I love getting Ask A Witch questions but I love when I get one that I know I can answer really easily.  This one is one of those real easy ones because it deals with one of the only subjects that I can safely say I’m an expert in.  ME!!

Hi Rowan!

I recently started reading your blog and your Facebook page and I love the stuff you do!  I find you really inspiring and interesting.  Since you don’t write about yourself a lot on your pages I was wondering if you’ve talk a little bit about yourself?  Could you tell us 25 things about you.  They could be about your life as a Witch or about your personal life but stuff about you that we don’t know so that we could get more of an idea of just who Rowan Pendragon is.

Love and Light!
Cathy

Hi Cathy!  Thanks for writing in and thanks for a question that I know so much about.  😉
Wow…25 things…well, here we go, I’ll give it a shot!

1. I got started in the Craft when I was 13.  At least that’s when I made my first dedication.  I discovered Witches and Witchcraft when I was 8 and started reading whatever I could find about it from that point on but this was when I had discovered Wicca and decided that this was the path that I was destined to follow.  Years later my path would move away from Wicca after spending time studying BTW traditions and I have since become comfortable in being an eclectic solitary Witch who is very influenced by Wicca in a spiritual sense but magickaly I am much more of a traditional Witch.
2. I am Italian, German, and Native American in heritage.
3. On of the first adult movies I remember ever watching was when I was about 7 or 8 years old and my Mom showed me “Night of the Living Dead” which is one of her favorite movies.  There is a scene where one of the woman in the movie gets killed with a garden trowel but to me it looked like one of those square cake knives/servers.  For years I got freaked out by seeing someone pull one of those out at birthdays and holidays to serve cake.
4. When “The Craft” came out my Mom wanted to go and see it so she took me with her.  We bought our tickets and went to have them torn so we could go into the theater and the ticket taker looked at me funny and said “What movie are you going to see?”  I told him we were going to see The Craft and he looked down at my shirt and back at me and said “That makes sense”.  I was wearing a Marilyn Manson shirt at the time.
5. I am planning to go to Paris for my 40th birthday (that’s 4 years away for those counting).  It will be my first time out of the country.  I’ve never even been to Canada.
6. I got my first cat when I was 6 years old.  She was a beautiful calico kitty that I picked out from the pet store in the local mall.  I picked her because she was the one standing the back away from all the other cats and looked lonely.  I named her Cindy after Cindy from the “Brady Bunch” which was my favorite show when I was a kid.  For some reason though I couldn’t always say Cindy and she got the nickname ChiChi soon after.
7. I love playing video games though I’m especially found of games like Call of Duty.  I can’t play driving games unless I’ve been drinking; surprisingly I’m much better at those when I’m a few steps away from being sober.
8. I took piano lessons as a kid, starting when I was about 10, but stopped when I was 14 because I wanted to play softball and since they were on the same nights I had to pick one.  I was really good at the piano and I soon learned that I sucked at sports and that I was not meant to be put in clothes made of stretchy material.
9. If I could be anywhere in the world right now it would be sitting at Cafe Du Monde in New Orleans having a cafe au lait and an order of beignets.
10. When I was 15 I went through a six month or so phase of being fascinated by Satanism.  I had started listening to a lot of metal thanks to discovering the college radio stations and I fell in love with Slayer.  I have found my time reading and learning about Satanism was helpful for me to be more open to people from different paths in the occult.  I still to this day find Anton LaVey to be quite an interesting guy.
11. I failed my drivers test the first time I took it when I was 16.  I went on a weekday morning before school and, after failing, begged my Dad not to make me go to school because I was so embarrassed.  My friends were waiting for me when I got there thinking I’d have my license and I broke down in tears when I had to tell them I failed.  I ended up getting my license when I was 18 the morning before leaving to go to Rhode Island to attend my first Lollapoloza festival.
12. If I could only have one book on Witchcraft it would be “The Element Encyclopedia of 5000 Spells” by Judika Illes.
