My path has been a winding one. Many years ago, as a child,
I quipped that I came from a "long line of German witches."
This was long before I learned the craft behind the hexen,
even before I knew my mother had the gift of foresight in
her dreams. It might have been but the fantasy of an only
child, except for the *something* drifting around the edges...
As a young mother living and raising my daughters "beyond
the power lines" in a place where you could read the
paper by the light of the full moon and walk the paths at
night from the light of the stars, I began to see glimmers
of a path beyond what I had been taught in Sunday School
and even what I had learned of the "witcheness"
that ran in my family. I felt prompted to make altars in
the four directions, honoring the Earth, Air, Fire and Water
that -- living the lifestyle I did, were obviously essential.
I felt the loving guidance and nurturing of both a spiritual
Mother and a Father essence. It was there, in this time
and place, that I first had the word "Pagan" applied
to my belifs, by a young woman who had come to the same
place through her books. I had read none.
That changed, though my call is always back to nature,
to experience. The essential truth of things I read, of
people I meet, is incorporated as my path is constantly
changing. It is a journey, after all, not a destination!
In the last year I have come to meet and know some wonderful
new people and new things, new insights, new Gods and Goddesses
have been welcomed into my awareness. My path is home and
hearth centered, with Frigga and her Handmaidens at the
focus. I am part of the Spindle Hearth Kindred, and am building
this section of my web site to share things that cannot
easily be put in the context of our online
group
Cornhusk Dolls - to
celebrate Autumn, 2006
The Wheel of the Year
in which Starwalker contemplates the equasion of time, quarters,
cross-quarters and "missing" festival days.
