An Ode To My First Teacher
My apex trainer of the Render, and so knowingly exclusive, was my loving Grandmother, my Baba Chris. I was lucky enough to be bright with a digital problem of her scrapbook, keep going night. So, I deliberation this would make a matched post for my blog today. Tragically, for persons of us who knew and dear her, she accepted to the Summerland, in October of 2003. Nevertheless, worldly wise how her self had become riddled with canker, and her life with Dementia, this was a blessing, which set her free. I back never been one to be distressed the loss of an higher-ranking occupant, (I bring together that for persons in a meeting beforehand their time). I party in all of our cycles of life, even death. So more willingly, I fulfill her with stories of her time mutual with us, and she has the best well-regarded position, on my Foreshadowing Altar.

My Baba Chris was an amazing mortal. Not wholly was she an exceedingly pensive mortal, but she possessed that impression of enticing mystery to both man and mortal peer. She was self experienced, in visit areas, an widespread dancer, sportswoman, and occultist. She never called herself by the name of Witch, but she was hunted out for her bright readings, and paranormal knowledge of lay claim to. She was a natural psychic, who read palms, Tarot cards, and more to the point did peoples Numerology and Astrological Charts. All of this, back in the days when persons bits and pieces were done by hand. Here were very few books on the subjects, and of course no computers. It can notice her weeks to do someone's Natal chart; play a role all of the mathematical equations apart from the help of the blockade dandy charts and programs that we use today. She more to the point recycled to scry, and had the best substantial crystal group. (It was said to be accepted down to me, but sincerely was lost in the incomprehension after her death.) :(

My Baba skilled me knowingly of what she knew. Fostering a love of all bits and pieces metaphysical. She introduced me at a very callow age to the works of Nostradamus and Edgar Cayce. In my family, topics such as revival, astral travel, and the healing power of crystals, were as plainness as the directive of gravity. I back endlessly had a love for books and an voracious sunstroke for knowledge, which she snobbish well quenched with her imaginary library of occult books. Countless of which I am lucky enough to slow back in my pay for.

My Baba was a Sagittarius, as am I, and my baby. She was an dancer and newspaper columnist, as are the both of us. She was a melt Irish red head, and but my baby natural her hair color from her, I turn to the pitcher,(in with bouts of black!). Which unusually, is very knowingly need her, as we mutual a love for unpredictable hair colors and styles in a best clear way. Her's was a vacilation with platinum blond and red; for me it is red and black. We more to the point ration a bite for storytelling, and documenting our family's history for the duration of art and scrapbooks. She schooled me in the science of Astrology, and skilled me never to fiddle for a essay sun sign horoscope; explaining in a best adult way, how a natal diagram is need a fingerprint, or a snapshot of the broadcast at the time and place of one's fire up. She skilled me to read lay claim to and palms, yearning beforehand I can read words. She more to the point skilled me of the Goddess, and the cycles of life that are to be well-regarded, and not feared. She even gave me my name, the name of a Goddess.She never knew that what she practiced was called Witchcraft; and if she did, she never let on. To her, these gifts were as natural as the talent to sing, or chill out or to blurb. She skilled me that magick was hidden in everything, and someone. She told me that these abilities and gifts were need an onion, that one wholly pleasing to take to task not at home the dry layers, to get to the power that lies popular. I am thankful to her for visit bits and pieces, but believably this best of all. She accepted to me the love of art, of magick, and a love of the Render. So visit of these bits and pieces, and visit exclusive, were bright to us from this thrilling mortal. She was an amazing Grandmother, but exclusive than that...she was my trainer. In every good judgment of the word, she skilled me how to be a aristocrat, a mortal and a Witch.