Any Witches Here? Part 10.

[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.

Sounds perfect speakout, your peace magic is powerful. And yes to the candlelight and the dust!!

We have had a lovely day here. My approach is paying dividends and I have a small boy who is just the right amount of excited! We had a lovely walk through the village this afternoon, some much needed fresh air.
DH is forging ahead with food prep ready for tomorrow (I am lucky that he adores cooking) and I am moving through the house, tidying small spaces and keeping the energy balanced.
I have not really felt very connected to the season this time, and had very low key Yule (just personal quiet reflection) and am now feeling positive about tomorrow because I haven't really over indulged in too many festive things as a result of my mood making more a home body.
Once smallest is in bed I have a bath planned, lovely fresh PJ's and a bit of reading in bed.

Love and warmest Blessings to you all x

queenrollo

Lovely to hear your warm words. You have such an abilty to express.

Just thinking about tomorrow and hoping that it flows as well as is possible for everyone. It’s been a breath of fresh air to sit with everyone’s calm approach to it here in our witches kitchen where we collectively treasure the real gifts of midwinter; the treasure hiding in the shadows and hope inherent in the of the return of the light 🙏

I was reading about the new moon that comes with the 25th this year- a time of shifts. Thought others may find it interesting too.

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My thoughts also turned to the callieach, who I remember was walking with you this time last year speakout. I saw this (pictures) and thought it was beautiful.

Wishing everyone a restorative night x

Wishing everyone a blessed day.
Don’t forget to wear your crowns x

Sending Christmas wishes and lots of love to you all 🎅🏻⭐️💫 xxxx

Sending christmas wishes to everyone. I have had had some lovely gifts- an amazing Oracle deck, a tricorn hat, ( I have pirate aspirations) coffee, essential oils, home made candle, home made hand cream. I feel very blessed.

Good morning all.
I hope everyone had a lovely day yesterday. It was probably the most relaxed Christmas I have had in years and was well needed after the stress of this past year.

DD2 is at her dads today so I’m having a quiet, slow morning. I have lit some candles and am relaxing in bed, spending some time reflecting.
Silence is an absolute luxury when you have a 3 year old so I’m making the most of it.

Sending love to all.

Lighting my bedroom on this dark rainy morning.

Good morning sisters. Lovely to hear how you're all enjoying Christmas in your own ways. Speakout and Twilight, so happy to hear you both you enjoyed a peaceful Christmas day with your loved ones. I hope anyone reading this whose day maybe didn't go as well as they hoped, is able to find some solace in the peace energy from this thread - come and join us by the fire 🔥

I too, had a lovely day yesterday with extended family, but craving some alone time now and looking forward to a quite morning at home. The DC are still fast asleep so the house is quiet, just me and the dog. I was given some new essential oils for Christmas so I'm looking online for new ideas for blends and potions!

Love to you all ❤️

Lovely to hear of the quiet moments and simple pleasures. Time with our nearest and dearest is of course precious and tending to our own needs feels essential within this. Being our own guardian and protector. I enjoyed reading this on a similar theme

^Grow the belief that you do know how to look after yourself, how to love yourself. Let the belief in you bloom, that you are loved; by you.
As that belief grows, imagine what it will do to your body as it starts to enter into the corners and edges of your bones, your heart and your gut.
Let yourself start to contemplate resting into the arms of the part of you who will protect and keep safe the sacred essence of who you are. Imagine a part of yourself like a warm, soft, brave, strong bear.
Powerful and loving; offering up medicine and courage to your very centre.
You have within you, all the tools you need, to grow love and kindness within the very roots of you.
You might just need to pull the tools out from the rubble, but they are there, waiting to be activated, waiting to be found.
You need to start to believe it’s within you, because it is.^
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• Words by Brigit Anna McNeill •
• Art by Lucy Campbell www.lupiart.com/ •

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Yashmis your post has made me cry. Those words are beautiful and so poignant xxx

Good morning Christmas Queens!

Welcome to all our newcomers, I'm sure you will find this thread as inspirational as I have.

Lovely to hear how you have been spending your time and still allowing some time for yourselves over this busy period. Hope you have all had wonderful celebrations with your loved ones.

@YashmisCrone - I was very interested to hear of your sighting of the shooting star as my dog woke me up extremely early on Christmas Eve morning to relieve herself in the garden. I always take the opportunity to look up at the night sky when i am awake in the wee small hours and I too saw a shooting star! ☄️ So magical!

