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The Wishing Well

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14:57 / 20.01.07

Need relief from back pain? New job? Romantic opportunity? Make a wish here, drop a penny on the floor and your wish shall be granted. No world peace or snuffing out the sun I'm afraid, anything else you're good though.

I'll start- I Wish For A Better Job!

Less searchable M0rd4nt

15:19 / 20.01.07

I wish for people with pretentions to magical practice would finally learn to tell the difference between info derived from myth and legend, info derived from interacting with Persons of Restricted Embodiment and Places of Unconventional Geography, and stuff they've just pulled out of their ears.

I further wish for everyone who's ever claimed to have vanquished a God in single combat on Teh Astral Plane to actually get in an actual fight with that actual God for fucking real. If a pair of opera glasses and popcorn could be made available, so much the groovier.

15:27 / 20.01.07

Wow. Is this a penny for your thoughts?

18:20 / 20.01.07

If I drop a dime, do I get ten wishes? (Or just a phone call? er... a phone call in, like, the 1970s? whenever it was that pay phones cost a dime...)

02:15 / 21.01.07

I think the issue is the dropping of the coin, not the value of the coin itself.

I wish that everyone who posts here gets their wish. That might sound trite but I actually do wish that. How lovely would things be if everyone got their wishes?

02:16 / 21.01.07

BTW - I actually did drop my coin in the metaphorical well. I believe that's the point.

03:03 / 21.01.07

The act of offering votive gifts to bodies of water can be traced to the perception of those bodies as liminal spaces. By throwing something precious into a well, pond, lake, river, or ocean the hope was the gift would be accept by the Otherworld. In some cases it was the literal Otherworld of the body of water but often it was the Chthonic Otherworld of the Earth and Underworld and the Powers that ruled those places.

At some sites the gift was given to the specific Deity or Spirit embodied by the place, in others the surface of the water acted as a doorway for the gift to travel through. In some of the European sites excavated many of the votive artifacts show signs having been 'killed' or broken before being offered. It is speculated that that this may have kept covetous searchers from trying to recover the item.

A really big penny, the bronze shield of Lough Gur Ireland.

So if you're going to throw a penny into a wishing well, you might want to think about where you'd like your penny to go and who you're asking the wish of.

For Americans I suggest you skip the penny and upgrade to a Sacagawea. She's got some great symbolic impact on this here land of ours and seems to be a delight to the spirits of other lands.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

03:11 / 21.01.07

I make jewellery and put it in water. Mostly bead rings, but sometimes more sophisticated stuff.

I don't always make a wish though. Sometimes it's just to say Hi.

06:37 / 21.01.07

I wish I didn't keep losing me birds.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

09:03 / 21.01.07

I wish Ganesh had an escape-proof aviary.

Unconditional Love

22:09 / 21.01.07

i wish you could both sit down together and watch ghost dog.

00:43 / 22.01.07

I wish for plenty of everything that I need, and a little bit more to give away.

12:17 / 22.01.07

I wish for my coin back.

Daemon est Deus Inversus

18:55 / 31.01.07

"WHEN I was one-and-twenty
I heard a wise man say,
‘Give crowns and pounds and guineas
But not your heart away;

Give pearls away and rubies
But keep your fancy free.’
But I was one-and-twenty,
No use to talk to me.

When I was one-and-twenty
I heard him say again,
‘The heart out of the bosom
Was never given in vain;
’Tis paid with sighs a plenty
And sold for endless rue.’
And I am two-and-twenty,
And oh, ’tis true, ’tis true."- A.E. Housman.

If you want to join an order, do. Most people need a bit of discipline. As to wishes, find a grimoire, ignore the text. Fix the sigil in your mind. Extract the Mercury from yourself. Dab a bit not ingested on the paper; mix the ashes in wine. Then, hope that,

"When I was five and forty..."

20:43 / 31.01.07

I wish that things would finally come together for the two of us.

20:44 / 31.01.07

I wish I could fly way up to the sky (but I can't).

22:56 / 31.01.07

I wish for a computer that doesnt give up the ghost every few weeks!

12:13 / 03.07.07

Bumped because the GEK thread is playing up again, with people using it as a wishing well (My wish for a new job is approaching fruition BTW, slowly!)

