My Blog is Moving!

The only problem I have with Blogger is that I can't get a blog with the same URL as my web site, Magickal-Musings.com.  I figured I'd use my name, but I can understand how that can confuse a lot of people - not to mention making it difficult to find my blog in search engines.

Therefore, I am relocating.  I'll be inserting all the blogs at nefer-khepri-hemet.blogspot.com into my new blog, which will still be at blogspot.com, but under a new URL.  The new URL of my blog is:

http://magickal-musings-com.blogspot.com

Note that is a DASH between "musings" and "com", not a dot.  This is the only way I was able to use the actual name of my business and web site in the url of my blog.

I will be sending out another newsletter to inform everyone of these changes, plus I have a link to my new blog at my old blog so by clicking on it visitors will be re-directed here.  I will also post links to my blog on various pages at my web site.

I promise to stick with this blog.  I did manage to get MagickalMusings at WordPress.  However, after stumbling around WordPress for nearly an hour I find it much more difficult to use than Blogger, even though with WordPress you can do much more decorative things with your blog.  I figure it's the content that's important, not the looks, right?  Brains before beauty, as they always say.  LOL  So, I'm sticking with Blogger, but I put a post up at WordPress redirecting any visitors to this blog here.

I have also altered the title.  Now, to avoid confusion, the URL is what you enter into your browser window to get to my blog.  That's http://magickal-musings-com.blogspot.com.  Once you arrive at my blog there is a title at the top of the page.  The title has nothing to do with the  URL.  It's simply the label I have placed on my blog, which is:

Nefer Khepri's Magickal Musings

This way, I am identifying myself by name and also by web site.  Hopefully this will make it easier on everyone.  Please visit me at my new blog. 

Stay tuned.  I hope to get some ghostly images up sometime in the next couple of days.  I just figured out how to reduce the pixels so they won't slow down your computer.  You can view them here and please, as always, feel free to comment as long as things are kept positive.  Thank you.

Many Blessings!

~ Nefer

Upcoming image: the ghost in the mirror

I know I promised to get that photo up of the ghost I caught in a mirror at Houmas House Plantation in Darrow, LA, but I haven't been able to accomplish that just yet.  My husband is super sick from a sinus infection and I am busy trying to fight one off.  

I'm new to blogging and I have to figure out how to re-save my photos taken directly from my digital camera into less pixels (400 X 350, max) for the blog.  If I post it straight from my camera it will cause my blog to load slowly for people with slower ISP's and connection to the Internet.  

My goal is to post the picture here ASAP so we can have a forum in which to discuss it.  There are new developments. I have been in email contact with Kevin Kelly, the current owner.  He has now verified for me that the "stain", that appears like a cloud, on the upper portion of the mirror is NO stain.  According to him the mirror is unblemished.  

So, looks like I not only caught one ghost, but TWO in the SAME picture!!!  

WOO HOO!!!

Thank You for All the Encouragement

This is so nice!  I want to thank everyone who have taken the time to either post comments or send me emails wishing me luck with my blog and for all the encouragement and support I have received.  I'd been wanting to do this forever, but I was clueless, but found a wonderful book that is sooooo helpful.  It is by Tara Frey and the title is, Blogging for Bliss.  If you have any interest in starting your own blog or you would like tips on how to improve your existing blog, this book has a lot of answers.  It's clearly written and easy to understand, even for someone as computer inept as I am, and that's really saying something! 

I've received a lot of feedback on the ghostly image I caught in that mirror at Houmas House Plantation, too.  For those of you who haven't seen it, I sent this out yesterday to my mailing list from my website, magickal-musings.com.  Some say the ghost looks like a male servant or just a man in general and some say it looks like a soldier.  For those of you who are seeing this ghost as a soldier, what factors of his appearance are you focusing on that are causing you to identify him as such?  To me, all I see is a head of short-cropped hair, a starched white collar, and what appears to be a black suit.  I figured it was the ghost of just some man who had at one time stood in front of that mantle.  

For those of you who have viewed this blog and your'e wondering just what the heck we're talking about and are dying to see this ghostly image, I'll be posting hopefully sometime this weekend.  The picture is directly from my digital camera, but I have just discovered if I post it as-is directly from the camera it will use up a lot of pixels or maybe memory, I don't know, and it will cause my blog to load slowly for people with slower internet connections.  I have to re-size the photo using Microsoft Paint to within 400 by 350 pixels.  So, I have to figure out where on my computer Paint is (or even if it came with my computer, may not have), and then I have to figure out how to use that program to resize a photo.  Once I have worked out this slight technical glitch I'll get that picture of the ghost in the mirror up immediately.  

Also, Tasha noted in my Cbox sidebar here that she can see a face in the trees behind the angel photo that is currently serving as the banner for my blog. I haven't been able to find it.  Can anyone else see this face?

Special thanks to the following who have commented:  Tasha, Gretta, Lisa, GoddessFindings (I think this is you, J, right?), and in email:  Anna, Paul, Ryna, Elizabeth B., Nancy T., Annette, and Tina K.  

Finally, a great big THANK YOU goes out to Henri in Finland who first suggested I put a blog together.  At the time I had no idea what he was talking about.  LOL!

I really LOVED New Orleans and I'll also be posting pictures from that trip, as well as our summer trip to MAUI (yes!) in upcoming posts.  Nothing paranormal about the Maui pics, but they sure are beautiful.


Light & Blessings,

~ Nefer

Correction!!

