Open Post

[kimberlysteele]

Woot! My first ever Open Post. Please feel free to comment on anything and everything. Thank you for not using profanity.

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[kimberlysteele]

Thank you Andrew! Blessings to you and your loved ones as well. You're welcome for the Ogham readings; it is my pleasure. I found Ogam: The Celtic Oracle of Trees by Paul Rhys Mountfort useful when I started studying the Ogam. He uses a different order of letters, but he has an effective way of tying mythology to tree letters that helped me to think deeply into each letter.

I think the biggest step away from atheism happened when I accepted that magic isn't whatever I or most people assumed it is. Especially as a child, I expected magic to happen in a Disney-fied form. Wish gratification and rays shooting out of fingers. It took Druidry and a load of discursive meditations to sort out my wish-fulfillment fantasies and ego from stuff that actually happens as a result of will.

This Christmas, my brother casually said something about me being an agnostic and I said "not so much". I told him I was a Druid and I worship trees. My husband, still atheist, has a good sense of humor about my Druid practices. One day while waiting outside the laundromat, we came up with an entire abecedary of alternate names for the Sphere of Protection: A, the Arc of Aspiration, B, the Bowl of Beatitudes, C, the Circle of Consecration, etc.

I say the Druid Universal Prayer quite a bit. I say it every day when I leave work to bless the space and I say it every night when I kneel and give a prayer of gratitude for the past day.

Druid Universal Prayer:

Grant us, O Holy Ones,
Thy protection, and in protection, strength;
And in strength, understanding;
And in understanding, knowledge;
And in knowledge, the knowledge of justice;
And in the knowledge of justice, the love of it;
And in the love of it, the love of all existences,
The love of Earth our Mother, and of all goodness.

Awen

Yes, I'd love more books. I don't see myself as being able to open a library space until 2022 at the earliest, but I'd like to have a big offering of books once I get there.

[(Anonymous)]

I have a question about the subscription library: will it be open to Canadians? I'd happily join such a library, but I can't find a local one, so I figure if there's talk of it here, I'll happily join. I can understand if the hassle of including another country is too much, and also will happily pay a little more if need be.

[kimberlysteele]

I will definitely think about doing that -- the first thing I need to do is catalogue the books I have so far, then obviously I'd have to make the catalog available online somehow.