morning star," which is the planet Venus as seen at dawn. In Greek mythology, he is known as Phosphorus.

Open your mind and check out the video, if you wish. While you may not care to follow the techniques described, it is quite educational for anyone who studies mysticism and/or mythology.

Lily

Cross posted to:

Lily Strange's Posterous

Lost Beneath the Surface

Undead in the Netherworld

Magickal Crow