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?