July was a busy month: Covid wedding, dogsitting (which left me with a sore back), house inspection, closing, and moving, moving, moving. We finally turned in our keys to the old apartment yesterday, got our security deposit back, and today I took the day off. Today was Lammas/Lughnasadh, so I suppose a holiday is as good a time as any for a little break. It has been a little difficult finding rituals for this time of year that are Goddess-centric while also being solitary - generally, Wiccans and Pagans will use this holiday to honor the God Lugh (hence the name) - but I am practicing a Goddess-centric (-only) practice at the moment, and the Habondia ritual in Ariadne's Thread is for a group. So I just did what I felt was appropriate, and it was nice. Though I'm hoping in the (Coronavirus-free) future that I'll have a community to celebrate the Wheel of the Year with, I'm focusing right now on my personal feelings surrounding the seasons and what those mean for me. Despite my Dianic-leaning preferences, I am a little bit of a traditionalist, and use the quarter calls and circle castings that the Farrars use in A Witches' Bible. It has been interesting to say the least to revisit this tradition after all these years. I remember everyone was reading this, that, and the other thing, and we all had our Opinions on them, as teenagers have to spare. I do remember someone dismissing the Farrars outright based on the name of the book ("Witches don't have a Bible", no further discussion allowed), but I have learned quite a bit from their work & hope to continue to learn. Although, I must admit, my structure here is purely religious, as I have no talent for the magic(k)al arts, my ownself. Despite being busy, I have been doing just the slightest bit of this and that and the other. I did a little Sad Night Crime postcard: I have also almost - almost! - finished my Odin mask. (I only have a video, and Weebly won't let me upload videos, so I might have to bite the bullet and put it on Instagram.) My now-former roommate has a painting of mine that I did in college, and after looking at it on our mantle for a couple of years, I decided to work back into it just a little. I think it has improved a bit. Tomorrow I have a couple of small painting projects to finish. All this between trying to get this new apartment in order/internet ordered/electric sorted out/the old apartment cleaned/transcript requests faxed/and so on. I did get into both programs I applied to for graduate school, so that's exciting! Now I have to decide which one I'll attend. They're both online. Been reading Station Eleven as part of a pandemic book club, and it's really wonderful so far. I'm enjoying it greatly, just as I enjoyed Year of Wonders.
That's all for me, for now! Tomorrow is another day.
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