(6/17-6/23)
A season passing…
Spring is moving on!
It doesn’t feel like it today. While I’m reading about record high temperatures around the globe, my own backyard is overcast and I’m wearing a sweater. However, I can say that energetically, summer is here. My life has ramped up to full speed and we’re into another season of weekly themes.
To get myself leveraged from the brooding stagnancy of winter, I set my blog up with weekly themes that I’d pre-planned and then typed into my blog to dutifully upload each week. And you know what? It was consistent. I was able to keep that up for an entire season. But I also found it was bland. My little scheduled templates kept me “on track,” but they’d been written weeks in advance. I didn’t feel like I was living in the season. Not truly.
So, what did I get from that exercise? Well, I saw that I could blog weekly for a season, good or bad. I felt the season with the life around me and I used the weekly themes to reflect on that life. When life became busy, I was able to at least get a post uploaded. Though sometimes, barely.
I encourage you to pilot these little practices in your life. Living life with the idea that you’re capable of weaving magic in your world includes the magic of different systems of living. I walked through my life with a routine of blogging weekly. That routine saw me through a great many changes in a short amount of time. I’ve emerged transformed, as a living thing is meant to be transformed by spring. Summer awaits and I’m hopeful that my allergies will settle enough that I can enjoy nice smells again and that my plants will forgive my sporadic attention this season.
As my season shifts, I’ve had an eye toward community, as always. But lately, there has been a question about the finder details of governing people, the smaller nuances of paganism and witchcraft and how they intersect. I’ve been deep in thought about our epidemic of loneliness and how to cultivate a home and haven for my own family when mine looks like no other we see in the spaces I dwell. As always, I’m full of big ideas and little direction. I’m hoping I can leverage this blog throughout summer to flourish.