Any Witches Here? Part 9.

[speakout]

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

A place for support, learning, swapping ideas and magical inspiration.

Salem if you want a virtual hug, consider yourself hugged.

I've been feeling the energy shift....and time flying....I'm quite hyper though and didn't sleep much last night.

@speakout I am going to get my runes out. I was gifted them for my birthday a few weeks ago, and this feels like the perfect opportunity to use them.

Thank you all for the wise words. I'm ending today feeling much better than the beginning.

I too feel like there is a big change afoot. Thank sense that it's going to be a shock when it happens. There a lot of predictions are flying around, but the truth has been lost. Thus when the change occurs we will be shocked to the core. This isn't all related to politics by the way, I sense something else happening; the environment, the way are. Things need to change and revert to the old ways and traditions.

Salem sorry your having a difficult time, your puddle walk and soup sound very soothing and perfect activities for such a wet day. I have a habit of stuffing away negative experiences and ignoring them, I will think I’ve moved on as I can rationalise what happened, but unless I allow myself time to experience the feelings themselves, they keep popping back up when I least expect it! Giving yourself time and being kind to yourself go a long way.

Elphame I would have never thought about making tofu! Was it a long process? How did it turn out?

Violet your experiences with gong and sound baths sound interesting. I have seen a few advertised near me recently, I enjoyed listening to singing bowls at a mediation centre and would love to hear crystal bowls. I might look have to go along and check it out.

Speakout, sounds like the equinox was a powerful experience for you. I’m glad people are feeling a big shift. I was having a bath last night and felt quite overwhelmed all of a sudden about all the change that needs to happen in the world and was feeling very small in comparison. I lit my candles and sent out light nonetheless!

I have had a day consumed with work activities today but did have wonderful meeting in a colleagues conservatory where we sat and listened to the rain on the roof. We both found it quite soothing and were very productive.

@IndigoSkye I love the litter patter of rain on a conservatory roof

I’ve really been thankful for the downpours today.

It’s been dry here seemingly for weeks.

Good morning everyone.
The first time recently I have woken and started my morning coffee while it is still pitch black outside.
I have a noisy owl in the trees outside who doesn't agree that it is morning yet!
Interesting to hear of others feel a great shift in recent days.
It's on so many levels for me, personally, some really tough situations I am involved with, political and global.
I use the word political in the broadest sense.
For me political is to do with how all our relationships work. How women are treated, how we relate to the planet, how we share wealth, how social structures are underpinned. The personal is political, how we raise our children with ideas of fairness, how our councils manage recycling, how the spiritual inmpacts big politics.
Empowering other women is political.
To me anyway! I know others may see it differently, that polotics is something "out there" that doesn't really have much to do with us.
I take a different view.
Off to take my daughter into the city this morning, then a gym class, home mid morning to start work. The morning rush hour is so bad, I guess it is like that everywhere. Anyone having to do that daily has my sympathy.
I have the house pretty much to myself today- so incense and music, candles and set a loving intention.
A quick spa shower now to start my day.
Hope you walk your day with magical steps.

The tofu was lovely! I hate the taste and texture of the commercial ones and was told homemade is much nice - it is! I also have a bowl of the bean "waste" which I'm doing to use in my bean roast tonight instead of butter beans so I'll get two very cheap meals out of it.

It's easy enough but there is a bit of waiting around. I followed the instructions here.

www.justhungry.com/milking-soy-bean-part-1-soy-milk

Elphame That's interesting, I just have shop bought tofu - not much of a cook and a tiny galley kitchen.

I find it fine but I have eaten out a couple of times and found it's been really lovely - perhaps those places are making their own, though I don't eat anywhere posh. Like nice and fluffy, which I don't find from shop bought stuff.

Rain the city -> stifling humidity > massive headache. Can't seem to get rid of it.

Elphame that sounds lovely Elphame. I am a huge tofu fan.

It's humid here too today, I have fresh mint simmering on the hob, so the air is cool and fresh.
Just been prepping dinner, all ready for last minute cooking.

The air is suddenly turning fresh, yay!

Apparently there was a large meteor seen across all of London last night, I can't believe I missed it. Reports of amazing colours etc. Maybe that was something to do with all the crackling energy in the air last night, I don't know.

Evening all,
Speakout the issues you talked about this morning have been troubling me for sometime, I really hope we are on the verge of change as I feel sad when I think of my two young dds growing up in the world as it is today. I hope you survived rush hour this morning!

Woodland I think my love of rain drumming comes from spending many a wet holiday in a caravan as a child! It feels very soothing to me!

Elphame the tofu sounds lovely!

Autumn I hope your headache is better. I'm sorry you missed the meteor, it sounds amazing!

It was very wet here this morning but dried up nicely and I was able to take my youngest dd horse riding this evening. We go to a lovely little stable, it is so tranquil, surrounded by massive trees with horses and animals all around us! It’s the perfect place to go after a stressful day!

Good morning. I have woken again to the owl chorus!
Slept so deep and soundly last night, I have noticed a big shift in my dreamscapes in the last few days, dream places , buildings and streets that I have been used to visiting in my dreams for decades have all gone and changed into new scenes.. Very strange.
Visiting another Bhuddist temple today with DS, again it is a lunchtime drop in, no need to book, fee is by donation. This one is Karma Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhist philosophy, so should be interesting.
IndigoSkye I love the drumming of rain too, I will often sit in the conservatory during heavy rain, yes it makes me think of camping, there is something very soothing about drumming of rain on a roof or windows.
I have to make some candles today- I may get an hour or two this morning.
Time for my bergamot spa shower and a start my day.

