Full Moon Ritual

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Thus begins the 2nd round of blooming on my rosebush. Fitting, as this full moon is called the Flower Full Moon.

May Magick Photo #30: Full Moon



FINALLY got around to doing my full moon ritual. Blue seemed to be the carrying color, so I chose the gorgeous dark blue altar cloth.

Going left to right:

Athame
Wand
Sekhmet idol
Small candle for Her
White 7-day candle for the full moon
Selenite sphere that symbolizes the full moon (not pictured)
Transcend oil by Sage Goddess (used to dress the number candles)
Black bowl with dirt (to hold the number candles)
Wooden altar Pentacle with a sigil on top of it and two number candles
Ask oil by Sage Goddess (used to dress the sigil paper)
Mini cast iron skillet (I use it as a cauldron)
Sacred feather and incense holder
Full Moon Incense by Hearth Wisdom Store (not pictured)
Sacred Necklace by Luna Blue Boutique

This was a super quickie ritual – finally getting around to celebrating my 12 years of being self-injury free and to set my intentions for my upcoming surgery.

Blue

written: May 30

May Magick Photo #30: Goddess



A fun black and white photo of my Scarlet Lady, Sekhmet.

Yes, I know I was supposed to do my Full Moon ritual today….but I didn’t. So I swapped prompts again. Full Moon ritual tomorrow! Hopefully. ::chuckles::

BUT….I got my BLUE hair today!



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My hair stylist was kind enough to figure out my hair was long enough that we could rest it on the table while the color set. ::smiles:: Kept so much of the extra weight off my scalp. Which, by hour THREE I was deeply grateful for.



I ended up being about an hour late to work because of it, but damn, man, I LOVE this color. And my stylist said that when the blue starts to fade out, purple is a great color to layer on top of it.

But holy hell, I had forgotten how GOOD it feels to have pretty color in my hair. And the fact that I’m breaking the rules to do so? Just makes it THAT much more delicious. I fucking LOVE it. ::smiles::

I have got to figure out a way to keep my room cooler. It’s not overly insulated against heat. And with it being upstairs, and the air vents being in the damn FLOOR…it can get really hot, really quickly. So it keep it reasonably cool, I have to keep all the doors closed. Which sucks for Leviathan because she’s living in eternal night at this point. But there really isn’t anywhere else in the house at this point that I could move her so she didn’t have to live in darkness. Maybe I should just get an A/C unit for one of the windows. And I should get the hallway window tinted or blinds or something for it. It’s a south facing window that lets in sun the entire time the sun is in the sky. Which is lovely during the winter – but BRUTAL during the summer time.

Rebel Streak

written: May 29

May Magick Photo #29: Feather



I know, today’s prompt is actually Full Moon, but seeing as how I’m not ready for my Full Moon ritual just yet, I’m swapping out the prompts to reflect that. Because, my rebel streak stops for no one, not even witchery. ::chuckles::

So instead, a lovely close-up photo of one of my absolute most treasured possessions. I love the soft marbling on this particular feather. Just love it.

I’m thinking of having a dear friend, Whispering Tears, bead a feather to hang from my graduation cap. I think it would be a nice way to celebrate that victory. I have a year to decide if it is the route I want to go and figure out what exactly I would want for my feather.

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My order from Ravynne Phelan arrived today. And she always includes awesome goodies.

And Josey had a BLAST attempting to shred the mailer Ravynne used. And impressive amount of packing tape is ultimately what thwarted Josey from total annihilation of the mailer. ::chuckles::



I had my End of Year evaluation with Esmeralda. It went very smoothly, as she made it available to see before I actually WENT to the evaluation. The higher-ups say it’s so there aren’t any surprises and to make the meeting more of a “conversation” than an evaluation. I swear, “conversation” is the Higher-Ups FAVORITE word in the entire world. ::shakes her head::

But the supervisors are asking all of the campus leaders (like me), questions about what we want/need in the coming year. What topics should be covered at Orientation – I STRESSED that we NEED proper training on handling student suicide ideation/outcry, harm to self or others, and reporting child abuse/neglect. There has also be an increase in chatter among the campus leaders about doing campus leader “swaps” – hosting another campus leader on your campus to show them how you run your campus. I am super interested in doing that and being able to go to as many campuses as possible so I can see what is and isn’t working and bring that information back to my own campus to make it even better. And I would love to share my quirky-ass campus with other campus leaders as well. So maybe, next year will be amazing after all.

