Exciting new things

Inland Empire Pagan Guild.

A lot has been happening since I last posted. I've of course been busy with school and had a real dozy of a class. Some things have been happening with family. My Mom is sick again back home and she and my Dad have been struggling. Amanda and I are having it kind of rough with our living situation and her trying to find another job. She has graduated from her MFA program, YAY! At the moment we are in a place of transition. She's trying to find another job that will support us in a place of our own. We'd really love to move out of her parents apartment- no, we need to move out of her parents apartment. But that's a different story for a different day. Let's just say that I recently had a tarot reading from a friend from her "bitch" deck (I think that's what she called it) and it said for me to basically hang in there, keep going the course, because it's all going to pay off. 

Moving on. 

I was recently asked if I wanted to join the council of the local pagan group I've been a member of for the last year or so. I said yes, put in my application, and got accepted. So far I have held a very laid back full moon ritual and am going to be helping with Mabon. I am also leading a class on pagan prayer beads in December, a class on Past lives and reincarnation, and next year I will start a support group for area pagans with disabilities. I wanted the class to be all encompassing- not just focus on physical, mental, or emotional- all of them. Amanda and I are also going to start an out reach program. We have a lot ahead of us but I think it will be good.

I have not been on top of things in the last few months. I'm not sure why. I thought maybe I just needed some time to procrastinate or well, be a bit lazy. I also thought that maybe its been from all the depression, body aches, and fatigue from some of my health problems. It could be one or the other or a combination of all of the above. Either way, with the season change, I feel a bit more alert, alive, and excited. There's a lot I am looking forward to and plans to be made. I will be setting up a schedule within the next few days because I need to start writing again. Not just little things here and there or school assignments or short stories for workshop classes, but novel writing. And I need a couple of hours every day to sit down and just do that. Then I need a couple of hours a day for homework and a couple of hours to focus on my pagan studies. I have so much that I want to learn and research apart from IEPG stuff. I want to really write my Book of Shadows. 

So here's the short, simple, non-overwhelming list of plans:

1. Make a schedule 

2. Make sure it has time for me.

3. Delegate time wisely

4. Break subjects of study up.

5. Make a list of things I would like to focus on learning within the next couple of months.

6. Finish out my Pagan book challenge

7. Keep blogs updated.

8. Enjoy the season.

I could easily add sub sections to each of those but I am not going to. That's where I would overwhelm myself. Have to keep it simple.

Damn there was something else I was going to say, but for the life of me I can't remember. Hmmm. Well, until next time I guess...  

A Quicky Witchy Update and Some Pagan Themed Music!

Witch by MariannaInsomnia

I have been very busy lately and I honestly can't remember if I have posted as such in my personal blog. So the jest of it is, I have gone back to school, online, to finish up my degree. We've also had company almost constantly, various errands, two deaths in the family and there might be a third (Skoora's aunt who's son died has sudden death syndrome so we are keeping an eye on her), and well there hasn't been much time for anything else. Oh, wait, I almost forgot, I have been to a ritual with a local pagan group (Inland Empire Pagan Guild) and gone to Beltane with them but I will blog about those experiences later.

Needless to say, I have dropped the ball across the board on all of my blogs. I'm going to try and fix that in the next couple of weeks. I do have two papers coming up.

In the mean time I thought I mention some of the music that I've been listening to here and there. I like finding new music to listen to all the time and went in search of Pagan music or Pagan themed music a couple of months back, about the time of Yule. I like Christmas Carrols but really wanted something more in tune with me. Well, I found a few songs over on Youtube to listen but I found more on Last FM marked under things like Pagan Folk Tag, Pagan Folk Metal, and so forth. So far I really like Lisa Theil, Wendy Rule, and Faun. Of course I love Blackmoore's Night and Leaves Eyes.  There are others but I want to listen to more of them before I post them here.

Here is a song by Wendy Rule called Deity.