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Airy Faerie Ostara 2008 Airy Faerie Bats In Their Ostara 2008 Bonnets Publisher’s Notes Welcome back to another edition of the Denver Faeries’ Airy reindeer. Poor Mr. Bun has to hop all over the world delivering his Faerie. Let’s see…the days are getting warmer, there is more baskets of goodies to good boys and girls. Ok for some special sunlight, we have changed our clocks ahead one hour, the weather kids, a visit from the Easter Beagle does lighten the load for poor report is a mix of 60 degree days and days with snow, and Phoenix Mr. Bun. Thanks Snoopy, at least someone helps out. I show our is busy cooking eggs so that we can color them tomorrow. So this tired holiday hero filling his last basket for the season. Here is to must be our Ostara issue. Happy spring everyone! I hope you enjoy you Mr. Easter Bunny! I’ll leave some extra carrots out for you. the vernal equinox, the time when light and darkness are balanced. With that I will close this pub note and let you go enjoy our I have heard rumors that you can stand an egg up right at the Ostara issue and the start of spring. Maybe you can try balancing an equinox but have never tried it. If anyone has been successful at this egg after you read the issue! please let me know. I am sure there must be a YouTube video of Be well my Faerie Brothers and Sisters! someone doing this out there, heck they have everything else. Anyway, back to the issue. Our faerie monsters continue their Much Love, Faerie Blessings and Naked Hugs, celebrations of the holidays on our cover. Our young prince Apollo DragonSwan continues on his adventures, trapped in the past. Of course we continue to have our images and writings of male nudity and gay sexual acts. This means we also continue our nudity and sex warning. Please be careful where you view this fae zine, and who you share it with. Not everyone enjoys, or is old enough to view naked men or sexually active gay men. Continuing on…(Sorry I’ll stop continuing to continue.) Phoenix starts off his offerings with a new series called “Make You Think.” I know thinking is a dangerous past time, and can cause headaches, but he does have some interesting thoughts to share. He also offers some thoughts on the Goddess we honor at Ostara. He has been doing a lot of thinking lately. If you have some thoughts to share with us, please feel free to send them our way. We always love to hear from our readers. On the back cover, along with some cooking tips from Ms. Panz, I pay a small tribute to the overworked star of Easter: the Easter Bunny. Unlike his Christmas counter part, Mr. Claus, the Easter Bunny does not have a workshop full of elves doing his work. He does not even get to sit his lazy ass in a sleigh pulled by magical Airy Faerie The Airy Faerie is a publication of the Denver Radical Faerie Tribe. For more information you can contact us at: Denver Radical Faeries PO Box 631 Denver, CO 80201-0631 or send an email to: [email protected] or visit us at Ostara 2008 www.geocities.com/denverfae These Things Shall Never Die by Charles Dickens 12 The pure, the bright, the beautiful That stirred our hearts in youth, The impulses to wordless prayer, 9 3 The streams of love and truth, 6 The longing after something lost, The spirit’s yearning cry, The striving after better hopes — These things can never die. The timid hand stretched forth to aid A brother in his need; A kindly word in grief’s dark hour That proves a friend indeed; The plea for mercy softly breathed, When justice threatens high, The sorrow of a contrite heart — These things shall never die. Let nothing pass, for every hand Must find some work to do, Lost not a chance to waken love, ou up Be firm and just and true. Pick y at 7:00 So shall a light that cannot fade Beam on thee from on high, And angel voices say to thee — ”These things shall never die.” Lines Written in Early Spring by William Wordsworth I heard a thousand blended notes, The birds around me hopped and played, While in a grove I sate reclined, Their thoughts I cannot measure:— In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts But the least motion which they made Bring sad thoughts to the mind. It seemed a thrill of pleasure. To her fair works did Nature link The budding twigs spread out their fan, The human soul that through me ran; To catch the breezy air; And much it grieved my heart to think And I must think, do all I can, What man has made of man. That there was pleasure there. Through primrose tufts, in that green bower, If this belief from heaven be sent, The periwinkle trailed its wreaths; If such be Nature’s holy plan, And ’tis my faith that every flower Have I not reason to lament Enjoys the air it breathes. What man has made of man? Samhain 2007 Page 3 Make You Think: The Number 19 by Phoenix After last issue’s article about Brid, I was asked what was the believe. If I act just because I was told to do something in a certain significance of the number nineteen as associated with that way, it means that I can play copy cat. But if I figure out why, Goddess. I honestly didn’t know but it made me think. If I have to embrace it and claim it for my own, then I can go beyond what I was think, then so do you. It hurts to think, so pain shared is pain taught and create something new. divided. I have had a flood of ideas that I want to bring into this series Actually, as a society I don’t think we think enough. Are (Thank you Brid for your gift of inspiration!). Things I have been you old enough to remember “Question Authority” as the slogan thinking about for this series include why is a snake on the symbol during the youth movement and years of ‘the generation gap’? of healing when we have such a strong snake = evil image in our Questioning authority, in and of itself, is not necessarily a bad thing society? What changed? Or why is it a Triple Goddess? She is often when presented in a proper manner at the proper time. When done represented by three phases of the moon – new, half and full. But right it can be a good learning tool. You may find out that the we know that the waxing and waning moon energies are different so authority had good reason for what they did. You may find out that shouldn’t there be at least four aspects of the Goddess instead of they are all smoke and mirrors and don’t have a clue. Or they may three? I’m not going to give away all my questions yet, so time to have had a good reason once upon a time and have done it that way dive into the question of the issue – Why would the number for so long that they have forgotten the reason and needed your nineteen be important to Brid? question to force them to remember. And maybe you find that the My first thought wasn’t pretty. We have twenty fingers and toes. reason is no longer valid and it is time for change. But it all starts How many was She going to ask us to give up to gain her favor? She from asking the question. isn’t greedy, so She would let us keep one. My guess is a toe so that The world of the internet’s urban legends counts on you to not when we whine that Her gift wasn’t exactly what we wanted, She think, to not question the authority. They want you to take their could arrange to have someone step on it to remind us what we gave information at face value and pass the message on without thinking. up to receive her gift. Now that isn’t the nicest of images, so I think The more people that do that, the more it grows into a life of its own I will move on to the next idea. and sounds more real with each generation of notes. Then one day, Nineteen is a prime number. It is the largest prime number that you get a response from a friend telling you to go check out we have in those same twenty fingers and toes. That has some www.snopes.com to read the truth. If you are lucky, they send that possibility, so I’ll file that thought away for later consideration if to just you. Otherwise, they will send it to all of your friends so that nothing better comes along. they will know that you are an idiot who acts without thinking. And of course, when facing those of the religious right, their followers are generally taught that they can’t think for themselves. They must find their answer in the holy book and the priests will be sure to tell them how to think about what they read. When entering a discussion with one of those people, chances of getting them to give you a real response to the question “what you do think” are slim and none.
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