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Okay, this is weird... although it may not seem that weird to you...
In mid-conversation just now, a random intellectual pulling popped into my brain, out of nowhere... I was thinking about midnight, and suddenly found myself wondering why noon was called "noon" and not mid-day. So, I looked it up on Wikipedia and it has a lot of significance for my life right now, in a pagan spiritual sense.
People who practice spellwork, or witchcraft, often concentrate heavily on timing. Certain types of spells should be done during a certain time of day or night, a certain time of month, a certain phase of the moon, and so on and so forth. This has always struck me as far too complicated for something I feel you should be more interested in "going off your gut instincts" on, so I have never really studied it much at all. The only thing I know about it is that if you are doing something that has to do with growth or healing or progression, you do it when the moon is waxing (progressively getting bigger to reach the full moon phase) and if you are doing something to banish or try to keep something out of your life, you do it when the moon is waning (getting smaller to reach the new moon phase).
As it has become more and more of a struggle to force myself to be diurnal, I have felt certain periods of time do hold a certain significance. Dawn, for instance, and early morning (when the time is best for photographing), and that certain period of evening when everything seems to turn magical colors. But I have never thought about this impacting my spirituality practice.
...It's an interesting observation and interesting that I should be randomly looking into this right now...
In mid-conversation just now, a random intellectual pulling popped into my brain, out of nowhere... I was thinking about midnight, and suddenly found myself wondering why noon was called "noon" and not mid-day. So, I looked it up on Wikipedia and it has a lot of significance for my life right now, in a pagan spiritual sense.
People who practice spellwork, or witchcraft, often concentrate heavily on timing. Certain types of spells should be done during a certain time of day or night, a certain time of month, a certain phase of the moon, and so on and so forth. This has always struck me as far too complicated for something I feel you should be more interested in "going off your gut instincts" on, so I have never really studied it much at all. The only thing I know about it is that if you are doing something that has to do with growth or healing or progression, you do it when the moon is waxing (progressively getting bigger to reach the full moon phase) and if you are doing something to banish or try to keep something out of your life, you do it when the moon is waning (getting smaller to reach the new moon phase).
As it has become more and more of a struggle to force myself to be diurnal, I have felt certain periods of time do hold a certain significance. Dawn, for instance, and early morning (when the time is best for photographing), and that certain period of evening when everything seems to turn magical colors. But I have never thought about this impacting my spirituality practice.
...It's an interesting observation and interesting that I should be randomly looking into this right now...