List ten things that you think make you who you are. Try to list things you believe about yourself, not perceptions other people have about you.
My Soulmate
My life, heart, destiny and spirit are intrinsically linked to Jenn. I know exactly what she's thinking, feeling and about to say, can sense her in every way and ways I'm not aware of, know every last piece and portion of her heart and feel completed by her presence. She is the north star to my satellite, my gravity. I love her without measure, without an articulation capable in words or thoughts or poetry. We are, one to the other, the same bright creature. She is everything to me.
Love of the Goddess
I am a Witch, I cast spells, I am a Priestess...but all of these things are meaningless without my driving love and connection to the Mother. I hear Her in the wind, I feel Her in the rain, when someone embraces me, I feel Her hug. She is everywhere to me, in the stars, in the earth that cradles my feet, in the flowers I lovingly nurture to bloom. She's also in my heart, and "out there." She loves me endlessly, my Big Momma, my Creatrix, my Lady. She is the focal of my life, as I struggle to get things right. I am Her daughter, and I am unendingly blessed by Her presence and Love. I feel Her everywhere because I love Her so much. It's an endless cycle of knowing I am held. I do not have faith in the Goddess. I know.
Love
I love. It's my default, if you stripped away everything about me that makes me "Sarah," you'd be left with love. I love my family and friends, I love my animals and rocks and trees, I love everything. It's how I approach functioning in the world, it's why I think I was put here. I love without limit.
Compassion
Linked to, but somehow separate from "Love," is my default of compassion. Compassion, to me, is love in action. It's choosing love when there are other choices. It's being kind and gentle. It's giving back to the earth. It's a soft blue way of living.
Animals
My love for animals is the pulse of my heart. I cherish the animals we've been entrusted with in this lifetime, I'm Vegan, I believe every animal has a deep, abiding spirit and worth that is unmeasurable by mankind. I believe that we are different nations, connected together commonly on this earth-boat. I speak to them and believe they listen. When I hug Link or cuddle Pan and Poesy to my heart, or snuggle Shiva while he purrs, I can feel my spirit and their's connect. I am just as blessed by the animals and their love as by the Goddess herself.
My Writing
I have been telling stories since I was a little girl...I was born and bred to be a writer. I believed, growing up, writing novels in my notebooks while the sun set, that this was all I was meant to do. I've told countless stories, and more come to me, begging to be told. My head is filled with emotion and characters, story and places I've never been to, all asking to be put on the page. Writing novels and poetry, short stories and spiritual non-fiction, fills me in a way that nothing else can. I know without a shadow of a doubt that I will someday have a novel or two published. It's my driving dream, the bright star of the future that I continously pull towards. I remember buying my first Writer's Market at the age of fifteen, paging through it, circling publishers as I wrapped my blanket around me, nestled on my bed. It's one of those crystalline memories, you know? The one where you felt something, so strong, so right. I bought my eleventh Writer's Market this year. I like the number eleven. I think it's...lucky. I think this is the year.
Witchery
Grinding herbs in my mortar, lighting candles, whispering the Goddess' name to the stars...Witchcraft is one of the most important aspects of my life. To be able to make magic, to will something into being, to create--it's a great power, and one I take very seriously. I love doing spells for friends, choosing the right herbs for healing, mixing that special oil and whispering words of love and mirth over it. Spellcraft and ritual craft, ecstatic ritual and ecstatic dance all work into my witchcraft practice. Every day, every act, I try to do as a sacred rite, bringing sacredness into my every day. I believe that, as a Priestess, everything can be done with love. I do my best to live that.
Nature
Whether gardening, planting, cultivating, walking, nurturing, loving, simply being in the out of doors, it's a balm to my soul. I'm a wild creature, a child of the woods and sea, and I must be outside for at least a small portion of the day or I literally pine. I grew up roaming the woods and meadows with animals, and am part Mowgli, I feel, at times. I am rejeuvanated by the out of doors, healed by it...I feel more myself outside than anywhere else. It's my source of joy, energy and vitality~
The Sea
The story goes I was born with fins, but decided to become a mortal girl--if only for a little while~ The ocean is a beating pulse in my veins, and I can only go so long without saltwater rushing over my feet and legs. I am a giant battery, and when I walk into the sea after time spent away from it, I can actually feel myself becoming recharged. There's something about the deep blue, about the rolling waves, about the taste of salt on my lips...I can not live without the ocean, think about it everyday, wish for it constantly. When I'm there, I'm at perfect peace...that tiny pulse for it in the back of my mind is silenced. Every other second of the day it's there, singing me home, like a siren, to the sea.
Friendships
I am surrounded by some of the most incredible people the world has ever created. And I know that, I know that to my core and back, and I am endlessly and completely grateful for that. I have been blessed, in this lifetime, with friendships that are magical. I don't know what I did to deserve it, I don't know why I'm linked to so many wonderful people. But I am. Most of you reading this, right this very minute, count in that--and I think you know that. Or, at least, I hope you do. I hope you know that I love you, that I feel strengthened by your great love and compassion in my life. The Goddess has blessed me beyond measure because I know people like you--people with courage, great heart, laughter, kindness, beauty, compassion, knowledge, steadfastedness, quirkiness, humor, magic. Every single one of you bring beautiful things to my life, and I'm blessed to know you.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go for a walk in the beautiful, pitch black night with my sister (currently napping--The Proposal with Sandra Bullock tired her out. ;D). There's a wind storm outside--a powerful wind-storm that I can feel humming in my bones. The night is magic, and I'm going to embrace it~
There are no comments on this entry. Comments are disabled.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif){kind=small}
content
tired
good
restless