Foundations
By Staff Writer: Paganus Greybeard
Greetings All & Everyone.
Hail & Well Met.
Be Welcome Here.
Paganus Greybeard here….
I am nearing the start of my 3rd Year of Readings.
I am starting to read of the Shamans and the Druids.
I am also starting to read “The Supernatural".(1)
It’s a series of Time-Life-like picture & text
books from the 1970’s. I know they may not be
accurate or reliable on many things - but they are
good for what I am going to use them for. I see them as
sign posts to thoughts, topics, ideas and concepts
that may yet be new and as yet unexplored by this Paganus.
New ways - new thoughts - new patterns and forms.
New authors, new readings and new writings.
Moving forward from where We were to where We will be.
Let’s together begin with a simple analogy….
I am building my new life.
I may not yet be a Witch - but I do work for one!
I work for M’lady Mistress Ravenfyre.
I work and serve as Her Site Administrator & Group Moderator
for Her Mystic Witch Forums.
I am a Writer and Editor for Her MysticWitch.com.
I am the “Owner” of a Google Group - MagickalMystics.
I am a Guild member of the ‘Science & Arts’ Guild at the
“Koroneburg” Renaissance Festival in Corona, CA.
I also serve and tend this household.
My life is complicated, often confused and contradictory
and emotionally, psychologically and metaphysically busy.
I serve many people in many different ways.
For the Mistress I am Her Paganus - Her Site Administrator
{spam killer!} and Group Moderator {Forum’s ‘traffic cop’}.
I also serve Her as a Writer and Editorial Contributor.
It is in that role that I write and post these thoughts….
I also “own” and “manage” MagickalMystics on Google Groups.
In the ‘physical’ and often quite tediously mundane ‘real’ world
I am this household’s ‘house-tender’. Yes - that does indeed
include some inevitable and inescapable ‘parent-tending’.
I also serve the ‘Science & Arts’ Guild out at the “Koroneburg”
Renaissance Festival. This coming season I am again blessed with
the opportunity to work for Tom & Pat - producers and presenters
of the Festival.
I am building my ‘new’ life.
In a very real way it quite similar to building a structure.
You first select the site and location for your project.
You clear and prepare the ground.
You take out all the old dead stumps and rocks.
You keep as many of the living tress and shrubs as possible.
You then dig out for the foundation.
A life - nor physical structure - is never built from the highest
level downwards.
A life - as well as all physical structures - is/are built from
the lowest levels upward.
I am ‘building the foundation’.
One digs out for the foundation -
lays in the electrical and plumbing -
and then builds the basement level.
That is what I am doing.
I am gathering materials - the metaphysical & metaphorical
electrical conduit, copper pipe, wood, plaster, concrete and rebar
and other component stuff - and am busy ‘building’ and slowly
‘outfitting’ my ‘basement/foundation’ level.
Shamanism, Druidism, Wicca, Magick and Mysticism are all going
into that Foundation Level.
The process is slow.
It is meant to be slow.
You are not meant to do any of this quickly.
Building Your physical ‘real’ world home may take years.
So too it may take years to ‘build’ and ‘outfit’ Your
metaphysical, metaphorical, spiritual home.
As I do my Readings -
As I gather my Learnings -
I shall Share.
I will Share of the Readings.
I will Share of the Learnings.
I will Share of Questions and Answers.
That is how we Grow & Develop.
That is how we Be & Become - Become & Be.
So this was -
So thus it is -
So thus it be…..
Blessings Be