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Posted by: urian 29-Sep-2004, 09:23 AM
A thread that was startedon another site I sued to visit. It was originally posted two years ago and is still growing. I thought we might enjoy it here.

You might be a shaman/druid/*insert name* if...

You say "Oops, wrong pocket" a lot. Like when you dig in for change and come out with two favorite stones and an acorn instead.

Your flying buddy is a Crow and you don't need an airplane.


When you need to decide something you ask your friend Rockie what he thinks, and he lives in your back yard and weights about 5 pounds.


When the word "family" has more meaning to you, because a lot of your family members that you are very close to are not in human form.


You realize that you can no longer say the some one is dumber than a box of rocks because that's an insult to the rocks

Your friend with a rock garden is looking for rocks for it and tells you she would like contributions but you must ask the rock first if it would like to come live at her house and you don't even bat an eye.

...if you have more rocks in your bedroom than in your yard.

...if you're in a hurry to get rid of your human company so you can be alone with your friends.

...if you get excited and have to tell everybody when you see vultures celebrating the first day of spring.

...if the spirit of the trees is so overwhelming that it's sometimes frightening.

...if you feel the need to heal the pain of a disfigured tree.

...if you only realize how many babies spiders have because you just couldn't bear to kill or even put outside a 'family' spider that lives in your bathroom.

your alone in the living room having a peaceful minute and you hear, thirsty. No one's there but you and a droopy looking plant.

your actually looking forward to the time when you find crow tap dancing on your own head.

when sleeping is a chance for spirits to come and teach you.

when you're miserable and crow flies down and perches on your window-sill.

when in dreams you can talk to animals, and they talk back. Then you wake up and it's still happening.

when you wake up with an uncontrollable urge to give your dog a cookie and go down stairs only to find he's waiting by the cookie jar for you.

when your suddenly and mysteriously overcome with emotion, and in the midst of trying to figure out why, you realize it isn't yours.

You realize peace is within you when a white dove travels beside your car as you travel down the highway.

When you ask your house what color it would like to be.

your childhood is that of the loner.

... your adolescence is that of the searcher never quenched.

... your maturity is filled with sensitivety and selflessness.

... your old age is tranquil and wise and you just enjoy the end of the journey that leads to death, and waits for the beginning of the journey that leads to life again.

... you read all this thread and it rings true to your very own core.

Enjoy..and add...
Peace be with you all

Posted by: Shadows 29-Sep-2004, 09:36 AM
You can eat, heal, and survive in the woods or your home with things most would consider disgusting!

Blessed Be

Posted by: celticwoodsman 29-Sep-2004, 12:47 PM
if you get yelled at for walking around a public area barefoot, and you blame the other people for having a bad attitude because they are not "in touch with the earth"

love the list, keep it going!

Posted by: Sekhmet 29-Sep-2004, 07:45 PM
..you're not alarmed that your child is talking to your pets and insisting that they're talking back.

Posted by: urian 29-Sep-2004, 08:03 PM
If the dog that follows you home in the evening is a better conversationalist than most of the people you know

Posted by: TheCarolinaScotsman 29-Sep-2004, 08:27 PM
QUOTE (Shadows @ 29-Sep-2004, 11:36 AM)
You can eat, heal, and survive in the woods or your home with things most would consider disgusting!

Blessed Be

That's just a teenager, at least the two I had. tongue.gif


You realize time is just an illusion, that all things exist simultaneously.


Posted by: celticwoodsman 30-Sep-2004, 12:43 PM
if you go into the wilderness for days or weeks on end, and you come back with weight gained

Posted by: Sekhmet 30-Sep-2004, 06:43 PM
A flock of crows perch outside your window and stare inside until someone comes by and yells out "he's not home!" Then they finally leave.

Posted by: 3Ravens 03-Oct-2004, 09:05 PM
You and your Circle have already planned a wheelchair acessible Grove and circle for when you become Ancient Crones and might need it......
You know the Names and personalities of all the major trees in your yard, and whether they think of themselves as male or female.
And you're working on the other plants.
It doesn't bother you when you meet a man on the stair, and he isn't there....
It also doesn't bother you when your grandson talks to you in your sleep, and he isn't due to be born til November.
When the cats stare at something you don't see, you remind them, "be careful, faries bite back!" and they back off.....

Posted by: Angel Whitefang (Rider) 05-Oct-2004, 09:01 PM
You spend your time with the "ghosts" that live in your house and you enjoy it more then when your "Living" family comes to visit

you hold a conversation with your 100 year old house and you gain more knowledge from it then you do your Professor at school

You can feel your Dragons snuggle up with you on a cold night

your favorite earrings disappear and you know the fae have visited you

before each meal you take some of your food off your plate and give it to the Goddess and God to show your thanks.

Some one looks at you and calls you a "Freak" and you say "Thank You"

People try to scare you with demons and hell and you just laugh

You see a wounded animal and then you heal it

In the midst of a Volcano erupting as people are running for safety your having a party because Mom is giving birth. (Yes I live near Mount Saint Helens)

You don't fear death standing at the end of your bed, because you willingly give him your hand and are excited to see what the next adventure is

You are in a cave so black that no one can see, you have no flash light, matches, torches of any kind nothing that gives off any light, yet a light comes from you and you can help the others.




