Despite it being an especially wet, rainy Sunday, I drug myself out of a cosy bed past noon and headed by bus on down to the 2019 local Pagan Pride Festival.
I'm glad I went. I found some lovely things, including these fossil clams and a snail! Not merely fossilized but agatized, actually --- ancient life preserved in exquisite translucent stone. Working with the fossil goddess, I naturally decided to get them.
The vendor is a favorite of mine I met last year, who sells hoodoo items as well as more mainstream witch stones and herbs. I've been drawn to hoodoo for over six years now; I think I tapped into it via Avo Rayo, in fact, or Grandmother Lightning / Big Mama, which makes the tie closer to a decade. I was tempted by the chicken foot, but opted to save my money . . . maybe a crow foot instead?
I wisely took down the meanings of each fossil type:
Besides the fossils, I got some holy wood and also some pouched herbs, mainly ones I have trouble finding elsewhere.
Another vendor, Rhonda, remembered me from the Witches' Tea last year, due to my presenting my unique Potions book. I showed her my latest work, my altar statuettes, after seeing the paper above on their table and determining what sort of mages she and Chris were, discussing things like resisting coal export terminal projects. I don't overload everyone I meet with my passion for working with Aliria-Naphtha, but it the opportunity comes up, I allow it to speak.
And Rhonda and Chris were selling these kits! Having seen them only last night for sale online as one of many options for reducing plastic use, I felt it was a sign I should get one --- to support a helpful and like-minded vendor if nothing else. But a bamboo toothbrush?? Cool! Now I just need some natural floss.
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