It was a full moon last night, and as I stood in my kitchen and looked out the window I chanted softly to myself "I pray by the moon, I pray by the moon, I pray by the mooon, but I did not do a ritual last night. If I am going to get back into the swing of things, my cycles begin on the Dark Moon, not the New Moon, the actual Dark Moon.
Several years ago, a year or so after I had started down my path, I prayed for a Matron Goddess to come to me, be with me, teach and guide me. The next morning I awoke as usual, got dressed and ready for work and started down my street to catch the bus, I was only a few feet from my yard when I stepped on something. I stopped to look and couldn't believe my eyes, it was a playing card, from a rook game, with a raven on the side facing up, looking right at me. I picked it up and it remains in my Shaman's pouch, which I usually wear everywhere, to this day. To me this signified that The Morrigan, one of three Goddesses I had been studying, had answered my prayers, even now people remark and question why there are always so many ravens around my house, one of my Sisters (in religion) once noted that it was rare to see a raven at her own house in town, but they were always plentiful when I was about and it got to the point she knew I was in town by how many ravens she could sight.
Now I can almost hear some fluffy bunny gasping at the thought of someone working with a Warrior and Battle Goddess, but I know in my heart that I am more than capable of accepting and dealing with such a Goddess, I am honoured in having been choosen by The Morrigan and please remember there is more than one kind of battle and that my entire life has been spent in battle. Some may notice a lack of mention of a God in all this, I am what one calls Dianic, or as I call it, Bridic, as I worship the Celtic pantheon not the Greek, while I do not deny the existance or importance of the Gods, at the moment they have no role with me and therefore I pay little heed to them. Being Bridic I am not concerned about balance as a Wiccan would be, and am actually horrified at how patronistic (is that a word?) some of the branches of Wicca have become, some going so far as to not requiring a High Priestess in the coven or ritual and the last thing society needs is a backslide into the dark ages, with some names being changed, being the only difference.
To end this post, I leave you with a excerpt from a prayer:
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