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 So, I'm actually surprised it took this long to happen, but my husband got a date wrong! An important date. LOL

Yesterday was our anniversary,  Yes, he remembered, presents and all that and even flowers the week before.  IDK, he said he wanted to get me flowers.  Red roses are my favorite because of the scent but unfortunately I got a cold the day after he got them, so I didn't get to enjoy them as much! But I digress.

I mentioned that I sort of snooped into his present.  I accidentally saw that he got something from Etsy when I was looking at the bank account.  Then the package came and it said FRAGILE CERAMIC right on the front and the name of the company so I looked it up and, yes, she does custom made ceramic things.  Could be anything, right? A bowl, mug, plate, decorative thing, anything.  

So yesterday I opened it up and it's a plate with a turtle and a kitten painted on it (they are our favorite animals, one would even say spirit animals).  It's very cute.  Around the rim of the plate is Happy 9th Anniversary and the dates and a quote from one of "our songs" from way back in the day. 

So I like it, it's not amazing, for instance the cat and the turtle are done in two completely different styles.  The cat is drawn realistically and the turtle is cartoony.  Still, cute.

So I was looking at it throughout the day and I do this weird thing in my head a lot where when I see two numbers I do the math to see what they equal when you subtract them.  I don't know what that's about.  OCD something, maybe? Anyway...the numbers don't match up.  It's only 7....it's our 9th anniversary.  I look and our wedding date has the wrong year.  Shit.

I point it out to my husband and for some reason I knew right away that he had told her wrong, that it wasn't the artist's mistake.  He confirmed it because he'd kept the e mail he sent her.  I didn't even give him a hard time about it because I knew he felt bad.

It was an easy mistake.  Our son was born in the year he told her so that is also a big date in our heads.  I sometimes have to think about it myself.  But I do kind of fault the artist too, I mean she wrote Happy 9th anniversary and didn't notice that the years didn't add up to 9.  But still, that's not her job.

So I guess he's going to e mail her and see if she can redo it.  

He also gave me a Torchwood Institute decal for my car which is awesome :)

My gift was sort of lame.  I couldn't come up with anything romantic so I got him an ipad holder for him to attach to the treadmill.  Boring, right? But useful.  He's all about practical.  But then he made a big deal about how hard it was to put together and he finally did it, but I just felt like he kind of stomped all over it.  Like, you don't complain about the quality of a product someone got for you.  It's not like I went out and tried all kinds of models, I just went to amazon and went with the one with the best reviews.  And it works fine, he's just really bad at putting things together.  

Then we went out and had a nice dinner.  So it was a decent day.  I don't even mind so much about the plate.  (although I do think it's funny because we have at least 2 other things on display with our wedding date on them...but anyway.)

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 Some people have expressed interest in my study of Wicca.  I mentioned I have a display, which is on top of my dresser in my room.  I don't use it for rituals or anything but just as a display, a representation of the symbols of the season.  It was kind of what I had going in the display in our living room before I even started studying Wicca, except this is a little more personal and I hope to keep up with it better.

The first display I did was the celebration of the dark mother.  I read about it in one of my about.com e mails and I googled a little bit and got some ideas for the display.  I have red and yellow flowers, a black sprig of something and wheat, an empty basket and a red candle for Demeter and a black one for Persephone.  The flowers are not real, I wish they were, but where would one find black flowers, and also I planned on leaving this up so long that the real flowers would be dead soon anyway, not sure if this would really be a good idea.  

This display symbolizes the Greek myth of Demeter, the goddess of grains and fertility and Persephone, her daughter.  Basically Zeus, Persephone's father, promised Persephone to Hades, god of the underworld, behind Demeter's back (that's another story).  Demeter was so distraught, she tried to get Persephone back, but Persephone had already been tricked into eating pomegranate seeds in the underworld, which meant she could never permanently leave.  She was allowed to come back for a few months each year.  Demeter, in her grief, doesn't let anything grow when Persephone lives in the underworld.  Hence, winter.

The black candle and black leaves represent Persephone and the colored items represent Demeter.

So, long story short, the celebration of the dark mother is a celebration of darkness, of the end of the life cycle.



Today I changed it to a Mabon display.  Mabon is a holiday in celebration of the harvest.  I filled the basket with pumpkins and gourds and swapped out the red candle for a white one.  Mabon is about balance, darkness and light because of the day and night becoming the same length on that day.  





Sorry if the images are too big.  I'm going to keep playing with it if it is.  Also sorry the second one is a bit blurry.