So I ended up starting to read a Werewolf the Apocalypse novel and I'm realizing... This is like already more spiritually fulfilling than like 95% of the pagan books I've read in the past couple years.
I forgot how much that cosmology is (weirdly enough) my comfy-place, very very foundational for me. It's the thing that slotted right into the head of a proto-furry who grew up hearing animism-informed myths and just... took root.
I was just doing some newsgroup digging and I'm reasonably sure I got turned on to Werewolf in the first place by a post about a moon phase calculator on alt.lifestyle.furry.
Which led to me looking mine up then eagerly heading to the bookstore to find out what it means.
(Ragabash, BTW. I will pause for a moment for everyone's surprise to die down)
Continued Werewolf tooting, now more conceptual
Of course as fun as the auspice stuff is, what I really like about the setting is how, unlike a lot of RPGs, you're involved in the metaphysics even if you're not a Theurge.
Want to know why there's something strange in your neighborhood? Probably easier to tell in the Umbra. Want to learn a new supernatural power? You're gonna be taking to a spirit. Want to get into that building undetected? Find a mirror and step sideways!
Continued Werewolf tooting, now more conceptual
Animism, much like identifying with animals, is one of those things that hits so deep in me that it's hard to tell where it came from. Werewolf was my first formal introduction to it, it fascinated me for years before it really clicked that the fascination was an indication of it just making sense to me on some sort of primal level.
Update to last night's Werewolf ramblings:
With this on my mind, my nightly meditation stuff was far more... vibrant than it usually is. And I went to bed full of ideas for how to add more Garou-inspired things into my magical practice. So yeah, this might be A Thing for me. c.c;
Help now I'm looking at Werewolf Moot outlines and getting ideas for future seasonal gatherings.
Someone stop me please. XD
I mean the neighbors have already grouched at us once for too much howling. XD
Everyone is faving this instead. Particularly people who go to the events.
*cut to 2019 when Indi's entire life is basically Werewolf LARP*
This is y'all's fault. XD
@Kyna It was not even an HOUR ago when you said that trickster wasn't fitting for you. XD
@Kyna That's EXACTLY what a Ragabash would say. XD
(Or a Bastet TBH)
@indi Go! Go! Go! Go!
I'm hlpn. =n.n=
Continued Werewolf tooting, now more conceptual
@indi that's awesome and I want to play a game of it now
also ookami to koushinryou really recently awoke both wolf and a certain type of animism feels over here. holo is just so important
@indi please donut boop this snout more than once every 15 minutes
@indi btw I'm theurge. again, so shocking, *looks up from channeling yet another goddess* yeah no one could have predicted,
@indi ... Waxing Crescent.
Really.
@indi ... gah. It's waning, sorry. Still, same basic idea.
The aforementioned moon-phase calcuator, if anyone is curious: http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/vphase.html
Words cannot express how thrilled I am that that page is still there after *20 YEARS*