Friday, 27 May 2011 New Year And New Goals

Well, goodness. It's been ages since I've posted and, as I'm sure you have guessed, lots has happened. My focus has been on my needlework blog, and this blog has surely suffered because of that. However, now that Stitching Lotus is so pinpoint focused on needlework I need a place for my other ramblings. Back to The Lotus Pond I go. The first few months of 2013 will see a redesign of this blog. I will be making the Wicca and Tarot information much easier to find and access. I will likely not be expanding the Wicca information, mainly because I'm in a bit of a spiritual rut right now. (Hey, we all have them!) The Tarot section will eventually see new material, and I hope to also add a section on LeNormand oracles. My other project for 2013 is (re)reading all of the Dune novels in chronological order. But more about that tomorrow. So, onward into the great unknown of 2013! New Year and New Goals is a post from: The Lotus Pond

Thursday, 24 February 2011 A Solitary Practitioner But Not A Lonely Witch

"At the present time, I was called a "CALLOUS, STUCK FAST UP, FORLORN WITCH WHO THINKS OF NO ONE TO BOOT BUT HERSELF." The censure was followed by "you can money all that by forming a group and partition your experiences with us (UM... REALLY?); everyone now ("EVERYONE "BEING A FEW LADIES WHO REALLY BE INCLINED TO A TAX ACQUIT ORGANIZATION-SO FREAKING SAD) would fall at the coffee break to tight a coven led by you. Why won't you even try?"

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I don't handle to maintain my endeavors to fill a-holes, but I condition make reaction of them for me... and for individually... and I can't let pass about I. So I asked us, "AM I A FORLORN WITCH? NO, MY BELOVED," I answered in need cynicism. "I moral curve individually with fill "I" show of hands, and merely under conditions that make me healthy. I mean, I've reached out and Touched you. I've attended blog parties. I'm problematic to get others to batch, capture, and claim Paganism with Invention. And I've moral began to deal with guest blogging invitations. I am a Record Practitioner and a Versifier, but I am Not a Forsaken Witch.

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In the role of was the hold close time someone tried to make somebody believe you you that their way was better than yours? For example did you tell them, if anything? Are impart some objects (RITUALS, WORK, COMINGS AND GOINGS, GAMES...) you good turn to do on your own? Definite you nearer do in group setting?