Any Witches Here? Part 11

[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.

I am loving the strength of our solidarity and positive spirit on this thread.
It is comorting that so many of us feel optimistic about the future.
YashmisCrone those words really resonate, Persephone can teach us a great deal about our relationship between light and dark,, beautiful art work too,.
Elphame I can relate to your life- Like many here I am an introvert too, I can go many days without seeing anyone outside my home- it's the way I like it!.
Working from home too my life will not be as affected as some.
As long as we still have internet and electricity. I'm off to brave the supermarket eary today, then a day at home working and cooking.
I hope your surgery goes OK on Friday- good that it will happen while hospitals are still working as normal.

Oops typo! should be "comforting", sorry blanktimes.

Good morning everyone,

Checking in with my lit candle ( it's 8 am here in France) about to get on my yoga mat while the rest of the household is still quiet. A sort of micro retreat!

I've enjoyed reading the posts from the last few days. Such wisdom and strength! Thank you to all who have shared your insights or posted those found elsewhere. They are so very welcome, inspiring and comforting.

Like everyone else on the planet I am learning to adjust to the new normal. My thoughts are increasingly turning to 'after'. I don't want things to go back to how they were. I hope that this awakening, understanding and desire for a new dawn will spread far and wide and consolidate into concrete changes in the way our socities function. That our individual will for change becomes truly collective, effective and lasting. I'm wondering what I can do, now and in the future, to facilitate this.

Spring blessings to all x

Hi All,
I don't normally post on these threads but I love reading along every day. Just wanted to let you know how grounding and calming I'm currently finding it to be able to read all your posts. Thank you 😊

r0sebuds my father in law lives in France, were supposed to be staying with him for a week soon but now cant....

Good morning sisters,
I’m just getting ready for my day’s appointments, by phone/videocall. I have the patio doors open, the sky is grey, the air feels fresh, primroses resplendent throughout the lawn and the camilia (?) is in bloom. I can feel the equinox energy gathering as the balance prepares to shift.

Later I’ll prepare some lemon, sage, garlic and ginger (maybe some rosemary for good measure!) to be steeped in honey in a Kilner jar to boost immunity and help soothe any symptoms that may come. It feels good to do something proactive like this, weave a bit of good health magic.

speakout your words made me think of this, linked to the home retreat article I shared the other day

www.vox.com/future-perfect/2020/3/18/21181644/coronavirus-covid-19-mindfulness-meditation-anxiety

I think there’s a great deal we can do with our collective energy to create a haven of peace and calm at this time, there to be drawn on through testing times.

rosebuds I love to think of our connection stretching across different countries and also the idea of a ‘micro retreat’, I’m going to make sure I weave them throughout the days. I also think there’s power in labelling small practices as nourishing/nurturing. If we tell ourselves what we are doing is a gift then I think it strengthens it’s impact.

Lovely to see you IndigoSkye, I’m glad you can feel the grounding energy, which of course you’re adding to energetically by engaging in it every day

I hope everyone can find the space to access the peace that is within us all today

Oh I am just loving reading all the other threads, love the calmness and snd solidarity. How eloquently words are put down, not my strong point, but am really enjoying reading what I’m thinking and feeling from the greater interpreters out there. Really like to shop at local farm shops etc, haven’t been inside the big T for years argh not my favourite places, but has backfired a bit as don’t have much stock, thank you for the warm welcome

Would;t it be lovely if we all lived in the same street?

Tea break!

After a mostly wasted morning spent sorting out various PC problems and an afternoon spent catching up instead of being outside in the garden, I have come downstairs for a much needed cuppa and had a lovely surprise: my long-awaited Everyday Witch tarot cards have finally arrived! They were a birthday gift to myself which I ordered well over a month ago and I had almost given up hope of them ever arriving.

I am stupidly excited at finally getting my hands on them. I have had a quick flick through and will have to exert a lot of will power not to open the book until I've finished my day's work. I am really enjoying your daily readings by the way, VioletCharlotte. Thank you for doing this.

indigo and user... Please do join in, even if it's just to say hello! As a recent delurker I'm glad I made the leap. But just reading is good too, and I know the energy carries far beyond the thread.

