Polls Are Now Open!

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What may be done at any time will be done at no time.
~ Scottish Proverb

Okay, here goes…

I have somehow gotten talked into joining my heart sister, Joanna Powell Colbert and the awesome Elaine Nichols, for a 30 day challenge to write an e-book.

This is something I’ve been meaning to do, procrastinating about, fiddling around, wondering over, and, yes, also getting lots of urging from you, my visitors.  As in, “Beth – you really ought to put this stuff together in a book!”

Okay, so now, I will (Eeeek!)…

But I really, really need your help!  First, I am making this a public “thing” because I know I need the support.  Part of me is thinking this is insane.. I am crazy busy and I don’t have time, yadda-yadda-yadda.  But if not now, when?

I know very well I could continue to procrastinate forever, but as the outdoor sign at one of our local churches says (don’t you just love those sometimes?): “When it comes to the things we care about, we don’t find time, we make time.”

So, I will be updating you regularly, to let you know how it’s going.  For the next 30 days, I invite you to follow my progress as my Muses shower me in flower petals and brilliantly flowing prose.. or else as I pull my hair out and thump my forehead repeatedly in despair on my desktop.

The most immediate way I need your help, dear visitors, as in RIGHT NOW, TODAY AND TOMORROW, is that I need to decide what it’s going to be about.

(Hint: this has been my number one procrastination stumbling block.)

So.. polls are now open!  I would love to know what you’d like to see all wrapped up in a nice, easy-to-read-all-at-once e-book from me.

I am thinking mainly along the lines of consolidating one of the many big topics I’ve tackled in these blog posts I’ve been writing nearly every single day for the past eight years.

Some of the topics I’ve gotten the most feedback (and steady nudging) on have included:

  • Money Magic: My several-month-long discussion of money: its origins, its meaning, its history and its magic.
  • Beth Owl’s Daughter Guide to the Tarot:  consolidated from all my Tarot Card of the Week posts.
  • A Year and a Day with the Elements: The year I spent discussing magical tools and things to do with Air, Fire, Water and Earth.
  • The Magical Year: A Guide to the Sabbats and the Esbats of the Craft
  • A Year of Grace: Our year and a day of working with the Graces
  • Your Tarot Profile: Working with Soul Cards, Personality Cards and Teacher Cards, including the Tarot Year and my own herbal magic correspondences.
  • The Shining Ones: I have lots of posts about how we can heal our alliances and friendships with the Faeries over the last eight years.
  • The Dark Mother: I spent some time discussing the Black Madonna and other Goddesses of mystery and shadow a while back.  Would you be interested in seeing this all in one package?
  • Or else…  ?? What would YOU suggest?  Write-in votes are also most welcome!

Naturally, these would be edited, tightened up, and made to flow like a book, rather than posts! 😉

I am following a model that Joanna discovered, from CopyBlogger.  In this model, I have exactly TWO days to get your feedback and decide.

So please post, dear friends!  What shall I do?

If it goes well, this could set a trend, so maybe give me your 2nd choice, too. If I survive, I’ll likely do it again!

Deep breath! 

Here we go!

 

52 thoughts on “Polls Are Now Open!”

  3. You have so much to offer all of us! As Debra suggests, Money Magic is pertinent in today’s economic climate. Do you have anything about learning to trust your intuition? Anything you choose to write about will be wildly popular!

  4. From those choices: The Dark Mother, The Magical Year, A year and a day with the elements.

    But, my own first choice would be an e-book about magic and herbs. I don’t know of a great book on this, and yours would be terrific!

  6. I tend to just lurk, but delurking to vote! I can’t pick just one, so in this order…

    Guide to the Tarot
    Year with the Elements
    Magical Year
    Tarot Profile

  7. All the topics look good and I will eagerly read whatever you write, but my first thought (even before I saw the topic list) was Faeries.

