This past weekend I attended a lovely low key Ostara ritual. It was just friends and candy mostly. HA!
We spread a blanket on the livingroom floor and had all our "Easter" treats in a basket. Sitting in the sunshine we had a lovely "picnic" of brightly coloured candies and other eggy things.
We decorated eggs and had tea. We all then randomly picked an egg to take home. I got my mentors! It's on my alter now.
Changes are coming. Renewals and rejuvenations.
My roomette of several years is moving on and my best friend is moving in. We are all thrilled. All these changes are for the best. New lives, new paths, new beginnings.
I can't wait.
Monday 23 March 2015
Wednesday 11 March 2015
Down the gaming hole
As I have heard it called when one has a new video game taking up ones time that should really be spent on other things.
I am "nesting" hard core as of late.
Cooking and baking up a storm. Very out of the norm for me. I am absolutely loving it! The aspect of learning and practicing new skills. Feeding myself, and others, good wholesome food. It's lovely. I even find it a great way to connect with my ancestors. To a way of living that was so much more deliberate. Baking bread has really reminded me a lot of my maternal grandmother who passed away more than twenty years ago. I still leave her a crust with molassas on it to honour her as disir. i think she would like that.
i have finished my required reading for my initiation but since my completion date is not until May 1st I really want to keep this momentum up. Reading is such a big part of my life that I have chosen to continue my research until my completion date.
I picked up Christopher Penczak's Temple of Shamanic Witchcraft and am loving it! i seem to really get a lot out of context for new ventures. To that I mean history of the practice from an anthropological perspective, to the sociological aspects of the new way of shamanism to the very etymology of the very word. With that basic of fact I seem to have an easier time immuring myself into the topic.
OH! I had a flash of insight and I am still excited about it.
I have been trying to think of a way to do some ecstatic workings that would be comfortable for me. A music festival or club is not always around, nor the place to be doing shamanic working. At random the other day I remembered how much I enjoyed doing poi and knew that I could totally get into that type of excited meditative movement. I want to make my own and just start getting out there again.
Can't wait.
I am "nesting" hard core as of late.
Cooking and baking up a storm. Very out of the norm for me. I am absolutely loving it! The aspect of learning and practicing new skills. Feeding myself, and others, good wholesome food. It's lovely. I even find it a great way to connect with my ancestors. To a way of living that was so much more deliberate. Baking bread has really reminded me a lot of my maternal grandmother who passed away more than twenty years ago. I still leave her a crust with molassas on it to honour her as disir. i think she would like that.
i have finished my required reading for my initiation but since my completion date is not until May 1st I really want to keep this momentum up. Reading is such a big part of my life that I have chosen to continue my research until my completion date.
I picked up Christopher Penczak's Temple of Shamanic Witchcraft and am loving it! i seem to really get a lot out of context for new ventures. To that I mean history of the practice from an anthropological perspective, to the sociological aspects of the new way of shamanism to the very etymology of the very word. With that basic of fact I seem to have an easier time immuring myself into the topic.
OH! I had a flash of insight and I am still excited about it.
I have been trying to think of a way to do some ecstatic workings that would be comfortable for me. A music festival or club is not always around, nor the place to be doing shamanic working. At random the other day I remembered how much I enjoyed doing poi and knew that I could totally get into that type of excited meditative movement. I want to make my own and just start getting out there again.
Can't wait.
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