How lovely to hear owls! Sounds wonderful.

Welcome to Friday wise sisters. I hope those of us who work during the week are looking forward to some relaxation time this weekend.
I have a good day planned, off to yoga this morning, then a calm and quiet house to work and potter.
Off for a lemongrass and sweet orange shower, will take DD a cup of blessed coffee as she gets ready for work.

Find some time to nurture yourselves today everyone.

Once upon a time I was in love, so deep and passionate but I had to walk away from it. I found out he died earlier this year and I am shocked at the depth of my grief.
I am having to work my way through this. My rational side knows that I did the right thing all those years ago but my loving, nurting and romantic side is devastated. I never stopped loving him, I never stopped wondering 'what if'.....I do know I broke his heart (as well as my own).

My DH is away tonight and I am planning a ritual to try and help the passage of this grief.

Queenrollo I’m so sorry for your loss. Even a now distant friend can be felt so hard.
I hope your ritual brings you peace

queenrollo

I understand your feelings.

I was once in love , deep and passionate, I had to walk away, I broke his heart and mine too.
That was many years ago, but I can still feel the fire that we felt.

Allows yourself those feelings of grief- they are real.

I would think about the reasons you left him- was it for self preservation? As sad as you are you have chosen a different path, and had life bounty there too.
Leaving someone we are in love with is so hard, we often have to make choices with our head rather than our heart. It is your heart that is grieving.
Give yourself some heart comfort, use rose quartz, jasmine, lavender, rose, basil, sage oils or tea will help.
I hope your ritual brings comfort.

This is my new favourite thread, I've just stumbled across it today and as a practising Pagan I'm so happy I found it :)

summersolstice43

So glad you have joined us- a warm wlecome. Grab a cushion by the fire, there's always tea in the pot.

@speakout
Thank you for your warm welcome - its nice to find a thread on here that's loving and full of positive energy

@speakout he was wild and beautiful. But he also liked a drink and then the exciting wild became dangerous and terrifying. I left because I could see the drinking was heading to alcoholism and I knew that my love would never fix that.
He died of alcoholism related illness.
I know if I had stayed I would have had an awful life, probably one of an extremely volatile nature. It is this knowledge over the years that has eased me when I missed him. But the fire and passion, the way he worshipped me - just how incredibly good the good times were, these are the reasons my heart hurts so much now.

It soothes me to know that others understand this ain and grief though. I've never loved or been loved like that since.

I'm so sorry queenrollo, that is so sad. In my twenties a close friend of mine died. I had had strong feelings for him that I hadn't voiced and it was so painful. I still feel sad about it often. I feel sad that he didn't get the long life he deserved and also sad that we hadn't had the opportunity to have a life together. Be kind to yourself. I have lit a candle for you.

queenrollo Thinking of you this evening.

Good evening my lovelies. I'm flopping down by the fire to collapse in a heap on a cushion. What a week this has been, it's all been a big of a whirlwind!

Queenrollo I'm so sorry for your loss. I do understand your grief, it doesn't matter that it was such a long time ago, feelings that strong song go away. I've lit a candle for you ❤️

Speakout I love how your nurture your DD, it's nice to be able to do these little things for out grown up DC isn't it? I work from home Fridays and always make DS2 a coffee and breakfast before college. I know some people are of he school of thought you shouldn't pander to them, but I believe these little kindnesses help them to be kinder people themselves.

I'm feeling happy and relaxed tonight. DS1 has come home after 2 weeks away at uni. He's having a fantastic time and I'm loving hearing all about his new life. It is nice to have both DC indoors with me tonight though 😊

I'm doing card readings at an event tomorrow morning. I did a really tough reading this week and feel like I need to go cleanse my cards as the energy was so heavy. How do you all cleanse your cards? I usually sort and shuffle and says a blessing, but I feel like I need to smudge this time.

Good morning.

Such an unusually quiet morning today. No noise at all outside, complete silence. Everyone in the house is asleep. Except me.
DD has a Belle princess dress arriving today, she has a series of princess tea parties to host at her dance studio as a fundraiser- I am looking forward to trying on her dress!
VioletCharlotte How lovley to have your son home. I am sure he will enjoy being back too.
I sometimes cleanse my decks. My Everyday Witch deck is very personal to me, DD uses it and has taken it out when visiting friends etc and I cleanse it through incense smoke, or take it outside on a windy day and shuffle the cards through the breeze while chanting a cleansing phrase.
I have an old Thoth deck that I bought 35 years ago, I have never cleansed it and has been used in harrowing times, both my own and other people's. It became so powerful and brutally honest that I stopped using it. It contains such power that I have bound it and wrapped it in a velvet cloth -it stays at the bottom of an old trunk. I am never quite sure what to to with that deck. I am very wary of using it, perhaps it could be cleansed, maybe even destroyed, until then it sits unused.
DS and I are off to Gilmerton Cove today. DS is having a tricky time right now and thought it may be of interest to both of us..www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/edinburgh/gilmertoncove/index.html

Off for a quick shower before I make a start on a batch of smudge sprays.
Have a magical day everyone.