Erzuli dances

I’ve been doing a lot of this lately. Taking incredible joy in the beauty and the love in these perfect bundles.  I’ve also been enjoying the garden and Wolfe’s efforts to help me transform it into the dream garden I have in my imagination.

Connecting with nature, with puppies and plants, gardens, etc… the spring in bloom, and the influx into my life as of late people with a strong spiritual core, has awakened a spiritual spring of my own within me.

I think trial by pain, has been a part of my … re-awakening… as well.

I’ve always been eclectically spiritual, influenced by and borrowing from many different traditions, pagan, wiccan, gnostic, eastern, western, native, buddhism, taoism, voudon, tantric, etc… I have studied religious studies in university as electives of interest. I have also studied alternative spiritual traditions since my very first forays out of the children’s books section of the library into the adult section.

My very first exciting taboo books read in library aisles were those of mystical and magical traditions. Coming from a very athiest science based household. These were exotic forbidden fruits. I had my imaginairy ‘friends’ that guided me when I was a little girl, I called the woman, Venus the goddess of love, and the older man, Merlin the magician, and they were content with my labels as they entertained me with interesting information of the kind that can only be woven in the mind of a child exploring her own symbolism.

I remeber casting love spells at 10. Reading cards at 12… I didn’t know tarot cards existed, I used a regular deck of cards as a fortune telling tool. I made my own ouija board and found things with pendulums. In later years I would make and sell runes, and explore the different wiccan communities in the very occult city of Victoria where I grew up.  I connected with and learned from people with very diverse backgrounds and belief. Never adopting any as my own, but seeing the numinous, the spritual world, as something vast and unconcrete, made manifest through the symbols of spiritual systems. Concretized, in sacred rites and rituals.

I developed my own way of working with energy at a young age, and saw different beliefs like different looking glasses to see the same great wonder through… each giving a slightly different perspective. To stand back and glimpse a bigger picture.

When I met Wolfe we explored alternative spirituality together, as we explored alternative sexuality, alternative politics, etc. Pre-Internet online days of local bulletin board systems (BBS) we put up a BBS – Temple Illuminatus, that was about alternative spirituality, sexuality, and politics. Ah, my early 20’s! lol. I’ve been consistently a bit outside the box in all areas of life.

I don’t shun social conventions, in fact, it’s more the opposite, I embrace the alternative conventions from many different places and times and ways of thinking besides just the popular local current social conventions. Spiritual conventions, sexual conventions.. etc, etc.. you get it.

I’m looking forward to exploring more, letting the spring that is re-awakening in me fully crest into a warm golden summer of magickal heat.

Live in Love…

and embrace the sacred in all things.

I’m ready again.

I’ve been working again. Energy is dancing, and I’m directing it. Creating peace within, working at peace without. That energy is love. Erzuli dancing. A sacred flame in my heart.