{"id":92,"date":"2011-09-19T09:02:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T14:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.wordpress.com\/2011\/09\/19\/story-time-the-druid-dragon-lady"},"modified":"2011-09-19T09:02:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-19T14:02:00","slug":"story-time-the-druid-dragon-lady","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/2011\/09\/19\/story-time-the-druid-dragon-lady\/","title":{"rendered":"Story Time: the Druid Dragon Lady"},"content":{"rendered":"

Speaking of things I saw when I was a mere fluffy faun and clueless mageling<\/a>\u2026 Speaking of Otherkin and things I just don\u2019t quite understand\u2026\u00a0 I once knew a lady \u2013 we\u2019ll call her Medeia \u2013 who claimed that the blood of dragons ran in her veins.<\/p>\n

I was sixteen or seventeen when I met her.\u00a0 She was older than most of the people in our group \u2013 of legal drinking age before I had graduated high school, though not the only person in the circle of that age \u2013 and we bonded fairly quickly, re-establishing the brother-sister relationship we had had in the last life we\u2019d lived together.\u00a0 She had been practicing magic for longer than most of us, and claimed to have been initiated into a Druid circle.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve already used it twice, and I\u2019m going to use that word \u2013 \u201cclaimed\u201d \u2013 a few more times as I tell this story.\u00a0 I\u2019m not saying I don\u2019t believe her (except where I am), only that while I never thought to question her at the time, as I look back I never saw any actual evidence that I can recall.<\/p>\n

She was there for so many stories that I can\u2019t even recall them all, much less begin to relate them here.\u00a0 She was there when I did my first past-life regressions, when I met my first spirit-guides \u2013 the one who scared me off and the one I ultimately kept then neglected.\u00a0 She taught me things about auras and shielding, about manipulating magical energy and talking to spirits that \u2013 while many people I know have seen or done something like them \u2013 I have never seen in print.<\/p>\n

I did a tarot reading for her once that broke the glass table we were sitting at.\u00a0 I laid out the whole deck once, reshuffled, and laid it out again.\u00a0 I was high with power.\u00a0 There was a loud cracking noise.\u00a0 We couldn\u2019t figure out where it had come from, but when we cleared the cards away the glass table top was split in a jagged line from me to her.<\/p>\n

Incredible presences followed her around \u2013 forces so huge that I did not encounter anything on the same scale, let alone greater, until I started working with gods.\u00a0 Some of those vast presences \u2013 the ones she claimed were dragons \u2013 were accompanied by a particular musky smell.\u00a0 I have encountered that musk and presences like those only two or three times since she passed out of my life.<\/p>\n

We explored our past lives together, found that we had been brother-sister, lovers, and father-daughter at various times.\u00a0 Sometimes she had been the elder, more dominant \u2013 other times it had been me.<\/p>\n

I still don\u2019t know how to make sense of her claims. From where I\u2019m at now, literal dragon-blood seems fairly outrageous. But \u2026 things got awfully strange around her, sometimes. I don\u2019t really know what experiences she had that were best explained as \u201cI\u2019m something more than human\u201d. Or maybe she was just crazy. I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n

When I was about nineteen or twenty \u2013 before I moved out of my parents house \u2013 she got pregnant and disappeared.\u00a0 I\u2019ve never seen or heard from her since, which makes me very sad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Speaking of things I saw when I was a mere fluffy faun and clueless mageling\u2026 Speaking of Otherkin and things I just don\u2019t quite understand\u2026\u00a0 I once knew a lady \u2013 we\u2019ll call her Medeia \u2013 who claimed that the blood of dragons ran in her veins. I was sixteen or seventeen when I met … Read More<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[156,258],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-witchcraft","tag-medeia","tag-stories"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8kUcm-1u","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}