QyraWitch

Being Vegan!

27 Feb 2011 Leave a Comment

by QyraWitch in My Journal

I have been considering a while about becoming Vegan.

I’m not sure of a few things. I do understand about not eating or using anything that harms an animal. This includes, Dairy products, meat, fish, other animal derivatives, like hide, leather etc.

Something that I didn’t consider was that of cosmetics and toiletries.

A lot of these products use glycerin and glycerol, however you can buy vegatable glycerin. What about things like beeswax and honey?. These are end products of the bee, however using them does not harm the animal in anyway, as they are by products which we happen to use, neither the bee or the hive is harmed?.

I was wondering what others opinions is on this?

Qyra x

Favourite Things!! Top Tens??

27 Feb 2011 Leave a Comment

by QyraWitch in My Journal

So I have gone through my favourite websites in a previous blog. I have also told you all the things that make me spiritual. Besides these, I am going to tell you all of my favourite things on a regular lifestyle basis.

Films:

Mmmm this is a hard one as I love thousands of films. I am going to attempt to Top Ten them.

1) Practical Magic

2) The Craft

3) Top Gun- Yes but it is awesome… “I’ll Be your wing man anytime…. No! You can be mine” Hehehe I love it.

4) Kick Ass and Scott Pilgrim vs The World. I have to join these, they’re equally amazing.

5) Avatar

6) Quentin Tarantino- I have to group these together. I love them all.

7) American History X

8) Twilights

9) Pay it Forward

10) Ratatouille

Okay so, that’s all probably a lie, but I hav way too many favourites to choose from

TV:

1) Supernatural

2) Sex and the City

3) The X Files

4) Reaper

5) The Big Bang Theory

6) Taken – Steven Spielberg Mini Series

7) Misfits

8) The OC

9) Friends

10) Two and a Half Men

Non- Wiccan Books:

1) Harry Potter Collection

2) The Black Magician Trilogy- Trudi Canavan

3) His Dark Materials Triology- Phillip Pullman

4) Twilight -Stephanie Meyer

5) Practical Magic- Alice Hoffman

6) P.S I Love You- Cecelia Ahern

7) The Time Travellers Wife- Audrey Niffenegger

8) The Colour Purple- Alice Walker

9) The Da Vinci Code- Dan Brown

10) Yes! Man- Danny Wallace

Wiccan Books:

1) The Real Witches Handbook- Kate West

2) Book of Shadows- Phyllis Curott

3) Wicca and Living Wicca- Scott Cunningham

4) Witchcraft- Jason Karl

5) The Craft- Dorothy Morrison

6) A Witch Alone- Marian Green

7) Grandmother of Time- Zsuzana Budapest

8) The Real Witches Garden- Kate West

9) Complete Book of Witchcraft- Raymond Buckland

10) A Witches Bible- Janet and Steward Farrar

Other Random Books Interests:

James Wong Colletion, The New Age Herbalist (Richard Mabey), Anything on Egypt, Anything on Crystals, Anything on Spells and Wicca, Anything on the Occult (Carl Wilson is a great author here), Anything on Native American stuff, Anything on Herbs, Anything on healing, meditation, chakras and yoga etc.

Clothes Shops:

1) ASOS- Online Goodness

2) Primark- Cheap, but mix it up and you have a winner.

3) TK Max

4) Arcadia Group- This includes, Dorothy Perkins, Miss Selfridge etc.

5) Debenhams- For Faith shoes amongst many other clothes designers.

6) New Look

7) All Saints

8) USC

9) Kurt Geiger

10) Zara

Music:

I simply can’t do this one. I love music, everything, so this is physically impossible for me to do.

Mmmm I think that shall do for now Lol.

Those of you reading this, you should do this too.

Qyra xx

General Me!

27 Feb 2011 Leave a Comment

by QyraWitch in My Journal

So I thought I would do a post telling you all a bit about me, my past life, and my present life.

