Dreaming in the Color of Voodoo

Another thing that i may be adding to my blog time nad again are the dreams I have at night. I want to do this mostly because I find most of my dreams incredibly strange, and others becasue I find them interesting at the same time. Last night's dream proves to fall into the interesting category most definitely.

THe dream starte dout in a strange location, in a house or cabin in the mdidle of the woods. Starting to sound abit like a horror movie backdrop, huh? Well, it was creeepy, but it wasn't night and we werne't stranded, thankfully. We means myself and my mother, whom I see most every day, despite not living with her anymore. FOr some reason she was distressed over something, I'm not entirely sure what, but her distress got worse when she found out a woman working at the house, a very voluptuous black woman, large in all areas, but extremely nice, made some sort of comment that she was a practitioner of Voodoo. SHe had a heavy accent as htough she was from Barbados, or someplace in that reegion (One of those Island Nations anyway...). My mom instnatly wanted her out of the house, because to her Voodoo is bad mojo, heh heh. Seriously though, she was vehemently wanting this nice woman out of our home for her religious beliefs, and yes I do believe the cabin was our new home, at least temporarily.

I attempted to diffuse the situation and talk to this nice woman alone away from mom. Because I myself am an Eclectic Pagan, and have a pretty open mind baout most other 'strange' religions. I was tlaking to her baout it, curious as i know nothing really about Voodoo. She more or less explained to me she wanted to perform a ritual, a voodoo ritual to cleanse the home of the bad mojo that had built up there, becasue something was causing the place to feel very restricted, and also was the source of mom's severe stress and anxiety. I agreed to help her, eager to participate and learn from the experience. We began gathering things, picking ritualistic garb to wear... it was all normal and fine, and two of the main colors that arise were a ery pretty royal purple and garnet red. They were very central to the ritual, and perhaps abit of forest green in there as well.

Well, somehow I ended up having to leave before the ritual could take place, and mom had to sit through it. She called me, upset nad distressed baout it, feeling it was worng, that it was dark, that she got bad feeligns baout what the woman was doing. I reassured her that there was no ill intent in what th ewoman was doing, it was jsut differnet to her to see somtehing done in a different language, something so strange, it seemed demonic to her, and not at all right.

All in all I woke up at some point as the phone rang, but the dream was still going. I'm not entirely sure what wa shappening, nor what the dream itself means, however, I suppose it links to wanting to educate mom on what being Pagan means, and not waht she thinks it is. Most of her information is inaccurate, and I'm not entirely sure she has the courage to look up th einformation on her own. She knows baout it, knows I'm into "Wicca" or "Witchcraft" as she comments, but she doesn't know what I believe, relaly, and tlaking baout it relaly isn't something I care to do. Primarily, I say that, because once I do she'll want to constnatly ask me things, nto a problem, but you guys don't know my mother... she's persistent, and annoying...

So, I've been researching a few books to get her to read on her own, getting her the information she needs, withotu needing to spell it all out for her.

HOpefully this dream isn't a bad omen, but who knows. I'll need to think about it more later. A strange one indeed, but something interesting just the same.

Love, Light and Blessings, until next time.

First Entry and Things to Come

So, this is my first blog attempt. In this blog I hope to publish several things of interest, about my life, things I am interested in, And at times rather random bits of information.

Currently, at this very moment in fact, I am using a handy program called Dragon NaturallySpeaking. I actually purchased the program hoping to use it for novel writing however, it seems I'm going to be using it for blogging it now. My first impression of the program is that it has amazing promise. Though at times it may suffer and has some errors that it does create in word choice, I find it to be a highly efficient and valuable way to either create a novel, or in this case a blog. Out-of-the-box I've only done five minutes of training with it since I received it in the mail. If it was so little training it seems to get roughly 9/10 words correct if not more.

Speaking of new toys, and new programs, I began using the Wii fit plus today, after receiving it for Christmas. I own the original Wii Fit, so I knew what to expect. I plan on using Wii fit plus at least three times a week and hope to lose a little bit of extra weight. I plan on blogging how my progress is going, but no you will not see my weight, just the results of how much I've lost.

Among other things I plan to blog about, I hope to blog a little bit about my adventures in an MMO RPG that came out last September. Many of you may not know about this MMO RPG, well it is called AION, or AION Online by publishing company NC Soft, the creators of Giuld Wars, Lineage II and City of Heroes/Villians. To learn more about this game please visit www.aiononline.com. Also, I plan to bring forward a few concerns that I have regarding where our nation may be heading. What I mean to say about this, is that lately I've been watching a little show called Conspiracy Theory with Jessie Ventura. Many of the things this man says may seem like pure conspiracy theory bull crap. However that there are many people who feel his information needs to be heard including myself.

but for now, I will leave such topics for another day. Hopefully next time I will be a little more organized, and focus on only a single topic at one time.

Until then, love, light and blessings to all.