This journal was my way of journaling my trip through the DP. With that journey completed, I think this journal has served it's purpose ( Read more... )

I was informed early this week that my DP submission passed. Two years for me to do it and I think that was about right ( Read more... )

I took my Dedicant’s Oath with the Dedicant Program Study Group of Grove of the Other Gods, ADF (GOG) on March 31, 2007. I had been prepared to take it since January, but had wanted to wait until I could do it with my Grove as the importance of community has become a central value for me during the last two years of walking a Pagan path. ( Read more... )

PASSED!!!!

(cross digits on DP)

I started OBOD's Bardic Course the same time as ADF's DP in early 2005 and funny enough, getting through them has taken about 2 years. I reached a milestone Sunday night in sending off my OBOD work in order to move on to the Ovate grade. All I lack on the DP is to do my Oath and write that up. Soon, soon ( Read more... )

I run into a problem when I try to categorize the concepts of the deities, ancestors and such: I find the categories too confining and end up with a lot of areas of blending and overlap. Ultimately, I think this problem is inherent for humans trying to describe the beings ADF tends to call the Sacred Kindred. Categorization is essentially a ( Read more... )

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With the holiday season upon us, I would like to share my insights in a form of divination that I find quite appealing ( Read more... )

“The Shining Ones” - That’s how I generally and generically refer to the entities we deem to be the mightiest of the Sacred Kindred, the Gods of our religion. I tend to use that moniker as much because it’s just easier to get out of my former atheist mouth than “Gods” as because I also like the subtle mystery it conveys. These beings are in some ( Read more... )

Samhain is generally considered by Neopagans to be a time when the “veil between the worlds” is thin and the various spirits of the Otherworld are able to walk the earth. In keeping with this idea is that this is a time when we are best able to communicate with our Ancestors, and perhaps more importantly, our Ancestors are best able to initiate ( Read more... )