As you know over the past year and a month I have been ill and sadly enough this blog has been neglected. Still no answers yet as to what and why the pain began, all my test have been negative, no sign of cancer or tumors, and problems that were thought to have been have improved.
So on Thursday, the 22nd I saw my cardiologist and after a two hour
visit I have come home with a laundry list of tests i need to have, so
just about every week in May and June I will be having some kind of
test. The last appointment is on July 1, my birthday, and believe it or
not its listed as: F/U cardiac testing, is this an omen? I believe it
translates to Follow UP cardiac test. Anyway I’m happy to say I have
been having more good pain free days, but not enough as I see it. I’m
sick if hurting. Those days render me pretty much useless, and I have
too much to do to spend my days lying down.
Here is what I have been up to lately on my good days, after packing
and shipping the daily sales from the Amazon and Ebay stores, I clean
house and then I usually read a bit, do some stitching, water the
plants.
Last week I pulled out a few old issues of Sage Woman magazine, in
the early days publication was pretty regular and the issues arrived
quarterly. As years passed publication was a crap shoot, one year you
would get 4 issues the next 3. This year I haven’t received a single
issue, the last issue was due out August 2020.
My progress on the March Goddess hand embroidery has been slow going I
have made some progress on the faces and started the hands. When I
finish the hands I will put it aside to get the April goddess finished, I
am enjoying this little challenge I made for myself.
Here is a sneak peek at the April goddess for my Goddess of the month project, The Minoan Snake Goddess, I did start stitching it but wanted to get March finished but as the days moved on I realized that wasn't happening so I'm stitching April again and work on March in between.
Here is an updated photo of some of my goddesses that I have, I ordered a
new half moon table to use a an altar and that should be arriving early
in May.
This space is getting a little crowded, I usually move things around but
I haven’t had a chance in a while but once the new table gets here I
will have more space. I have small altars in other rooms but this one I
can see from my desk and my loveseat in the livingroom.
This one is the newest from Brigid’s Grove meant to represent
Persephone, I love the color and I am partial to these little figurines
and in fact just ordered another one in a lovely green. I don’t always
keep the goddess as depicted in the description and have quite a few
without the belts, whatever goddess I feel a devotion for at the time my
goddess will represent. I began taking part in the Brigid’s Grove
Living the Questions and also the 30 Days of Goddess Devotion but
somehow lost track of what I was doing in March, so I order the
pre-printed journal and expected it to arrive for April 1st
unfortunately with the postal delays we had this year it wasn’t
delivered until the 9th, so I will try again in May, and I also
purchased the 2nd edition of the pre-printed journal so I can continue
on in June. An idea I had was to print out the pages Molly has
generously given us and on my birthday I will do the goddess devotion
journal for the entire year.
I plan to set it up either in a scrap book or a 3-ring binder, I
haven’t decided yet but I have lots of periodicals to snip from, a stack
of old We’moon date book calendars full of lovely goddess images,
quotes, etc. I had planned on taking my goddess devotions deeper this
year and this journal project through Brigid’s Grove has really helped
me with that.
Above are a few books that I have been reading are oldies from the past but so
appropriate for the goddess devotional and delving deeper. And a bit of
tea with the goddess is always a nice treat, the older books are 365
Goddess by Patricia Telesco, The Goddess Celebrates edited by Diane
Stein is an anthology of women’s rituals, written by the foremothers of
the goddess spirituality movement and the gem in all by Marija Gimbutas
The Language of the Goddess, and right on top is the Whole and Holy a
Goddess Devotional by Molly Remer.
Here is a link to Brigid’s Grove if you are interested check it out https://brigidsgrove.com/
I have to transplant a few plants into large pots today, I am late
again but oh so hopeful that I will have better luck this year since I
have more good says. I would love to put in some raised beds but bending
forward causes too much pain so planting in containers this year will
have to be enough.
Before I post this here is the completed February goddess the Cailleach, she turned out lovely. I added a quartz crystal to the staff and used a twisted jump ring at
the center of her belt. The use of the DMC Etoile floss with the bits
of metallic thread was a great choice and gives me the icy effect I was
hoping for. I love the look of the spiral fabric she is stitched on and
will probably use it for another goddess or two through the year.
Well that’s what I have been up to lately. How is your month going?
