Bear and Owl
This is the place I lay down my thoughts on exploring Wiccan traditions, sacred sexuality and my favorite cupcakes. more about me.
Vote on Religious Materials in Buncombe County Schools Tonight
from The Wild Hunt by Jason Pitzl-Waters
This is my home county, I haven’t been following this as closely as I should have.
I think material from ANY religion is probably not appropriate in a publicly funded school, I was even a bit uncomfortable when my kid’s super-aware Charter school had 3 or 4 religions (including Wicca) represented at their winter festival. I just kept wondering how atheists would feel about it, is it the same as teaching Greek mythology? Really it doesn’t get me twisted up, but I respect people’s need to raise their children however they see fit as far as spirituality or lack of it is concerned.
Whatever the policy ends up being, I hope its applied equally to all and that separation of church and state is respected.
strength, temperance, two of rods
I am bad at first posts. I will get around to an introduction, right now everything I write seems overly self congratulatory, not entirely true, maybe who I would like to be rather than who I am, where I’m going but not where I sit right now.
I’m new to a formalized practice but I have been playing with energy all my life and trying to appear normal for as long as I have memories. I spoke with a medium of some repute last year, a personal friend of my family’s, he said to stop trying to walk in both worlds and accept who I am.
So as with most things in life, this is a journey of self acceptance. I am still in the crawling stage but some day I may prance.
My reading this morning seems to be re-emphasizing messages I have been getting for a while about parking the drama and emotion and making decisions from a place of strength. I am a libra and spend so much time thinking about how to make things fair, how to make everyone happy. I really have no idea how to make myself happy, what that path looks like.
Gratitude-
I am grateful for most everything because I think I deserve nothing. Today I am grateful that I have the perspective to call that bullshit and know that my beautiful kids and enviable life, my wonderful partner and chunky ass are all things that I have brought to me. Self acceptance and self-determination not luck, happenstance or fleeting goodwill from the universe. 
