With today being the start of Imbolc, and having some time to myself later on in the evening (after my kids go to bed, and my husband goes to work for the night) I plan on setting up an altar/shrine in my room, seeing as my baby has now transitioned into his own room and I have my space again. I spent the afternoon clearing out drawers in my night stand to accommodate some of my tools and necessities. I also bought a small plastic basket to place some "immediate use" items in (to see if it will work as storage...I'll post a pic of what I mean later).
My plan is to slowly re-integrate my spirituality into my life. It might be difficult, but if spirituality were meant to be easy everyone would do it (and I mean EVERYONE). After setting up my altar, and implementing a representation for Imbolc (inspiration from HERE...lovin' this blog), my plan is...when I have some spare time...to light a candle (will have to be an electric candle for now), say my prayer of Faith (something I searched long and hard for in my old, enormous BoS), maybe say a prayer of thanks, maybe a bit of meditation, and continue with my day. But it's a time of year where I wish my husband wasn't working shift work so I could do these things when I wake up...usually when I wake up, he's coming home and crawling into bed.
Anyway, after a bit of TMI lol, I'm really hoping this will boost my spirituality. I've even took back up reading my Thea Sabin book "Wicca for Beginners" (another something I lost and found (it had a book jacket on so I couldn't see the cover).
New year, new beginnings.
For anyone interested in the "Faith" prayer I talked about above, here it is in an excerpt from Patricia Telesco's book "Exploring Candle Magic: Candle Spells, Charms, Rituals and Divinations". I've found it's helped me in the past and hope it will again.
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**UPDATE**
Here's a picture of my altar so far. Remember, I'm re-energizing my spirituality so it's a work in progress.
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1) My Goddess statue. It's my representation of Hecate. Around her neck is a key on purple string. Around her on the table is a Willow branch wrapped in a ring.
2) My black pillar candle. My mother, decluttering her home, gave me some candles and within these candles was this beautiful black pillar candle. I always say that I get what I need when I am supposed to, so I need to enact patience. It's happened with my pentacle ring, and it's happened now with this candle. I think it's blackberry scented lol.
3) My representation for Imbolc. Inspired by "Witchy Words"...a blogspot blog I filled a bowl with salt, to represent snow, spring, purity, renewal, etc. Bay leaves are leaves of Imbolc, and represent protection, success and wishes. I have a lot of wishes for protection and success this coming year. Below the dish is the Tarot card "The Star" indicating inspiration and hope and the Rune stone "Isa" or "ice", representing the wait for what is to come.
4) My abalone shell given to me by my mother. Because Hecate is also seen as a Goddess of the sea, a shell makes sense to be on an altar with her. It also can represent the West for Water (even though it's not in the Western quarter of the table...again, this is a work in progress and not all of my items are brought back into my room). On top of the shell are braids of sweetgrass. Sweetgrass is used to purify a space and cleanse an area. Another gift from my mother.
5) The book I'm reading. Thea Sabin's "Wicca for Beginners". I've learned a lot from this book, even though I don't remember reading as much as I seem to have lol. My book mark was sitting in the middle of the book, but flipping through, I remember small snippets lol. Anyways, I learned how to properly introduce myself to my deity, something I never actually did. I will incorporate and adapt what I learned to approach the Goddess.
6) My storage area. Currently there is my box (to the top left of the picture) that contains my stones. On top of it is a piece of bathroom tissue...it's catching the water that will drain out of the bottle I was using to hold blessed water. I need to make some new stuff. To the right is a book of random information I need to add to my BoS. I have a lot of information I need to put in there. It's a slow start. Below that, to the left is my small cupboard that hold some small vials of herbs and some miscellaneous items. In the middle (behind the watermark) is my Tarot box. It holds my Tarot cards. Beside that is my mesh pouch of various runes, both Witch and Elder Futhark (I haven't made individual pouches for them yet). Beside THAT...is my two wooden boxes. They both contain empty corked bottles, but I believe there is also some random wire crafts that I threw in there to clean my living room a bit.
This is my work in progress. I have a LOT more stuff to bring back into my room.
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