qos: (Homemade Queen)
qos ([personal profile] qos) wrote2005-03-12 09:42 am

Visiting Meme

This is based loosely on [livejournal.com profile] shellefly's meme of "Do you want to know what I would want to do with you?" and on [livejournal.com profile] queenofhalves's visit and our conversation about visiting other LJ friends.

Two questions:
1. Can I come visit you?
2. What would you want to do with me if I did?

I assume that since we're reading each other's journals we would spend time together talking about a variety of subjects we have in common -- or which we don't have in common and like learning about from the other.

Extra points for creativity beyond that obvious response.
:-)

[identity profile] joyful-singer.livejournal.com 2005-03-12 06:25 pm (UTC)(link)
If I ever visited you, I would want to attend one of those silent Quaker services that you mentioned in your previous post. I didn't know they still held those, and I'm so glad to hear that they do.

As for visiting me--I would love for you to visit, though I would need to clean the house up, first. (g)

I would really want to just spend time talking with you and getting to know you. Maybe go to a park or a museum, have lunch out, and go to a bookstore. If it happened to be a night when my coven was meeting, I'd take you to the ritual.

Chantal

[identity profile] qos.livejournal.com 2005-03-12 07:22 pm (UTC)(link)
I'd be surprised if there weren't any unprogrammed services in your area -- but you would be more than welcome to come with me!

Your proposal for visiting you sounds fun, especially participating in ritual with your coven. I feel like I should know the answer to this, but what tradition is it?

[identity profile] joyful-singer.livejournal.com 2005-03-13 03:00 pm (UTC)(link)
It's Wicca. I never can remember whether it's Alexandrian or Gardnerian--I think Gardnerian. The distinction has never been that significant to me, since I don't follow Wicca politics, at all.

We're a relaxed, laid-back coven in that we take our ritual time seriously, but if we're not in ritual, we regard the coven as a group of friends who have fun together. We are as likely to talk about holding a Babylon 5 Marathon and ordering out for pizza as we are to discuss philosophical religious matters.

I have been really impressed with my high priestess, Kate Keene, who somehow manages to leave us all with something interesting to think about at the end of each circle.

Chantal
Three Horses Coven, Houston

[identity profile] qos.livejournal.com 2005-03-13 04:53 pm (UTC)(link)
I think your coven sounds like a great spiritual community: people who like each other, who are serious about their spiritual work, and who balance it -- and their time together -- with other things they like as well. Ritual followed the next night by a B-5 marathon? I'm there!

Can you discuss the significance of "Three Horses"?

[identity profile] joyful-singer.livejournal.com 2005-03-13 07:05 pm (UTC)(link)
I'll have to ask the other coven members about that. As far as I know, we just wanted the coven to be Celtic-based, and Kate liked the Three Horses triskelion design. If you go to the journal I'm writing from, you'll be able to see the image on my user icons page.

Chantal