{"id":3733,"date":"2019-11-25T15:57:59","date_gmt":"2019-11-25T20:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gleewood.org\/seeking\/?p=3733"},"modified":"2020-01-14T14:33:47","modified_gmt":"2020-01-14T19:33:47","slug":"witch-in-practice-week-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gleewood.org\/seeking\/2019\/witch-in-practice-week-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Witch in Practice: Week 10"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Last week<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Another busy week this week, due to not only the things I was actually doing, but cleaning and cooking prep. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday: <\/strong>Launched my latest fiction book, which is always a lot of fiddly process stuff. (Some of which happens to make the book available, and then there is more once the sales links are live.) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friday: <\/strong>Hosted witches for a planning meeting for an ongoing project (we’re moving forward usefully, with plans for actual events in spring 2020.) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There’s always something so vulnerable about having new people to your home, and it’s both helped and complicated by the witchy parts, in my experience. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Part of it is just the prep – having food and space for people to sit. (And my home is optimised for coven work, which is not quite the same as a small group meeting…) But part of it is also having new people in your space, and we’re all in the stage where we’re still getting to know each other, and three of my four shrines are in the living room, and.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Speaking of, I updated the page about my shrines<\/a>, if you haven’t seen that.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this case, I got several compliments about the feeling of my home, which always delights me, because it’s something I think about a lot, and do a lot to encourage. I am not the world’s best housekeeper (though I’m vastly better than I used to be…) but I am really good about keeping the energy in my home the way I want most of the time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is on my list to write about in the not too distant future, since I think it’d be helpful. (I also have all the thoughts about setting up sustainable coven and Pagan-relevant hosting, and am working on what will turn into an ebook about that.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saturday: <\/strong>Dedicant class, with two of my three students (we’ll have to sort out a makeup for the third sometime.) It went really well, with some great discussion about how do you evaluate people and their materials in specific situations, and then a great discussion about deities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sunday: <\/strong>I spent most of Sunday working on website and publishing related updates, but also did some work with Benebell Wen’s Metaphysician’s Planner<\/a> guidebook (I am only a little way in! It’s glorious dense material.) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Coming week<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Much quieter! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tuesday: <\/strong>Something for the New Moon, but probably a pretty small something.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wednesday to Sunday<\/strong>: Five days off! Thanksgiving is not a big holiday in my life – my parents are British, and I grew up without almost any extended family. I usually go to an amiable friend’s house for whatever they do, but I don’t have strong opinions about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this case, it’s been a busy summer and autumn, and I’m really looking forward to having chunks of time to work on larger projects without having to stop. So there will be a bunch of witchy stuff, but I’m not sure what bits will be when yet. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week Another busy week this week, due to not only the things I was actually doing, but cleaning and cooking prep. Thursday: Launched my latest fiction book, which is always a lot of fiddly process stuff. (Some of which happens to make the book available, and then there is\u2026 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":[89,90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-being-a-witch","category-witch-in-practice"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p11EQH-Yd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3773,"url":"https:\/\/gleewood.org\/seeking\/2020\/witch-in-practice-week-19\/","url_meta":{"origin":3733,"position":0},"title":"Witch in Practice: Week 19","author":"jenett","date":"January 27, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"A very quiet week last week, partly due to the ongoing annoyance of chronic health issues. I've been feeling under the weather for about two weeks. It could be one of said chronic things flaring, it could be the weather, it could be side effects of the most recent medication\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "being a witch"","block_context":{"text":"being a witch","link":"https:\/\/gleewood.org\/seeking\/category\/being-a-witch\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3815,"url":"https:\/\/gleewood.org\/seeking\/2020\/witch-in-practice-week-26\/","url_meta":{"origin":3733,"position":1},"title":"Witch in Practice: Week 26","author":"jenett","date":"March 16, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Also known as \"Half way through this project\" and also \"Wow, the world is complicated right now.\" Last week Almost entirely taken up with prepping to be working from home for the forseeable future (at least April 10th, in my case), both in terms of work and in terms of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "being a witch"","block_context":{"text":"being a witch","link":"https:\/\/gleewood.org\/seeking\/category\/being-a-witch\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3702,"url":"https:\/\/gleewood.org\/seeking\/2019\/witch-in-practice-week-5\/","url_meta":{"origin":3733,"position":2},"title":"Witch in practice: Week 5","author":"jenett","date":"October 21, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"This week was busy with mostly mundane necessities. That involved a dentist visit on Tuesday, and went on from there. Wednesday: I had jury duty, and had to drive thirty minutes away (I live in a really big county). The whole process was as amiable and efficient as possible, and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "being a witch"","block_context":{"text":"being a witch","link":"https:\/\/gleewood.org\/seeking\/category\/being-a-witch\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4910,"url":"https:\/\/gleewood.org\/seeking\/2021\/witch-in-practice-gemini-season\/","url_meta":{"origin":3733,"position":3},"title":"Witch in practice – Gemini season","author":"jenett","date":"June 20, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Coven The big news is that we have a new initiate, as of the 12th! It feels wonderful that the first time I had someone over since mid-March 2020 was our new initiate (for a pre-initiation step in our tradition), and then her initiation (with our other initiate). We had\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "being a witch"","block_context":{"text":"being a witch","link":"https:\/\/gleewood.org\/seeking\/category\/being-a-witch\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4961,"url":"https:\/\/gleewood.org\/seeking\/2021\/witch-in-practice-libra-season-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":3733,"position":4},"title":"Witch in Practice – Libra season","author":"jenett","date":"October 24, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Welcome back to the next round of these. Coven I had been talking with two different Seekers in September about Dedicating, but between last month's post and this one, both of them have had things come up in their lives that mean Dedicating in the tradition (and coven) isn't going\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "being a witch"","block_context":{"text":"being a witch","link":"https:\/\/gleewood.org\/seeking\/category\/being-a-witch\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3706,"url":"https:\/\/gleewood.org\/seeking\/2019\/witch-in-practice-week-6\/","url_meta":{"origin":3733,"position":5},"title":"Witch in practice: Week 6","author":"jenett","date":"October 28, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"How are we already on week 6 of this? Last week was a lot less full of unusual scheduling, which makes me feel slightly better about the world, but I am about to head into a) Samhain, b) NaNoWriMo, and I am currently still behind on writing project I was\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "being a witch"","block_context":{"text":"being a witch","link":"https:\/\/gleewood.org\/seeking\/category\/being-a-witch\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gleewood.org\/seeking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gleewood.org\/seeking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gleewood.org\/seeking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gleewood.org\/seeking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gleewood.org\/seeking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gleewood.org\/seeking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3734,"href":"https:\/\/gleewood.org\/seeking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3733\/revisions\/3734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gleewood.org\/seeking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gleewood.org\/seeking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gleewood.org\/seeking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}