Well, it looks like my first post went through okay, so here we are.
Welcome to Tales of the Fox! My name is Kitsune (or Kit, if you like), and this little nest of mine is my second or third crack at blogging. I would love to say that I’ll be posting on a set schedule, but the truth is if I start there I will either not follow through or stress myself out way too much trying to keep to that schedule, and that’s no fun for anyone.
A little about me: I’m a genderqueer witch born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, currently making my home in the Silicon Valley. I am, among other things, a knitter, a student of the martial arts, an amateur tarot reader, and a trained linguist; I have undergraduate degrees in linguistics and computer science from UC Santa Cruz (go Slugs!). My pronouns are they/them/theirs, and if you don’t like that much I invite you to do some more research on use of the singular “they” through the history of the English language.
I started this blog because at the end of January I began my year and a day of training as an Initiate in CAYA Coven‘s Wildflower tradition; if all goes well and I complete that which has been asked of me, I will be ordained as a Priestx (that’s pronounced “pree-sticks”, or /pɹɪstiks/ for those of you who can read IPA) in the Spring of 2017. I wanted a space of my own to talk about an assortment of things relating to both my journey through this training year and life in general.
Ideally I would like to post here at least once a month, to coincide with whatever topic my Initiate work is focusing on that month. We’ll how how that plays out! Whatever comes of this, I’m sure it will be an interesting ride!
In Joyful Service,
Kitsune
Welcome to the glamorous life of irregular blogging!
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::waves from her bubble across the ‘net::
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Woo! It’s a Kit! ❤ Do you want me to promote your blog to mine? -E-
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Oh, hey! Yeah, that might be neat. Thanks!
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Huzzah! I didn’t know you were a linguist! My sweetie is, too— AND a Banana Slug! I appreciate your explaination of how to pronounce Priestx.
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How cool! Which college was your sweetie in? I was Kresge. 🙂
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He was a grad student (geology, late ’80s), so he wasn’t in a college. He was in the UCSC library during the Loma Prieta earthquake! He’s never actually been in an academic liguistics program, though that’s where his heart and soul is— focusing on endangered Indigenous languages. He calls himself a “Gentleman Scholar.” ❤
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Wow, that must have been a trip! And yay for more people interested in endangered languages. That’s what I wanted to focus in before I got into computational linguistics (my current focus).
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Reblogged this on EmberVoices: Listening for the Vanir and commented:
My co-partner has started a public blog to celebrate their initiation into the Wildflower tradition of CAYA coven, and hopefully document the process of their year in training for ordination as a priestx! I’m so proud of them! Squeeee!
–Ember–
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Hey there! … go Kit. 😀
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