A Wandering Fox

 Happy New Years Eve, yall. Normally my End of Year posts are reflective with Tries for the following year, and plans for my Year Ahead reading.   This year is different .  I don't really have anything planned--I guess its part of that whole Being Present thing that I've been practicing.  I did my Year Ahead last month.  I mean, I do have plans, other than deepening my Seidr practice and continuing on with the Dedicant Path, the rest, for now, will stay private. In fact, this whole year has been different in many ways...and honestly not many terrible ways.  It's been really long.  It's a good thing I'm so photo-happy!   It's been a grief heavy year, too.  Not just concerning my mom and all of that crazy healing and conflict.  I've lost friends, and I've been betrayed and attacked by friends.  I left Facebook which didn't help the loneliness.   Asking just What is Friendship these days, especially with Social Medi...

  A couple of weeks ago, my brother asked me if I wanted their hermit crabs, which I didn't even know they had.  Super random.   I've had many pets, exotic and regular, but never crabs.  We certainly haven't had pets in 11 years.  Animals are expensive and we've been dealing with monthly eviction notices for years.  It would just be selfish to bring an animal into this house when we're not financially stable.  The last couple of years, we've gotten better with budgeting and were actually planning on adopting a dog this/next year. Then comes the crab question.   My mid kid has been wanting hermit crabs for the couple of years, but it was always a no from us.  I didn't know anything about crabs, much less have space for them.  Any surface either has a house plant or a shrine/altar on it. Later that night, I consulted my spirit guides, and they gave me a YES to the crabs.  And the Norse Gods were okay with giving up their shr...

  Happy and Gentle Holiday, yall! I have yet to ADF-alize my Reindeer Mother ritual, and before I knew it yesterday, it was time to bake the reindeer cake.  I was exhausted--I'd put a lot of work into Yule Eve and the Gift Exchange part of our Yule festivities, and more work yet to be done with the other days, so I kept the rite simple. I made a ginger and cardamom cake with lemon icing.  I cut the cake with reindeer, star, and ghost cookie cutters.  Funnily, the last bit of cake resembled a Krampus, so I told the kids it was.  One of my kids asked if next year, we can add Krampus cake to our Dec 5th celebrations.  Sure! After dinner and some digestion, I turned off the Yule Tree's lights and left the tree topper's on.  Our tree topper is a Reindeer with a Sun in Her Antlers (made by me in 2017-18).   Reindeer Masks and Jingle Wands, I read them a story that I wrote about Reindeer Mother's journey to carry the Sun into the skies.   ...

Dang I haven't posted on here in a while.  To be fair, I haven't done much blogging on any of my blogs.  I haven't finished my 9 Pagan Virtues project, and I only have Fertility left.  Nor have I been working on the DP essays.  As usual, I've been living my paganism and letting the things that I have learned sink in.  Take root and all that.  I've also been studying and practicing seidr.  I just finished studying  Volva Stav Manual by Kari Tauring, and boy does she talk a lot about trinities--things in 3's--and I just kept thinking about the parallels of 3's in ADF Druidry.  I don't have much to talk about, other than just me reflecting on the various 3s and trinities in both subjects.  Things that require more thought, perhaps? No, I think I wanted to talk about Yule and the upcoming family rituals we have going on.  Normally, December is a month of Yule for us, due to my up and down spoon levels.  I love this time of the yea...