¡Hola! ☀ My name is Alexandra and I live in a small town outside of Barcelona. I was born and raised in the city, under the mix of the full moon and the Gaelic festival of Imbolc. That makes me an Aquarius, and I'm also an INFP and a Four with a Five wing. I taught myself English in my teens by listening to music, watching subtitled Hollywood films & reading the english-spanish dictionary before going to bed. This means I am trilingual, so you can communicate with me in Catalan, Spanish or English, whichever strikes your fancy :)
I live a highly mental and heart-centered life, and enjoy the simple things of everyday existence. Quiet sunrises, thunderstorms, feeding grapes to the magpies, crafting, exploring forests, tending to my small garden, baking cakes, gothic architecture, literature, children's books, rock & folk concerts, attending demonstrations I believe in... this is my preferred way of living. I don't celebrate my birthday, and I do celebrate the pagan sabbats. I'm not outgoing, nor am I sociable in the slightest, but I spend most of my time frolicking in nature & have a kind disposition toward people that comes without effort. I like to help. I like to make you laugh. I like to make you think. I like to make crafts for you. I like to do anything that might cause you some emotional healing.
I live a highly mental and heart-centered life, and enjoy the simple things of everyday existence. Quiet sunrises, thunderstorms, feeding grapes to the magpies, crafting, exploring forests, tending to my small garden, baking cakes, gothic architecture, literature, children's books, rock & folk concerts, attending demonstrations I believe in... this is my preferred way of living. I don't celebrate my birthday, and I do celebrate the pagan sabbats. I'm not outgoing, nor am I sociable in the slightest, but I spend most of my time frolicking in nature & have a kind disposition toward people that comes without effort. I like to help. I like to make you laugh. I like to make you think. I like to make crafts for you. I like to do anything that might cause you some emotional healing.
Despite being raised atheist, it just wasn't in me. I've been attuned to energies since time immemorial. I'm a spiritual person without fitting into any religion (and I don't believe in deities, ghosts or fairies -not yet, at least). I hate rules. I hate uniformity. I've got little regard for codes of conduct and things categorized as 'tradition'. People tell me I am ungovernable, with a very strong character, unpredictable and intense.
I carry yucky shadows inside of me, like everybody else. I've been on a self-healing path since my early twenties. I've suffered from depression, crippling general anxiety & social anxiety, and strange phobias since childhood. I adore myself just the way I am, and I continue to do my best everyday to live in alignment with the best version of Self. I perceive life as a terribly dangerous thing, and sometimes I don't want to be here, but I choose to live, consciously. I'm innately firey & have a hot temper despite the seemingly quiet exterior. Each day I strive for a better, more mentally and emotionally stable self with the knowledge I gain. I practice appreciation on an hourly basis, it's easy for me because I've always been a detail-oriented person with microscopic vision, and I effortlessly seek & create beauty around me. I enjoy spontaneity and adventures as well as quiet time and safety, all in equal parts. Endlessly curious & extremely solitary, I've always yearned to connect with people and always failed.
I need passion, tenderness and intellectual stimulation like H2O, and mainly I soothe and encourage people through my presence, all-ears disposition, my art & my stories.
Blogging is one of the many ways in which I channel my creativity & it's a place away from the literal world. In this space I can bathe you and myself in metaphors and symbols, and have little & big adventures together. I'm committed to beauty, magic, love & truth in life, even if sometimes it seems like these things can't co-exist.
I carry yucky shadows inside of me, like everybody else. I've been on a self-healing path since my early twenties. I've suffered from depression, crippling general anxiety & social anxiety, and strange phobias since childhood. I adore myself just the way I am, and I continue to do my best everyday to live in alignment with the best version of Self. I perceive life as a terribly dangerous thing, and sometimes I don't want to be here, but I choose to live, consciously. I'm innately firey & have a hot temper despite the seemingly quiet exterior. Each day I strive for a better, more mentally and emotionally stable self with the knowledge I gain. I practice appreciation on an hourly basis, it's easy for me because I've always been a detail-oriented person with microscopic vision, and I effortlessly seek & create beauty around me. I enjoy spontaneity and adventures as well as quiet time and safety, all in equal parts. Endlessly curious & extremely solitary, I've always yearned to connect with people and always failed.
I need passion, tenderness and intellectual stimulation like H2O, and mainly I soothe and encourage people through my presence, all-ears disposition, my art & my stories.
Blogging is one of the many ways in which I channel my creativity & it's a place away from the literal world. In this space I can bathe you and myself in metaphors and symbols, and have little & big adventures together. I'm committed to beauty, magic, love & truth in life, even if sometimes it seems like these things can't co-exist.
May your days be full of the holy and the human,
Alexandra
Alexandra
I live by this poem:
by Mary Oliver.
image credit: Printed Ink.