Something of an Introduction
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dreamwidth_pagansWhoops, I just realized earlier this evening that I joined this
community a few days ago but haven't posted any kind of introduction
yet. My bad!
In my defense, however, I've been super busy the past few days,
dealing with a lot of diffrent things on top of each other. That and
I'm sort of taking my time and getting to know this web site again, as
it's been a couple of years since I last had an account here on Dream
Width, and I quickly realized that I forgot a lot of what I originally
knew of how this place worked since then.
Anyway, with that out of the way, please allow me to introduce myself!
Hello there! It is nice to meet you all! My name is Robert, though
please just call me Rob or Blind Rob for that matter. Why Blind Rob,
you ask? Well, aside from the fact that I'm mostly blind to the point
I can only see to a certain extent these days and require a screen
reader when I'm on the web, I tend to naturally fall into the
stereotypical role of that blind diviner/seer/magician/healer or
whatever you want to call it most of the time. Especially whenever I'm
around a bunch of other pagans and similar spiritually typed people.
At the time of this introduction post, I am thirty one years old. I
turned thirty one back in september. I'm also bigender, and use both
he/him and she/her pronouns, though he and him are more of my primary
pronouns than the others for the most part. It's kind of complicated
and I'm still figuring out how to explain it all, even after all these
years.
Spiritually speaking, I practice various forms of Irish Paganism,
specifically An Creideamh Sí and Brigideacht. Or in other words my
general spiritual practice falls within what would be considered irish
faerie faith, while I'm specifically devoted and dedicated to Brigid,
and thus the center point of my religious faiths and practice is
guided and formed around such.
While less of what I believe and more of what I do, I also practice
several things that could and would be considered gaelic folk magic,
the bardic arts (both from a secular and religious perspectives), and
several things that would fall into the catagories or spheres of
influence of divination or seership. In the same stream of things, I'm
also something of a spirit worker.
I hope this will do for now. If not, please let me know and I'll try
to edit this a bit.
Take care everybody!
community a few days ago but haven't posted any kind of introduction
yet. My bad!
In my defense, however, I've been super busy the past few days,
dealing with a lot of diffrent things on top of each other. That and
I'm sort of taking my time and getting to know this web site again, as
it's been a couple of years since I last had an account here on Dream
Width, and I quickly realized that I forgot a lot of what I originally
knew of how this place worked since then.
Anyway, with that out of the way, please allow me to introduce myself!
Hello there! It is nice to meet you all! My name is Robert, though
please just call me Rob or Blind Rob for that matter. Why Blind Rob,
you ask? Well, aside from the fact that I'm mostly blind to the point
I can only see to a certain extent these days and require a screen
reader when I'm on the web, I tend to naturally fall into the
stereotypical role of that blind diviner/seer/magician/healer or
whatever you want to call it most of the time. Especially whenever I'm
around a bunch of other pagans and similar spiritually typed people.
At the time of this introduction post, I am thirty one years old. I
turned thirty one back in september. I'm also bigender, and use both
he/him and she/her pronouns, though he and him are more of my primary
pronouns than the others for the most part. It's kind of complicated
and I'm still figuring out how to explain it all, even after all these
years.
Spiritually speaking, I practice various forms of Irish Paganism,
specifically An Creideamh Sí and Brigideacht. Or in other words my
general spiritual practice falls within what would be considered irish
faerie faith, while I'm specifically devoted and dedicated to Brigid,
and thus the center point of my religious faiths and practice is
guided and formed around such.
While less of what I believe and more of what I do, I also practice
several things that could and would be considered gaelic folk magic,
the bardic arts (both from a secular and religious perspectives), and
several things that would fall into the catagories or spheres of
influence of divination or seership. In the same stream of things, I'm
also something of a spirit worker.
I hope this will do for now. If not, please let me know and I'll try
to edit this a bit.
Take care everybody!
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Date: 2018-12-15 07:54 pm (UTC)I'm actually quite fond of both Hel and Tyrr. Well, mostly more fond of Hel than Tyr, though Tyr was both helpful and generous in his own strict and stiff way during the brief time I knew and interacted with him.
Though it was more of my wife (at the time)who interacted with him more than I did. She was going through something of a Paralegal corse and Tyr was acting something of a cross between a mentor and drill instructor for her at the time. This was of course before the Netjeru from the Kemetic faith claimed her.
I also practiced a couple of diffrent forms of Heathenry at one point time. Mostly during and between the years of 2011 and 2014, though there was a brief attempt to a certin extent to get back into things much earlier this year. Sadly, I was forced to let go of it by Brigid. She's first and foremost in my life, always has been and always will be, and one of the Aesir tried very forcefully to take her place and really made a royal mess of things. A long a complicated story there for sure.
I've never really interacted with Nuada much. There's never really been much there except respect. I think the one only time I ever interacted with him, it turned into something akin to a brief nod and carry on kind of thing.
Ah yes, the Morrigan. I'm not even going to try and spell out one of the more complicated varients of their name as a collective. I just woke up a little while ago and I don't have the proper sense to do so at the moment. Anyway, while I have had some interesting experiences involving them, mostly surrounding Anu specifically, I was never super close to her or them as a whole.
Outside of Brigid, I was super close with Oghma and An Dagda. Mostly it's just Brigid these days for very strict and specific reasons. Some of which I still need to work out what I'm able or allowed to navigate and which are very much firmly do not pass go, do not collect two hundred dollars kind of situations.
I don't really consider myself CR, at least by the strictist definitions of such. I mean, yeah, there's a certain amount of my practice that is very much grounded through reconstruction, but I tend to be too spirit taught and a bit out there for a lot of strictly reconstructionist only types of people, but then again, I tend to get in trouble with folks who are way too out there for any kind of reconstructionist methods at all, so I guess I tend to find myself in a damned if you do and damned if you don't kind of a place most of the time. I suppose I fit somewhere in the middle of the road, but really it depends on what the subject is in question that will determine which direction of things I tend to lean more towards on any given day or topic.
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Date: 2018-12-16 07:40 pm (UTC)I personally am a strong advocate of "Lore" because I, to coin a phrase, "See Dead People"(and a chitload of other things;>). Historical material helps me check the "bonifides" of Who's in front of me. In my most early days of Heathenry I encountered a Being that presented Herself as Freya. I Felt VERY uncomfortable and it just wasn't that of a Gay guy dealing with a VERY sexual Hetrosexual female;>! After rereading every bit about Freya I had in my library I found that other than the Sensuality there was NOTHING about the Being and the historical material about Freya. Luckily, once I wasn't willing to "play" it went away and didn't require a Banishing or something similar.
I think a lot of folks who've Gifts, esp in the Pagan community but they're in recon Ways as well are too credulous and take Whatever pops up in front of them as face value. I started my Path in the late 70's and over the yrs I've known a lot of folks that ended up burned out because they simply refused to believe something as simple as "Just because they're Dead, doesn't make them Smart(or nice)"...
Cheers,
Pat