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7/22/2009
6:32:27 pm EDT
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Oh, Oh, It’s Magic: Store Enchants Orlando Clients
Author: Melissa Chadbourne Source: Central Florida Future
Title: OH, OH, IT’S MAGIC: STORE ENCHANTS ORLANDO CLIENTS
Behind the well-known stretch of Asian import stores off Colonial Drive near Interstate 4, there is a small shop that caters to the magically inclined.
“[Avalon] was founded to serve the pagan/Wiccan community,” co-owner Miranda Solace-Kabina said.
Avalon offers a wide variety of products throughout the store, including a large selection of tumbled stones, incense, herbs, clothing, divination tools and two rooms worth of books covering many earth-based religions and practices beyond just Wicca.
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| Ode To Fire | Jul 25th. at 2:11:08 pm EDT
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R. Cicero (Seattle, Washington) - Email Me
Oh, the rhetoric. Must we state the obvious? I mean really, why would a pleasant article about a shop get pleasant minor attention, while an article that snidely or vehemently denounces the pagan lifestyle gets all the color? Try to figure that out. Avalon does sound like a great store, and I'm sure it is a wonderful resource to local working practitioners and those new to the practice. But, the last thing I need on this earth is another stick of incense, a candle or one more book for my groaning bookshelves. If I was to actually visit Orlando I would more likely figth traffic to visit this lovely little Buddhist temple and garden I read about in National Geographic. Might even pick the best day to catch a glimpse of Disney World. Of couse I wish the witches of Avalon well. I hope they prosper. To the naysayers and our spiritual enemies I present FIRE.
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| Love That Place | Jul 24th. at 11:41:12 pm EDT
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Marius Silverwolf (Christmas, Florida) - Email Me
I've been to Avalon a few times. My only problem now is that I live east of Orlando proper, and there aren't any stores convenient to me. I can either drive 30 - 45 minutes (depending on traffic) to get to Avalon or drive 30 - 45 minutes to get to the store in the Merritt Island Square Mall.
I hope the continued success of Avalon leads to more stores opening in the area, instead of the other, smaller stores closing like they have in the past.
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| Finally | Jul 24th. at 3:55:31 pm EDT
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Dynnys Derwydd (Lubbock, Texas) - Email Me
Some posters who seem to feel as I do. That positive stories are hardly glossed over, while those which tend to view we Pagans/Heathens in a negative light seem to draw those who seem to have the need to put down others. Therefore stories such as these get lost in the dross of hyperbole and recrimination.
I hope this store has a long commercial life, letting the local citizens know that there are positive alternative spiritual beliefs out there.
Gnothi Seauton
honi soit qui mal y pense,
Dynnys Derwydd
(Those who yell often, often have little to say.)
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| Like Calls To Like | Jul 24th. at 9:53:37 am EDT
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Finn (San Marcos, Texas) - Email Me
It is true that articles like this one rarely get much in the way of response or notice while anything that has the word "Christian" in it or that allows some of our peers to indulge their martyr complex get countless hits and commentary. One could write a dissertation in Psychology or Sociology on it. It is a complex issue that has a lot of variables.
It doesn't, however, really require a long treatment to address. Like calls to like. The angry and indignant under the "pagan umbrella" are no different from the angry and indignant you find in the countless other faiths. I hold them in no higher regard than I do fanatical Evangelicals. They are cut from the same cloth. I spend a lot of time calling them on it. Fanatics in other faiths don't make me look bad. The ones which will be associated with me do make me look bad.
If you follow Wren's Nest you will see that the most prolific posters here tend to be the same names over and over again. They lurk and wait for a chance to bash those gosh darn Christians. They leap at any opportunity to cry "injustice." Positive articles about pagans doing something for the community simply don't feed their need. They aren't interested in actual history so articles about historical discoveries or anthropological truth are likewise lost on them. In fact, truth often has a nasty way of debunking most of their self-righteousness.
You have to take it all with a grain of salt. The people (myself included) who take the time and energy to post are not average. Most people will read, form their own opinion, but do not feel the need to stand on a soapbox. People who spend a lot of time and energy making statements here have a bias and it drives them. You have to look at their ulterior motive. Why they say what they say (and do what they do) is just as important as what they say and do. I'm up front about my own bias. I think the Christian-Bashers, deluded wanna-be martyrs, and empty-headed historical revisionists make us all (and more importantly me) look bad. I feel compelled to challenge my peers when they engage in such behavior. If we don't police ourselves, who will?
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| Agreed | Jul 24th. at 2:01:10 am EDT
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Shadow (Traverse City, Michigan) - Email Me
A too-large majority of us have become retaliation-machines, completely skipping over the good things in life like this to viciously attack everything else...
Yay for Orlando-ers!
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| Have You Ever Noticed... | Jul 23rd. at 8:22:23 pm EDT
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Flion (Tallahassee, Florida) - Email Me
Have you ever noticed that the positive articles here at Witchvox, get the least replies.
Every hate filled Fundy basher article gets at least 20 responses, while positive articles about shops, or new finds that are 20,000 year old cave paintings,or Old Pagan temples, or Pagan pride day articles or what have you always get just a few replies.
Why?
Are we modern Pagans becoming too negative as a people?
We always tell everyone how much happier we are since becoming pagan, how we are at peace with the world and all things in it.
Then why is it that we seem to be chomping at the bit to attack and ravenously destroy all things anti-us.
Yes fight for equality, fight for our rights, do not lay down and let people run us over, but for F@#$ sake can we quit the bitching!!
Before the flaming begins let me say that I and my wife were both removed from positions due to our religion, and we have moved on and still try to be positive and find the positive in everything.
Back to the article at hand, next time we are in Orlando, we may have to stop in at this Avalon. After all the Pentacle I am currently wearing was purchased at DisneyWorld.
Most of the Pagans that I personally know are not even on Witchvox. In Part due to it's negative impact. This even includes my wife.
Can we light some incence, dim these lights, get that singing bowl a humming and start a new Positive journey together?
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| Avalon Is Great | Jul 23rd. at 9:22:01 am EDT
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jim (orlando, Florida) - Email Me
This is where we always shop. Wonderful store, very nice people.
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