Any Witches Here?- Part 17.

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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..
This is the 17th thread- anyone looking for a deep dive into juicy magical topics may like to browse previous threads.....

It is a long list!!

Part 1 //www.mumsnet.com/Talk/philosophy_religion_spirituality/3241689-Any-witches-here?pg=1
Part 2
//www.mumsnet.com/Talk/philosophy_religion_spirituality/3338025-Any-Witches-Here-Part-2?pg=1
Part 3
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Part 4
//www.mumsnet.com/Talk/philosophy_religion_spirituality/3404406-Any-Witches-Here-Part-4-Edited-by-MNHQ?pg=1
Part5
//www.mumsnet.com/Talk/philosophy_religion_spirituality/3437092-Any-Witches-Here-Part-5?pg=1
Part 6 //www.mumsnet.com/Talk/philosophy_religion_spirituality/3482023-Any-Witches-Here-Part-6?pg=1
Part 7 //www.mumsnet.com/Talk/philosophy_religion_spirituality/3520269-Any-Witches-Here-Part-7?pg=1
Part 8 //www.mumsnet.com/Talk/philosophy_religion_spirituality/a3568622-Any-Witches-Here-Part-8?pg=1
Part 9 //www.mumsnet.com/Talk/philosophy_religion_spirituality/3637696-Any-Witches-Here-Part-9?pg=1
Part 10
//www.mumsnet.com/Talk/philosophy_religion_spirituality/3726266-Any-Witches-Here-Part-10
Part 11
//www.mumsnet.com/Talk/philosophy_religion_spirituality/3850635-Any-Witches-Here-Part-11
Part 12
//www.mumsnet.com/Talk/philosophy_religion_spirituality/3997761-Any-Witches-Here-Part-12
Part 13 //www.mumsnet.com/Talk/philosophy_religion_spirituality/4116107-Any-Witches-here-Part-13
Part 14www.mumsnet.com/Talk/philosophy_religion_spirituality/4213962-Any-Witches-Here-Part-14
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www.mumsnet.com/talk/philosophy_religion_spirituality/4435233-Any-Witches-Here-Part-16?page=40&reply=118807589

Thank you. And definitely up for some better days.

Happy New Year to you all! I hope the new year will bring peace and happiness.

Happy New Year sisters.
I hope this coming year brings many joys.

Sorry I haven't caught up with the thread, work is hectic.

Fighting the usual New Year Blues and gone back to bed with coffee,toast and cat. It will pass,it always does. Have stopped trying to fight it and now just accept it until it lifts. All will be well sisters. Love being on this thread. Thank you.
Blessed be.

Happy New Year all!

@AllThingsServeTheBeam welcome from me, too.

I'm girding myself ahead of the return to normality: work as well as the degree I'm studying (I returned to HE after 30 years last year and it's a full time course with 8 weekly contact hours).
The business I run with DH lost a regular customer who's circumstances have changed so we need to recover that revenue, which means an exhaustive process to fill the gaps. We also noticed our website has fallen off the web so that needs fixing.

I'd really love to spend my days pottering, reading and not having to do too much - rather like this break has been.

Blessings for the day ahead ✨

I am sorry to hear of the low energies around.
queenrollo this must be a worrying time, I hope you are able to find calm while you wait for your appointment.
EmmaAgain22 caring can be a grind- I was carefree for a large chunk of my early adulthood, and was late to become a mother, my kids are grown, but I am still a carer. I see no immediate end to that, so try to make things as easy as they can be and take all the support I can get to keep me afloat
MarieIVanArkleStinks I am sorry for your loss. Like you I have fond memories of ecstatic times with an ex, we spent a year backpacking in SE Asia. in the 1990s. We were so in love, but serious circumstances led us to split. In the end it was me who caused the break up- even though I was still madly in love with him.
I often wonder what he is doing now.
Do you have to have your MIL visit? She sounds very disrespectful.
AllThingsServeTheBeam welcome to the thread, I am glad you have posted.

I am just having some tea as I work, after having three weeks off it feels really good to be working again. I am enjoying every moment of it.
I was playing this song in my car on the way to yoga yesterday and our instructor said a few lines at the end of our practice- one of these coincidences in life.
May the long time sun
Shine upon you
All love surround you
And the pure light
Within you
Guide your way on

This song lifts me.
I tried to post a youtube link, but doesn't work.
Anyone interested in the song- it's Snatam Kaur Long Time Sun

Happy new year sisters!

