Starshyne/Starshine

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Merry meet, and RaInBoW Hugs,
I'm Starshine, one of the many eclectic pagans you'll meet.

Besides how many Pagan/Rainbow Family/SCA/deadhead/disabled/artist/CFGer/all around ecletics do you know:) I'm fairly new to the undernet, the wide world of webbing, just past a year in fact. Since discovering it, my life has changed in some of the coolest ways. I have made #wicca and #pandora's_box my homes away from home. I am still a "toddler" witch, and have yet to find the direction of my beliefs, the closest I've come to is somewhere between Native 'Mercan and Norse beliefs. I often seek the guidance of my housemates, and friends both in real life and in channel:)

I was born into a moderately liberal family in the early sixties, followed by two brothers. We moved to the countryside in northeast Illinois, where space was plentiful, and open minded folks few, in hopes of getting away from the noise and troubles of city life. With my parents discovering science fiction fandom in the early seventies, I spent my time learning more from my parents and their friends' lifestyles than from anything by my peers, whom at the time I always seemed at odds with...hence my need for finding my "true nature" as my mom likes to call it. I had found myself with a natural ability, that I soon learned to quell after finding this was not "normal", causing me to lose what I hold dear, contact with other folks. After some time of trying to "get away" I erringly joined the US Army, thinking this would solve things for me and soon realizing it wasn't for me, I started moving from state to state.

I moved here to Cincinnati, OH where I fell in love with the hills and trees and decided it was more central for being near friends, going to science fiction conventions, and going camping. I met my Sunlion, and we soon moved in together, and we married. We've had the usual ups and downs; including an auto accident I was involved in caused by a drunk driver, I was left permnantly disabled. We started going to Rainbow Family gatherings, where I learned part of my belief of protecting Mother Earth. We both discovered our paths, and of course things have changed in ways we had no imagination of.

We have since moved into a house with some other pagan friends and call our new home "Rainbow Holt" which has also changed things in many ways. Rainbow Holt is made up of ourselves, our children, Lion Heart and Morning Dew, and our soul sister, Ragnara. We hope to have additions to our household of family/friends. All of us here are practicing solitary, although we do many workings together.

Though some of my family members, are what you can say "disappointed" in my choices...my parents remained open minded, and often seemed even interested in learning what I know, even when they divorced; my dad has since passed away. They are definitely proud that the ideals they have taught me, had led me to grow and love nature. To them it isn't important that I believe in a religion, but that I believe in something that brings joy to my life. So it was natural for me, when the time was right, to discover where my path was leading and that Mother Earth and Father Sun have always been there.

When not on the net, I enjoy listening music, going to the occasional Science Fiction convention, Rainbow gathering, or SCA meeting, making clay jewelry, and other assorted crafts, reading, camping trips, in general hanging out with friends.

Rainbow Hugs, and Brightest Blessings... Starshine

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