Long overdue status update

Yeah. I have totally neglected this blog, but in my defense, I blame Hekate for taking over my life for the past few months. So there’s that. But here’s where I’m currently at in terms of work that is done/not done/half-done.

1. Finally FINALLY finished slogging my way through Greek Religion. My gods, that is a long read on a fkn kindle. BUT IT IS DONE. It was … very thorough. And also, at times, a little dull. The first chapter on the archaeology almost sent me to sleep, and I care very little about philosophy so the last chapter or two were not very interesting to me. But that’s more about me than anything else, and at least now I can finally get my final book review done. 😀
2. High day reports are drafted. I’ll need to revise them a bit, just to make sure they’re coherent and clear and not too long, but my eight high days are done, and once those reports have been done, that’s that requirement sorted.
3. I need to redraft my High Day essays, because a) I wrote way too much, and b) I don’t know if I focused on the right things? IDEK. But anyway. That needs to be done.
4. I’m up to four out of five months of meditation! I (sort of?) cheated, and have been counting my breath meditation as part of my Covenant of Hekate devotions as my meditation, if only because why do ten months when I could do five? And the structure, for me, is what helps me feel like I’m not just sitting down to do five months of meditation, because I know I would suck at that. The context matters, to me. And it’s work with Hekate, and that is always worth doing. I also think my breath meditation is better than it was before, and more consistent. So that’s something. I meant to play around with the Two Powers a bit more than I had, but I’ll save that for after the next month is done, I think, if the work we’re doing this month is going to make that impossible. But I’ll cross that bridge when I get the new work.
5. I think I’ve done two of the virtues drafts? I need to do more on those, I know. I’ve been procrastinating on them, because it involves thinking time I haven’t had time to prioritise, and I don’t want to do fertility because I have ~issues~ with Fertility As A Virtue, so. XP

I think, once the meditation bit is done, the next big bit of work would be the nature awareness stuff, and that’s really about it. Everything else is drafting essays and such. Tidy it up, redraft and edit, and that’s the DP work done. Which’ll be nice. I have no real time frame for this yet, I’m busy studying witchcraft at Hekate’s request, so the DP stuff has taken a bit of a back seat of late, but hopefully, it’ll be done sooner rather than later. If I’m still working on this by June next year, I’d be very surprised.

Anyway. That’s where things are right now. I will attempt to post a bit more here, and finish drafting things, but for n0w, I have a novel to write. That is also all Hekate’s fault. #nanowrimo #blamehekate 😛

Sometimes you need to shake things up

Like when I get the sense my shrines are too cluttered, and Things Have Got To Go. I am terrible with cluttered shrines. I feel like it hampers the energy, and if there’s too much going on, it just ends up feeling like a place I don’t want to be. This isn’t just the case for physical clutter, but also a shrine trying to be too many things at once.

If anyone’s wondering why this is over here, and not at Per Sebek, it’s because it pertains to the druidic shrine, and my growing sense that, if I’m going to do deipnon, and noumenia, a proper household shrine is needed, and the initial isolation of a little corner of the shrine for that purpose ended up feeling too crowded with the rest of it. So something had to happen.

And yes, I know, the High Day stuff hasn’t been posted here yet. I’ve been busy. But I’ll try to get it written up tomorrow, just so my High Day collection is complete.

But I also think this is not a bad time to post about this, considering I’m in the process of setting up a ritual calendar for my druidry that’s more than just High Days, and the evolution of my shrines is entwined with that. It’s the practical side of actually doing ritual as much as it is making space for the important things. So I hope this is somewhat interesting to you, and gives you an insight into how I’m building my druidic/Hellenic practice.