Having a blog for a whole month now is still something completely new to me. I´m just beginning my journey as a writer as well. So at the same time, I´m my own editor and my own webmaster.
Therefore, there will inevitably be some mistakes along the way. I´m not in a hurry, however. The purpose of this blog is not to earn money alone, nor is it only about witchcraft.
There have to be some space for me as a real person as well. It may well be that I thereby do not meet the demands of today about how to run a blog.
I need to be allowed to learn in my own pace, I need to write blog post without pictures as well as the beautiful ones. I want to learn this process step by step, not rushing in without thinking about what I really want for this blog.
Today it is a rainy day, both on the weather front and inside of me. Just one of those days, where I have to write even though I´m not comfortable physically.
As I have worked with blog posts every day during this last month, I´ve learned that it will be good to try to write less, but longer posts that are more trimmed for the sake of you, dear reader.
So to be expected in August 2019 are the following posts :
- August 2 : Weekly Witchcraft, Lammas Sabbat and New Moon Ritual
- August 9 : Waxing Quarter Moon Ritual
- August 16 : Full Moon Ritual
- August 23 : Waning Quarter Moon Ritual
- August 30 : New Moon Ritual and what to expect in September 2019
I want to learn as long as I live. And with both witchcraft and this blog, I´m achieving just that.
It is so rewarding and life-affirming to try something new and choose the road not taken. And I need to be hungry as a writer, before I can write something worth reading.
So in order to achieve that I´ve decided only to write once a week for the next month. It is also, because I´m having my 81 years old father on a 5 day long visit the coming week, and I would like some offline time with him.
And because I need to study this blogging something. There are so many new things to learn, and to be as thorough as possible I need to prepare myself a little bit by achieving new knowledge and trying to make it work in the real world out here, where there is a thin line between subtlety and re-write, re-write, re-write.
Besides, studying how to blog, I´m also in a writer´s block situation. I need some inspiration from other sources. And I need my daily practice with witchcraft.
So for the rest of today, I´ll be preparing my Lammas Sabbat and my New Moon ritual for tomorrow night.
August is a month of many rituals, 5 to be specific, because rituals is so important to me in my daily work with witchcraft. It is here that I truly get to feel the magick close up.
Therefore, the big rituals will be the theme for the coming weeks. Later this fall I´ll post a series on mini rituals suited for working with witchcraft on a daily basis.
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