Sunday for Getting My Head on Straight

Life is getting complex. I need to slow it down and get some clarity.

 

Agenda today:

1. Read "Revolutionary Witchcraft"

2. Power mapping preparations

3. Awareness practice for the week

1. Read "Revolutionary Witchcraft":

I'm reading this sweet little book by Sarah Lyons (2019) that I got from my daughter for Christmas. The subtitle is A Guide to Magical Activism.

Chapter 4 is The Pathways of Power, about ways to map the currents of power and direct it in the material plane.

Keep in mind that people have reasons for doing what they do, even things that seem dumb on the outside. When things seem confusing hard to grasp, we can break down the obfuscating walls and reveal "the hidden pathways through which power is shaping...".

2. Power mapping preparations:

The technique of power mapping can help reveal what kind of magic we need to do.

1. The first step is to identify the goal, something big and long-term, like shifting the paradigm towards nature-culture world-wide.
2. Next list out all the smaller goals that will lead to that bigger goal. 
3. Also, imagine a clear picture of what victory looks like in the near future, for the first little phase.

3. Awareness practice for the week:

This week I need to get back to basics: Calming my triggers, and grounding in nature.

5-4-3-2-1:

• Take a deep breath and find 5 things you can see.
• Touch 4 things and feel their textures.
• Listen for 3 different sounds you can hear.
• Smell 2 distinct odors.
• Taste something.

Morning offering:
Grab a small handful of sunflower seeds from the container I keep in the shed, then I go out onto a patch of earth in the yard - rain or shine - to greet the morning and do this short visualization:

• Feel the earth under my feet, and send my roots downward. Sense the hugeness of this earth, and breath in, drawing Earth power inward.
• Raise my arms upward and expand towards the sky. Sense the vastness of the cosmos above me, and exhale Love outward to the universe.
• Then I pause and look at the sky, the trees, my back garden, and just breath for a moment. I greet the day and the Earth, and toss out a small handful of sunflower seeds into the flower bed, my daily offering to nature.