A Cloudy day and a new start

As tends to happen on those wonderful gray days when the sky takes on a tint of blue and the greens looks so wonderfully green, I've been doing a lot of self reflection and with some inspiration from a coven sister of mine have decided to start a blog to help express my current spiritual path.

I suppose every beginning needs an introduction so here we go. My name is Branwen, I'm a Celtic Re-constructionist and a initiate in a wonderfully new and open Wildflower Tradition started by Rabbit with the CAYA Coven.

My Celtic roots span back to my childhood when my father gave me a storybook of the King Arthur Legend and needless to say it has stuck with me in almost all things in my life. I first learned about Celtic Recon in Highschool and realized "Hey! That's what I'm doing!" It appeals to my historic nature with all the active scholarly learning and reading as well as to the basic life lessons and codes that I grew up with in my Marine Corp household.

My first real "experience" with the Gods was about four years ago, till then I had just been paying homage, and soaking up as much information as possible without really worrying about whether or not I was being recieved. Well...recieved I was lol.

My mom was to be having some pretty major surgery and was very stressed at the time, she was convinced that her angels (She is a big angel spiritualist) where giving her ominous signs. Her figures where falling over and such, and she wants me to come over and see if there was a spirit in her house and in general keep her company.

Well...I felt no spirit other than the general energy of the house which can be somewhat spazzed because of my mothers natural energy, but that night I had a dream. In it was a stone necklace, I don't remember the particulars only that this stone necklace was important. Right before I woke up a voice, calm and melodic as if someone was whispering in my ear said:

"Remember Danubrite. Danubrite."

I woke up feeling nothing out of the normal rolling the word around on my tongue with the knowledge that this Danubrite was a stone I needed to have. The morning proceeded without incident, and as I set down to check my e-mail I thought I'd look up Danubrite, just to see if it really was a stone.

Danubrite : A highly spiritual stone that activates the intellect and higher consciousness, linking into the angelic realm. Excellent for facilitating change and for leaving the past behind. Helps people get along with others and to change recalcitrant attitudes. Stimulates the third eye, crown and the higher crown chakras and aligns the heart chakra to these higher crown chakras. Clarifies the Aura and promotes lucid dreaming. Brings patience and peace of mind.


When I related the story to my mum, she was insistant on finding herself a chunk of that stone lol. So we went off to Grass Valley where there are mineral shops abound and I convinced my mom to stop in at the Sacred Bee, a lovely pagan shop I had heard of but never gone.

With my highly dubious mother (she believes in Angels and anything Silvia Browne says but try and take her to a pagan shop and suddenly she looks at me funny) to ask the very helpful clerk about the stone. He hadn't had much experience himself but he looked online and it appears the stone has a habit of calling out to people, he also told me that I was pronouncing it a little off and that the scientific spelling was Danburite (dan-ber-ite).

That was what struck me, because I distinctly remembered the voice saying dan-oo-brite.

After getting over the shock of having a dream that made itself so tangible, and my brain kicked in I realized that it was a more than just the stone, but a message of whom it was from.

Danu is the mother goddess of the Irish gods that I had been paying homage to for years.

I take that incident as a sign that I am in fact on my correct path and that my efforts are appreciated.

I don't really consider myself extremely magically talented, especially when compared to all the wonderful people and friends that I have met in the last year with CAYA coven. I don't do spell work often, and my personal practices are usually incorporated into everyday things like cooking and sewing, my artwork ect.

But I feel that I am growing spiritually, I'm learning so much from my new coven family! It's all very new to me as I have not study much of the Wicca that the CAYA rituals are based on, but it's so very nice to have a community. And just to celebrate with other people brings such a depth to life that only adds to my own personal rituals.

Well this turned into a very long post lol. I hope to post more, I think it will help to put my thoughts down.

What I plan to use this blog for is reflection on my spiritual path in and outside of the Wildflower Collective, share my various rituals, spells/recipes and what not.

Till we meet again,

Branwen