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[thalassa]

...so I don't fall into the whole holy water/bless(ed/ing) water thing...b/c I consider all water in its pure form (ie...rain water, sea water, spring water, lake water) that hasn't been processed in its current "incarnation" (considering that there is a water cycle and todays rain was last years bottled water), as being part of nature is about as blessed/holy as its gonna get...my interference doesn't improve anything...

but here are some resources anyway...

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07432a.htm (history of the use of holy water--which orginated in the catholic church)

http://www.angelfire.com/realm2/amethystbt/sacredwater.html

http://www.frontiernet.net/~jamesstarlight/HolyWater.html

http://www.womanthouartgod.com/how_holywater.php (a christian version)

http://ilil.essortment.com/howtomakewa_rcmh.htm

http://magic-spells-and-potions.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=2

http://members.iinet.net.au/~jcdewit/coolchick/holywater.htm

http://www.geocities.com/tirgana/page11.html

http://www.littleshoppeofauras.homestead.com/files/holywater.htm

http://www.prosphora.org/  (baking with holy water  )

[twisted-sister]

Im sorry but I have to say this.  I have visions of a Gesh-Kitty batting a little mouse from paw to paw.

TL

LoL. Mental image! hahaha.

[Rowanwood]

I make "holy water" as well -- and call it that. 

I will sometimes use salt, but not always since I use it to bless my garden and property, and I certainlly don't want salt in the soil!!

I will sometimes not use anything in the water.  And will use tap water -- although water collected during a thunderstorm is my favorite.

In my way of thinking, all magick is about intent.  If I hold my vessel full of water and focus on blessing and purifying the water of negativity and fill it with the qualities to protect, cleanse, etc. and project my will into the water, it is so.  Like the ceremonial magicians and Wiccans say "As I do will it, so may it be."

[myfaith4bastet]

gracy and rowan i can't decide lol, i wish you both made me some holy water and sended it to me lol j/k

thanx for the advise, is theyr a easyer way to bless the water?
like a prayer or something?

[myfaith4bastet]

theyr's free water at church i just don't want it to be blessd water from cristians i want it to be home made insted.

[GracieGray]

Actually you can hold the container of water in your hands, visualize it being filled with white light, and offer a prayer asking your goddess to bless the water and fill it with pure, protective energy.  Most rituals I have found for making blessed or holy water are timed to the full moon to draw on that powerful energy to charge the water, but you can do it at anytime.  I might do it on a Monday since that is the Moon's day and is sacred to the Goddess.  Adding stones or crystals, or even sea salt helps amplify the water's energy.  Blessing water is a lot like blessing or consecrating your tools or altar.  The energy that "blesses" these things is the energy that you draw into yourself and direct into the water or the tool.

[myfaith4bastet]

thanx

[Magus_007]

I prefer the unholy water myself, it is called Irish whiskey. 

[ThorsSon]

I prefer the unholy water myself, it is called Irish whiskey. 

how dare you speak such slander?!?!
Whiskey (and whisky) is very much holy.

[thalassa]

I prefer the unholy water myself, it is called Irish whiskey. 

how dare you speak such slander?!?!
Whiskey (and whisky) is very much holy.

uisge beatha

Scots Gaelic for water of life...

can't get more holy than that!!!

[Dizzy]

Holy water is to be blessed by a Catholic priest.

Go to a catholic church.  They usually have bowls of it or small containers of it by the doors....it's there for blessing yourself when you walk in, but alot of people fill bottles with it, because it's already blessed.  And most churches have a store in them where you can buy it in bottles.  My family's church, where I was baptized had one and a huge bowl of holy water up front where my grandma would get bottles and fill them there.

[Noctuary]

Go to a catholic church.

Me? Are you crazy!?! I am a Satanist! I'll surely burn!

[Dizzy]

Me? Are you crazy!?! I am a Satanist! I'll surely burn!

I thought I would burn when I went to my grandmothers funeral for being, at first, into the dark arts, second turning pagan, and third, not going to confession in 6 years.  But the rumor is indeed not true.

[Elzbet]

"holy" water for a pagan is water directly from the earth. This can be defined as water that has never been purified by anything mechanical. This eliminates water from a faucet or store bought bottled stuff. True Pagan holy water is gathered from a tree stump, caught in a glass or stone vessel under the full moon or collected from a living stream or natural spring. Hope this helps.
Good journey friend

[Dizzy]

"holy" water for a pagan is water directly from the earth. This can be defined as water that has never been purified by anything mechanical. This eliminates water from a faucet or store bought bottled stuff. True Pagan holy water is gathered from a tree stump, caught in a glass or stone vessel under the full moon or collected from a living stream or natural spring. Hope this helps.
Good journey friend

Hm.....next time it rains in alb on a full moon 9 which im sure will happen again before winter) i will be sure to bottle some.  and just in case it doesn't rain, does snow count?

[myfaith4bastet]

dizzy i think he ment to collect the rain water and put it outside wear the full moon will charge it with it's energy. or either collect it from a river or lake i guess.

dizzy i like your banner it's cute. i have a cat to. dizzy you seem like an interesting pagan to talk to.

[Magus_007]

*continues to drink the unholy water* 'Hic!' 

[thalassa]

*why is everything fuzzy?*

*'tis suddenly difficult to walk in a straight line...*

*and I am beginning to type in an exceedingly proper voice of tone...*

*occifer...I swear I'm not as think as you drunk I am*

[GracieGray]

Well, actually I've come across no few "folk magics" that do call for the use of "strong spirits" in the spellcasting, although I don't think you were supposed to drink the stuff.  There's one that starts "Whiskey and rum, whiskey and rum...."  OK..now I'll spend the rest of my day with that running around in my poor wee pea brain.  Have to find the book to get to get the rest of it.  I think it was a prosperity spell though.

[Magus_007]

Yes, I tried it and I got so drunk I thought I was the King of England. How's that for a prosperity spell? Next time I will know better than to drink it right? 

[GracieGray]

Whiskey and rum, whiskey and rum, drink us together and a Kingly hangover is sure to come.

[myfaith4bastet]

magus is that morrigan in your signature?

[RoanWaveFirestorm]

My friend has a recipie, she says she's going to make me some and give me the copy of the recipie for my birthday, well, a little belated, since my b-day is the day before the full moon. I should have gotten her something too for hers...I'll get her something from New Zealand for christmas when I go this winter.

[myfaith4bastet]

awsome are you gona share it?

My friend has a recipie, she says she's going to make me some and give me the copy of the recipie for my birthday, well, a little belated, since my b-day is the day before the full moon. I should have gotten her something too for hers...I'll get her something from New Zealand for christmas when I go this winter.

[On my Way]

i don't think it haves to be blessed by a catholic priest.
i heard that non-catholics use it. and that we can make holy water to.

No it has to be blessed by the Christian God

Just go to your Churches Gift Shop and buy some there because the spring water does not contain any Chlorine so therefore cannot  kill the evil germs