Glitta

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An update: Nursing School is really really intense for me right now. I apologize to my friends and fellow rockers for my apparently un-fun, un-loving lack of presence. If you are really my friend, you will forgive me, stand by me, and keep me in your thoughts and prayers because I need it!
Before you read any further you are hereby warned: I have an extremely rich personal fantasy life and I always have. If you hate people like that, then leave now.I am: a disinherited, and now disheveled, crumpled, thread-bare princess who is trying to make her way in the world. I’m doing terribly, as is predictable for a princess to do. My view of the World is that it is a mad place, hence I am just one more psycho in the Psycho Circus. Thankfully KISS is the Keeper of that, hahaha. So why am I Glitta? Well, as I am a part of the KISS World, it's my version of a persona. I take my name from one of my many magical dreams concerning KISS. It might be boring to tell the whole dream, but it comes down to dreaming that I saved a piece (from destruction) of the Starchild's Destroyer Era outfit sleeve, which has of course, rhinestones on it. It glittered in my hand, and in Dream logic, it represented me. Hence, I am the Starchild's glitter, or, I am Glitta. I do live KISS as much as I can (like any KISS fan) and feel it to be imperative to do so.
In general, I enjoy being the keeper of lost treasures, ancient peoples, of learning arcane knowledge, taking hidden passage, and knowing secret society. I am a Witch and Pagan. I am a Goddess-worshipper, and I am lunar. The central Goddess I worship in Circle is Diana, and Her persona that works with me is actually very much the Artemis archetype. I love the Gods as well, don’t mistake that. I do have more Goddesses in my magical practice than Gods, but that’s the thing you would find amongst Wiccans. This world is gone amuck with God energy, so we do a great deal more with Goddess energy to balance that effect. I am of the Gardnerian persuasion. I could speak volumes here, but being the secretive Witch, I will not, but instead leave it up to you to ask the questions. Witchcraft is something you must learn about to do. One thing you should know before you do just that: Magic Happens. Don't say you were not warned...
Years ago I 'became' Persephone (one of the Greek Goddesses) while training in the Gardnerian. I am not anything truly "dark", since Persephone keeps the seeds for Spring's rebirth. She's really a rather Gothic kind of Goddess though, with Her husband the God of Death. I walk with Her through Her yearly transition from Flower maiden of the Earth to Underworld’s Queen. Carrying Her energy, I can tell you that sometimes people take me as either darker than they ever thought I was, or if they are of the darkest persuasions, then I am not dark enough, so if you were drawn to my 'dark' aspect, know who Persephone is in order to know who I am. I personally do not seek Darkness, rather, what I see is dark. I approach things knowing the darkness will be there, and am the sort of person who would rather know how to navigate in the dark, than drown there I am not Left Hand Path at all. I am a Soldier of the Apocalypse, (read what I say about Heroes) but I am fighting for the Right Hand Path Gods.
The Fall of '06, as I traveled to class in the mornings, I kept having a uncanny and recurring vision of myself as a devoted but damned girl who, in a burnt and ruined countryside, was the single soul weeping and praying in a blasted chapel. While I prayed and prayed, and wept my eyes out for longing of the presence of my Gods in that desecrated place, evil spirits laughed at the sight of me. A friend of mine listened to this vision and offered this analysis: I am that person, that is my countryside, and it's my faith in things that will re-consecrate and then rebuild my chapel. Hence, I am also a soul currently in the process of rebuilding and reclaiming. I love ancient civilizations and ancient history: Sumeria, Tuscany, Egypt, Greece, Judea, Rome. All of these places have some ancestral or personal connection for me, something that ties us together in a heritage, be it blood or spirit. Each has given me some sense of itself, it's history, mythology, and humanity. I am not a formal student of these things but I wish I were rich and well-enough off to be so. I'd go visit these places too, and see the marks of history everywhere. I truly want to go see Greece and Italy first. Next on my itinerary would be places like Turkey and the East.
Lately I have had a personal insight that belly dancers, berserkers, and dervishers all knew similar arts. I have come to see myself as an evolution and sum of them all when I dance. No, I am no professional dancer. I just dance, and things come then. I dance to speak to the Great Wheel of the Universe and the Goddesses Who spin it. It's a Witch thing.
I am interested in the Stars. Everything from Space in general like Space Travel, Space Technology, or Life on other worlds, and also Astrology and the Magic of the Stars. Those ideas diverge, but reunite for me. I feel the Stars are calling us. I also theorize the idea of humanity having been perhaps Star-seeded or our being Star People.
I also love anomalies and alternative science/technology. There's Alien ruins on the Moon, ancient atomic blast craters in India, Star-maps amongst Stone-Age tribes, and strange triangular ship reports on the rise. There's everything else from the DaVinci code to the Lake Monsters, haunted castles in the UK, String Theory, and Tesla's contributions to current technology. I wish to research evidence of the Ante-Diluvian Civilization that was destroyed or devolved 100,000 or so years ago here on Earth. Now, you can ask me or tell about virtually anything concerning the anomalous, and I am willing to hear you.