Posted by: urian 05-Oct-2004, 09:35 PM
QUOTE (Angel Whitefang (Rider) @ 05-Oct-2004, 09:01 PM)

Some one looks at you and calls you a "Freak" and you say "Thank You"


yup

love it biggrin.gif
glad you joined in, Angel

Posted by: urian 05-Oct-2004, 09:40 PM
When everyone else considers halloween "dveil's night" or a night to dress up and you consider it the one time of the year you can dress as yourself without people lokoing at you funny tongue.gif
and you know halloween for what it is..the night to be near the spirits and those that are no longer with us. A night for remembering.

Posted by: Shadows 06-Oct-2004, 06:40 AM
When you have a 4th of July party and your friends ask why you still have your Hollween decorations up and you reply "I dont decorate for hollween".

Posted by: Angel Whitefang (Rider) 06-Oct-2004, 01:14 PM
Halloween is your Grandmothers Birthday

Posted by: celticwoodsman 06-Oct-2004, 02:30 PM
If after 3 years of marriage, you get re-married.


Posted by: urian 09-Oct-2004, 10:50 PM
If, while washing dishes, you notice cleaned chicken bones put to the side so you ask your roomates if they were planning on using them for anythign before you throw them away.

(I almost miss my roommates..almost)

Posted by: freekenny 10-Oct-2004, 12:52 AM
QUOTE (Sekhmet @ 29-Sep-2004, 08:45 PM)
..you're not alarmed that your child is talking to your pets and insisting that they're talking back.

O'siyo,
~Absolutely!~ clap.gif
~Sty-U red_bandana.gif

Posted by: freekenny 10-Oct-2004, 01:07 AM
O'siyo,
~If....you can create a fire using water~ ph34r.gif
~~Sty-U red_bandana.gif

Posted by: freekenny 10-Oct-2004, 01:11 AM
QUOTE (Shadows @ 06-Oct-2004, 07:40 AM)
When you have a 4th of July party and your friends ask why you still have your Hollween decorations up and you reply "I dont decorate for hollween".

O'siyo,
laugh.gif biggrin.gif laugh.gif lol.gif
~Sty-U red_bandana.gif

Posted by: Shadows 11-Oct-2004, 10:09 AM
If you know more uses for herbs and plants then their culinary ones; and you can identify then in the wild blindfolded.

Posted by: freekenny 11-Oct-2004, 03:17 PM
O'siyo,
~ IF....you have 'seen' a 300 year old tree 'take away' every type of ailment with nothing more than a 'tree hug'~ sleep.gif
~Sty-U red_bandana.gif

Posted by: Shadows 11-Oct-2004, 03:30 PM
If you know every animal where you live on a first name basis ( either wild or tame ) and they know yours!

Posted by: Shadows 11-Oct-2004, 03:33 PM
If when you speak of your roots it means more then your ethnisity...and connects you to your plant brethern.

Posted by: freekenny 11-Oct-2004, 04:31 PM
QUOTE (Shadows @ 11-Oct-2004, 04:30 PM)
If you know every animal where you live on a first name basis ( either wild or tame ) and they know yours!

O'siyo Shadow,
~ Absolutely! cheers.gif
If I may add to this I would have to say, 'and they know they could depend on you if they were hurt, hungry or just needed a O'ginalli' wink.gif
~Sty-U red_bandana.gif

Posted by: urian 13-Oct-2004, 11:17 PM
when your long distance conversations consist of standing in an open field a relaying messeges to a friend on the wind

Posted by: Shadows 14-Oct-2004, 05:11 PM
If you speak and most people understand and the animals applaud!

If your friends span the centuries!

if your spirit is free and you don't care what anyone else thinks about it!

Soar, windhorse, soar!

Posted by: urian 14-Oct-2004, 07:37 PM
when freedom for you means more than money

Posted by: dragonboy3611 06-Nov-2004, 04:17 PM
Lol, great post. They made me laugh

Posted by: gypseyreyne 16-Nov-2004, 06:32 PM
Is it when you are driving down from Lake Tahoe and you hear someone yell your name. You ask the driver to stop NOW! You jump out of the vehicle run back up the road about 30 feet and there is a pinecone. You pick it up and take it home and place it in the basket with the others and every morning when you awake he has jumped back out of the basket and is sitting right at the corner of the kitchen waiting for you to laugh pick him up and put him back?

Posted by: Meryat 29-Nov-2004, 07:03 PM
if you know that your friend's quartz crystals prefer to be on display and don't like to be put away somewhere

Posted by: freekenny 29-Nov-2004, 09:52 PM
O'siyo,
~ If you just accept it without question...without hesitation and without explanation...I believe its something that one is born with, pure and simple sleep.gif
~ If you have a burning desire to run through the woods or out into the deep ocean without clothes knowing all that surrounds you is what you are made of happy.gif
~ If you can speak the name of a O'ginalli and within seconds that O'ginalli rings you cheers.gif
~ If you heal others without profit..without praise
~~Sty-U red_bandana.gif

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