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INTRO

This month I have addressed a problem with the Kaizen Flyer, namely the news that is contained in it can be as much as 4 weeks old by the time you read it here. I had considered just simply sending out the news as it came in, or maybe sending a mini-Flyer once a week, but this was never the intention of this listing....it is for site updates and award news mainly.

With this in mind there is now a newsletter email service available to any who wish to sign on...any member can post news or relevant information of an esoteric nature. Unlike The Flyer you actually have to sign up yourselves, I could have simply transferred the list here to the Kaizen Wiccan News list, but I hate "spam" as much as the next person, so thought it would hardly be fair!!.

In time I will start to down grade the news section here, as more people join the KWN, but for now the section will be included as usual.

All I ask is then you think before you post....this is intended to be a news service, not a chat service!!...yes, it is good to talk, but there are plenty of lists for that..please keep the posted subjects within the constraints of the idea...namely useful/interesting or alarming news!!..Thanks!!

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SITE NEWS

Awards
Enigma Mystic.....Yellow Rose
AmberWych.........Yellow Rose
The Green Man.....Appreciation
MysticGuyy........Dedication
Amberwych.........Inspiration
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KAIZEN'S HOMEPAGE

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And my "Site of the Month" Award goes to Enigma Mystic There is a direct link to this site from my frontpage for the whole of May, and a link in each speedlink box as well. There is also a permanent text link on my Site of the Month page showing previous winners.

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New poems added in Isharas' Poems section

Major reconstruction of my Book of Shadows to help with finding what you need on my site

New interactive programs added..more coming soon, as soon as I get permission from the owners/authors

Repaired the damage caused to my "Way of the Magi" section in last months site "fallover"

New links added in the "Free for All" links

Some new "Pay to Surf" companies added...(Check out Bepaid and Paysu..both new and going "live" this month!!)

New books added in the "Free online Books" Section

5 pages completed on the Runes

Lit several more Perpetual Flames on the "Forever" pages.
(My prayers and sympathies go to those lately saddened)

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A Favour,

The site is getting quite large now, (much bigger than I had ever imagined it would),and I was wondering which parts get the most visits....the frontpage hit counter shows the visits, but not where they go. I considered putting a hit tracker on the site, but to be honest this makes me uncomfortable when I see it on sites I visit, so decided against it.Would you please drop me a line and say which bits you especially liked, and also which bits are seriously naff,then I can have an idea of where to concentrate my efforts next....what's missing, what needs improving, what needs deleting.....this is your chance to get what you want to see done!!

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CERRIDWEN'S RETREAT

Merry Meet All,

HAPPY BELTANE! I hope you all enjoy your celebrations however you go about them. My thoughts are with you all.

I have not made many changes to Cerridwen's Retreat this month as I have spent quite some time working on another project. This is not to say that I have not got many ideas and plans for next month. I am compiling a list of deities from various cultures at the moment which I hope to add (in some form) by the end of the month.

You may have noticed that the 'Witch Trials' section has disappeared from my site. this is a temporary problem due to the deletion of the main page (an unavoidable glitch in the host server). I am working to rewrite the page now and will have the pages up and running again soon. I am also hoping to add some information regarding the Pendle witch trials at some point too.

I hope to have more for you next month.

Blessed Be,

Cerri
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Again we would both like to extend our many congratulations to all winners this month, and are honoured that you have agreed to accept these small tokens of our appreciation for your efforts. Please send nominations for the Site of the Month, but we are "backed up" for several months ahead, so popular has the award become!!

...Thank You!!

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FREE KERRI

Once again WM3 has taken a major part of our free time, but I would like to thank the person who with a single donation almost tripled the FreeKerri fund, (no names, but you know who you are).I won't forget you, should you ever need a platform you have one here......
"Thank You" from the bottom of my heart............

DAMIAN NOT TO BE EXECUTED ON MAY 5.....
News just in here is that The Supreme Court is to look at the case again.This is not a retrial, but it does mean that Damian will not die this year...so let us hope it gives the time needed to review the case properly, and to fully address some areas of doubt......

