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A White Dove at Hekate’s Lantern and Keys: Phone Audio Tour Guide©

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As pagans we do things that are a bit different than in a normal inside church setting like observing the signs of a spirit or magic or Gods and Goddesses in the real world outside of a traditional church building.

I see things like this all the time around Xxxxx’s roadside shrine and magic spot. that’s why it’s called Magic. The best kinds of daily magic are the real ones you can see the signs of, if you just open your eyes and think about things a little differently. If you are new to this website my front property was dedicated by the un-named church as a “Hekate, Venus/Aphrodite” sanctuary and shrine.

Explanation:
At it’s very simplest —in this context—if you had to explain it to a young male or female legends of magic reading American child it is the Goddess sanctuary and shrine of Hekate (Magic, Spirit, Protection) and Venus/Aphrodite (observed as Woman/Ancestress). Within the context of a secret “magic” religion this would be appropriate and correct. Hopefully, I am finally presenting and explaining these things so people can understand it.

The daily ritual or ceremony:
I burned phosphorus and said the single word: Enough.
This is my private ritual not for the public to do.
If the public wants me to burn phosphorus and say some words for them then that becomes a votive offering. The shrine keepers can do that for people if people leave their wishes at the shrine. People can also come to the roadside shrine and say their words either silently in their mind or out loud if they want to. You just need to remember which spirit or goddess or god you are talking to and be appropriate. If you leave a problem for Hekate to show you the way forward on your path in life, you might want to read about how it works first. I can tell you that at the very least you can leave a problem at the crossroads by speaking the words then forget about it and leave it to god. You just have to be open to the small signs of magic in your every day life to be able to hear the answers back.

The coincidences or signs/answer:
The next day I received a white dove, and a raven from the south east flying towards the north west with a lizard in its beak. I took pictures of the dove because it was sitting still but not the raven. This is NOT auspicia or Roman auspicia publica some call it augury. This is not exactly bird omens where you release the dove and see where it lands in your temple although it involves birds but rather auspicia oblativa and auspicia privata. For what a Roman festival that might include auspicia publica looks like please see the post called It’s not a theme park. I am using the Roman pagan language to explain things consistently I hope.

What we look for in modern paganism is auspicia oblativa and auspicia privata. These are signs that “the gods favor you” or god favors you and you will have good fortune. If the gods are favoring you—meaning they are literally paying attention to you—then you stand a good chance of having good things happen. At the very least being able to see the signs of gods or goddesses favor in daily magic gives you the hope that there is something beyond death. That there is another existence waiting for you after this life.  This does not mean that other faiths and beliefs and religions are wrong. It just means that there are older belief systems that came before the modern ones. Some of them make sense and some of them do not.

Please remember this shrine is a Hekate crossroads shrine. It’s just a magic spot on the side of the road on a property where a priestess said a blessing to get rid of the ghosts and evil spirits and invite certain deities to pay attention to this spot. You have to invite the spirits and provide a place for humans to stop and think about it for a moment OR a place to sit and observe a public cultic theater or a ritual. For more information about Cultic—which means the care of— Theaters and Ritual Drama please see the post about that subject.

In the ancient world people would leave a piece of paper or something of significance at the niche or on a offering plate and then the next time a ritual or ceremony was performed the staff would read the requests to the spirit of the roadside shrine. If the request was granted the shrine became known for real magic and people would start to support it with gifts of food for the people that lived there or money or things they said they wanted.

How the auspicia privata fits into my life:
Hekate’s answer of a white dove at the lantern and a black raven with a lizard is about something that happened in the past that I and only a few people know about. That’s why it’s called auspicia privata (private signs or private answers). If I tell you what the signs were, you need to figure out what that means in your private life. Then the signs become Auspica Publica and Auspicia Oblivata. The signs that the gods favor you, your family and/or “your public family” and the signs that people can come to that spot and request signs for their own life. I don’t need or want to know what you do, only that it works or not. If you are happy with the results then you should give thanks back. It’s pretty simple.

Back to how it fits in my life:
This goes back to a  historical story (1) from Arcadia where there was someone competing with the Szandor newsletter and he called it the Salamander newsletter. In later years this possibly became the “lizard coven” in Redlands California. Inadvertently I moved into the center of their night time circles 19  years ago from the Los Angeles area and until now there has been some not so insignificant conflict between the two groups, one which has a decidedly Crowley leaning and of course us. The Crowley person is a man who was publishing and distributing a copycat newsletter at the racetracks for money. They even took our newsletter, cut the title off of it, photocopied it in Arcadia and sold it in the tunnels under the track to the infield. Our [un named church] newsletter was given out to the travelling jockeys and the horse people in their trailers away from the general public. The other man’s newsletter was sold in the parking lots and the tunnels. The Arcadia Police Department mixed the two up of course and spoke to Howard about the wrong one. Giving newsletters to subscribers is one thing, copying and selling them is another thing entirely.

The newsletter was a special kind of a church, it is amazing to think about it now but all you needed to go to church was the newsletter. Nobody knew about it at first. The secret was that it was a old gypsy and pagan magic newsletter like they sold at carnivals and circuses. Grandma’s and Grandpa’s read it. It had a list of convocations, a prayer list and who did what ceremony where. It also had old herbal remedies and recipes. This was over 50+ years ago. If you subscribed to it they had a post office box you could send general questions and prayer requests to.  You could also send letters to other members if they dropped off the map and had no address. The office would hold the letters for you and let you know if someone was still alive if they got in contact with them.

