about

Name: Katrina Caudle
Birthday: July 21, 1986
Star charts: Sun in Cancer, Moon in Capricorn, Leo Rising; Fire Tiger
Loves: pink & green, dance, fairytales, mythopoeia, peaches

I was born near Baden-Baden, a town located on the western foothills of the Black Forest in Germany, to a Caribbean mother and a father serving in the Canadian Forces. I grew up in Winnipeg in central Canada, spending an inordinate amount of time reading, making things, and daydreaming about magical creatures. At 23, not too much has changed.

I spend my time writing, reading, going out, and absorbing quite a bit of entertainment media. I love games, fashion, movies, handmade objects, and cooking. I’m a practicing pagan, devoted to the arts of love and beauty. I study healing, companionship, sexuality & gender, dreams, gardening, and mythology. I believe in magic and refinement. I have a long-haired fluffy black cat named Pandora (AKA Princess of Cuddles & Whine) who takes up quite a bit of my time. I’m a community volunteer and activist involved in radical cheerleading, feminism, food politics, community economic development, and sex worker rights.

It is my sincere belief that the world is as we make it. We are co-creators with the divine and each other, building a reality that is as marvelous or mundane as we choose. I strive to create something exquisite.

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I’m a child of cyberculture and have been keeping online journals for 10 years. Crownofviolets.com has been online since January 2009. It was named after the Greek goddess Aphrodite, who was called “violet crowned”. It features the following columns ~


I grew up in the central prairie city of Winnipeg, Manitoba and I’m head over heels in love with it. It is a city of community, arts, and creativity. Here I share pieces of my social life, events I attend, and things of interest happening here.

Here I share my thoughts, goals, and experiences as I continually try to bring more magic, beauty, and love into my life. Musings on my interests, life, spirituality, and other topics.

I’m currently working on a project called “Faerie Dark”. It’s a created world, built around fairytales and stories I’ve been reading and writing since I was a child. Every week I share stories, inspirations, and new developments to the world.

Sexuality, gender, and how we express ourselves physically is of great interest to me. I identify as a queer, feminine creature and in these writings I explore what that means to me, how it influences my life, and how I cultivate that expression.

Credits

Crown of Violets is run on Thesis