When I think about it, I realize my connection with things pagan stretches far back into my childhood. I can remember learning about the classical Greek pantheon at the age of 9 and being absolutely fascinated. I loved it so much I talked the neighborhood kids into playing gods-and-goddesses instead of cowboys-and-Indians or cops-and-robbers.
At 12, a friend and I considered ourselves practicing witches, and performed spells regularly (this is where I first encountered the "organized craft" literature and ideas). I didn't have the strength to buck family pressure and leave my deep Episcopal roots, and we scared me, so I abandoned it again until about 7 years ago, after having moved to Boston and encountered the neo-pagan movement again. I have been learning ravenously since then, now identify as a pagan more-or-less openly, and will probably never be anything else again.
Nowadays, in magical circles I go by the name Sycamore Seadragon. I currently practice as an eclectic solitary, although I have a few pagan friends and a spiritually-eclectic husband; he would like to work with me, but I don't feel comfortable with it for several reasons. My own beliefs and workings draw from many paths, prominently British and Greek, with a certain lingering facination with some Hindu gods. My paganism is intimately bound up with my feminism and my work in the fat-acceptance movement. I particularly enjoy working with the kabalah and tarot - I have several decks, including Robin Wood, Daughters of the Moon, Mythic, Inner Child, Dragon, Witch's, and Postmodern.
I have been a proud member of an all-woman witch mailing list community for more than five years now, and currently serve as co-administrator. We are a committed group of women witches, seasoned, diverse, intelligent, educated, sometimes cantankerous. If you'd like to know more, please write to me and I will send you more information.
I've written a little pagan poetry, which I'm happy to share if you're interested.
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Marty Hale-Evans
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