Category: Rituals
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New Year’s Resolutions Gone Bad: the Burning Bowl Ritual Fail
Every year for almost a decade now, I do a burning bowl ritual to set my intentions for the New Year. Instead of doing these as resolutions on New Year’s Eve or New Year’s Day, I perform this little ritual at the Winter Solstice with a non-denominational spiritual group I’ve hosted since early 2008. As…
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The Male-Female Balance in Ritual
Only recently have I experienced a true male-female balance in ritual, even though I’ve been practicing magick since the 1990’s. First as a solitary in 1997, then initiated into Wicca in 2000, “thirded” in 2003, and then coming up with my own special blend for my own circle by 2008, I’ve always tried to look…
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Hoʻoponopono, the Forgiveness and Releasing Ritual
I have been warned not to speak of this, not to write of this. Yet, I feel compelled to capture a smidgen of beauty in what has been a time of great pain and jagged edges. Some people think of the Ho’oponopono ritual as some kind of cute little forgiveness meditation to make things better…
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Different Directions: 3 Experiments for your Circle-Casting
As you may have figured out already, I like to experiment. Experimenting means not becoming stagnant in my spiritual practice. It means learning more, going deeper, taking my connection to Deity one step higher. Here are 3 ideas for experimenting with the standard “Four Directions” to see if you get a better result, a closer…
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Instead of Candle Spells, Try…a Cup of Tea
Aren’t those all-day candle spells great? If you can stay home with it all day, which I can’t. Or if you can burn a candle at work, which in my case is highly frowned upon at my workplace. So here’s an alternative I tested out and found it worked quite delightfully. Not fire magick but…
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Competitive Spirituality
When I was growing up in a Southern Baptist church, we called it “holier than thou.” These were the people who were quick to let others know that they had a better, closer relationship to Jesus than the other church members. Sorta like Christian name-droppers: “I was just talking to Jesus, and He told me…
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Damn You, Law of Attraction, Damn You
Be careful what you wish for, especially in how you frame your desire with words. Sometimes I think the Universe is sitting back, howling, slapping its all-powerful knee, and saying, “Hey, the Law of Attraction always works! You received exactly what you asked for!” One of the things I’d put on my list of intentions…
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New Year’s Resolutions, the Burning Bowl, and Personal Growth
Time for New Year’s resolutions and Burning Bowl intentions! It’s a great time of year to check your personal growth. Here, ducking out of a holiday party to send some cheer to absent friends. How My Burning Bowl Ritual Began Years ago, I made New Year’s resolutions. Usually the same ones, every year: lose weight,…
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My Rebellion Against the Commercialization of Halloween
I didn’t put up Halloween decorations this year, contrary to what you might think. I mean, I’m the neighborhood witch so certainly you’d think I’d have all sorts of styrofoam displays, ghosts hanging in trees, plastic skulls cackling on the front porch. Nope, not this year. In fact, I’m not even putting out my usual…