Spartan & Journals

May Magick Photo #28: Memories



Just ONE shelf of my journal collection. I have a handful of other shelves here and there. One of these days, I will gather all of my journals (plus have my electronic versions printed and bound) on ONE bookcase. How lovely would that be? This shelf has journals spanning 1999 through 2013.

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We finally hung up our Spartan mosquito eradicators. We are a bit late to the game, but better late than never. Hopefully this will cut down our mosquito population as soon as possible. It’s supposed to last 90 days, so we’ll see if it’s worth reordering at that point.

Buttons

May Magick Photo #27: Roots II



Taken out at the Fort Worth Nature Center. I went out there today to see Buttons, the white-sided western diamondback rattlesnake:



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She’s just as lovely as ever. And I’m really glad I went.

I needed the time out of the house, out in nature. I needed the quiet alone time the “easy” 30-minute hike gave me for most of the time. Damn, that “easy” hike also showed me how weak my knees still are. I need to get my ass back on the elliptical and actually USE the Down Dog app (it’s a free yoga app).

I finally picked up the candles for my celebration of 12 years SI free – just a little over a month late. But hey, better late than never! ::laughs:: So hopefully I can do that mini-ritual soon. That will be nice. I think that might be what’s causing my feeling of stagnation. I put that celebration on hold because my life was too insane. And it feels like everything was put on pause. So hopefully this ritual will open up my spiritual flow again and get things moving once more.

Restless Soul

May Magick Photo #26: Water: Rain/storm water I’ve collected for the Harpies.

 

I wish we had some storms coming in soon. I want to release this water and get new water for them. Plus, it would bring a welcomed break from all the oppressive heat we are experiencing currently.

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My incense order from SpiritMountainCrafts arrived today. AMAZING. I ordered the Celtic Mist and the Mother Earth. The Lavender and the Orange Blossom were bonus samples. ::smiles:: LOVE it. So, add these incenses to my stash I currently have, and I should be good on incense for a while. ::chuckles:: Though, I do have plans to buy some more of the Storm Watch incense from DreamyTimesShop. The Harpies really are fond of it, and it smells AMAZING, which is an added bonus.

I’m feeling extremely restless today. Sucks because I have like zero money to fun spend right now. What little money I do have for fun spending, is already ear-marked for great fun things. I’ll be headed out to the Nature Center tomorrow to hopefully see Buttons, the white-sided rattlesnake. And Wednesday I’ll be getting my hair colored. And sometime soon I need to do an oil change on my car AND get it detailed before I head to my mom’s on June 3rd. I’ll be getting her car after I go to my pre-op appointment with my doc.

My supervisor opened my evaluation (that I’ll have officially on Tuesday) up for me to view beforehand. I feel like such an incredible fraud. My evaluation is stellar and she says a lot of wonderful things. But half of them I don’t even agree with. I know, most of this is because I’m being hard on myself right now. And some of it is due to the fact that I’m comparing myself to how I’ve been in the past. And honestly, this year? I’ve really dropped the ball on so many things. Which then makes me question if all the crazy things my ex-Psych said, that I completely disagreed with at the time….maybe they are actually true? Which just pisses me the fuck off, because that woman had some seriously screwy ideas, which is why I don’t see her any more. But that niggling doubt has been planted and apparently it’s been growing all this time.

Three Day Weekend

May Magick Photo #25: Wood

 

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Our ancient mulberry tree got a quick trim today. One of the larger branches was rubbing the house and the chimney cover, so it had to come down before it did serious damage. I plan to go out and trim all the leaves off the wood and keep the wood to be used in our fire pit. I need to set up the Spartan Mosquito Eradicator as we are certainly into the Mosquito Season (aka Seasonal Anemia, Season of the Blood Suckers, Season of Calamine Lotion).

I am so deeply grateful for a three-day weekend. Man, I fucking need it. Soooo need it. I have a few plans, but mostly, I just want to relax, read, and work in my art journal. I have two pen pal letters left that I need to respond to.

I also need to get out to the Nature Center this weekend to hopefully photograph their white-sided rattlesnake. I didn’t go last year, and while I needed that break, I am disappointed that I missed a year of doing that. I’ve been photographing sweet little Buttons since they first found her back in 2012. But hey, missing one year out of 7 years? Not too shabby honestly. I’m not the best at sticking with plans. ::chuckles::