I have known since September that I wanted to participate in the December Do Magick Challenge.\u00a0 I know that meditation is one of my greatest weaknesses.\u00a0 When the full details of the challenge were dropped at the beginning of November, it did not take long for me to settle on the nature of the meditation that I wanted to do.<\/p>\n
As I discussed in my previous post<\/a>, I don’t have much in the way of personal history with prayer.\u00a0 So it took me a while to figure out what that aspect of it might look like.\u00a0 In discussing the matter with Aradia, she pointed out that I had been doing weekly-plus offering rituals to the land spirits at the Sunrise Temple and, “What do you think that was?”<\/p>\n Oh.\u00a0 Yeah.\u00a0 Duh.<\/p>\n Over the\u00a0 course of November I also had the opportunity to listen to a couple people talk about their rituals involving folk saints — inevitably, Santa Muerte<\/a> in particular.\u00a0 Those rituals tend to revolve around seven day \/ novena candles.\u00a0 Now, I’ve spent some time looking for prayer candles with images of my gods.\u00a0 They’re available, but … wow$er.\u00a0 I can do that shit myself.\u00a0 As an added bonus, doing it myself adds significance to the candle.\u00a0 Plus Aradia and I have been talking about making our own candles for quite some time, anyway.<\/p>\n So, yeah.\u00a0 That.<\/p>\n Inevitably, given two of the gods I have chosen – Dionysos, Rhea – there will be some pouring of wine.\u00a0 I can’t decide if Lucifer or Baphomet would prefer coffee … or whiskey.\u00a0 Whichever way that lands, there will be libations across the board.<\/p>\n Between these three points — Jason Miller’s Rite of General Offering; hand-made novena candles; libations — I think I have the basis of a solid ritual.\u00a0 I just need to work out the details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have known since September that I wanted to participate in the December Do Magick Challenge.\u00a0 I know that meditation is one of my greatest weaknesses.\u00a0 When the full details of the challenge were dropped at the beginning of November, it did not take long for me to settle on the nature of the meditation … 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":[328,332,331],"class_list":["post-4735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-witchcraft","tag-do-magick","tag-do-magick-challenge","tag-meditative-acts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8kUcm-1en","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4735","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=4735"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4741,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4735\/revisions\/4741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}