13. I had my first computer with an internet connection when I was 19 and I had an account with Prodigy that my Mom paid by the minute for.  I was on there all the time.  I was addicted to the chat rooms and message boards.  I ran up a $700 bill one month.  That wasn’t pretty.
14. I was a communications major in college and worked on the school newspaper as a writer and editor and I was a DJ on the radio station.  I had two different after hours radio shows.  We weren’t like a lot of college stations where you could do whatever you wanted; were were in an actual radio market and had to follow certain FCC rules and regulations.  One of these was the reading of the station sign off at the end of the night.  I did the last show of the night, signing off around 2am.  We were supposed to read the station sign off over silence after playing the last song of the night.  One time I was extremely over caffeinated and very anxious to get out of there and go party and decided to goof around and read the sign off over the theme music to “Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure”.  I got in a lot of trouble the next day.  I also once laughed during a news story I had to read during a news break and I got suspended for three days for that.
15. I was one of 15 people to make it into the honors program my first year of college because of an essay I wrote.
16. I decided I wanted to be a writer after doing an exercise in my junior year creative writing class where the teacher had us listen to Pink Floyd and then write whatever came to mind.  She was highly influential on my junior and senior years of high school and it was because of her that I wrote that essay that got me into the honors program in college.
17. I love all different kinds of music.  Favorite bands of mine include Godsmack, Clutch, The Decemberists, Arcade Fire, Nine Inch Nails, Lady Gaga, Lorenna McKennitt, Dead Can Dance, Kellianna, and Michelle Mays.  I just love music.
18. I’ve been vegan and I’ve been a vegetarian about 4 different times in my life.  Typically my love of a good burger draws me back in to eating meat.
19. One of my all time favorite moves is “Goodfellas”.  I went through two copies of it on VHS and the DVD I currently have is started to skip and is going to need to be replaced soon.
20. I’ve seen Les Miserables on Broadway four times.
21. I wanted to be Wednesday Addams when I was little.
22. When I was 10 one of the very first magickal chants I ever learned was one you would say while visualizing yourself being surrounded by purple light that went “Thirce round, the circle’s bound, evil sink into the ground.”  I still use it when I feel panic attacks coming on.
23. One of my favorite meals is my Grandmother’s Italian sausage and string beans.  My other is my Great Grandmother’s Italian stuffing that involved 18 eggs, 4 lbs of sweet Italian sausage, a whole loaf of stuffing bread, and Parmesan cheese (which I never measure and just go by taste).
24. My first car was a Geo Metro that I bought after graduating college.  I got in an accident driving it back home from Boston one weekend.  I would go to Boston to stay with friends for the weekend and would usually come home on Sunday very tired from too much drinking and too much clubbing.  One Sunday in particularly bad traffic on the Mass Pike I heard my Spirit Guide at the time talking and I couldn’t hear her very well and when I asked her to be more clear she started laughing.  It was coming from the back seat it seemed like so I turned my head and drove right into the back of a mini van.  I had to drive all the rest of the way home with a crushed up hood to my car. I stopped at the deli down the street from my house to tell my Mom before I pulled into the drive way because I knew she’d freak out.  And she did.  She took the car away from me, had it fixed, and sold it.
25. When I was 16 I went to my first Witch shop.  I went with a bunch of friends from school.  The woman that ran the shop came right over to me when we walked in and she started to talk to me about the stuff in the store, telling me that she felt as though I’d been practicing my whole life…she asked if I’d been raised a Witch, which I hadn’t been.  She was convinced that I would go on to do special things as a Witch; she blessed a piece of snowflake obsidian and gave it to me telling me to always keep it as a reminder of the need to be balanced in the Craft.  I still have it and carry it in my Witch Bag.

 

And there you go…25 things!  If there are any specifics that you’d like to know about that I didn’t mention, please feel free to ask! 🙂