It’s late and it has been a great day with the kids and Mr. Spirit. And I was able to get in much-needed research. I have read and read that I just need to step back and think about what I read before I know what is true for me on my path.
I have read about the wonders of child-birth and the stages of the female life. And think this is defiantly something I will look in to some more. I knew being a woman was special and powerful and now I am learning how. I loved being pregnant and would love to have just one more child but if I don’t I will be happy with that.
I know that I will raise my daughter to rejoice with her changing body and not be shamed because she got her period. I do think that her and I will be using cloth pads it just seems to be the right fit for me and I hope for her.
Tomorrow I hope to research about the spiritual growth in boys/men as well because I have two sons and I can’t leave them standing at the curb.
In an earlier post I talked about a blessing jar that I was going to do for New Years so I thought I would share it with you fine people (if there are any out there that is)
Make a blessing jar:
Into a vase, jar, or bottle (which symbolizes protection), put:
-a small bag of soil (for abundance)
-a coin (for prosperity)
-a fabric bag of salt (for purification)
-a crystal (for vision)
-an arrowhead (for guidance)
-a tiny fabric bag of herbs (for grounding)
-left over candle (for focus)
-a cross (for balance)
-a feather (for freedom)
-a clipping of hair from each family member (for unity)
-an old key (for opportunity)
-a small mirror (for truth)
-a piece of red paper (for memory)
-a small fabric bag of raw rice (for fertility)
-a ring (for love)
-a rune stone (for communication)
-a shell (for choices)
-a small fabric bag of loose tea (for awareness)
-a small folded fan (for healing)
-a rubber band (for flexibility)
-a letter that contains this list and what you hope to accomplish this year, sealed inside an envelope (for happiness)
You need not have everything on this list, select what is important to you.
Seal the jar with the lid, or cover the bottle/vase with a piece of fabric and a rubber band or string. Place your blessing jar either just inside or outside your front door until next New Year’s Eve.
Now I would and a prayer before I sent it out and make sure my intent was on what I was placing in the jar.
I think this is going to be a simple yet powerful thing for me to do. It’s going to be one of the first magical things I do that isn’t about food. LOL Mr. Spirit doesn’t get it but he is supportive of it so that makes me happy.
I am also hoping to honor the goddess on the full moon that night and just jump in with both feet. I am not sure what I am going to do with the full moon and it’s a blue moon yet but maybe something as simple as a blessing and maybe starting my BoS. And charging some crystals I don’t know.
The cleansing I was going to do was simple, sadly I live in a bible belt state and in a trailer park so I am careful what I do outside and this is something I can do outside without much problem. And frankly I like it because it’s simple I think that’s how things should be is simple.
So here is the blessing I am going to do.
Pretty much I am going to go outside and fill a bowl with cool water from the hose and then say
“Substance wasted, substance spoiled, now redeemed. Seeing thyself in substance undefiled, forming thyself a new from this frail substance gathered and revived”
I am going to do this in the morning and then again in the evening. I think this will renew my spirit for the new year nicely I might change the words a bit. But I like them I may need to add at least to them, if I do I will share with you guys.
I also plan on sharing what goes in my blessing jar as well. Mr. Spirit thinks I should leave out the rice well we will see on that one. HeHe
This trip that I am on is almost like starting over because I let it lapse for so long and I hate that I really do. I let life and depression get in the way and I hope to not let that happen again. I hope that as I get my Spiritual self back together that it will lead to all the parts of me getting back together and on the right path. I seem to be able to handle mom mode pretty good but even there I am not being all that I can be and I hate that.
So tomorrow I am making a deal to do one thing more than I normally to declutter (sp) one area of the house and find on object to use in ritual, and I am to do one more thing with each of my children for fun. And for the spiritual part of me I need to meditate at least 20 minutes tomorrow and focus on that and clearing and centering myself. This I promise myself and I hope to get done tomorrow. I know I can do it. Maybe I will even make a pie tomorrow!
Until tomorrow.
Blessings,
Spirit