I’m the River Daughter, a 20 something living in south-east Texas, married, caretaker to two cats, and putting the spurs to a five-plus-year dabble into the Pagan and (neo) Wiccan path. I started looking into Earth-Centered Religion back when I was in College, and things before that are ancient history I’ll unpack another time.
I’ve followed the wheel of the year, and celebrated the cycles of the moon, but I’ve done a lot more reading and a lot less doing, trying to figure out where and how I fit into this thing.
This year at Beltane I did a self-dedication Ritual – the kind of thing where I basically said “Ok, here I am, I want to do this for real, this is me calling on my Year and a Day”, even though I know it’ll take way longer than that.
Since then things have been a lot more secure (go figure, asking the Gods for help gets you help!), and I’ve recently started Roderick’s Wicca: A Year and a Day, since my attempts to find a local teacher have been unsuccessful as yet. I figure if I can’t find a “real” teacher, I’ll just stick with what I can find online and in books that have a more traditional bent.
I’ve read the usual suspects: Starhawk, the Farrars, Cunningham, Valiente, and others, and I’m finding I like some of the elements of Traditional Wicca, so starting there seems to make sense. I won’t know if I’ll fit into a BTW coven until I actually FIND one, but for now I like the more traditional authors (and online communities) quite a bit.
What you’ll find here is… well, who knows, just yet.
I needed an outlet, a place to talk about this whole Pagan and Wiccan thing since I’m firmly in the Broom Closet (and intend to stay that way).
Community is important, and there are some amazing Pagan and Wiccan folks on the internet. Hopefully I can find my own little place among them.