  8. It’s a beautiful day to start a Book!
    I think you should write them all, but if you have to start somewhere, I would start with the one closest to the heart.
    My Vote…

    Beth Owl’s Daughter Guide to the Tarot:
    Your Tarot Profile:
    A Year of Grace: (Was the year I first started coming here and I remember it well! It’s what hooked me! 🙂
    A Year and a Day with the Elements:

  9. The Shining Ones
    A Year and Day with the Elements
    I have to agree with Money Magic as well…
    Anything subject you choose will be well-received, I am sure……

  10. A personal story about all the fun you’ve had at WitchCamps over the years. (Sorry, couldn’t resist – especially since I’ve just become co-chair AGAIN of the media cell, while working and going to graduate school, even though doing all those things “is insane.. I am crazy busy and I don’t have time, yadda-yadda-yadda…” 😉 )

  13. Wow Beth!!

    I have no doubt you will sail through this on the wings of your muses 🙂

    The Dark Mother — deepening our understanding of this energy seems so important now.

  14. I found your site while you were covering The Graces, and loved it, so a review would be grand. But I am most intrigued by the ” Your Tarot Profile” idea. My life has changed so much in the past three years that I find myself asking nearly every day ” What is my purpose Now?” I could definitely use some in depth soul card study!

  15. I love them all! I think one of the year and a days, then my heart keeps going back to the Dark Mother…The Dark Mother and The Shining Ones I feel would resonate the most strongly with a wide audience.

  16. Beth Owl’s Daughter Guide to the Tarot and A Year With The Elements. Those are the two I would choose. Can’t wait. Blessings on your journey. Wanda

  18. Wow! Holy smokes!!! I had to get groceries at the co-op and run a couple of errands this afternoon, and just now came back to see all these stunning, encouraging, and thoughtful comments!!!!

    Thank you SO much, y’all!!! (Especially those of you who have dropped your cloaking devices in order to respond! :-))

    You each do me great honor!

    And to everyone else .. please do weigh in! Your thoughts and opinions are most welcome!

  21. Dear Beth,

    Well, I love your Tarot posts and your Goddess posts. Both together along with all your suggested posts (money, wheel of the year, herb magick, elements, shining ones…) are marvelous. It will become a wonderful Tarot Book Owl´s Daughter! 🙂 A complete tool on tarot and nature/paganism.

    Just my two cents.

  28. Here’s my thoughts-

    Tarot Profile
    Dark Goddess
    Money Magic

    I will pretty much read whatever you write. I am excited to see what you produce.

    Blessings-
    Athene Noctua

  29. I vote for all of the above!! But not in the next 30 days :). The Dark Mother is an important topic for these times and for this season, so that is my first choice. Second choice is Guide to the Tarot and 3rd, A Year with the Elements. I’m so excited to see what manifests! Thank you Beth!!

  30. I guess if I have to pick ONE really just ONE it would be a Guide to the Tarot…………always looking forward to the new blog Thanks ………….sandy C

  34. I would love and am always searching for books on the divine feminine, goddesses, intuition and how we can tap more into that in this culture, using the elements, tarot, making peace with the Shining Ones, or the Dark Mother? All of it, there is so much. Maybe when you are finished with the first it’ll be onto the second there will be so much flowing through your fingers with some head banging on the desktop at times. Hope and faith and listening……..

  38. I will love reading whatever you decide to write about! My vote is pretty much tied for A Year and A Day with the Elements and Money Magic.

    Can’t wait to read it!

  39. 1st choice: A Year and a Day with the Elements: The year I spent discussing magical tools and things to do with Air, Fire, Water and Earth.

    2nd choice: Beth Owl’s Daughter Guide to the Tarot:  consolidated from all my Tarot Card of the Week posts.

    I’m sure whatever topic you choose it will be great! Looking forward to reading it!

  40. Chiming in here for The Dark Mother and A Year of the Graces. Pen as weapon, pen as medicine!
    Debbie

  43. Joanna Powell Colbert will more than likely work with the Tarot.
    My first choice is for ” The Shining Ones” reconnecting with the fae. Second Choice is based on these turbulent times, Money Magic would be appropriate. Third Choice, the Graces. It would also be a important choice during our current times. What ever you decide Beth will be important to all of us.

  48. A Year and a Day with the Elements. I believe that this would not only be a great book it would be different.

  50. I’d most want to read the Shining Ones. I would have gone for the Dark Mother, but I could write that one myself….

    But after writing that, I thought, “Beth, your first book should be about tarot.” I liked your second idea, Your Tarot Profile, which gives it a unique angle. And excuse my saying, but have you asked the cards? The answer might be perfectly clear.

    But whatever you write about, hooray for you going for it!

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