Archive for June 20, 2006

Visit to Maryland

The events page has been updated.

I’ll be at The Crystal Fox (two locations) on August 12 & 13. See you there!

The most fun you’ll have with a mouse today

Jackson Pollack.

Tell me that didn’t just thrill you.

Sacred Marks

I gots me a new tattoo.

Shortly after arriving at Free Spirit, I noticed a big pair of white geese hanging around just outside my cabin. Since the goose is my totem, this seemed like a good sign. (Ya think?)

Sacred Marks Sanctuary had set aside Friday for my clan. By which I mean, these two amazing guys tattooed a total of thirteen members of my extended family between 1 p.m. and 3 a.m. (With a dinner break.) All in ritual space. I went last.

Eighteen months ago, the clan had a ritual tattooing day planned for Imbolc (a day for sacred art, among other things). I had selected the eyes of Kali for the back of my neck. To prepare myself, I’d fasted and chanted and made ghee to offer to the fire. Seriously, lotta work there. And at the last minute, the tattoo artist got violently ill and couldn’t make it. Which made my brain hurt.

So the thing I’d written for part of the offering has been sitting on my altar all this time, and now, at last, I was getting my tattoo. » Read more..