Supposedly there is a local legend of how my father from afar got ahold of that newsletter AND later he received the racetrack, circus and entertainment distribution franchise which was a whole different worldwide thing in Los Angeles. He was supposed to sell newsletters flyers to get money for his kids including the one that was in the hospital and got adopted in Southern California. This was the start of the new legends (post WWII) of the world wide gypsy pagan nomad caravan church. It’s the very lowest gypsy pagan caravan franchise or legal job you can hold in a territory. The handing out of the flyers for the “nomad caravan” at the crossroads and maintaining the shrine and or signpost. There is a very dark side aspect of the crossroads newsletter business that we will not tell here. Today we are writing the story in the light of day because the opposition religions are finally legal in the USA.

Nobody made very much money from the newsletter. It paid for the post office box and dinners and gas money to drive around and sell it and books. Supposedly it was to be like the handouts you got at the crossroads when there was a carnival or a circus or the gypsies or pagans were staying nearby.(the travellers, the ones in the caravans) I will have to look up the old editor of the newsletter if he is still around and ask for more information about the subject.

It was very exclusive you could only get it from the legitimate church. You had to find the church first, then arrange to meet them, then have your background vouched for and sometimes it took years to do this to become a member. Originally It had a very small number of member families that I can remember. This was the “gypsy pagan and nomad caravan convocation” “church newsletter”.

The Salamander’s had a presence in the tunnels under the Santa Anita Arcadia Racetrack and at the LA County Arboretum. They used LSD in their practice sometimes and felt that if they used LSD near Howard, the “messages and visions” would come to them. Some of them drove up to Richmond and parked next to The Black House Richmond. I was not involved with them but the police department let me know when they were around.

Summary:
This was Anatolian Greek and Roman if you wanted to know from Xxxxx’s sanctuary and shrine in Redlands CA The Roman is honored today as Venus Woman Ancestress not as Roman auspicia publica although if they need the legal observance for a unspecified reason here it is.

Xxxxxx’s Xxxxx in Los Angeles says the signs were:
White Dove at the lantern and keys. See pictures. Raven with lizard in mouth flying E/SE towards W/NW on 10/18/18 No pictures. The meaning of these signs in your life is up to you. This is what the newsletter is for. This is our gift to you: The symbolic continuity of the first religions of the first nations.

The fire has never gone out all around the world.

It’s obvious that the whole world wants to know how to do “Magic” in real life which is simply witnessed by the fact that 3/4 of a billion books have been sold with a total focus or partial focus on Magic.  That’s 10% of all the people on the whole blue planet you are standing on. How you get there is up to you. People want to do it and see it and have it explained to them.

The next morning: Nov 18 2018 7:10 AM —Shrine Journal this is just a running commentary of what I do and what the observed results are.

I posted on Legitimus-usa.comand here plus Nextdoor.com saying that I had a white dove on top of the roof next to the Hekate lantern and if it was yours (banded) could you please come pick it up? (Totally forgetting what I did with the phosphorus the night before -BTW)

Someone drove by and I heard the random words: “I put it there”, (we have a family near here that flies homing doves) but Christians have been messing with me for so long now that after I posted it and got a comment, my alternate perspective on it is:

IF someone put it there as a token of peace to somehow absorb something from the lantern somehow, THEN that was a neat thing to do. That’s their magic not mine, I don’t ask questions like that. Maybe their family has a white dove of protection and peace now. That still does not explain the raven with the lizard from a particular direction flying towards the Xxxx’x house later the same day. After posting this yesterday the Christians said it was a trained Raven. With a lizard in its beak? Maybe we should ask the Carians.

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This is a legal observance this organization, activity and the people participating are protected under the following relevant international treaties and codes:

The Hague conventions apply worldwide including Rule 38 attacks against cultural property. Temple/Sanctuary/Shrine members and keepers also qualify as religious personnel protected  Under Geneva Convention II Additional protocol I Article 15(5) and Additional Protocol II Article 9(1)  and Section 9.4 of the 1999 UN Secretary-General’s Bulletin wherever they go. This also includes the participants and the un-named church who dedicated it and participated in the opening ceremonies.
US federal government recognition of the pagan religions: including classical, neo-classical and modern paganism are available from the  Faith-and-Belief-Codes-for-Reporting-Personnel-Data-of-Service-Members  Link to the Department of Defense Source  This took effect on March 31, 2017.

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Historical Note:

Yes this was “the fairy tale” told in Los Angeles to people about the Pagan, Romani, Sinti and Traveller newsletter business. The problem is some of the Xxxxxxxx and Christians argue about what was said and done. I think they are flat out evil because the people believed in it. Once people believe in something trying to take it away with lies makes people very upset.

XXX references deleted by cease and desist letter from Xxxxxxx XXX’s agent for process in Berlin not by XXX. We consider that offensive but will comply.

A White Dove at Hekate’s Lantern and Keys: Phone Audio Tour Guide©

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