Welcome to my new blog project. My “in a nutshell” particulars are listed up on the top right of the page. If you haven’t read them, go on. I’ll wait.
Brigid has been riding me for a very long time to get a regular blog going. I do have another joint where I post nerdy stuff (Star Trek book reviews and whatever else might strike my fancy), but I decided I wanted to have a separate place to put the witchy stuff. Not because I’m in the closet about my paganism (I’ve not been for many MANY years), but to make it easier for readers to find content.
After slogging through the hell that’s been 2020 (I’m not going into that here… if you’re too young to remember, ask one of your elders. I’m pretty fucking tired of 2020 at this point), I wanted to dedicate myself to routine magical practice. Congratulations, internet, this is going to be part of that! I intend to post on or around the first of the month to start.
Oak and Clover was not my first choice for a blog name. But there’s apparently a LOT of witchy blogs out there, so my first few choices were taken. It does, however, have some meaning. Oak symbolizes my devotional polytheistic druid work (the word “druid” is very similar to the Irish word for oak tree), while clover (as in four-leafed) symbolizes my Wicca (which is decidedly eclectic by Tradition and informal by choice)… and clover has some awesome magical uses.
So what can you expect from me? I’m pretty informal and I will swear a lot. If you don’t care for language, you’ll want to surf elsewhere. And that’s OK. I’m not for everyone, but please don’t follow me just to comment on my potty-mouth. You’ll just waste everyone’s time.
I also don’t intend to make this a “Paganism 101” blog, although I do have a beginner’s info page and will be periodically adding to my resources page (including book lists). There’s plenty of that stuff out there already. What I want to do is explore the topics that make me go “hmm”. So there will be bits of Wicca and witchcraft here, bits of druidry, magical tidbits a plenty, and probably some cat hair too. It gets everywhere else. (I have two of them. Only one could possibly be considered a familiar.)
I’ll also be blogging on my own work, which will include establishing a routine practice, working through some Ár nDraíocht Féin study programs, maybe bits of rituals and invocations I write. I may have been on this twisted, woodsy path for almost 25 years, but you never really do stop learning. I’m not a guru, I’m just someone who’s been there and done it, and wants to share my treasure map with the universe.
Please feel free to hit up my contact page with questions. Trolls will be ignored, period, paragraph, end of story, so don’t waste your time.
And speaking of cat hair, here are my felines in their preferred position, lording it over everyone in the house from the top of the living room bookcase. Pixie, on the left, might just be a familiar. Jezabelle doesn’t give a fuck about much of anything. Both are stray rescues.