My Mom Thinks I'm Cool

17:28 / 03.07.07

when it rains lots and those little waterfalls and streams run down the subway tunnel walls and through the muck, I toss in things I think New York might like.

also this thread just reminded me that the guy who sold me a banana this morning gave me back a Hong Kong Dollar coin instead of a quarter, which is way cooler.

uhm, and I wish for a safe trip out of the country for my friend.

Aha! I am Klarion

01:36 / 04.07.07

I wish I will meet a hot, healthy woman tomorrow who is completely enamored with me, my thoughts, and my personality and extremely horny.

Penny 2 you well

(Is this an exercise in solicitation or masturbation?)

18:40 / 05.07.07

I must confess that I don't much care for this thread as much as the GEK thread. Gek was a cute lizardy guy that had a face and was easy to relate to. This wishing well thing just seems so impersonal to me.

Also I looked through the latter pages of the GEK thread and didn't see anything about the GEK contract being revoked, could someone link to the post in question?

18:51 / 05.07.07

Nevermind, just got to that bit in the policy thread.

18:51 / 05.07.07

Here you go.
Personally I feel there is no need for any wishing thread of any kind in the Temple, it's feck all to do with magic. I only made this one as a place that wasn't GEK. I'm proposing a move to convo.

18:53 / 05.07.07

Your wish is granted!

18:54 / 05.07.07

I'll go and spend a penny.

18:59 / 05.07.07

I thought that was more of a revision than a revocation, but I now see where the problem is with the original thread. Which is a shame, because I always thought it was a nice idea. I think I only used the GEK thread once, but I always kept it in mind in case there was ever a difficulty I felt particularly helpless about.

Our Lady Has Left the Building

19:20 / 05.07.07

Here's my penny.

I wish for Optimus Prime. The REAL one, not this CGI'ed Jonny-come-lately. The one that would cradle me in his giant hands and tell me it was all going to be all right, and that Daddy would come back some day ...

19:53 / 05.07.07

Right.

I wish for the power of a god.

The sort of god that has the power to crush Bono from U2, Lenny Henry and ... Bono from U2 again with good measure. Their souls would be cast into eternal perdition, and I would laugh while I was sending them there.

I'd like to be able to fly, so I could hover above the Poundstretcher and the charity shops on (where I live) Road and destroy them with my wrath, because they are lowering the property values.

I'd like, ideally, to be a thousand feet tall, staring blankly down at the smoking crater I'd made of the world, worshipped as a God by whatever lifeforms remained, ants and so forth; rats; grouse: salmon - Wishing Well, could you sort this out? I'll be your best friend, etc.

Here's 5p

20:04 / 05.07.07

And I'm now going for a pint, or several.

I wouldn't want to be you, Wishing Well, as and when I make my weary way back home - In my capacity as a genius and heir to William Blake's legacy, I am no stranger to being 'caught short'.

20:08 / 05.07.07

I think you know what I mean.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

20:21 / 05.07.07

Dear Well,

Please to use your mystic might to stop the Temple from periodically making me want to move to a small log cabin in the mountains with no running water or electricity where I will have 3 dogs and at least twice as many GUNS.

Thanks,

McTalks.

Tryphena Absent

22:32 / 05.07.07

Dear Well,

Do you have any idea how many sets of song lyrics there are about you? Jesus you're prolific and not in a good way if you know what I mean.

Love,
AdL

Aha! I am Klarion

22:33 / 08.07.07

I wish barbelith board was more exciting and full of intellectual energy, cultural pluralism, and new and obscure bits of information and culture. More invisible college and less of what might slowly seeming more like a small, charming distraction.

Let us have a major influx of new ideas and madness. Especially over in the fashion, science, art, books, music, and comics sections.

Let us all grow and expand and share.

Please, wishing well make the Barbelith board as interesting and exciting as I once found it, if not three times as exciting and interesting.

08:52 / 10.07.07

I wish for a never ending river of top notch cider, fame fortune and success for my band and that the squat I hyave just moved into will still be a squatted building in fifty years' time.

09:04 / 10.07.07

I considering wishing people would stop insisting everything has to be an either/or situation. Sometimes it's both, sometimes neither, and the lesser of two evils is still evil, without meaning someone isn't 'seeing my side' or that they're inherently ignorant of the 'real issue.'

But, in case you're one of those newfangled serious real-worldy practical-wishes-only wishing well, um, I'd like some elk meat, well-done, and a bottle of good brandy.

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