Any Witches Here? Part 6

[speakout]

Or Wiccans. or Pagans? Or anyone who is interested in a magical path or feels some magical stirrings.

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All welcome.

It is interesting speakout, I’m wondering what’s caused it too.

It’s definitely a new thing, I haven’t had anything like it here before. The house isn’t that old (1970’s). I’ve lived in older places which seem to be seeped and layered with different energies, and all the quirks that can bring.

This feels different- it’s like something trying it get my attention or show me something- I’m just not sure what it is yet!

Good morning everyone.

I have woken to the most amazing sunrise, the whole sky is a deep pink and casting a soft glow into my room. Just beauutiful.
I have to drop DD off at the train station soon, she is working until lunchtime, then home again.
OH and I will go shopping for a few hours, we rarely get the chance to do hings together, he is often on call at weekends, I often am working, any time off rarely coincides.
I need some craft supplies and a few other bits, I like to be driven! I am a confident driver, I just find driving very boring, much prefer being a passenger, I can look all around instead of the road.

YashmisCrone How interesting about your house energies. I have a Brownie- I guess a manifestation of some of those energies, but personified. He/she is very helpful at times.

Do you know anything about the land your house is bullt upon?
My house is a 70s build too, but the place was owned by monks ( abbey across the road dates back to 11th Century, and my house is built on land that was owned by the monestary.
There are a few neolithic remains nearby too- so I suspect has a much deeper history.

Did you set up a geniius loci altar? Could that have awoken some energies?

YashmisCrone have you tried asking/talking to it? talking to our restless ghost worked here and his manifesting is less. Might be looking for you to recognise it?

Funny you feel that way about driving Speakout I can find it most meditative. My brain often does its best problem solving when I am driving.

We have a monthly farmer's market and today is they day it is on. Looking forwards to heading out there.

HillsBesideTheSea

I amire that driving skill! My mind wanders too much, I find it tedious, especially the slow stop start city stuff.
I'm fine whn I have to have my wits about me, motorway, big roundabouts, always switched on for that, but waiting in a long line of slow moving traffic finds my mind off elsewhere!

Hey all. I am rubbish at keeping up xx

Speakout I do a lot of hill and motorway driving, not so much city driving. Imo cities are best navigated by public transport or just avoided - too many people and I have other issues than driving. Will be interesting to see how I react next time I am in the city now I have been doing work on my shielding. Mostly I am spoilt by where I live.

Morning all. It's a beautiful day here again, I keep forgetting we're still in February. Feeling relaxed and upbeat after last nights gong bath.

I'm taking my dog to the vets this morning. I'm really hoping he'll say his tail has healed enough so he no longer has to wear the cone, but I've got a feeling he may be stuck with it a bit longer 🙁

Yashmis I'm really interested to know more about the activity in your home. Can you give a bit more detail about what's been happening? I agree that it sounds like someone's trying to get your attention.

Speakout I'm like you and find driving boring. I like being able to look out the window and if driving somewhere scenic I get far too distracted! I have quite a long motorway drive everyday. I listen to ebooks which helps the time pass.

Good morning sisters,

speakout your description of the sunrise sounds divine. Beautiful. It’s bright and clear here, I’ve been watching a pair of blackbirds hopping around the garden and noticed both primroses and crocuses springing up in the middle of the lawn. I love their wild tenacity in not staying where they were originally planted.

Violet sending love to you and your dog, I do hope he can escape the dreaded cone. I saw this picture yesterday and thought of you both.

Thank you for your thoughts about the energy in my house. I like hearing about your brownie speakout

Violet as well as the picture jumping down on its own, a small lighthouse (this has family relevance for me) ornament was in the middle of the floor where it was previously behind a ridge on a shelf, my nan’s cooking utensils have been on the worktop in the kitchen when I got home (not where they were when I left them) there have been unexplained bangs, lights on and doors open that I hadn’t left that way. I live alone and don’t think I’ve gone mad!

speakout I did do some genius loci work but it was to do with my work place.. although I have to admit the old journals I brought home (the oldest being from the 1850’s) are still in my possession. I’ve been reading them to my mum who is interested in social history and am feeling like we are connecting in some way to the writer of them. I had asked him for help with my work quandary as he had a strong connection with the purpose of the building I work from. So yes, I think I may have stirred something up in that way. I bought him home with me didn’t I?!

