Name: Moonvoice aka Ravenari aka Rav aka Pia aka 'P'
Age: 26
Location: Perth, Western Australia (actually, about 20 minutes North of Perth)
Status: Pansexual, Shamanist, Therian, Poly, Kinky, PTSD
Job: Currently on Disability welfare for PTSD
First came to LJ: 28th of July in 2005
Number of posts so far: 817 (I do regularly cull entries, so this isn't an accurate reflection of how much I post)
Average per day: 1-3 times a day (sometimes more, sometimes less). Much goes under F-lock and then filters on top of that. Not very many people on my Flist see everything I post.
Number of filters: Sex and sensuality, Vilturj, The Turjvhecze, Trusted, Reality Bites, PTSD, Therianthropy

( more under the cut! Like what to expect if you friend me, how much I comment, and more self-centred stuff which is pretty crucial to having a livejournal. *g* )

The preview for Baz Luhrmann's new movie Australia out today.

Best viewed with Internet Explorer (I know, it makes me sad).
Further down is a preview for the new X-Files movie.

Go forth hence, and enjoy.
Australia looks pretty damned awesome.

Bogong Moth - Nourishment

Keywords:

Nourishment. Nourishing others. Storing, finding and giving energy. Feasts and celebrations. Food cures. Night-journeying. Transformation. Nutrition. Giving yourself away. Masculinity.





( full essay within )

I wrestled with this picture a lot. At the beginning of colouring I was very unhappy with it, and then slowly as the layers of colour evolved, a picture emerged that I became very happy with. I particularly like the red as contrast. Wootage.

Fly my pretties, fly!





( doves, black swans, corellas in flight and glen's goose )

What is it with ravens eluding my damned camera! I hear them, I see them, I see amazing shots to take of them, but when it comes to pointing and clicking, where are they???

You'll have to content yourself with these instead.





( part one - lorikeets mostly. in the next batch i have some flight shots i'm really happy with. )

This:

http://toeknuckles.deviantart.com/art/Marine-Mammal-84603297

Arrived safely in the mail today! By the incredibly talented and awesome toeknuckles.
Check out her website here:


http://www.toeknuckles.com/


Yay! It is as awesome as I thought it would be, and as inspiring.
It is beautiful in person, and sitting where I can see it right now. :D

Cat - Personal Power

Keywords:

Looking after yourself. Relax. Meditate. The hunting instinct. Getting what you want. Accomplishment. Self-love, worth and protection. Standing up for yourself. Taking time out. Gentle exercise. All forms of therapy. Independence. Intuition. Personal power. Magic.





( full essay within )

14 to go...

(and this with emu are probably two of my fave illustrations to date.)

Emu - Spiritual Achievement

Keywords:

Fatherhood and paternity. Shamanic and literal journeying to find nourishment. Primal communication. Rapid movement. Spiritual running. Male sacrifice. Infidelity. Stone magic. Crystal power. Shamanism. Spiritual excellence. Spiritual achievement.





( full essay within )

Black Cockatoo - Spirit

Keywords:

Spirit. Rain Magic. Travel. Joy. Crying with Joy. Emotional Freedom. Spiritual Freedom. Finding Spiritual Truths. Your Inner Fire. Creativity. The Muse. Inner Beauty. Inner and Outer Wealth. Preserving What You Care For. Drumming.





( full essay within )

I've redone the illustration for blue-ringed octopus. Not much has changed stylistically, but the lining is thicker, the rock is more 'rock like,' and the colouring is better on the octopus. Oh, and there's a tiny bit of blue in the top corner.

I really like minimalistic pieces.


Blue-Ringed Octopus




The write-up was written some time ago and is on my website.

Geez I've been putting this one off for a while...

(Australian) Raven - Problem Solving

Keywords:

Complexity. Trickery. Difficulty understanding past or current problems. Over-intellectualising matters. Great intelligence. Ideas. Creating new possibilities. Spiritual work. Problem solving. Creativity. Play. Interaction at all levels. Adapting and learning. Teaching others. Group gatherings.





( full essay within )

Dingo - Extinction

Keywords:

Group dynamics. Hierarchy. Pack mentality. Journeying. Upperworld messenger. Taking risks. Opportunity. Family wisdom. Extinction. Radical change and adaptation. Monogamy and partnership. Misunderstanding. Being taken for granted.





( full essay within )

I posted the file a few months ago, so for those who want to read the totem write up for this particular creature, it can be found here:

Crown-of-Thorns Seastar as Totem

Despite this not being one of my favourites to look at, I think it's one of my favourites in terms of the meaning it conveys. Not necessarily 'pretty,' but then, it's not meant to be.


Crown-of-Thorns Seastar - Being Overwhelmed

Numbat - Details

Keywords:

Details. The unconscious undergrowth. Energy from daylight. Scrutiny. The social introvert. Beauty in the arid. Caring and being cared for. Threat. Scrub wisdom.





