I woke up in the night with a headache and Tom brought me Ibuprofen and antihistamine. In the morning I woke up groggy, got up, had breakfast, and laid on the sofa. I fell back asleep for almost an hour. I have been groggy all day though I managed to do little odds and ends like folding clothes and putting them away, chatting on ICQ with my son, gluing one edge of a mandala down onto the backing (it wouldn't stick when I used a glue stick so am trying Elmer's glue), and doing my training program.
Today was a trancework day. I decided to do a series of journeys suggested by the Shamanism book I have been reading. It suggests doing 4 journeys to find an ally for each of the directions/elements. So I decided to start with Air. It was interesting and I finished up with working on a poem/invocation to air. I got stuck though and put it aside for tomorrow when I would be working on giving material form to the images from my trance. I also read another chapter or two from the Crafted Cup. They do their circles in a widdershin's direction and had an interesting discussion on sunwise and earthwise, how they are related to patriarchal and matrilocal, etc.
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