Sorry I dropped off - tested positive for covid on solstice, proceeded to have an emotional breakdown at missing solstice celebrations (my coven of three is split between here and Scotland so it's rare we get in person time all together) and I'd been stupidly working mad hours for months and saving all my joy for the festive period.

And then although I did manage Christmas with mum and gran, I had a single day and then went down with food poisoning, so have only just surfaced and starting to feel better.

Have not done any of my usual lovely new year rituals and was very fed up, but today has brought a gentle start (am still reading and journalling in bed) and feeling much more myself.

@queenrollo sending hugs, mum's been on that pathway a couple of times, I know it's so scary but it's better to check it than not. We're here if you need us 💙

Welcome @AllThingsServeTheBeam, the kettle is on and the fire is roaring!

I'm feeling cheated of my rest time, my pottering to sort the house out and my planning, but also inspired to create much better boundaries this coming year and try to balance income generation with actually living, too. I'm so lucky to be able to do what I love every day but I may have slightly overwhelmed myself with what I've taken on, so a bit of paring back of some of my freelance work so I can focus on the businesses that are my own is necessary.

I hope you are all ok - heading back to catch up properly because it's been ages! Have a lovely gentle, magical start to 2023 and I hope it brings good things for us all.

Happy New Year sisters. Sorry to hear some of you have been unwell or struggling with caring responsibilities. I've been thinking a lot recently about how much more challenging life becomes as you get older... health issues, menopause, adult DC, parents getting older, more senior roles/ responsibility at work...and how joyless life can become if we allow it. One of the intentions I set at the winter solstice was to bring more joy into my life, so this year I intend to throw off the shackles of middle age and start enjoying life again!

I went to the gym for a good work out this morning (making the most of the quiet as next week it'll be rammed!), followed by a long dog walk. I've just had a long shower and washed my hair and about to start getting ready to go and see my friend who has just moved house.

Speakout one of my yoga teachers always plays the long time sing at the end of class, I love it too.

Allthingsservethebeam welcome, I'm glad you found us 😊

Hilariousnamehere sorry you've been unwell and were unable to get together with your coven of three. My evening with my little group didn't go ahead either. Sometimes, I think we just try and cram too much in before Christmas, I hope you manage to all get some time together in the near future.

Ahh @VioletCharlotte I'm sorry yours didn't either! I hope not for illness reasons 🤞love your intention of joy though. Not fixed on my words for the year yet but joy is a contender for me too!

To clarify my food poisoning episode wasn't from Christmas, that should have said single day out 😂 went for dinner & panto and that felled me!

I think you're right and we do try and squidge in way too much - the three of us are on writing retreat with the others from last year in March so not too long to wait which is nice.

If I could just get on top of the endless chaos that is my house in the meantime that would help 😂 definitely a day for household magic today (but no laundry, right?)

hilarious oh lordy, the state of my flat.

I'm so tired today, I actually checked when full moon is, but it's not till 5th. I sort of knew that. I can't really cope with caffeine, does anyone find any herbal teas good as a pick me up?

I'm not usually this tired unless it's full moon. I'm never busy over Xmas either.

I really hope tomorrow is better or I'll be back into work stuff with the flat looking the same.

i don't usually listen to yoga music unless I'm doing yoga, but I really like Nataraja by Jai Uttal and Ben Leinbach for relaxation, and some of their other music.

i'm going to do some stretching before bed. I'm finding it hard to predict energy levels at the mo. I have no idea if I'll wake up bouncy or completely knackered.

I hear a little bit of chanting is good for an energy lift but today I didn't even think to do it. If you drew a cartoon of me, it would be a cavernous yawn surrounded by hair (I will actually draw that at some point)!

Forgot to say - NC - Was EmmaAgain22!

Just posting to say hello, and that I am still here. I read these posts everyday and light the 8 o'clock candle if I can. My mental health is very poor at the moment, and I wish everyone well who is struggling or unwell. I wish for a better year than last year for everyone. xxx

Hi Probably and thank you
I hope things improve for you.

Probablymagrat sending positive energy today. Many of us here are touched by MH issues either personal experience or someone we love.
You are with friends here who understand and give support.

It is the last day of the holidays for us, OH back at work tomorrow- I think we will both be glad of that!
I enjoy january and the slow soft build up to Imbolc. I may plan a meal if that feels right, change my altar and some decorations.
Some lovely recipe ideas here- gathervictoria.com/2016/01/20/midwinter-feast-of-light-reviving-the-magical-foods-of-imbolc/
I was too late for planting much last year, it wasn't until May that I started thinking about it, and by then it was too late.
This year I want to plant seeds and stones I find in my food.
I had great success with cumin, fennel and chilli last year, but it will be fun to see the results- which I guess will be unpredictable- a little chaos magic!

