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Oct. 13th, 2019 12:45 pmI decided to start practicing cartomancy with playing cards again and I'm really excited about it! I love finding ways to use ordinary things in pagan practice.
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Aug. 29th, 2019 04:14 amTime for another one of these! Brought to you by being wide awake at a time when none of the important life stuff that I need to do is possible.
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Jun. 23rd, 2019 10:32 amAs I couldn't be at Meeting today I thought I'd do another one of these. Moving house has taken up almost all of my brainspace recently and it will be good to think about something else for a bit!
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Jun. 4th, 2019 10:11 pmIt's time for another one of these! Life has been getting in the way of me trying to do thinky things recently, but with any luck the worst of that is nearly over so let's get back into trying to figure out Quakerism and me.
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questionoftheday asks: Did religion ever play an important part in your life? Was it a positive or negative experience?My answer: Religion has pretty much always played an important part in my life. Growing up my family was Christan so I went to Sunday school and to church. They were never particularly religious about their faith though, if that makes any sense. For my parents it seemed as though it was more about the community than about the beliefs. I had a difficult time with Christianity as a teenager, having been very invested in it as a child, and started to learn about Paganism. I spent a few years drifting between types of Paganism before ending up where I am now - a polytheist with metaphorical fingers in three or four different pantheons, desperately wishing I could bring myself to narrow down to one and focus on that. It's always been important though, even if it hasn't always looked the same.
The future looks good
Apr. 2nd, 2019 06:40 pmI'm looking forward to having someone I can celebrate religious stuff with. My boyfriend doesn't share my beliefs, but he's more than happy to join in with low-level rituals and holiday celebrations. I didn't realise until recently how much I want to do those things with people, but solitary practice has been wearing on me.
I want people to share holiday meals with, I want people to join in ritual with, I want community. I have distant community, but that doesn't help much with the desire to share in practicing my faith.
My boyfriend and I are moving in together in a couple of months, and for the first time in my life I'll be living somewhere that I can practice my faith openly. I can have a shrine in the living room, rather than tucked away in a corner of my bedroom. I can have an offering plate in the kitchen. I can have an ancestral shrine in a part of the house that I actually use. I'll have someone who's willing to join in with my holiday celebrations.
Good things come to those who wait.
I want people to share holiday meals with, I want people to join in ritual with, I want community. I have distant community, but that doesn't help much with the desire to share in practicing my faith.
My boyfriend and I are moving in together in a couple of months, and for the first time in my life I'll be living somewhere that I can practice my faith openly. I can have a shrine in the living room, rather than tucked away in a corner of my bedroom. I can have an offering plate in the kitchen. I can have an ancestral shrine in a part of the house that I actually use. I'll have someone who's willing to join in with my holiday celebrations.
Good things come to those who wait.
I usually do more for the solstice than I did this year, and it feels almost incomplete.
I kept a candle burning through the night, and only blew it out when the sky began to lighten. I told myself that I wouldn't stay up all night this year and yet... It wasn't a Midwinter vigil as I've held them in the past, but it was something.
Tomorrow, I hope, I can finish up my solstice celebrations. In the mean time, it is 4am and I should probably sleep.
I kept a candle burning through the night, and only blew it out when the sky began to lighten. I told myself that I wouldn't stay up all night this year and yet... It wasn't a Midwinter vigil as I've held them in the past, but it was something.
Tomorrow, I hope, I can finish up my solstice celebrations. In the mean time, it is 4am and I should probably sleep.