I used to game a lot, but don't anymore. Laughably, I hear from the news that age of the average gamer is now 33. Usually guys game, yes. I think they're a bit more dedicated about it than I am. I have a PS2, and played Gauntlet: Dark Legacy for awhile, most recently. I built a level 99 Jester. I am playing old D&D currently off and on, and on the PS2 I am playing Fallout Brotherhood of Steel and Hunter: Wayward. Favorites I played have been Fallout 1&2, and Diablo 1&2, and Clive Barker's Undying. I wish Mr. Barker would do a Hellraiser game. That might be fun, a Hellraiser Universe ala Final Fantasy or Bloodrayne, something like that.
Some of my favorite writers are H.P. Lovecraft, Stephen King, and Clive Barker and all have especially counted for me personally. I recently have read “Children of the Night” by Mercedes Lackey and now want to read the rest of her work. In the Clive Barker Universe, the story “Cabal” and it's movie, "Nightbreed" affected me very very deeply, enough to make me realize I was one of the people of the Tribes of the Moon, too. Though not ‘monstrous’ per se, I am as the Nightbreed are, only in my case, there is no Midian for me to go to. I remain amongst the Naturals of this world, trying to do my work and find a way home someday, whatever home would really be. Someone suggested I was angelic. Funny, I have been through so much that I now begin to see it. Perhaps I am a fallen angel then, trying to earn my wings once more. That's been the spiritual implication, sometimes.
Some of my favorite visual artists are: Giger, Boris, Frazetta, Lassen, Escher, Wain, Durer, and Bosch. I adore all sorts of art however, so really, there's no art I don't like, except this silly piss-in-a-jar thing that people TAKE for art anymore, yech. Though in a very different style from my normal tastes, I love every single one of Paul Stanley's paintings I have seen. I really wish I could see everything he's done over the past 30 or so years!
I am not what I consider a fine artist, rather, I am a folk artist. I paint, and sculpt a bit too (found items sometimes). I have previously sold my work, and I have once had it hang in a modern art museum, but am just an artist for myself. I tend to create the sorts of things I feel I would want or need, and place them somewhere in my abode.
:ahem: So here is what I have to say about my life as a KISS psycho: I have never loved anything or anyone in the way and manner that I love KISS. KISS is something that I can hardly even express in words and is so powerful to me that I could honestly devote a whole website to my love for them and have never even dented the surface, so I can hardly try here. They are very much a part of me, from the beginning of my life and will be to the end. When I began in life with KISS as a young girl, I had to fight constantly with family and people in the the outside world to just have my KISS. That fight ranged from verbal abuse to violence at one point or another. My fight for my KISS only just forced me to cross all the lines, and like all people forced to cross the lines, I only became all the more determined to have KISS. In turn, every time I have faced a challenge, KISS has been there for me with courage and spirit. KISS has held me up, kept me brave, kept my boots on, kept me dug in against all the troubles I have faced, especially the *worst* I have faced. Even when I lost everything, even when I 'lost' them, they stayed with me, and they came to my aid, and they’ve never stopped coming. So listen up you anti-KISS people out there (and KISS people too!): I am a soldier of the KISS Army, and I would fight for KISS with every last breath I had, to the death if need be. We Are One. Perhaps because We Are One, I am in turn one of the fans KISS has saved, (it was the Starchild specifically who saved me) but that is long and strange and hard tale to tell. Since I find that hard to explain to others who are not magically-inclined, I no longer describe it here. You would have to ask me personally instead, but I am glad to share IF you don't pass judgement. I will say this: due to that experience, KISS are Olympians, and Paul Stanley is God, so far as I am concerned, and I don't see how he's any different than Jesus or Siva or Buddha. Paul has stood out to me always as my hero, and if the Universe shows me the shape of the Divine within my hero, then that divinity is Paul for me.

I see Paul Stanley the man as gifted, intelligent and discerning, hard-working, and very, very passionate about everything he does. None of the work he does ever lacks his vision and his inner fire. He has given an incredible amount of himself in order to be KISS, to be the Starchild, to be Paul Stanley the musician and artist and performer he is. Not that I think KISS or Paul would see this page but here is what I have to say to Paul: Thank you Paul Stanley, for everything you have given. For the broken and worn bones, and the blood, sweat, and tears and pain, and personal sacrifices without count that you have given for us all these years. I have seen that blood, that pain, that sacrifice, and I know you have given them to bring us the Best. Blessed Be, Paul Stanley, Starchild of KISS.There's really countless other things but I think you now have enough to start with now, and if you care to talk sometime, you would find me very accepting.

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