- The changing seasons
- Rediscovered will power
- Snuggles in bed
- Tea
- Candles
Thursday, October 31, 2013
Thankful Thursday
This week I am thankful for...
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Absence
I've been away from this blog for awhile not for any particular reason but because I just haven't been feeling the creativity and desire to write that is needed to keep coming on here and post things. Not that I was ever the most regular poster as it was. I've taken up studies again and I find that when I have time I'm working on the research and homework for those rather than on my own blog and I need to incorporate the two together a bit more.
So my goal is to attempt to get back into regular posts here and on my divination page. I have a new oracle deck that I'm working with which I will be using but I also want to get into doing more regular tarot pulls. I thought about a card a day but I think I might just start off with a reading each Sunday for the week ahead. That's the plan anyway :)
So my goal is to attempt to get back into regular posts here and on my divination page. I have a new oracle deck that I'm working with which I will be using but I also want to get into doing more regular tarot pulls. I thought about a card a day but I think I might just start off with a reading each Sunday for the week ahead. That's the plan anyway :)
Wednesday, October 9, 2013
Monday, October 7, 2013
Musing Monday
On the season...
I've been doing a bit of research lately on the wheel and the seasonal celebrations of the witchy calendar. Those who've read my blog before know that I personally have issues connecting with all the supposed seasonal celebrations of the Wiccan year. The 8 sabbats just don't fit with me. Some of it I believe is due to being a city dweller, lets face it feeling in tune with the three harvest seasons can be difficult when you don't have any experience with the actual changes. I've always lived in mild climates too, so the idea of celebrating the end of winter and the spring thaw doesn't resonate as deeply as it may for others. I see the changing of the seasons around me, but I don't necessarily connect with them in as great a detail as the sabbats seem to imply. But that is not what I've been thinking about lately.
Lately I've been struck by the implied negativity that seems to be associated with the coming of winter and the darker part of the year. Don't get me wrong, much of what I read talks of the benefits of going within, of resting and reflecting etc but the terminology seems to indicate a feeling of darkness and something to if not fear at least wade through until the better stuff comes around in spring. The bright part of the year is also talked about with terminology of happiness and joy. Now I can understand that there is the whole birth, life, death, rebirth pattern taking place but I just don't get the way the dark part of the year is talked about. For me personally this is my favorite time of year, it is when I grow the most. I revel in cool days spent snuggled up reading, reflecting, learning, experiencing. I don't spend my winter months looking back on the summer gone and longing for it to return, I spend it enjoying everything magical about the dark time of the year. I am creative at this time, I am passionate, I am blooming in the dark.
Maybe I'm odd, who knows.
I've been doing a bit of research lately on the wheel and the seasonal celebrations of the witchy calendar. Those who've read my blog before know that I personally have issues connecting with all the supposed seasonal celebrations of the Wiccan year. The 8 sabbats just don't fit with me. Some of it I believe is due to being a city dweller, lets face it feeling in tune with the three harvest seasons can be difficult when you don't have any experience with the actual changes. I've always lived in mild climates too, so the idea of celebrating the end of winter and the spring thaw doesn't resonate as deeply as it may for others. I see the changing of the seasons around me, but I don't necessarily connect with them in as great a detail as the sabbats seem to imply. But that is not what I've been thinking about lately.
Lately I've been struck by the implied negativity that seems to be associated with the coming of winter and the darker part of the year. Don't get me wrong, much of what I read talks of the benefits of going within, of resting and reflecting etc but the terminology seems to indicate a feeling of darkness and something to if not fear at least wade through until the better stuff comes around in spring. The bright part of the year is also talked about with terminology of happiness and joy. Now I can understand that there is the whole birth, life, death, rebirth pattern taking place but I just don't get the way the dark part of the year is talked about. For me personally this is my favorite time of year, it is when I grow the most. I revel in cool days spent snuggled up reading, reflecting, learning, experiencing. I don't spend my winter months looking back on the summer gone and longing for it to return, I spend it enjoying everything magical about the dark time of the year. I am creative at this time, I am passionate, I am blooming in the dark.
Maybe I'm odd, who knows.
Thursday, October 3, 2013
Random thoughts
Ok, here is today's random thought. Would Christianity have grown to the size it is currently had it not been adopted by the Romans or come into contact with the Roman empire? I've been thinking about how religions became dominant and that was my random thought for today.
Thankful Thursday
This week I am thankful for...
- Autumn/Fall - oh how I love this time of year
- Geeking out with tabletop gaming
- Tea
- my curiosity and intellectually inclined mind
- naps.
Monday, September 30, 2013
Musing Monday
CHANGING SEASONS
Maybe it has something to do with the type of people I'm attracted to, maybe it is a common thread among witches because Samhain is just around the corner and so many of us love this time of year, but I've been amazed how with the turning of the wheel and the movement beyond Mabon how many people I associate with are suddenly feeling a greater connection to everything, myself included. Now for me I know that a big part of it is that this is, and always has been, my favorite time of year. I love the seasons from Autumn through to Spring, I'm actually far more active at this time of year. Don't get me wrong, I'm not out partying and socializing, lets face it I'm an introvert and always will be, but I find myself wanting to craft more, to get outside and be with nature, to visit friends, to spend time with loved ones, to play and to love. For a lot of people this is a time of quite introspection coming upon us, and that is definitely true also, but for me that reflection comes through expressive means and I have more energy to partake in those actions as the weather cools than I do in the blast furnace of summer.
Now not surprisingly the change of the season is also bringing about a great deal of peoples focus to shadow work. My feeling is that perhaps this goes beyond the season and there is a gentle shift happening towards embracing a more balanced life - maybe that's just my wishful thinking. I am quite pleasantly surprised at how many people I know currently who are beginning to work with their shadow, including myself and it buoys me to know that I will have others who can be their for me on this journey.
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