Some Random Answers to Random Questions that Might Make You Contact Us
What do you like most about the circle? I love being a part of a community of magical women. I love the support that I receive from them and I love being able to be a part of their lives. And, well, the magic. Especially the political magic. I love doing magic in a circle.
If they made a movie of your life, what would it be like? You know that line in Out of Africa, just after her coffee farm burns down, and Karin's friend says to her, "What happened?" and she says, "I had the best harvest of my life, and, then, god remembered?" That's my life. Or, you know that line in Broadcast News where Holly Hunter's boss is mad at her and he says, "Oh, it must be great to always be right, to always know so much better than everyone else!" and she says, "Oh, no, it's terrible!"? That's my life. Or, you know the very end of the movie Karma Sutra where Maya (ha!) says, "Knowing life, I will allow all things to come and go, be as supple as the wind, and take everything that comes with great courage. For, as the teacher would say, 'Life is right in any case.' My heart is as open as the sky"? That's my life.
What is your path? I'm a Dianic witch. I love the parts of witchcraft that bother "serious" Pagans, those with an ecumenical bent. I'm that odd old woman who keeps saying those things that no one wants to hear. My hera is Granny Weatherwax, who did not often do housework, but who was often the cause of housework in others. I'll bind evil as fast as I'll send energy to a wounded bird and I'll never think twice about some fluffy-bunny "Rule of Three." Go ahead, bind me from doing evil, in turn, if you think you can.
If you could, who would you choose to invite to a dinner party? Dorothy Parker, Francis Burnett (and I'd sit them together), St. Catherine of Sienna, a woman burned at the stake, Catherine di Medici, Elphaba, Hatshepsut, Boadicea, Mitochondrial Eve, Queen Mab, a Priestess who knew the Eleusian Mysteries.
What witchy book do you go back to refer to? My skin, my bones, my heretic heart are my authority. The Tarot. Judika Illes' Encyclopedia of 5,000 Spells. The Fifth Sacred Thing.