Continuing the discussion from Welcome to the AODA Forums:
Hello from Virginia!
I would love to connect with some other new members, as I hope to be initiated soon as well
I first joined the AODA 4 years ago…I can barely believe that it has been so long…
Since then, I have worked to build my solitary practice & discovered a UU WomenSpirit Circle to celebrate the Sabbats & perform Sabbat rituals with. I even co-lead our Litha ritual this year & it was beautiful!
I’ve been a good old-fashioned solitary pagan since I was about 14, although I grew up in a very prohibitive Southern US Christian family. I’m originally from the Appalachian Mountains of West Virginia & in that beautiful setting the Earth, the Sun, & the Moon have called to me for as long as I have memory.
Over the course of the past 4 years, I’ve made a few changes in my life & my lifestyle such that I will be able to join AODA & GCC meetings, begin activity on the forum, & continue to practice the Sun, Moon, & Earth paths.
I would absolutely love to be initiated & begin work on my candidate curriculum in earnest
I’m currently reading & studying John Michael Green’s “The Druidry Handbook” & have designated a bookshelf for all of the druidry path materials that I will collect to sit amongst all of my favorite pagan books, collected over the past 20 years.
(25 years ago, my momma & grandma were destroying my secret copies of books like Scott Cunningham’s “Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner” & praying earnestly for me…)
I would also love to begin attending study group meetings & plan to look for one here on the forum
If anyone here has any “leads” on any of these things, will be willing to direct me to the info re: initiation, or would be willing to welcome me to a group, I will appreciate it greatly!
Some of my interests include gardening, tending & propagating my indoor succulents, hiking & being anywhere on or near water alone with my partner, crafting (crochet, cross-stitch, Celtic wire-wrapping, etc, etc), and loving my 3 spoiled doggies. We have a deerhead chihuahua, an applehead chihuahua, and a chiweenie (a chihuahua/dachshund mix).
I am preparing to sew my own druid tunic & crochet a woolen robe. I am also an avid reader & aside from paganism, buddhism, druidry, & gnosticism, I love history (I’m oddly obsessed with the Midieval & Tudor/Renaissance periods in England- my family knows more stories about the Plantagenets than they ever wanted to). I also have a guilty true crime genre habit… but that’s enough about me.
I can’t wait to connect with some of you!