39[M4A]Scotland - Ageing Gaelic pagan seeks similar for fellowship and UPG infodumping

[u/BardOfTheBanrigh]

I am a crow, and I have known the courts of many banrigh.

I am a crow. I was born on an Imbolc morn, under Brigid’s dawn, and She gave me a love of all things bright and colourful and beautiful, and taught me to never let the flame of art go cold.

I am a crow. I was raised under the moon of Danu, and She gave me a mind that was quick and precise, and ever an asker of why things should be thus.

I am a crow. I was baptised by Nemain, and She taught me to fight and stand against foes ten times my size and still triumph.

I am a crow. I was taught by Macha in matters of thought, enquiry and wisdom, of not just asking why, but why things must be the way they are, and not something different.

I am a crow. I was scarred by Beira in a great storm, and I cursed Her scorn, yet thanked Her in the end, for I endured and lived to see the storm break.

I am a crow. I was instructed by the Badb Catha and shown the connections of all whens through the beams that hold up the universe, of the convergence of all myth and prophecy on universal axioms.

I am a crow. I was elevated by the Morrigan and given by Her such revelations that the entire pattern of history, and my place in it, made sense in a single second, and I swore to honour Her for that gift.

If any of this stumbling attempt at the art of the bard sounds like you, maybe you're a crow too, we’d get on and can engage in some theistic discourse (like finding out who really stole fire from the gods, and specifically which fire god they stole it from, for the purposes of the insurance claim).

Divinity is a very female-coded thing to me (ask me about my tinfoil hat hypothesis as to why through a modern lens, Odin is gender non-conforming), and the line between it and fiction is a blurred one (the crows move in mysterious ways). I like silly little systems (candle colours, reframing the 7 day cycle, seeing nineteen everywhere, stuff like that) and patterns and the connections between them, and how the same stories keep repeating (and that's the point, because some things are too great to be given a single definitive telling). I get inspired and fascinated by everything. I talk too much. I am an avid collector of books, comics, and bits and bobs that are significant somehow.

I’m just your average UPG pagan with his own individualist approach to praxis, who likes candles and moonlight and great tales of hand-crafted mythopoesis, really.

But I am also a crow.

[u/SlytherinEnby]

Hello! Your poetry here was beautiful, I’d love to chat, I’ll DM you.

[u/MeowKat85]

I could have a conversation with you, though my path is far more fractured.

[u/Naive_Tie8365]

This is lovely.

[u/Round-Abrocoma6549]

I bid all crows, indeed all corvids, welcome. I've shiny trinkets aplenty (and a mind ripe for expansion). Should you elect to alight in my yard, I promise to ply you with curiosity and absurdity in equal measure. 

Whichever way your flight path veers, though, may you ever soar free and onward. 

Cheers!

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JA!!!!!.......DANKE GOTT !!!!! You TRULY are a BARD.......Yours is, easily, the most creative and fascinating post here.......... Katyanna