About Me

I am a long time pagan who was initiated into following the Goddess wherever she may lead when I was 13 years old, here is that story.

Nothing made sense anymore, and no one cared. I prayed to God but never heard anything. Over and over I prayed. But my sister kept on attacking me and nobody would help me. Nobody believed that my fear was anything important. No one would protect me and if my family didn't help me than who would? I walked out of my trailer in the trailer park that was now a violent prison and wandered until I sat on a outcropping on the edge of a hill overlooking a field. It was summer, the worst time because I couldn't get away from my sister at school during summer, I was trapped in that trailer park 3 miles from town. 

  Gazing out I cried and wished harder than ever that I was dead. Wishing for a knife I scratched my wrists with my fingernails and bent over in soul pain, crying to God and asking why He wasn't answering. 

  It was a windy day and I felt an almost palpable nudge to my spirit and opening my eyes I cried out to a Goddess. Any Goddess and Goddesses. 

And she answered. She was in the air, the rock under me, the earth around me, the trees above me down to the roots under my feet. My tears slowed and I felt more at peace suddenly, more held. I felt the energies that surrounded me and connected me to the earth, though I didn't understand them yet.

  That was the beginning. That was my first experience with the goddess who called me to her as her own. She waited for me to call to her and suddenly she was there and has been every since. 

  Since then, I started out reading Scott Cunningham, Raven Grimassi and many others. Then I studied Buddhism and mindfulness. Now I have come back full circle to the Lady and the Lord and have reaffirmed my connection to the earth and to them. 

  As you read this blog, I will admit to you that I am drawn more to Goddess figures than to the God figures of paganism. But my 25 year path has led me to Morrigan, Danu, Brigit, Lugh, Cernunnos and others of the Celtic pantheon. This is where I have laid, this is where I have landed. This is where I come from.

 So welcome to my blog and blessed be. May you find calm, support, laughter, and thoughtfulness in these words I type. 

As I will it, so mote it be.

Talia Ravenspath

taliaravenspath@gmail.com