Newsletter Issue #22 Ready to Go!

The summer solstice issue of the newsletter went out today. It's a bit behind schedule, but is worth the wait! We have a wonderful article and incredible poem from two first-time contributors as well as some pretty awesome quotes to inspire us all. If you haven't already, be sure to sign up for the newsletter at the site. If you did not receive the newsletter for any reason, be sure to check out issue #22 at the archive.

The next issue will be for the autumn equinox. The theme will be "catching up." If you have any submissions you would like to share, start sending them in today! The deadline for issue #23 submissions is 01 September 2012.

Blessings,
Evy

List of Evy's Redirected Articles

I used to publish articles on HubPages for awhile back in 2011-2012. At first it seemed great, but then quickly became apparent that it was just as bad as all the other "content farms" out there, making money off of people's time, energy, and writing through the ads placed on and around their articles, giving mere pennies to the money they made off them. Obviously, I ditched that site and have been moving my writing ever since.

The following list provides the title of the articles that have moved, the URL they were previously published at, and their current locations. Be sure to check this entry as this list will continue to update as articles are relocated.

Beltane Celebration Ideas for Beginners (Was located at http://evylynrose.hubpages.com/hub/Beltane-Celebration-Ideas-for-Beginners) Can now be found at http://www.moonlightmessages.com/wicca-101/sabbats/beltane

Bigotry and Religion: Misunderstanding Respect of Individual Beliefs (Was located at http://evylynrose.hubpages.com/hub/Bigotry-and-Religion) Can now be found at http://www.moonlightmessages.com/beyond-the-basics/understanding-bigotry-in-religion-and-respecting-individual-beliefs

Candle Magick: Understanding the Power of Candles (Was located at http://evylynrose.hubpages.com/hub/Candle-Magick-Understanding-the-Power-of-Candles) Can now be found at http://www.moonlightmessages.com/magick-and-spells/candle-magick

Common Word Usage Misunderstanding: Root of "Witch" (Was located at http://evylynrose.hubpages.com/hub/Root-of-Witch) Can now be found at http://www.moonlightmessages.com/wicca-101/understanding-the-word-witch

Examining the All Gods Are One God Debate (Was located at http://evylynrose.hubpages.com/hub/Examining-the-All-Gods-Are-One-God-Debate) Can now be found at http://www.moonlightmessages.com/beyond-the-basics/examining-the-all-gods-are-one-god-debate

False Superstars: Remembering the Real Heroes of Your Faith (Was located at http://evylynrose.hubpages.com/hub/False-Superstars-Forgetting-the-Real-Heroes) Can now be found at http://www.moonlightmessages.com/beyond-the-basics/false-superstars-in-religions-remember-the-real-heroes-of-your-faith

The Importance of Protection Magick (Was located at http://evylynrose.hubpages.com/hub/The-Importance-of-Protection-Magick) Can now be found at http://www.moonlightmessages.com/magick-and-spells/importance-of-protection-magick

Magickal Tools: Combining Personal Energy With Other Objects (Was located at http://evylynrose.hubpages.com/hub/Magickal-Tools-Combining-Personal-Energy-With-Other-Items) Can now be found at http://www.moonlightmessages.com/magick-and-spells/purpose-of-tools-in-magick

Midsummer Celebration Ideas for Beginners (Was located at http://evylynrose.hubpages.com/hub/Midsummer-Celebration-Ideas-for-Beginners) Can now be found at http://www.moonlightmessages.com/wicca-101/sabbats/midsummer

Ostara Celebration Ideas for Beginners (Was located at http://evylynrose.hubpages.com/hub/Ostara-Celebration-Ideas-for-Beginners) Can now be found at http://www.moonlightmessages.com/wicca-101/sabbats/ostara

Paganism and Magick Do Not Always Go Hand-in-Hand (Was located at http://evylynrose.hubpages.com/hub/Paganism-and-Magick-Do-Not-Go-Hand-in-Hand) Can now be found at http://www.moonlightmessages.com/beyond-the-basics/paganism-and-magick-do-not-always-go-hand-in-hand

Recognizing the Difference Between Religion and Spirituality (Was located at http://evylynrose.hubpages.com/hub/Recognizing-the-Difference-Between-Religion-and-Spirituality) Can now be found at http://www.moonlightmessages.com/beyond-the-basics/difference-between-religion-and-spirituality

Samhain Celebration Ideas for Beginners (Was located at http://evylynrose.hubpages.com/hub/Samhain-Celebration-Ideas-for-Beginners) Can now be found at http://www.moonlightmessages.com/wicca-101/sabbats/samhain

