Wishing everyone a Happy Solstice! Be it Summer, or Winter.

I don't have plans tonight. I have no privacy, nor any peace. I shall leave a little offering to the wights before bed and keep the dogs inside overnight so the do not eat it. I shall light a candle tomorrow morning to welcome back the Sun, I'm looking forward to the longer days ahead.

Now that the pentacle has been approved to be placed on Veteran memorials, do you feel that other symbols of different pagan faiths (the druid sigil, thor’s hammer, etc) are as equally important to fight for?

 If it's important to you, go ahead. I think that any symbol a person feels is important to them should have place on Veteran memorials, or any headstone for that matter. I don't think they should limit it.
I'm not really familiar with the Australian military memorials, but from what I've seen (which is limited to two memorials I've been too), it's entirely non-religious anyway. I'm not connected to the military, so it's not a personal issue for me. As far as I know, I could have "Go fuck yourself" etched into my tomb stone when I die, as long as I pay for it to be written, same goes for symbols. The more words, the more details, the more money it costs.

I think it should be open to the individual to decide exactly what they want, regardless of whether it's military or not.

Apologies again for my lack of writing... I've become kind of annoyed at the un-user friendly and seemingly disorganized set up of Covenspace. At this point, I invite you call to come visit me on livejournal, or myspace.

MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/inkywitch 

LiveJournal: http://tribalesque.livejournal.com/

I'd love to keep contact, especially with the other Australia and Melbourne pagans I have met here. I still check my covenspace occasionally, however the setup annoys me, and I prefer to use my LJ or MySpace to keep in contact with people. 

My apologies, everyone, for my absence here. My partner lost his job, and money has been a massive issue for the last month or so, which means my mind has be on nothing else. I'm still in the process of getting everything back in order, so I haven't left myself much time to think about anything other than getting back to normal and not owing people any money.

Whenever I have had a moment to think, it's always about wondering how long this world is going to last. Everyday, I see some headline about polar ice caps melting at a much faster rate, tsunami over here, tidal wave over here, earthquake over there... We even had Australia's entire east or west coast closed because of the recent earthquake and tidal wave disaster not far from our shores. We've been lucky so far, but that will only last a short while unless something is done about it. I hear news on a daily basis on how the world is dying.. yet I don't hear much on what the hell people are doing to fix it. John Howard's plan of action is going to take too long, and involves the BRILLIANT (note: sarcasm) idea of building a nuclear power plant here in Melbourne. If he wants a fucking nuclear power plant, fucking build it near HIS HOME.

I'm so tired of it all. Doing thing to help the environment seems like such a pointless battle with so many others not giving a shit, and our government trying to convince us they actually know what they are doing..  I'm just.. so tired. And to be honest, I'm actually scared. It is getting serious. And not enough people seem to actually want to accept that!

A few nice folks here have PMed me concerned about my whereabouts and lack of posting! Well I can assure you, I'm not dead. I'm busy getting Uni sorted, job interviews and a few family events that needed attending, so my mind has been in linear mode dealing with lots of mundane things recently, and I've barely had time to think of anything else. Any extra time I'm spending on WoW chilling out with the bf and guildies (level 66!).

Also, the boyfriend is out of work, at least for a few weeks. Which mean he is home almost all day, everyday which means I have no real time for myself, or my usual pondering. So hold out, I will be back as soon as my brain recovers from the next few weeks. Hopefully I'll have job and the bf will be working again and things will be back to normal and relatively stress free!