{"id":3859,"date":"2020-04-08T12:04:38","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T17:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gleewood.org\/seeking\/?p=3859"},"modified":"2020-04-08T12:04:42","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T17:04:42","slug":"witch-in-practice-week-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gleewood.org\/seeking\/2020\/witch-in-practice-week-29\/","title":{"rendered":"Witch in Practice: Week 29"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Slightly late this week, pardon. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Last week: <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Thursday and Friday: <\/strong>I took two days vacation time, and played video games and read and generally worked on helping my brain reset a bit. It was really good. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Saturday: <\/strong>Coven chat (with one of my people) which was great. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sunday: <\/strong>Online ritual, courtesy the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cornucopiacollective.com\/\"> Cornucopia Collective<\/a>, a healing ritual focused on Horus. After the usual technical issues of &#8220;How do we do this sensibly&#8221;, it went well, with about 18 people there. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(I don&#8217;t often make it to their in-person rituals, because going out is always a tricky equation for me for health and stamina reasons, so that was great. Also, I&#8217;m thinking about how to tackle ritual for coven purposes for the foreseeable future.) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I also did some preparation for things in the &#8220;This week&#8221; section, and did some research and preparation for the first big tools discussion with my initiate on the 19th (athames!) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">This week<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I started on Monday working through Benebell Wen&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/benebellwen.com\/spirit-keepers-tarot\/twenty-two-weeks-with-the-skt\/\">22 Weeks with the Spirit Keeper&#8217;s Tarot<\/a>&#8220;, which is a study and practice approach to her Spirit Keeper&#8217;s Tarot deck that includes tasks tied to each day (meditation on Monday, exercise on Tuesday, etc.) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Right now, I&#8217;m really wanting something that anchors me a bit more in &#8220;what day is it again?&#8221;. I already was doing some daily planetary focused work, so this seemed like a great way to expand. So far that&#8217;s going well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Saturday: <\/strong>Class with my Dedicants, the second half of our healing class, and at least the beginning of our ritual theory class, part 2 (which is about ritual cycles and &#8220;when are the points we might want to do ritual&#8221; as opposed to part 1, which is &#8220;how do we do ritual, what is our circle structure doing?&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since we&#8217;re doing it on Zoom, and I can screenshare, I am having fun prepping slides for it, since both topics have parts where visual aids are actually quite helpful. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slightly late this week, pardon. Last week: Thursday and Friday: I took two days vacation time, and played video games and read and generally worked on helping my brain reset a bit. It was really good. Saturday: Coven chat (with one of my people) which was great. Sunday: Online ritual,\u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/gleewood.org\/seeking\/2020\/witch-in-practice-week-29\/\">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-3859","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-10f","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3879,"url":"https:\/\/gleewood.org\/seeking\/2020\/witch-in-practice-week-32\/","url_meta":{"origin":3859,"position":0},"title":"Witch in Practice: Week 32","author":"jenett","date":"April 27, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Last week: I'm continuing with my 22 Weeks with the Spirit Keeper's Tarot deck working: I'm particularly enjoying the daily tasks (and it's helping me remember whether today is Monday or Wednesday or whatever.) 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