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SerenDerryth's avatar

Thank you for the beautiful tell g of this story. I felt myself right back at that house and have very fond memories being in the ritual circle and drumming circles and drum priestesses. I miss drumming with you!

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Erica Phillips Graves 🔮's avatar

It’s so hard to zero in on specific stories! I may need help remembering! I wish I could still drum….🪘

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Erica Phillips Graves 🔮's avatar

Ohhh … maybe we should tell the story of the first night working with Pan!

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SerenDerryth's avatar

Ooooh! Now if I can just go through my mental filing cabinet and pull that file. I know it was amazing and there was a lot to it. Btw… I’ll be starting to do more on Substack. 😝

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Erica Phillips Graves 🔮's avatar

We can co-author if you want!

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beth x's avatar

How does one find a goddess temple? beautiful experience, thanks for sharing ✨️☀️✌🏽

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Erica Phillips Graves 🔮's avatar

I wish I knew where one one is these days. It was a special time and place, and I did leave after a while. They shut down at the pandemic and they now meet at the head priestess’ home and do things small scale and on zoom. I saw some former members at the local pagan pride this past oct and found that out.

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Julie Schmidt's avatar

Love this Erica - wonderful to learn more about you! And I really appreciated how you addressed satan and witches, that was very well said!

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Erica Phillips Graves 🔮's avatar

Pretty sure I lost 2 or 3 subscribers over that comment. My only thought was - you knew what you signed up for! Had a good chuckle over that one.

I have actually read the satanic bible and the satanic witch by Anton Lavey. While it was interesting to read about, it was very much not my thing.

There were certainly some very interesting ideas outside of the “satanic” tenets, which were a direct purposeful reversal of Christian tenets. It does not feel like what today’s church of satan represents.

The satanic witch book contained a few topics such as identifying energy vampires, reading eye pupil dilation I think, and succubus. Interesting as a collection of ideas, tho.

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Forest Monarch Tarot's avatar

What an amazing journey! ✨🦋

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Erica Phillips Graves 🔮's avatar

Thank you!

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tarotbyphil's avatar

This is a beautiful telling of your journey, thanks so much for sharing it with us... I really look forward to part 2 🙏🏼

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The Shadow Band's avatar

Fare well.

I go deeper into the woods now.

Thank you and goodbye.

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