Rituals of Daily Living

My domestic life dictates much of my spiritual practice. From kitchen witchery to my prayers to the Goddess, everything is connected. Routine is essential to everything I do. Without my weekly routine, my ritual, I'd be lost. Most of my days progress in two different ways I either go to school, come home clean, make dinner, and do homework or Clean,make lunch,go to work,make dinner and do homework; and somehow fit yoga and a daily tarot reading . These are my every day tasks that I have ritualized.

Every day tasks, when given significant meaning become rituals. As I clean the house I am symbolically ( and literally) freeing our home of all negativity. As I cook my husband meals I fill them with the love that I feel for him and often add extra herbs coinciding with whatever our family is needing that day. Mundane tasks can become extraordinary when you simply attach a greater meaning to them. My Witchy Wife life is not so different than any one else's on the surface. It is simply the intent  with which I accomplish the tasks that makes them inherently different. A spiritual experience for me could simply be walking outside, observing the changes in nature, spending time with my family, feeling the energies beneath my bare feet, dancing, a drum circle, burning a candle or incense-just simple activities that without intent behind them are meaningless.

When my husband is working out of town though my ritual gets disturbed. I have yet to perfect my coping mechanism. The first day he is gone I make a day by day "to do" list. Now I do this every day, but I mean this sucker is detailed as hell. I try to stay non stop busy, once again I always am non stop busy-but I attempt to be so busy I don't have time to stop and breath. This typically leads to me accomplishing an entire weeks worth of goals in 2-3 days. Which is not conducive to staying busy for a week plus of hubstache being gone. So then I get mopey and lazy and the house gets wrecked. That then leads to a last minute scramble to clean it all up before he comes home. This new job has been rough on us, but we have to play the cards the Goddess blesses us with. We are very close to not needing my income. I look forward to that day. Then my rituals will change even more.

What do you ritualize in your life?

My mother, my Goddess

Blessed and happy Witchy Wednesday ladies! I hope you have had a fantastic week! 

Who is the Goddess to me? The blessed mother Goddess is many things to many people. To me she is the divine feminine, the changing seasons, life death and rebirth,  she is in everything and everything comes from her. I see in her what I want for myself-strength, passion, humility, beauty, grace, faithfulness, love, peace, ferocity, motherhood. She is who I turn to in times of trouble and rejoice in when she blesses me beyond measure. She is the warrior queen, still gentle enough to wipe the tears from your eyes. 

Maiden Mother Crone As women and the moon go through cycles, so does the Goddess. The symbol )0( represents the Goddess in her different phases. ) as the waxing moon and maiden phase, 0 as the full moon and the mother phase, ( as the waxing moon and the crone phase. No matter where you are in your life, it is not a place that the Goddess has not been many times. Every year she goes from Maiden to Crone and back. She is the virgin maiden huntress, who will then be impregnated by the God, she will then give birth to him ( this must happen because all this come from her ), she will raise him and he will become her lover, she will mourn his death and the cycle repeats. Life, death and rebirth. All things come from her and return to her.  

Many names, Many forms The way I choose to view Goddesses such as Diana, Brighid, Kali Ma, Athena, all the Goddesses from every culture are simply different forms or aspects of The Mother Goddess. Whatever you are going through in life, the Goddess has a name that you can call her to deal specifically with that problem. 

Worship and Prayer I observe the passing of the season with sabbats and full moon rituals. I will admit to being a lazy witch and not holding circles as often as I should. But I do pray to the Goddess frequently, even if they are only short phrases "thank the Goddess" "Goddess help me" . It may be shocking to think that a Pagan would pray, but I do. Not always within a circle and yes, occasionally on my knees, but more often with raised hands and dancing. The Goddess does not call us to be humble, but to realize the divine within ourselves as we are all apart of her. Communing with nature, being kind to her creation, loving ourselves and one another, singing, dancing-all forms of worship. 

This short post could not even begin to grasp the enormity of what the Goddess is to me. How do you put something so awe inspiring into words? Blessed Be. 

" You do readings ?!?! "

         *Complaining, feel free to skip*   It never ever ever ceases to amaze and annoy me when people are shocked that I do Tarot card readings-and then will ask me to do one for them. Unless you started following me yesterday, I don't know how this is news to you. Not being mean, but damn. How do you miss it? Or that people will ask for a reading, but not know what they are. Not gonna do it. Or "You forgot to do my reading!" , did you remind me on the day I told you to? You were busy and forgot? Me too. Know what your asking me to do, don't insult me by basically saying you don't pay enough attention to me to know a huge part of my life, and don't act like I had nothing else to do that day but your reading. Last thing, I interpret the cards to the best of my ability, it is up to you to figure out where that plays into your life. If you don't see the reading playing out in your life yet, either it's going to happen in the future or the cards just didn't want me to see shit for you. Sorry bout it, I never claimed to be all knowing. Please, feel free to ask me for readings. Remind me on the day I tell you, be prepared with what you want me to look into for you, and use your own brain to figure out possible meanings after I give you the interpretations. *End Rant* 


I got my first deck of tarot cards with money from my 11th birthday. It came in a cute pink box that had "teen kit" on the front of it, with a small guide book, and a thin bag to keep my deck in. My mom didn't care because "oh, it's just a game to her" so I did readings all the time. My very first successful, almost scary, reading was one I did on my aunt's front porch. I told her that she was going to have dental problems. Not 3 minutes later she chipped a tooth on a piece of hard candy. Coincidence? Maybe, but I don't believe in them. I've spoke before though about the guilt I had due to my beliefs because I live in the bible belt and at that time I still called myself a Christian. So every few months I would be overwhelmed with guilt and hide my precious cards away, praying for forgiveness. This went on for about a year and a half. I then threw them away. You heard me-I threw my cards away. I'm literally pink from embarrassment at admitting that. But I did. I had just come back from a church youth group trip and I was all revved up with, what I then would've called the holy spirit, and I threw them away.

In the years that followed I regretted on multiple occasions throwing my cards away. I wished that I could take it back, but I couldn't. After I moved in with my husband I bought a deck of "Angel Cards" and took them to work with me, doing readings for coworkers. People laughed and looked at me funny, but I began to choose a card before every phone call I placed and I could tell if I would be making money from that client. I was falling in love all over again. So when I convinced my then, terrified of all things supernatural fiance, that I wouldn't bring any bad "ju ju" into the house, he consented to me getting another tarot deck. I then gifted my angel deck to @TheSpoiledWife .

Tarot cards are what started my journey into my faith. They set me onto a path of enlightenment that has given me so much joy. My husband, once afraid of what he didn't know, has allowed me to do a few readings for him ( I don't do many because he is a skeptic) and I even invited him to sit in on my Imbolc circle last year. I am able to share my faith with him fully, and nothing I do surprises him anymore, haha. He knows he could walk in the house to find me in the floor with open books all around me on spiritual topics, doing kitchen magick, readings cards, or holding a one person drum circle. He knows this is who I am and he loves me for it. Tarot cards made me into the Witchy Wife I am today.