So, I feel like that’s maybe part of it but also that there’s another strand to it that is more connected with this place. Yesterday was a day of signs and synchronicities for me- I was by the sea at lunchtime and a child of a passing family asked her parent a question that was a line from a dream I’d had the previous night. This sparked some relevant thoughts and feelings, an unusual song on the radio had direct links to the place I live and my own situation of living here...

When I got home Hills I did ask she/he/whatever what it was trying to tell me. I had a snapshot in my head of the bookcase below where the picture fell- containing some local history books.. so I think you’re right speakout, there are older energies at play that I seem to have stirred up. I’m looking forward to learning more. The picture itself and my subsequent research of the goddesses is also giving me some relevant themes to work with.

In short (!!) I think my message right now is a practical one relating to what I need to with the house, something I’ve been meaning to get round to.. the bigger picture is to do with my connection with the place and an advancement in my ability to connect and maybe work with genius loci. I’ve just thrown some extra energy (from my workplace) in there to confuse me further! However, the overarching themes that are coming together are similar. Interesting stuff, and all new to me!

I hope everyone has a good day. I’m going to see if I can get my mum wrapped up warm and out in this lovely February sunshine

VioletCharlotte

Hope your dog does fine at the vet today- the cone must be wearing him down poor thing.

YashmisCrone Did you mention that your work is a church hall or ecclesiastical building?
Christian churches were often built directly on top of existing sacred sites, so often there are layers beneath.....

Only dig as far as you feel comfortable.

Afternoon all! It's amazing how a little sunshine can revitalise everyone's spirits. I have the back door open allowing the sun to spread its positive rays into the house, into some of the corners that have needed a bit of light since the winter started.

I mentioned early in the thread that I thought February was going to be the start of something positive. It has, but in unexpected ways. I dislike my new job but I feel ok about it as it's giving me the grounding for something better. I'm still of a positive mind set.

I just wanted to pass along of happy February vibes to all of you and to the special humans and animals in your lives.

X posted with you sockportal

I love the sunny positive energy you bring

It’s funny how things work out in ways we don’t expect isn’t it. It’s lovely to hear you going with the flow and seeing where it takes you. The perfect mindset for manifesting something better I think

I'm so far behind I'm not even going to try to catch up! I've been flattened by migraine all week and this morning I had a mammogram so feeling a bit battered but unbowed.

it's such a glorious day though I plan to collect flowers for my Blodeuwedd jar - I plan to fill a large jar with as many different flowers as I can over the next year and them make either an oil or incense from them

Elphame

Sorry to hear you have had a hard week with migraine, and a mammogram to boot- not the most pleasant procedure,

Hope you are feling a little better- your Blodeuwedd jar sounds amazing.
You are a font of knowledge!

Sending you healing energies. X

Speakout
The vet's really pleased with how he's doing, but he wants him to wear the cone a little linger to make sure he doesn't lick the wound. He's actually coping surprisingly well with it. We're both really missing long walks though, as he still can't go off lead.

Elphame
Sorry to hear you've had a migraine. They're so debilitating aren't they?

Sounds like everyone's at sixes and sevens still, it's been an odd start to this year I think. Mainly massive frustrations and irritations, unexpected blocks in the way forwards here. I've not been able to get on with much at all since Yule, migraines, hearing's gone funny, two steps forward and all that, until a couple of days ago when something exceptionally heavy fell onto my toe which is now a fetching shade of black and purple so now it's two hops forward and one hop back.
I do hope that whatever's causing this upheaval in all of our lives is soon ending and we can all gain clarity and see a way forward. I've certainly felt that the more I push to move forward the more I'm firmly "made" to keep still.

Mention ancient places and I can't help myself, sorry.
In the Republic of Ireland, many ancient places were assimilated into the new religion and everyone was happy with that. They found a symbiosis that worked, so many more ancient places were not destroyed, but incorporated. Their wells are often named after conditions they could cure, like the Headache Well or the Eye Well. They revere their old legends and have a respect for the land and its otherworldly inhabitants that is so very different to attitudes here. Even today, planning permission there can be refused if a building is going to be on a fairy path and the demise of the Delorean car has been attributed to the founder ordering a fairy thorn tree to be cut down.

