Yeah, apparently this exists

[jtthomas]

as half or more of the participants seem to have found out this week. Including myself.

-Name you would like to go by: Ari (though this name doesn't look like it'll remain for more than a few more years. Long story). He/him or they/them pronouns, yet to figure out which fit better (again, long story).

 

-Present path or tradition: Still figuring things out, but very eclectic. 

 

-Interests: science fiction & fantasy, filk, pretty much anything creative, astronomy & astrology, nature, animals, plenty more

 

-Age (not mandatory): no longer a teenager.

 

-Brief Bio: Raised by a fiercely Catholic pair of parents in Massachusetts. Mother had some prophetic dreams when younger but has enough trouble making sense of this world that she gave up on making sense of anything more in her teens. I started meditating around age ten, realized I was trans and/or nonbinary around age 15, and those got me out of the Catholic mindset. I've had a ridiculous track record regarding direct answers to prayers from quite a variety of deities, starting around age 11, and prophetic dreams of my own started shortly thereafter. My guitar may or may not have a life of its own, however, and very much pushed me over the edge into actual pagan practices last summer. Everything's gotten weirder from there. (Weirder, for instance: the mated pair of corvids on my college campus have taken to changing size mid-flight. Yep. There's a reason no one on campus knows anymore if they're crows or ravens.)

Comments

[mdehners]

Welcommen! On the "World of Woo", both my Mom and I See Spirits as well as the Dead. Grew up with her very practical view that most Spirits(nonhuman that is)are like the squirrels and bluejays, fun to watch but you don't get much else from them.
Most people don't realize that there's an entire energy-based ecosystem around them. And of those that do, some think that "Just because they're Dead, they're Smart". You've good training dealing with our kind of upbringing because you've learned not to take things at face value.
Been with my Handfasted Partner since 1998(HF'd in 99)and presently bossed around by two Rescue Cats(one who's making me retype as we "speak";>….
Cheers,
Pat(and Butch on the desktop;>)

[jenett]

Hi, Massachusetts person!

(I grew up in one suburb, moved away, moved back, now live in the suburb next to where I grew up, and am so glad to be back in the Boston area.)