I spent this past weekend at Dublin Irish Festival. This is the second largest Irish festival in the world and this year Three Cranes Grove, ADF was invited to perform the first ever pagan ritual at the festival. It was held along side the protestant, catholic and interdominational services. Others have said it better than I can, so I'll let their ( Read more... )

Lives change, people change, and needs change. I've done so much changing and growing in the past couple of years that I hardly recognize the person who started this journal 5 years ago.

In December of 2008, I foreswore the last of the oaths still binding me to the cult that was my former religious community. This began a healing journey that still ( Read more... )

Hi. I'm Tanwyn and I'm an adult survivor of religiously motivated child abuse. My biological parents were members of a cult, and I essentially grew up in the cult. My memories of abuse didn't just suddenly appear in my head one day after a therapist suggested that I might have been abused. My memories of abuse didn't just spring up fully formed ( Read more... )

I just cut several journals and communities from my friend's list and made a major update to my profile. I doubt that anyone that was removed will notice, but if you happen to have been removed and would like to continue to follow me, please comment to be considered ( Read more... )

Welcome to Multiple Magic's Ritual 101 series. This series will cover some basics of the ritual working of magic. Ritual work can be used for a variety of purposes, not just magical, but for the purposes of this series we will be looking only at the magical applications of ritual ( Read more... )

I realized recently that I tend to only use certain scents when I am doing certain kinds of work. When I thought about this for a little while, I realized that I was actually using the scents that I associate with different kinds of work as signposts to help invoke the proper mindset for that work. Since then, I've been playing around with using ( Read more... )

 Read this article on the Wild Hunt blog, you'll probably find it interesting.

 I spent most of the weekend in the hospital. I developed a blood clot in my right leg, most likely a rare reaction to birth control. I'm on a ton a blood thinners, but home and doing as well as possible. Not able to move around much at all, but hopefully once the swelling in my leg goes down, it'll get better. Really sore, and bruised rather badly ( Read more... )

 My local bookseller fails at life, so, I am trying to find a decent place to buy books online. I buy from Amazon somewhat regularly, but would prefere to take my business elsewhere. I am mostly looking for fantasy paperbacks. Suggestions ( Read more... )

 On a night quite unenchanting, when the rain was downward slanting, 
I awakened to the ranting of the man I catch mice for. 
Tipsy and a bit unshaven, in a tone I found quite craven, 
Poe was talking to a Raven perched above the chamber door. 
"Raven's very tasty," thought I, as I tiptoed o'er the floor, 
"There is nothing I like more." 
Soft upon the ( Read more... )