Fathom delMar
06-21-2013, 02:33 AM
Sorry for the late introduction post... The name's Fathom del Mar.
I've believed in and wanted to be a mermaid for as long as I can remember (I went through a time when I first discovered witchcraft of looking for a spell to turn me into a real mermaid... no, seriously. I did. I trolled every website I could trying to find a way, even tried a few). I am finally now putting myself towards obtaining that goal and becoming a professional mermaid. My first time seeing Hannah Fraiser made me realize "I can be a REAL mermaid". I bought a monofin and had planned on making a tail (after watching Mermaid Sasha's fabric tail video) but never did. My monofin sat in my boyfriend's trunk for the last 2 years, until I stumbled across Raina the Halifax Mermaid's Facebook. I thought to myself, "This is it." And once I saw her book, I was like-- yes! I got out my monofin and started researching, and researching. I've been dreaming of mermaids and of making a tail for three nights in a row now. I want to do underwater modeling and bring awareness to the state of our oceans and help encourage people to try and make a difference before it's too late. I am also a big DIY-er and crafter, and I enjoy painting as well, and have started/am in the process of creating sea-themed jewelry, art, prosthetics and mermaid accessories that I hope to begin selling soon. Most of the proceeds will be going towards a professional tail, but I am also in the designing stages of creating my own tail. I am currently a doula and student of midwifery and hope to get to Hawaii from NC by the end of next year. My goal is to get a bit of land and have an off-grid mini-homestead, work as a midwife, and get involved with the Sirius Institute and assisting with dolphin-attended ocean-births there. I am constantly coming up with ideas for things... things to make, business venture ideas, housing designs, stories... It gives me a headache sometimes. I tend to dive right into things without a second thought, but I also have a habit of dropping things really fast and moving on to something else. This is something I've been trying to work on, however. Most things I drop I come back to, sometimes multiple times. I have just gotten back into pursuing modeling which I think will compliment my mermaid-ing well. I am a traditional foodie (Sally Fallon and Weston A. Price), love anthropology, environmental activism, human rights issues, LGBTQ and polyamory studies (and activism), and had once (before I discovered my call to midwifery) wanted to be a marine biologist and study the language of cetaceans and their interactions with humans (which is actually a lot of the work that the Sirius Institute has been involved with). I am a bisexual, polyamorist eclectic pagan. I enjoy learning about other religions, studying philosophy, discussing quantum physics, and pondering the universe. I am not a butterflies and sparkles light-worker Wiccan, but more of a down-and-dirty bones and fur and shells and blood kind of worker. I work a lot with ocean magic, and one of my matrons is in fact Yemaya (my other is the Morrigan, and my patron is Cernnunos). I hope to make a lot of friends, hopefully network, and to learn as much as possible on my journey :) ~Fathom
I've believed in and wanted to be a mermaid for as long as I can remember (I went through a time when I first discovered witchcraft of looking for a spell to turn me into a real mermaid... no, seriously. I did. I trolled every website I could trying to find a way, even tried a few). I am finally now putting myself towards obtaining that goal and becoming a professional mermaid. My first time seeing Hannah Fraiser made me realize "I can be a REAL mermaid". I bought a monofin and had planned on making a tail (after watching Mermaid Sasha's fabric tail video) but never did. My monofin sat in my boyfriend's trunk for the last 2 years, until I stumbled across Raina the Halifax Mermaid's Facebook. I thought to myself, "This is it." And once I saw her book, I was like-- yes! I got out my monofin and started researching, and researching. I've been dreaming of mermaids and of making a tail for three nights in a row now. I want to do underwater modeling and bring awareness to the state of our oceans and help encourage people to try and make a difference before it's too late. I am also a big DIY-er and crafter, and I enjoy painting as well, and have started/am in the process of creating sea-themed jewelry, art, prosthetics and mermaid accessories that I hope to begin selling soon. Most of the proceeds will be going towards a professional tail, but I am also in the designing stages of creating my own tail. I am currently a doula and student of midwifery and hope to get to Hawaii from NC by the end of next year. My goal is to get a bit of land and have an off-grid mini-homestead, work as a midwife, and get involved with the Sirius Institute and assisting with dolphin-attended ocean-births there. I am constantly coming up with ideas for things... things to make, business venture ideas, housing designs, stories... It gives me a headache sometimes. I tend to dive right into things without a second thought, but I also have a habit of dropping things really fast and moving on to something else. This is something I've been trying to work on, however. Most things I drop I come back to, sometimes multiple times. I have just gotten back into pursuing modeling which I think will compliment my mermaid-ing well. I am a traditional foodie (Sally Fallon and Weston A. Price), love anthropology, environmental activism, human rights issues, LGBTQ and polyamory studies (and activism), and had once (before I discovered my call to midwifery) wanted to be a marine biologist and study the language of cetaceans and their interactions with humans (which is actually a lot of the work that the Sirius Institute has been involved with). I am a bisexual, polyamorist eclectic pagan. I enjoy learning about other religions, studying philosophy, discussing quantum physics, and pondering the universe. I am not a butterflies and sparkles light-worker Wiccan, but more of a down-and-dirty bones and fur and shells and blood kind of worker. I work a lot with ocean magic, and one of my matrons is in fact Yemaya (my other is the Morrigan, and my patron is Cernnunos). I hope to make a lot of friends, hopefully network, and to learn as much as possible on my journey :) ~Fathom