My Pagan Profile

Over at The Deepest Well there is a fun Pagan Profile for us witchy people to get to know one another, so as I love little questionnaires I thought I'd give it a go! I cut a few questions out I didn't really know how to respond to, and some that would be repeting other answers above.

Name: Real: Ronda Wiccan: Lilac SilverFox

Location: Sarnia ON Canada

Profession: Professional housewife right now -_- though crafter in progress...

Hobbies/Interests: Writing, drawing, reading, painting, being creative, gardening, playing video/PC games, hanging with my boyfriend, playing with my pets, penpalling, Faeries, Vampires, Elves, fantasy, music, horror movies, Animal Rights, blogging.
 
Wiccan Blog: My Wiccan Ways
Animal Blog: Animalistics
Fiction Writing Blog: With Pen and Paper
DeviantART page: Lilac SilverFox
Your spiritual path: Very eclectic Wiccan. Wanting to study Celtic and Faerie traditions though, but follow nothing in particular. Solitary practitioner, somewhat by choice.

How did you find your current path? Funnily enough from the movie The Craft. Obviously did real study after pretend with my friends LOL

Previous spiritual path(s): None.

What drew you to and continues to keep you on this path? It just feels right.

If you’ve been pagan for several years, what changes have you seen in the Pagan community as a whole, and/or your own practice? I've noticed it's much more open and talked about and heard about, which is so nice.

What subjects are you interested in reading about - in books, in blogs, etc.? Other's faiths and practices of Wicca/Paganism. Fun things like gardening, crafts, books, and getting to know one another. Book wise, I'm a heavy Fantasy reader though reading all my Wicca books right now actually.

What about you or your life are you working towards changing - short term/long term?  Needing  job and moving out of this house with my boyfriend. Losing weight and being more active in general. Being happy.

What energies do you want to rid yourself of - what energies do you want to bring in? I'd like to rid myself of self negativity and bring in more peacefulness and I guess better tolerance of ignorant arseholes.

What has made and/or continues to make you truly happy? My boyfriend, my friends, my parents - and occasionally my older brother. Finding art that inspires me to create and be me. Being outside. My animals, and animals in general. Nature.

What/who inspires you? Nature inspires me the most right now.


Well, not having the best day today and it isn't ending any better so not much to say. Got my painting done for the project, just gotta upload the pic, probably tomorrow. Been a long, semi-crappy day in the end so heading to bed now.

More Garden Progress

^ hmmm someone got out who's not suppose to be.... ^

Lots more progress on the garden today. Mother Nature has been very kind to me these past three days, especially considering two of them were suppose to be thunder showers and we got sun instead :D Got all the vines dragged away (found a big ass tarp thankfully) and clipped some more of them, dug out three of the biggest thorn roots, and then took the metal rake to the actual garden area. Took about 2hrs so I called it a day. Tomorrow - weather permitting - I'm gunna run the rake over it in the opposite direction and try and get all the big weeds out and rake/clip the other section. Thinking of transplanting a couple of the really small cedar trees into the other half - too many roots and stuff to plant flowers, etc. So, ten hours total working on this project...I think once I get it full cleaned out, and the surrounding area raked up and shit, I'll post a couple before/after pics haha Hopefully no more cold weather and my germinating seeds sprout and I can get to the actual planting process in a few weeks. Still want to put in the stone fencing and those candle holders and such to make it all purdy too lol

Oh, and in exciting news, my Never-Ending Dance drawing has been sold!! I posted some of them on FB while I'm getting things set up on etsy still and one of my penpals is buying it and going to commission other work from me now and then :D

Flower Garden: Part Two

So, after roughly a total of eight hours this weekend, the garden area is looking a little cleaner...

Now, lets hope the weather holds up for me to get the tarp out and drag all those vines to the burn piles.

The Green Man and Gaia

So...after finding some interesting facts on what I thought I'd consider my 'patron' deities I have noticed a new and much stronger calling out of no where. Mother Nature, Earth, Green, Life. In essence, the Green Man and all he stands for, but of course every male deity figure has to have it's female counterpart, and thus as I was reading Solitary With last night I came across a simple phrase mentioning both the Green Man and Gaia...Well, my first thoughts had been simply Green Man and Mother Nature - but what is Gaia but the Mother of the Earth as a whole, and thus much more appropriate.

I know every Wiccan/Pagan chooses and sees things differently, but I wish for your opinion. Any opinion really as this has jumped out at me and as they are not pantheon deity it's a little confusing to me right now.