About Kerri
Email received here this month..posted with permission

I emailed kerri's sister recently to see how she was doing. She is doing as well as can be expected from what i gather. She still needs money in her commissary for food. No new updates on the case so far, the six year sentence still stands for now. July will make a year that her children have been motherless. Her husband still has custody of the children. he has had the state called on him twice recently, apparently he is abusing them. There are no relatives that can take them. Carrie told me she recently got a bunch of letters, thanks to anyone who is helping out (*hugs* Kaizen). Please continue to get the word out.

https://www.angelfire.com/ct/FreeKerri/index.html

You can sign up for the Free Kerri Webring at http://angelfire.com/fl3/akashasrealm/kerriring.html

If anyone has ANY ideas on other ways we might be able to help Kerri PLEASE let us know....to be honest, we are running out of ideas!!! (Well I am!!)
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OTHER STUFF

Received in my email..thanks...(you know who you are)

When I was quite young, my father had one of the first telephones in our neighborhood. I remember well the polished, old case fastened to the wall. The shiny receiver hung on the side of the box. I was too little to reach the telephone, but used to listen with fascination when my mother used to talk to it. Then I discovered that somewhere inside the wonderful device lived an amazing person - her name was "Information Please" and there was nothing she did not know."Information Please" could supply anybody's number and the correct time.My first personal experience with this genie-in-the-bottle came one day while my mother was visiting a neighbor. Amusing myself at the tool bench in the basement, I whacked my finger with a hammer. The pain was terrible, but there didn't seem to be any reason in crying because there was no one home to give sympathy. I walked around the house sucking my throbbing finger,finally arriving at the stairway. The telephone! Quickly, I ran for the foot stool in the parlor and dragged it to the landing. Climbing up, I unhooked the receiver in the parlor and held it to my ear. "Information Please," I said into the mouthpiece just above my head. A click or two and a small clear voice spoke into my ear.

"Information"

"I hurt my finger..." I wailed into the phone. The tears came readily enough now that I had an audience.

"Isn't your mother home?" came the question.

"Nobody's home but me," I blubbered.

"Are you bleeding?" the voice asked.

"No," I replied. "I hit my finger with the hammer and it hurts."

"Can you open your icebox?" she asked. I said I could.

"Then chip off a little piece of ice and hold it to your finger," said the voice.

After that, I called "Information Please" for everything. I asked her for help with my geography and she told me where Philadelphia was. She helped me with my math. She told me my pet chipmunk,that I had caught in the park just the day before, would eat fruit and nuts. Then, there was the time Petey, our pet canary died. I called "Information Please" and told her the sad story. She listened, then said the usual things grown ups say to soothe a child. But I was unconsoled. I asked her,

"Why is it that birds should sing so beautifully and bring joy to all families,only to end up as a heap of feathers on the bottom of a cage?"

She must have sensed my deep concern, for she said quietly,
"Paul,always remember that there are other worlds to sing in."

Somehow I felt better. Another day I was on the telephone. "Information Please." "Information," said the now familiar voice. "How do you spell fix?" I asked.

All this took place in a small town in the Pacific Northwest. When I was nine years old, we moved across the country to Boston. I missed my friend very much. "Information Please" belonged in that old wooden box back home and I somehow never thought of trying the tall,shiny new phone that sat on the table in the hall. As I grew into my teens,the memories of those childhood conversations never really left me. Often,In moments of doubt and perplexity I would recall the serene sense of security I had then. I appreciated now how patient, understanding, and kind she was to have spent her time on a little boy.

A few years later, on my way west to college, my plane put down in Seattle I had about half-an-hour or so between planes. I spent 15 minutes or so on the phone with my sister, who lived there now. Then, without thinking what I was doing, I dialed my hometown operator and said, "Information, please." Miraculously, I heard the small, clear voice I knew so well.

"Information."

I hadn't planned this, but I heard myself saying, "Could you please tell me how to spell fix?"

There was a long pause. Then came the soft spoken answer,
"I guess your finger must have healed by now."

I laughed, "So it's really still you," I said. "I wonder if you have any idea how much you meant to me during that time."

"I wonder," she said, "if you know how much your calls meant to me. I never had any children and I used to look forward to your calls."

I told her how often I had thought of her over the years and I >asked if I could call her again when I came back to visit my sister.

"Please do," she said. "Just ask for Sally."

Three months later I was back in Seattle. A different voice answered,

"Information."

I asked for Sally. "Are you a friend?" she said.
"Yes, a very old friend," I answered.
"I'm sorry to have to tell you this," she said.
"Sally had been working part time the last few years because she was sick. She died five weeks ago."

