Ask Dr. Ding

Dr. Ding likes to commemorate the changing of the seasons and whatnot in kind of a late-1990s, pseudo-Wiccan way where we all wear velvet bodice dresses with long unstraightened tresses and heavy square-toed boots. Because that is what Wicca is all about. Trust.

I kinda miss my Ren Faire Maiden days, short-lived tho they were. It was a lot of fun eating such Faire delicacies as giant barbecued turkey legs and Pickle On A Stick while prancing about in fetching Celtic silver jewelry, looking bosomy.

Okay, so my Ren Faire Maiden days were more like one day, but you can totally see where I’m coming from; specificially, a very sacred purple velour space where I burned a lot of cedarwood candles and Night Queen incense while listening to inscrutable semi-witchy music like Loreena McKennit and Stevie Nicks.

What I’m saying is that all this witchy street cred I’ve accrued since reading “To Ride a Silver Broomstick” back in 1995 supremely qualifies* me to wish you a happy Autumnal Equinox.

*If you are at all interested in witchy or feminist theology stuff you should read Sybil Leek’s Diary of a Witch, the later works of Marjia Gimbutas, Shapeshifters: Shaman Women in Contemporary Society by Michele Jamal, and Sisterhood is Powerful, An Anthology of Writings from the Women’s Liberation Movement (edited by Robin Morgan).