I think this Christmas, thanks to this thread, I finally found the right balance of not overdoing the food and gifts shopping, social events and finding some time to nurture myself rather than frantically running around trying to please those who rarely appreciate it. This is life changing stuff and I thank each and every one of you for your input and wisdom. I will be sure to carry this ethos through the next year with me. ☯️

DH did brilliantly on the gifts this year. (not too difficult given that mine are the only presents he has responsibility for! ) I don't go in for gifts too much - I much prefer to give than to receive but it is nice to know he actually put some thought into it this year and bought something personal for me which I will very much treasure. It hasn't always been this way. Years of not being thought of at all, followed by small hints, followed by huge dropping hints like bricks has been a long drawn out process. After 21 years I think he might finally have figured out my likes and dislikes and realised that it's not the amount or size of the gift that matters to me, but the thought that has gone into it.

Today will be spent packing for a short trip with the family. We are heading to Cornwall for the next week and I'm looking forward to spending some time out in the countryside and at the beach with the dogs and then coming back to a roaring fire, warm drink and a good book. Bliss!

Namaste 🙏🏻

Good morning.

Woken up to heavy rain here, but had a night of restorative dreams, which has found my day start in a calm and optimistic frame of mind. littleninja I am glad you enjoyed christmas, what a good week you have to look forward to.
VioletCharlotte and TwilightPeace often those quiet times are the best. YashmisCrone what a beautiful piece of writing, so comforting and what a profound image too- of self love and soothing. I will hold that as I go about my day.

Woken up to a messy kitchen, was OHs turn to clear as I cooked, but he has sat drinking brandy and eating chocolates by the look of things instead.
My self care this morning is not to do it myself, nor even get annoyed at him, I will mention it and go about my day in a queen like way.
I have an order in this morning for 20 bottles of smudge spray from Finland, a private customer, so I will direct my focus into making those up- which is enjoyable, fills the room with soothing fragrance and I can do while sitting down drinking peppermint tea.

But first I need to get up and give myself my morning mini facial.
Far more important than emptying kitchen bins!

Have a wonderful day everyone.

Good afternoon,

I’m enjoying a ‘lazy’ day today- a reflective time, pottering, no plans = bliss ✨

Violet and speakout I’m glad the words resonated with you as they did with me. I think Brigit Anna McNeill writes so beautifully- I’ve only recently discovered her. She’s a foraging and wild medicine teacher and runs retreats too- I love the look of her work

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littleninja I love it that you saw a shooting star too! ☄️ Magic!

I think what we saw was part of the ursid meteor shower?

www.rmg.co.uk/discover/explore/ursid-meteor-shower-when-and-where-see-it-uk

I read this by Astrolger Rachel Lang about the significance of meteor showers:

Astrologically, meteor showers can represent several things. First of all, they’re cosmic dust, debris. They look like beautiful light displays from our perspective, but in reality, they are a type of storm that happens from the breakup of a comet. To understand the astrological significance of a meteor shower, we need to understand the significance of a comet. Comets are made up of ice, dust, and gasses. If we read that symbolically, we might say they represent our frozen emotions and collective fears surfacing for us to see and heal. Anything we have been ignoring or suppressing can no longer be ignored. To the ancients, a comet represented change, like an eclipse. Meteor showers symbolize beauty rising from ashes, they represent the spiritual insights and wisdom gained from looking deep within the shadows of ourselves and our world. They also invite us to create new ideas and beliefs. They’re like little bursts of aha moments”

I thought that was a lovely description, in line with the energy of the season. I also like the bear symbolism of ursid in that respect.

It’s so inspiring to read of the balance everyone has created and the commitment to sovereignty, honouring our own needs. Thank you sisters 🙏

Ex-witch now druid.

Good morning, I hope everyone is enjoying some restnow that the mood everywhere is calmer.
PhilomenaChristmasPie welcome, glad you could join us, there is always tea in the pot!

Just having a coffee blessed with self nurturing intention before a morning soak in the bath then a yoga class.
I hope this new moon is bringing a good energy to everyone.

Good afternoon,

And welcome Philomena, it’s good to have you here. I’d be interested to hear more about your path if you’re happy to share.

speakout thank you for the calm energy and positive intentions. I’m tuning into the new moon energy as we move towards a new decade, setting intentions and selecting metaphorical seeds to grow things in my life.

