My time working with the Moon and Yesod has been \u2026 scattered.\u00a0 This will probably come as little surprise to anyone who\u2019s done a lot of Moon work.\u00a0 It\u2019s been very difficult for me to stay focused on any one thing for very long, and I\u2019ve had much more trouble than usual following through with my intentions.<\/p>\n
After maintaining a daily practice for two solid months\u2014one of prep work and one of Malkuth\u2014I have fallen almost entirely off the horse.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been doing better this week: I\u2019ve gotten up and performed my daily rituals for five days out of the last seven, and I\u2019m getting back on top of daily journaling (at least in the mornings).<\/p>\n
My emotional state has been \u2026 changeable.\u00a0 Emotionally speaking, I\u2019ve gotten more fully entangled in some things (people) than I originally intended; fortunately that\u2019s mostly gone for the best despite lack of planning.\u00a0 In the thrall of the Moon, I\u2019ve struggled with insomnia and depression\u2014though, granted, both of these are as attributable to the stress of mid-semester crunch time.\u00a0 As I shift into Hod for December that stress is only going to get worse.<\/p>\n
My Abramelin oil is coming along nicely.\u00a0 The charge on that stuff is \u2026 interesting.\u00a0 I look forward to using it in earnest and seeing what happens.<\/p>\n
The Middle Pillar and Circulation of the Body of Light exercises have been incredibly helpful to me, and will probably remain a part of my practice even when I\u2019m done with this ceremonial experiment.\u00a0 I speculated at the beginning of the month as to whether those rituals would have helped with the trouble<\/a> that the LBRP gave me.\u00a0 I no longer believe that to be the case.\u00a0 While they might have sufficed to balance out someone of a different magical and spiritual background, I have become convinced that there was something about the interaction between my magic and the LBRP which was uniquely problematic.<\/p>\n My Magical Storytelling exercise has been \u2026 interesting.\u00a0 I haven\u2019t made it nearly as far into NaNoWriMo as I had hoped (not quite 15,000 words of 50,000), but I\u2019ve had a few interesting insights while pursuing the project.\u00a0 As part of those joined projects, I\u2019ve written incomplete drafts of three hymns: two to Dionysos and one to the multitudinous Muses.<\/p>\n As the Dark Moon approaches, I am preparing to do the journeywork portions of the Yesod rites.\u00a0 I do not anticipate them going even as well as the Malkuth journeys, whose peculiarities I have still not resolved.\u00a0 I will be bringing some Moon issues into my study of Hod.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My time working with the Moon and Yesod has been \u2026 scattered.\u00a0 This will probably come as little surprise to anyone who\u2019s done a lot of Moon work.\u00a0 It\u2019s been very difficult for me to stay focused on any one thing for very long, and I\u2019ve had much more trouble than usual following through with … 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":[],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-witchcraft"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8kUcm-12","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","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=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}