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

4. Creative visualization

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: I will write my pots the best I can, with lots of photos and links, and it will get people excited. 
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.

4. Creative Visualization:

Every month, at the waxing gibbous moon (my last push for action), I call on the practice of visualization to help me to see the next steps towards bringing my goals to fruition.

Today I shine a light on my Nature-Culture blog; the goal is to shifting the paradigm towards nature-culture world-wide. The qualities of life (Needs) I want to embody are contribution, clarity, and dedicated progress.

Creative visualization is a technique that uses my imagination to create change. (Because of my visual and auditory sensitivity, this is the best process for knowing what I'm feeling.) It has these steps:

• First, set an intention: Say, "Today I call on the Spirit of Love to bring me clarity and open my eyes to a vision of me, writing my n-c blog the very best I can, releasing it in perfect increments, with great incentives to re-post, building a readership quickly who dialogue with me and help me to grow a movement." 

• Center and relax each part of my body: With each breath, allow my awareness to deepen and become softer. No stress. No rush. I walk or float in an imaginary void. Open a connection to Spirit. Feel a soft warmth begin to grow and spread through me, until I am radiating quiet energy.

• Create a clear, detailed picture in my mind, as though the objective has been reached. Paint a vivid mental image of my blog home page with touching and powerful writing, great photos, and posts sent to hundreds of in-boxes. Put as much positive energy into the images as possible. 

• Lastly, affirm that this is what I want with a short positive phrase in the present tense: "Today I will take the next step towards shifting the paradigm"

• Give thanks and return: Saying thanks out loud is how I acknowledge the reality of the gift of my vision.

The thought-image is like a signal-flare that guides the physical thing or deed to manifest in my life (and it's a good way to keep my intentions in my mind). I will carry the vision of the completed goal with me, and focus on it often during the day, in a gentle manner.