Spiritual Home Cleansing Tips and Tricks (Was located at http://evylynrose.hubpages.com/hub/Spiritual-House-Cleansing-Tips-and-Tricks) Can now be found at http://www.moonlightmessages.com/magick-and-spells/home-cleansing-tips-and-tricks

Use of Common Stones in Magick (Was located at http://evylynrose.hubpages.com/hub/Use-of-Common-Stones-in-Magick) Can now be found at http://www.moonlightmessages.com/magick-and-spells/using-common-stones-in-magick-and-spells

What is Wicca? An Answer in a Sea of Voices (Was located at https://exemplore.com/wicca-witchcraft/What-Wicca-Is-An-Answer-In-a-Sea-of-Voices) Can now be found at https://bewitchingmomma.blogspot.com/2018/07/what-wicca-is-answer-in-sea-of-voices.html

Wicca Beginner Tips (Was located at https://hubpages.com/religion-philosophy/Wicca-Beginner-Tips) Can now be found at https://www.moonlightmessages.com/tips-for-beginners/wicca-beginner-tips

Yule Celebration Ideas for Beginners (Was located at http://evylynrose.hubpages.com/hub/Yule-Celebration-Ideas-for-Beginners) and Yule versus Christmas: It Does Not Have to be a Competition (Was located at http://evylynrose.hubpages.com/hub/Yule-versus-Christmas) and Santa Claus for Every Faith (Was located at http://evylynrose.hubpages.com/hub/Santa-Claus-For-Every-Faith) Can now be found at http://www.moonlightmessages.com/wicca-101/sabbats/yule

Still Re-homing:

Akhenaten: The First Stirrings of Monotheism (Was located at https://hubpages.com/religion-philosophy/Akhenaten-The-First-Stirrings-of-Monotheism)

How to Let Go of Anger After Someone Has Wronged You (Was located at https://hubpages.com/religion-philosophy/Letting-Go-of-Anger-After-Someone-Has-Wronged-You)

Changing Social Lives: The Influence of Teachers (Was located at https://hubpages.com/religion-philosophy/Changing-Social-Lives)

Fulfilling Our Dreams Through Compromise (Was located at https://hubpages.com/religion-philosophy/Fulfilling-Our-Dreams-Through-Compromise)

Online Dream Interpretation Guides and Resources (Was located at https://hubpages.com/religion-philosophy/Online-Dream-Interpretation-Guides-and-Resources)

When Defending Our Rights Goes Too Far (Was located at https://hubpages.com/religion-philosophy/When-Defending-Our-Rights-Goes-Too-Far)

Human Struggle – Poem (Was located at https://hubpages.com/literature/Human-Struggle-Poem)

Sad World – Poem (Was located at https://hubpages.com/literature/Sad-World-Poem)

Tips to Achieving Exercise Goals (Was located at https://hubpages.com/health/Tips-to-Achieving-Exercise-Goals)

Godless: Negative View of Atheism As Old As Faith (Was located at https://hubpages.com/religion-philosophy/Godless-Negative-View-of-Atheism-As-Old-As-Faith)

You Promised Forty Years – Poem (Was located at https://hubpages.com/literature/You-Promised-Forty-Years-Poem)

Online Publishing: Author or Not? (Was located at https://hubpages.com/literature/Online-Publishing-Author-or-Not)

Saint Germaine – Poem (Was located at https://hubpages.com/literature/Saint-Germaine-Poem)

How to Budget Money the Easy Way (Was located at https://hubpages.com/money/How-to-Budget-Money-the-Easy-Way)

Starting and Running an Online Message Forum (Was located at https://hubpages.com/technology/Starting-and-Running-an-Online-Message-Forum)

Agnosticism Is Not Atheism (Was located at https://hubpages.com/religion-philosophy/Agnosticism-Is-Not-Atheism)

Dark Matter and Dark Energy: What We Currently Know (Was located at https://hubpages.com/education/Dark-Matter-What-We-Currently-Know)

How Stars Are Born (Was located at https://hubpages.com/education/How-Stars-Are-Born)

Jewelry from a Stranger: The Gift that Still Touches My Heart (Was located at https://hubpages.com/style/Jewelry-from-a-Stranger)

Gender Perceptions: Pointing Blame for the World’s Ills (Was located at https://hubpages.com/relationships/Gender-Perceptions-Pointing-Blame-for-the-Worlds-Ills)

God and Evolution Can Go Together (Was located at https://hubpages.com/religion-philosophy/God-and-Evolution-Can-Go-Together)

A Death of a World – Poem (Was located at https://hubpages.com/literature/A-Death-of-a-World-Poem)

The Writing Environment: Optimizing Your Focus and Creativity (Was located at https://hubpages.com/literature/The-Writing-Environment-Optimizing-Your-Focus-and-Creativity)

Currently Missing:

Choosing a Religion in a World of Options (Was located at http://evylynrose.hubpages.com/hub/choosing-religion) 

Reasons to Research Your Faith's History (Was located at http://evylynrose.hubpages.com/hub/Going-Deeper-Into-Religious-Studies) 

Remembering Your Personal Power (Was located at http://evylynrose.hubpages.com/hub/Remembering-Your-Personal-Power)

One at a Time: New Pages at the Site!

