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.

So the Equinox happened etc

I’m a bit behind on posting here, I know, and I haven’t even had a chance to write up my Equinox rite yet because work! But anyway, I did my ritual last night, it was a simple libation one, the same one I used for the summer solstice because /lazy. I had the 70 Day Prayers* to do for David Bowie the day before, so I wasn’t really up for a big ritual, not with work on the Monday as well.

The tl;dr version is basically, it went well, I met Poseidon in meditation and it turns out he’s a bit of a dick, and I still haven’t poured out my water into the ground yet oh gods I have been so busy today. D:

Anyway. I hope your equinox was good, and you weren’t quite as busy as me. Leaving this short because I have work tomorrow and going to bed after midnight is not a good idea. Back later with a proper write-up and maybe some of the DPOTY homework I’ve been slowly catching up on.

* For those not familiar with the 70 day prayers, it comes from the Kemetic tradition, and the length of time it took to mummify a body/the soul to travel through the Duat and become an Akh, iirc. It’s become traditional in Kemetic circles to recite the 70 day prayers for our dead, and so I said them for Bowie on the 19th, and poured water, and offered bread, and incense, and a little honey liqueur. There’s a short devotional post about it on Per Sebek if anyone’s interested. This is part of how I mourn my dead, and my heroes, and Bowie, for me, is a hero.