Hello All, 
	It was Valentine's Day yesterday and I spaced off buying the 
valentines for my girls to take to school until the last minute. In a 
small town this isn't a good thing.  We found one box, which wouldn't 
be bad except for the fact that both girls needed valentines for 
their whole class and the box didn't have enough for everyone. So the 
kids in my oldest daughter's class are receiving homemade valentines 
complete with pink paper lacy hearts, stickers and glitter on the 
front of the cards. Of course making valentine cards would not be 
complete with out tormenting your younger sister by telling her the 
glitter is all yours.
	It's also getting to be the time of year when gardening 
starts becoming something I dream about on a regular basis. Which 
reminds me I have to get my order in for my seeds, that I have been 
putting off until we have the money, sent in soon. I'm planning on 
ordering a lot of sample sized packages of herb seeds and see how 
many I can actually make grow. I figure if I get seven plants I will 
have paid for my order in savings over buying plants. Considering I 
am going to order 30 packages I think chances are good I will get 
more then 7 plants. 

So until next time,
Sheila K. Watkins
Editor: Whispers of a Stone Circle 
See last page of this newsletter for submission guidelines, 
forwarding guidelines, where you can subscribe to Whispers and 
copyright information.
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Once upon a Dream
By Sheila K. Watkins 

Once upon a dream 
In a time meant to be
Soul kin wander hand in hand
Goddess lead through dreamlands
Soul kin watching souls' first birth
As power flows for all it's worth
Long ago and far away
Silent dreams of yesterday
Is it but a Memory?
Does it answer what will be?

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Cool Link(s) of the week: Finding God in Cyberspace: A Guide To 
Religious Studies Resources on the Internet 
http://www.fontbonne.edu/libserv/fgic/contents.htm One of the better 
web portals for the study of all religions.

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Meeting the Goddess Meditation
By Sheila K Watkins

As always wear comfortable clothing, nothing binding and get in a 
comfortable position for meditating. Find a place and a time you will 
not be disturbed but if you are know you will come out safely and 
quickly.

Slowly go under seeing the colors in this order. You don't have to 
hold the color for long but do not go on to the next until you see 
the color you are on.

Red
Orange
Yellow
Green
Blue
Purple (or violet)

See a white hall and start walking along it.  At the end of the hall 
there are steps climbing up to what appears to be a shimmering 
ceiling. Look at the steps and notice what they are made of before 
you start climbing. White wood, gray stone, what? Slowly start 
climbing counting from 19 down to 1 as you climb for you know that 
the steps number 19. 

19
18
17
16
15
14
13
12
11
10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1

As you reach the top of the steps you slide though the ceiling, for 
it is made of water. You find you can breath easily as you start 
swimming upward from the depths. As you swim the water gets lighter 
and lighter until you break the surface in the middle of a reflection 
of the full moon but you do not stop until you are completely free of 
the water and flying. 

Up and up farther you fly and land on the land facing away from the 
water.  You turn and find the water is confined to your own chalice 
with the full moon reflecting in its depths.  You see that you are 
dressed in dry robes of white and gold. You lift the cup to your lips 
and closing your eyes you take a sip, feel the power and the magic 
flow as you drink. 

You open your eyes and there before you stands the Goddess. The one 
you follow.

Greet and welcome her with words of your choosing.

Ask her for any words of wisdom that she might have to impart to you. 

When she is finished talking, thank her for her wisdom. 

You bow to turn to walk away but the path you took to reach here is 
gone. The wisdom of it's journey now a part of you.  You turn back to 
the Goddess and she is now gone. Before you is a cave opening with a 
light beckoning far into its depths. 

Through the darkness you walk into the light. Before you are steps, 
which slope down.  You start walking down them counting one by one. 

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19

And there before you is a familiar hall. Walk down the hall and when 
you reach its end, start rising back through the colors

Purple (or violet)
Blue
Green
Yellow
Orange 
Red
And now you are out

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Announcement(s): 
Feel free to forward announcement as you wish but please keep the 
total announcement together. (In other words: feel free to clip this 
portion out and send it on to others if you wish.) 

