*** Opened channel log for #adf at 2016-12-20 7:21:42 PM [19:21] *** Owlhawk (Owlhawk@sorcery-2bv46v.cable.rogers.com) has joined #adf [19:21] *** Topic is: Welcome to the chat for Ár nDraíocht Féin: A Druid Fellowship (ADF). Find out more about us at http://www.adf.org [19:21] *** Topic set by ChanServ!services@services.sorcery.net on Mon Aug 3 7:55 AM [19:21] *** Mode change [+o Owlhawk] on #adf by ChanServ [19:54] *** rovena (rovena@sorcery-gl0omv.direcpc.com) has joined #adf [19:54] *** Mode change [+o rovena] on #adf by ChanServ [20:03] [Owlhawk] hello. [20:04] *** DrakeCollins (Mibbit@sorcery-np5bhi.mi.comcast.net) has joined #adf [20:04] Hello [20:04] Hello [20:04] How are you tonight? [20:05] lol fighting with my camera while doing my Vigil [20:05] No fun [20:06] [Owlhawk] wishing the snow wasn't so eager to arrive. [20:06] That is why I live in Louisisana [20:06] [Owlhawk] lmao [20:07] [Owlhawk] on the upside, I had a 5.5 day weekend! [20:07] [Owlhawk] Yes, we got that much snow last weeke! [20:07] Cool. [20:07] [Owlhawk] And I'm paid for snow days! [20:07] That is always goof [20:08] good [20:08] [Owlhawk] up here, it's a necessity. We lost an entire January to snow days a few years ago. The entire county was shut down for a month [20:10] Local newspaper put an article and a 44 second video of our Yule ritual on their website [20:10] We don't get too much snow here, since We're on the Eastern side of the Peninsula, It all drops before it gets to us. Certainly not like I used to get back in the Snow Belt of Ohio [20:10] [Owlhawk] I'm between Lake Huron and Georgian Bay. We get snow when the wind sneezese [20:23] [Owlhawk] Awesome Rovena. Was it a positive article? [20:23] Very positive. [20:23] She wants to come to mote rituals [20:23] more [20:25] Last year she went to the Wiccans' SPring Equinox. They aren't holding public rites any more so she came to ours [20:25] She enjoyed it. [20:26] [Owlhawk] Awesome. Well done Madam [20:27] Thank you. [20:31] How are Blondie and the cats? [20:32] Had one fixed today. That leaves one left to tame and catch. [20:32] [Owlhawk] Sadly, we are down to one cat. Tear left for the Summerlands at the beggining of the month. Blondie is recovering. [20:34] I am sorry. I know how that feels. Wish there was something I could do. [20:36] [Owlhawk] He passed while cuddled in my arms. It was peaceful and without pain. I know he passed easily and happily to the Summerlands. I thank the Nature Spirits for aiding in his passing. [20:37] That is good to know. [20:39] [Owlhawk] Having a really great Vet answer the afterhours clinic call was a real blessing. She was awesome, and made a huge difference. [20:39] [Owlhawk] Snowball is the last one left and is enjoying being an only kitten [20:40] Yes a good vet is a blessing. Most of mine would love to be an only child. [20:43] My Bichon has started to develop dementia but he is still happy so we are dealing with it. [20:46] [Owlhawk] that's all you can do. We won't get another pet while Snowball lives. [20:47] [Owlhawk] While we're both here, I have Surgery on January 10th, so I likely won't make chat that night [20:48] No problem. I will be here and will do the Facebook announcements. Good luck with the surgery. [20:49] Do whatever you need to to heal properly. [20:50] May I light a candle for you? [20:51] [Owlhawk] I would be honoured. I'm having a deviated septum repaired [20:53] Doesn't sound like fun but it should make life a lot easier [20:53] [Owlhawk] fingers crossed. Specialist thinks it will solve my allergy/sinuses clogged problems [20:54] That would be good. [20:54] [Owlhawk] that's an understatement [20:55] I am lucky. I have a hole in mine but it only causes minor nosebleeds. They aren't common yet [20:55] Doctor says at some point I will start to whistle in my sleep. [20:57] [Owlhawk] I did the nosebleed thing in my childhood...alot. so I passed that stage a long time ago [20:57] He swears that I had to have broken my nose at some point in my life but no one knows about it [20:58] [Owlhawk] lol. that's what the