Again, a large part of my belief system has been misrepresented.  As many of my more close confederates know, I am a Pagan.  I practice a kind of elemental magic, and most people who cast spells are known under the blanket term "witch".  I really don't mind being called a witch.  But it's times like thse that I want to *headdesk*, over and over and ( Read more... )

I have to get this mourning for David Carradine on paper.  My close friends, the ones who read this journal, already know what his influence meant to me, but I feel I have to say more and go deeper.  Bear with me.  I need to do this.

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Friday, I saw the name of an article on Yahoo news that just struck me as being funny.  Even though I believe in negative energy, the way this was phrased made me go "WTF?".  Pope blames recent wars in Africa on "clouds of evil".  
Now, I don't think this was an exact transcription of the article title, but the "clouds of evil" is exact.  This is no ( Read more... )

 I was talking last night to Sarah.  Damn, can she ever be critical of me but sometimes she has good ideas.  I told her about my four disparate paths, the Tao, Shinto, Onmyodo, and the faith of ancient Egypt.  She suggested to me that if I really wanted to synthesize them into a personal faith, I should write down what draws me to each of them and ( Read more... )