Day: July 2, 2019

Tonight´s ritual

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The candles are snuffed. The room is darkening, and my cats are now playing and sitting in the windowsill. Listening to whatever cats may listen to, but looking so philosophical as only cats can do.

The ritual is long gone, but my last reflections for the day will contain a quote that I read some time ago (author unknown to me at present moment). which ever since has been and is a daily inspiration to me, my family and my friends. So here we go, enjoy :

“Happiness is the new rich. Inner peace is the new success. Health is the new wealth. Kindness is the new cool”.

Beautiful words in a world of stress and everyday its own trouble. To me happiness is to live in the present moment, since the past is already gone, and we can´t promise each other a tomorrow. Inner peace is a state of calm and a relaxed breath. Health is wealth, because without it we would soon acknowledge how precious life is. And kindness is a necessary tool in order to be able to live with other people and everything else on Earth.

I have these feelings right now. After a ritual I feel as reborn. I´m completely relaxed, and I feel an inner peace that is difficult to express in words alone.

I hope that you have enjoyed this guided tour around a New Moon ritual. And in order to share some of the experience, I have this picture for you. See you for more tomorrow. For today, I´m grateful. For this life I´m grateful. Let tomorrow begin, where this night ends. So Mote It Be.

My cat Milo

Meditation time…

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Now, as we are getting closer to the time, when my New Moon ritual kicks off, I’m preparing for it by meditating on what I need to release in order to be able to work from intention to reality with this new projekt, my new blog.

Soon, I’ll take my ritual bath and dress for the ritual. Then I use to light all the candles on my daily and ritual altars. And simply sit for a couple of minutes before inviting my husband inside my “den”, my room for magick.

Below, you see pictures of my personal notes and my daily altar, when it is fully set up for ritual. I like to keep things simple and easy to handle during ritual.

Therefore, I prefer small and short rituals, where the intensity often is much more tangible than many long rituals with complicated setups and a lot of reading.

I’ll return in a few hours to tell you how everything went. But already I’m feeling happy and relaxed, because I’m about to begin something I love, practicing magick. So, now I draw the curtains, take a last look to see, if I have missed something, and make my salt blend for my ritual bath.

Preparing New Moon ritual

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As promised yesterday, I´ll take you by the hand for a closer look on how I prepare myself and my altars, when I´m having a ritual. Tonight it is New Moon in Cancer, and with both my Sun sign and my Moon sign in Cancer, Rising in Leo, I believe it´s going to be a magickal experience.

On the pictures today, you can see my work station and my altars being prepared for the ritual. I will also show you my personal notes that I´ll be using during the ritual in the next post that will be written just before the ritual begins.

I´ve carved the following inscription on the candles for my ritual altar : Blog Success and Prosperity, Health and Love. These are my intentions for this New Moon. As well as are my written intentions of letting go of the past. They will will be burned while I read a prayer of release.

I´ll do a Tarot reading as well, and I will ask the Universe to aid me in my intentions of making this a pagan blog with the sole purpose of sharing my knowledge and hopefully learning even more in time.

As you can see, I use crystals and essential oils for my ritual as well as sage and orange flower incense in order to attract a pleasant atmosphere and prosperity for my blog and my profile on Pinterest (The Northern Witch).

As I´ve been writing this, I´m mentally preparing myself for tonight´s ritual. I always use at least half an hour to clear my thoughts and think of my intentions for my magickal workings. Then I take a ritual bath where I use bath salt (dried sage leaves, lemon or eucalyptus oil and Himalaya salt mixed together with mortar and pestle) to get me in the right mood for having a ritual.

But this is it for now, the mundane world also needs to be taken care of, and I need to prepare my notes for the ritual and think of the content of the next post. I will be back in a few hours.