Sandra's Page

Relationship Status:

Single

Age

41

Country

AUSTRALIA

Astrological Sign

Leo

About Me:

I am the mother of a gorgeous 9 year old boy named Rowan. I have a lovely familiar - a fluffy ginger cat named 'Honey' who loves having his belly scratched - particularly under the clothesline for some strange reason...I live in a country town where there is a great community and you can see every single star in existence at night! I love to read. The more I learn the more I realise there is so much that I don't know!

I have strong opinions but am open-minded to learning new ones. Others' perpectives are of value because none of us sees things in quite the same way. Heeding the beliefs and ideas of other people is a wonderful way to step outside your own comfort zone and learn, whether or not you take them on board yourself. Stagnation is equal to brain death!

Favorite Books

SUBJECTS: Ancient history of cultures and tribal peoples. Very keen on exploring Druids, Shamanism; also Tibetan Shamanism; Witchcraft & related subjects; especially anything by Ly De Angeles, Neville Drury, Melita & Dennings, Donald Tyson, Kenneth Grant, Wasserman, Dion Fortune, Aliester Crowley - especially his THOTH tarot Deck, Uriels Machine and all other books by Knight & Lomas, the Great (and, fortunately, not Late) Lon Milo Duquette, Lewis Spence, Brendan Cathbad-Myers, Caitlin & John Matthews, The Farrars, StarHawke - and especially her novel 'The Fifth Sacred Thing', it is brilliant -BUY IT!!! , Vivienne Crowley, Joy & Christian O'Brien, Z Budapest, Laurence Gardner, Nicholas De Vere, Joseph Campbell and good sources of Mythology, Storm Constantine's novels, Human Biology, Pathophysiology, Herbs. plants, trees and their medicinal & magickal & healing properties - Ellen Evert-Hopman is a legend in this field!. I am also interested in ecology and evolution of species via natural selection - 'evolution from apes' is a stupid idea and already thoroughly refuted by modern anthropologists and PROVEN to be crap! I love 'The Gaia Hypothesis' by Rupert Sheldrake; metaphysics, parallel worlds and 'worm holes' & "Black holes', Ley lines. crop circles, Tuatha De Danaan, Marion Zimmer-Bradley, Angels, esotericism, Western Mystery Tradition, Gnostic research, the Mystical side of Christ and early Christianity, The Native British Pantheons and thoses added since - such as the Dieties of the Tuatha De Danaan, How Druidry evolved and what it is, Anything on Ireland, Poetry - particular satire! Sumeria, Afterlife. OBE & NDE studies; Geology, Archeology, Art in all its forms but especially John Waterhouse and the Impressionist Era, Etymology, ie; the origin of words and even how they define a culture; Yeats, Charles Dickens, Oscar Wilde, Samuel E. Colleridge, Bobcat, The Far Side, Roald Dahl - That'll do for now! It's easier for me to write down subjects & authors than each individual book. I'd be here all year!

Beliefs / Practices

Occultist, Spiritual but not Religious, Pagan, Witch, Mystic, Shaman, Other Spirituality, Native American Spirituality, Heathen, Druid

Other Beliefs/Practices

Of course motherhood as added another important facet to my beliefs, moral and ethical stance, and, of course, practices...I never hit Rowan. It's just bullying a child. I create as peaceful environment as I can. My son suffers from Tourette Syndrome and Dyspraxia so, in order to keep his mind calm and lessen the involuntary spasming and vocal outbursts I am teaching him relaxation and meditation which seems to be helping. As parents we can only try. As a single parent I struggle because I don't have a partner to support me with thoughts & feedback, so I must rely upon my own opinions and what my heart tells me is the right thing to do. I pray a lot, and perform (solitary) ritual regularly to gain a clear head and receive advice and perspective from the 'Higher Beings', my Creator, and the Ancestors as well.

I study ceremonial magick and in particular, the Qabala and how it relates to tarot, hence one's soul journey. It ties in with so many aspects of various mystery traditions that it's quite overwhelming. I am especially interested in how it relates to creation, the 'fall', etc. It is a guide for life. I cannot begin to explain this phenomena...it is beyond me. All I can do is follow it's winding paths and learn.

I resonate with Elven and Fae energies. There have been pieces of the jigsaw floating around me for years. I am finally piecing them together and the picture emerging is one that only a few would credit as real. I am a very rational and objective person, so for me to be convinced beyond a shadow of a doubt that I am somehow linked in heavily with the LOST, is a conviction beyond refute. Call me crazy, but I've seen and experienced phenomena that most don't, and it would be sheer arrogance to think that human beings are the only creatures made by the Elohim (or Valar) under the guidance of Eru Illuvatar (or the "ONE". Even Lon Milo Duquette who os a ceremonial mage, author and lecturer of great standing explains an encounter with a Tolkienesque Elf in his book "My Life With the Spirits".

I firmly believe that Tolkien used his novels to teach us we are not a lone species, and to introduce races of Beings even referred to in the Bible. 'Seek & you will find' - how true is that!

Hobbies

Reading. Learning about where we've come from, so: Ancient history, archeaology, philosophy. Herbs and their uses. Medicine. Pharmacology. Going for drives. Watching sunsets. Laughing til it hurts. Many kinds of music. I love Irish music - the uilleann pipes, the hypnotic beat of the bodhran, the fiddle, the pure notes of the harp, and the sound of a lilting celtic voice like Loreena Mckennnit's - BLISS!! I also love the call of the bagpipes ringing down from a high hill in the mist; that is pure magick! I love to sing - not professionally though! Walking through forests - especially those in the UK. My computer. Research. Astral travel. DVD night each Saturday with my son and his friends, Painting - if I should get the chance, which is rare, swimming, etc. Trying to look after my health and keep in shape. Photography - especially B & W. Looking at Art. Reading voraciously. Researching. Reading Wonder Woman comics. Reading to my son.

Heroes

More on this later, but for now: Anyone who has had a belief and the conviction to fight for positive social and environmental change, bringing awareness to others. Joan of Arc, Jesus, Mary, Mother Teresa...Battlers of life-threatening illnesses - whether they survive or not is not the point; they fought to LIVE and, to me, that makes them a brave hero.

Likes

Eating fruit, singing, practising my faith and observing the Wheel of the Year, Ritual work and study in the field of esotericism and mysticism (Qabala too, of course), Tarot. Spending time with my son. Playing soccer with my cat. Learning! Investigating and research. shooting practice NOT LIVE TARGETS!!!, fencing and sword work, boxing, basic martial arts at the moment. Anything that challenges and brings out my inner warrior to the level that my body can handle.

Dislikes

Arseholes, Liars, Manipulators, People who throw expectation upon me, Racist, sexist, classist, elitist people. People who become teachers because they hate children, people who become nurses and doctors because they hate sick people, flies, cockroaches, spiders, gossip, bitchiness from men and women, cruelty in all its forms, Environmental Rapists, the intended destruction of Tara in Eirinn - the Fae will have their Day!
Eating meat. That there are not enough passionfruit and cherries about to satiate me. Being sick, having operations and medical procedures done to me, pain, people trying to mess with my mind in a harmful way. Clowns, those stupid vantriliquist dolls, puppet shows, people who dress chimps up as 'inferior humans' and then laugh at them - any kind of abuse of any kind of animal, dwarf-throwing competitions - how bloody moronic is that? Jerry Springer shows - are those people for real? Please tell me they are all (including the audience) well-paid actors because if any of those people are real I am seriously concerned about the future of the human race.

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