I have been here in Sunrise, IN for almost three weeks now.\u00a0 For all that it doesn\u2019t look any different from the places I come from, the landscape still feels alien to me.\u00a0 I don\u2019t quite belong here, yet.<\/p>\n
Originally, I intended to bond with the land slowly \u2013 as naturally and organically as possible.\u00a0 The problem with that approach, though, is that I won\u2019t belong here<\/em> until I have bonded to the land.\u00a0 I won\u2019t feel safe.\u00a0 Not at school or in town or anywhere but in the power-center I\u2019ve set up in my apartment.\u00a0 That realization came to me slowly, over the course of the last week.\u00a0 So I set about planning how to spin my web here more deliberately.<\/p>\n Last night the sky was full of heat-lightning.\u00a0 The moon was waxing and gibbous; it was the hour of Mars.\u00a0 There was a school \u201crave\u201d party scheduled on the lawn, and a thunderstorm rolling slowly in.\u00a0 I did Earth Breathing as I walked from my apartment to the center of campus, where I cast a circle in the great open lawn and called upon the Elements and the Quarters to make me a part of the land and it a part of me, \u201cso long as I am relevant to the school\u201d (which, as a college student, is as long as I am either a student and\/or contributing alum).\u00a0 I released the circle, promptly made friends with a bunch of potheads, and later attracted the attention of the first serious-seeming witch I\u2019ve yet to meet on campus.<\/p>\n Once the power-high wore off, I slept well and deeply and had vivid, school-related dreams.<\/p>\n This morning, I continued my practice of Earth Breathing on the way to and around the school, cementing and deepening the bond.\u00a0 I already feel more like I belong here.\u00a0 I\u2019m more comfortable, more focused.\u00a0 I will now be better able to do the work I came here to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have been here in Sunrise, IN for almost three weeks now.\u00a0 For all that it doesn\u2019t look any different from the places I come from, the landscape still feels alien to me.\u00a0 I don\u2019t quite belong here, yet. Originally, I intended to bond with the land slowly \u2013 as naturally and organically as possible.\u00a0 … Read More<\/a><\/span><\/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":[5],"tags":[149,258],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-witchcraft","tag-magic","tag-stories"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8kUcm-1C","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}