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Broken Arrows

Posted in Archives #5 Fire Walk With Me, Empowerment, Firewalking, Humor, Magick, Spirituality, Women, witchcraft on Monday September 7 2009 | 6 Comments »

A couple of years ago, I did a Motivational Training Workshop for DEAF, Inc. in Massachusetts. One of the participants in that workshop was my Spirit Sistah, Crystal Dolphin. While the main feature of that workshop was a firewalk, I also taught other exercises as well, including breaking boards with your bare hand, and snapping [...]

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Happy 25th Anniversary, Ocean!

Posted in Archives #1 Deafness and Accessibility, Archives #2 On Being Deaf and Pagan, Archives #3 A Deaf Pagan Shares, Archives #4 Pagan Thoughts and Writings, Archives #5 Fire Walk With Me, Creating Accessibility, Deaf/Hearing Relations, Deaf/Pagan Relations, Deafness, Empowerment, Equal Communication Access, Ethics, Firewalking, Humor, Interpreting, Magick, Nature, Paganism, Ritual, Sabbats, Sign Language, Spirituality, Women, Women's Spirituality, witchcraft on Sunday June 21 2009 | 13 Comments »

At the time of the Summer Solstice … June in the year of our Lady – 1984, I stood before the sacred altar and in the name of Ocean, took my vows as a High Priestess of Wicca, pledging to serve the Goddess and God to the best of my ability. 25 years ago…WOW. How [...]

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Stonehaven Fireball Festival – Celebrating New Year’s Eve

Posted in Archives #4 Pagan Thoughts and Writings, Archives #5 Fire Walk With Me, Firewalking, Irish/Celtic, Paganism, Ritual, Sabbats, Spirituality, The Yule Series on Monday December 31 2007 | 6 Comments »

Be sure to check out the videos at the end of this post to actually see these fireballs in motion! In Scotland New Year’s Eve is known as Hogmanay, and various Scottish villages celebrate it in different ways. In Stonehaven, a small village in the northeastern part of Scotland, the new year is welcomed in [...]

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Follow-Up on Firewalking

Posted in Archives #5 Fire Walk With Me, Deafness, Empowerment, Firewalking, Magick on Wednesday May 23 2007 | 4 Comments »

As could be expected, there has been a considerable “buzz” generated by the Firewalking Video which was posted here at the Crossroads earlier. A number of comments were left and some emails sent which asked a couple of questions and expressed a lot of curiosity to understand firewalking better, and learn how I became involved [...]

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Yes, Deaf People CAN Walk on Fire!!!

Posted in Archives #5 Fire Walk With Me, Deaf/Hearing Relations, Deafness, Empowerment, Firewalking, Magick, Sign Language, Spirituality on Friday May 18 2007 | 57 Comments »

In this video, Deaf participants walk across red-hot coals at a firewalking workshop conducted by Ocean – who is the world’s first and only Deaf individual to be certified as a firewalking instructor by the Firewalking Institute for Research and Education (F.I.R.E.) The workshop took place on New Year’s Day of 2005 in Asheville, North [...]

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A Magickal Evening

Posted in Archives #5 Fire Walk With Me, Deaf/Hearing Relations, Deaf/Pagan Relations, Empowerment, Firewalking on Friday January 26 2007 | 6 Comments »

In October of 2005, I traveled to Massachusetts to do an empowerment/firewalking workshop for DEAF, Inc. – a nonprofit organization serving Deaf and Hard of Hearing people in the Boston area. We had around 40 people in the group…while most were Deaf themselves, there were a few hearing individuals participating as well; most were members [...]

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Why We Walk On Fire

Posted in Archives #5 Fire Walk With Me, Empowerment, Firewalking on Friday January 19 2007 | 3 Comments »

As I mentioned in my earlier blog (“On Being Deaf…and Pagan”), I am a certified Firewalking Instructor. Now, you can imagine what happens when I go to Deaf Clubs or Deaf Events or whatever… “So, Virginia – what do you do?” “I teach people how to walk on fire.” “Huh??? Repeat that?” “I walk on [...]

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Deaf People Can Do Anything…even walk on fire!

Posted in Archives #5 Fire Walk With Me, Deafness, Empowerment, Firewalking on Friday January 19 2007 | 1 Comment »

“Deaf People Can Do Anything…Except Hear!” How many of us have heard this quote? Indeed, it is probably one of the more popular “rallying cries” of the Deaf Community. But how many of us truly believe it…and practice it? Of course, we all want to say that we do indeed believe in and practice this [...]

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What the Bleep About Firewalking???

Posted in Archives #5 Fire Walk With Me, Deafness, Empowerment, Firewalking on Friday January 19 2007 | 4 Comments »

Not too long ago, I had the chance to view the movie “What the Bleep Do We Know?” which of course stars the well-known deaf actress Marlee Matlin. Now, I am not here to critique this movie. You might have liked it…or you might have dismissed it as little more than “New Age Bullshit.” I [...]

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