Salon post : March 16

[jenett]

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Topic of the week
I took Monday and Tuesday off this week, to play catchup on life. It got me thinking about how I use vacation time, and what makes my life easier.

What do you do that improves your life? (Especially if it's a somewhat new thing.)

What I've been up to:
I am now cheerfully into the Martha seasons of New Who. But today, I'd love to rec a podcast, This Is Love (from the same people who do Criminal, which I also like a lot).

I listened to episode 5, "A Private Life" on the way into work this morning, and it is both adorable and a fascinating view of legal history around same-sex marriage and changing attitudes.


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Re: tl;dr :P

[theora]

FWIW, I would definitely be interested in hearing about the religious/magical practices stuff, if there is anything you can or want to write about here. (But I totally understand if you can't and/or don't want to.)

Re: tl;dr :P

[alexseanchai]

:)

Re: tl;dr :P

[alexseanchai]

Okay so one thing I can definitely talk about at least some is the Death Preparedness class Rebecca is running. She designed it for Hellenic polytheists, though I don't think she's excluding other sorts, and it's going through both practical and spiritual end-of-life planning. Wills, advance directives, funeral plans, who should deal with any particularly spiritually or magically resonant ritual items, stuff like that. Things that might seem morbid to consider now, but that one doesn't really want one's loved ones and heirs to have no idea about when the time comes.

(If this course sounds worthwhile to any of you, it is a ten-week course for $30 taking place on Discord and it technically starts tomorrow, and you can email hexdotink at gmail to ask about it.)

The first week's lesson PDF is already up, and I'm looking at the spiritual practice part of it, which is a death simulation meditation. And I am trying to convince myself to go spiritually cleanse myself and then do the thing. I'm not sure if I'm hesitating because I'm exhausted or because I'm scared...

Re: tl;dr :P

[adafrog]

Things that might seem morbid to consider now, but that one doesn't really want one's loved ones and heirs to have no idea about when the time comes.
I wish a lot more people would do this. Especially the medical part-what to do near the end of life, etc.

Good luck with it.

[alexseanchai]

Thank you :)

Re: tl;dr :P

[alexseanchai]

Also, tonight is the dark moon—Hekate's supper—and part of the thing there is cleaning, cleansing, and clearing out things one doesn't want to bring into the next month. And there's no shortage of magical workings that suggest or require they're best done on the dark moon.

...I mentioned exhausted, right? :(