Last Friday I looked down at my calendar and was surprised to see that the full moon was that coming Sunday.\u00a0 Given my recent track record, I wasn\u2019t particularly surprised to be unaware of the moon\u2019s phase \u2013 I was more shocked that I\u2019d caught myself in time.<\/p>\n
By Sunday, Aradia and I planned a dinner but no ritual and had gotten the house just barely clean enough to cook and host \u2026 but hadn\u2019t quite planned the ritual.\u00a0 We ended up playing it by ear, which worked out fantastically.<\/p>\n
<\/a> <\/p>\n After working together off and on for the last year and a half, we\u2019ve found that our synergy is such that we do not use traditional quarter-calls.\u00a0 Instead, each of us takes a turn leading as we attune<\/em> to each of the elements.<\/p>\n The Circle came together with a potency the likes of which I haven\u2019t seen in some time.\u00a0 After years of performing such rituals, our space is \u2026 accustomed to it.\u00a0 Attuned.\u00a0 Generally, we conjure a Circle to the perimeter of the office\/temple area then push it out to the edges of the household.\u00a0 That night it sprang up in two layers simultaneously: one around the temple, one at the edge of the property.<\/p>\n We had a bowl of water that we blessed, and which I used to consecrate a goddess-image I\u2019ve been working with and which we (later) used to top off our latest batch of kobucha<\/a>.\u00a0 We charged a jar of tomato juice that Aradia used as a basis for a round of get-well potion.\u00a0 Each of us took the opportunity to do a bit of candle-magic.<\/p>\n The chief purpose for the ritual was to provide a jump-start for our magical lives.\u00a0 Though such things are traditionally reserved for the Dark Moon, the centerpiece of our ritual was a journey to the Underworld.\u00a0 Specifically, we visited the Realm of Fire, using a meditative aide by Christopher Penczak from the Outer Temple book.<\/p>\n Finally, we concluded our rite with divination.\u00a0 My own spread, I have already shared.\u00a0 The others, of course, did their own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Last Friday I looked down at my calendar and was surprised to see that the full moon was that coming Sunday.\u00a0 Given my recent track record, I wasn\u2019t particularly surprised to be unaware of the moon\u2019s phase \u2013 I was more shocked that I\u2019d caught myself in time. By Sunday, Aradia and I planned a … 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":[87,136,166],"class_list":["post-132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-witchcraft","tag-full-moon","tag-kitchen-witchery","tag-moon"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8kUcm-28","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132","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=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}