A Wandering Fox

(Also posted on Hearth Fox Oracle and Book of Mirrors) Last night I was working on writing a Midwinter (Feb 1st) ritual.  I have one that I wrote for my family last year, but I hardly ever use the same script.  Last year, my family focused on Cailleach and how soon spring would return.  This year I'm feeling a pull to Elen of the Ways, or as my guides named her the "Antlered  Guidess ". As I was writing it, I kept seeing this Antlered Goddess, whom I am a priestess of.  She wanted to focus on guiding.  Okay, I needed more details, so I got out my Imbolc Oracle deck (by Lorraine Anderson and Juliet Diaz).  A card jumped from the deck.  I drew one more. Bloodstone and Aquarius.  Ignoring the truth and the need to surrender is what I gathered from these cards.   I asked aloud, "So yall want me to focus on truth for this rite?" Then Someone spoke through me using the keyboard (so gracefully, too, as if They were playing a piano.  ...

Jan 2 Gentle New Year, yall. Last night my grove had a New Year rite, where they honored Hestia, Janus, and Athena. Someone else did the omen, which was nice, because it allowed me to get into a posture that I've been using for a while. One of my astral forms, I'm floating or hovering, with a root anchoring me to the ground. So I sit with my right foot touching the ground and the left leg folded up to my body. Last year, whenever I meditated or tranced, I used that posture for grounding and journeying. It's about liminal spaces, one foot in, one foot out. Also anchoring between earth and sky. The other part of my posture is to have my Spirit Stick resting upright between my legs, for the seidr part of my practice. To continue to form that bond between me and Alum. The last part is holding prayer beads in my left hand and my wooden knife in my right hand, arms spread, palms up. The whole thing kind of reminds me of Cernunnos' sitting posture, which wasn't on...