work

[puckdecoyote]

At Con I had a very profound experience that let me know it was time to return to some very important work that I had been taking a break from.  I have been working with Freyr in that regard, and I have been inviting him and Odin into my dreams to help me with that work, with some really potent results.  Of course in the dream they are just casual

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talents

[veedub]

The mountain and the squirrel
Had a quarrel,
And the former called the latter
“Little prig.”
Bun replied,
“You are doubtless very big;
But all sorts of things and weather
Must be taken in together
To make up a year
And a sphere.
And I think it no disgrace
To occupy my place.
If I'm not so large as you,
You are not so small as I,
And not half so spry:
I'll not deny you make
A very pretty squirrel track.
Talents differ; all is well and wisely put;
If I cannot carry forests on my back,
Neither can you crack a nut."

--Ralph Waldo Emerson

[lobolance]

Yea Puck!

[bellamagic]

[inflectionpoint]

"no one other than myself expects me to know everything."

this. hold onto this. dude, even people who've been doing this since longer than I've been alive can't do everything. or know everything. we get so twisted up in that.

I like seeing you unfolding. It's AWESOME.

[faerywolf]

I also have had some realizations that by coming into Feri and beginning my training toward initiation so early in my career as a witch it has left me lacking in some magical areas that other initiates may take for granted.

I think that this, in part, is due to the (often denied, but nonetheless widespread) idea that Feri initiation is somehow the culmination of training, when it is actually the beginning. In a coven setting it is common to initiate earlier on and then the entire coven oversees the continued magical education of the new-initiate. In the classroom model initiation tends to come later, but even so not everything can be covered in depth because the real lessons (the ones that matter) are between you and the Gods and the really deep ones can only be administered after you have been "brought in". When I was first initiated I realized that I wouldn't have been able to effectively initiate someone else as the power needed more time to "sink in". I often think of initiation as "planting a seed", rather than giving you a