The Manor

10/28/2022

This page is probably going away soon, as I’m downsizing and moving for the Sage part of my life. Please join me at CielTurö Komarów.

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10/25/2022

This page is going away. Please follow me at Ceilturö Cielturö Komarów

10/14/2022

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05/23/2018

Just letting you all know, I may need to start a new page as FB thinks the name change is confusing, Which is weird because the name change is just a Polish translation.

07/21/2015

Greetings from Abba Eridanus.

With all of the strife, anger, fear, and war it can be difficult to feel your in bones. Too many things are clamouring for attention, too many horrid things, ugly things, war things, racism things, terror things... The list goes on and on.

I have finally realized, based on the empirical evidence, that my bones' innards have been feeling something. That something is the future.

Ever since I returned to The Ancestral Manor over a year ago, my bones have silently nudged things to make me do them. The examples, because we need them!
~ When I walk past the basement set of shelves, I see them as they were, with canned and dry goods. And my heart yearns for that to be again.
~Library. I always had a book, among my cozy mysteries, about canning, simplicity, preserving, urban gardening, sustainability, and self-suffiency.
~Magickal Workshop: Finding cheap but good containers to hold herbs, spell components, and jars. Finding a stool for disabled people which puts me at the right height for me. And making spell jars and miasma cleaners to clear and protect and bless the household.
~Byron Ballard, Asheville's Village Witch https://myvillagewitch.wordpress.com , just feels right when she talks about Tower Time, and thinking in the binary gets us in trouble. But she is running gardens, groups, and a Grove to live what is aching (and may be impossible for me to do) in my bones.
~etc.

Finally, seeing and hearing what my bones have been aching and saying. Radical Self-Care, Radical Hospitality, Radical Sustainability, Radical Support, Radical ReThinking and ReMaking rather then destruction, and some other free (but good) radicals: Katrina Messenger, Crystal Blanton, T. Thorn Coyle, Ivo Dominguez Jr., Angela Raincatcher, Michael Smith, Helena Dominec, etc. (Hey, maybe even me soon).

Start doing the little things such as canning, dehydrating, knit, weave, cook, make art, sit to be noticed when something is wrong. march, provide support, etc. For God/dess/es Sake(s)!! Co-operate, aid, care, be friends, and help each other.

Witchery of the southern Highlands of old Appalachia

07/09/2015

Greetings from Abba Eridanus.

It has been slightly over a year since I moved to Illinois. When I was born and lived here it always seemed to have ghastly heat in July/August and ghastly cold in January/February. Just so all of you know, climate change is REAL! I'm writing this from my family's manor, on July 6th, and we did not break 70 today with gusty winds. Blustery!!!

Mentioning my family's home village and the home (the family manse) our lives revolved around, I want to share some ancestor magic. Especially since where I live now contains so much. This was new to me, the one which accepted the ancestors being called upon felt as lip service. Allow me to explain my change.

I live in the house in which my grandparents raised their children, 3 boys and a girl. One of whom was my father. Celebrations brought so MANY of us together. Many of those people have the plane. Of the 4 children, one remains and she never married nor lived outside of The Manor. Many of the people celebrating came back when feeling ill and this was the last home they knew. I live at MY ancestral centre.

Now to me. Some of these people are still around, keeping an eye on my aunt and me (scaring Valen too). There is strong residual ancestral energy here. Because my family has always been strong (and social conformists, but I digress). I have access to my family's tool room in use since 1904 (as my magickal workshop). And I am using the tools in that room to make magick- Abba Eridanus' Magickal Household Goods. Over 100 years of making, tinkering, fixing, and just doin' stuff in just that one space. The Manor's familial energies are anchored well.

Below, you will find the pictures of a baby's silver spoon. It is my mother's silver feeding spoon. T'was so tarnished and black. Calling upon the ancestral energies (asking my Aunt), I was given a fabulous tube of Maas, which will clean and protect many metals. Pretty snazzy, uh?

This spoon is a magical tool (I hope you are not limiting yourselves in tools, and remember, our beliefs are our lifestyle). I can use it to help measure amounts of solids and liquids. It can stir very short (and I mean VERY short) cups of tea, caffe, warm milk, etc. The spoon features in my magickal workings because it was my mother's and I live in my father's parent's home. It allows me to combine the two sides of my ancestors' powers in my power. The spoon is as strong as my athame.

