I meant it when I said I'd be back! It may still be a couple weeks before I really get back into the swing of things with this blog, but until then I have a little present for you. I'm giving away a download of the magickal herbalism section of my BOS. This was years in the making and includes information about different kinds of herbal preparations, as well as a very long list of herbal correspondences. Most of the plants are listed in table format, with a number of more popular or major ones pulled out and described in paragraphs with illustrations. The whole thing is 35 pages in length, with an extra blank page at the end that I needed to add for the purpose of making three signatures.

The download is a PDF and is about 4 MB or so. Click here to get it! Note that you may need to install the font JSL Ancient in order for the file to appear properly. Sometime in the near future I will post a couple of samples of what the pages look like when aged and colored.

And yes, I do know the blog's comments don't work. I'm working on it.

You know how life just comes at you full force sometimes? Well, that's what has happened to me in the last few months. The good news is, this blog is NOT dead - I haven't abandoned it. And I have continued to work on and off on my BOS and have plenty to show. I even have giveaways planned. The bad news is, it may be another few weeks before I can post regularly again.

Hope you don't take me off your reader list yet. I'm not gone, I promise.

Also, thank you to those who let me know the comments aren't working. I hadn't checked my email or twitter in a long time. I wasn't ignoring you, I just didn't see the messages until recently. When I come back from this hiatus I will fix that problem and probably change the blog template in the process.

Thanks again for your support and, by the way, blessed Samhain. See you soon.

Sorry about the lack of posts lately. I've had some unidentified health problems for several weeks that have really brought my life to a standstill. Nothing life-threatening, just a pervasive and insidious mental fogginess that removes my ability to do much beyond basic life maintenance. For an intellectual and creative person like me, it's a living hell. I still don't know the cause, so I'm trying several things to see if I can find the answers.

But I haven't given up on my Book of Shadows, or on this blog! In the works right now:

- A giveaway
- More pictures - I have done some amazing pages in spite of the exhaustion
- Some downloads of pages you can use in your BOS
- More resources
- Probably a new site design

So please stay tuned and stay subscribed. I'm not even close to done!

You know, I was never all that into numerology. A basic knowledge of number meanings is useful for writing spells, but I never did much research into predictive or divinatory numerology. Still, the basic info belongs in my BOS, so I just did a couple of quick pages. I was fascinated to read profiles online for people with my Lifepath number, the "master" number 11.

Skeptics scoff and say, "It's natural to read a profile and see parts of yourself in it." Which is true. But... come on.

The number 11 will often sacrifice all in the pursuit of occult or metaphysical knowledge. Their thirst for learning persuades many of them to join cults or New Age movements.... love to delve into the hidden mystery...

Many of them try on careers the way others try on clothes... highly creative...

Very nervous individuals... harsh inner critic... tendency toward dreaminess... late bloomers... always dreaming of big schemes, but never taking practical action...

Now I realize you don't know me personally, but you'd laugh if you did. These descriptions are so ridiculously accurate, I just kept laughing out loud to read them.

If you have never calculated your numeralogical info, I suggest you read profiles of the Lifepath numbers first. See if you can pick out the one that matches you best. Then do the calculations and see if you got it right. I like this site, although you will have to look elsewhere for profiles of the master numbers (11, 22, and 33). I'm interested in hearing your results - please comment!