Stitching Lotus

Soul Quiz

Posted on January 9, 2005 by Heather

Thanks to everyone who has offered words of support. I’ve been feeling blah and down lately, so I let something get to me when I should have just shrugged it off. Thanks for the reminders. 🙂 On to the quiz!

You Are an Old Soul

You are an experience soul who appreciates tradition.
Mellow and wise, you like to be with others but also to be alone.
Down to earth, you are sensible and impatient.
A creature of habit, it takes you a while to warm up to new people.

You hate injustice, and you’re very protective of family and friends
A bit demanding, you expect proper behavior from others.
Extremely independent you don’t mind living or being alone.
But when you find love, you tend to want marriage right away.

Souls you are most compatible with: Warrior Soul and Visionary Soul

What Kind of Soul Are You?

I am very much a person who appreciates tradition and time to myself. And saying that I am a creature of habit is a bit of an understatement. I guess you could say that I am a very proper person, and I expect others to be the same. I try to use my manners at all times, and be polite to all people, and I expect the same in return. Even when people get snippy with me, I still try to be polite. And as for love, while I am very independent, I am also very commited to my partner. Really, this was a pretty interesting quiz. 🙂

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Some Website Whining

Posted on January 7, 2005 by Heather

Having a website can be very frustrating. Although I do get many nice comments and emails about the pieces I post over on The Lotus Pond, it is the rude and mean emails that stick with me the longest.

Last night I got the following:

wiccan is only 50 years old my ass wiccan is older than the catholic religion it can be traced back many centurys dont make yourself seems like someone that knows all when no one knows everything. stop acting like there is a scientific reason for everything those whole webpage makes me sick

Okay, maybe I shouldn’t take personally a message from someone who confuses the name of a religion (Wicca) with a person who follows it (Wiccan), but that is just the sort of person I am. I put a lot of work and thought into my site. In my piece on the history of Wicca, I present two views and try to provide evidence to show why I support the theory that I do. It’s not like Ronald Hutton pulled everything out of his butt when he wrote Triumph of the Moon. And, uhhh… there is a good chance that Gardner may have.

Anyway… I’m just seriously frustrated. I was thinking about new essays and a new layout of the Pond, but now I’m just thinking about scrapping the whole thing. Blah. But I guess it is better to keep my somewhat educated site around to counter some of the more fluffy one. Who knows.

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Happy New Year!

Posted on January 1, 2005 by Heather

Happy 2005! Let’s hope that this year is a wee bit quieter then the one just past. And I wish for all of you a great deal of love, joy and peace in the new year.

Today my parents are coming for a visit, and we are cooking a lovely chicken dinner. (Turkeys are hard to come by right now.) After that, I’m escaping off to Hamilton for a couple of days so that I can drive down to Paris (Ontario, that is) with my mom to plunder Mary Maxim’s January clearance sale.

It looks like the year is off to a good start. 🙂

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Hopes for the New Year

Posted on December 30, 2004 by Heather

I’m finally back after my long hiatus. (I wonder how long it will be until anyone notices. 🙂 ) I feel a little refreshed after being away from my blog, and the Internet in general, for so long. My time, though, wasn’t spent as wisely as I had hoped. I ended up getting bogged down with work and health issues, and got very little done. But a new year is about to start and it is time for new goals, new plans, and new priorities.

The most important thing for me to do in the new year is to pick up my pen and write. I am learning that my fear of failure, when it comes to writing, is coming true when I don’t write at all. So, by trying to avoid my fear, I am actually making it happen.

My second biggest priority is to attend to my health. I have reduced my work schedule, and I have also began to implement a new eating and exercise plan.

I also have other resolutions with regards to spending money (I buy far too many books), following up on half finished projects, etc. I’m optimistic about the new year, and I hope all of you are too.

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Taking a Break

Posted on October 7, 2004 by Heather

I will be taking a break from posting here at the Pond for a little while. I don’t have any plans to return until at least the end of November, although it is likely that I will not post again until the new year.

Thank you for taking the time to stop by and read my occasional posts. And thank you very much for all the helpful comments and feedback you have provided.

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Making Changes

Posted on September 28, 2004 by Heather

I’ve found myself with mixed emotions about some of my actions during the past little while. For example, I have left some of the online groups I participated in (and really didn’t enjoy) in order to have more time to indulge in my passions, but instead I have found myself in front of the TV far too often. I have also been selling off items on eBay in an attempt to reduce the clutter and some of my “collections”, yet I can feel myself mentally planning how to spend the money I have earned.

At one time I was very interested in Voluntary Simplicity. I decluttered our apartment and tried to stop spending so much. It didn’t last for long. My love affair with books soon took over, and I was back to spending like normal. However my decluttering efforts have continued to this day, and the amount of “stuff” we have shrinks even while the number of books grows.

After reading Your Money or Your Life, I am finding that many of my spending habits are already starting to change, albeit slowly. As I said, I have been planning how to spend my eBay money, but other then buying a fountain pen, I haven’t spent any of it yet. I have also found myself looking around the gift store I work at, enjoying all the nice things, yet not wanting to buy any of them. Then I go splurge and buy lunch… It is a slow change, to be sure, but at least it is a step in the right direction.

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Witches Weekly – Dreams

Posted on September 27, 2004 by Heather

I know that a lot of Wiccans and Pagans put a great deal of store into the prophetic abilities of dreams, but I am not one of those. I have vivid, colourful dreams every night, many of which I can remember for many days afterwards, but none have come true. I have dreamed of shopping trips so real I looked for the items when I woke up, I have dreamed of murders so awful I was afraid to go back to sleep, and I have had gentle dreams where nothing much happens at all.

Witches Weekly – Dreams

Do you believe dreams are ever symbolic?
Yes, I do believe that dreams are symbolic, in that they use symbols from one’s life to create some sort of a story which may or may not make sense. As to whether I believe that they can be prophetic, I would have to say that in general I don’t think they are. I think, like Tarot and other divination tools, the symbols used in dreams can bring to one’s attention some aspect of the current situation that one isn’t aware of (or are ignoring). And when that particular situation plays out the way one now expects it to, it seems as if the dream predicted it.

How do you interpret dreams? Do you feel some are scenes from past lives? Future premonitions? Hidden thoughts and feelings?
To me, dreams are nothing more then my brain trying to sort itself out. I often dreams things that make no sense or have no bearing on the real world at all. None have ever felt like scenes from past lives or hints of the future. Although, I did tend to have dreams centering on school during the last few weeks of August, but these continued for a few years after I was done school, so I think it was nothing more then my brain feeding of all the school symbolism out there in the world.

What do you feel was your most symbolic/meaningful dream?
I don’t think that I have had any particularly symbolic or meaningful dream. I did once have a dream that would make a wonderful plot for a novel, but I have yet to begin writing it.