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Daily Rituals
« on: March 20, 2019, 05:46:35 am »
Hi there!

I am new to the craft and am doing lots of research, which I love. However, I am feeling a little overwhelmed with all the information! I'm wondering if any one has any easy, simple, daily rituals (maybe a morning and/or nighttime one) that I could start incorporating into my day? I want to bring the craft into my life slowly and carefully so I can appreciate it and not get overwhelmed!

Thanks so much!

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Re: Daily Rituals
« Reply #1 on: March 20, 2019, 12:18:12 pm »
Hi there!

I am new to the craft and am doing lots of research, which I love. However, I am feeling a little overwhelmed with all the information! I'm wondering if any one has any easy, simple, daily rituals (maybe a morning and/or nighttime one) that I could start incorporating into my day? I want to bring the craft into my life slowly and carefully so I can appreciate it and not get overwhelmed!

Thanks so much!

Well, in the mornings as a simple ritual I go outside and meditate using my senses.  I focus on the sounds, smells, sights...  Really absorb it in.  Take in the mood of the energies that exist that day.  It's a good way to start learning about the communication going on in your surroundings.  Absorb it in; let is soak inside you and you'll start to learn something new.

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Re: Daily Rituals
« Reply #2 on: March 20, 2019, 02:22:50 pm »
Hi there!

I am new to the craft and am doing lots of research, which I love. However, I am feeling a little overwhelmed with all the information! I'm wondering if any one has any easy, simple, daily rituals (maybe a morning and/or nighttime one) that I could start incorporating into my day? I want to bring the craft into my life slowly and carefully so I can appreciate it and not get overwhelmed!

Thanks so much!

Some simple things that are part of my daily routine:

*  Greet the Day-  In the morning, I go to my back door (where there is a window) and basically say good morning to the day...also checking in with the weather.

*  Coffee Blessing-  I drink coffee in the morning, and I say a simple blessing over it (to charge my day!), but you could totally do this over a cup of water or whatever you drink (or say blessings over your meals)

*  Meditation-  I do a bit of meditation as part of both my morning and evening routines.  A really simple one you can try is simply a breathing meditation.  Focus on the feelings in your body as you breathe (how your chest expands, the air moving through your nose, etc..)  You can also do a counting meditation (where you breath in as you count to four, hold for a count of four, breathe out for a count of four and hold for a count of four).  I find that breathing meditations really work for me, and are super simple.

* Gratitude-  I do this in the evening.  I write down 1-3 things that happened that day that I am grateful for.  This can be something very specific, or something more general (if I'm having a really hard day, my gratitude will often be something like, "I love my cats and they love me!")

The other thing I would say is find like one thing to start with, and try it out for a week..by then you should know if it feels right or not.  If it doesn't, try something new.  If it's working for you, then you can maybe add another, if you feel like you can manage it.  Typically it's about a month to really build a new habit, but I think we can often tell before then if something's really not working for us.
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Re: Daily Rituals
« Reply #3 on: March 20, 2019, 04:38:21 pm »
I am new to the craft and am doing lots of research, which I love. However, I am feeling a little overwhelmed with all the information! I'm wondering if any one has any easy, simple, daily rituals (maybe a morning and/or nighttime one) that I could start incorporating into my day? I want to bring the craft into my life slowly and carefully so I can appreciate it and not get overwhelmed!

Thanks so much!

Every book on regular magical practice that I've read has a similar recommendation for cases like this: daily meditation. This can take many different forms, depending on what works best for you.
  • You could try just "sitting"--resting quietly in a comfortable place and observing the world around you and inside you without judgment.
  • Discursive meditation means picking a subject that interests you (in a religious context, perhaps a particular hymn or myth; if you're not interested in gods or Powers you could find some magical incantations or parables that don't involve them) and spending a set amount of time focusing exclusively on that, picking it apart for all its meaning inside your head.
  • Contemplative meditation involves focusing on your calm, regular breathing to the exclusion of all else, allowing anxieties and other frivolous thoughts to slide away as you do so. (This is the thing usually just called "meditation"; I'm not very good at it.)
  • In a similar vein, breathing exercises are related to meditation and may enhance your experience.
  • There's also guided meditations--tying your breathing and thoughts while meditating to specific narratives or imagery.
  • ...and you can always combine one or more of the above.

One of the pieces of advice that usually shows up in these books: meditating for forty minutes or more is great, but if you can only manage to do it for five minutes, start out with that and see where it takes you.

As you find out what forms of meditation are comfortable and effective for you, you can tie them to other ritual gestures. For instance, my nightly routine involves making libations to my Powers after blessing the water with a breathing exercise and meditative imagery.

