I feel like I\u2019m always a few steps behind.\u00a0 Especially lately.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t get my Dark Moon work written up until nearly a week after, and most of that only got done because I called in sick Friday.\u00a0 Then I got a day behind because I always have trouble with my internet at home, and \u2026 blah blah blah.\u00a0 Whine whine whine.<\/p>\n
The real problem is that I\u2019m sick.\u00a0 And you, my dear readers, already know what the worst part about been a sick witch is.\u00a0 You know that if you could fucking do something about it, if only you had the strength to \u2026 well, stand up, cast a Circle, and do something about it.\u00a0 Cause it turns out that, no, our bodies aren\u2019t just cars we drive around.\u00a0 They are our prime materia<\/em>.\u00a0 Without them, we are nothing.\u00a0 So, lacking the mojo to fix myself over the weekend, I stayed in bed a lot.\u00a0 I drank a lot of fluids.\u00a0 Sannafrid was kind enough to bring me soup and remind me that, yes, I have people out here in Indiana who give a fuck about me\u2014which helped even more than the soup.\u00a0 I think I\u2019m finally to a point where I can conjure enough power to try to put myself back on track.\u00a0 Of course, I\u2019ve already missed the Day and Hour of the Sun, the hypothetically best time to do that.\u00a0 Fortunately I\u2019m more witch than magician, and I can work around that.<\/p>\n But, enough about that.<\/p>\n Before I got sick, I was finally making some progress on that whole astral projection thing.\u00a0 During a fit of insomnia that preceded my dive from \u201cstruggling against being sick\u201d into \u201cnot going to class because I was up all night blowing my nose\u201d, I discovered that Donald Michael Kraig covers the subject in the concluding chapter of his Modern Magick<\/em>.\u00a0 For whatever reason, the method he describes worked better for me than any other I\u2019ve tried, and I was able to achieve what Kraig describes as bilocation: ambling around my apartment, touching things to establish my sense of reality.\u00a0 Which was fucking awesome.\u00a0 If I could actually manage to pull it off every night (Have you notice I struggle with maintaining a daily anything?\u00a0 Yeah.\u00a0 Makes keeping up with my homework a problem, sometimes.) I would probably already be fully OBE.\u00a0 <\/p>\n I even had an interesting experience just while circumnavigating the apartment.\u00a0 When I pushed aside the blinds to place my astral hand against the window, I saw a giant something<\/em> outside my window\u2014big enough that all I really saw was an eye.\u00a0 This startled me, of course, and I pulled back, letting the \u201cblinds\u201d drop, and then had a good laugh at myself.\u00a0 Until something large slammed into the house Wards.\u00a0 Not being entirely sure what was going on, I decided to perform my Pentagram Rite astrally, then went back to my body.\u00a0 After which I went to sleep and nothing exciting happened.<\/p>\n I (sort of) managed it again last night while struggling with another bout of insomnia, only this time I kept crashing into things and breaking them.\u00a0 Retreating back to my body, I descended to my Inner Temple, where I did a little bit of maintenance and chatted with my spirit guide\/friend Tsu.\u00a0 My mind must have still been unrully, though, because we got sucked through an open door into the Elemental Realm of Fire (a la<\/em> Peckzac\u2019s Outer Temple<\/em> meditations.\u00a0 Interestingly, I felt a lot better after we hung out in the fire for a while.<\/p>\n So, while I have been sick and busy and not quite up to healing myself, I haven\u2019t been wholly inactive.\u00a0 Which is good.\u00a0 I need to stay active to go forward.<\/p>\n Finally, while sick, I spent some time working on one of my other New Year, New You goals: migrating this blog to WordPress.\u00a0 As I have mentioned once or twice, I originally wanted to blog there anyway, but the site was down the day I tried.\u00a0 WP is technically superior, easier to operate, and easier to customize.\u00a0 And then there\u2019s that whole thing with Google\u2019s sudden changes to their privacy policies.\u00a0 Heheh.\u00a0 Yeah.\u00a0 So, within the next few weeks, I\u2019ll be moving<\/a>.\u00a0 I\u2019ll 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