Last night I started the coordinated magick for the health and well being of CAW and as a way to get past all the politics on the Feedback list. We are all going to try to do magick about 9 pm central on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday this weekend. I put a Green Egg issue and the CAW handbook on my altar along with one of the Dearinth mugs that we as a group raised money for and helped design, filled with water. I also put a chocolate chip cookie on the altar to represent the shared pleasures and sensuality as well as the available income to be able to spend on those pleasures over and above the necessities of life. I charged a green candle, green for both health and prosperity, with the energies of my memories of my nestmates, both online in the Internest and face-to-face, and of festivals, and good times with Clergy, magickal experiences, my scioning, my waterbrothers, all of the things that are an important part of CAW to me and then did a candle burning. I was pretty misty eyed by the time I finished.
Today I printed out my vision quest write up to mail to some of the clergy and worked on catching up with some of my email. Then we cleaned up a little more for people coming today and got ready for it. Phoenix is leading the Circle this time so I don't have to do any of the planning and preparing that I would normally do.
We did a ritual to work with the Heart soul, a continuation of the soul return work that we did at BelSummer with the 7 Souls Ritual. We focused our work around the heart altar. While we did this we also burned the candle that I had charged for the healing of CAW. We did a laugh circle where we all laid with our heads on each other's bellies and laughed and laughed and laughed. One of my nestmates said that he wished we could send that the laugh circle to the Feedback email list. These moments of fun, joyful and silly yet transformative magick are a part of National CAW that I think has been missing in the midst of the politics. And I hope that our magick will help to put it back.
Then we did a trance journey to the land of the heart. My guide was Crow who flew ahead of me, leading me into a landscape that was green but not verdant. It landed on the lip of a huge chalice, which overturned so that water poured out of it completely drenching me (my cup runneth over?). Wet and dripping I crawled up into the now horizontal cup and lay down. A steady stream of water washed out of the cup over and around me, and on to create a creek of flowing water. I got up and walked into cold, clear, running water. Following the water, I was first ankle deep, then calf, then knee, then thigh deep, until finally I was dog paddling (I can't really swim so that is the best that I can manage) in a huge river of clean water. All around plants sprang up until the land was not only green, but fertile and filled with life. I climbed out of the river at a spot where a huge tree was growing. The Crow flew up into the tree and I followed it climbing slowly. When I would reach the branch where it was sitting it would fly higher and perch again. After a while I said I think that is high enough for me right now and it flew back down to the branch I was on. It seemed to metamorphose into a human male with black hair and black clothing to speak with me. But he would tilt his head and look at me out of one eye and I saw Crow superimposed over the human appearance. We talked a little but I don't remember anymore what he told me. I should have written it down as soon as I had a chance but forgot to.
After the trance work we came back and sang to each other. "How could anyone ever tell you that you are anything less than beautiful… We would move into the center or around the person and sing this to them while touching them. It was very lovely. I thought it was a very nice bonding experience. We also did some magick for bringing down the emotional walls between people so that there could be a meeting of hearts.
Later several of us walked the Dearinth in our individual ways to connect with others who might be doing magick at the 9 central timeslot. Our neighbors recently got several horses and put in an electric fence for a paddock which is close to our fenceline. Walking in the Dearinth towards them caused them to get nervous, I guess, so they kept snorting much like a deer does to warn off threat but they were really, really loud. I jumped the first time shaken out of trance for a moment and looked around trying to figure out what it was and how it had gotten so close. But they were not actually very close, just loud. As I neared the end of the walk, I was feeling very blissful and kept noticing energy flows and hot spots in the Dearinth. It was a very magickal experience for me and focused much energy for CAW.
Phoenix stayed over night around the tree as she often does and we built a bonfire and I danced a little bit. That was very nice, too.
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