As mentioned in the last post, I am moving articles from HubPages to the site. You can read about which ones have moved and where they are now at Where Did Evy's Hubs Go?. As I add more to the list, HubPages is setting up red flags against the hub for being overly promotional (as opposed to redirect information for those who have linked to the articles in the past). I added other links to try to balance it out, but apparently anti-HubPages sentiment is also a violation. I am sure it is simply a bot picking up on a site that may have pop-ups or the like that I'm not seeing. However, as they do not tell me which links are violations in the way they tell us which links are broken, I do not know which ones to remove. As a result, the hub is likely to be taken down soon. If that becomes the case, I'll be posting a copy of it here for those who have linked to the articles on HubPages and want to know where they went and those who would like to know where to find the new information added to the site.

If you have any questions or run into problems with any of the links, please let me know!

Blessings,
Evy

New Pages Coming Soon!

After a plagiarism incident involving the work of writers at HubPages and the lack of (useful) support we received from the company we were writing for (and who receives a percentage of our writing potential), I have decided to discontinue publishing with them and move all hubs (not specific to HubPages) elsewhere.

As many of the articles I have written for HubPages will do considerably better at the site, I intend to move them there rather than another content avenue on the net. Some will stand as independent pages and others will be added as sections to currently existing pages. Some may even be merged with some of the current pages. This process will take a little time (it takes awhile after unpublishing a hub for it to no longer show as a duplicate when published elsewhere), so please bear with me. You won't notice too much at the site itself, but if you ever check out my HubPages account, you may notice it slimming and be unable to find the articles temporarily. I am putting together one last hub to provide redirects during this transition to make it a little easier.

I hope this change will make your experience at the site more enjoyable!

Blessings,
Evy

Addition of Links to Other Articles

Over at HubPages this month, they are having a Know-It-All contest. As a result, I've been writing a lot of articles of interest to Wiccans and Pagans that would be appropriate to the site. Instead of posting the articles on the site directly (and having to deal with a headache about duplicate content, and rightfully so), I have included links to the specific articles throughout the site as appropriate. For example, the Advice for Wicca Beginners page now includes a link to my hub Wicca Beginner Tips. Some articles are added to sections called "Outside Links" on the different menu pages like the Information Beyond the Basics menu page. When you click on one of these links, it will open in a new tab (or window depending upon your browser and settings).

Hopefully this will help bring the information together instead of having to search different sites at once. Granted, only links to my articles are included in this way. (Links to the writings and websites of others are posted on the Links pages). If you have any questions or run into problems with any of the links, be sure to let me know!

Blessings,
Evy

Newsletter Announcement

The Ostara issue (#21) of the newsletter came a couple days ago. If you didn't get a chance to read it, you can find a copy at the Newsletter Archive. I hope you all enjoy!

The next issue will be out in June for Midsummer. We are currently looking for submissions! Our theme will be "Making Dreams Come True": So many of us are bombarded by information, standards, and modes of thinking by cultures that convince us that our dreams are unrealistic. Maybe we never listened to them and have been striving toward our dreams all along. Maybe we took awhile, but are now casting off our old selves. Maybe we are still stuck in moving toward our true life's purpose. What have you done to pursue your dreams? What holds you back? How do you overcome the negativity from those around you? How are you making your dreams come true?

Submissions for the Midsummer issue will be 01 June 2012. All submissions received after the deadline will be saved for future issues. For more details, see the Newsletter Information page at the site. If you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to post them here as comments or shoot me an email! :)

Blessings,
Evy

No More Weekly Discussions

Well, per forum member feedback, I began weekly discussions. After a couple months of this, only two people participated and only once each and only with the first two discussions. As a result, I will no longer be taking the time to designate special discussions as a highlight for the week. Instead, I will go back to encouraging a variety of discussions as I used to. For all those who wanted Weekly Discussions and are upset by this, I'm sorry. You should have participated.

On a less frustrating note, the next issue of the newsletter will be coming out within the next two weeks so be sure to be on the lookout! In the meantime, I still have not received any submissions for this issue (the deadline was the 1st of this month and then extended to the 8th). If you would like to submit anything to the newsletter, please be sure to do so ASAP! Thanks. :)

Blessings,
Evy