Rant: Fucking One True Wayist Heathen Assholes....

[emberleo]

To Whom It May Concern,

I am Vanatru. I am Clergy. I run the Vanic Conspiracy. I love and care for my congregation as dear friends and family. I love and honor the Vanir as dear friends and family. I love and respect the Landwights and Ancstors as dear friends and family. That is the nature of my way.

I am Heathen. I'm in Hrafnar. I work with and love Diana Paxson as my Gythia, and her folk as my folk.

I am a Seidhkona. I am in Seidhjallr, and have recently hived off a new group for my own area to explore Seidh and Galdr and whatever other forms of Northern magic call to us on our own terms.

I'm a spirit worker. I happily associate with Raven Kaldera and many of his friends, including quite a few Lokeans and other Rokkatruar. I get along just fine with Loki. Tricksters respect people who don't run away from Them.

I'm also a headwashed and necklaced Loa child in the American Magic Umbanda House, where I am the Lead Singer, and Little Mother (In Training).*

In all these things, I honor my ancestors. Honoring my Ancestors includes honoring the Celtic powers.

The more I walk my path, the more I find everything falls into place, leading me ever onward. My path is singular and clear. If you find my religion confusing, you should see what it does to my love life sometime - but that's none of your business.

I have friends from many different traditions and I respect and honor their ways, whether I join in their practice or not, in the moment or in the long run. I would be a fool to deny their truths, for it is readily evident that their ways work just as well as mine, and the messages they bring me confirm and support the messages my own ways bring me.

Being a scholar of religion means studying every kind of religion I can find, at least a little. Being a counselor of humans means understanding the many forms of human experience, finding both what unifies us and what makes each of us unique. Being a priestess to the gods means listening to what They ask of me regardless of bullshit human politics.

This IS my path, and I AM sticking to it. And you know what? If you don't LIKE all that about me, you can FUCK RIGHT OFF.

I am Ember

If you are good to me
I will glow for you
I will warm you
I will light your way

If you fuck with me
I will burn you

--Ember--

* As of August 2012 I've stepped up to Alumni in AMUH, and am thus no longer Little Mother (in training), or the primary Lead Singer. As of March 2013 I am released from AMUH and am thus no longer a member.

Comments

[wynkat]

*raises a horn* hailsa!

[emberleo]

:D

-E-

[jensurvivor]

I've been lurking in some forums you are members of, and yes the gall of some people is astonishing. Give'm hell.

[jensurvivor]

It's not good that someone should dishonour you Ember.

[emberleo]

I would not go so far as to say I have been dishonored - none of the responses that prompted this rant were directed to me personally as far as I can tell.

-E-

[jensurvivor]

Not here but I get the idea that someone was bad to you elsewhere

[emberleo]

It's more like a collective effect. I'm tired of worrying about my reputation. I'm tired of feeling like my accomplishments are meaningless because there's always someone who will say they're not all that, and someone else who will say they're actively bad. I'm tired of hiding bits of myself in the hopes that I'll catch less flak from the general Pagan public.

-E-

[jensurvivor]

This is probably a good thing? We are being spoken to lately a lot about how we can present ourself to the world with more confidence and so as to engineer how others see us. It is not always manipulation so much as being aware of what we are saying, and not leaving a vaccuum.

[emberleo]

Yep. :)

It took me a long time to learn that I even HAD a real reputation to worry about.

So it's taking me a while to learn in what ways to worry, in what ways to shape, and in what ways to just shrug and move on.

-E-

[camillanightshade]

I think you are great Ember, and you have the right to be whoever you wanna be. If others dont respect that. Just fuck em. They arent worthy of you time and energy. Reputation stuff can be a hard one. I think it is good to make these statements for everyone once in a while.

[emberleo]

In general I tend to agree, but I actually do care how I affect the people around me, so I can't afford to oversimplify things into yes/no questions.

But sometimes, dammit, I just need to SAY it, eh?

Heh.

-E-

Responce

[mad-artist.livejournal.com]

You go girl!

Re: Responce

[emberleo]

Okay, I will!

Uh... who is this?

-E-

Re: Responce

[mad-artist.livejournal.com]

Just an admirer. I know what it feels like.