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Child's Book of Wicca, Chapter 1
It’s done! Chapter one is finished.
The first five people who email me at davensjournal @ davensjournal.com get a copy for free. After that, it’s $2.
Be aware that this is 3.5 MB, so it’s huge. It will take some time to download.
Originally posted 2005-05-13 16:02:01.
The Creation Dance, The Spiral Dance
I was having a dream.
In this dream, the Goddess came to me. She spoke to me about the mysteries and about the whole of creation.
She showed me a dance. The Great Spirial Dance, the one with the connections to Creation, all the steps, where stomping created a lake, and a pirouette made a mountain and a shout brought clouds to be. She showed me the greater dance and helped me to understand that there was dances throughout the multiverse, each dancer working on his or her own place in the universe, all of them treading measures connecting to each other through the dance. Bringing to fruition the complete creation of the universe, making planets and suns.
Harm None
Okay, let’s be honest here. We need to get rid of the Rede completely.
Yeah, I said it. What’s more I’ll defend it.
The Rede is antiquated. It’s been the source of more than a little confusion to those who are new, and a LOT of confusion to those who aren’t Wiccan. It has come to be a “Pan Pagan” assumed ethic when it is not. It has been taken out of context and translated literally and even worse, translated figuratively for generations of people. And you know what? We still harm each other all the time.
I harm my family when I go to work since I am not there for their emotional support. I harm my family when I come home since I am not at work earning money to fill their bellies. No matter what I do I harm my family. It’s a Catch 22 situation.
For you Dragon Lovers
This is way too neat! I want one, but too bad it’s not for sale.
I may have to make me one on my own time.
Originally posted 2007-07-13 03:40:29.
Name Change, for everything.
Astute readers of my Journal will have already noticed that the name has changed. Â That’s what should be. Â But let me tell you why.
As you may have read in earlier entries, I’m transitioning from Male to Female.  Well, in recent months I’ve made some major strides forward in that regard, namely I’ve come out to everyone I know that I’m transitioning, and I’ve legally changed my name from my male moniker to a more female name.
With this change came a LOT of soul searching, a lot of meditation and a lot of discussion with the Gods. Â Finally after a long time, we all determined that I am Their daughter just as much as I was Their son. Â I am Their Priestess and still Their Priest.
Confusing? Â You bet you. Â About as confusing as being female, dressing as female, being called “She” and “Her” and “Miss” and still being called “Dad” by my daughter. Â But that’s okay, things take time, and I’m only partway through the hormone treatment.
Courage
It’s hard living in the grown-up world of life like this. Compromises and times when your pride and honor are called into question, you are assaulted and insulted and there are times when a self-evaluation will make you truly believe that you are a coward.
There is a hope however. There are many kinds of courage.
It’s easy to yell and scream at some one who calls you a coward and implies that you are a gutless spineless good-for-nothing. It is one kind of courage, the courage of a stung pride. But it takes an entirely different kind of courage to stay right where you are, take the abuse because it means you will be able to retain your job and
bring home another paycheck and save your home and allow your family to eat.
I call that the Courage of Consequences.
Honor
This time I’m going to rant about Honor.
Why is it that people seem to think that just because they don’t want to, they are not obligated to keep promises made? Why do they think that Honor is something that can be spat on with impunity? Why is honor used as a punchline?
Honor is your personal integrity. It is the ONLY measure of a man or a woman. It is the yardstick used to ensure that society functions. It is what keeps us from devolving into anarchy and “only the strong” kind of mentality. Culture is not what keeps us from barbarism, only Honor is.
Let me float a few scenarios to you. You find a bag of money and notice that it fell out of a woman’s purse while she was getting a pen out. You give it back. What does that make you? Trustworthy? A Good Samaritan? Honest? Each of those can be replaced by Honor and it still be correct.
Oh no
It’s starting again, the debate about the term “Wicca” between the Traditionals and the Solitaries/Eclectics.
I’m so sick and tired of seeing this debate.
I’m writing an article on it.
Originally posted 2005-11-21 12:57:29.
Resume
Well, just got an email from a lady who wanted some very specific information from me, so that she could judge the “correctness” of the Journal by what I had to say. She wanted, in effect, my Pagan Resume’.
So, I’m going to do something that I rarely do and that is talk about myself. BUT, I’m also going to put it behind a “cut” so that it’s not super-public where any idiot with an RSS reader can see it, they actually have to click on a link to get this information.
So, if you are using an aggregator like Thunderbird, click on the link to this post and read it in full if that is what you want to do. If you found this page through the actual blog, then you will have to click on the “more” link below to see the rest of it.
Payback
About once a week here at the Journal I get an email saying “WOW! You have a wonderful site here! It’s fantastic! How did I miss this so long???”
It’s simple, you missed it because of the same reason that others will miss it.
Lack of publicity.
I have tried various things in my time here to gain links from other’s sites and the MOST successful gained me three links that I could verify. Well, here’s a thought.
If you like this site, do two things:
- Tell someone else and make them read one article
- Link to my site from somewhere else, a webpage, a post, a community, an email
