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Sappho Wolf
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- Philadelphia, PA
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A Vampire Matriarch: Using Past Experience to Work in the Present for a Satisfying Future
Profile Information
- Location:
- Philadelphia, PA USA
- Interest In This Subject:
- I have been involved with the real vampire community since 1985. I am looking to continue working for the community, especially by bringing in my professional assets in the media and in publishing. Additionally, I am open to mentoring individuals who feel the pull of the vampire, but aren't entirely certain what they are.
- Favorite Vampire Resources:
- Go to Sanguinarius and go on from there...
- Your Story:
- Let me begin with an assurance. If in all my years of activity with the vampire community I had ever seen anything outright harmful, destructive, or otherwise detrimental...if I had not found that many of the ideas and concepts and philosophies have at least some sound grounding in logic, reason, and reality...if I had not discovered the metaphysical power and purpose of the vampire through my own experiences...I would not be writing this now.
I am here as one representative and one voice of the vampire community precisely because it works for me. Sure, it probably sounds insane, and I don't bear a grudge against anyone who just can't swallow the idea of real vampirism and all of its attributes. How could I bear a grudge when once upon a time I was in the same place? What happened is that my mind was open and I began to hear thoughts that actually made practical sense. If a metaphysical approach means working with energy, and that energy was the essential living energy of the universe (what one might even call divine), then how was that stream of real vampirism any different from what people call religion or spirituality?
I've simplified it here, but my point is that I was not seduced by promises of immortality or a hunger for blood or what have you. The thoughts of minds that had gone before me captured my own mind and imagination, and my path as a vampire had begun.
This is the story of how I have arrived at this point without getting into dull Dickensian description or some morass of pointless self-promotion. Let me begin by saying I was raised in a philosophically open family. My family encouraged me to use my mind and my imagination, to explore and discover. There was no such thing as taboo. Now I can look back and see where the roots of my vampirism are in my own upbringing. I was raised to be open and aware, and so I have continued to be.
My "awakening" was the day when months of self-examination and reflection crystallized for me. I hadn't known the words "empathic" or "psionic" and consequently could not have used them to describe what I had been experiencing. I knew I was living with a different and heightened set of senses, and that the whole of me hungered and yearned for something I couldn't identify.
I had come into the sphere of House Maidenfear, a vampire sanctuary, months before through initiated friends that seemed to really understand what I was experiencing. On that day, the puzzle pieces of my thoughts clicked into place. I too was a vampire. I decided that I would never deny that aspect of me--in fact, I could never deny it. I would embrace vampirism and my existence as a vampire.
For the following four years I spent a great deal of time at House Maidenfear, learning and developing my own abilities. My own initiation was in 1989, once I turned 18. However, I had to take the Maidenfear Way and my own life as a vampire on an adventure. I moved away to college, where I studied history and linguistics and became an expert vampire researcher. I was able to enhance that skill in graduate school in Florida. Wherever I went, I made connections with the local vampire communities. I came home to House Maidenfear in 2001 and I was elected to my current station in 2003.
We as vampires are at an exciting time in our history. At no other point in the history of the world have circumstances been so ripe for us to fully express ourselves and be true to what we are. My commitment to the vampire community is to help us achieve our greatest potential.
- Website:
- http://www.vampgeist.com
Sappho Wolf - A Vampire In Action
I am vampire.
I kneel before no other creature. I am an intelligent animal who has retained my animal intelligence.
This flesh of mine is a gift in which I revel passion and ecstasy, but my lot in the convoluted universal matrix is to exist as a creature of energy. I thrive on the energy of the cosmos around me. That energy exists in many forms. It exists in lifeblood, in psychic forces, in the angry hurling of lightningbolts from cloud to cloud.
This diversity manifests on the earth in the many different and legitimate breeds of vampire which share the world with mortal humans. Knowing my lineage, I seek to mate my personal energy with that of magic and nature as a vital part of my existence. Pounding surf, rustling crisp leaves, magical ritual-all of these empower me, and I take what is offered or what I have made for myself.
As a vampire, I am a natural being part of the natural universe. I am not confined to this plane or this dimension. I am a cosmic being of fluctuating energy. The matter that makes my flesh and flows through my body drifted down from the stars over millennia. My sight and my vision are necessarily wider and broader. Life, death, what are these to me? They dance as close as hungry lovers. This is no two-sided mortal coin but one great continuum.
The impetus of eternity, then, is the power of the vampire. It is my power, and I claim that power for myself.
Contact me at sapphowolf@stonebench.us for all things vampire.
More Vampire Fun and Games:
Vampires Evolving--a current online center for the Order of Maidenfear, which is quite open-minded and enlightened if I do say so myself.
Chronicles of a Vampire Philosophe--going beyond Vampirism 101.
It's been too quiet. We could stand for some good discussion. Hint hint.
I'm Matriarch of the actual Saturn House in Philadelphia. This is an ongoing attempt to reach out in the community.
The Vampire's Closet--needful things...
On tap at the moment is the Quadrivium (Crossroads) as well as the zine of the wondrous strange Nechromosphere.
Be Immortal Or Die Trying!
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We're Vampires, Not Monsters
As you may or may not know, I'm a moderator of the Real Vampires Community Alliance mailing list which you've probably stumbled upon at one time or another. This week, we had a real rash of nastiness going about. What I'm posting here is in response to that, but I think it holds up for the entire community as well.
I'm stepping in late here but this acrimonious thread came to my at… Continue
I'm stepping in late here but this acrimonious thread came to my at… Continue
Posted on February 2, 2008 at 6:25pm — 2 Comments
Are Vampires The "Children of Horus"?
Lately I have been re-reading the collective works of Aleister Crowley, the infamous occult thinker of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Specifically, I have been studying the breakdown of history into aeons. We are primarily concerned with the most recent three aeons. The aeon of Isis was maternal and nourishing, and the aeon of Osiris was the time of the paternal and dying god. Now we are in the aeon of Horus, a time of self-realization and of growing curiosity. There's much more that I… Continue
Posted on October 25, 2007 at 10:27pm — 2 Comments
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it always amazes me how great you manage to complete these projects, and I was thinking if we team up a little maybe we could make something really interesting.
write me if you are interested
deacongray@yahoo.com
Your looking ravishingly morbid. Long time no talk; hope you're well.
Your Undead Brother
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