{"id":122,"date":"2008-10-27T21:25:29","date_gmt":"2008-10-28T03:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gaiasgarden.com\/blog\/?p=122"},"modified":"2010-10-01T16:05:29","modified_gmt":"2010-10-01T22:05:29","slug":"mystery-cat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gaiasgarden.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/27\/mystery-cat\/","title":{"rendered":"Mystery Cat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This time of the year is filled with all things Halloween and it&#8217;s almost time for all the little witches, ghosts and goblins to roam the streets in search of goodies. Are you ready?<\/p>\n<p>Today I was watching the golden autumnal light catching the trees on fire and found myself thinking about how mystery and magic seems to be everywhere and sometimes where it&#8217;s least expected.<\/p>\n<p>I found a big beautiful black cat in my garden while I was picking two ripe pomegranates from our tree. There he was, larger than life peering down at me from his perch high above, so I turned to place my fruit on a table near by and when I turned back around he was nowhere to be found. Spooky!<\/p>\n<p>I quickly left the garden and returned to the house, and when I opened the back door I was greeted by the smell of homemade bread baking in the oven.Yum!<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Fires of Samhain<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Meat, beer, nut mast, chitterlings,<\/p>\n<p>They are the dues of Samhain;<\/p>\n<p>A merry bonfire on the hill,<\/p>\n<p>Buttermilk, fresh-buttered bread.&#8221;- Irish Poem<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-131\" title=\"wildwoman1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gaiasgarden.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/wildwoman1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"414\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gaiasgarden.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/wildwoman1.jpg 414w, https:\/\/www.gaiasgarden.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/wildwoman1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.gaiasgarden.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/wildwoman1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gaiasgarden.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/wildwoman1-250x250.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.gaiasgarden.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/wildwoman1-62x62.jpg 62w, https:\/\/www.gaiasgarden.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/wildwoman1-184x184.jpg 184w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 414px) 100vw, 414px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Faery <\/strong>&#8211; Combined Media &#8211; 10 X10 inches<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A strange black cat on your porch brings prosperity.&#8221; &#8211; Scottish Folklore<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Everyday Goddessing\u00a0 is about     sharing magical techniques and sacred wisdom with other beautiful     Goddess women. I believe that within every woman there is a goddess, a     wise woman, beautiful, creative, powerful, with a deep soul, and that     everything we need and are looking for is already inside\u00a0 each of us.  \u2013    Rose Arizmendi<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This time of the year is filled with all things Halloween and it&#8217;s almost time for all the little witches, ghosts and goblins to roam the streets in search of goodies. Are you ready? Today I was watching the golden autumnal light catching the trees on fire and found myself thinking about how mystery and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[624,19],"tags":[908,25,27,24,26,28],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiasgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiasgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiasgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiasgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiasgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiasgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3016,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiasgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions\/3016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiasgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiasgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiasgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}