To Answer Some Questions
What are you up to?
Getting ready for Yuletide; I found tree ornaments that look like fly amanita mushrooms! Writing, working, unpacking, playing Skyrim.
Is the podcast going to keep going?
Yes. Bren put up an episode recently and we hope to get back into the swing of things with the new year.
I am interested in casting objects and divination as spirit communication. Can you recommend some books?
I recommend that you look for books on the divination and spirit communication systems that appeal to you.
My main sources of inspiration were the FUTHARK and the Ogham. There are people who cast personal sets. I come across them from time to time, usually online. Not always though. I lead a workshop on it for Fest one year and a lady showed up with her casting cloth based on Hoodoo concepts.
I’m really rusty in some areas, tarot seems so long ago. I moved on from tarot (because it just wasn’t a good fit) in my early twenties, so about 7 or 8 years ago? I am amazed at what I have forgotten. It’s weird. Or not, since I never really clicked with it. It’s… Continue reading
Unpacking
Well, I am still unpacking.
I know, I know how could I possibly be still unpacking? I can hear all you awesome super Mom types who are organized and who know (and actually care about) the difference between a pillow case and a pillow sham reacting in horror. Well, I’m not you and why are you reading my blog? Go away perfect people!
Continuing on…
This move has been surprisingly epic considering that all I did was relocate to a different neighbourhood. I mean, I’ve moved to different Provinces, to the USA and back, I’ve moved from the city to the woods and back, I’ve moved from a house to an RV and back.
About 2 years ago I moved from a ramshackle trailer in the woods with a woodstove for heat and a well for water in the BC mountains to a “McMansion” in Ottawa’s suburbs (that was one difficult transition, I think I had more anxiety attacks in 6 weeks than I had in the year before then).
I’ve done some pretty drastic moves. This move was not supposed to be dramatic in the slightest. Pack up, load up, drive 15 minutes down… Continue reading
I am the 99%
I was born into a working class family in one of the best countries on the world. We struggled mightily after the divorce; Mom went back to school while cleaning rich people’s houses. The government didn’t consider making dead beat Dads pay a reasonable amount of child support on time to be a priority. Sometimes Christmas dinner came from the food bank. We lived in a ramshackle house heated with a wood stove and a kitchen sink that drained into a bucket.
I was teased and bullied by the well-to-do kids at school for having thrift store clothes and plain or subsidized lunches, because that is what they were taught by their parents.
I tried my very best at school and did well in some subjects but failed utterly in others. I was told this was because I was a bad and lazy child. It turns out that I had learning disabilities that should have been receiving treatment and help so that I could succeed. Because my mother was often working two jobs to keep a roof over our heads she could not badger the school and be an advocate for me. The schools refused to accommodate the… Continue reading
My Beloved Fellow Pagans & Witches
Hi guys, its Juniper.
Look guys, I have some serious shit going on in my life right now.
Bren left me in the soul crushing, self esteem destroying way. He tried to be a nice guy about it, because he’s a good man. But it doesn’t change the whole broken heart thing.
I had a grandparent die recently.
The place Bren and I were living in before he left is too much $$$ for me to manage on my own. Not if I want any money for savings etc. I have been working harder and longer and trying to pick up odd jobs to cover everything.
I had no bed to sleep on. I’ve had to accept charity from friends, which is hard. I finally was able to pick up a bed second hand.
I have had to find a room mate, find a new place and now I am packing and moving. I have two whole weeks to pack and move.
I have had some of the dearest friends I have ever had move away.
I busted someone for plagiarism who is now trying to threaten me into silence to save… Continue reading
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