Starting over...

My goodness it's been a minute since I last posted anything here! I honestly hadn't realised it had been this long. Hi, how you doin'?

I must admit, my practicing slipped between the last post I made and now. When I first set up this blog I was fresh out of a long-term relationship and living in my friend's attic. Moving into my flat happened, I started a college course and being a singleton for the first time in about eight years took over, I spent the majority of 2019 suffering from a mystery illness that still remains undiagnosed. Thankfully - touch wood - I'm recovered, fighting fit and raring to go. Unfortunately as a result of said mystery illness, I lost my job and as a result my college course, still currently out of work and  what with the introduction of the Corona virus, it looks like it might stay that way for the time being. However, I'm glad to announce that things have settled down somewhat since then, despite being a VERY bumpy ride.

Quarantine, Lockdown, (what ever you're personally chosing to call it) has been kind of good for me in a weird way. I do wince everytime I say that, because it feels horrible to be claiming something so devestating as it's positives, but I figure the best way to get through a dark time is to look for the light right? Since the social distancing measure came into play and I've been spending much more time by self, I've had time to connect with myself in a way I've never had the opportunity to do before. I've been far more introspective, spend more time outdoors exploring the local wildlife and taken up geocaching more recently and more importantly, I've had a chance to really reconnect with witchcraft again. 

It really started again when I ordered myself a new tarot deck a few weeks into lockdown. I'd had a set when I was a teenager but never really got into learing the meanings for the cards much as all I had at my disposal for in the way of research was the booklet that came with them which I'll admit, at the time I really couldn't be bothered to sit down and study and nobody in my life at the time was interested in me giving them a reading. I have no idea what happened to that deck. It's probably tucked away in somewhere in what was my childhood bedroom in a drawer somewhere. More recently, I'd spend a lot of time pining over a set that was WAY out of my price range, especially how my last attempt at tarot went down, so settled for a fun looking deck that cost me about a tenner from Amazon. They say tarot is a gateway to fullblown witchraft and they'd be right. 

I posted on my personal Twitter account that I'd got a new deck and offered some three card readings to my friends to enable to help me better understand my cards and no sooner did I post it, but an old friend from my days on Tumblr circa 2014 slid into my DMs telling me she was learning to read and exploring witchcraft, introduced me to another of her witchy friends and now we've got a group chat where we share out daily pulls and talk all things witchraft on a daily basis. The rest is  history.

Having friends who are as invested in something as you are is SO helpful for keep you motivated in you practice, and now I'm living alone, I had time where I can really focus and delve into my research and trying out new things. It really feels like now is the right time for me to pick up this journey and share it with a small portion of the internet. I've been (trying) to grown my own herbs, making spell jars, meditating, practicing divination on the daily and above all else researching loads. I cant wait to share more with you.  I've got a few ideas for some upcoming posts that I'm really excited to crack on with but for now, it's nice to be back!