{"id":1744,"date":"2007-10-02T13:29:04","date_gmt":"2007-10-02T17:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2007\/10\/02\/new-england-trip-shopping-in-salem\/"},"modified":"2007-10-07T16:01:43","modified_gmt":"2007-10-07T20:01:43","slug":"new-england-trip-shopping-in-salem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2007\/10\/new-england-trip-shopping-in-salem\/","title":{"rendered":"New England Trip: Shopping in Salem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jan and I decided to meet at the Visitor&#8217;s Center instead of the Witch Museum. Once I saw the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salemwitchmuseum.com\/about\/index.shtml\">outside<\/a>, I didn&#8217;t really want to go into it either. Reminds me of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bibletopics.com\/BIBLESTUDY\/86.htm\">Watchtower covers<\/a>&#8230; So, she was running late, and I started to bop around some of the shops. Later, we explored together (more on that in the next post). <\/p>\n<p>I dropped a ton of money in that town &#8211; but I love what I got. I&#8217;ve got them all lined up next to me.  In my humble opinion, the best shops are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wlpssp.com\/\">Nu Aeon<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/crowhavencorner.net\">Crow Haven Corner<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newenglandmagic.net\/\">New England Magic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So, here&#8217;s what I blew my cash on in Salem:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A silver moonstone triple-moon ring for the middle finger of my right hand<\/li>\n<li>Another silver ring &#8211; a contemporary interpretation of Celtic-style knots and spirals &#8211; for the ring finger on my right hand<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Invocation&#8221; Mysteries soap by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crowhavencorner.net\">Crow Haven Corner<\/a><\/li>\n<li>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wlpssp.com\">Bright Blessings<\/a> Incense Sampler<\/li>\n<li>An abalone shell incense holder<\/li>\n<li>Lotus crystals by <a href=\"http:\/\/wlpssp.com\/\">Sacred Spirit Products<\/a> &#8211; and charcoal to burn them on<\/li>\n<li>Egyptian recipe &#8220;Abra Melin&#8221; frankincense and rose resin incense by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.essenceoftheages.com\/nuessence\/nu1.html\">Nu Essence<\/a><\/li>\n<li>A Blessed herbal &#8220;female energy and wisdom&#8221; Moon candle (&#8220;made when the moon is right&#8221;) by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coventrycreations.com\/index.php\">Coventry Creations<\/a><\/li>\n<li>A Samhain (Halloween) &#8220;Spirit Wheel of the Year&#8221; candle by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wlpssp.com\/\">Cypress Moon<\/a><\/li>\n<li>A small, perfectly weighted pendulum by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xeonixinc.com\/\">Xeonix<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Wise Woman #52 Goddess Potion&#8221; essential oil aromatherapy vial (lavendar, mandarin lemongrass and bergamot) by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aromatherapygoddess.com\">Aromatherapy of the Goddess<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Last but not at all least, I really did get a magic wand. I looked for one everywhere I went. The metal wands were very pretty, but somehow not me, and there were a lot of clunky gem-based wands, but again&#8230; not me. The one kind that tempted me (in spite of the really quite outrageous price) was a cherrywood &#8220;live wand&#8221; that took years to make. Honeysuckle had been wound around it to make spiral grooves in the wood. It was too thick and blunt somehow &#8211; although it made it to the &#8220;final two.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For me, the purpose of a wand is as a tool of energy direction (like a very precise mouse pointer). It&#8217;s amusing that I had held a teacher&#8217;s pointer in mind, because that&#8217;s pretty close to what I got. It&#8217;s about three feet long, made of white ash &#8211; not a straight line on it and wonderfully grooving to my hand. It&#8217;s the right weight and balance to be an extension of my arm. There is at least one interesting kind of energy surrounding it already, but I&#8217;ll do a full &#8220;cleansing&#8221; of the wand a bit later &#8211; to symbolically rid it of the touch of others &#8211; and then &#8220;infuse&#8221; it with my own spirit\/energy. I&#8217;m uncomfortable with the magickal kind of language for this &#8211; I have my own understandings of what I&#8217;m doing. But hey &#8211; I&#8217;m an eclectic anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jan and I decided to meet at the Visitor&#8217;s Center instead of the Witch Museum. Once I saw the outside, I didn&#8217;t really want to go into it either. Reminds me of Watchtower covers&#8230; So, she was running late, and I started to bop around some of the shops. Later, we explored together (more on that in the next post). I dropped a ton of money in that town &#8211; but I love what I got. I&#8217;ve got them all&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2007\/10\/new-england-trip-shopping-in-salem\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9,6],"tags":[40,3078,39,36,44,787,4330,4331,43,38,37,4332,54,41,4333],"class_list":["post-1744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-odd-and-interesting","category-personal","tag-candles","tag-halloween","tag-incense","tag-magic-wand","tag-magickal","tag-new-england","tag-pendulum","tag-ring","tag-ritual","tag-salem","tag-shopping","tag-wand","tag-watchtower","tag-witch-museum","tag-with-museum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}