Sour Times - Join me in helping to make them sweet

It seems that the plague which befell us at the Gaian Mind Summer Festival this year has brought to the surface a lot of painful truths which we'd been trying to previously ignore. I know I am not the only one this is true for as many of my GM friends have told me otherwise. I had planned to lead a ritual in the Pine Barrens last Saturday in order to banish these negative and harmful energies from affecting us all, however the ritual did not occur. I was not in an emotional place to lead it on my own, and nobody stepped up to help. Therefore I am asking now if anyone is willing to lend their energies to this effort so that we can join forces in the search to find our smiles again.

At the end of last year, Jamie and I performed a ritual which included some magical work about working through our previously repressed emotions. Instead of continuing to ignore our feelings of betrayal, anger and resentment, we chose to acknowledge and accept them. Instead of just fighting off our fears and regrets, we chose to turn them to our advantage by working through them and accomplishing success by overcoming them. We had a powerful Winter season without any Seasonal Affective Disorder but with plenty of hard work and dark emotions coming to the surface.

I feel the time has come to do a similar ritual, but now I believe it would be best if all of my friends were involved. It seems that we are all going through some difficulties these days and could benefit from doing such difficult work on our own armed with the knowledge that we are all in it together. Here is what I propose...

Choose an object to represent the negativity you're currently experiencing. This object could be a photograph of yourself during a time when you felt particularly down, a piece of paper with some writing about how bad you've been feeling, a piece of string you've knotted to represent all the knots inside your gut, a gemstone that is special to you, etc.

Focus your energy surrounding these undesirable thoughts and feelings into your object. Whenever you are feeling down pour those emotions into your object. Rather than ignoring them, take a moment to put them into your object, then put the object down and move on physically and emotionally.

Perform a spell with me on a Saturday night (Saturn oversees protection and many other pertinent energies) either this coming Saturday, August 2nd when the moon is new, or in the hours before the next monthly on Saturday, August 23 when the moon is waning. Your items will be used during our magical work, and our energies will be focused together toward our common goal of healing.

Let me know if you're interested in participating in this magical work with me! I'll immediately send you a copy of the ritual I'm drafting so you can review it and offer any suggestions.

In Love and Light,
Reverend PLURall