No wonder some of you have told me you're having trouble finding the orb in the picture.  I told you the wrong floor!  So sorry about that.  The orb appears below the two center windows of the THIRD floor, not the 2nd floor.  So look up and you'll see the orb approximately to the left of the center of the picture in my previous post.

I've been looking at my pictures from New Orleans and was thrilled to find reflected in a mirror in an old plantation home we toured the partial reflection of a man.  You're probably thinking, "well, big deal!"  If you were there you'd know it was a big deal because no one in our tour group of 4, including our guide (the 5th person) were dressed in that manner.  I truly believe I caught the image of a full body aparition, but unfortunately he's not cooperating and I didn't get his full reflection in the mirror, only a partial.  

It's late so this is going to serve as a teaser - sorry about that.  I have to get to sleep, plus I feel I'm coming down with a bad sinus infection.  My husband's been sick with one for days now and it must be viral if I'm also getting sick.  Anyway, I will post the full shot and then a zoom-in close up of this ghostly image sometime in the next few days so come back to see it, plus more pictures of the LaLaurie Mansion that shows an orb floating from window to window.  

Blessings to All!  

~ Nefer 

Whew! My Blog is Up!

Well, they said Blogger would be easy, but then again I was told giving birth to a child would be easy, too.  I need to be more discerning about who I listen to!  LOL  Anyway, it's up, here it is, take a gander and let me know what you would like to see posted here.  

A word about my name ~  I am a spiritual practitioner (candle work, reiki, tarot, channeling, and soul portraits) and I call upon Egyptian deities when I perform candle work.  I must admit right up front that my name is a professional psuedonym I was forced to choose due to my husband moving up in the banking world.  His bank is owned by born again Southern Baptists and if they found out about my business my husband would surely lose his job.  

I thought about it long and hard, finally deciding upon an Egyptian name to reflect my faith in the Egyptian gods and goddesses.  My name breaks down quite simply, as:

Nefer = Beautiful

Khepri = Morning Sun, or Sunrise

Egyptians add titles at the end of names.  "Hemet" is a title and it translates as "Priestess."  I have been a practitioner of Wicca since 1981 and a priestess since 1994.

Now for the picture on my site.  You probably think, "hmm, this lady works with Egyptian gods yet she has an angel on her page.  What's up with that?"  

Good question!  

The reason is simple:  I took this picture on November 21, 2009 in Lafayette Cemetary, No. 1 in New Orleans, Louisana.  My husband took me there on a surprise vacation.  I went to the cemetary with  the hope of catching something paranormal in a photo.  I took several pictures of this statue of the angel, which is on top of a mausoleum, or ground-surface tomb.  I took two shots of him with the tree in the background.  I didn't move and the atmosphere never changed.  This is the first shot.  The second shot is the same except that this large cloudy mass is missing from the second shot.  You can see it extending all the way from the middle of the left-hand side of the picture and completely across the angel and slightly beyond him to the right. Needless to say, when I arrived home and uploaded my pictures I was thrilled to pieces with this photo!  My first thought was, "this will be the picture I upload to my new blog!"  So, here it is.  I'd appreciate hearing what you think about it.  The next day while on a ghost tour I caught some orbs in pictures and will be posting those soon.  Since they're small orbs I'm not sure they will translate well to the internet, but we'll see.  

Let me try ...  here's one:

This is the infamous LaLaurie Mansion in New Orleans.  Google it and read all about Dauphine LaLaurie and I can about guarantee you'll have nightmares.  This was one evil woman!  Anyway, if you look closely at the second floor just below the 2 center windows of the third floor you'll see a bluish sphere.  That, my friends, is an orb.  I caught it myself and no, it was not visible with the naked eye.  

If you look for light sources you'll see that obviously the exterior is lit along the overhang from the second story balcony.  However, the light travels only downward, not up.  The entire mansion (currently owned by actor Nicholas Cage, but he's looking to sell due to all the bad spirits there - he says he'll eat there, but he won't sleep there!) on the interior was dark.  The only other source of nearby light was a mock gas lamp on the corner.  It was nowhere near as bright as to be able to cast a reflection up to the second floor of this building.  Also, the exterior is gray unpolished stone.  This is not a reflective surface.  If you will look at the balcony and the light between the two second floor windows on the right and the two windows in the center you'll see what appears to be a white cloud.  That's not a cloud.  It's a reflection from the light shining from the ceiling of the second story balcony overhang.  So you can see the difference in a single shot between a reflection of light and then whatever it is I caught.  Note that it's blue.  Watching paranormal television as much as I do I've seen tons of "orbs" on TV, however, they always appear to be white or grayish and these can easily be discounted as dust particles, bugs, or reflections.  The orb that I caught was blue and it also moved from the far left-hand side of the building almost all the way to the right side.  Reflections don't move.  This is what I told my husband who is convinced it's a reflection, but then he thought it was kind of weird how it kept showing up and seemed to be moving.  I wasn't moving. I took all my shots from the same stance.  

Let me know what you think!  I'm dying to know. 

My digital camera will give you a 1-second freeze frame of every photo I take so I can have a quick look.  When I saw that I had caught an orb (a smaller one in an earlier picture) I began snapping like a mad woman!  I caught several orbs along the exterior of this building.  This is just one of the better shots that I think would show up best here.  

New Orleans is an awesome city and I highly recommend it if you ever get the chance to go, please do!  For those of you interested in the paranormal, there's a lot to see and do there.  I'll be writing more about the great time I had in upcoming posts.

I look forward to hearing from each of you and I hope that you enjoy my blog.  

Many Blessings!

Nefer Khepri Hemet, Ph. D. 

http://www.magickal-musings.com

IsisRaAnpu@aol.com