Any Witches Here? Part 14.

[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.

Bizarrely that was with my phone 🤣 and although I'm a photographer by trade the moon has always eluded me - I think it was luck!

It took me ages to get to sleep last night but was almost as bright as daylight here too - so beautiful and silvery.

speakout I'm glad you slept well and Violet I hope your moon hangover () eases soon.

I’m just stopping in briefly to say hi and top up the teapot and thank you as ever for the collective calm energy of this thread.

I so enjoyed soaking up all your anxiety remedies. I’m going through a very anxious period and I’ve resolved to incorporate more grounding practices.

Interesting reading about the full moon too. I slept awfully last night and I’ve been so worried about everything that’s going on at the moment, and what it means for the future, but it’s doing me no good. I’m taking a break from all news and Twitter etc., I’m sure I’ll survive.

So pleased many of you have got to the sea! I agree wild swimming seems to call middle age women. I go with my mum who, until just a few months ago, would barely paddle. Suddenly she’s called! It’s wonderful to watch.

I hope everyone has felt some positive benefit from the full moon.
I cleansed a lot of crystals, setting them on a ledge with an open window, all bright and alive!
The moon has brought me some release and I feel an ease of tension I have been carrying for a while.
I managed to get to a charity shop today, our shops re-opened just yesterday, so it was a delight to have a browse.
Off for another early night tonight, sleep is one of my favourite pastimes!

Due to a lot of unexpected events that have kept me quite busy and distracted, I forgot the "pink moon" but I had all this nervous energy, I was making rapid fire decisions and mapping out a new fence...just loads of ideas and spark and emotions!

Late that night, my daughter came running in my bedroom, "we need to see the PINK MOON!" Alas, it was cloudy, but all my energies suddenly made sense.

@speakout I’m glad you were able to work with the full moon, from the pictures I’ve seen it looked like a beautiful one. Did you find anything on your charity shop expedition?

@Delphinium20 oh what a wonderful daughter! I forgot again, ooops. Like you I’ve been a bundle of nervous energy lately, I think (hope!) it peaked. I felt on the edge of a panic attack, horrid experience.

I’m just listening to a podcast on grounding - a fascinating topic! Does anyone else do it regularly? I started making an effort to get outside barefoot since early on in the year when I watched the earthing documentary (and was at a low and desperate ebb).

I make sure I walk along the beach before swimming now, then lie on a rock afterwards (if it’s warm enough). This was my view the other day - I’m so enjoying the suns energy at the moment. I used to be very wary of it, but actually it’s so nourishing and revitalising. Nature really is the best isn’t it?

Delphinium20 I think you are right, these astrological events have an impact whether we are aware of them or not! How lovely of your DD to remind you.
moregarlic that's a powerful photograph, full of juice.
I ground regularly, that can take many forms.
Yes nature is the best!
My intention today is "venerate". When I allow these intentions to gently land all sorts of unusual words seem to appear! Not always the intenions I think I need, but by the end of the day usually turn out to be perfect!!

The moon was lovely. I just go out and star gaze a little.
I am dreadfully tired today, and tummy ache. I have been really physically busy since last Friday, and needed that at a low ebb. But now I feel the oter way...I need to rest!
The house is a mess and full of dust, but I just feel it's not for me today.
I feel quite full of grief again, and I just want to...I don't know what. Loll about. I actually feel I need to sleep.
I have meditation and yoga to do yet, and a kitchen full to clean after all the children have gone to school.
I think I am going to do a tarot spread for myself today. I got some new decks and feel like getting to know them.
I have decorating to do, but that's too physical right now. And a book to edit, but that can wait. I've just sent my other to my editor, so things are in motion.
I feel all inbetweeny.
It's kind of odd.
But meditation - if I can stay awake! - will be good for that.
I will go back and have a good read soon too. This week is just running away from me. Where does the time go?

Spiritwriter you are very wise to recognise what you need right now. Rest is just as important as action. I often think these are the times our limbic system, our subcouncious is working very hard to process and set things in order.
And letting us know that we need to slow down in order to do that work.

I hope you have a restorative day.

