Eclectic Witch

Curses, tagged again!  Oh, not really.  Ol’ Auntie doesn’t mind tags like this one.  Not only is it flattering, it’s pretty simple, gives me a chance to be as insanely random as I like and to turn you all on to some great bloggers!  What’s not to like?

Chameleonsdreams over at Coffee Break tagged me with the “7 things about you” meme. The rules for the meme are:

• Link to the person who tagged you
• Post 7 things about yourself that people may not know
• Tag 7 other people and link to them
• Leave a comment for each of them on their blogs to let them know they’ve been tagged

7 (an excellent number), things about me:

1) My magickal/internet/tattoo name, Thorne, has multiple and complex layers of meaning, the most superficial of which is perhaps my Tattoo Business motto:

2) It is also a play on words regarding the concept embodied in the phrase:

3) Regarding my use of Thorne as an internet moniker, many years ago in the dark ages of the internet, when we all lived on email lists and noone lived anywhere else  (a tiny hat-tip to author Shirley Jackson there), I was named by a list moderator as the

4) And the last bit on Thorne is but a tease; a glimpse through a mirror darkly into a story of past lives and psychic wounds and scars carried by choice throughout many incarnations… (but that is a story for another time).

5) I am a witch who does not follow the Wiccan rede of “An it harm none, do as thou wilt”, rather do I subscribe to the following in it’s original form and intent:

6) I am not a “White Witch”. 

I am often asked by people if I am a white or good witch (as opposed to a black or bad witch, I suppose).  This is usually asked with a nervous laugh.

I say simply, “I am a witch.”

At their puzzled look I ask, “Are you a good person”?

Most people invariably reply that yes, they are a good person.

“Does that mean that you never do anything bad?  No lies?  Never cheat on your taxes, gossip, treat another person with anything but the utmost love and respect? Never yell at your spouse or kick the dog?”

As their eyes widen in understanding I repeat simply and sometimes with a mischevious smile,

“I’m a witch”.

7) I once (and only once) cast a love spell.  I was hopelessly and addictively in love with a man who had a different idea of they sort of woman he should love.  I dreamt the spell.  On the astral plane I gathered my components (all from his cupboards; I was a kitchen witch even back then), said my Will and inscribed it upon his doors and windows, laying claim to him and his home as my own.  The outcome of the spell was horrifying in the way it rebounded on me at the time, (although many years later I find it hilarious) and it taught me an important lesson.  The lesson I learned was not, as some might have you believe, that it is wrong to cast a spell in an attempt to magickally control another being,  rather a much simpler lesson in discerning my True Will before I act, which is simply expressed as

“Be careful what you pray for, because you just might get it”.

 So there it is, the 7 bits about me you probably don’t know.  Now for the rest of the fun.  I love picking on people, so… I tag:

1) Mo at Inside Mo’s Mind

2) Matt at One Old Green Bus

3) Steve at Blog on Smog

4) Kids of Queers

5) Shelly, my favorite redheaded Texan storyteller, at This Eclectic Life

6) Dr. Faustroll Writes the Wrongs (for his foolish but intuitively genius use of the insignificant penis SEO technique, and because anyone who works so hard to offend so many deserves a little link love)

and last but never least

7) Di at Forks Off the Moment

I believe that Mo is the only Pagan in my tag list, which just goes to show you that this eclectic witch, is indeed.

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