Another Clue-by-Four Lands
Nov. 12th, 2008 08:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
qosI was thinking late last night about reaching out to the author of The Wild Hunt for some networking suggestions around the new path I alluded to in my last entry. . . and this morning I scrolled down my other friends page to find the latest Wild Hunt article is "Why Having Pagan Military Chaplains is Important."
No, I'm not going to try to become a military chaplain -- although if I was ten to fifteen years younger and childless I might consider it. But for the past week, I've been getting more and more strong hints that I should start becoming a spiritual director for Pagan veterans -- although anam cara feels like the better title in this context.
Although I often forget it, my own spiritual director is a veteran, and he has a friend/colleague who is a chaplain at the local VA. I have the resources immediately at hand to do some testing of my vocation in this area and see if it really would be a good fit -- and/or what additional mentoring or training I would need to be ready for such service.
I am not a warrior, but all my life I have been drawn to warriors, and my vision of priestessing has always included an element of working with warriors, even though I was only able to start doing some of that with LM and Michael. I'd never thought of making it part of my spiritual direction practice until Michael started writing to me from Iraq about the changes in his faith since re-enlisting. . . and then I stumbled across an entry by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
alfrecht in which he highlighted Brig Ambue and then sent me his article about Imbolc and the purification of warriors. . . and then when I was starting to do a tarot reading around this question cards starting jumping out of the deck while I was shuffling: The Hierophant, The Empress, The High Priestess, and Six of Swords. Not to mention other things coming through during my devotions.
I have to explore this.
No, I'm not going to try to become a military chaplain -- although if I was ten to fifteen years younger and childless I might consider it. But for the past week, I've been getting more and more strong hints that I should start becoming a spiritual director for Pagan veterans -- although anam cara feels like the better title in this context.
Although I often forget it, my own spiritual director is a veteran, and he has a friend/colleague who is a chaplain at the local VA. I have the resources immediately at hand to do some testing of my vocation in this area and see if it really would be a good fit -- and/or what additional mentoring or training I would need to be ready for such service.
I am not a warrior, but all my life I have been drawn to warriors, and my vision of priestessing has always included an element of working with warriors, even though I was only able to start doing some of that with LM and Michael. I'd never thought of making it part of my spiritual direction practice until Michael started writing to me from Iraq about the changes in his faith since re-enlisting. . . and then I stumbled across an entry by
alfrecht in which he highlighted Brig Ambue and then sent me his article about Imbolc and the purification of warriors. . . and then when I was starting to do a tarot reading around this question cards starting jumping out of the deck while I was shuffling: The Hierophant, The Empress, The High Priestess, and Six of Swords. Not to mention other things coming through during my devotions. I have to explore this.
