Intro

Sep. 24th, 2023 09:34 pm
ivyskeep: A predominantly black with some tan female German Shepherd Dog sitting on a black floral rug in a kitchen with her head tilted to one side. (Default)
[personal profile] ivyskeep posting in [community profile] dreamwidth_pagans
Name you would like to go by:  Trish

Present path or tradition:  Devotional polytheist mainly geared toward Norse, Celtic, and Greek deities in that order with some eclectic witchcraft tendencies.

Interests:  Crafting, reading, writing, gardening, walking, dogs.

Age: Early 50s.

Brief Bio:  I was born and raised in the Detroit suburbs in a working-class household with an auto factory worker dad and telephone operator mom. I work in transcription and have an associate's degree. I grew up in a Christian evangelical atmosphere influenced by Northern and Southern US sensibilities as three of my grandparents were part of the Appalachian migration to Detroit in the 1940s during or after WWII. I left my mother's church as a teen. I had access through a relative to Edgar Cayce and astrology books, which were my first foray into something different than evangelical belief. In my early 20s I was a full-fledged '90s new-age girl and took part in Goddess spirituality rituals with one group for many years and pseudo Native American ceremonies with another. I left both for various reasons including understanding more about cultural appropriation in the latter.

My first career was as a healer, first with Reiki and then with massage therapy for ten years. During the final four years of my massage therapy career, I took on home cleaning clients. This was too much for my body near the end, so I transitioned to a desk job, and I've been doing transcription for about 18 years.

I later joined the Druidry organization ADF but no longer belong. I'm currently a member of The Troth, Hellenion, and the AODA. I recently enrolled in the Grey School of Wizardry and really like their class offerings, but due to finances, I had to disenroll. I haven't been very active in the organizations. I hope to remedy that with the Troth and at least complete their Heathen Essentials program over the winter.

It's nice to meet you all.

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Date: 2023-09-25 11:53 am (UTC)
rafiwinters: (Smokey)
From: [personal profile] rafiwinters
Smokey the Cat says hello, even though there's a d-o-g in your icon. I personally also say hello. Welcome! I will add you to my flist. I post on and off about, yeah, the things of my daily life. Right now, because my wife and I are trying to buy a house and it's an all-consuming process, I don't have the spoons for a lot of reading or commenting, but I promise I'm a nice person anyway. *insert silly grin here* We do seem to have a number of things in common. Bop on over to my profile. Really, I don't bite. (Unless specifically requested to.)

the usual scenario

Date: 2023-09-25 06:46 pm (UTC)
rafiwinters: (Default)
From: [personal profile] rafiwinters
Yes indeed! Lol!

See you around the site.

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Date: 2023-09-25 12:16 pm (UTC)
siduri1959: (Default)
From: [personal profile] siduri1959
If you are interested I would be happy to add you to my Flist, we have some things in common, I do honor Norse and Celtic goddesses, work with runes and for years did Reiki...

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Date: 2023-09-25 12:47 pm (UTC)
siduri1959: (Default)
From: [personal profile] siduri1959
Done! Thank you!

Thoughts

Date: 2023-10-13 06:30 am (UTC)
ysabetwordsmith: Cartoon of me in Wordsmith persona (Default)
From: [personal profile] ysabetwordsmith
Small world, I used to work for the Grey School of Wizardry.

Re: Thoughts

Date: 2023-10-14 11:13 am (UTC)
ysabetwordsmith: Cartoon of me in Wordsmith persona (Default)
From: [personal profile] ysabetwordsmith
It was really fun for a while, and I wrote a bunch of classes for it.

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