{"id":42,"date":"2011-12-27T22:48:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-28T04:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/27\/new-year-new-you-more-goals"},"modified":"2011-12-27T22:48:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-28T04:48:00","slug":"new-year-new-you-more-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/2011\/12\/27\/new-year-new-you-more-goals\/","title":{"rendered":"New Year, New You: More Goals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My first round of goals were more trajectories than concrete goals.\u00a0 So here are some real goals before I move on to the next NYNY prompts. <\/p>\n<p><u>Immediate<\/u><\/p>\n<p>1) Finish the car-protection talismans tomorrow.\u00a0 They just don\u2019t quite feel \u201cdone\u201d yet.<\/p>\n<p>2) Write up my Dark Moon rites for the amusement of my readers.<\/p>\n<p>3) Keep up with the New Year New You prompts.<\/p>\n<p><u>Short Term: Complete Before Break Ends<\/u><\/p>\n<p>1) Interpret the natal chart I\u2019ve calculated for Sannafrid.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been studying a bit of astrology along with ceremonial magic, and doing birth charts for friends has been my chief method.\u00a0 I promised hers by the start of the new semester, and I\u2019ll keep that promise damn it.<\/p>\n<p>2) New title for my book of shadows.<\/p>\n<p>3) Research or design and make a talisman to help me with my Greek language studies.\u00a0 That shit is kicking my ass.<\/p>\n<p>4) Resume my attempts at astral projection.\u00a0 Astral projection has always fascinated me\u2014it was one of my first major magical efforts, back in high school\u2014but has also always eluded me.\u00a0 This is unacceptable.<\/p>\n<p><u>Short Term: Complete Before Valentine\u2019s<\/u><\/p>\n<p>1) Finish interpreting my own natal chart.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been working on it off and on for half a year, but my ego keeps getting in the way.<\/p>\n<p>2) Illustrated meditation on the Element of Earth and finish my meditation on the Element of Water.<\/p>\n<p>3) Develop an outline for the new book of shadows.<\/p>\n<p>4) Transport this blog to wordpress.\u00a0 Blogger is getting on my nerves.\u00a0 I hope this won\u2019t irritate my established readers too badly, but there are just so many technical advantages to wordpress.\u00a0 I wanted to use it originally, actually, but it was broken the day I decided to register my domain.<\/p>\n<p>5) Successfully achieve astral projection.<\/p>\n<p>6) Complete (for the purposes of my survey of ceremonial magic, though not in any larger sense) my studies of Earth\/Malkuth and Moon\/Yesod.<\/p>\n<p><u>Medium Term: Complete This Semester<\/u><\/p>\n<p>1) Successfully visit the astral temple of another practitioner.<\/p>\n<p>2) Add Athena and Hermes to my altar.<\/p>\n<p><u>Long Term: Complete by the End of 2012<\/u><\/p>\n<p>1) Finish the first draft of my novel <em>Necromancer and the Mark of the Wolf<\/em>.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been working on this draft for almost five years, and working on the story in one form or another for a decade.\u00a0 The story is about 3\/5ths complete.<\/p>\n<p>2) Produce a draft of Witches\u2019 Brew.\u00a0 This is a project Aradia and I have been talking about for the last year or so: a magical recipe book of homebrew, teas, and potions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My first round of goals were more trajectories than concrete goals.\u00a0 So here are some real goals before I move on to the next NYNY prompts. Immediate 1) Finish the car-protection talismans tomorrow.\u00a0 They just don\u2019t quite feel \u201cdone\u201d yet. 2) Write up my Dark Moon rites for the amusement of my readers. 3) Keep &hellip; <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/2011\/12\/27\/new-year-new-you-more-goals\/\" class=\"more-link\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8kUcm-G","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","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=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}