My Past:

Mmmm, Well I grew up with an awful childhood. I am going to be frank about it, as I am taking steps to get past what had happened to me. It’s all a part of recovery they tell me.

Anyway, my mum and dad divorced when I was baby, my brother who is 2 years older than me and we would still visit dad on the weekends. My mum started dating some guy from work, he was horrible. He was an alcoholic and was violent to all of us. It was sickening, I was around 2 when I can remember things. Life wasn’t good. Well they broke up after too much time of hurt, and we were broke as a family. My mum sold everything she had, just so my brother and I could have food on the table. My dad was seeing loads of different women, he was a bit of a player. Then he started dating this horrible women, who had a son. They were both bullies. At about the age of 8 I told my dad that I didn’t want to see him again, because of the pain he caused me, and the names he called  my mum. I hated it. So I stopped visiting, my brother still visited him. I honestly wasn’t bothered. By this point my mum had met my step-dad, who is still my step-dad, and he is amazing, I love him dearly.

I still seen my dad’s, mum and dad, but they wer hateful, they were so angry that I stopped visiting. They blamed me for the pain in their family. I was like 10 or something. Seriously. Well, I didn’t see them after that. My dad would send solicitors letters to my mum, threatening her, and claiming that he wanted blood tests as he believe I wasn’t his daughter. He told a lot of my mum friends that she was a cheat an they turned their backs on her. I found out later that, my dad was sleeping with people when she was looking after us as kid.

I gave him several chances, visiting him when I was 16 and even later than that. Everytime he would lie and be horrible about my mum, he is a very manipulative guy. Then he sent me threats on my 21st birthday, in a card, telling me to watch my back. So pretty much I haven’t seen him since. I have no intentions of seeing him, he is no part of my life anymore.

So that was my childhood, constant issues. Not a good childhood at all as it was constant battles and pain. Then other issues happened, but everyone experiences these, like deaths in the family, my step-dad was diagnosed with cancer in the last few months, but it’s gone now. Stuff like that. All of that  am ok with.

In terms of relationships I have had, well I have had abusive relationships too in the past, it seems after my father, i attracted those sorts of men.

Now:

Now life is much better. I live with my partner Darren who is 27 in our own little flat in Newcastle. I am a 23 year old Scorpion. I am happy with life, although life is not without issues still, but these are things we can work out. My Mum and step-dad live in my old town of Berwick as do all of my family and friends.  I see them as often as I can. I am always on the phone to my mum, as we have a best friend type of relationship.

Darren has a daughter, Grace she is 3, from a previous relationship. I love her dearly, and treat her as my own. That was difficult to start with, but we have a great relationship I think.

I see a lot of Darren’s family and friends, but because of financial strain, it’s been hard for me to meet many people in Newcastle, as I moved here a year and half ago. So I don’t hardly know anyone around me. I don’t mind as that is the beauty of facebook and Youtube. I do get a little lonely sometimes, in terms of missing friends, but I am patient, I hope to find friends in a new job, when I eventually find one. Like I said there is a lot of financial strain, due to myself being without work, and Darren just starting a new job, so a lot of bills aren’t getting paid. But this is just everyday life, nothing that can be done about it, so I just trooper on.

I do suffer from Depression due to my past and issues get on top of me really easily now. I have done since I was 15, and I am on anti depressants, which I just started recently. I hope to get counselling soon, but I am taking the right steps to forget I suppose, or just deal with things easier.

Besides all of the morbid stuff I’ve talked about lol, I am generally an outgoing person. I am Wiccan and found my path around a year ago. I sing, and have done since the age of 5 for huge audiences. It’s weird as I have stage confidence but not a lot in myself. I write my own songs and poetry. I study Herbalism and hope to open my own New Age shop selling all of my own goods in the future. I follow an Eclectic path. I do hope to find a coven as it would be good for me on many levels. I love reading, especially Harry Potter… Yay. I am a happy person and bubbly, but I have my down days. I make lots of youtube videos about my path.

