What have I been doing?

[chronarchy]

Sorry I haven't gotten to respond to comments. I will shortly

Comments

[tlachtga]

I hate to admit it, but this was the first "pagan" book I ever bought, and I used it extensively, until I bought The 21 Lessons of Merlyn.

Eventually, I bought Drawing Down the Moon and found out just how ridiculous a lot of stuff I was reading happened to be. Then I got the internet and found out even more. Man, I felt stupid.

BTW, her love spell? It's the "one ring to rule them all" poem from "The Lord of the Rings." Man, when I realized that...

[chronarchy]

One to seek him/her, one to find him/her.
One to bring him/her, one to bind him/her.
Heart to heart, forever one.
So say I, this spell is done.

-p. 148

"One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the Darkness bind them."

Damn skippy. That rocks. :) Having never tried any of the spells (if I did, I think I blocked it out), I didn't ever catch that.

That is sooooooo cool! And it's definitely getting into my review, with proper credit to you for pointing that out :)

[silverwitch]

*jaw drops*

Bwahahahaha!

[ardgruntler]

Hey! I'm a 21 Lessons Druid too! Sadly, I just didn't know where else to look at the time. And at least it gave me a place to start from in creating personal ritual. 'A elffyn todd . . .' - yep, even learned the 'spell of making' - having little clue what it meant.

[healing_coyote]

that book was one of my first, too. It was apparently so good that I dropped it after 20 pages, and my sister, who isn't pagan at all, read it and dropped it after little more than 30. Ha!

[chronarchy]

Yes, I'm not entirely sure I read it all the first time. But I do remember being confused to all hell with it.

It's a lot of fun to read now.

[tlachtga]

Oh man, yeah--that has to go in. I can't wait to read this review and cringe at my youth :)

[ardgruntler]

I think you're being too harsh on Conway. I mean - Intent in a ritual is highly overrated. LOL!

[chronarchy]

Yeah, I know. Who cares why you're doing it, or whether you're invoking something bigger than your head? The point is that you're doing magic!

[ardgruntler]

First rule of Paganism - If it feels good - Do IT! LOL!

[qorinda]

When my mom found out I was into Druidry and things Celtic, she bought me Conway's Celtic Magic book. I never read it, but I kept it because Mom gave it to me.

I read 21 LOM AFTER I joined OBOD, and started reading a variety of John Matthews and RJ Stewart books, and of course, Philip Carr-Gomm. But when I wrote to Monroe, he sent me a nasty letter back telling me I couldn't be a druid because I am female, among other things. I never read another word he wrote, and have disparaged the book ever since.

However, it took finding ADF for me to start looking at things in a more scholarly fashion. I was quite the fluffy bunny in my day (OK, maybe I still am, to a point - heheh).