Art, Garden, and Stuffs

So, have still been working on the Pagan Art Journaling project, just somehow completely forgot that I had forgotten to post last weeks, and just got finished the last one in time for this weeks prompt again hehe Going to try and be more on top of it - for myself - but this week's prompt is another thinker for sure LOL

Realizations

Not that I haven't really known this all along, but lately it's been a struggle to keep it in mind as stress and depression has been creeping up on me a lot lately...I had a lot of fun designing her little shield though :D

Earth

I wish I'd been more free with the Water prompt when making the little spirit...This was completely random, let the brush do the walking kind of idea. I am falling much more in love with green lately, and am looking into the Green Man and other aspects of deity more so now...As much as I enjoy the thought of having a patron/matron choose me, I think Mother Nature and Green Man are my callings in some sense...If that makes sense... o.0

So, along with a lot of other projects on the go, which will be posted later, I finished the Never Ending Dance drawing. It will be listed on my etsy shop by the end of this week.

It was so thrilling to draw this that I'm considering trying to do a mini version in an ACEO format of some sort...We shall see, and I'd personally like it to be a gift for a certain inspiring special someone if I do make it, sort of belated birthday gift too *wink* I tested out my water color pencils in this one, and found my little 'deleter' marker blends them pretty nicely so I am hoping to use them more in future pieces, as well as actually get some water color paper soon.

Also have a couple of pics of the wonderful, and yummy, gift I won from Spirit-Phoenix (minus the book as it's being read and I think we all know what Solitary Witch looks like hehe)

All that remains are the peeps (so sweet, I can only have one now and then hehe) and the wrapper from the chocolate bunny. Yup, I save it and folded it up so while it's not 3D anymore, it still looks like the faerie bunny and is tacked up on my bedside cork board hehe, oh and the box cuz I want to copy out the cute poem on the back!

So, while it's another gloomy; rainy; chilly day outside, so no working on the garden yet I did get my seeds that I have so far germinating inside yesterday and so took my camera out when getting the potting soil and took a couple "before" pics of where I'm doing the garden.

^ plan to use the rest of the pretty stone fencing and put on each of those candle holders in the corners ^

It's going to be a lot of work - plus getting the rest of the stone fencing and the tulips dug up from the front yard to bring back to here - but it will be sooo be worth it! I am considering getting some sort of pretty plastic lattice to put almost against the garage and see about training ivy to grow up it. We shall see what gets accomplished this year though, as I highly doubt - or at least hope - we won't be here still by next Spring to keep it up, etc. course then I'll have new gardens to build hopefully LOL

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Internet Withdrawal *twitchtwitch*

Well, three days without the Internet, nooottt fun when made me miss the end of the blog party :( So glad I messed up my days and sent off my guest post a day early!
Quickie update in case anyone was wondering where the hell I went off to.

Also a HUGE screaming thank you to Spirit-Phoenix!! Seriously, ask the hubby, I squealed in the car once I saw what was in the bottom of that box!! I wondered how candy could be so heavy! I have now set aside Moon Magick to begin reading Solitary Witch by Silver RavenWolf!!! I cannot thank you enough!! I'd have taken a pic of the goodies, but well the hubs and I were starving after a long grocery run when we picked it up so the yummy Starburst jelly beans and peeps were tore into *giggle* The cute fairy bunny (Dove milk chocolate) is still intact though. The little poem on the back is adorable too!! I'll have to post it up later hehe and the card is so pretty - it's now tacked up on my little bed side cork board :)

So, I will be ever so slowly getting back into the swing of things. Got a lot to catch up with...so annoying LOL Did another round of resume hand outs downtown Sarina Friday too. Couple really nice small places and found this cool new used store that has TONS of the old game systems and games and can even order certain parts in - which is awesome since our PS2 and N64 power cables are somewhere between here and my parent's house -_- I'm hoping I hear back from someone soon, but am almost hoping to get a job in Forest instead now...We did a cruise today after getting coffee and there's a lot of very nice houses with decent sized back yards up for sale and a couple of nice sized lots to build on, and I'd rather have the option to walk to work and then my kids having friends and their school all right in one area...It's a long ways off, but was a nice afternoon. Also got "permission" from the father-in-law to dig out all the weeds and crap from where he had tried to do a vegetable garden behind the garage (doesn't get enough sun) and do up a flower garden however I want. It's gunna take a lot of work, lots of overgrown vines and shit, but it'll be sooo worth it! I'm just hoping the weather over the next week agrees with me getting a good start on it asap while the grounds still all wet, etc.

Alrighty, I'm off. Will fly over blogland as soon as things are caught back up!