{"id":3216,"date":"2018-07-27T12:06:42","date_gmt":"2018-07-27T17:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gleewood.org\/seeking\/?p=3216"},"modified":"2018-07-27T12:06:42","modified_gmt":"2018-07-27T17:06:42","slug":"it-came-from-the-search-terms-plus-some-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gleewood.org\/seeking\/2018\/it-came-from-the-search-terms-plus-some-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"It came from the search terms (plus some updates)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My newsletter continues to be the best source for all the things I&#8217;ve written recently (plus other links and things of interest I&#8217;ve come across that fortnight) but I just added four new articles here:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/gleewood.org\/seeking\/doing\/ritual-clothing\/\">Ritual clothing<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/gleewood.org\/seeking\/doing\/ritual-jewellery-and-symbols\/\">Ritual jewellery and symbols<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/gleewood.org\/seeking\/doing\/offerings\/\">Offerings<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/gleewood.org\/seeking\/adapting\/mental-health-and-paganism\/\">Mental health and Paganism<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Looking through the site statistics, I also thought it might be fun to take a look every so often and do some pointers and quick answers for things people were searching for. If you&#8217;ve got questions you&#8217;d like me to answer of that kind (where to find a thing or wondering whether I&#8217;d write something about a particular topic) feel free to contact me through <a href=\"http:\/\/gleewood.org\/seeking\/about\/contact-me\/\">the contact form<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h1>It came from the search terms&#8230;<\/h1>\n<p>Here are some queries from the last quarter:<\/p>\n<h2>Deities:<\/h2>\n<p>I had several queries about this: &#8220;honoring god and the goddesss&#8221;, &#8220;how to work with a deity&#8221;, &#8220;deities that work&#8221;. I have a series of articles up about deity work that will get you started with the first two. (You can find all three on the <a href=\"http:\/\/gleewood.org\/seeking\/doing\/\">Doing<\/a> page.)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/gleewood.org\/seeking\/doing\/relationships-with-deities\/\">Relationships with deities<\/a>\u00a0: start with this article about how Pagan practices honour deity.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/gleewood.org\/seeking\/doing\/learning-about-a-deity\/\">Learning about a deity<\/a>\u00a0: once you have the basic ideas, here are ideas on learning more.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/gleewood.org\/seeking\/doing\/deepening-interactions\/\">Deepening interactions\u00a0with a deity<\/a>\u00a0: how to explore more, and deepen your experience.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The last one hits a question that&#8217;s come up a few times in other places &#8211; &#8220;I asked my deity for this thing, why didn&#8217;t it work&#8221;. That one&#8217;s on my list for an article sometime soon.<\/p>\n<h2>Witchcraft in practice<\/h2>\n<p>Queries for &#8220;religion and witch craft&#8221;, &#8220;how to practice wicca every day&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I have an article on <a href=\"http:\/\/gleewood.org\/seeking\/doing\/daily-practices\/\">Daily Practices<\/a>, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/gleewood.org\/seeking\/adapting\/\">Adapting<\/a> section has a number of articles about adapations, especially the <a href=\"http:\/\/gleewood.org\/seeking\/adapting\/chronic-illness\/\">Chronic Illness and Pagan Practice<\/a> article which has a number of low-exertion daily or regular practices.<\/p>\n<p>Another query was &#8220;Steps to do a ritual&#8221;. Here&#8217;s my article on the<a href=\"http:\/\/gleewood.org\/seeking\/doing\/how-do-we-do-ritual\/\"> steps of ritual.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another question was about &#8220;grounding spells&#8221;. I actually don&#8217;t consider grounding to be a &#8216;spell&#8217;, and this made me realise that explaining spells versus other kinds of magical work is an article I haven&#8217;t written yet! Added to my list. <a href=\"http:\/\/gleewood.org\/seeking\/doing\/grounding\/\">Grounding<\/a>, however, has an article, and I just expanded it with a section on elemental grounding.<\/p>\n<h2>Questions not for this site!<\/h2>\n<p>&#8220;what do you put on a buddhist shrine&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2>And just baffling<\/h2>\n<p>&#8220;leprechaun at altar places&#8221; I&#8217;m still trying to figure out how to parse that one. (Maybe &#8220;What does it mean if you see a leprechaun near an altar?&#8221; or &#8220;where can you see a leprechaun at an altar?&#8221;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My newsletter continues to be the best source for all the things I&#8217;ve written recently (plus other links and things of interest I&#8217;ve come across that fortnight) but I just added four new articles here: Ritual clothing Ritual jewellery and symbols Offerings Mental health and Paganism Looking through the site\u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/gleewood.org\/seeking\/2018\/it-came-from-the-search-terms-plus-some-updates\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[87,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-came-from-the-search-terms","category-site-updates"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p11EQH-PS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1961,"url":"https:\/\/gleewood.org\/seeking\/2016\/updates-since-may-2016\/","url_meta":{"origin":3216,"position":0},"title":"Updates since May 2016","author":"jenett","date":"November 2, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"New pages: I have been writing new things! 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