Category: Rituals
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What I Didn’t Get for My Birthday
What I didn’t get for my birthday…was a tattoo. Not yet anyway. But only because I haven’t found the exact design I’m looking for. No, no little butterflies on my ankles or roses in my cleavage. That’s definitely not me. No gi-normous totem animals or big honking pentacles slithering down the small of my back…
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Birthday Gifts of the Intangible Sort
While yesterday was a day for celebration of my birthday, today was all aboutcontemplation. I took the day off from the workforce grind and played barefoot this morning in my yard in the windy sunshine that whispered of impending Spring. Technically, I’m celebrating all week because…well, because I want to. Because I feel like…
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Time-Lining Intentions
Photo by Morti Riuuallon I’m combining long-term intentions with daily intentions in two rather effective ways. First, I hold my “morning strategy sessions with the Universe” at usually about 5:30 AM when I’m on my way to work. I have time alone to decide how I want my day to go, what I want to…
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A Small Eclipse Ritual: Under a Blood Red Moon
Photo by Black Dog Photography The lunar eclipse of 20 February 2008 was quite pretty in the here-and-there moments that the cloud-cast sky allowed a peek. I love it when I can curl up in a blanket in the back yard hammock and watch an eclipse with one of the kids with me, but the…
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The Spiritual Ad Lib
Photo by Computer Science Geek Eclipses are wonderful times to harness the power of the moment for a personal new moon ritual. They also have a tendancy to surprise me with little messages that come up, sort of like a spiritual ad lib. Last night under a bright smattering of stars, with grass under my…