Tigerseye, such a shame you won't be able to make it over to see your FIL. All this quarantining is really tough. I'm used to not seeing my family for months at a time, and so look forward to the school holidays when we can get back home. I haven't been back since October and am hoping with all my heart that I can get back sometime in the summer at least as April doesn't look likely now.

YashmisCrone I love your suggestion of mindfully naming our acts of nurturing, however small, as a way to acknowledge and magnify their significance and benefits. Just a small tweak in our perception can change so much.

RoseandIris yes, wouldn't it be lovely!

OK, back to the grindstone.

*petspective

*perspective, even!

Just dipping in to bask in the positive energy of our tribe here.
Everything shutting down - yoga classes, DDS dance school, schools, Universities, Leisure Centres.
DD 's dance school is making preparations to have internet classes for students- not ideal, but parents are supportive , so DD has been filming the next set of classes for the next week., and enthusiastic about that-as are the parents.
Been making doughballs this afternoon with DD the small ones that pizza restaurants sometimes serve.
It feels good to work with yeast, knead, get messy, we baked a huge pile and garlic oil for dipping to have with dinner.

r0sebuds those Tarot cards are lovely how exciting to have such a beautiful new deck!
YashmisCrone and the world keeps turning. There is a cacophony of birdsong outside right now, heralding in springtime It is a joy to hear. Their world keeps turning….

Flying visit, broomstick's airborne,

On our last thread, a few people were interested in EFT, I've just heard about a free app that has a some free guided sessions, plus one especially for coronavirus.

More details

www.thetappingsolution.com/blog/releasing-coronavirus-anxiety/

See you all later

Dropping back in after a little break, reading and catching up...

Well I'm isolating, although 99.99999% sure I don't have it. But started with a dry cough on Monday, accompanied by a burning feeling in my chest. It's funny as I wouldn't think to not go to work like this usually, but obviously following the guidelines. Looks as though I will be working from home imminently as well.

The DC have been isolating with me and will now be off school, so I'm planning lessons for them. It has been lovely having the time with them and has really been helping my anxiety, to throw myself in to being 'teacher'. Although me being me, lessons have included meditations, making moon gazing hares out of clay, audiobooks about a witch and reading Luna Moon Hare 😊

I hope things change for the better once we come through these times. It has made me appreciate all my usual privileges and freedoms so much more. I hope the culture of nastiness we have had in recent years disappears as a result of this, that people can take care of one another more and make an effort to work together. Shame it has taken something so hideous for people to consider these things.

Take care and keep safe everyone 🌟

Ostara blessings to everyone.
InTheTempest I hope you are feeling better soon.

I am finding this thread such an oasis of calm and hope in a world of confusion and uncertainty. It is giving me strength and reason. Thank you friends.

I feel so thankful for the internet right now. Allowing people to stay connected, allowing people to work, giving us the opportunity to share.
My DD is filming dance classes every day right now for her students to maintain practice, my yoga teacher has messaged me to say our classes will continue via zoom. My OH is working flat out at work right now get hundreds of clients set up so they can continue working from home.
I will be clearing an area of my dining room to turn into a yoga corner.

Around the world thoughts shall fly
In the twinkling of an eye.

Mother Shipton 1448.

oh what a morning.

I have been feeling a little disconnected from my witchy side.Too many other demands on me have affected that I think. But as an empath the energy flying around right now is hitting me hard and I am struggling a little to shield myself. I do feel intuitively that is because I NEED to absorb this energy so I can then release it safely, and it is allowing others to cope.

This morning I picked up my Everyday Witch Oracle pack. I got the Earth Magic card. To reconnect with the earth, to do some meaningful ritual today, to go for a walk and pick up a stone and study the marks on it.
Ok, I think. I will do this after the school run.