However, in the UK, it was done so differently, a case of stamp out all evidence of paganism, label it evil, burn the witches, demonify anything that's outside their remit, so there's not much evidence of the usurping of pagan sites apart from renaming wells as now St Someone or other's. There are still traces though and some places had stones too big to move. Others hide the evidence under the floor, or in times past it's thought by some that ancient megaliths were carved into more "acceptable to the new religion" symbols like celtic crosses.

Here are just a few where the ancient stones have survived, some in situ and some hidden but accessible.

Rudston E Yorks www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=142
Midmar Kirk Scotland www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=474
St Eval Cornwall www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=12137
All Saints Alton Priors Wilts. www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=10053

I rarely get them now but this was a cracker. It was 48 hours before the pain started to lift :(

Anyway - this was the handful of flowers I've just picked and set to dry :). This is going to be so pretty. I have some of the earliest spring flowers in there. The mahonia and heather are buzzing with bees and I have frogspawn in the pond already!

Blanktimes
Your posts is interesting. I'm really fascinated by this type of thing, but have very little knowledge, so the links you share are brilliant.

Elphame
Please share a pic of the end result!

So many clever witches on this thread 🙏

Yashmis
I meant to say earlier, I love the photo you shared ❤️ That cat wouldn't last long near my dog though!!

I hope everyone has had a peaceful and enjoyable day.

Quite busy here, but this evening is peaceful, sitting alone drinking my peppermint tea.
It is so quiet, not a sound, a little too early for owls. I have been wearing my new obsidian pendant today, it has a lovely calming protective energy.
I will have a rose oil shower soon, and tumble into bed- have to be up early to see DD off to work- she is at a party tonight and won't be back until late- she hasn't learned to pace herself! She has to leave at 8am tomorrow and need a packed lunch and kit bag, I know racing around in a panic looking for last minute items/clothing/dance shoes.

I also managed to clear out my linen cupboard today- far too much linen and duvet sets and everything was in such a jumble.
I filled a big bag for the charity shop then folded and orderd all my shelves, bath towels on one shelf, pillow cases on another etc, popping little lavender bags amongst everything.
Very therapeutic, and lovely to see it ordered.
I am not particularly tidy by nature but every once in a while will have a burst of tidying energy and tackle a big job- just about finished the garage- that has taken two weeks.
It feels nice to know where to find things!

I have been doing some clearing up today and I have been finding conkers and pine cones. Lots of conkers in random places that I had no recollection about putting them there. The pine cones at least I remember when and where I collected them. My favourite discovery is an amazing fat quarter with autumn leaves on it. I have it sat where I can see it so I can plot and plan what project I wish to make with it.

Glad you have had such a productive day speakout

@speakout - I can really visualise your linen cupboard! Sounds like a really productive day.

@Barton - love your post about megalithic sites and Ireland. You seem to know a lot about the subject, something which fascinates me, particularly fairy folk. I go to a place in Scotland where the veil is supposedly thin, and there are all sorts of stories about the fairy folk.

@Elphame - your flowers are GORGEOUS!!

Sorry @Blank, got your name mixed up!!

certainlymerry

Where is the place in Scotland you visit? I am curious.. There are lots of thin places near me.

Really sorry to hear about the migraines. I sympathise. Such a strange and debilitating affliction and one which seems common amongst us witches..

We do seem to have all been through the mill a bit recently, I hope it soon passes too. And BlankTimes your poor toe! you certainly have been stopped in your tracks.

Mention ancient places and I can't help myself
I love that about you! Really interesting post, thank you.

Elphame your Blodeuwedd jar sounds fabulous. What a great idea, gorgeous flowers so far.

Violet No, I don’t know any spaniel who would let a cat in his cone!

speakout

I am not particularly tidy by nature but every once in a while will have a burst of tidying energy and tackle a big job

I’m just like that too! Much prefer the satisfaction of getting my teeth in something and of a big job done. Does wonders for the energy I think. Love to sound of your obsidian.

Hills I’m curious- what’s a fat quarter? I love the thought of your nature based clutter!

I’m looking forward to a day at home on my own tomorrow- seems to be essential for my to manage my equilibrium these days.

Wishing everyone a restful night

@speakout
Balquidder near Callander. I love the area there, particularly Loch Voile where I have gone wild swimming a few times!