CALIFORNIA

WHERE EVERYTHING THAT SHINES IS GOLD

and, oh yeah.. I moved

Wow, it's been awhile sense my last post. I'd like to blame my absence entirely on my recent relocation across the country, but if i'm being honest I actually just haven't been feeling the blogging lately. I think I reached a point where I felt as if I was spending too much time putting out information and words, and not taking enough in to replenish. So I've been hunkering down, hermit style. I returned to my books, my studying, my rituals, my personal practice, my spirituality, and my magic. I'm happy with my time spent, and feel like I have most definitely grown because of it. 

GOODBYE BIBLE BELT, HELLO GOLDEN STATE

Don't get me wrong, I had really come to LOVE the Low Country and all it had to offer: Hoodoo, sweet grass baskets, haint blue doors, markets, southern drawls, the 'honk if you love Jesus and hate Obama' bumper stickers... But California yall. 
When I say this shit is different, I am not exaggerating. I have lived in the Bible Belt of the southeast my ENTIRE life. And don't get me wrong.. I love the sweet tea, the southern hospitality, and all the closet drunks just as much as anyone else.. but I was itching for a change. Don't ever say prayers (read: lit candle, herb bundle, and chanting) don't work, cause here we are in the glorious state of California. 
My inner renegade has been doing cartwheels sense we got here. We've gone from a southern baptist church every fifty feet and flat lands - to - Pagans (mostly Wiccan's) everywhere, Santeria Botanicas minutes from our house, and the most beautiful rolling hills you could ever hope to see. I'm in heaven (and this heaven has a very fun and hip LGBT nightlife). 

Even now, I'm sitting on my back porch overlooking the Escondido hills at a larger than life, almost full moon.. listening to coyotes howling. Yea I said Coyotes. I don't even know what the fuck a coyote really is or looks like, but I can hear them howling to this beautiful Strawberry moon, no doubt in anticipation of the Summer Solstice tomorrow. Life is good my friends. Life is good.