{"id":3817,"date":"2020-03-23T21:27:16","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T02:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gleewood.org\/seeking\/?p=3817"},"modified":"2020-03-23T21:27:20","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T02:27:20","slug":"witch-in-practice-week-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gleewood.org\/seeking\/2020\/witch-in-practice-week-27\/","title":{"rendered":"Witch in Practice: Week 27"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Last week<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I focused on keeping going with the steady stars of my personal practice: morning offerings, my music and divination start to the morning, and generally sorting out what was and wasn&#8217;t working for me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A lot of feeling scattered, and telling myself that was okay. Toward Saturday, I could feel my brain settling down, and I had a good writing day on Sunday, which is always promising. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the things I&#8217;ve learned from my witchcraft is that liminal states always feel weird, and that forcing myself into them or through them rarely works well. Working with them, however, helps a lot. I got a bit more sleep (I went to bed earlier than usual two different nights, and overslept on one of them&#8230;) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve also got a page with some thoughts about how to look at this time almost written, but not quite done yet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">This week<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m working on figuring out ways to include more explicit healing work in my daily practice, probably in the &#8216;offerings to relevant deities&#8217; category. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Saturday: <\/strong>I&#8217;ve made arrangements with my coven for a Zoom call on Saturday morning (when we&#8217;d normally have had class). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My plans involve being able to check in with everyone, talk through some resources on the witchy side that I&#8217;m finding interesting or helpful, and then we were up to our healing class, so talking a bit about magical approaches to healing and supporting the body (though not attempting some of the exercises until we&#8217;re a little more familiar with the technology.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I focused on keeping going with the steady stars of my personal practice: morning offerings, my music and divination start to the morning, and generally sorting out what was and wasn&#8217;t working for me. A lot of feeling scattered, and telling myself that was okay. Toward Saturday, I\u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/gleewood.org\/seeking\/2020\/witch-in-practice-week-27\/\">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-3817","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-Zz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3712,"url":"https:\/\/gleewood.org\/seeking\/2019\/witch-in-practice-week-8\/","url_meta":{"origin":3817,"position":0},"title":"Witch in Practice: Week 8","author":"jenett","date":"November 11, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"A quieter week, which frankly, I needed! 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