Thank you @speakout
Yes, I agree. It may look like 'nothing', but it isn't x
Have a good day too x

Soft rain has been soaking the earth here for the past few days. The first showers brought the arrival petrichor after such a long dry spell, so I ran outside in bare feet to feast on the fragrance.
The plants are welcoming such a drenching and I even felt confident enought to put out some of my seedings to start hardening in the mild damp conditions.
A mercury neptune sextile today will heighten out instincts, make us acutely sensitive to situations and others and set our spidey senses tingling, a good time for scrying, tarot or rune reading, or any activity wheer we need to see deeply.
Wishing everyone an enchanted day.

@speakout by grounding I meant earthing, as opposed to more general grounding activities. Have you heard much about it? It sounds like but increasingly there’s a lot of science to back it up. Interesting documentary on YouTube called The Earthing Movie if anyone is interested.

@Spiritwriter it sounds like you needed a much needed rest. I can’t remember who said it to be earlier in the thread, but it’s a brave and powerful thing to rest in a society that would have you push push push.

Have a peaceful day all!

moregarlic yes, I do earthing regularly- I also do a lot of grounding activities too. Sorry for any confusion!!

Thank you for the energy forecast speakout- very helpful to be aware of. I agree with the earlier conversation, we feel these influences whether we are aware of them or not. I loved your account of running outside barefooted to breathe in the petrichor.

A couple of days out of synch but I also loved your moon picture hilarious, and the sky from your rock moregarlic, thank you for sharing them with us.

So good to hear of everyone who is intuitively following what they need, from rest to earthing, soaking up solar energy and growth magic. You’re all very inspiring, thank you.

Thank you all. It feels so supportive in here.
I still feel like resting. Took an hour and a half walk today in the woods. Just took my time touching trees, listening, letting my dog take his time collecting all his smells.

I feel like curling up on the settee now though until school. There are twinges of guilt in there though, so I don't know how powerful I really am with that!

But my stomach keeps hurting so I'm not pushing myself.

It's good to come in here. I have the fire on now and my book out.

I keep welling up with grief. I wish I could still do things with my mum. She was my best friend, my favourite companion. My mum. But then...I try to not stay in that wish. Because it brings so much pain.

I don't know if I do earthing.
There are times I even wonder if I am a witch. Do you know what I mean? But...I am me. And that is all. On my path.

I think I'll choose some oils to burn, and really delve into my book.

Still needing rest. So tired!

Wishing you all a day of goodness x

There are twinges of guilt in there though, so I don't know how powerful I really am with that! you cannot completely undo generations of conditioning just because you decide you want to without lingering odd twinges (especially as society still very much drives towards constant busy) You are doing just fine if you do make time. I would be surprised and impressed if you didn't have twinges of guilt.

There are times I even wonder if I am a witch. Do you know what I mean? Yes. and when i decide i am going to pretend I am not, the universe hands me one giant slap to the head to knock some sense into me to stop denying what is so obvious to many before I accepted it.

I have been throwing my energies into everything that i need to get through life atm. Forgive me, there is little left over. So my contribution is the sky. A pretty view. A hug from nature.

Can I come in and pour a cup of tea (mine’s a builder’s brew too - no sugar)? Been reading along for a few days.

I don’t label myself a witch but I’m definitely a bit witchy - I’m very into cooking and being out in nature and making (I knit and I love how a knitted garment physically wraps you in the memories of its making, eg I’ve got a jumper I made from one that my grandma knitted my dad in his teens, and love wearing it and knowing the wool’s run through her hands then mine via dad’s growing up - feels a very physical, concrete connection to family and time), and have started gardening this year which it turns out is actual magic. I keep an eye on what the moon’s up to (for garden jobs and just as a way of marking time outside the stress of clock-time), and use runes in a sort of personal intuitive way (and with a certain amount of keeping it quiet because of them being co-opted by white supremacist facist fuckwits in the 20th century, and to some extent now as well. I want no association with that - and don’t think the runes do either.). Am I ok to be here as a sort of agnostic? Feels such a sane space.

