The world is flooded with Wicca 101, whether that’s in books, videos, websites, or even movies. That’s one of the main reasons why I get bored with my faith and lose interest for long stretches of time, because I keep seeing the same information over and over and over again, just regurgitated and repackaged. That’s…
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Relationship spread, 4/16/13
Preface: Bear and I have been seeing someone since roughly December. She’s very limited as far as the time she can spend with us, but we usually manage to see each other once/week. I’ve been fine with that. I know that a relationship isn’t measured in time, but in emotions. Bear and I had a…
Woodpecker
Yesterday we had breakfast with some friends that Bear had made through his voice-acting volunteer work. They were lovely. We shot the shit about random things, and just generally had a great time. They were very welcoming and fun to hang out with. After we had enjoyed our breakfast, (bacon and pancakes- ALWAYS a winning…
Tarot spread 3/22/13
I’ve been at a major crossroads lately. Our finances are just completely out of control (NOT in a good way), and so I asked for a general reading as far as what was coming up this year, and with our finances specifically. First Impressions: there are a LOT of Earth/Disc cards in this spread. So…
Imbolc, Pando, and the Korean sauna
I haven’t been very active here or anywhere else lately. You see, January is very tough for me. In addition to the usual seasonal depression that I think we all feel around this time of year, I have a lot of birthday issues/family issues/bad memories from Januaries past that pretty much put me in a…
2012 in review
2012 has been a rough year. I have been broken and rebuilt in ways that have stunned me, and I feel like I need to record it all here. Maybe that will make it all seem less surreal, less like a movie of someone else’s life. January: Lost my job. I trained throughout November and…
Introduction to Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids of old, with voices sad and prophetic, Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms. Loud from its rocky caverns, the deep-voiced neighboring…
Ravenson Reagents- Handcrafted incense
Hi guys! Just wanted to let you know that I’ll be doing a lot of work on my other blog, RavensonReagents.wordpress.com. Bear and I are going to be making handcrafted incense, eventually for sale. We’re beginning with the great kyphi experiment of 2012/2013. (The ingredients are expensive, so it will take us a while to…
Tarot reading, polyamory, and strong boundaries
Sooo.. I had completely given up on finding our third. We weren’t even looking any more, even though that seems to be a natural state for us. It’s not that Bear and I aren’t enough for each other, it’s more that we have a lot of extra love, and the idea of bringing a third…
That first love
There’s a person out there who will always have a piece of my heart. We weren’t meant to be together, and the love faded in time, as happens when that’s the case. But he has always been someone that is incredibly special to me. You see, we grew up together. We did stupid teenager stuff…
Samhain Altar
This is it! The only thing we have left to add is letters. I’m going to write a letter to my dad, and Bear and J might write letters to their loved ones as well. I’ll place them on the altar (behind everything), and then we’ll burn them on Samhain. The incense also turned out…
Characterization and multiple personality disorder
I had a revelation today that shouldn’t have been a revelation. All of my characters are really part of my own personality. I don’t know why that didn’t occur to me before. I mean, honestly.. Don’t ALL writers do that? Don’t we all take part of our consciousness and spill it out into a page…
Gathering ingredients for Samhain incense
My husband is lovely. Simply lovely. He truly is the best thing in my life. And when I asked him yesterday if he would like to go to the cemetery with me to gather some ingredients for incense, he didn’t hesitate. He was even a bit excited for another one of my cemetery adventures. He…
Pain and Tiwaz
Good news: I found my runes while looking through my old herb collection! Bad news: All of my herbs are waaaayyy too old and stale to use for anything. They all smell like dust. Good news: I found a great supplier who sells the herbs I need cheap on Ebay! Bad news: I spent my…
Other animal omens
I’ve also had quite a few other critters show up in my life. First, the ant bite. (I’m thinking about tattooing a small, pink dot there on my finger to commemorate the event.) Ants, to me at least, represent industriousness and hard work. They’re relentless when they’re pursuing their goal, and organize themselves to get…
Inanna (video)
For Trixie. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_sroZKqliA
Odin
For Bear.
Down and Dirty Marketing for Authors (notes)
This was absolutely the most helpful panel I attended at the entire con. Again, I was trying to catch a little of EVERYTHING, and most of these notes are what I gleaned that would be applicable to my own writing and marketing style. ******************** Panelists: Gail Z Martin, Kiernan Kelly, Cynarra Tregarth, Sascha Illyvich Think…
Hecate- Wendy Rule (video)
This could be Vine’s theme song..
Roadtrip memento idea (a.k.a. Witch Bottle)
I knew that when we took our roadtrip, I would want something from the road where I made my offering. I had an idea that acorns would be good, one chosen by each of us, and representing each of my three main protagonists. However, I had NO idea what that would turn into. As we…
Priorities.
It’s time to prioritize things. I have a ton of things going on, and some things are going to have to be sacrificed to make time for the things that really, REALLY count. Here’s my list. 1. Bear. This includes keeping us healthy, so we can be together for a long, long time. 2. The…
My Hero (notes)
I attended a very similar panel last year, but it’s funny how some of the information is exactly the same, and some panelists will have completely different takes on the same topic. Panelists were: –Lynn Abbey–AJ Hartley–Gary Kim Hayes–Diana Peterfreund–Janny Wurts Notes: -Closed-Circle.net-Protagonist is necessary, hero is optional.-Hero tries to do the right thing, usually…
Hourly Writing Seminar: Talk to Me (notes)
The hourly writing seminars are always a good bet at D*Con, but this was the only one that I could afford to attend. I’ve been to a lot more previously, but at $10 each, they can add up quickly. Still worth every penny: Please keep in mind that my notes are all over the place….
Searching for Trixie
The series of novels I’m working on are very autobiographical. Or at least, they are autobiographical in that there is a lot of wish fulfillment there for how I would actually like to live my own life. For example, I have a character in my story that is based on what Bear and I would…
Camp NaNoWriMo
It begins in 8 days! I have a few goals for this time, including working from an outline (not my specialty), updating my wordcount here every day (a la Cherie Priest), and cleaning my room. That last one will be easy to do as I procrastinate. I’m going a bit out of order with this…
Back in the saddle again..
I wish that I was the kind of person who could develop a daily writing routine. Sadly, that isn’t my style. I thrive with NaNoWriMo pressure, but when I’m not in the middle of that, daily life tends to get in my way. For example; since NaNo, I’ve gone through some major changes. I’ve started…
Story idea from a dream
A person happens upon a bag of crystals that allow her to travel. For every trip she takes, a crystal is consumed, and steals a part of her soul. If she uses all the crystals, she dies. But each place she visits is increasingly more fantastic and unbelievable, and she can’t help herself. The wanderlust…
Research..
I just spent the entire night researching one niggling little plot point. I only wrote about 1000 words because I simply couldn’t go on without deciding this one thing.. I was SO frustrated, and SO pissed off. And then it clicked. And BOOM! All these little hanging bits of the story line started connecting almost…
NaNo update..
OK, so I haven’t been writing here. But that’s fine. I’ve been writing my book. I’m at 8083 words for Nano, 45,095 all together, and I’m hoping that I have another few hundred in me before bed. We’ll see. Today was supposed to be a huge day of writing, but I just couldn’t focus. I…