Hi! Folks I'm back again this is my 6th update of this blog. It is on a serious subject. I can only hope that none of you are offended by what I have written here.
Hi! Folks! This is my 15th blog on the Internet. This blog should be of interest to Pagans and Magickal Folk. I hope you all are doing well. Sadly I can't say the same for myself. Some of you know me, some of you don't. I'm a Pagan Elder and I'm in serious trouble. These last 3 months have been a living hell for me. I'm a professional writer but I've had writer's block for the last 3 months. I've had major financial issues and illness and major computer problems. Now to get to my main point. My landlady has told me I have 10 days to pay $700.00 of current and past due rent or quite the premises i.e. I get evicted. If any of you want to help me keep me from getting evicted you can reach me at Abbotts_inn@hotmail.com We will take down your addresses and phone numbers and e-mails and when the crisis has passed we will pay back as many of you as we can. I know that we are all hurting because of the economy.   I feel very weird asking for help but my closest friends in the Pagan-Magickal Community tell me at this time I have no choice. So I'm asking for your help fellow Pagan-Magickal Folk. I only have 10 days to accomplish this feat. With your help I will prevail.  My new money manager has told me that I may turn you on to my Pay Pal account  with  this e-mail address: AbbottsInn@Gmail.com  If any of you would like a Pagan-Magickal class or a Divination-Tarot Reading or even both this is another way I'm trying to raise the funds. I can be contacted at www.keen.com as Stephen6580. I have five listings on keen. I have a blog on keen which has 5 entries on it and you are all welcome to freely check them out and offer your comments and feedback. I value both. I have blogs on My Space, Hi5, Yahoo360 and many other locations. I've only been active on computers for 5 years. I co-own 15 Pagan-Magickal Teaching Groups on Yahoo Groups. I've taught Pagan-Magickal subjects for the past 38 years across the country and Canada. I have been doing Divination-Tarot readings for 48 years. I still do Divination-Tarot readings and teach Pagan-Magickal subjects with the use of my web cam and mic on both yahoo IM and MSN IM. If any of you are interested in these services please let me know. I offer to do free research for Pagans-Magickal folk of all stripes when it is requested. Now to talk about the main topic of this blog. This blog and all of my other blogs will be bringing up the topic of the Pagan-Magickal Community making an effort to take care and support our Pagan-Magickal Elders. At 57 I'm considered a younger Pagan-Magickal Elder. I feel in the last 13 years that many of the Pagan-Magickal Community have not taken advantage my longstanding Knowledge of Pagan-Magickal services and subjects. At the present time I don't have one student. I've had no readings the entire day. In a normal day I would have upwards to 15 readings. This hasn't occurred since October. My troubles began in November. For one of my Psychic Readings services I get paid 2 times a month. I won't get another paycheck to the 7th of February. The reason why I mention all of this is to make clear the plain fact that we don't know what our fiances will be like from month to month. For this reason one of my best friends in the Pagan-Magickal Community is now going to be my new money manager. Up to this crisis. I only did it myself. Now my job is to build up my many blogs and groups and encourage you all to the same if it is your Will to do so. In the last few years the Pagan-Magickal Community lost two of it's "Bright Lights." One was my dear friend and AD(arch-druid) Robert Lawson. He died of neglect at a Bay Area hospital. Then just last year we lost Robert Anton Wilson who had written many books and had done much for the Pagan-Magickal community. These two useless deaths cut me to the core. I knew both men for over 35 years. I would like to say that they would be missed but now I feel that this may not be the case. We as Pagans and Magickal Folk must do much more to help our Pagan-Magickal Elders. Isaac Bonewits who I have known over 40 years said many years ago "A Magickan is Worthy of His Hire". It is hard what we do. It is hard to design and perform a ritual. I only charge for readings and classes. Everything else I do for the Pagan-Magickal community is for free. I do this because I have ethics. I know how hard it is to do what I do. Another old  Pagan- Magickal friend Micheal Gormen by name is writing about this very subject for the coveted "Green Egg Magazine." Isaac is writing about this subject in his many groups. And why do we do this you may ask? We all 3 of us our Elders of the Pagan-Magickal Community. All 3 of us have given over 40 years of our lives and our Knowledge to this community that we love. Now 40 years later many of us are facing possible homeless. What is Wrong with this Picture? How can we give so much and find ourselves in such a sorry state. The reason why this is happening is that the Pagan-Magickal Community has forgotten that it is a sacred duty to honor our  Elders for their long sacrifice and knowledge. Many people today have come to my aid and I thank them. When their time comes I will be there for them. May the two Roberts have not died in vain. This situation about the treating of our Sacred Elders is shameful and must be dealt with. When we honor our Sacred Elders we honor ourselves. When we sit at their feet to gain their Knowledge we honor our own Knowledge. When we aid our Elders to be able to live better lives in comfort and respect we encourage them to be more creative and artistic. If we don't honor and support our Sacred Elders and they die alone and neglected on a city street this too shall be our fate. Forty years ago I thought that when I got to be 57 years old I would be honored and respected by my Fellow Pagan-Magickal Brethren both male and female. But instead I'm facing eviction and homelessness. What is wrong with this Picture? How could I have given so much to our Pagan-Magickal Community that I love so dear and to be brought to such dire straits. What is the future of our Pagan-Magickal Community if we don't start to honor and support our Sacred Elders? I feel we will lose the Magickal Spirit of our community. Paganism will become a Soulless Shell of what once was. This must end if we shall have a future in this world. "Oh My Pagan-Magickal Folk". I will be there for you in your time of need as long as I am able. Let's have some feedback on this very important subject. I want to hear from you all and I want to see this hateful neglect for our Sacred Elders Banished For All Time. Thank You for allowing me to voice these hard thoughts. I love all of my Pagan-Magickal Folk. May this crime to our Community be rectified soon. Take Care My Pagan-Magickal Brothers and Sisters and Blessed Be. AD(arch-druid) Stephen also known as Stephen6580 on www.keen.com Peace! Peace! Peace!