Moving!

Ello everyone and HAPPY LUGHNASADH

I just thought I’d let you all know that the blog is moving to a new home at blogspot. I love wordpress but blogspot is just easier for me to manage.

Here’s the link:

http://ariaangelica.blogspot.com/

I’ve moved over a few posts and look for a new post for today!!

I love you all, please follow me over there!!

xxx Aria

A hello from Ireland and a wave from me!

I know I’ve been totally AWOL recently and I’m so, so, so sorry. I had to visit my grandmother and I’ve been art journalling. Oh, everything’s just happening at once but no worries

I’m a little behind with my pagan practice but I’ll be drafting a little Lughnasadh ritual in which I’ll be dedicating my new string of prayer beads to my path and brewing some home made bevvies hehe!

I also wanted to share my art journalling with you all. I’m enjoying it so much you wouldn’t believe. I went out and bought loads of supplies today. I spent way too much on myself but, as dear, dear Effy says, you need to show yourself how important and worth it you are.

Here are some of my recent pieces:

Oh, and Effy also set a little challenge. I created a page about why I art journal. The title of the task was “What’s the point?”. The point for me is that art journalling allows me to trust myself to make the right choices. It allows me to discover beauty, happiness and love. It helps me heal. But, most importantly, JUST BECAUSE.

What better reason is there than ‘Just Because’? Just because I can and just because I want to.

Here’s what I came up with:

It may be small but the meaning is mighty.

That’s all from me for now. Love you all

Happy, safe journeys,

xxx Aria

I’m starting an Art Journal!

I got the idea from the wonderful, the astounding Effy of Wild.Precious the blog and effyswild, the youtube channel. She is also known to many as Feithline of The Dark side of Fey and Spiritscast the podcasts . She’s a total inspiration to me. She’s strong, hopeful and a million of other wonderful things.

From her blogs I decided it might do me some good to get into art journalling. I feel like I’ve been through a lot and getting everything out in a sort of creative way could really benefit me. I realised when I designed some pasties for my little burlesque project (hopefully I’ll be able to sell them!) that I still have creative flare. It never left me, I just didn’t bring it out.

It’s strange doing this thing for myself. It feels quite silly but I know that it can help me so really, I need a different attitude. I need to not worry what people who see it will think. It’s not for them to talk about. It’s my special journal and my special journey.

The first entry

I knew I couldn’t just jump into this without knowing ANYTHING! So through Effy’s blog and stuff I found Soul Journaling. It has a step by step guide to starting an art journal and it’s fantastic.

I took some pages from an encyclopaedia. In fact, the pages I picked had my favourite things on You can see them outlined in red, things like “The wonderful wizard of Oz”, “library” and “psychology”. Then I stained them with tea, dried them and ripped them up a bit. Then pasted them into my journal and wrote on them.

It was fun, a bit messy and just plain…proactive hehe!

What do you all think of art journalling?

Tweet me, email me or comment below!

xxx Aria

I WIN! SO STFU!

This is a complete victory post. I am so, amazingly happy you guys would not believe.

I went to the school to get my apology for what happened to me while I was there. Boy, did I get my apology!

I sat down with the deputy head and explained what I’d been struggling with over the past year and how I felt it stemmed from what I had to deal with at school.

She told me she was disgusted that no one in authority took charge and helped. I believe the words “horrified” and “awful” were used as well.

I got a formal and unreserved apology from her.

Everything that happened to me sort of happened as she was coming into the school and trying to change everything. She told me now that she was able to do what she wanted with the school nothing like what happened to me will ever happen to anyone else.

I just feel so, so, SO relieved. I mean, I can actually get on with my life. After the meeting I stepped out of the door, looked up at the building, got in my car and drove away. I will never look back.

It’s like a weight has been hauled of my shoulders and left there. Someone else has recognised that what happened to me was crap and not my fault. What I’ve blamed myself for for years isn’t my fault! It never was!

I have never felt so liberated!

So I’m sending lots of love and hugs to absolutely everyone.

xxx Aria

Breathe! Aaaaand…Hex!

Everyone has a little green in them!

Seriously, some people get me so PO’d sometimes! Take today for instance, my friend said she was coming over, she said she’d let me know when she set off. She said that at 10am. Come 6pm (yes, 6PM!) I receive a text saying she has a headache and can’t make it…

Umm, as if I hadn’t guessed that already. It’s not even that she couldn’t come that bothers me. It’s that she left me hanging for 8 hours. That’s not the kind of thing a friend does!