Are you planting by the moon Verbena87? I know that it is a big Appalacian tradition, and it is one that is on my list to delve into more, but I have to garden when i have time otherwise nothing would happen at all unfortunately.
Agree about the issues of the heathen traditions being co-opted. I saw a book recommendation video which included a book which did cover many of the ways that this had been done. It got put on my some day list. Shout if you want the title it looked interesting.

The others are wise and calm. I am the chaotic one with rambling thoughts and issues with words. The pot is always on.

Spiritwriter

Hope you are feeling a bit more rested today.
Verbena87 a wram welcome, you don't need any labels to join our tribe, I am an atheist, and feel quite at home here!
I love your description of your jumber, how the energy of loved ones is entwined within the wool.
I imagine it must be a very comforting garment to wear, wrapped in such love.
I too feel that energies can be tied up in clothing- here are quite a few laundry witches amongst us, cleansing and firing up our clothes as they flap on the line!
I was watching the new video from Kelly Anne Maddox yesterday and agreed with a lot she was saying about sacred acts- and everyday magic.
There is an idea that we need to be doing "witchy" things in order to validate our magical practice, this "othering" isn't really accurate though.
When we choose a magical path then we imbue our craft into mundane things- laundry, cooking, helping someone with a job application, tending to grazed knees soothing songs to help a child sleep, a kind word to someone is a supermarket. This is all magic. It isn't all about the wizzbang, top form spellwork, trances, ceremony.
It's about making tea, nourishing ourselves and others, taking time to listen, validating others.
All works of enchantment!!

Welcome @Verbena87 (and if that's your birth year we are close in age ) I'm also a bit waffly, and relatively new to these threads but have found them a wonderful space for restful, like-minded and interesting talk - I learn something nearly every time I drop in 💙

On magic, I agree with what Hills and speakout said, it's the everyday magic more than the high ceremony that pulls me. And being so busy in modern life I feel being able to incorporate magic into our everyday is important. Have you guys read A Spell In The Wild by Alice Tarbuck? I'm working my way through it month by month and it's beautiful and fits this approach well.

I have often wondered whether the title 'witch' is exactly the right one for me, but it fits well enough for my individual path. And like others, apparently it seems obvious to other people that that is what I am

Hills you made me snort with that comment about the universe delivering a slap - I know exactly what you mean!

Blessed Belatine dear sisters and a wicked Walpurgisnacht

Apparently it wasn't appreciated though as my hair has been so static today it has almost been stood on end. And even water has "zapped" with electrical jolts.

More confirmation at work that the work for long term job change is for the good, but at least the shoving out the door by those that feel they know better has slowed down because i have actually done things like starting to write my cv and job hunt
This week has been a better week for the work situation.

The course stuff is pretty intense atm.
And i discovered moths this week. Which being a knitter and a lover of wool and natural fibres etc means my to do list has exploded for the weekend. But this is probably another universe shove in the right direction because my room is long over due a deep deep clean and cleanse. I am just waiting for the universe to send me a nice man to help with the heavy lifting /furniture moving actually I am not but the thought amuses me, i am perfectly happy hoiking stuff about and not sure i want another body getting in the way right now

I may or may not be back this weekend. SO much mundane to attend. So I shall wish you all time to just be, a little bit of magic and a nice dose of calm for the weekend. Have a lovely one my friends.

Hills I did set out gardening by the moon, but with a toddler and a teaching job it’s a case of do a bit whenever I can here too. The book sounds interesting, let me know if you remember the details.

speakout I think cloth is a rich repository of memory and connection, I think it’s because it has so much to do with touch - worked through hands and worn on a body or slept in. And yes to the value of everyday moments of tending/care/connection over and above dramatic or mystical stuff.

Hilarious yes my birth year and I’ve not long finished ‘a spell in the wild’ - really enjoyed it too. There are some lovely interviews with Alice Tarbuck on podcasts, linked to a book festival. She seems an excellent human.

Thanks all for the welcome.

And if crafted for a love one, that love and caring is included in the process of the making. I sometimes knit other intentions like protection into items

Yes definitely. I am rubbish at knitting for others though - really I tend to only make clothes for myself and sometimes my son. So maybe they are protective/expressive too.