I performed my ritual to Hekate last Sunday (5/20).  As I was writing it, I was moved to change a few fairly general things, like the meditation questions, to more specific ones, so I did.  Then I went out into my new garden; it was a beautiful day, and just felt like the RIGHT time to do this.  (I didn't even know about the solar eclipse until the ( Read more... )

Yesterday was April 1st, and it ended a cycle for me.  I dug up the last of the plants in my community garden plot that I wanted to keep, took the lock off the gate, told Job he could take the fence down and move it to his plot whenever he wanted, and made arrangements to have the rosemary cut down and removed as I can't take her with me after all ( Read more... )

While being utterly bored at work by lack of same, I seem to have become more or less obsessed with four themes for quite a while now: goth, gardening, feminism, and the state of my spirituality.  The feminism part has been ongoing, I just haven't really mentioned it much here.  Finding a new job has been more of an unspoken private obsession, as ( Read more... )

"It's raining, it's pouring,
My whole life is boring me to tears,
After all these years..."

Yes, I know, it sounds a bit drastic.  BUT since that's how I've been feeling for about a year now (or more?), and it's been getting worse lately, I've decided it's okay to be a little melodramatic here and there, at least here.  I can complain all I want, and ( Read more... )

Since February 29th only happens once every four years, I don't want to miss posting something today.  And it's been raining off and on all morning, so the day started out to be totally awesome...

My new garden is coming along slowly but very nicely.  I've brought all the grape hyacinths and most of the narcissus over now; some are planted in the ( Read more... )

Three Good Things happened today, so I wanted to share them ( Read more... )

Yesterday was NOT a good day.  I found out the night before that, due to the meddling of the federal government with my Social Security deductions last year, my paychecks this year will be $54 per month shorter than last year's.  My husband also figured that his disability checks will be $16 per month less than he was told they would be.  With so ( Read more... )

I thought it would be appropriate, on the last day of this year, to take pictures of my new garden space in its current unused state.  I won't be able to post them yet, as I don't have a digital camera and will have to fill a disposable camera and have a disc made, but I took several views so the entire oddly-shaped thing can be seen.  At the ( Read more... )

We don't celebrate Christmas per se, since we're pagan.  However, I DID celebrate yesterday... working in my new garden ( Read more... )

A couple of months ago I talked to our apartment manager about getting back the "back yard" area that we used to have attached to our ground-floor apartment.  The old manager took it away from us so they could use it to store ladders, open paint cans, and other junk that they wanted to keep but didn't want to store inside the office.  Didn't lower ( Read more... )