Saturday 17 November 2017
Deborah Blake
Tonght's returning guest was author Deborah Blake, discussing cats, what with her recent The Little Book of Cat Magic: Spells Charms & Tales book. Most of the show we were more into discussing cats, and our love of felines in general. She conveyed a spell on How To Determine one's cat's name, as well as various other spells for/with one's cat/s.
Ceiling Cat Barbara Duncan reported out having Listeners tonight in the US, Canada, the UK, and a couple in the Netherlands.
Deborah spoke of a Chinese cat origin story, that mistakenly the gods gave cats in charge, but the cats prefered sleeping and chasing flower petals, and suggested to the gods to let Humans take over. The gods were surprised but agreed, taking from cats the power of speech and let humans take over. Eventually the gods realized their error, as humans obviously were not good at handling the world. While not being giving back speech, cats were put back in charge, where they remain to this day.
I offered some of my own cat stories, as did Henry, plus obviously, Henry providing questions from the chat room, as well as guiding the topic when he could... what with Deborah and I sharing our cat experiences.
CC had Deborah discuss visitations from cats that have Passed. One of her cats named Samhain had passed. Normally she would let the cats' ashes be removed by the crematorium. But this time she Couldn't check the box on the form: she could only check the box to reclaim the ashes. So she realized Samhain wanted to come home; the ashes went onto Deborah's altar.

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