I am creative and love drawing and making cards and random things. I love our PS3, playing games like Little Big Planet. I love films and TV. I love generally all genres of film, but love sci-fi most on TV, like supernatural. I love spiritualism and all things holistic. I love walking and taking in Nature. I love yoga. I try to eat healthy, but because of our financial issues, we’ve kind of been getting food bought for us by Darrens family, so it’s hard. I also love my sega megadrive which I have set up to our LCD TV it is officially amazing.

Anyhoo, I thought I would let you all in to the secrets of my life. You all know a hell of a lot more about me.

Blessings

Qyra xx

My Favourite Websites!!!

26 Feb 2011 Leave a Comment

by QyraWitch in My Journal

Ok so I’m doing this post as requested from my darling friend Sy.

I’m just gonna outline my favourite sites I visit, some are pagan and some are not, so I hope I inspire you guys to have a quick peek.

1) Youtube.com-        This is the most obvious one, as I have a channel as do my many lovely friends.

    WordPress.com-     joint first, as I love my blog and love reading friends blogs.

2) Amazon.co.uk -     Yup, I am an Amazon fiend. I love cheap buys from the marketplace.

3) Ebay.co.uk-             Well goes hand in hand with the one above.

4) Etsy.com-                A few friends have some shops here, and I love to browse. Check out Bewitchingbooks on etsy- AWESOME.

5) About.com-             This has loads of information on all sorts, I love the Wiccan section. Brilliant.

6) SecondLife-            I go on this a lot, it has a huge pagan community. Google it guys.

7) Naturalcollection.com-  This sells lots of environmentally friendly goodies. I 100% recommend it.

8- Fourdirectionsteachings.com- This has some great insight into American Indian teachings.

9) Mountainroseherbs.com- American site, but ships to the UK, great supplies shop.

10) Witchvox.com and Wiccantogether.com- Great sites for meeting fellow Pagans.

11) Greenpeace and WWF- Great sites, charity. Good causes

12) Google.com- Lol it is inevitable. I google a lot of sites, for herbs and stuff, I don’t have a lot of URL’s for these lol

Okay so those are my websites that I love. There are more, but I google my way to them lol. So why don’t you all have a go.

Qyra xxx

Be Environmentally Friendly!!!

22 Feb 2011 1 Comment

by QyraWitch in My Journal

Ok so today I have been randomly looking at various things online, as I would truly love to work in conservation or charity, something like that.

I had a look on the WWF website for jobs, unfortunately there was nothing, but I also got to looking what campaigns they have going at the moment. You can register on the website and there ae loads of things you can do to help that little bit more. I filled in tonnes of emails to campaign to various companies, and help protect animals and rainforests and to help change the effects of climate change.

It is a huge deal and I think everyone needs to get off their arse and realise it. It really annoys me that climate change has been happening for a very long time, and only now is it showing as a huge concern in the media. Also, that regardless of the points that are being made people just turn their backs on it and ignore the facts. The FACT is that, if we keep going on the way we are then the world is going to die. Full stop! We are responsible for her, WE are responsible for looking out for our own futures, nature and our children’s futures too. Unfortunately, many people live the life of ease and laziness and don’t care much for the environment. They don’t seem to care as they think these effects won’t happen in their lifetime. Well that’s just selfish, what about their kids?.

I’ve also been browsing the Greenpeace website. They have an enormous place in my heart. They have lots of campaigns for you to take part in and read about. Their work is amazing. There is a ridiculous thing at the moment about Tuna. Tinned Tuna in the UK from companies like Princes and John West are not fishing in a sustainable way. They are killing rare Turtles, sharks, rays and all kinds of marine animals. It is disgusting.

I recommend you all have a look. WWF also have a footprint calculator, where you can see what your footprint is and how you can actually take steps to reduce it.

Love and Light

Qyra xx

Happy Valentines Day!!!

13 Feb 2011 Leave a Comment

by QyraWitch in My Journal

Happy Valentines Day.

