Musings on the Ovate Path

It took me a while to sort out what has been making crazy influences in my life.  Vodoun.  Someone was crazy enough to call on a trickster spirit that is into mind games, torment, and creating self-destruction in the intended victim.  But, it showed itself to me. At least, it showed itself to me using those images.  The thing is,  I know what this is.  I have a passing familiarity with it.  I study and have studied religion and spirituality for close to 30 some odd years now, only because I am interested. And finally, that relief from the Catholic Church visit, and that Welsh parish priest, and his recommendations, all make sense. Vodoun is a synthesis religion, with some practitioners seeing the saints as avatars for the lwa.  And, now that I know, I have a plan to address it. The thing is, some spirits are amoral, and rather neutral.  They do not necessarily favour the one who called them up.  And if the party that sent this afte...

The Rosary is a form of prayer beads that Catholics, at the Roman Catholics, have been using as a structured form of meditation and devotion.  Reflections on Mary, Jesus and his path on Earth, and the Father in heaven, are all part of the form. However, it is likely the early Christian Monks borrowed this from Eastern practise; monastics in the East were using prayer beads far sooner than in the West. It is a funny thing, to find myself going to attend church for the first time willingly in about 25 years, for me.  I know my father is not well, and I also know that in time, I will find myself spending time in there.  What it was for me was a homecoming I was not expecting. This druid is well aware that specific beliefs on the path require no doctrine, dogma, or books.  We learn directly from our experiences, the book of nature, life itself.  All the wisdom of every story of human experience is out there, whether it be in various religious texts, the lyric...