I dunno why but thinking about it (and getting annoyed about it) made me think of a conversation I had with a friend about hexing. We basically ended up concluding that hexes are fine as long as you’re willing to suffer the consequences of your actions and so long as there’s JUST CAUSE.

Which, of course, led us to question what “just cause” meant. Because when is it okay to cause inconvenience at best, pain at worst to someone else?

Again, that’s up to the individual. As far as I’m concerned someone has to have done me a serious evil. I mean I’ve had some shit happen to me and never gone so far as to hex someone. But I would, and could, if I wanted to *evil laugh*.

Hexes are the stuff of fairytale witches, no? So much these days is centred around “light” and “white magic”. But there’s not just white magic, or black magic. As far as I can tell there’s only grey magic. What makes is black or white is the motive of the person using magic.

Perhaps specifics matter too? Hex someone with a string of bad luck but specify that they aren’t hurt? Or hex someone in the sense  of hurrying karma on. No specifics at all, just the assurance that the bad person gets their just desserts.

I know that I could cook up a hex if I needed one but when will too much of a bad thing (or person) push me to that point where a hex is necessary?

Would you guys ever hex? Have you? What happened?

Lemme know on here, on Twitter (@AriaAngelica) or email me at ariaangelica@rocketmail.com

Love to you all xxx Aria

Sometimes you need more than time to move on…

Y’all will know that I had some bad experiences at school and that those experiences have impacted me in the university leg of my life. They’ve affected me as a person really and shaped me in some ways that might affect me forever.

Some of the experiences might have been pretty run of the mill, bullying that everyone might experience (though I wouldn’t wish it on anyone!) But some of them were not. Now that I look back some of them were completely unjustifiable. So I’ve ended up feeling like I need to do things with my life to make up for all that bad stuff that happened, I have to somehow justify it.

I don’t really think that’s fair seeing as the situations were out of my control. Let’s take the time I was suspended. A girl who had been (pretty badly) bullying me came up to me and she ended up hitting me in the face. She got in my space and pushed me backwards. As she turned to walk away I hit her across the back of the head. The next day I was suspended for hitting her in the face. (I found out a while later that she sat on the stairs hitting herself to give herself a mark). She wasn’t punished for hitting me. Nor was she punished for hiding my bag, stealing from me, spreading rumours about me, harassing the Boyf (who didn’t even go to my school) and, oh, the other million things.

No one ever listened to me and she was never punished. I could have screamed until I was blue in the face, I knew I wouldn’t get anywhere.

Now that I look back I realise that wasn’t right. I decided to try and contact the school and get an apology. So far I’ve had no reply, though I haven’t eluded to the precise nature of the meeting I want. I figured if nothing comes of trying, well at least I tried!

After all this, I do feel better for having recognised that being bullied wasn’t my fault. It was out of my control and just because it happened to me doesn’t make me a bad person.

xxx Aria

P.S. Happy 4th July!!

My Summer Solstice…

…was such a non-day! Because of the decorating fiasco I have absolutely nada room to perform my bi-annual solstice ritual. I was pretty gutted but regardless the ritual will have to be done when my room if back in order.

It’s a cyclical ritual so the first part from the previous solstice must be dealt with and broken down so that the next phase created in the current solstice can flourish. It’s a lot of fun to do and I guess I kind of made it up myself. I mean, I don’t think I’ve ever read it in a book.

What you do is cut out 6 circles of card and colour one side yellow (at the Summer Solstice) or blue (at the winter). Then you write 6 wishes/intentions/things you want help with on the cards. Punch a couple of holes in each and string a bit of ribbon through them. Then hang them so you can’t see the wish side and don’t touch them until the next solstice. (For some reason, leaving them undisturbed is important to me).

At the next solstice take the cards down and look at each one. Did your wish come true? Did you achieve your goals?

Then repeat the process above with the next colour and 6 new wishes. Burn the old wishes in a cauldron and scatter the ashes on the wind.

I suppose it’s like making new year’s resolutions every 6 months instead of every year. The wishes don’t even have to be immediately achievable. They can be very long term goals.

I’m hoping to do mine as soon as my room is sorted

Enjoy the ritual, hope you have a go!

Biggest hugs and Solstice love

xxx Aria