Another simple way to start building a magical practice is to set aside certain everyday actions as sacred or numinous, and whenever you do them, take a moment to appreciate the gesture and maybe say a small prayer or incantation (silently if necessary). Opening a door or moving through a threshold is a good example; washing your hands might be another.
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Re: Daily Rituals
« Reply #4 on: March 20, 2019, 06:00:20 pm »
Some simple things that are part of my daily routine:
*  Coffee Blessing-  I drink coffee in the morning, and I say a simple blessing over it (to charge my day!), but you could totally do this over a cup of water or whatever you drink (or say blessings over your meals)

* Gratitude-  I do this in the evening.  I write down 1-3 things that happened that day that I am grateful for.  This can be something very specific, or something more general (if I'm having a really hard day, my gratitude will often be something like, "I love my cats and they love me!

I (discreetly) dedicate my daily cup of oolong tea at work as a sort of mini-offering.  The gratitude thing *does* work and I should get back into the habit, it's just hard to do without feeling hypocritical much of the time.

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Re: Daily Rituals
« Reply #5 on: March 20, 2019, 06:28:48 pm »
I'm wondering if any one has any easy, simple, daily rituals (maybe a morning and/or nighttime one) that I could start incorporating into my day?

I have a pair of short (like 4 lines) prayers I say in the morning and in the evening. Along with that, I make an offering of water in the morning and drink it at night. I like this format because it marks a change between 'day' activities and 'night' activities.
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Re: Daily Rituals
« Reply #6 on: March 21, 2019, 09:34:11 am »
I am new to the craft and am doing lots of research, which I love. However, I am feeling a little overwhelmed with all the information! I'm wondering if any one has any easy, simple, daily rituals (maybe a morning and/or nighttime one) that I could start incorporating into my day? I want to bring the craft into my life slowly and carefully so I can appreciate it and not get overwhelmed!

I'm currently playing with doing more deliberate morning rituals (partly because of something I want to try for a lunar month starting with the new moon in April). But I'm giving myself permission to do it through the end of that cycle and then stop again.

Doing daily rituals of a more structured kind historically hasn't worked well for me. I've found explicit routine prayer often actually distancing from my deities, I haven't necessarily found daily rituals of the "do this thing now" to improve my spiritual life. I mention this mostly because I think it's useful to say these aren't essential to having a meaningful regular spiritual practice!

(I also have a bunch of chronic health issues, and depending which one is flaring when, doing one more specific thing at any given point in my day is sometimes really just not going to happen.)

Stuff I do
A very simple morning practice designed so I can do it at work (because doing it before I leave the house is extremely unreliable) that involves listening to a song from a playlist (it's got 72 things on it right now, I think) and pulling a Tarot card of the day via an app.

Centering/grounding/shielding work throughout the day as needed.

A little bit of cleansing visualisation/etc. while getting my physical body clean.

I have a phone wallpaper and work passwords (i.e. the one I actually have to type multiple times a day, not the stuff that lives in the password manager) that are chosen to remind me of my current long term magical/spiritual focus (I pick a thing for the year, and riff on that.)

You'll notice that most of these can be done as part of things I actually have to do anyway and/or are very flexible in timing, and basically none of them are at my shrine space.

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I really like Dianne Sylvan's The Circle Within as a starting place for figuring out regular practice (coming from a Wiccan-based pov, but a lot of the general ideas can be applied to other practices if you don't have a starting place.)
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Re: Daily Rituals
« Reply #7 on: March 21, 2019, 10:24:12 am »
Hi there!

I am new to the craft and am doing lots of research, which I love. However, I am feeling a little overwhelmed with all the information! I'm wondering if any one has any easy, simple, daily rituals (maybe a morning and/or nighttime one) that I could start incorporating into my day? I want to bring the craft into my life slowly and carefully so I can appreciate it and not get overwhelmed!

Thanks so much!
My morning ritual is very simple. Coffee first. Then, early in the morning I go to a christian church and I light a candle to the Gods.  :)

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Re: Daily Rituals
« Reply #8 on: March 25, 2019, 09:37:06 am »
Hi there!

I am new to the craft and am doing lots of research, which I love. However, I am feeling a little overwhelmed with all the information! I'm wondering if any one has any easy, simple, daily rituals (maybe a morning and/or nighttime one) that I could start incorporating into my day? I want to bring the craft into my life slowly and carefully so I can appreciate it and not get overwhelmed!

Thanks so much!

A ritual doesn't have to be a completely different activity that what you are already doing; if you have something that you are already doing, then you can focus your intent and dedicate that activity to the day.
For example, I workout in the mornings before I go to work. I was really bothered by the fact that I needed to do something extra for the Gods that I wanted to show thanks for (note: I say bothered because my day is jam packed due to having a 75 minute commute to work from home, being a middle school teacher, and having to rewrite my curriculum practically every year now). So, for my practice, I dedicate my workouts to Apollo. Usually, by the time I'm done, the sun's up and I feel really great and ready to tackle whatever the kids throw at me.... (except the flu, because that you can't beat without time and bed rest).
As for the evenings, I've made it a practice to say goodnight to Dionysos and Persephone (and my rabbits) before I go to bed. I'm waiting for my copies of the Homeric Hymns and the Opheric Hymns to come in to start doing prayers in the evening.
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