It took me twenty-four hours for my body to get back to where it was before my initiation: until about 8 PM last night, I was so exhausted, emotionally and physically, that it was hard to smile or converse. The drive back down to Columbus seemed to take all day (though the company of kargach and romandruid was exceedingly welcome and helped immensely), and I found ( Read more... )

Today, I passed the initiation into ADF's Initiatory Current.

It wasn't easy, it was a bit frightening, and it was very deeply meaningful and powerful. For a few minutes, I honestly wasn't sure I would pass the three tests. But, in the end, both druidkirk and I passed, and we are now ADF Initiates ( Read more... )

Trance 2 is now in the bag, pending approval ( Read more... )

And just a 600-word essay about my trance journal to go. I've got it (very roughly) outlined, but it requires time to finish.

Here's hoping I can manage such a thing.

Then, if Trance 1 and Trance 2 both get approved before Saturday night, I will be eligible for initiation.

Maggie says I need to be the big spoon if druidkirk and I get initiated together.

How on earth is it that in this economy, getting a quote in a timely manner is virtually impossible? If it were only one vendor, I could maybe understand, but nearly all of them?

I know I've spoken much about the ADF Order of the Crane thing that seamus_mcnasty and I have been playing architect on, but I want to touch base a bit more. Bear with me, I'll be ( Read more... )

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As I wait (and wait, and wait and wait some more) for the Windows 7 image to download to my hard drive, burn to a disk, and get uploaded to the software site I maintain, I end up reflecting on many things regarding my CTP workFirst, it seems that I'm not real good with the "King-and-Virgin" interaction in various IE cultures. Sure, there are Celtic ( Read more... )

I have been, it is probably pretty clear, very un-project-oriented for the past year or so; since the revision of The Dedicant Path Through the Wheel of the Year (affectionately known as WotY), I've put nearly all major projects on the back-burner, getting very little done ( Read more... )

Not long ago (in fact, about two weeks ago), I got re-involved with my IP/CTP work. Something's been tripping me up, though, and I realized that it's a combination of two things:

1. Time to look up sources when I'm at home, and
2. Some weird notion that I've done all the "easy" stuff.

Really, there's nothing in the CTP that's easy, and nothing in the CTP ( Read more... )

Wellspring [ review] has me back in the swing of spirituality, I think. I've got two study programs to finish my own work on (there's an odd, sudden urgency to finishing Trance 2. . . I wonder why?), as well as numerous projects that are in a stage of complete-or-almost-complete that just need that last little bit of work to create the report. ( Read more... )