{"id":48,"date":"2011-12-15T15:44:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T21:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/15\/new-year-new-you-begin-at-the-beginning-2"},"modified":"2011-12-15T15:44:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-15T21:44:00","slug":"new-year-new-you-begin-at-the-beginning-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/2011\/12\/15\/new-year-new-you-begin-at-the-beginning-2\/","title":{"rendered":"New Year, New You: Begin at the Beginning 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deb\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/dropoutdilettante.blogspot.com\/2011\/12\/new-year-new-you-weekly-writing-prompt.html\">prompt<\/a>.\u00a0 My <a href=\"http:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.blogspot.com\/2011\/12\/new-year-new-you-begin-at-beginning.html\">initial thoughts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The apartment is cleaner now.\u00a0 Almost all my laundry is done, and the dishes finally done.\u00a0 If they weren\u2019t, the paper never would have been written.\u00a0 Yes, this counts as magic; it was done mindfully, with the intent of clearing my mind.\u00a0 I also smudged everything thoroughly with white sage.<\/p>\n<p>My Yesod altar has been disassembled.\u00a0 I think I\u2019ve wallowed in the Moon enough for now.\u00a0 I almost wonder if some of my \u2026 issues over the last weeks might relate to leaving it up too long.\u00a0 I had originally planned to move on to Hod long before finals week.<\/p>\n<p>Due to some unexpected car trouble, in addition to my struggles producing my final paper, I am returning to Kansas City tomorrow morning instead of this morning.\u00a0 Tonight I will make a Mercury talisman (I should have done it yesterday) and tomorrow morning before I go, I will add some Mercury power to my existing car-protection ward.<\/p>\n<p>When I return from break, I will probably set up my Hod alter.\u00a0 I will absolutely have a plan for how I will balance continuing my ceremonial experiment with better maintaining my previously established practice, and balancing those with school.\u00a0 This will require much meditation.<\/p>\n<p>Lessons for next year: never start finals week with the house a disaster. It\u2019s almost as hard to research in a messy temple as it is to worship or work. Also, try not to let your car break down at the same time, because that just pushes the stress over the top.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deb\u2019s prompt.\u00a0 My initial thoughts. The apartment is cleaner now.\u00a0 Almost all my laundry is done, and the dishes finally done.\u00a0 If they weren\u2019t, the paper never would have been written.\u00a0 Yes, this counts as magic; it was done mindfully, with the intent of clearing my mind.\u00a0 I also smudged everything thoroughly with white sage. &hellip; <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/2011\/12\/15\/new-year-new-you-begin-at-the-beginning-2\/\" 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-48","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-M","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","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=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}