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Last night was a pre-surgery healing working for me. One of the new Dedicants set it up and I met with her, 2 others from my group, and a friend of one of the members. The 5 of us (all women) sat around a table and charged up little objects with healing energy for me to use while in recovery, and they all offered to come visit, send energy, or whatever I needed.
It was really wonderful!
I have not been in an all-woman circle for quite some time. I enjoy being around a mix of different energies; if I didn't I'd just be a solitary witch. When I first started studying in, on 1991 or so it was with a little group of Goddess worshipers and there was a lot of your 'men ruined everything, down with the patriarchy, never again the burning' boilerplate that I wasn't really comfortable with even then. I like many aspects of being a woman, but it irked my sense of balance to have my pride at the expense of others. I eventually found my way into a grove that had men in it and it felt a lot better for me. The gathering last night reminded me of the energy of working with an all-woman group. It wasn't all bad in that first Goddess group; when they weren't man-bashing they were very nurturing and supportive. That's all of what I got last night. It was definitely it's own kind of energy. There were moms and non-moms and we talked about fertility and I never felt like my lack of baby-having made any difference to any of them, or called into question my ability to nurture and 'mother' in different ways (it has happened before).
I also got a nice armload of pretty trinkets. I can justify why this works for me from an astrological standpoint, but let's just say I never got along with the whole 'eschew material things' spiritual stance some people take. Yes, do not form an unhealthy connection to things; you are not your job or your IKEA furniture and all that other Fight Club stuff. But finding beauty in material things to me is a big part of enjoying living the life of a fully integrated being, which for us humans includes spiritual and material aspects. You don't have to reject one to enjoy the other. Enjoy both! Anyway, off the soapbox. Here's what I got, and all of it full of happy healing ju-ju:
-that quilt I mentioned earlier; I brought it to get charged up.
-4 candles; a huge green pillar on a black and white marble base, a smaller white pillar that smells of 'fresh linens' (not having linens I can't vouch for that but it smells nice), and 2 small blue tapers with sage (I think) oil
-a charm with a satyr and a nymph
-a charm with the dreaming goddess from Malta
-2 different herbal blends, both featuring a lot of lavender, one with sage and eucalyptus, the other with a bunch of 'female herbs' that I can't remember
-cocoa butter for the incision
-a box of teeny seashells, ranging in size from pea to peach pit, one packed with one of the above herbal blends
-a chant written with symbols and runes
-'Chinese health balls', those dingly cloisonne balls that you roll around in your hand; these with the Sun and Moon
-a hefty polished chunk of mostly yellow with a little purple fluorite
-a small box with little polished stones (amethyst, rose quartz, garnets, apache tear, sunstone (I think) and rhodonite)
-a large beautiful polished chunk of labradorite with lots of blue fire
It was also nice to visit the home of this Dedicant, who has always been very quiet and sort of hung out in the background. I think we have a lot in common, and I look forward to getting to know her better.
Then the lot of us went to dinner, accompanied by my hub and the Dedicant's hub, both of whom uttered maybe 5 words the entire evening. The rest of us were chatty and loud, and there was a little of the downside of female-heavy energy- gossip. I try not to gossip most of the time but it didn't help that a lot of the gossip centered around people I dislike anyway; not very grown-up of me, but eh. I'm human.
It's another quiet day today. I've done something to my lower back, and it's vexing me. I don't know how I manage to injure myself while doing nothing but sitting. Fortunately Doc has approved more visits to Chiro. Chiro's closed on Thursdays so I'll just have to suck it up 'til tomorrow. I can handle it.
It was really wonderful!
I have not been in an all-woman circle for quite some time. I enjoy being around a mix of different energies; if I didn't I'd just be a solitary witch. When I first started studying in, on 1991 or so it was with a little group of Goddess worshipers and there was a lot of your 'men ruined everything, down with the patriarchy, never again the burning' boilerplate that I wasn't really comfortable with even then. I like many aspects of being a woman, but it irked my sense of balance to have my pride at the expense of others. I eventually found my way into a grove that had men in it and it felt a lot better for me. The gathering last night reminded me of the energy of working with an all-woman group. It wasn't all bad in that first Goddess group; when they weren't man-bashing they were very nurturing and supportive. That's all of what I got last night. It was definitely it's own kind of energy. There were moms and non-moms and we talked about fertility and I never felt like my lack of baby-having made any difference to any of them, or called into question my ability to nurture and 'mother' in different ways (it has happened before).
I also got a nice armload of pretty trinkets. I can justify why this works for me from an astrological standpoint, but let's just say I never got along with the whole 'eschew material things' spiritual stance some people take. Yes, do not form an unhealthy connection to things; you are not your job or your IKEA furniture and all that other Fight Club stuff. But finding beauty in material things to me is a big part of enjoying living the life of a fully integrated being, which for us humans includes spiritual and material aspects. You don't have to reject one to enjoy the other. Enjoy both! Anyway, off the soapbox. Here's what I got, and all of it full of happy healing ju-ju:
-that quilt I mentioned earlier; I brought it to get charged up.
-4 candles; a huge green pillar on a black and white marble base, a smaller white pillar that smells of 'fresh linens' (not having linens I can't vouch for that but it smells nice), and 2 small blue tapers with sage (I think) oil
-a charm with a satyr and a nymph
-a charm with the dreaming goddess from Malta
-2 different herbal blends, both featuring a lot of lavender, one with sage and eucalyptus, the other with a bunch of 'female herbs' that I can't remember
-cocoa butter for the incision
-a box of teeny seashells, ranging in size from pea to peach pit, one packed with one of the above herbal blends
-a chant written with symbols and runes
-'Chinese health balls', those dingly cloisonne balls that you roll around in your hand; these with the Sun and Moon
-a hefty polished chunk of mostly yellow with a little purple fluorite
-a small box with little polished stones (amethyst, rose quartz, garnets, apache tear, sunstone (I think) and rhodonite)
-a large beautiful polished chunk of labradorite with lots of blue fire
It was also nice to visit the home of this Dedicant, who has always been very quiet and sort of hung out in the background. I think we have a lot in common, and I look forward to getting to know her better.
Then the lot of us went to dinner, accompanied by my hub and the Dedicant's hub, both of whom uttered maybe 5 words the entire evening. The rest of us were chatty and loud, and there was a little of the downside of female-heavy energy- gossip. I try not to gossip most of the time but it didn't help that a lot of the gossip centered around people I dislike anyway; not very grown-up of me, but eh. I'm human.
It's another quiet day today. I've done something to my lower back, and it's vexing me. I don't know how I manage to injure myself while doing nothing but sitting. Fortunately Doc has approved more visits to Chiro. Chiro's closed on Thursdays so I'll just have to suck it up 'til tomorrow. I can handle it.
