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Morgen Argante Dragonheart
I am Morgen Argante Dragonheart, a Witch and a Pagan Priestess, and this page is about ME! (I knew you'd be thrilled.)
I came to the Craft when I began college, for the first time venturing out from the shelter of my youth. I indulged my desire for fantasy in fandom and literary classes, which led me to my first Witch sighting. I saw only a small part of the pagan community in those days, but what I saw gave me a feeling of deep resonance. I had finally found people who weren't shallow and totally mundane! I not longer felt quite so alien. (Or at least I knew I was in good company.) My firmly entrenched scientific humanism became augmented by an awareness of the spiritual side of life that I had always cherished but had suppressed as "fiction" or "fancy". It was amazing to find that there actually was a religion out there that matched who I was and what I believed. It was quite refreshing! I had always disdained (and still do <g>) the standard organized religions because I saw them as demeaning, expecting me to give up responsibility for my own destiny, and unreasonable, demanding that I believe things that were stupid and obviously false. (I mean come on, how long has the evolution idea been around and the Christians are still unable to cope with it! Pleeeease!)
Like many young Pagans in my generation, the first magical path I came in contact with was Wicca in the form of Starhawk's 'Spiral Dance'. I learned alot from the Wiccan tradition, but also learned that it was not my own. One of my most defining moments came when I read Margot Adler's 'Drawing Down the Moon', an immense catalog of the different groups and traditions of Witches. So finally was it revealed to me that there were lots of different Pagans and lots of different Witches and that you didn't have to <g>religiously<g> follow the dictates of someone else's beliefs and practices to be one. Tah, dah.
This "doctrine" of individuality of practice and self-exploration is still with me today and lies at the center of our coven's beliefs and practices. We are not an initiatory or "hierarchical" tradition, we come together as equals, each bringing our own strengths and perspectives to augment the whole.
The ways and beliefs brought by myself into the Circle originate largely from my love of the Irish and British mythologies. I feel very strongly that the stories left to us by the native and Celtic peoples of the isles are a valuable resource for spiritual learning and societal rebuilding. No, this doesn't mean that I think we should become a tribal society ruled by warrior kings... What I do think is that the Celtic mythologies are well suited to modern recrafting for the purpose of teaching moral and magical lessons. One of my personal objectives is to create and collect retellings of the traditional Irish and British tales for this purpose. The starting place for this project resides on the Storytellers web site.
My path is also greatly guided by my own observations and studies of my own body and spirit and the things and worlds around and within me. I just sort of assume that this is true of all Witches, but I thought I'd say it anyway since it's so very true. (If I'm wrong then don't tell me, I like my delusions the way they are!)
My religious beliefs are animistic and pantheistic; that Spirit is present in all matter; that although all individual expressions of Spirit (beings) are separate with their own motivations, feelings and power, all Spirit is connected and interwoven; in essence, all Spirit is One. My name for Spirit in its wholeness is The Goddess. In regards to deities, my beliefs are a mix of panthemism and polytheism. I see our definitions of our individual deities as the filter with with we contact distinct powerful Spirits of other planes (Goddesses & Gods), spirits of non-human beings resident in our environment (Elementals), and the infinite aspects of our own connection to the Divine Unity (Archetypes). I do see deities and elementals as distinct beings, but not beings in the sense of the way we think of other human beings. I don't really understand their true nature, and to be honest, I find it rather irrelevant. So long as you believe *something* and it works for you, that's all that matters.
I value deities and other archetypes as tools for growth and enlightenment. Those that I have worked with frequently or which call deeply to me are; Brigit, Lugh, Danu, Dagda, Morrigan, Lir, Cerrunos, Green Man, Herne, Cerridwen, Epona, Maeve, Athena, Lachesis (duh), Selene, Artemis, Poseidon, Merlin, Nimue, Morgen, Shiva and Kali.
Along with my work with deities, I have been drawn to the Shamanic path of spirit journeys and have grown to realize the awesome presence of nature's forces. If I had to point to anything and say "That is a God" it would be the ocean. In 1998 I formally became a Priestess of Water. Yes, odd, I know, but it just fits me! Because of this growing awareness of where my path is currently leading me I have chosen to identify myself as a WaterWitch. You can learn more about this path and all things watery on my handy dandy WaterWitch web site. Since my ordination I have come to work extensively with the Elementals.
In 2002 my daughter Vivienne Morningstar was conceived and I stepped onto the path of the Mother. In response to this great change, (in Dec 2004) I formally recognized my dedication to the service of the Goddess Brigit in Her aspects of Creatrix, Healer and Teacher.
So, why should you care about all this? Well, I'm not quite sure... What I do know is that we, as a coven and individually, have been compelled to create this web site and populate it with lessons and activities and ideas. Why? That I do know! To entertain the curious, to educate the seekers, to assist the weavers, and to change the world.
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