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"To see a world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wildflower:
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour."
--William Blake,
"Auguries of Innocence"

We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
-- e. e. cummings



Little One. Elf. Rose. Fox. Siren. Witch. Angel. Hope. Innocence. Beauty. Strength. Love. These are things I've been called. I'm still trying to live up to most of them.

Name: Joanna
Hair: Deep Auburn Brown.
Eyes: Brown ringed with blue and flecked with gold.
Stature: Pale miniature: 4'll", really slender. People tell me I look like a teenager.
Beliefs: Pagan (Witch, Eclectic)
Current Occupation: Library Assistant (Law Firm)
Trade: Fiction Writer (SF/Fantasy)
Favorite animals: Wolves, cats, foxes, dragons, unicorns, turtles, and the phoenix.
Situation: Born in Brooklyn NY. Raised in Sag Harbor NY. College in Westchester NY. Currently living in Gaithersburg MD. Happily in love since Thanksgiving 1999, engaged on Valentine's Day 2005, married on May 22 2005. Him: shiefox. Adam, artist, poet, romantic, intellectual, mage, wizard, martial artist, computer tech.
http://www.geocities.com/RoseFox8/marriedjoy1.jpg

Keirsey Personality: INFP Healer Idealist
Enneagram Personality: Type 4 Romantic Artist

I am a creative writer. I was born to write, and writing is my fiercest passion. I wrote my first poem at age five and my first short story at ten. My first "novel" was written at 13. When I was in elementary school, I was told that I had a college student's grasp of the English language.
I'm very shy and quiet until I'm comfortable with you. Then I'll talk forever, until I get startled back into social anxiety.
I am deeply in love with my guy, but I also love women's bodies, women's sexuality, love the pure artistic and aesthetic beauty of women.
I may seem weak and uncertain but I've been called a steel magnolia. (I love magnolias)

I have cerebral palsy (left side, spastic and ataxic combo). I also have temporal lobe epilepsy, fibromyalgia, asthma, social anxiety, generalized anxiety, social phobia, Raynaud's Syndrome, migraine disorder, joint pain, and mild OCD. To top it all off, I'm recovering from anorexia, which is a still daily battle.

I was born three months prematurely, which led to the cerebral palsy (and a few other unfortunate conditions like seizures, asthma, learning problems, and "cognitive twitches" -- despite a high IQ). However, I was born very well-developed despite being under two pounds and having my lungs collapse a few times.

These circumstances have made me incredibly sensitive physically, emotionally, and psychically, which is probably why I finally picked the spiritual paths of eclectic paganism, witchcraft, and Druidism.
I am a hard polytheist. My personal deities are the Celtic goddess Danu and the Egyptian goddesses Isis. I also work with other deities from those pantheons, as well as Greek and Norse deities. I do not "mix and match" or blend my beliefs, however. I work with spirits, life energy, nature, and the universe. I am a witch, and have been a magic practitioner since I was very young. I'm very open to everyone's opinion; I despise closed-minded prejudice. I have absolutely no patience for fundamentalists and for anyone of any religion who try to convert me. I feel that forcing someone to convert, through any means, is one of the worst things that we as people do to each other. I also don't have patience for so-called "fluffy pagans" who think the world of "magick" is full of nothing but happiness and joy and glittery love and peace. I don't want to be represented by that. There is a dark, dangerous side to everything.
I've been called an "energy worker" and a "psychic battery and conduit". I have a trio of female spirit guides who are also considered my alter egos. I'm very empathic. I've had premonitions, I'm very intuitive, I believe in past lives, etc, but I'm by no means flaky. I prefer to search for the reality behind the claims, and if I can't find any, I accept my own experiences as real for me. I accept everyone's opinions and beliefs as theirs and I try not to be biased. You can believe whatever you want as long as you don't try and force it on me.
I base many of the scenes in my fiction stories on my real life experiences.

I try to keep my political views private and personal. I consider myself a Centrist. I don't belong to any political parties. I am fiscally conservative, socially liberal (for the most part). I try to remain neutral about most things. However, I will say that I am pro-choice, pro-gun, and pro-death penalty. I would have an abortion if I wasn't ready for pregnancy. I support animal testing in medicine and health, but not cosmetics. I prefer small government. I support my country and my military. I'd like for the world to be less full of chemicals, but I'm not going to fanatically push for an organic-only world. I think meat is wonderfully tasty, but I'd rather eat it without additives. I like wearing fur and leather if it keeps me warm (I'd prefer if the whole animal was not wasted either or killed for sport).


I am studying natural skin care, and I am fascinated by natural remedies in general. I'm also fascinated by psychology, philosophy, art, aesthetics, anthropology, biology, biochemistry, neurology, and parapsychology. But I am and always will be a writer by blood, so I follow my trade.

I'm working on finishing a science fiction/fantasy novel. It revolves around a small group of telepaths in the twenty-fourth century, discovering the depths of thir powers and learning to control and adapt to some new, unexpected talents. In the midst of this comes shattering secrets from the past and the realization that they are all that stands between an ancient ultimate evil and the preservation of all reality. There are dragons, fae, gods, demons, angels, magic of the deepest kind; as well as flying cars, futuristic computers, holograms, science and medicine, and designer drugs.
All signs point to publication upon completion, submittal, a couple rejections, and acceptance (most of my friends are a bit psychic). I'm still crossing my fingers.

Art is in my blood. My parents are both amazing artists. My mother teaches life drawing classes and draws the human figure beautifully. My father is a self-taught sculptor and painter. His paintings resemble those of Salvador Dali eerily, and he brings incredible life to his work.
A direct quote: "John Philip Capello, who lives in Sag Harbor, L.I., is a self-taught sculptor with a classical mastery of his craft and a romantic intuition. He is a direct carver, working without sketches, who begins each piece with no preconception of what it will ultimately be, only a determination to find out “what the stone wants to say.” The form he finds within the marble after months of painstaking labor is always startlingly lifelike but at the same time fantastic, often a blend of human and animal forms, with multiple faces, on a theme from ancient mythology or history."
Some samples of their work:
http://www.artistswoods.com/ArtistsPages/Artists01_CapelloJ.htm
http://www.artistswoods.com/ArtistsPages/Artists01_CapelloL.htm
http://www.nabiarts.com/05/capello/capello.htm

I am the creator, maintainer, and head moderator of womenofthemoon, which aims to help women recover from eating disorders and gain a positive body image through means of spiritual fulfillment.

Lately, people have been wondering if my user icon is a Renaissance painting or classic painting. Nope, it's me, for real. This is the actual photo that Adam took of me while I wasn't paying attention. It was in August of 2000, when I was 21. No makeup, either. I look exactly the same now:
http://www.geocities.com/rosefox8/joanna1.jpg

After five and a half years of dating, Adam (shiefox) and I got married on May 22 2005. http://www.geocities.com/rosefox8/photos.html (Wedding pictures are at the bottom)
I am happier than I could have ever imagined. I have found not only a soulmate, but a transcendence, a counterpart, a harmony, a synchronicity, a balance, and a complement. I love you, husband, my darling fox.

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