Now you may ooh and aah over one of my magickal tools, and keepsake. The fourth picture is to show what was making bowl of the spoon blue (It is a piece of art made by Shauna Aura Knight

08/11/2014

Greetings from Abba Eridanus-

With everything which has been happening...

Boosting the signal, from Byron Ballard at Asheville's Village Witch , as the fires rage at the base of the Tower...

This is a very moving statement about Tower Time. We are in Tower Time. Read, and if so moved, send it on.

"Remember about Tower Time? I used to warn you about that--so that you could prepare yourself, create circles of community and support, make the world a better place as the Tower was coming down. How's that going for you, friends? Did you wait too long and are all scrambly now? Are you wondering why the world seems so perilous, so lost, so volatile? Begin your day, every day, with a deep grounding, a song of praise and gratitude and an offering to your Ancestors. We are deeply in this now and there is no "away". No, none at all. From here, we must practice radical care, sharp discernment, mammoth kindness and painful hospitality."

"Begin every day with a deep grounding, a song of praise and gratitude and an offering to your Ancestors."

Are you?

"We must practice radical care, sharp discernment, mammoth kindness and painful hospitality."

Can you?

05/20/2014

We are wore out.

My weekend home aide knows French more than English, and is not fluent in kitchen either. Luckily, my home aide dynamo makes sure I have easy to make food for the weekends. But it is nice to have someone check-in on me on the weekends, tho a bit tiring.

Today was a massage with blood labs prior, otherwise known as a F-up with a relaxing after. In addition, I took myself out to lunch, bought more Valen treats and wet food, and wandered the Five Below before coming home.

I have engaged an office, found through AARP, which will be going through my things and helping me decide what to donate, trash, give away, take with me in the car, and what to ship- along with packing it to ship using their supplies. While I could do this on mine own, I have found whenever I start I panic. My meds are good enough to prevent or take the edge off without a reason. If there is a reason, the meds may not cut it and I have to add in meditation and relaxation exercises... Which stops me from doing what needs to be done. So, I believe this is a win-win. The office helps people to downsize, rightsize, liquidate, pack for shipping, and relocate people, and includes interior design, unpacking and placement in the new location. The person I contacted by email returned my email within 90 minutes, even tho she was sitting on a plane being told by the pilot to turn off electronic devices, because she was relocating a client. Boosted my confidence!

Since she won't be back til later this week, my move is now looking at early (to mid?) June. Thankfully, I am using soft deadlines for me.

My healthcare team (the best I've ever had!) wants/will/demands to speak with their counterparts in IL, before I get there. Except I'm not sure how to pull that one off. So I have phone calls to the IL Dept of Human Services and Social Security this week to figure out health, benefits, proof of residency for who, and maybe I should call the bank about my needing an account as soon as I arrive.

Add the need to find motels along the route which take pets, and realizing Valen is an emotional comfort/support cat, who is neurotic and freaks out over change will be interesting. There is a vet visit before we go for shots update, a mani-pedi, and kitty xanax. And cat travel accoutrements.

It's falling into place. Now if I can keep from falling. But the thrice durn floor is uppity and spoiling for a fight! However, I can defeat the floor even if it seems I fell backwards because I am just that awesome!!!

The Manor at Treptower Deep is on the horizon!

05/06/2014

Greetings from Abba Eridanus-

Boosting the signal, from Byron Ballard at Asheville's Village Witch , as the smouldering starts a little flame at the base of the Tower...

This is a very moving statement about Tower Time. We are in Tower Time. Read, and if so moved, send it on.

"Remember about Tower Time? I used to warn you about that--so that you could prepare yourself, create circles of community and support, make the world a better place as the Tower was coming down. How's that going for you, friends? Did you wait too long and are all scrambly now? Are you wondering why the world seems so perilous, so lost, so volatile? Begin your day, every day, with a deep grounding, a song of praise and gratitude and an offering to your Ancestors. We are deeply in this now and there is no "away". No, none at all. From here, we must practice radical care, sharp discernment, mammoth kindness and painful hospitality."

"Begin every day with a deep grounding, a song of praise and gratitude and an offering to your Ancestors."

Are you?

"We must practice radical care, sharp discernment, mammoth kindness and painful hospitality."

Can you?