Greetings,
Minerva
I’m in my late twenties, when I was a kid I used to hear the wind whisper to me when I’d fly my kite next to the bay. I’ve had vivid dreams of things that I used to swear actually happened ever since I can remember, and I don’t mean lucid dreams, but a sort of foresight that persists on occasion to this day. These experiences encouraged my belief in the supernatural as being a perfectly normal part of my life, and when I gained access to more books my thirst for information grew, eventually leading to a dabbling in wicca with interesting results but nothing I felt I could really make use of.
I never really stuck with any particular path until recently. I read everything I could get my hands on and loved every last bit of it, and for a while I was really handy with a deck of Tarot cards. Then some things happened and life interrupted, unable to find anything that could be of substantial help in my herbs and potions I was unable to stop things from falling apart, but merely cushioned the blow from the hard landing at rock bottom.
It was a long time before I thought of returning to the studies again.
My work was turned towards working with plants, gardening, healing through food and energy working, mostly with stones. I turned my focus inward, realizing that I needed to heal myself before the world around me would get any better even if things did improve. This on it’s own seemed to give me beneficial results, not so much the positive thinking that some preach, but rather following the hermetic law of ‘as above so below; as within so without’.
Then eventually that plateaued and things turned sour for me once more, leading to a cross-country move and my eye turning to the LHP. Even before encountering the Reed I have had a strong sense of morality, a ‘do no harm’ philosophy. Attempting to follow the Reed only served to create a bad case of passive aggressiveness that did not end well. For a long time after this I searched the internet for anything that would give me what I knew I wanted, control over my own life. I found a lot of fun stuff along the way, but when I found BALG, I felt like I had stepped into an old home.
My ambitions are to choose a path to work deeper on that would benefit someone wanting to develop a personal business and break away from the 9-5 and renting situations. I don’t have much to work with aside from stones, tarot decks and what little skill I have been able to flex thus far in combining a little bit of what I am capable of pulling off considering how little time I manage to get for myself.
TL;DR : I am an eclectic that’s wanting to get serious.
I look forward to getting to know you.