Bio

The "civilized" me dies into a chrysalis state. Frostwolf is a name bestowed upon me by the goddess Cerridwen. T'Firerose is a self-created surname. I am being born into this state, and it's but a transition to ... what I don't know. "Richard" has been an ambitious, overweight (I have lost 110 pounds with the help of divine guidance), self-obsessed, isolating, sarcastic and self-pitying. There are other qualities about the dying self that are to be salvaged, and even some of these listed may still be in play--it's up to powers greater than this human form.

My Mayan day sign is 6 Death. I am a Pisces with Taurus Rising and born in the hour of the snake, on a day of the Water Tiger in the year of the Dragaon.

I envision my best and brightest future self to be:
* a sex magician/healer
* a witch who tends all things
* abstinent from sugar, flour, alcohol and debt
* a playwright/storyteller/bard putting forth divine words and music
* a community organizer in a Hudson-Mohawk River Valley relocalized community that may or may not be a part of a larger nation-state (but probably will ultimately see this intermediate political form wither and die on the vine)
* a devoted listener to the spirits of the land, the house, the cities (Albany, Troy, Schenectady), the region and the bioregion, as well as ancestral and divine emanations
* a loving partner to my chosen spouse
* a gardener among gardeners
* a citizen among citizens

and other things as they emerge and evolve.

Skills and talents

Theater - playwriting, directing, acting, producing plays since 1980 Storytelling Singing with a body-percussion technique I label "Calling South" Manifestation Trance Astrology (studied since I was 7 years old) Visualization Divination by Tarot and sensing the environment Administrative talent

Interests

alternative political structures, candomble, Cerridwen, Dian-y-Glas, divination, embracing the shadow, Feri Witchcraft, gay spirituality, Goddess Diana, Obatala, Orishas, poetry writing, relocalization, self-possession, sexual shamanism, Theater, voodoo

What I'm Reading

Catherine McCoun, <i>On Becoming an Alchemist</i> Frank Macri, <i>Divide & Conquer</i> Charles Ludlam, <i>Collected Plays</i>

What I'm Listening To

Philip Aaberg, Devotchka, Rita Ribeiro, Krishna Das, Marisa Monte, Rufus Wainwright, Laurie Anderson

Movies I've Seen Recently

I've not had time to see movies of late, though I'm sad to have missed "Watchmen."

Websites I'm Into

Speaking Truth to Power, Awaken in the Dream, Mayan Majix, Psychegram, Life After the Oil Crash, My Out Spirit, Towle Road, Cryptogon, Depletion and Abundance

Education

High school

Arapahoe High School, Littleton, CO

College

Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH (with Honors, Drama modified with German)

Graduate school

New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, New York, NY (MFA in Dramatic Writing)

Additional study

Self-taught Tarot divination; Feri Witch Training