The day of Lurve! It makes me brim to the top with happiness. If you are without a valentine don’t you worry. I can guarantee that someone loves you. I give you this thought “I Love You”. So you leave reading this post knowing that someone loves you. Chin up and Be happy.

Today I recommend to revel in it. Look at yourself in the mirror and tell yourself over and over again “I Love Me”. Make yourself a lovely cup of tea or whatever takes your fancy, put your feet up and watch your favourite film and tell yourself “I Love Me”. Indulge.

Tell as many people today that “You Love Them” and pay it forward. It will touch someone and it is always good to know that something you did put a smile on someone elses face. Another great idea is to buy some lovehearts, and hand them out to friends or even randoms you see on the street. Send someone a Valentines Day card no matter who it is, even if it is an E-Card. Write something poetic or do something artistic, or simply do whatever it is you enjoy and love spending time with you.

If you are with loved ones do something. Go for a romantic walk or make a meal together. Anything. Make sure that the first thing you say is “I Love You”. Today is a day to cuddle and kiss and enjoy time either with loved ones or with yourself. Either way it is a beautiful day.

To celebrate the day and to give recognition to those Goddesses and Gods of love, like Aphrodite, Meditate. Use Rose Quartz as your guide and light some pink candles. Make yourself a rose incense, and be surrounded with love.

Take a walk out in Nature and tell Gaia that you love her, recognise her beauty.

Work a Love spell but only for yourself. Tell Yourself “I Love Me”.

I would love to hear of your day and ideas.

I will leave you with this.

Light and Love

Qyra xx

Inspiration

13 Feb 2011 Leave a Comment

by QyraWitch in My Journal

Mmmm.

Now this is tricky, Today I got to wondering my inspirations in life. What made me what I am now? What made me follow this path?

Well when I was a kid, I remember when i went to church with my school or something like that, I was just so fascinated by it. I’m not a Christian and never have been, but the feeling a church would give me was immense. I don’t mean the Christian God or anything like that, or the fact that it is God’s place of worship, it was the peace you feel in places like that.

It was a surge of respect and love inside the building. The sort of eeriness inside was comforting to me. I loved the architecture, to be fair the buildings are stunning. Then again there is a huge amount of Pagan influences in many of the buildings themselves. I can’t explain the feeling that I had so I tried my best. Anyway, I do know that when I was young I believed that there was ‘something’, not really knowing what that ‘something’ was, was a little irritating to say the least. I just couldn’t put my finger on it. It wasn’t your mainstream religions, as I studied these from a young age. They just didn’t ring home to me. So, I suppose i just sort of left it. Got on with being a kid, a right pain in the backside if I might add.

Well, my mum was always fairly gothic to a certain extent, she loves black nd velvet etc. She had countless books on mythology, Egyptology and occultism. It was stuff I never really looked into much. Then a shop arrived in town, called sixth sense I think. It was a new age shop. I would visit all of the time looking at the merchandise wishing i could buy stuff. I just felt this pull into it for some reason. My mum has those feelings too, she gets pulled to things, she gets positive and negative feelings, whether it is energy or entity. I do too.

So i visited this shop a lot, then I went with my mum one day, also to make you all aware I am 23 now, I no longer live with her. Just recalling memories.  Anyway, she bought me my first Book of Shadows, but at the time It was just an awesome looking book to me. I actually used it to write poetry in it. I no longer have this book. This was my first experience with the Occult I suppose. I’ve always been interested in Psychics and random things like ghosts etc.

It wasn’t until I moved to Newcastle with Darren about a year and half ago that I bought my first book which referenced Wicca. This book i believe was from an author called Soraya. So… wicca… What is this Wicca??

Well, this led me onto Youtube and About.com which i highly recommend for general info. So here I am. A fully fledged Wiccan and proud. It would be awesome if ya’ll send me your stories and how you stumbled onto the path.

Yeah so there’s my story. Sorry to bore ya. I thought it would be great to leave you some beautiful and inspirational images I found.

Blessings.

Qyra xx