I get in the car, I have the radio set to a local community station. I wonder why they are playing a song by a friend (it's just not commercial at all and there is no reason my local station would have even heard of them) when I realise that all by itself my phone has opened itunes and as the phone is connected to my car via bluetooth it is coming out of my stereo. (Livia and The Elementals, the album is called Journey of an Empath!)
I'm a little freaked out by this but then realise the Universe is shouting at me, because I have not been listening.

I get home, I go upstairs to do something and as I pass through the door into my bedroom, something on the floor catches my eye. A stone/crystal. It is one of mine, I picked it up off a beach. But it usually sits in a bowl and I don't know how it has got on the floor. And the fact it was resting on the threshold between the doors (a one inch strip) seems very important.

I am going to have a ritual bath in a little while. I will have my youngest son home from school from Monday so this will be my last chance for a completely peaceful and uninterupted soak until - well...we don't know when do we?

Equinox Blessings friends

May you feel a sense of balance amongst these crazy times and take comfort in the turn of the wheel. This is Gaia’s time to replenish- watch the power with which she does so!

I share the hope of others here that this time will be marked by a reset for us humans, reconsidering the respect we show Mother Earth as she shows us how she can heal when we all take a step back 🌍

user1497873278 it’s lovely to hear how you’re enjoying reading the threads, there’s something so comforting in the resonance of like minds isn’t there.

r0sebuds I hope you had some time to enjoy your cards last night. What perfect timing for their arrival! I agree that reframing our experiences on both macro and micro levels is such a powerful tool. I have a feeling it’s a skill we’re going to get a chance to finely tune over the coming months. We’ll all be expert thought shifters!

BlankTimes thank you for the tapping link- it’s on my list of things to try, along with yoga, growing different types of veg, reading that pile of books...

Tempest I like what’s on your curriculum it’s good to see the gifts this enforced shift in focus is giving us all. I think we need to celebrate them. I hope you’re feeling better too

speakout I agree with the oasis of calm we have created here. I’m feeling very proud of us about that actually! I know we will all have fears, concerns and worries, uncertainty but the way we connect here in such a positive way is and will continue to be a solace from it all. It is a powerful thing we have created, and again I am feeling much gratitude for you for starting our moot and for everyone who makes it the wonderful place it is. And a big yes to internet gratitude! I’m looking at ways to use it to make it possible to continue my work and to connect with loved ones.

queenrollo wow! What a morning indeed, some powerful energy at work for you! I hope you enjoy your soak and are able to release some of what you absorbed. I felt it yesterday in the shops (trying to source the basics for people who are self isolating) the fear is building and those of us who are particularly absorbent to this need to make sure we have effective ways to release it as you say. More skills that will be finely honed through this experience I think!

Like many others I’m facing the next few months of no contact with vulnerable loved ones- their wellbeing in other’s hands. I am feeling such gratitude for all those who are having to carrying on and look after our most vulnerable and also keep us all with essential services- NHS staff, care workers, school staff, those whose work helps us get the supplies we need. These people are the backbone of our society and should be honoured as such. Quite a shift in perspective for many I think. Huge thanks to everyone who is doing this x

I am so excited- I saw my first butterfly today- a peacock! Such a special sight!!

Wonderful to come here and find your expression of joy speakout, that is exciting!

I’ve just come across this. Haven’t listened to the guided journey yet but like the idea

www.jonathanweekes.co.uk/blog/2020/3/20/you-cant-stop-the-spring

YashmisCrone that looks so interesting.

And serves to put us in our place. A huge wake up call for humans, but other species don't care.
The world will continue in a fecund way with or without us. In fact probably better off without Sapien!!

Also, I know we’ve shared this between us several times before but just in case anyone’s in need of feeling love today..

YashmisCrone

Thank you - a perfect reminder- and one of my absolute go to places.

Yes we’re the faulty link in the chain aren’t we speakout. I don’t know who we think we are and I’m hoping this will be a mass humbling experience/wake up call to change our ways.

I saw this earlier on a similar vein to the discussion we’ve had here. I thought it was powerful (if I replaced the mention of ‘god’ with Gaia!)