My name is Samantha and I’m a witch.

I walk the path of a Hellenic Wiccan who actively studies and relishes any opportunity to be involved in different traditions and paths if only to broaden my spiritual spectrum. In that case I can be known as an eclectic in Paganism. I am also a Mahayana Buddhist (born and raised, Chinese family).

I’m an eternal student watching the world and the universe around me with eyes wide open, absorbing it all in. Seeing myself and my life reflected in the people, the patterns, the community, the cyclical ebb and flow of chance and situation that have brought me to where I am on this very day at this very moment and where it might possibly take me next.

When I speak of community, I speak of tribe, I speak of family that goes beyond the bonds of blood, but to the bonds of souls, of spirit, of cosmic connection and divine. I love my community, the Toronto Pagan Community and the communities of surrounding areas of southern Ontario. Almost everything I do is for this community.

I host a monthly networking social for Toronto, Cerridwen’s Mug. it’s a coffee “moot”. I’ve been hosting it for the past four years since it was handed over to me and I’ve loved every moment and responsibility of it. Even if I did dread it at times.

I’m also one of the local organizers for Toronto Pagan Pride. I’ve been involved in the project also for the past four years and was happy to take on a much larger organizing role this year.

I’m the editor in chief of Northern Invocations magazine supporting southern Ontario. This has been a pet project and a dream of mine to begin for many years and it became my reason for being a journalism major in college. It’s been a slow and steady process for a while but one I’m dead set determined to see my way through.

Active Pagan, community leader, journalist, photographer, designer, event organizer. I am all these things and more.

This is my blog to document this crazy journey that I’ve found myself walking, to explore the lessons in the patterns, experiences, and the circumstances to see where they’re taking me.

On August 31 2009, I turned 26 years old. Exactly half my life ago, I dedicated myself to a Pagan path and lifestyle. Thirteen years a witch. This blog has been started on this day to commemorate the landmark.

Mei is my Chinese name which translates to “plum blossom”. Qing ting is the Mandarin term for dragonfly. A pair of them exist in tattoo form on the back of my right shoulder. The dragonfly symbolizes transformation, strength, peace, harmony and purity and of deeper thought and meditation.

This blog is the journey of me, witch and public figure. No “broom closet” exists for me, not anymore.

My life is a spiral, I may see the past reflected but I am never in the same place twice.

Walk with me, share with me. I welcome your insight. Learn what you can from my experiences. I don’t have all the answers and I never expect to, I won’t always make the right choices but I learn every time.

Hope to see you soon.

Samantha