{"id":1475,"date":"2004-06-20T04:58:01","date_gmt":"2004-06-20T08:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peacefulhippo.wordpress.com\/2004\/06\/20\/1475\/"},"modified":"2004-06-20T04:58:01","modified_gmt":"2004-06-20T08:58:01","slug":"1475","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/2004\/06\/20\/1475\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Since I&#8217;m no longer in Coven Ravencroft and cannot therefore be an embarassment to my now-former High Priestess, I have restored my Segovian Book of Shadows to my website.&nbsp; It has, over the years, gotten as many hits as my main section, some years more.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Beth and I are starting a new Tradition, Samkhya Wicca.&nbsp; Actually, she&#8217;s starting it, but I&#8217;m fully supporting her and I&#8217;m the only 3rd Degree Wiccan she knows.&nbsp; Check out her site at <A href=\"http:\/\/samkhyawicca.50megs.com\" target=\"_new\">http:\/\/samkhyawicca.50megs.com<\/A> .&nbsp; We&#8217;ll probably be using large chunks of the Segovian Book of Shadows, and all her knowledge of Hindu scriptures and Samkhya Yoga.&nbsp; So I&#8217;m simultaneously a Grandmother of the Tradition and a Student.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Boy, when I announced I was &#8220;available&#8221; (i.e., no longer in a relationship), I had NO IDEA how many women would be interested in me!&nbsp; There is a wonderful, artistic lady in Greenville SC with whom&nbsp;I have spent hours in stimulating conversation, another in Knoxville TN that seemed quite intriguing and we had an excellent phone conversation; both are rather short drives from me&#8230; and then there is a lovely young lady in Arkansas who wasted no time staking a claim on my heart.&nbsp; She was involved in my online coven, Golden Wyvern, but I barely noticed her; it was intentional on her part, since she didn&#8217;t want to mess with a guy who was already &#8220;taken&#8221;.&nbsp; If all things were equal, I&#8217;d have a bloody hard time deciding, and there are other women writing me too.&nbsp; But all things are not equal. <IMG height=\"15\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xanga.com\/Images\/kiss2.gif\" width=\"15\">&nbsp;Aimee.&nbsp; I have never seen a more perfect fit for me, assuming everything I know of you is true, which I believe it to be &#8212; and assuming everything she knows of me is equally true, as I also believe.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>I know that will get my ex-gf and her friends mad, but honestly, I waited until I was officially disengaged before starting this.&nbsp; Anyone who doesn&#8217;t believe me, doesn&#8217;t know me.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Life is getting exciting again.&nbsp; I look forward to the next few months to see what happens.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Tomorrow I&#8217;m performing a handfasting (non-legal) for two friends.&nbsp; I don&#8217;t remember where we found the ritual, and we didn&#8217;t have to modify it much.&nbsp; This will be the second handfasting (pagan marriage) I&#8217;ve performed, and my first solo flight.&nbsp; At least now I will have done as many weddings as funerals.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>I guess that&#8217;s it for now.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Hugs,<BR>Me<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I&#8217;m no longer in Coven Ravencroft and cannot therefore be an embarassment to my now-former High Priestess, I have restored my Segovian Book of Shadows to my website.&nbsp; It has, over the years, gotten as many hits as my main section, some years more. Beth and I are starting a new Tradition, Samkhya Wicca.&nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}