tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198853951847315100.post5020539623216195549..comments2023-12-20T16:34:00.162-05:00Comments on The Whimsical Cottage: Staying the Path Part 2: Ritual and AltarDannihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07686692876719223611noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198853951847315100.post-1967692900194556932012-09-23T18:10:48.839-04:002012-09-23T18:10:48.839-04:00Wow! What a great post about self-discovery. Your ...Wow! What a great post about self-discovery. Your writing always makes me think about things in my own life. As I read today it dawned on me that's why I'm not as regular in my practice as I'd like. Because I'm paying too much about what everyone else says and less about what feels right to me. Thank you.<br /><br />My alter has the basics but again, as I read this I realized it lacks personality - mine. And this too shall change. <br />Many Blessings<br />~RainKellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01895657809745769069noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198853951847315100.post-9261318711378485212012-09-21T15:29:53.591-04:002012-09-21T15:29:53.591-04:00We have much in common my sassy Jersey girl.
I ha...We have much in common my sassy Jersey girl.<br /><br />I have many altars in my home. They are all sacred, but out of the 3 only one is my personal altar. My Sabbath Altar is always adorned for whichever turn of The Wheel is approaching. It grounds me to see it when I am feeling "lost".<br /><br />My Ancestor Altar is in the entryway of my door. It is adorned with my family. Pictures, natural stones and shells found on trips and vacations, representations of family members (a butterfly for me, an Eagle for The Husband and a Frog for The Boy). It has oracle cards on it as well which I encourage people to choose.<br /><br />My personal altar. That is my space. No one is allowed to touch it. This altar is basically my insides put into physical form. It changes as much as I do internally. Sometimes once a week, sometimes once a month. <br /><br />As for Ritual, I only do Ritual when I am doing a powerful spell. At this point in my life, my spellwork almost always revolves around Protection magic. <br /><br />I don't do "fancy things" either (meaning objects). Most of my stuff are things I have found in nature, have been given to me as gifts from other Witches or are things that have "fallen into my hands" while I was out perusing. <br /><br />I love this series you're doing. <3Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198853951847315100.post-23383505612883773302012-09-20T09:17:38.193-04:002012-09-20T09:17:38.193-04:00Beautiful post. I was much the same as you as a t...Beautiful post. I was much the same as you as a teenager/young person and took a hiatus from it all and went a bit AWOL. As an adult feeling truely connected to the earth and nature and things that have names like paganism and animism again I do much the same as you. My alter, for practical reasons given as I have two small children and zero spare space, is my kitchen window sill - natural treasures I've collected, treasure my children have bought me - i can't count the number of heart shaped stones Zander has unearthed! There are few crystals and acorn shells a couple of candles and a oucple of photo's of significant people I hold a connection with. And I gaze at these often whilst cooking and washing up. It is informal but deeply personal and it will do for now. I don't have time for long rites and rituals I work inoght shifts and am a full time mama so a short meditation, visualisation, lighting of a single candle and the holding of a wish again .... will do. Sometimes I think none of this is enough and feel the conection weaken but then reading something like this reaffirms that this is my way on the path and I'm so very glad I read this. On equinox and solstice I burn a fire in the garden and I am forever thankful that this path offers me at least eight spaces of time in the year that I can make more of an effort to mark the changing seasons and the path I choose. I am hoping my children pick up on the poignance of these celebrations despite the subtlety. As they grow older I hope to share more and more about this path with them so that they can make their own decisions as to weather it is also theirs.<br /><br />Thank you for sharing and reasuring.<br /><br />love and light xRosehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03763857031636484404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198853951847315100.post-73012711884451370782012-09-19T16:52:59.176-04:002012-09-19T16:52:59.176-04:00Your post will be a good one for Ms.GK to read in ...Your post will be a good one for Ms.GK to read in her study this 13th year of life. I have once again gone to my own bookshelf and looked and studied with her some volumes of my beginnings. She is enjoying discovering how "others" prepare and participate in ritual.<br />For us as a family, we do ritual, which always includes a story about the sabbat or esbat, at the dining room table. We gather for our special dinners and light candles and then either Ry or GK depending on whose turn it is give us a beginning point. Talk about a wild child endeavor...it is always interesting to see how they call quarters, elements or deities. Once we had a cheer at Solstice for the Oak King....I swear, complete with pom poms....and we the adults always close the ritual when it is our turn. The children really look forward to the ritual times. The adults are always touched by the moments. It is how we honor the Gods and Goddesses with family mirth and devotion.<br />I do alot of time on my own as moon worship. I ask them to join me on full moon to sing to the moon....and at the dark of the moon we ask that she come back to us and off to bed they go.<br />We are slightly south of eclectic but hey, it works for us. Oma LindaOmaLindasOldeBaggsandStuftShirtshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09589622524456973822noreply@blogger.com