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nebris~Twenty three years ago on this day, May 27th, 1996, also a Memorial Day, I rolled down Benedict Canyon to Century City to catch a matinee, a movie called The Craft. After that, my life changed. I was not aware of that when I left the theater and went back up into Beverly Hills, but I was...'inspired'.
I loved the thing, though I was annoyed that such powerful Sisters had fallen out over some fucking football jock, even one as pretty as Skit Ulrich was. So I decided to write my own version.
I got home around 5ish and two hours later I had outlined a tale of a Star Empire of Amazon Cyber Witches, a vast Sisterhood who lived without men. It came to me quite easily as I do tend to go 'epic' and had been at story telling for a while by that point.
I knew I had to do some research to give all this a proper grounding, so the following weekend I went up to the Bhodi Tree, the best occult bookstore in LA, now sadly gone, and dropped a C-Note on Witch Craft books.
Back in my little room at Hotel Hell [the Rent's sixteen room house on top of a hill in the 90210] I started to read. And to my amazement, I felt like I had 'come home'. It all resonated so perfectly for me, I never looked back and have been a dedicated Witch every since.
In the intervening twenty three years I first tried to make a short film about the early Sisterhood as I was deep in my efforts to be a film maker back then. That failed. But I have generated a half dozen fiction variations of The Sisterhood since then. It was a story that inspired me, and I know that stories can shape people and events and ultimately history itself.
But even in the midst of that I was moving toward dedicating myself to actually manifesting The Sisterhood as a real world movement. The Imbolc following my 'Revelation', E my Spirit Guide showed up and confirmed that such was now my Path...and that I would not get off of said during this Turn of The Wheel.
And now I have a binder sitting here holding one hundred and thirty single side pages, 48,464 words, The Liber Sorores, The Book of The Sisters, waiting for me to start another round of editing and expansion. Been at that for ten years.
So here I am, Her so-called Prophet, living up in The High Desert, still working on manifesting The Sisterhood in real life. It gets close and then fades away and then gets close again and so on. Some days I love my Purpose and others I hate it. That seems to be the nature of the Prophet racket. But it is What I Do...
...and so it is.
I loved the thing, though I was annoyed that such powerful Sisters had fallen out over some fucking football jock, even one as pretty as Skit Ulrich was. So I decided to write my own version.
I got home around 5ish and two hours later I had outlined a tale of a Star Empire of Amazon Cyber Witches, a vast Sisterhood who lived without men. It came to me quite easily as I do tend to go 'epic' and had been at story telling for a while by that point.
I knew I had to do some research to give all this a proper grounding, so the following weekend I went up to the Bhodi Tree, the best occult bookstore in LA, now sadly gone, and dropped a C-Note on Witch Craft books.
Back in my little room at Hotel Hell [the Rent's sixteen room house on top of a hill in the 90210] I started to read. And to my amazement, I felt like I had 'come home'. It all resonated so perfectly for me, I never looked back and have been a dedicated Witch every since.
In the intervening twenty three years I first tried to make a short film about the early Sisterhood as I was deep in my efforts to be a film maker back then. That failed. But I have generated a half dozen fiction variations of The Sisterhood since then. It was a story that inspired me, and I know that stories can shape people and events and ultimately history itself.
But even in the midst of that I was moving toward dedicating myself to actually manifesting The Sisterhood as a real world movement. The Imbolc following my 'Revelation', E my Spirit Guide showed up and confirmed that such was now my Path...and that I would not get off of said during this Turn of The Wheel.
And now I have a binder sitting here holding one hundred and thirty single side pages, 48,464 words, The Liber Sorores, The Book of The Sisters, waiting for me to start another round of editing and expansion. Been at that for ten years.
So here I am, Her so-called Prophet, living up in The High Desert, still working on manifesting The Sisterhood in real life. It gets close and then fades away and then gets close again and so on. Some days I love my Purpose and others I hate it. That seems to be the nature of the Prophet racket. But it is What I Do...
...and so it is.
