First up in the News

I soapbox rant of mine made it on Witchvox last week. No great surprise there right? Another rant on the Vox.
What was surprising was is it actually lit a fire in the online pagan community at large, albeit a very small one.
I am no psychologist nor sociologist so I will not hazard a guess as to why this article, of all articles would catch on so well myself. Well I will but I’m not sharing them with ya…
Anyways I thought I’d share some of the responses I’ve gotten from folks. Interestingly enough, most positive responses came via email, comments here, or through the Vox. While the less than positive comments were never directly sent to me, but posted on other folks blogs and such. Once again , I am no sociologist…
For those of you wondering were said rant came from, if you go through the Vox’s archives back to last October/September sometimes, there was a series of articles of (mostly young) newbies complaining that there “Aren’t any good Elders, they’ve all abandoned us, people are obligated to teach us” etc etc. One article in fact was call something along the lines of “Where have all the Gardner’s Gone?” or something along those lines. Actually there may have been more than one titled like that. Anyhow…
I could try to clarify what I was trying to say, I could defend it. But I wont.
I will say this though:

Whether you liked my article or not. I’m glad I got you all TALKING.

Of all the emails here is an excerpt of my favourite:
“Do want to be, a Garderian High Priestess?

I read your acrticle and i sort of got the idea that, you might be intersted in takeing on a Garderian Linage, iam Garderian and i can pass this on to you if you like.”
I won’t share any other emails, as I will respect that they were sent privatley and not posted publicly. But I did get more than a few offers from folks to stand with their shield beside me, and I thank you all for that!!

Here are a few links to other blogs and such who commented on the article. Including the Wild Hunt (I feel special!)

http://wildhunt.org/blog/2009/03/happy-st-patricks-day.html

http://dubhlainn.livejournal.com/246368.html

http://johnfranc.blogspot.com/2009/03/where-have-all-gardners-and-crowleys.html

http://northwestpass.livejournal.com/78166.html   http://northwestpass.livejournal.com/78412.html

In other news

I have actually taken much of the week off to get caught up with various Hedge related projects and more…

The Hearth Craft Class on the forum will finish off (Its DYI you can take it any time)

The Calendar project is winding up on the Forum, we are making our calendar, likely to wind up self published yay to free press!

The Cafepress shop will get updated and so will preparations for Beltaine, which I’m hosting a (quite) small gathering on my land for. Check out the forum for updates and discussion on those as well.

And if any Hedge members or friends want the link to their website or blog moved to the Friends of the Hedge link category, just let me know.

Cheers Folks!

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