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Snapped after lunch with the girls...

Brutus would have loved this!

How happy would it make you to make another littler life happy today?

Independence Day

There is always a special feeling in the air on Independence Day. It’s hard not to feel patriotic, I think, and reverence toward your country’s history and struggle as a people. The world’s history is filled with struggles, persecuted pagan people know this, and it’s nice to feel a win for the little guys. It just feels…good, and happy.

My Independence Day this year was spent doing the final touches of cleaning and turning over of the keys from my first place. My first apartment of my own. I moved to be close to work, and in a slightly bigger, slightly nicer place. It was time to make that transition.

But wow, was it tough to go. Really, to pack everything and leave it all behind, memories and first successes…sometimes, living a magical life, you have to let go of the old things to make new ones. There is great myth and magick in destruction. In Hawaiian lore, Pele is the Goddess of volcanoes, fire, destruction, creation and transformation. Because while the Hawaiians know that lava burns away everything in its path – it is also what cools and hardens to create the land they live on. (They were early, primitive geologists!)

Let go of what you don’t need. Keep dear what you do, for it comes from the old. In moon magick, the waning moon leads to the dark night of the new moon, to the waxing moon and into the full moon. In life, the tide recedes to swell the ocean so the tide may pull again.

I feel OK with all this, and happy. I let go of something I didn't need anymore, a responsibility that was holding me to my old life and keeping me from moving on. And so we watched fireworks, my boyfriend and I, in the frame of the old trees and moon. You can see the pictures here. And I celebrated my independence!