Hi Readers,
Since most of us are staying at home for the foreseeable future, I felt it was important to document my personal experience as it pertains to my personal path. This is an ongoing topic so I will be talking about how it is currently affecting my path and in a separate post I will provide tips. I felt it is important to do so as I feel through sharing my experience, I can assist others. Without any further delay, here is how this quarantine is affecting my path.
Generally, my path is both magickal and devotional meaning that I do things in devotion of Deities I work with in addition to maintaining the relationships I have with them and I work a lot of magick. This takes many forms inside of and outside of the context of ritual. Also, what I do and how I do it will vary in terms of my path and magickal practice. I have found myself feeling what a lot of people are feeling which is anxiety along with stress. Mainly, when going outside my home for essential goods which I try to avoid, and while walking. This has to do with my personal path directly as connecting with the nature around me in what form it is currently is a core part of my practice, in addition to the connection I have with the land, elements, and spirits around me. However, this being said I am still going outside I have just been being more aware of where I go. For instance, going in my backyard, or somewhere else with no people to connect. I was already doing this prior to the quarantine however it is not the same feeling you get when you can venture out of your own area to experience a new connection even within the same city.
Moreover, I have found that life in quarantine has provided me with new ways to help me grow on my path as I am learning more ways to experience magick in ways I have not tried before in addition to going back to the roots of where I started. Further, while in quarantine I am learning how to use objects within my path and magickal practice that are around my home, which I have done so in the past. However, in context of what I am offering to my Gods and spirits I work with is somewhat different. I am using items that I have around me that I know they will except while making sure to ask them prior to giving them anything. Another way using different objects around my home has changed as really made me feel creative and reminded me of what is important in terms of what I use that relates to my personal path. I will make sure to dedicate what I use for the purpose of my path whether it is related to a ritual I perform or something else. As I have stated previously, I started with very little tools and many of my first spells and rituals were using what is available. This has continued to be the case throughout but now it is more useful to me as I can’t just go get something from a store.
In essence, this quarantine is changing the way I work on things in small ways but in many ways a lot of my path is still at it’s core the same, but I feel that this quarantine has gave me an opportunity to really think about what I still believe, what I feel is important as part of my path, and what is no longer playing a part.
How has quarantine affected your path? What are some of the challenges you face?
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