One thing I really enjoy about this path is harnessing the energy of the season, the moon phase, the day.... working in alignment with that and growing things over time. Resonates so much more for me than the drastic and IMO often unrealistic nature of traditions like New Years resolutions. I know they can be a useful tool for many so I’m not knocking them. For me the many cycles and phases of the year resonate more in terms of making changes. In the same theme I liked these thoughts on the medicine of the season.

I enjoyed being near the sea yesterday and the greyness of the day provided a comforting blanket of energy, just what I needed.

Good evening. My crown's been wobbling somewhat today. I'm feeling 'peopled out' and in desperate need of some alone time. I was feeling overwhelmed earlier at the thought of having to go out tonight, so made the decision to listen to my body and spend the afternoon sleeping. Feeling refreshed now, and rejuvenated after a shower with peppermint and lemon essential oils. Happily, tonight is the the last social event of the festive season, so I can look forward to a few days peace and quiet.

Yashmis thank you for sharing those beautiful pictures of the sea. I'm craving some sea air and will do my best to get down to the coast next week.

Philomema welcome 🙏

Lots of love to you all ❤️

Good evening.

Had some down time too today, which felt good, and took up some food and old blankets to our local cat shelter.
Just pacing myself today, family is visiting tomorrow, but I don't really have much inclination for it. At least it is only for lunch and they will be gone by 4pm.
The house should be a bit tidier and a bit cleaner, but I have no inclination for that either!

I will take myself off to the woods or the gym in the morning I think!

Good morning.

Another peaceful night here, apart from wind howling outside.

Visitors today, need to do a little housework, OH will do all the cooking, but I will sort out candles, table decorations, and do a last hoover and wash floor etc. So about an hour's housework.
I will load myself up with obsidian and put out some protection crystals I have been given this year, I am in a place of self guardianship right now, and I could do without too many intrusions!

Good morning,

Violet, I hope your night went well and that you have a day of no plans ahead of you! I know that peopled out feeling, it seems to rise quite quickly in me these days!

speakout I love the energy of your self guardianship and if I were a relative I wouldn’t want to mess with it Hope the family dinner goes smoothly and that you feel protected by the stones.

I have family visiting to do today and things to take back to the shops. I’ll be using stones for protection too and keeping it short. I’m feeling protective of my energy too. I saw this picture which summed up my current state of mind nicely.

I had a lovely salt bath last night with sweet orange, geranium and frankincense oils, lit by a special candle. Very comforting and restorative.

Still contemplating ‘seeds’ to plant for growth in the lighter months. It feels good to use the shadows for planning and intention building. I might do some planting spell work alongside this. I like a physical manifestation of intention. Growth of seeds feels very powerful to me

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Good afternoon all.

I wanted to share pictures from my solo walk to the sea today to clear my head. It was cold but lovely, and the waves ended up really choppy which made me feel peaceful.
The roar of the waves was so loud, it reminded me how powerful nature is.

I found a couple of shells for my altar which was nice. I’m hoping they will invoke feelings of strength and peace, they same feelings I get when I’m by the sea.

One of the pictures is of a painting that caught my eye while I was in the art gallery of the Belfast museum yesterday. I commented on how real it looked, more like a photo than a painting. When I arrived home there was a butterfly fluttering around my kitchen, exactly like the one in the picture. How unusual to see a butterfly at this time of the year!

I’m going through difficult family stuff at the minute, I’m wondering if the butterfly was a sign to not be afraid of change and growth.

Anyway, I hope you all have a lovely Sunday whatever you are doing.

Self-guardianship and feeling 'people'd out' seems to be a bit of theme for us all at the moment. It's good to hear how you are all managing this and protecting your energy. It's all too easy to feel drained and exhausted by it all at this time of year.

I'm feeling so much better today now that all the social with friends and family are over (which sounds awful when written down!) I live my friends and nearly always enjoy myself once I'm there, I just get so anxious beforehand. I've been walking in the forest today and trying to make sense of why this is. Something to work on next year!

It's a beautiful day here, very mild and sunny. I've got my washing on the line and the windows open to let some fresh air in, and uplifting peppermint and lemon essential oils in my diffuser.

Twighight thank you for sharing those pictures and glad you enjoyed your walk. There's something about being by the coast that makes everything seem better. Sorry to hear you're going through a difficult time. Butterflies always represent change or transformation for me.

Yashmis I've been thinking about planting seeds too. Lots of ideas bubbling.