Before I could hang up she said,
"Wait a minute. Did you say your name was Paul?"
"Yes."
"Well, Sally left a message for you. She wrote it down in case you called. Let me read it to you.
The note said, "Tell him I still say there are other worlds to sing in. He'll know what I mean."

I thanked her and hung up. I knew what Sally meant.

Never underestimate the impression you may make on others. Whose life have you touched today? Why not pass this on, I just did.

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Kaizen's Word's of Wisdom

Over heard in a chatroom this month...

First Av... "Wow, Just sat in on a teaching session in Kaizen's Chatroom, the man is obviously an Adept"
Second Av..."Really??..You think??...I read his "Advice to New Witches" every month, the man is obviously an Inept"

Thank you both for that!!....I laughed for ages at that one!!

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ADVICE TO NEW WITCHES

Pre-Circle Cleansing Rituals..Spiritual Baths...Lustrations

Following on from last months placement of the Sacred Altar, this month I would like to impart some words of caution when partaking in the pre-circle rituals for cleansing the body, and awakening the mind.

Firstly...Be absolutely certain that all those joining the ritual that night are advanced enough to be working to P.S.T (Pagan Standard Time) This prevents embarrassing incidents with newbies and others..

Second....Don't allow your HPS (or Coven Cook) to prepare the cakes this close to actual circle time .

Third.....Measure the gap between the floor and the bottom of your cooker...and if in excess of half an inch ..plug the gap!!

Finally...Never, never allow the local vicar into your home on a Sabbat day...

It started as an ordinary cleansing bath ritual, I had already lost the "discussion" with my HPS as to who got the bath first, so as usual I was lying in tepid water, pondering if it was a good idea to turn the hot tap on again to try to bring the bath up to at least body temperature, cos the HPS had emptied the tank, when a scream of "FIRE!!" was heard from the kitchen.To be honest , I wasn't too surprised, the HPS used to make 60 cakes every Sabbat, then we would carefully pick out the 13 most edible looking ones and proudly offer these around after the Circle, so the odd kitchen blaze wasn't unusual.....the lady could burn water!!

I jumped from the bath with thoughts of "Red Adair" and "Sir Galahad" and ran to the kitchen.As soon as my wet feet hit the lino all thoughts turned to stuntmen and Torville and Dean.I wont say I lost traction, but Bambi on ice would have had more grip and finesse.At the time the body started to descend towards the floor my feet were only 6 inches from the ceiling, while my head was 6 inches from the floor.There I was, naked, flailing about, trying to get a grip on nothing. I hit the lino with all the tact and grace of a sky-diving hippo with parachute failure and proceeded to skid across the floor...desperately trying to stop.

Anyway, the cooker solved the problem for me, I smashed into the corner, wedging my left testicle underneath it in the process.

At this point I noticed several things in slow motion.
The first was the cat sitting on the draining board saying "Why did you do that then??", and "Man..That's gonna hurt in the morning!!" the second was the HPS, the Maiden and her Consort holding up cards 5.2, 5.1, 5.4 for artistic impression and originality, thirdly there was the local vicar (who was collecting for the following weeks jumble sale at the exact moment I entered the kitchen) giving me a look that said"You lied to me!!..You told me you couldn't attend my services because you were Jewish!!." . And lastly were the 3 newbies, all of whom were wondering if this was some form of initiation...and all deciding they weren't really interested in witchcraft and Christianity was a better bet...and the vicar was handy too...

As the strangled cry of "COOKEROFFME" echoed across England a gunnery sergeant deep in a bunker had a major mental flash back .............

As the cooker was raised (by the 3 women present, the men ALL had their legs crossed in sympathy, and were looking pained...even the vicar who couldn't remember why), a swelling started immediately that any man would be proud of...had it been 2 inches over... As it was I developed a sort of gait, throwing the left leg out in a wide arch every time I walked anywhere...and suddenly developing a liking for large baggy underpants that I was hoping wouldn't manifest until my mid 50's.....as my toe was still broken and the toenail still missing from the previous months' circle incident, to see me walking was a trully unusual sight......

This lasted for weeks!! It was months before I partook in the Grand Rite again, and the Consort was very pleased when I did, his Maiden had seized on a golden opportunity and was making him practice every single day, and after 2 months he was starting to tremble in fear at the mere mention of Circles, Witches and Cookers......

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