I've started to put the parts of my practice back into place. I need to clean off the altar as it is currently covered in ash from incense. A simple cleaning and probably cleansing afterwards ( Read more... )

Well, I'll take it as a start that I am here being thoughtful for a moment instead of playing a stupid game or laughing at online kittens. But the real progress is that I got my Tree of Life carving hung up in my office today. Right in front of my eyes so that I can see it even while typing. I can already feel it awakening those connections that I ( Read more... )

I have a fish tank, a decently large one at 29 gallons. And I have neons, guppies, and some dwarf platys in it. Really not a full tank, I should get a few more fish for it. Now, these are all fish that do not live a particularly long life so I was not shocked to discover a few days ago that one of the guppies is in the process of dying. We're ( Read more... )

A number of years ago, I've forgotten how many now but probably around 5 or so,bardicstorm and I decided we wanted a fish tank. Just a small 10 gallon tank and a few fish. So we went to the pet store, bought the tank, and looked at some fish to decide what we wanted. We looked at the iridescent sharks and fell in love with their look. So after we got the ( Read more... )

Some interesting (to me anyway) developments in my lessons/learning ( Read more... )

So last night I took estaratshirai and matrinka69's wonderful advice and cleaned off the altar. Stripped it bare - and realized that it was long passed due for a cleaning anyway - GROSS amounts of incense dust had collected under the cloth. Ick ( Read more... )

I realized that a lot of people who's opinions I would want on this do not read TC so I'm cross-posting my question there - here ( Read more... )

I'm really proud of the way that I've found at least 2 or 3 minutes every night to sit still on my bed and be quiet. And the foot massage is really calming my mind and getting the day out of my skin ( Read more... )

I'm going to start recording my responses to Jet's witchcraft lessons here in LJ so that I don't lose them. This is what I've been working on right now - I'll have to go backwards to the Lesson 1 section as I sort of skipped over it for a short while ( Read more... )