Today has been a wonderful day full of wonderful magic and coincidences. One of the biggest of these, I'm afraid I can't really go into here ... but it was pretty fucking cool, I've got to say. Hail Hermes Thaumatourgos! Which, ironically, leads into the next thing I wanted to talk about. (It's all webs of connection, man.) You see, I just had to look up the spelling for that epiklesis because...

A brief recap of our festivities is in order... First, we went for our customary trip to the cemetery, to share a meal with the dead (bread, cheese, dried blueberries, honeycomb, and pastries, ALL local, which seemed appropriate). Unfortunately, there were a lot of people there - should have realized, it falling on a Saturday this year. First we encountered a large group of children, though they...

My LiveJournal Trick-or-Treat Haul chironcentaur goes trick-or-treating, dressed up as Myself (ooh, and scary O.o). bluedolfyn gives you 11 teal cola-flavoured gumdrops. erl_queen gives you 13 green blueberry-flavoured pieces of bubblegum. fuego Tricks you! You lose 10 pieces of candy! gallows_queen tricks you! You lose 8 pieces of candy! liritsvoice gives you 4 mottled...

Well that was one of the best weekends I've had in a long time. Really needed that, after the way the summer's gone so far. And a large part of the amazingness was due to my love, my bestest friend, sannion , who makes everything more fun and exciting. I was going to wait until I'd uploaded some photos to make this post, but that may take some time, and I wanted to get this all down before...

Oh, what fun we had. For those who don't know, Alice Days is a holiday/party/madness I invented with my ex many years ago, which is now, by far, "the most wonderful time of the year" for me. :) This year, we went all out. I was shopping for it for over a month ahead of time, constantly finding new little things to add to the festivities. I made signs and decorated the outside of the house a little...

- Put in the garden. This was the most important thing. Wish I had taken 'before' pics, but there are definitely 'after' ones, which will be coming soon. We took an overgrown yard with totally overgrown raised beds and made it something lovely. Cleared the beds, all the weeds, mowed the lawn, made several little natural-looking areas as well (I like it to look natural rather than overly groomed),...

In 2008, I (in no particular order): performed 9 monthly high-seat oracular sessions, and a few incubation oracles celebrated a bunch of festivals, including the Lenaia, a Bast festival, Manteia, Anthesteria, Theoxenia Delphinia, Dryad Nymphaia, Limnad Nymphaia, Thargelia, Naiad Nymphaia, Thalusia, Hermaia Propulaia, Puanepsia, Day of the Dead, Hyperboreia, Lampteria, Yule, and probably many others...

I am so excited for tomorrow, which is our Yule* (/Rural Dionysia) celebration with wodandis  and bluedolfyn . We have an epic amount of food to get us through all of Saturday, through the night until dawn on Sunday. They are making stew and have various other foods and desserts planned that I can't quite remember. I am making gingerbread cookies (in the shape of mushrooms, of course...

This weekend, sannion , wodandis , bluedolfyn and I went up to Portland to see the Christmas Revels. I made a post about the Revels last year around this time, specifically about the Russian/Scandinavian one, and the theme of this year's production was Scandinavian! Having grown up listening to these concert/plays it was really exciting to finally see one live. I only wish...

My new home, to be exact. :) These have been a long, exhausting, painful two days, but it's all worth it. Thursday we picked up the Uhaul (not too bad to drive, and I even managed to back into two tricky spots!), and loaded it up in two hours - thanks especially to sannion , since true to form I had been very sick the night before, and was not on my best game that day. Still, we managed...