Letters from the Editor

I am speaking about a battle now. It was litterally bloodless but painful none the less. I refuse to get involved in the pagan community any more. I am tired of the petty arguments the airheaded ones the bickering, backstabbing, fluffier than thou, the christian fanatics in disguise and the patronizing twits who think they know more than anyone else.

My dear heart is another story. He feels compelled to do reach out to speak as a voice of moderation. He takes his job seriously and is careful to be reasonable and trys to see others point of view.

Recently Raymond Buckland appointed someone to speak for him regarding Seax Wicca. This person as it turns out was less than Ideal for the post. As a flaming member of PETA, Ubervegetarian, and rabid homophobe, he would not be a voice of reason. In fact, he started handing out edicts left right and center.

For those of you who are unfamiliar with Seax Wicca, one of it’s founding ideals is that it is local not national. In other words, No one has the right to tell a coven what to do, they decide on their own. Hmmm… doesn’t sound much like the fanatic does it? Well, no it doesn’t.

To say that he threw a lighted stick of dynomite into an oil refinery is putting it mildly. The Saxon reconstructionist called him out. He called them cowards and dared them to find him and take him on with bared steel.

I watched my heart try to reason with both sides of this as a good Druid should and get kicked by the lunatic for his troubles. After days of anger, despair and outright fury it is over.

Ramond Buckland finally spoke and he said, ok, he’s out but don’t bother me. It lives or dies on its own and each coven decides on its own what is so.

So, after all the stress, screaming, flaming and fingers typed to the bone, what is left? Frustrated people, angry people and a faith that is doomed to die. And my heart? He will vow to stop doing this, not get involved and yet… when the call comes there he’ll be, in the middle striving for reason…

And so it goes.

Well, I passed my next test.

I know I havn’t been updating this as much as I should, but that’s because other things have been keeping me from doing so, and I never was one to rattle on for nothing for hours on end.

So, what’s happened since I last updated this? I passed the Dresig test so I am now in the Fochlac grade, the top of the Student level. The next part is a verbal test, actually getting initiated into the ODU (the dedication is different from the initiation, one is performed by you for yourself (dedicating yourself to the Gods) and the other is perfored ON you by someone else. It’s a subtle difference.)

I am still writing, one of the articles you passed on your way in here was my article on Druidism and Wicca, a pretty good piece if I say so myself. I’m also writing a piece on Lugh, and I’m about 1/3 of the way done with the first draft, which has to be edited and so on. That’s the tedious part. LOL

Then there is a situation with Seax-Wica. Apparently a man was appointed by Buckland himself to be the new “first among equals” of Seax-Wica, and he really overstepped his boundaries. He tried to set himself up as the chief of Seax-Wica and speak for all Seax-Wicans. He insulted another path’s practices (who are also based on Saxon culture, kinda like a Dianic insulting a Greek Recon) because he didn’t agree with them, the implication being that all Seax-Wicans feel the same way since he said so. He tried appointing counselors for the various continents who would promote Seax-Wica in their areas, and they were the administrative council. So on and so forth.

You can immagine how well this went over. So, I’m trying to clean that mess up somehow too. Oh Joy. LOL

Other than that, helping with the new ODU website, tweaking things like their design and so on, to help the webmaster out (and pay my dues). Chatting on various boards, contributing my thoughts to those boards and avoiding the fluffies where I see them. Other than that, nothing going on at all. LOL