Cycles and patterns - weekly magic

[Jenett]

We see a lot of talk in some corners of our shared communities about year-long cycles (Sabbats, seasonal festivals, things that happen once a year like the flooding of the Nile), and some mid-length things (lunar cycles, say).

But I'm curious what you all do on a shorter cycle basis.

I've mentioned before that I've been running a lot of stuff on a planetary day system for a while, which includes both some specific offerings (right now, I am at specific things I do in terms of a specific extra bit on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday, and I'm about to add Saturday.

I do my weekly budget stuff on Thursday, for expansion and bounty. I do my planning for the week on Saturday for structure and foundational support for my goals. (And I had my tax appointment last Saturday, for similar reasons.) I set aside some time on Mondays for witchy learning and study. I'm not super rigid about it, and I do things on other days (for example, this last week, I did my end of month budget stuff on the 27th and didn't do the weekly stuff on Thursday.)

I also plan to do stuff that only happens every so often on specific days: when I self publish a book, I do the upload on the Wednesday, with an extra offering to Mercury for technology going smoothly (works so far!) and I announce it on Friday (I write romances, so this is the obvious one...)

Another place I spend time online has just started a weekly prayer to Juno Moneta for financial blessings and foundation, which is on Thursdays. That kind of thing.

Especially in a pandemic year, where all the days blend really easily, this has helped me anchor some stuff - but I've also found I really like having the varying focus to my weeks. It helps reduce some kinds of "When do I do that?" decision fatigue: I know that I have time for X stuff on Y day, I can put it on that next slot by default.

And now I'm curious if anyone else is doing anything like that (and if so, what?) or if you've thought about it and not done it yet, or want to talk about other aspects of it.

[Sefiru]

And now I'm curious if anyone else is doing anything like that (and if so, what?) or if you've thought about it and not done it yet, or want to talk about other aspects of it.

I've been doing a weekly ritual with meditation for a while now (much more consistently than any kind of annual cycle ) It took a while to figure out which day works best though. I used to do ritual on my day off (whatever that was at the time) but after a while, having a structured task on a 'rest' day just made me want to skip it. Now I do ritual on Monday, when I'm in 'work' mode but still have energy to spare (usually).

[Kylara]

And now I'm curious if anyone else is doing anything like that (and if so, what?) or if you've thought about it and not done it yet, or want to talk about other aspects of it.

I do a lot of mundane weekly stuff, and some has magical roots.  I definitely function better when I know what days things happen on, and barring some outside impetus, I try to tie things to correspondences when possible.

So, I write a weekly blog...on Wednesdays for Odin.  I clean on Mondays and Thursdays, and I honestly don't remember if this originated as a magical thing, or just a 'need to do it twice a week'.  The cleaning has definitely evolved, it used to be Sunday and Thursday, but back when son would help me (before he joined the Air Force), he preferred Mondays, so we swapped.  At one point I had a more elaborate system that broke the cleaning down to where I worked on one room a day, and I picked the rooms based on how they fit with the energy of each day (but that was way too much cleaning lol).

This year I'm actually doing less stuff (it's part of my yearly theme), so I do a Monday check in style post on Patreon....which used to be the Monday goal setting (with a corresponding Friday check in...but that got reduced this year).  Monday, because that typically feels like the 'start of the week' to me (even though my BuJo style planner that I'm doing this year starts my week on Sunday).  I draw out my planner pages (and do my 'regular' weekly planning) on Saturdays.  On Sunday, I add in my word of the week and weekly divination/intention (I typically draw a card and then use it to form my intention for the week).

I tend to think of the days in the Norse pantheon, so Sunna, Mani, Tyr, Odin, Thor, Freyja, Loki.  Part of my morning meditation is to recognize the deity of the day, and I normally spend a minute or two thinking about how that deity fits what I am planning on doing that day.  I used to visit my friends (pre-Covid) regularly on Saturday, which felt appropriate.  Sometimes I think of it like retrofiting my days (I know I have to do this thing on this day, so how can I do it in a way that will mesh well with that day's deity)...it's how I handle a lot of timing stuff.