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About Wendy

1) If you could take just one book on a deserted island; what would it be? and why?

I reread “The Alchemist” by Paulo Coelho once a year because it teaches me so much about the mys­ter­ies of the world, pay atten­tion to my dreams and trust my intu­ition, so that’s the book I would take with me.

2)Have your read­ing tastes changed over the years?
God, yes…I used to read roman­tic “bodice rip­pers” when I was a teen-ager, tons of self-help books and any meta­phys­i­cal book I could get my hands on.

3)What genre do you read now?
I love his­tor­i­cal fic­tion, tak­ing place in the Renais­sance period, The Dark Ages in the British Isles, I tend to be more drawn to Taoist and Bud­dhist books for my spir­i­tual needs and I also love archae­ol­ogy, anthro­pol­ogy and native cul­tural his­tory. I’ve also taken a huge inter­est in com­puter web-design learn­ing CSS and HTML.

4) Whom are your favorite authors?
J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Mar­ion Zim­mer Bradley, Paulo Coelho, Shake­speare, Sharon Kay Pen­man, Charles de Lint and Alice Hoffman.

5)Describe your ideal read­ing expe­ri­ence.
It’s pour­ing rain out­side with thun­der and light­en­ing, a fire is going in my fire­place snap­ping and crack­ling and my two cats are sleep­ing soundly right by me. And a big stack of books I’ve been dying to get into.

6)Books or Television

Both are enter­tain­ing but I always will pre­fer a book to watch­ing t.v. unless it’s “True Blood” that takes prece­dence!

 

7)If you could be a char­ac­ter from any book, who would it be and why?

Mor­gan Le Fay from “Mists of Avalon” by Mar­ion Zim­mer Bradley for her strength, wis­dom, faith and con­nec­tion with the faes.

 Audio or E-books?
Nei­ther, I tend to retain more with an actual book and I love the smell and tex­ture of books.

9) If you had a chance to ask your favorite author one ques­tion; what would it be?
I’d ask Shake­speare whomever he/she was, what inspired him most and what char­ac­ter that he wrote was his favorite?

10) What’s your favorite fairy-tale?
When I was lit­tle it was “The Lit­tle Mer­maid” the Hans Chris­t­ian Ander­son ver­sion for it’s beauty and sad­ness and now I like urban fairy tales, like Charles de Lint’s works which I couldn’t rec­om­mend highly enough.

11) How did you find Wicca/Paganism?

Although my mother wasn’t a for­mal witch she knew a lot about witch­craft, mythol­ogy and lots of mag­ickal knowl­edge which basi­cally I grew up with and have inte­grated.

12)Solitary or group prac­ti­tioner?

I’ve never been into a for­mal­ized group for any­thing, so I would have to say soli­tary, although I do like meet­ing other kin­dred spir­its to both learn and pass on my knowledge.

13)Do you have any patron Gods or Godesses?

When I was grow­ing up and up until my early thir­ties it was Aphrodite and Herne, I knew she chose me. Now, I feel very con­nected to Bastet and Hermes.

14) Describe a time you felt clos­est to Mother Earth.

When I was in New Mex­ico trav­el­ing through the South­west by myself for three weeks I was at Chaco Canyon and felt a remem­brance of past times and felt absolutely peace­ful and bliss­ful. Also, when­ever I attend a sweat-lodge ceremony.

15) What ani­mals do you feel most con­nected to on a spir­i­tual level?

I’ve always been closely con­nected to cats phys­i­cally and spir­i­tu­ally, the wolf and the hawk.

16) What is you favorite pagan celebration/holiday and why?

Samhain, def­i­nitely! Love Autumn, the veil being open more to the ances­tors and fas­ci­nated with the realm of the Under­world. The kid in me loves, candy, par­ties and cos­tumes.

17) Do you use any form of div­ina­tion?

I used to use the tarot and runes all the time. Now I look for ani­mal omens and signs, a bit more shamanistic.

18) Have you ever per­formed a “spell” and if so what what type was it and what were the results?

I haven’t per­formed any for­mal spells since I was in my thir­ties. I did a lot of love spells, never for dark pur­poses or manip­u­la­tion but I learned the les­son of going with the flow and non-attachment to the out­come which has been my mantra ever since.

19) Have you ever had any encoun­ters with the super­nat­ural?

I have encoun­ters with the super­nat­ural all the time. Not the type where I run into a spirit, but like many of us, I’m an empath and eas­ily I can go to a his­tor­i­cal site or a place where there’s been a lot of energy and almost instantly I can see and feel exactly what tran­spired there.

20) Is it always “love and light”?

Nope, nope and nope! I believe in both love and light but to deny the shadow of any­one or any­thing is dan­ger­ous and ignorant.

21) Which ele­ment do you feel most con­nected with?

I’d say a combo. of earth and air. I love the air being a Libra and like to come up with new ideas and am in con­stant motion either men­tally or phys­i­cally. I love “Earth” because I’m very aware of nature, the ani­mals, sen­si­tive to the essence of the Earth God­dess and I like to stay grounded so I’m not blown away by my air element.

22) Where are your favorite places?
New Mex­ico, Ari­zona (high desert), British Colum­bia, Ire­land, Egypt and Marin County, Cal­i­for­nia.

23) Hob­bies and inter­ests besides blog­ging?
I prac­tice Yoga off/on and when I do prac­tice life is just so much eas­ier. Read­ing is a major pas­sion of mine, hence “Witch Reviews”; I love see­ing movies, going to them, etc…and play­ing with my cats. Not a crazy cat lady, I promise!

24)What is your favorite movie/movies?
“Lord of the Rings”, “Dan­ger­ous Beauty”, “Amelie,”, “Choco­lat”, “Crouch­ing Tiger, Hid­den Dragon”, “Eliz­a­beth” the list goes on and on…look at my bio on blog­ger to see the rest.

25)What does your astro­log­i­cal chart say about you?
I have my sun in Libra, which I touched on talk­ing about my pref­er­ence for “Air”, my earth and moon are in “Virgo” hence my attach­ment to Earth and my Venus and Mars are in Scor­pio which gives me an dark edge…

26)What style of cloth­ing do you pre­fer or wear most often?
I used to love silks, suede, all the really costly high-maintenance mate­ri­als, now my motto is “If I can throw it in the wash­ing machine, not have to iron it, and not have to take it to the dry-cleaners, I’ll prob­a­bly wear it”. I still love nice qual­ity clothes but I’m much more con­scious of nat­ural mate­ri­als and how and where they were made.

27)Do you have any pets?
Two very indulged, beloved cats who own me, not the other way around. Bella and Sele.

28)Do you fol­low your head or lis­ten to your heart?
I once read that we should “write with our heart and edit with our head” and I loved that so much so that’s been my guid­ing prin­ci­ple.

30) Why are you writ­ing this blog?
I love books, movies, etc…and I was syn­chro­nis­ti­cally lead to Lyn who was also think­ing of hav­ing a “review” blog and we both thought it would be fun and enter­tain­ing to co-author this blog.

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