Lucky

I am lucky - pure and simple - and I have been reminded of that again today.

I had found myself in a funk, the world is a scary place right now and it frightened me and had made me a tad low in mood.

Then a gift today woke me up and shook me up - I feel as if I have been zapped awake again and can once again see positivity and hope in the future.

Having my birthday during lockdown meant my presents (that I had asked not to be given this year - tsk - but did they listen?), were belated, as everything is taking much longer to be delivered due to the unprecedented high demand us online shoppers are creating.

However cross I was at my family for ignoring me and buying me gifts I have to say the thought and love behind them is awesome and I love them all and have been thrilled by their thoughtfulness and generosity, knowing how limited their finances are right now.

On my actual birthday in May they all gave me flowers, chocolates and wine. Which I loved, and I had a wonderful day.

Then presents continued to arrive as you will see below, each one pertinent to my likes and way of life and so hugely loved - with opening each gift I cried, quite hard in fact which I am attributing to unstable menopausal hormones and deep appreciation of the consideration given to each gift.

First to arrive was a trio of books from my husband, who knows I am very much into studying and working towards growing and making my own medicinal stockpile of home remedies.

My gorgeous husband on a boat last September when we were away in Greece

Brilliant Books!

I am working towards taking an online herbology class at my Pagan school and so these books mean the world to me.

Next came a socially distanced garden visit from my second born daughter and her partner, with their gorgeous and enormous 9 month old German Shepherd/Bull Mastiff cross puppy. The visit alone was wonderful but then they left me with two little boxes wrapped up to open when they left - which once unwrapped exposed a gorgeous deep glossy black cauldron mug and candle melt/incense burner. I love the mug so much I have put it on my altar because I am terrified of chipping it and have decreed to only drink from it each year on my birthday! The burner will be used during spell and ritual work - both of which I adore and feel enormously grateful for.

Second born offspring

Partner  of second born and their massive 9 month old puppy 

Mug

Burner

Then finally, today the final gift arrived - one that again reduced me as always into a blubbering wreck of overwhelming emotions.

A little background as to why this gift is so special is that I have multiple allergies - which makes jewellery particularly difficult as I can only wear titanium. My family know that I love divination and particularly using runes - I have three sets of runes, all of which I love. Plus, I am hugely drawn to trees, they bring me much peace and happiness when around them. Family is also very important to me and I become very attached to the sentiment behind gifts and hold onto them and cherish them.

I used to always wear a watch, a metal mans watch that my husband gave me before we were married - a simple inexpensive watch that meant the world to me, but due to allergies I can no longer wear - although I still have it. My daughter enquired a few months ago whether I missed wearing a watch and I told her I did but had given up on one because I didn't know if titanium watches were even a thing, let alone affordable.

SO, my first and third born offspring clubbed together and purchased the gifts (seen below) hand crafted from someone with a small business in Israel.

First born offspring

Third born offspring

The beautiful box the gift arrived in with special tool and additional links should they be required.

A gorgeous box to keep forever

My beautiful wooden watch, carved with runes around it and the tree of life in the centre,
even more amazing is that I discovered that the hands of the watch are glow in the dark too!!

Message engraved into the back of the watch

Gorgeous wooden bead on elastic mala bracelet

Cheesy picture of a very happy me wearing both my new gifts!!

The watch is a retro wind up one and not battery run - which I LOVE, plus all the little personal finishing touches to its design. Something that is very special to me and will be forever treasured.

I feel exceptionally fortunate and super lucky to have such a wonderful family around me - they keep me grounded and remind me when feeling in even the lowest of moods that a spark of happiness can be reignited even when you thought it had been extinguished within you.

I just wanted to share this with you because today reminded me to look up and see those people who care and love me and that we matter, all of us - and we are loved, even when we don't always see it.

Love and Blessings

x~X~x

Feeding the Mind & Soul

Sometimes you have to immerse yourself in what makes you happy, feeds the mind and soul and makes you feel whole.

I recently embraced the lurking inner witch inside of me and decide to really learn about the craft to further understand what draws me to it and how to utilise it in my daily life.

This discovery has given me a sense of deep inner peace ~ I feel I now fully know who I am and which direction to go in from this moment onward.

I have searched avidly for information about the craft and for guidance to help me decide in which direction I want to go but found that there is so much information that I got a little bamboozled.

THEN I stumbled upon a game changer for me ~ a FREE online school which will help me delve deeper into the subjects that call to me and help me find direction, information, guidance and instruction. I am currently working through orientation classes before I can then choose to study specific topics but my intention is to diligently work through every class that I find I am interested in and learn how to utilise the craft in my daily life for optimum harmony.

I have since also discovered through this first school another which will be opening its doors on Samhain, which I will most definitely enrol in as I have researched both schools and feel both can offer me what I need to continue on my path.

If you are wanting to discover and learn more about the craft then I would urge you to look into both of these schools and see if they offer you what you are looking for.

The first school is The Magical Circle School ~ TMCS, it offers "The Magickal Circle School of Paganism, Witchcraft, and Wicca is a free online school with courses that teach about Paganism, Witchcraft, Wicca, Mythology, Divination, Healing, and much more!" The school has recently reopened after some major changes  and is now better than ever, the link should you be interested in enrolling is:

https://magickalcircleschool.com/

The second school is Serenity Academy of Magick, which is an online pagan school that as yet is not up and running but will be opening up Samhain 2019, so no link is available yet for me to share with you to link to the school site. However, I am sure you will be able to google search the schools name on Samhain and navigate to it from that.

All I can say is that I am exceptionally grateful and appreciative of the people who are running these schools for giving of their time and expertise for free in order to help other like minded individuals who are wanting to expand their knowledge base and interact with others on the same or similar path.

I am eager to finish my orientation classes and delve deeper and immerse myself in learning more and can see that the information and education gained will be addictive and incredibly satisfying to complete.

So, at the grand age of 50 I am once again a student ~ and loving it!

~ Blessings ~ 

x~X~x