Announcing for the April 1, 2002 special edition: 
The humor edition of Whispers of a Stone Circle 
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WhispersOfAStoneCircle/
What is eligible: Deliberately cheesy poetry, Spoof articles on any 
pagan subject, Wildly inaccurate History whatever your little heart 
finds funny. 
LadyHighPriestessFaerieDawnLightbringer will edit the issue.
Deadline: March 25, 2002.
Judges: whomever I can con into helping me read through everything.
Prizes: An honorary 1st 2nd or 3rd degree (depending on what place 
the person gets) in 
DanishWiccanGypsyGwyddonsBritishtradWelshroyalitygaelictradsNewAgeCrys
talweareringllewellynfluffbunnyhophophopFamilyTrad complete with 
degree suitable for printing and framing. All submissions will be 
receiving an initiate degree as a thank you. 

Rules:
1) Submission must be an original work with the copyright still in 
the name of the writer. Copyright as always remains the author's but 
agrees to be published in the special edition if deemed the winner. 
The Winners as well as second, third and all runners up will be 
placed on a special website for the world to read. 
2) I would prefer is submissions came in as the body of e-mail but if 
submitted as an attachment must be a .doc file and something I can 
read on MS word 97. 
3) Author must submit under his or her real or craft name but also 
must provide a pen (goofy) name for the article to be published under 
as well as a fake bio for the pen name. The more outrageous the bio 
the better. The author's real name will be posted with the fake bio 
in parentheses unless the author begs to be protected from anyone 
ever knowing he or she wrote the submission.
4) Sections for the contest: poetry and prose, Articles, Other. 
Please place submission for April Fool's issue: Poetry & prose, 
submission for April Fool's issue: Article, or submission for April 
Fool's issue: Other as the subject line of the submission.
5) Submissions will be judged for creativity, originality, and humor. 
Bios will be considered as part of the submission. `
6) Submissions should be made to: zeliziw@netins.net on or before 
March 25, 2002
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Writer's Biographies: 

Sheila K. Watkins knew from the time she was 15 that she wanted to be 
a writer but did not really start writing until she entered college 
where she worked on her college newspaper and also worked as the 
editor of the feature section for one semester. She was also 
introduced to the love of writing poetry at this time. Fortunately 
for all of us most of the poems have been lost to the world of men. 
After college she worked several jobs during the next few years but 
none included writing. It wasn't until after both of her children had 
started school in 1998 that she went back to her love of putting 
words on a computer screen. Her first submission was accepted by 
publication by the IOWAN newsletter and it started her on the path of 
truly honing her work. In October of 2000, she founded and became 
editor of Whispers of a Stone Circle.

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Submissions are always welcomed and can be made to: Zeliziw@netins.net
In submitting materials writers are agreeing that if accepted I may 
post them in the newsletter and on the web page (whenever I finally 
get back to work on it.) Works submitted must be the writer's own 
work and they must still retain the copyright OR it must be 
verifiably public domain. Works can have been published before but 
please nothing that has been around over and over again. Copyright 
remains in the author's possession. The Author also realizes that 
they will not be paid. (If I had money I would be hosting this on 
something other then Yahoo.) If a submission is accepted, I will 
check for punctuation, capitalization and spelling in submitted 
articles. I will fix minor errors if they are present. I will NOT 
reword things (except for an occasional "an" for "a" and vice versa.) 
Poems are published as submitted. 

Forwarding information: If you chose to forward this newsletter, do 
so in its entirety, including copyright and contact information. 
People may subscribe to Whispers of A Stone Circle at: 
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WhispersOfAStoneCircle/


All articles, poems, etc, except where noted are copyrighted by the 
writers and are used with permission. They are not to be republished 
without the express permission of the writers. Contact information 
may be obtained by contacting the editor of Whispers of A Stone 
Circle at Zeliziw@netins.net 

Copyright (c) 2002 Sheila K. Watson.
All Rights Reserved