Spring Equinox Journal ritual
Type of Ritual: spring equinox
Date and Time: March 22, 2013, 11:00 pm
Moon Phase and Astrological Correspondences: 81% full, Sun in Aries, Moon in Leo, and Scorpio Rising
Weather: -2C and cloudy
Physical Health: Okay, but it's hard to feel emotionally connected to the ritual
Purpose of Ritual: To welcome spring
Deities Invoked: None invoked but honoured Demeter, and mentioned Persephone and Hades
Approximate Length of Ritual: Half an hour
I'm still not feeling 100% with this, but I managed a journal ritual that my sister helped inspire.
I lit a pink tealight because I thought it was springy, and did some free writing. Fertility came up a lot, and I mused about why Persephone never had children with Hades. I see so much love between Them, but yet there are no children. It made me feel sad when I wrote about it, like there was some kind of deep longing that couldn't be fulfilled.
I also wrote about how in my Aztec path, this time symbolizes the time when Cama Zotz and Quetzalcoatl have the same power. But right after I wrote "The bat God sleeps" twice, followed by "new life, new year, new, new." and "breathe breathe" in big letters.
On the other side of my journal (I used two side-by-side pages), I kept my pen loose in my hand and let it flow and closed my eyes. "Love" was written in big letters, and "practice." I also wrote "Open your heart," new, new" again, "relax" and "keep calm."
I also drew a oval, that really looks like a very basic image of a vulva to me.
I was going to do a meditation, but I opted to do some Yoga instead. I felt like moving like that, stretching and relaxing. I focused on doing poses that I find soothing and calming. I felt really connected to the universe around me, and it felt like I was being...accepted. I may not have been doing a full ritual, but I wasn't somehow doing it wrong.
After, I went to my jar with lucky stars of all different colours and I reached in, asking what I need to know for this upcoming spring. I pulled out a hot pink star.
Pink is the colour of love, including self-love, which is something I've been lacking lately I think. Pink also helps to heal damages from abuse or trauma. I need that too.
The colour pink is associated with the heart chakra as well, which I think relates to the free writing I did that said "open your heart" so I think I have to do some work on my heart chakra.
Because it's a bright pink, it's also associated with quickness.
I put the star on my altar by Demeter.
I feel like I really got a lot out of this ritual, even if it wasn't a full ritual, just a journal ritual. I feel like I almost got more out of it than I have for some other full rituals I've done. I'm glad I did it.
Date and Time: March 22, 2013, 11:00 pm
Moon Phase and Astrological Correspondences: 81% full, Sun in Aries, Moon in Leo, and Scorpio Rising
Weather: -2C and cloudy
Physical Health: Okay, but it's hard to feel emotionally connected to the ritual
Purpose of Ritual: To welcome spring
Deities Invoked: None invoked but honoured Demeter, and mentioned Persephone and Hades
Approximate Length of Ritual: Half an hour
I'm still not feeling 100% with this, but I managed a journal ritual that my sister helped inspire.
I lit a pink tealight because I thought it was springy, and did some free writing. Fertility came up a lot, and I mused about why Persephone never had children with Hades. I see so much love between Them, but yet there are no children. It made me feel sad when I wrote about it, like there was some kind of deep longing that couldn't be fulfilled.
I also wrote about how in my Aztec path, this time symbolizes the time when Cama Zotz and Quetzalcoatl have the same power. But right after I wrote "The bat God sleeps" twice, followed by "new life, new year, new, new." and "breathe breathe" in big letters.
On the other side of my journal (I used two side-by-side pages), I kept my pen loose in my hand and let it flow and closed my eyes. "Love" was written in big letters, and "practice." I also wrote "Open your heart," new, new" again, "relax" and "keep calm."
I also drew a oval, that really looks like a very basic image of a vulva to me.
I was going to do a meditation, but I opted to do some Yoga instead. I felt like moving like that, stretching and relaxing. I focused on doing poses that I find soothing and calming. I felt really connected to the universe around me, and it felt like I was being...accepted. I may not have been doing a full ritual, but I wasn't somehow doing it wrong.
After, I went to my jar with lucky stars of all different colours and I reached in, asking what I need to know for this upcoming spring. I pulled out a hot pink star.
Pink is the colour of love, including self-love, which is something I've been lacking lately I think. Pink also helps to heal damages from abuse or trauma. I need that too.
The colour pink is associated with the heart chakra as well, which I think relates to the free writing I did that said "open your heart" so I think I have to do some work on my heart chakra.
Because it's a bright pink, it's also associated with quickness.
I put the star on my altar by Demeter.
I feel like I really got a lot out of this ritual, even if it wasn't a full ritual, just a journal ritual. I feel like I almost got more out of it than I have for some other full rituals I've done. I'm glad I did it.