July 6, 1999

Gods, it's too damn hot to do anything during the day...except melt.

WISHING LADDER

Supplies Needed:

  • Colored cord or ribbon
  • Nine objects; be they nuts, herbs, charms, bark, feathers, etc.

Take one of the objects and tie a knot around it; visualizing your need as you pull it taut. Repeat eight times with the remaining objects. Next, take the cord/ribbon outdoors and hold it up to the sky while saying:

Ladder of knots that number nine
I've fashioned you to draw me
the need that I wish would be mine.
This is my will, so mote it be!

Hang the ladder in a place of importance or place around a candlestick holding a candle of the appropriate color.

-Scott Cunningham, Earth Power





HAUNTED CREATIVITY

So - why did I chose that title, you ask? Well, I'll tell you.

I re-read an account that was written by two women who made a trip to France in 1901. Elenor Jourdain and Anne Moberly decided to make a trip to see Versailles - especially Petit Trianon, the beloved home of Marie Antoinette. They seemed to get more than they bargained for.

One of the things they encountered was a small kiosk sitting in a dense wood and a cloaked man seated either near or within it. As the man looked in their direction, Miss Jourdain felt that he had a 'look of evil' on his face. She also felt that he wasn't looked directly at them.

Yes, ladies and gentlemen - he and the kiosk were ghosts.

Something about this has sparked my imagination...I can't get it out of my mind. Then again, anything ghostly does this to me as of late. So far, this idea is going the route of my other sculpture, 'Queen of the Black Sun', i.e., it's in paper. It has a real gothic feel to it right now - here's to hoping it stays that way.

BTW - the entire account of what these two ladies encountered is in the 'Hauntings' volume of the Time Life series, 'Mysteries of the Unknown'.


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