specialist told me was the cause of my issues. [20:58] Does this make us cousins? [20:58] [Owlhawk] And I don't remember ever breaking a bone! [20:58] [Owlhawk] lol [21:00] *** RandyHansen (Mibbit@sorcery-hkrsoh.dyn.centurytel.net) has joined #adf [21:00] Hello Randy [21:01] Hello [21:01] How are you tonight? [21:01] Tired [21:01] You? [21:01] I am sorry. DId you enjoy whatever made you tired? [21:01] [Owlhawk] snow bound. It's gonna be one heck of a winter [21:02] I'd like a to go ten toes up on a beach for a week [21:02] It was 75 F on Saturday and 31 F on Sunday [21:02] Undertand that [21:02] -5 Saturday, and 50 F today [21:03] Crazy temp swings [21:03] [Owlhawk] I figure we got 3 or 4 feet of snow from Wednesday to Sunday. .. [21:03] My never ending list, just isn't shrinking yet [21:04] We need a few feet, instead of inches [21:04] [Owlhawk] given our start, I 'm just hoping we don't have 20 ft by the end of January [21:06] We really get snow. Every few years we get ice storms. [21:06] really = rarely [21:06] We seem to get up to 10 feet of snowfall total, on our mountain from September through May. [21:07] So far, I'm thinking we've only received about 6 inches [21:08] Rovena... thanks for forwarding my question on Podcast rituals to the preceptor. [21:09] No problem. She was at work when I messaged her. SHe says to give her a bit of time while she consults with others on it. [21:09] We've got about a foot on the ground here ATM [21:09] Wheres here Drake? [21:11] By the way... for the DP, is it an honor system for a start date? [21:12] [Owlhawk] We don't bother counting. We end up with incredible numbers when we keep count [21:12] [Owlhawk] Yes, mostly it is on the honour system [21:12] ok [21:12] Yes it is the honor system [21:12] I'm in Detroit [21:13] My mother was born in Detroit [21:13] Sunday was my start date... if the Preceptor allows a podcast rite to count 8) [21:13] What about the DP has a start date? beyond doing the full cycle of rituals within the same year? [21:13] Drake, ... any improvements on the water in Detroit? [21:14] Detroit's water is fine, it's Flint's that's the problem. [21:14] Ah... cycles... forgot about that [21:15] [Owlhawk] the meditation essay has to be a continuous 5 months...I think it is. maybe 6 [21:15] 5 months [21:15] It's supposedly been improving, and they are saying lead levels for a lot of people are OK now, but nobody really trusts that [21:15] [Owlhawk] The rituals must be a full year cycle [21:16] My Senior Druid talked to me on the phone about the meditation thing last night. I'm so not looking forward to that...lol [21:16] I guess that's just another cycle, rather than needing a specific start date. [21:16] the Meditation thing is the biggest part of why I haven't finished my DP... in 7 years... [21:16] [Owlhawk] the ritual essay helped me finally learn to meditate....it only took me since 1990. to learn.... [21:17] Remember, you don't have to succeed at meditation just document your efforts at mental discipline [21:17] right [21:17] You can try various techniques and explain how they helped or failed for you [21:18] Is the meditation the thinking kind or the void kind? [21:18] lol they fail for me because I lack discipline [21:19] Either Raggiedmon [21:19] ah [21:19] the longest I've been able to consistently stick with a meditation is 3 weeks [21:19] *** rovena (rovena@sorcery-gl0omv.direcpc.com) has quit IRC [Connection closed] [21:19] I may just do the 'Three Powers Meditation' to start with. I'm used to that one for the High Days. Maybe I can study each power more closely, as a result. [21:19] *** rovena (rovena@sorcery-gl0omv.direcpc.com) has joined #adf [21:19] unless you want to count the year cycle of Ordeal work that I did with Cougar last year, but that was only once a month, so it doesn't meet the DP requirements [21:20] [Owlhawk] The meditation is about learnign to meditate. That is, to be able to enter trance like state in meditation [21:20] *** Mode change [+o rovena] on #adf by ChanServ *** Closed channel log for #adf at 2016-12-20 9:20:19 PM