If anyone is interested Adriene starts a new 30 day yoga journey on youtube, called Center.
Completely free, with a new video every day for a month- she is lovely teacher and the course is suitable for beginners.

Emma i have a lovely elderflower and strawberry one which i get from sainsburys (its an own brand) that i find gives me a pick me up when needed.
I rely on caffiene too much which means the coffee just makes me more tired so that tea is my go to when i try to drop the coffee. That and a few of the green teas with flowers or fruit.

Will try to come back and read through the thread to comprehend properly later. It is chaotic around here atm. Sorry

It's so cold today, an icy frosting making the landscape so beautiful.

I am looking for diary suggestions.
A dear friend gave me one last year- The Willow Tree diary which I have loved.
I am looking at etsy, there are so many beautiful diaries.
Any suggestion?

Are you looking for a witchy/magical one? Astrological one? Day per page? Week per page? Fancy month and week layout?

There really are so so so many pretty ones.

Are you looking for a witchy/magical one? Astrological one?

Yes to all of those. One week over two pages would be best..

Here is hoping for good things for everyone on this thread in 2023. January is a good month for me. The energy feels as though it's lifting, and I look forward to watching the days draw out a little at a time and to the coming of Imbolc.

I'm back to an (admittedly) lighter teaching load this month, which will feel odd, but much more like normality returning. More strikes look as though they are looming, though. There has been nothing but upheaval for years!

@speakout - your road trip sounds wonderful. I married ex full of hope - we had ideas in our minds that we would travel and up sticks - he'd grown up in the US and been around the world so it didn't seem like too much of a pipe dream. He was a handsome man and had lived this interesting life: I fell for him in a big way thinking we'd have so many adventures to go on and things to talk about and .... we just couldn't communicate. Not about the real things: our feelings, our needs. We had barely been married a year before the reality set in - I'd lived my life under the roof of a father I didn't (and felt I could never) even know and I simply couldn't face the same as my future. We were quite young. I think each of us had an idea of the other that wasn't founded on reality.

Re MiL - no, I don't have to have her visit. DH maintains the relationship whilst I step back, keeping as much of a distance as basic respect will allow. I think I reached my limit on Thursday. At present I'm mindful simply to remove myself from the situation entirely: I never visit her and could absent myself if she visits here. I don't at present feel I want her under my roof - neither does DH for that matter - but my feeling is that contact between us is now at an end. It's a shame. I tried - for many years - but my patience has now been tested too far and just that once too often.

I'm with you @VioletCharlotte about getting out there and finding the joy! I'll be doing the American road trip we postponed after my accident (the irony!) and have promised my brother we'll get tickets for a gold old rock festival in 2024, the moment they go on sale. DH has tidied out our large, very overgrown garden, so we'll find spaces to plant everything we want to plant. More silver birches if I have my way. And I mean to just find joy in the small stuff: a beautiful sunset, birdsong, waves breaking and the dancing sparkles of sun, moon or stars on water.

Clarifier: 'contact between us is now at an end' means contact between MiL and me, not between MiL, DH and DC.

speakout

there's a couple on this site but not much room for writing

www.thequirkycelts.co.uk/shop/calendar-and-diaries/calendars-and-diaries-2023/witches-datebook-2023/

ONe to watch for planner reviews is Jessica and the moon. She always does some planner reviews around October November time. Not sure what is available as i know some will sell out.

she has done several years and different ones, and has a personalise astro one for this year in one of her videos.

I have gone with hero's journey this year and used a bullet journal the last few years
so can't help with a personal favourite

EmmaEmerald thanks- that one looks familiar, I think I had it a few years ago.

MarieIVanArkleStinks I think you are wise to cut back contact.
It's important to limit our exposure to toxic people- no matter who they are.
I am glad you are seeking out joy.

I hope the week is being kind to everyone. It has been wet and damp the past few days, and dark enough to need lighting by 3.30pm.
An excuse to burn candles for most of the day!
A positive aspect of the Sun and Uranus fires up new or unconvential opportunities, at home or work. We may make some exciting discoveries or find energy to move along at a tangent, embracing the alternative or unique. Celebrate your freaky funk!
Tomorrow brings a full moon in cancer increasing our intuition, a good time for divination or scrying, the moon will illuminate the hidden, but will also bring relaxation and healing.
Have a good day magical sisters.

I have my urgent referal appointment this morning so some supportive energy would be most welcome. I am not expecting a lot from it to be honest, I think it will simply be a visual check of the lump to determine next steps.