So, I kind of promised to start posting more often and that didn't really happen these past few weeks. The time just flew by in the blink of an eye. I just don't understand how time is moving so fast right now. Perhaps the heat of June and the past rains of May just made my days feel like a foggy exercise, clouded over with tired haze. Yes, I've been really tired for quite a while, and a bit apathetic, too. But despite all that, I am still very much immersed in my craft and my continuous learning.
I recently got into crystallomancy, which is also known as "crystal gazing". I've had only one session so far with my crystal, but so far so good. I do feel, sometimes, that playing with the ball in my hands is more fun than trying to scry with it, as terribly child-like as that sounds. It is a new method of divination for me so I suppose subconsciously I might be trying to create a bond with my crystal by holding it. The subconscious works in wondrous ways.
Now from the many sources I have researched crystallomancy from, there is the standard procedure of naming your crystal ball. So his name is Geoffrey. And, no, I have absolutely no idea why. The name just appeared in my mind, so I just went with it. As I am always interested in meaning and symbolism, especially in names, I looked up the meaning of Geoffrey as a name and it apparently means "God’s peace", or in some sources, such as Wikipedia, "place of peace"…my interest was caught with the latter meaning. A ‘place of peace’ is a very fitting name I think, and I will be using Geoffrey for mediation purposes as well.
As a constant and seasoned user of the tarot, scrying has been a tad difficult for me to break into. With the Tarot, images are presented in front of you to decipher; in scrying, images either come to you within your mind or actually materialize in front of your eyes within the crystal ball. Scrying takes much more concentration that tarot reading, so a 10 minute session really left me drained. I can usually go for nearly an hour doing a tarot reading! So that's a big change of pace for me. I'm sure with more practice I'll get used to it.
In addition to expending my divination capabilities, I am also beginning to explore the history of witchcraft and modern paganism. I found and bought a few used books on Amazon for my summer 'light' reading (not!), two of them are by Raven Grimassi, whom I am familiar with only by name with the exception of the few short articles written by him in my annual Spell-a-Day Almanac book by Llewellyn. I might give a review of that annual series in another post.
Anyways, I'm very excited to be reading this book because it is more on the academic/historical side of the witchy equation. As much as I love to be engaged in reading about rituals and goddesses, it a nice change of pace to read about the historical aspect of the basis of Witchcraft/Wicca and how it is entwined with Italian paganism, Freemasonry, and religious cults of Greco-Roman antiquity.
When I am done reading I’ll do my best to post a review.
Blessed be and namaste.
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