( full text within... )

Bat - Spirituality

Keywords:

Spirituality. Psychic gifts and abilities. Clairvoyance and clairaudience. A connection to all worlds. Dreamwork. Finding others of like-mind. Cave magic. Working with liminal worlds and times such as mist, twilight and other thresholds.





( full text within )

* If you want to know what filters you're on, please let me know, just in case you're not sure what you're on / not on, or what you've asked to be on in the past...

Quite a few new people I've friended in the past two weeks aren't familiar with my filters, so here they are:

Filter Review

If you want on or off a filter (please understand it's at my discretion), let me know.

Don't feel that you need to stay on filters that you don't want to; a bit sick of my whining or PTSD stuff? Take a break. Alternatively, nothing would fill you with more joy than knowing the inner workings of my life? Hop on. Heh.

Filters:

Vilturj - I used to add people to this one by default, but now that I have a few people on my Flist who aren't remotely spiritual (or interested), that's changed.

PTSD - I am posting on this filter the most at the moment, due to therapy raising A LOT of shit in my brain. If you want off it during this time (since I tend to post up filter reviews about every 4 months or so), let me know. Some of the stuff isn't pretty. I usually always put it under a cut so people can just gloss over it if they want.

Turjvhecze - The really fucking intense stuff (for me, by my standards). Most of the entries on Turjvhecze inevitably get set to private a few weeks or so later. Really woo woo spiritual stuff goes on here too. Basically, if you can't handle one or the other, you won't like this filter.

Reality Bites - Usually about family, real life situations, friends, etc. Often not snarky, unlike the filter name.

Sex and Sexuality - Most of my sex-related posts are set on private these days (mainly because I'm not getting any, and I'm rather angsty about that). Heh. But I still post on this one occasionally.

Therianthropy - My ramblings about what it's like to be a Raven (Australian) and Cat (Fishing). Not usually connected to my spirituality, so I tend to keep it separate.

I have finally finished tagging almost all of my entries, so you can go through my tags to get to entries. The tag 'Iminaja' is essentially the 'Turjvhecze' tag. I got lazy, can't be assed changing it.

For all 'old timers', unless you want something changed, you don't have to worry about responding much if you've responded in the past. For those who have been on a grace period for the Turjvhecze filter and are still interested, feel free to poke your head in. I can't promise anything, but I'm definitely open to it.

Malleefowl - Parenting

Keywords:

Parenting. Going to great lengths for your children / projects. Incubation. Going within. Patience. Caring for what you create. Nesting. Giving Your Creations Freedom. Knowing the inner earth. Trusting your instincts and intuition.





( full text within )

The full list of totem animals in my dictionary can be found here:
http://www.wildspeak.com/vilturj/totems/dictionary.html

Coral - The Right Timing

Keywords:

The right timing. Release. Knowing inner and outer rhythms. Creating your world and the world of others. A solid foundation. Primal structure and support. Trust in where life is taking you. Universal trust.





( full file within )

Full list of animal files can be found here:

http://www.wildspeak.com/vilturj/totems/dictionary.html

I received the most lovely and unexpected item in the mail the other day by the very awesome azhure, a very talented jewellery maker and photographer. I've used her photo of the necklace, because it is much better than my photos of jewellery tend to be, and you can see it under the cut:

( Squee! )

The necklace is called The Moon's Voice (and features two of my few favourite stones; labradorite and moonstone), and I highly, highly recommend that you check out her other jewellery - almost all of which has spiritual and/or pagan significance - here:

Sorscha Azhure Designs

I am very lucky. :) This weekend has mostly been very crap, and looking at this necklace (and wearing it!) has been one of the few high/peaceful/happy points. Hehehe.

Empire Magazine's list of the "50 Greatest TV Shows" ever.

1. Bold the shows you've watched every episode of
2. Italic the shows you've seen at least one episode of
3. Post your answers


50. Quantum Leap
49. Prison Break
48. Veronica Mars
47. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
46. Sex & The City

45. Farscape
44. Cracker
43. Star Trek
42. Only Fools and Horses
41. Band of Brothers

40. Life on Mars
39. Monty Python's Flying Circus
38. Curb Your Enthusiasm
37. Star Trek: The Next Generation
36. Father Ted

35. Alias
34. Frasier
33. CSI: Las Vegas
32. Babylon 5
31. Deadwood

30. Dexter
29. ER
28. Fawlty Towers
27. Six Feet Under
26. Red Dwarf

25. Futurama
24. Twin Peaks
23. The Office UK
22. The Shield
21. Angel

20. Blackadder
19. Scrubs
18. Arrested Development
17. South Park
16. Doctor Who

15. Heroes
14. Firefly
13. Battlestar Galactica
12. Family Guy
11. Seinfeld

10. Spaced
09. The X-Files
08. The Wire
07. Friends
06. 24

05. Lost
04. The West Wing
03. The Sopranos
02. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
01. The Simpsons